Tate on His Favorite Quote
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Summary
The story of how my dad was beaten to death by a bunch of mexicans in a fight at a gas station in the early 00s. I remember it like it was yesterday and how scared I was of what was going to happen to my dad and how I managed to save the day. I don t even remember the fight, but I remember the day it happened and how it changed my dad's life forever. I hope you enjoy the story and learn from it as much as I did. I hope it makes you feel a little bit better about your own situation and that you don t have to be afraid of the things that happen to you and your family because of the people around you. I know I used to be scared of the stuff my dad did, but now I know how to deal with it and I know what to do when it happens to someone you care deeply about. Thank you for listening to this episode of the podcast, I really appreciate it and I hope that you enjoy this episode and that it gives you some perspective on your life and your life hope you find some value in it. xoxo -P.S. I'm not a professional chess player, I'm just a kid, I don't play chess, I just play it in my spare time but that's not the only time I've ever played it in a tournament so if you're interested in learning how to play it, then you can join me in the next week. I'll be in a competition or something like that. - I'm going to teach you how to learn how to beat someone else in chess the game (I'll teach you the game of chess? If you want to play a game that's better than you can be a better than I can be better than me, I'll give you a chance to win at it, or you're not going to be able to beat me in a game you're going to have the chance to beat you at it? I'll tell you what you can do that, you'll have to pay me a lesson if you don't know what you're good enough to do so you're here to help me teach me how to teach me that I can do so I can help me, you can help someone else, but you'll get a better one of those things it's not gonna help me do that
Transcript
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so i've got a saying which is on my business card and the saying is my unmatched perspicacity
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coupled with sheer indefatigability makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavor
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and what that basically means is unmatched perspicacity my ability to perceive things
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at an unmatched level coupled with sheer indefatigability my ability to never become tired
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so i can perceive and i never become tired makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavor
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and people have asked me where that came from and that's actually a quote of my father's
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the story goes as following my dad was a chess player but not only was he an amazingly good
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at chess imagine him more as he was a chess hustler so my dad was a hustler that's who he was so if
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he had no money and he needed money he'd walk into a chess club back then there was chess clubs
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everywhere because the internet hadn't taken off there wasn't internet chess he'd walk into a
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chess club and he'd say you get his last money in the world 20 bucks and say 20 bucks you get 10
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minutes on the clock i get one minute i'll be any i'll lick any one of you literally you start betting
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money and just start schooling people i i was with him when i was a kid i was i used to play chess with
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him used to travel to tournaments together all the time and he'd just walk in and start schooling
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people licking them walk in there 20 bucks leave for 300 and other grandmasters everything at blitz
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the way he played was so aggressive even if on a longer form game you could hold out and beat him
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because it was so aggressive and it came so fast in these blitz games you play for money he's just
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steamroll people people couldn't calculate quick enough because my dad was suicidal sacrifices queen
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and shit that was fucking crazy the mike tyson of chess forward forward forward so the story was we
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just gone we had been in detroit i was really young i was about seven so we were in detroit michigan
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he'd finished a tournament he had some money and it was about three o'clock in the morning and we went
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to a gas station and at the gas station i had walked to the back to start looking at crisps and stuff and
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i heard the bell of the door ring and some mexicans walked in and my dad was at the counter purchasing
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something i have no idea what happened for the fight to start because the bell rang on the door
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and about four seconds later everyone was fighting i don't know if they pulled a gun on him i don't
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know what happened but when i came i looked around from the counter and my dad had one guy both of his
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hands on his neck and his shoulders up to try and protect his head and other three mexican guys were
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punching my dad in the head punching my dad in the head the korean guy behind the counter was
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screaming stop i call police i call police i call police and as a kid i was like fuck i'd never
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really seen that kind of violence before also as a kid so i was absolutely ineffective but i started
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instinctually just walking over towards it i don't know what else the fuck i was gonna do maybe i was a
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little warrior then as well thinking about it now don't know what i was thinking but i started walking
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towards it and my dad as he had this guy and was being hit must have seen me out the corner of his eye
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and i remember him screaming i remember his voice i'll try and imitate it was stay back like that's
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what he said to me so i was like fuck so i just stood there and watched this fight go down
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anyway the guys were hitting my father my dad ended up with his teeth in the guy's face the guy he
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grabbed he sunk his teeth into his face and they were hitting him and hitting him hitting him
