Tate Speech - Tate on Buying A Bugatti

When you go to a Bugatti dinner, 90% of the conversations you have with the other people there are simply stories. And I realized something which is really important, because people like me have been to a lot of high-level events, high level dinners, sat with a bunch of rich people. But when you go at a dinner, it's interesting because you know everybody there is extremely rich, but they're all from different backgrounds. And they have a very unique life. Of course, if you work for Bugatti, you have to go through a process to actually get the car, but one of those things is test driving. You have to prove you're competent. And then in the end, what's going on? I may as well have been Ed Sheeran up in this club. It was black, it was black. I was standing there completely out of place with a sex party in Cannes, and I'm standing in front of a club where everyone in there probably had a gun. I don't know what I'm up to, but it's not a good one, is it? And then I see a door on the corner, and it's 1% appealing to a 1%er. I do not find this sexually arousing. I'm not getting this sexually attractive in any regard, I'm getting drunk and I want to get out here in one piece. This is weird, yay, nah nah, I've been through the transistria and I m not getting all the crazy to get all the shit I want. I've had like that I want in here in a little bit here in this episode. - Tom Deloitte, I m talking about this. - Tom Pizz nah. - I ve been drinking a lot and I ve had like 4 or five or six drinks and I don t want to fuck all the things I want, so I m getting out here to get a little crazy to fuck yay nah yay yay. - This is not getting it all out here, I just want to do this in a way. - I m just to get it out here. - And I m drinking and get it all in a bit. - and I can t get enough of it. - - and you re not getting any more than that? - Tom is getting a good night out here? - And you re getting a head start on getting it? - and it s not even close?

00:00:00.000 Right, I was recently, so I'm in the midst of purchasing a Bugatti.

00:00:30.000 This kind of happened on accident.

00:00:40.100 I was driving my Ferrari 812 Superfast from London back through Germany, and I saw the

00:00:48.600 Bugatti sign, and I wanted to go in there to look at them, and they wouldn't let me in

00:00:52.360 because there's too many shitmunchers who come and pretend they want to buy Bugattis. 0.60

00:00:56.820 Shitmunchers come and go, oh, I want to buy a Bugatti, and really they're just wasting 1.00

00:00:59.280 everyone's time, and they don't really actually want to buy anything, so that annoyed me. 0.85

00:01:02.240 They thought I was a shitmuncher, so I was like, I'm not a shitmuncher.

00:01:04.220 Google me. 0.98

00:01:04.540 I'm fucking rich, and I convinced them I was a G in all the cars I have, blah, blah, blah, 0.94

00:01:09.280 and then they finally put me down with someone who's important, which was the head of regional 0.96

00:01:12.880 sales for Bugatti in Europe, blah, blah, blah, accidentally ended up buying a Bugatti, so

00:01:17.500 it's a process, and you have to go through a bunch of crap to actually get the car, but

00:01:21.780 one of those things is test driving today.

00:01:24.640 You have to go and drive the car.

00:01:26.260 You have to prove you're competent.

00:01:27.460 I'm sure you can get away with it if you're like an Arab sheikh or a billionaire oligarch, 0.98

00:01:31.040 but people like me, if we want to order one, we have to prove we can drive a Chiron.

00:01:34.500 So I went, and in between the driving test days, there's these dinners at night, and you're

00:01:41.320 sitting around with all the other Bugatti owners, and I realized something, which is

00:01:44.620 really, really important, because people, I mean, I've been to a lot of high-level events,

00:01:48.760 a lot of high-level dinners, sat with a lot of rich people, blah, blah, blah, but when

00:01:52.340 you go to a Bugatti dinner, it's interesting because you know everybody there is extremely rich,

00:01:56.120 but they're all from different backgrounds.

00:01:57.600 You have some people who are just daddy's money, some people who have made their own

00:02:00.100 money in real estate, some people who have made their own money doing X, Y, Z, then you

00:02:03.640 have the Bugatti guys themselves who are trying to sell cars and work for the brand, and they

00:02:08.440 have a very unique life.

00:02:10.160 Of course, if you work for Bugatti, you have a very unique life.

00:02:13.040 And I realized that 90% of the conversations that were taking place at this dinner were simply

00:02:19.720 stories. So the guy who sold the Bugattis was telling stories of the time he was selling

00:02:26.740 a Bugatti in Bahrain, and the Sheikh thought it would be funny to lock him in his tiger's

00:02:32.960 cage, for example. The other guy who was buying a car along with me was an older guy, and he

00:02:38.180 was telling the story of the time he went into East Germany during communism in the 70s.

00:02:43.200 And then I'm telling my stories, like you've seen on Tate's speech of getting robbed in

00:02:46.620 Jamaica. He pulls up at this club, the best club in Jamaica, blah, blah, blah, blah. We

00:02:51.560 go in there. I am mixed race. I may as well have been Ed Sheeran up in this motherfucker.

00:02:57.140 It was black. I'm not being racist. It was black. The music was black. The lights were 0.99

00:03:04.480 low. You couldn't see nobody's face. It was just black. Everyone in there probably had 0.99

00:03:09.260 a gun. I'm standing there completely out of place.

