Tate Speech - EMERGENCY MEETING EPISODE 148 - SUMMER VACATION

00:06:24.000 It's summer.

00:06:27.000 I've been thinking and watching and observing the way people behave during the summer months in the last few years.

00:06:38.000 And something has fundamentally changed.

00:06:43.000 I'm answering all super chats over $10 by the way.

00:06:47.000 $10.

00:06:49.000 And something has fundamentally changed, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it until very recently.

00:06:57.000 It's summer, and I'm at home in my house, and I'm working.

00:07:02.000 I've been working all morning.

00:07:03.000 I've got some meetings this evening.

00:07:05.000 This isn't really work, this is just me sharing my message with the world, but I'm doing productive things during the summer from my house.

00:07:13.000 I've been traveling a lot, mainly for work, and I think next I will go to my other house in Romania and do more work while I'm there.

00:07:22.000 The idea of a summer vacation has shifted.

00:07:27.000 Massively from when I used to take summer vacations back in the day.

00:07:32.000 And I'll tell you what's changed first and foremost.

00:07:35.000 There was a time when we used to go to school and you used to get the summer off.

00:07:41.000 Now, I was too poor for this.

00:07:44.000 I don't remember this.

00:07:45.000 This didn't happen to me.

00:07:49.000 But I used to get back from school and people would tell me about the vacation they took.

00:07:54.000 And it was usually a week in Spain.

00:07:57.000 A week in Egypt, a week in Greece, and they talk about this week they had with their family, and that was their summer vacation.

00:08:05.000 That meant that their parents, who worked all year round, they didn't get the summers off like the students did and the teachers did, would take their family on a one week vacation to somewhere cheap in Europe and have a few beers and enjoy seeing some different sights and enjoy probably the sunshine because you don't get sunshine in England most of the time.

00:08:23.000 And then I got old enough to start taking my own summer vacations.

00:08:29.000 So, my first real summer vacations came from when I started working at Pret a Manger, the sandwich shop.

00:08:36.000 I tell people I worked at McDonald's, but that's actually a lie.

00:08:39.000 I never worked at McDonald's in my life.

00:08:41.000 I did work in a fast food restaurant making sandwiches, though.

00:08:45.000 So, I tell people McDonald's because most people outside of the UK don't know exactly what Pret a Manger is.

00:08:51.000 I've got one in New York, one in Hong Kong, one in Singapore, but I worked in fast food.

00:08:55.000 I just use McDonald's as the colloquial slang.

00:08:59.000 And when I started making my money, I used to look forward to my summer vacation.

00:09:04.000 And my summer vacation was I'd go with Andrew to somewhere in Europe, Slovakia, Egypt.

00:09:11.000 And I'd go to these various places for a week, two weeks at a time.

00:09:14.000 And then I'd come home and normal life would resume.

00:09:18.000 But that's not the way things work anymore.

00:09:21.000 And I'll tell you what's to blame Instagram is to blame.

00:09:33.000 In the last few years, I realized that when the summer is over, you never ask people, oh, where did you go this summer?

00:09:41.000 And they say, oh, I went for a week in Greece, went for a week in Italy, went for a week in Spain.

00:09:44.000 That's all dead now.

00:09:47.000 Because of Instagram, the ultra wealthy people in the world, and I am now in that category, maybe I'm to blame a little bit, but this started before I started making money, have access to every single woman in the world, any friend they want to make in the world.

00:10:03.000 And every single normal person also has visual access to their lives.

00:10:09.000 So it's made the idea of working 51 weeks a year to take seven days out and go on a vacation to Spain almost obsolete for anyone above the lowest of the lowest classes.

00:10:25.000 Now, different times of the year have different regions assigned to them globally.

00:10:34.000 Right now, That place would be maybe, I mean, I'm in Dubai working because my mindset hasn't changed.

00:10:41.000 It'd be maybe the south of France.

00:10:44.000 If you follow people on Instagram, especially attractive women, because attractive women don't have to work and pay for these vacations, they can just go wherever the season tells them to go.

00:10:56.000 And a lot of beautiful women who I know, loads who you probably follow too, are currently in the south of France having paid no money for their vacation.

00:11:04.000 That's fine.

00:11:05.000 I'm not going to judge them.