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eventually one of them got a ball and hit my dad on the head and his knees went he didn't fall
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but his knees went his head started to bleed he let go and he kind of turned and all four of them
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were facing one way and they ran out the store this was the whole event was six seconds seven
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seconds it happened extremely quickly when the reason is i'm struggling to recite it because i
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remember how scared i was at the time we can all talk to tough man shit when you're a kid and this
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kind of shit's happening it's fucking scary like you've never seen it before and that's your dad and
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there's fucking blood now everywhere they'd hit him with a glass bottle and the back of his head
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was bleeding really really bad and the the guy said the guy behind the counter goes are you okay
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my dad said yeah i'm okay so we stood there we're waiting for the police my dad now took his shirt
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off my dad was a big guy bit of a belly but like a big guy and had put it on his head and was holding
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the blood in and i didn't say a word and he didn't say a word i just stood there waiting for the police
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waiting for the police waiting for the police anyway the police officers came i started asking my dad
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and the guy behind the counter questions police officers came with the guns drawn the guy behind
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the counter goes no no no no it's not him it's not him it's the other guys the other guys so the
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korean guy vouched for my father so they started asking questions what's your name he said emery
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tate tell us what happened emery said i'll stay at the counter etc etc start telling the story
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anyway got to a point where during the questioning they're standing there the guy goes to him so what's
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your job my dad said i'm a chess player now i remember my dad's face was was badly bruised really badly
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fucked up his head's all bleeding and the guy behind the counter had just told the police the
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story of how he fought four men on his own there was also a whole bunch of blood on the floor from
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the guy's face because my dad took a chunk out of his face and his teeth and the police officer goes
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so what's your job he said i'm a chess player he goes a chess player you just fought four guys maybe
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you should have been something else my dad's reply was my unmatched perspicacity coupled with sheer
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indefatigability makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavor and the police officer
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stood there with his pad and just asked the next question i know for a fact he didn't write that
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down and even though i was so young i remembered that sentence from the day he said it and that
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may just be maybe it's just because i was in the scenario maybe it's because i saw it with my own
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eyes maybe it's because i saw the aftermath of my mom crying when we came home and his face was all
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fucked up and we couldn't afford the medical bills for him to go to hospital to have an x-ray so he was
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just laying in bed for like three or four days in a row saying he could have a really bad headache
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we're worried about concussion and fucking our grandma had to get money on a loan to send him
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for an x-ray and all this bullshit i remember all the emotionality around it but maybe it's because
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all that or maybe it's just genuinely true i believe that to be the baddest motherfucking sentence
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on the face of the planet what dude besides my dad fights four dudes and said and it comes out with
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that sentence after his head's been rocked no one there's no one else on earth who comes out with
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sentences or speaks that proficiently the way my father spoke english was a different level
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i don't care how well you know english i don't care you're watching this right now you think you're
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smart if you spoke to my dad you end up using a dictionary like what the fuck what that's just how
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he spoke he was a linguist he spoke five six languages and he knew english he had a grasp of
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english like no other person on the planet i've ever known he knew words i've never heard of every time
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i like i said i'm his son so and every single time i spoke to him i was using the dictionary
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it was insane his he almost spoke a different version of english english has so many words and
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no one uses so his his grasp of the english language was fantastic and that sentence is
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especially badass imagine you're and so i use it in general now i use it with chicks and shit i can
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never replicate the awesomeness of the first time he ever said it but it's a badass thing to say and i
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don't mind any of you here learning it and saying it because you know what it spreads his legacy say it
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but when next time i'm driving next to sometimes i'm driving my lambo in the wet and i'm driving
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like a fucking psycho and everyone else is going slow and it's snowy outside and i'm swerving in and
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out of cars i'm sliding the back of it and the girl's like you're gonna crash it's like bitch
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my unmatched perspicacity couple with sheer indefinite ability makes me a feared opponent
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