00:03:11.860 With a sex party. 0.95

00:03:12.720 Well, I'm going to tell you about the time I went to a sex party in Cannes in France, 0.94

00:03:17.060 in the French Riviera. Knowing what I know now, what basically happened is I got selected

00:03:21.040 by a taxi driver to be one of the bulls, like one of the big bad boy who fuck all the women. 1.00

00:03:26.420 That's what I've been selected to do. So we're sitting there, and as the couples would come 1.00

00:03:30.580 in, like a man would walk in with his wife, I thought he was introducing himself to people,

00:03:34.400 but no, he was introducing his wife to people. It clocked. I said, ah, okay, I see what's

00:03:40.600 going on. And then in the corner, there was a door, and up the door, the door to depravity,

00:03:45.540 there was bedrooms. None of this is 1% appealing to me. I do not find this sexually attractive

00:03:50.600 or arousing in any regard. I just want to get out here in one piece. This is weird. This

00:03:54.400 is some Hills Have Eyes shit. So we're sitting there. I've had like four or five drinks by 0.99

00:03:57.780 now, and the more I drink, the less I want to fuck. I'm not getting drunk and going, yay. 0.99

00:04:01.020 I'm getting drunk and thinking, nah. You're the transnistria, all the crazy things I've 1.00

00:04:07.160 been through. The problem is on that overnight train, I nearly got robbed. That train is

00:04:10.180 completely mafia run. So we're like, how the fuck do we get out? All the planes are booked 0.95

00:04:13.560 for another week. We don't want to take the train again because of what happened the first

00:04:16.040 time. It's a war zone. It's a fucking war. We're chilling. I see someone out the side of

00:04:19.700 the car, blacked out, head to toe black. Get out of the car, get out of the car. I'm interested

00:04:24.700 to look at each other like, for fuck's sake. Like, we should have known better. Shit's about 0.99

00:04:28.560 to go now. We just got the car with our hands up. They got guns pointed out. So we're like, 0.99

00:04:31.960 yeah, well, who the fuck are you? Like, this is more than just a routine robbery. They 1.00

00:04:36.040 even had our Mr. Fucking Rally Driver. And it turns out that at the highest echelons of 0.99

00:04:42.020 society, you will always be liked and you'll always be able to fit in if you have an interesting

00:04:46.120 story and if you can tell it well. The thing is about most people is most people don't have

00:04:50.840 interesting stories. And even if they do have a story, which could be interesting, they

00:04:54.180 can't tell it. They're not very good at storytelling in general. So,

00:04:58.560 they can't portray the emotions involved. They can't portray the fear or the humor or

00:05:02.520 whatever else. But that was my observation. I kind of always knew this to be true. But

00:05:07.460 I sat there and after three hours of dinner, I realized all we did was basically take turn

00:05:11.160 telling cool stories. And this is what rich people, cool people, interesting people who

00:05:15.180 live interesting lives do. They have stories to tell. And inside of the war room, which is

00:05:20.080 my private network, I was speaking to the war room guys and said, okay, tell me your best

00:05:24.680 story. Not only to see what their story is, but also to see how they tell it. And it turns

00:05:30.560 out that if you're ever looking to reach the higher echelons of life, if you're ever looking

00:05:33.960 to be around very important people, if you ever want to feel respected amongst the most

00:05:38.500 financially affluent individuals in the world, you need to not only be able to listen, of course,

00:05:45.980 and have some kind of reasonable input to an insane story about being locked in a tiger's

00:05:51.780 cage while trying to sell one of the Bahrainian princes of Bugatti. You also need to have a story

00:05:56.820 which rivals that. So, if you're sitting here watching this, my question is, what is your best

00:06:01.000 story? And I'm actually interested in hearing your best story. So, what you can do is, there's an email

00:06:08.080 address below. I want you to tell it on video. I don't want you to type it out to me. Make a video.

00:06:14.000 Tell me your best story and email it to me. And I'm going to watch every single one of these and

00:06:18.380 I'm going to give you a score out of 10. Consider this me doing some philanthropic work. I'm going

00:06:22.620 to give you a score out of 10 to let you know how good your storytelling is. My storytelling is

00:06:26.440 obviously fantastic. That's why you watch this channel. My stories are obviously fantastic. I've

00:06:30.160 lived a very interesting life. But most of you people have boring lives and you can't tell stories.

00:06:34.220 But if you want to test yourself, just in case you ever believe you're going to be in the higher

00:06:37.180 echelons of society in future and you're going to need to be able to break out your story to

00:06:40.540 entertain a table full of multi-millionaires. Because that's what you're doing. When you get

00:06:44.860 your story out, you're entertaining a table of multi-millionaires who live extremely exciting

00:06:48.620 lives. If you want your story tested, then make a video, email it to the email address below,

00:06:54.080 and I'll tell you how good it is.

Tate Speech - July 11, 2022

Tate on Buying A Bugatti

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