00:11:06.000 I don't know what they're doing for this vacation, but they might be doing nothing.

00:11:09.000 They may just accept an invite. 1.00

00:11:11.000 I, for one, have held vacations, yacht vacations in Croatia, trips to Italy, where I've invited a bunch of random women. 0.77

00:11:19.000 And I haven't slept with them, not all of them, anyway, necessarily.

00:11:23.000 And nothing illustrious or sinister has ever happened or gone down.

00:11:28.000 But if you're a man with the money to buy a few plane tickets and you invite beautiful women to the hot spots at the time it's time to be there, they'll find an excuse to show up.

00:11:39.000 So they're there.

00:11:41.000 I feel like Instagram has set such an unfair standard of living on the normal man and the normal woman and the normal person that nobody ever asks, like, where did you go on vacation this summer?

00:11:56.000 Right now, my phone is blowing up with, when are you coming to Santrope?

00:12:01.000 It's Santrope season right now.

00:12:03.000 Okay, fine, it's Santrope season right now.

00:12:05.000 But what after Santrope season?

00:12:07.000 Then it's Bodrum season, then it's Dubai season again.

00:12:09.000 Then it gets cold, then it's the Bahamas season, then it's St. Bart's at New Year's, then it's Courcheval in January.

00:12:15.000 There's a calendar that has been constructed, not necessarily by an individual.

00:12:21.000 No one's planned this, but a consensus of minds, all watching each other on the internet, have constructed a calendar of where to be and at what time.

00:12:35.000 I'm being invited to the Hamptons in July, and some of these places cross over each other.

00:12:41.000 At different times and dates.

00:12:44.000 But to stay on permanent vacation is now the goal.

00:12:49.000 The goal is no longer to just go somewhere, have a nice time, and return to normal life.

00:12:54.000 No.

00:12:55.000 Your life has to be this jet setter lifestyle where you're always in the cool place at the cool time.

00:13:03.000 But you know who isn't in the cool place at the cool time?

00:13:07.000 Not always.

00:13:08.000 Me.

00:13:10.000 Because I've never quite understood it.

00:13:14.000 What you'll find is a lot of the people who finance this activity, a lot of the people buying all the plane tickets for everybody to come to Monaco, and I'm not trying to make it sound insidious or bad in any way, but they're older men, men 45, 50 plus, are booking endless hotel rooms, endless flights, endless private jets, endless tables at nightclubs, and they're the ones financing this whole thing.

00:13:40.000 Sure, there are some very rare exceptions.

00:13:41.000 There are some celebrities, movie stars.

00:13:44.000 Even the odd internet celebrity at these places.

00:13:47.000 But all in all, it's men who've made millions of dollars, they've made their money, and they're basically retired, so they're now enjoying themselves.

00:13:56.000 What does that tell you about the pressure on 20 to 25 year old men, even 30 year old men or 40 year old men, to be able to provide this kind of lifestyle to the people who want to associate with them?

00:14:14.000 You know, I haven't taken a vacation.

00:14:18.000 Since 2022.

00:14:21.000 What I do is I map my work out in a yearly calendar.

00:14:27.000 And I think, where am I going to meet this guy, this guy, this guy, this girl, this man, this woman, all these CEOs, politicians, various people who are around the world.

00:14:38.000 And I kind of construct my own annual calendar.

00:14:42.000 And I sit there and I book all my flights and I travel around.

00:14:46.000 So I'm doing almost the same thing, just on a different schedule.

00:14:50.000 But I will tell you without joking that because I fly private, because I stay in the best hotels, because I have security agents with me everywhere, I'm spending so far this year three plus million dollars on travel.

00:15:07.000 Three million dollars used to be a fortune.

00:15:10.000 Three million dollars.

00:15:11.000 If you had three million in the bank, you were rich.

00:15:14.000 You were set for life.

00:15:15.000 Three million dollars is around about the amount that you used to win on the United Kingdom's lottery back when I was young and I used to play the lottery.

00:15:24.000 Isn't it absurd to think that expectations of how you should be able to live have risen so far beyond what used to be considered a good salary?

00:15:39.000 Because if you work in London or New York or even one of the hotspot cities or Hong Kong, but you're making $100,000, $150,000 a year and you're working 48 weeks a year with four weeks off, you can't really go anywhere and you can't really do anything compared to all of these young women.

