Tate Speech - Tate on Strong Men

People often ask me, Tate, you are the best human being that s ever walked on the face of the planet. You have it all. But if you had to choose between smart or strong, which one would you choose? And obviously, I would choose strong because I have everything. And if you deny that, you re a hater because everyone can sit here and go, "Yeah, yeah, Tate won the genetic lottery. Yes, he won the lottery." Well, guess what? You re wrong about that too. I ve got it all, and if you don t, I m going to rip your arms from your body and fuck your girlfriend so she gets pregnant with my kid, not your smart kid. Who was right about 2 + 2 is 4 or 2 + 5? And if anyone comes along and says to me, what happened? What happened to me? I say, "Two plus 2 is 5." And they continue to say it's 4. I continue to argue that it's 5. And they don t listen to me until I say "two plus two is 5" and they still don t agree with me. And that's when I say it s 4 + 2, and they argue it s 5. And it s four until I'm enraged. And it's still 4. And then I say that it s five until they agree it s two plus 2, but it's four. And they say it is 4, and I say I m right about it is 5, so they're wrong about it. and they don't listen. And so on and so on, and so it s back and forth and so forth. You can t be smart unless you re smart or you re strong. You don t need to be strong because you re not smart because you're not smart. You gotta be strong, right? You can't be smart if you can be strong if you're dead. You don't have to be smart because there s not enough to be a smart guy because you ain t got a good enough guy. I don t give a fuck. You ain t enough. You're not a smart person because you don't give a shit, right?! Well, who are you gonna give a hoe? You ain't got to give a f#cking face to a guy who's smart? I m a smart because I m not enough because there ain t a smart, right ?

00:00:00.000 People often ask me, Tate, you are the best human being that's ever walked on the face

00:00:12.340 of the planet. You have it all. You're strong and tall and sexy and smart and good looking

00:00:15.960 and rich. But if you had to choose, would you choose between smart or strong? And obviously

00:00:22.160 we continue to talk for a further few hours about how I have everything. Like people hate

00:00:28.240 the fact when I just say I won the genetic lottery. I'm not trying to rub it in your

00:00:32.980 face or nothing and I'm not trying to be arrogant. I'm just pointing out the facts. My father

00:00:37.980 was a chess grandmaster. I have a genius IQ. I'm six foot four. I'm a lean, mean killing

00:00:44.140 machine. I've proved my athletic genetics by becoming a kickboxing world champion. I've

00:00:49.360 won the lottery genetically. Like who else do you see walking around here with a genius

00:00:53.520 IQ and fucking muscles like mine? I don't take steroids. I don't take creatine. I don't 1.00

00:00:58.760 take protein powders. I don't do nothing. Just muscle just falls from the sky. I've won

00:01:04.520 the genetic lottery. I'm a fucking G. And if you want to deny that, you're a hater because 1.00

00:01:07.820 everyone can sit here and go, yeah, Tate won the genetic lottery. Yes, Tate's one of them 1.00

00:01:11.420 lucky motherfuckers. He won the lottery. Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yeah. If I had 1.00

00:01:16.740 to choose between smart and strong. Obviously I've got it all. We just discussed that. And in

00:01:21.540 the scenario I've just given you, which happens at least every day, I discuss for two hours

00:01:24.540 with the person how I have it all. And they agreed because I do. But if I had to choose,

00:01:28.480 the answer is simple. I would choose strong. See, smart people have this idea that once you're

00:01:35.100 smart, you don't need to be strong anymore. I know a bunch of smart dudes. Oh yeah, but

00:01:39.780 I have an engineering degree. I will fuck you up. And some dude without an engineering degree 1.00

00:01:48.700 will come down the road and he'll fuck you up. The reality of the human condition has 0.99

00:01:54.600 always been violence and the capability for violence. It doesn't matter what you think

00:01:58.560 you have if you're going to get bused up by some fucking third world savage. The reason 0.99

00:02:03.480 strong is more important than smart is because you can't be smart if you're fucking dead. 1.00

00:02:07.940 You can't be smart if you're killed or murdered. And you're also not smart if you cannot enforce 0.99

00:02:12.640 your opinion. I'll give you an example. You're smart. I'm stupid. We decide to argue. You say two

00:02:18.180 plus two is four. I say two plus two is five. You continue to say it's four. I continue to say

00:02:22.120 it's five until I'm enraged. Now that I'm enraged, I've decided to rip your arms from your body and fuck 1.00

00:02:26.600 your girlfriend. You say, no, it's still four. I destroy you. Left hook, your chin snaps, your head 1.00

00:02:34.020 hits the floor and you die. I fuck your girlfriend. She gets pregnant with my kid. Not your smart kid, 1.00

00:02:38.120 my stupid strong kid. Who was right? Seriously, who was right about two plus two? Because you're 1.00

00:02:45.660 dead. And if anyone comes along and says to me, what happened? I say, I told this motherfucker 0.73

00:02:49.380 two plus two is five. He didn't listen. And they're like, oh, well, obviously it is because 1.00

00:02:52.480 his ass is dead. Strong always trumps smart. And if you're a smart person, the most intelligent 1.00

00:02:58.980 thing you can do is get strong. When I was a kid and I became the state chess champion aged five

00:03:04.180 in the under 11s in Indiana, the youngest person to ever win it ever on my route to become a

00:03:07.940 grandmaster, which got derailed because I became a kickboxing world champion, blah, blah,

00:03:11.100 blah, blah. Anyway, when I won, my dad said, you have to take a month away from chess. I

00:03:16.100 just won the championship. He goes, you have to take a month away from chess. Like why?

00:03:18.800 He goes, because you're not going to be a fucking geek. You're going to play chess. You're 1.00

00:03:21.680 going to be like me. You're also going to be a monster. Chess playing monsters, not chess. 1.00

00:03:26.300 Oh, I play chess. I saw some fucking kid in the newspaper the other day. He can recite 1.00

00:03:31.140 pi to 200 decimals. That's nice. But you look like a geek. So who gives a fuck? Because

00:03:37.640 you ain't going to get laid. You're going to go in the club, start reciting pi to a hoe. 1.00

00:03:41.440 That's the worst game I've ever seen. You cannot just go through life. Well, I'm a smart guy. It

00:03:46.640 ain't enough because there's strong brettas out here who don't give a fuck how smart you are to 1.00

00:03:50.440 smash your face in. You need to be a warrior scholar. You need to have it all. And being strong, 0.99

00:03:56.600 if you had to choose, being strong is more important anyway, because being smart ain't going

00:04:00.040 to save you. I know you're sitting there going, well, if I'm smart, I can lock my doors and

00:04:03.600 I can get a gun. You sound like a dork. Smart does not trump strong. Not on the individualistic 1.00

00:04:10.900 basis. Obviously, a smart society can be a strong society because you can build laser weapons

00:04:15.600 and shit. I'm talking about on an individualistic basis. If I had to choose if I was smart or 0.97

00:04:18.980 strong, I would choose strong. Lucky for me, I've got it all.

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Tate Speech - July 08, 2022

Tate on Strong Men

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