00:15:56.000 It's women primarily because they get it for free, who are just jetting around the world to all these hotspots at any one time. 0.99

00:16:05.000 So, my message today to all the people who listen to me is you need to fuck this idea off for now. 0.99

00:16:17.000 I'm still fucking it off for now. 1.00

00:16:20.000 I'm going to fuck it off until I'm about 40, and then I'm going to be one of those guys flying a bunch of beautiful women on vacation. 1.00

00:16:27.000 For the rest of my life at all the various locations in the world, because that's what rich people do. 1.00

00:16:32.000 But to aspire to even get there is not only unrealistic for the young man, it is absurd for the young man to think that he could ever, ever achieve this in his 20s.

00:16:49.000 And fringe examples exist.

00:16:52.000 People let, you know, the Matrix lets people break out to make you think that this is doable.

00:16:58.000 That young kid now, clavicular, he's going to some of the hot spots, not all of them, he's not on the full calendar, but he's right now in the south of France. 0.70

00:17:06.000 France sucks, by the way, I wouldn't advise going there.

00:17:09.000 And he is a very unique example of somebody at a very young age who's able to adhere to this impossible schedule of traveling, vacationing, being in the right spot at the right time, and being seen there. 0.97

00:17:24.000 And he has such a big platform.

00:17:26.000 All it's doing is exacerbating the problem where more young people see him doing this and think, I should be able to do this.

00:17:34.000 Maybe I can do this.

00:17:36.000 I don't really think that you can unless you are making three or four million bucks a year.

00:17:43.000 And I'm not telling you not to be ambitious.

00:17:46.000 What I'm telling you to do is to do what I do, which is to do everything that's necessary.

00:17:52.000 My ceiling of the level of success I want to achieve is probably much, much higher than a lot of you people listening, because I've already broken through so many ceilings myself.

00:18:04.000 But can't everyone just forget about it? 0.99

00:18:07.000 Can't everyone just fuck it off? 1.00

00:18:09.000 This whole it's Monaco season, it's Santrope season, it's Mykonos season. 1.00

00:18:14.000 Can't everyone just give up and work on themselves for a while and do it when they're older?

00:18:19.000 I feel like taking your summer vacation in one of these hot spots and adhering to the calendar for one or two weeks a year is a total waste of time.

00:18:28.000 If it's Mykonos season and you've got your three weeks paid vacation from work and you've got 20 grand in the bank, I would say to you, do not go to Mykonos. 0.89

00:18:38.000 Leave Mykonos alone.

00:18:40.000 Leave Sandra Pay alone. 0.88

00:18:41.000 Leave Bodrum alone. 0.99

00:18:43.000 Leave these places.

00:18:45.000 To the people who've already made it and aspire to get there when you're old enough, wealthy enough, rich enough to just adhere to this calendar without thinking about your bank balance.

00:18:57.000 I feel like the calendar is kind of a trap.

00:19:00.000 It's a trap to the middle class, it's a trap to the young men who have started making money in the world, it's a trap to the young men with, let's say, 10, 20, 30, 50 grand in their bank.

00:19:11.000 Because it can very easily snap you into thinking that the people who are doing this are not as rich as they are.

00:19:19.000 And you think, well, I've got 50 grand.

00:19:21.000 I can book a first class ticket to France.

00:19:23.000 I can go to Monaco for two weeks.

00:19:25.000 And these locations and travel companies suck all of your money out of you.

00:19:31.000 And within no time, you're going to be back there in your apartment in New York or Miami or wherever else you live, trying to think how to get some money together.

00:19:40.000 And what are you going to do when you get that money together?

00:19:42.000 You're going to fall back into the trap.

00:19:44.000 It's not like it's once a year.

00:19:47.000 If there was once a year one big event that everyone went to, Or one particular country everyone went to at one time of year.

00:19:55.000 I would understand needing to get there.

00:19:57.000 But this event and this country and this goings on is happening 52 weeks a year around the clock.

00:20:08.000 I think you need to bring back in your mind, at least, because we can't change the culture, the old school idea of a summer vacation. 0.99

00:20:17.000 You should take no more than $2,000, take a week away with your friends, Go and have some fun and get back to fucking work. 0.93

00:20:29.000 Hey, when I was, hey, I'm 22. 0.99

00:20:31.000 When I started watching you guys many years ago, I was growing up in an atheist household, making 13 bucks an hour.

00:20:36.000 I'm now a follower of Christ, making 50 to 20 K per month.

00:20:40.000 I'm so blessed.

00:20:42.000 Thank you.

00:20:43.000 Now, I imagine you're a student of the real world.

00:20:45.000 I actually had a very cool experience earlier.

00:20:48.000 I'm not sure if they were students of the real world or not, but I was at the pool in the Pagani building in Dubai, where I famously live.

00:20:55.000 And I met two young German guys, and the first thing they said, because there's no Airbnb in this building, I knew they were my neighbors, so I knew they at least had a few million to purchase an apartment below the penthouse of this building.

00:21:08.000 And the guy was up to me, he goes, Hey man, I didn't want to disturb you earlier while you were training, but I just want to say, Thank you so much.

00:21:14.000 We owe so much to you and your brother. 0.95

00:21:17.000 And I was like, How the fuck do these two German guys owe so much to me and Andrew? 0.97

00:21:23.000 It's kind of cool. 0.97

00:21:24.000 But yeah, you should be taking my advice. 1.00

00:21:28.000 And you should fuck off this whole permanent vacation digital nomad idea. 0.99

00:21:34.000 Because I don't know any fucking digital nomad who doesn't eventually give up and end up just backpacking in Thailand or South America. 0.99

00:21:41.000 I don't know a single digital nomad who is permanently on vacation in the hotspots. 0.99

00:21:47.000 I feel like you need to be less nomadic and more digital and get down to fucking work. 0.94

00:21:58.000 My summer, I think I'm going to go back to Romania for some time. 0.97

00:22:06.000 And I recently said this famously on the Rick Sanchez show when I was in Russia.

00:22:11.000 He's a guy who runs a show on RT, he's quite large.

00:22:14.000 You can find clips of him online, clips of me talking to him, certainly. 0.91

00:22:18.000 And he said, Yeah, you're fine as long as you stay out of Romania.

00:22:21.000 And I told him, No, I'm fine even if I go to Romania.

00:22:24.000 I think with all the goings on and all the massive wins that Andrew and I have been.

00:22:30.000 You know, stacking up since 2025 when I finally got my passport back. 0.98

00:22:38.000 I think the ridiculousness of what the Romanian state are doing is becoming more and more evident. 0.96

00:22:45.000 There comes a time where the attacks bother you, but then the attacks weaken and then they run out of ammo. 0.99

00:22:53.000 And at one point, they're just kind of like tickling you, and you're like, these people are fucking annoying.

00:22:57.000 But everybody can see there's a personal vendetta and a personal grudge somewhere along the line. 0.96

00:23:03.000 Coming from somewhere.

00:23:04.000 So now they're charging Andrew with hate speech violations.

00:23:08.000 It's all very laughable. 1.00

00:23:10.000 And I'm hoping to pick up some hate speech violations myself because the more they do this, the more stupid they look. 0.99

00:23:16.000 So, yes, I will be going back to Romania because I'm not afraid of lies and I'm not afraid of false persecutions and I'm not afraid of prosecutors and I'm not afraid of judges. 0.98

00:23:25.000 Some of the judges in my case have actually been very fair and very good.

00:23:29.000 But my point is, when the truth is on your side, you don't fear these things.

00:23:33.000 And there's a wonderful feeling.

00:23:35.000 That I get when I walk through one of the affluent areas of Bucharest, maybe the city center, even, and I just get swarmed with people coming up to me saying, Tristan, we love you.

00:23:46.000 Andrew, we love you.

00:23:47.000 Can we have a photo with you?

00:23:49.000 I'm sorry for what my government did to you.

00:23:52.000 And I'm like, well, the people are against me.

00:23:55.000 So I'm not going to turn my back on that country just yet.

00:23:58.000 I think I am going to be going to Romania this summer.

00:24:01.000 Hey, Tristan, I'm 23.

00:24:02.000 I'm on vacation in Dubai right now.

00:24:05.000 What's a place you visit or what's your recommendation?

00:24:09.000 I don't go to the places people go.

00:24:12.000 I don't go to the places people go because I can't enjoy a peaceful evening.

00:24:19.000 There are some nights.

00:24:22.000 I'd suggest you to find your own places, but good luck.

00:24:25.000 You know, I recently posted something on X that I think people got the wrong idea about.

00:24:31.000 I'm going to read it.

00:24:32.000 It's still my pinned tweet, I haven't taken it down.

00:24:36.000 I said asking people you recognize for photos.

00:24:40.000 Is cringe if you're an adult.

00:24:43.000 I said, imagine interrupting another full grown man as he eats lunch with your phone in your hand, expecting him to halt his conversation and pose with you. 1.00

00:24:52.000 If you're above 16, this is gay. 0.79

00:24:55.000 And people misunderstood this.

00:24:56.000 A lot of people, even I guess fans of mine, right underneath. 1.00

00:24:59.000 Nah, fuck that. 1.00

00:25:00.000 You're the one who got famous. 1.00

00:25:01.000 If I see you, I'm going to ask for a photo.

00:25:03.000 Fine.

00:25:05.000 You could do what you like.

00:25:07.000 But the photo, and what you need to understand, is not going to do anything for you.

00:25:13.000 A photograph with me is not going to do anything for you in life.

00:25:17.000 It's going to get you a temporary boost of likes on your Instagram or Snapchat page.

00:25:22.000 And that is all it's going to do.

00:25:25.000 I much prefer people who come up and make an introduction and shake my hand and hand me a business card saying, if you're interested in my service, I do this.

00:25:34.000 Because if you take a photo with me, you've immediately lost credibility as somebody who I think I should get to know.

00:25:43.000 Because I don't do that with people more famous than me.

00:25:46.000 Now, I understand if you're a kid, I'm not talking to all you youngsters in the world.

00:25:49.000 Under 16 is a bit mean.

00:25:50.000 I guess under 18.

00:25:51.000 If you're a young kid and you see a photo with me, I don't mind taking pictures with you.

00:25:54.000 I don't even mind taking pictures with you as an adult.

00:25:57.000 But my tweet was worded very specifically.

00:26:01.000 It said, interrupting me as I'm eating lunch.

00:26:05.000 Because there's a time and a place for it.

00:26:08.000 If I'm standing at the bus stop waiting for my driver to pick me up, because he picks me up from a bus stop, and you ask me for a picture, I don't care who you are.

00:26:15.000 I will say yes, I'll smile, I'll take the picture, and I won't think anything negative of you.

00:26:20.000 But if I'm sitting down at a meeting talking to somebody and you don't know who that person is, I guarantee you they're an important person, and you tap me on the shoulder.

00:26:30.000 And you say, hey, can I take a picture?

00:26:32.000 You've got your phone in your hand and you're expecting me to stand up midway through lunch.

00:26:35.000 And then after you do it, someone else is going to do it two minutes later, five minutes later, two minutes after that.

00:26:40.000 No, you can't ask a man who's eating lunch or a man who's with his family or a man who's with his kids if he'll pause what he's doing and take a picture. 0.86

00:26:48.000 So to answer your question, I don't really go to the places everybody goes because when I go to the places where everybody goes and people have been drinking, people have been enjoying themselves, it's a big fucking photo line that forms.

00:27:01.000 After a little bit of time, my two options are to go to the extremely high end places where everyone's got a bit of money and everyone's got a bit too much ego to ask me things, or to just stay in my house.

00:27:14.000 And I like staying in my house.

00:27:16.000 Hey, Tristan, I'm from the SMCA campus.

00:27:19.000 I just want to say that you and your brother have changed my life forever.

00:27:23.000 I genuinely love you guys.

00:27:24.000 God bless you guys.

00:27:25.000 Can you accept my friend request in the real world?

00:27:28.000 I will be accepting friend requests in the real world, but major changes are coming in the upcoming weeks.

00:27:35.000 And when those changes happen, I will be accepting friend requests.

00:27:39.000 I can't tell you any more about them besides the fact that it's going to be huge and it's going to be massive.

00:27:44.000 And after that, I'll be more active on the platform just as a general user because I'm not one of the professors.

00:27:50.000 Everyone knows this.

00:27:52.000 But I'll be more active on the platform in the chats, maybe just as a general user because it's going to be a public company and anyone can sign up if they like.

00:27:59.000 So I may be more active in the real world very soon.

00:28:03.000 If you are in the real world, though, and you haven't yet downloaded the Rumble wallet, You're making a big mistake.

00:28:11.000 What Andrew and I are planning for the rest of the year heavily involves not just the online educational platform, the real world, but also the Rumble wallet as well.

00:28:22.000 Rumble has always been the number one platform for free speech.

00:28:28.000 And the American Supreme Court, I've said this before, has listed your money as your free speech.

00:28:32.000 You could send money to which politicians you want because it's your free speech.

00:28:35.000 You could spend your money on what you want as long as it's legal because it's your free speech.

00:28:38.000 It is a declaration of expression.

00:28:41.000 When you spend or send money somewhere, if I donate money to a charity, that's my free speech in action.

00:28:46.000 If I want to purchase a product because I think it's good, that is my free speech in action.

00:28:51.000 So, as the number one arbiter and with holder and champion of free speech, you can't trust any wallet like you could trust Rumble.

00:29:02.000 They are not going to fuck with you, they're not going to freeze your funds, they're not going to steal your money.

00:29:06.000 So, I'm a big user of the Rumble wallet and I'm planning something epic and upcoming for everybody who is both inside the real world and/or a user.

00:29:15.000 Of the Rumble wallet, you're going to see more details about this coming up on Twitter very soon.

00:29:19.000 I've got one more super chat.

00:29:22.000 How would you define actual hard work as people think they're working hard but they aren't?

00:29:26.000 I want to avoid this trap.

00:29:29.000 You have to try and search for light at the end of the tunnel with whatever you're doing.

00:29:33.000 Laying bricks is hard work, technically, but where's the big payoff?

00:29:38.000 What are you stacking besides bricks?

00:29:40.000 Well, you're making your 11 pounds an hour, next hour, you're going to make 11 pounds by the end of the day, you're going to make 88 pounds.

00:29:48.000 By the end of the week, you're going to make 88 times 5.

00:29:51.000 And there's no light at the end of the tunnel.

00:29:54.000 Hard work, I've always defined it as when I feel I'm stacking something up.

00:29:59.000 I don't need to make money today.

00:30:01.000 I don't need to make money tomorrow.

00:30:02.000 It's what I tell the students inside the real world.

00:30:05.000 But I need to see me building something up that's going to crescendo and crash in a big wave of money.

00:30:14.000 Now, I first ever had this feeling in my telephone sales jobs because you'd call, okay, this person's a little bit interested.

00:30:22.000 You write out the proposal, you put it on your board.

00:30:23.000 This person's a bit interested.

00:30:25.000 This person's not interested.

00:30:26.000 They are interested.

00:30:27.000 They're a bit interested.

00:30:28.000 That one's a deal.

00:30:28.000 That one's paid me money.

00:30:29.000 A bit interested.

00:30:31.000 When I was on the phone 10 hours a day, five days a week, building up all these proposals, I didn't make any money in my first month or very little.

00:30:40.000 I made very little money in my first two months, but by month four and month five, I was killing it.

00:30:45.000 Money was flowing in because all of these potential deals were dropping in.

00:30:49.000 What you need to do is you need to look at your line of work in whatever it is that you do and you need to see that you're building up potential.

00:30:58.000 For something bigger to happen.

00:31:00.000 And if you spend all day, 10 hours on your laptop, working on whatever it is you're working on, and you think there's no way this could ever turn into money one day, then you're not working hard.

00:31:13.000 That's what you need to do.

00:31:15.000 Right.

00:31:15.000 I've got a meeting with Andrew coming up.

00:31:17.000 I've got a busy day.

00:31:18.000 I just thought I'd come on here and bless you and tell you guys to not try to stay on permanent vacation all year.

00:31:26.000 Rumble Wallet, real world.

00:31:29.000 I'll be posting something about this on Twitter in the upcoming weeks.

00:31:32.000 God bless.

Tate Speech - June 28, 2026

EMERGENCY MEETING EPISODE 148 - SUMMER VACATION

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