# Tate Speech Ep 20: Tate on How Stealing is a DISEASE

> Andrew Tate, 14 Aug 2018, 4 min. Full automatic transcript below: 55 lines, about 739 words, each with its timestamp.

Tate Speech episode 20, Tate on How Stealing is a DISEASE, aired 14 Aug 2018 (4 min) with Andrew Tate. He talks about disease, choice and addiction.

- Speaker: Andrew Tate
- Uploaded: 5 Dec 2025
- Originally aired: 14 Aug 2018
- Length: 4 min
- Platform: Rumble
- Series: [Tate Speech](https://www.wordtoclip.com/series/tate-speech), episode 20 (139 episodes)
- Previous episode: [Ep 19: Tate on Being a Heterosexual](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/f324383c-9f6a-4aae-bd4e-a536f55f3c85)
- Next episode: [Ep 23: Tate on Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/aed4167c-006b-417c-a127-b8be196cf03d)
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### When did Tate Speech episode 20 air?

Tate Speech episode 20, Tate on How Stealing is a DISEASE, aired 14 Aug 2018.

### What is Tate Speech episode 20 about?

It is called Tate on How Stealing is a DISEASE. He talks about disease, choice and addiction.

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## Transcript

- [0:03](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=3) Right, the lightning is not great for this video, but I have
- [0:06](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=6) a
- [0:07](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=7) confession to make
- [0:08](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=8) So I'm gonna make it.
- [0:10](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=10) Thank you.
- [0:11](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=11) I have a disease.
- [0:12](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=12) and my disease has led me to steal
- [0:15](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=15) this Orbit watermelon chewing gum.
- [0:17](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=17) despite the fact I have enough money to easily pay for it,
- [0:20](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=20) I suffer from a disease that makes me steal things.
- [0:24](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=24) See, I always thought that if you make shit choices in your life...
- [0:27](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=27) that it's down to you and you should have some personal responsibility. But I recently found out that addiction is a disease.
- [0:32](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=32) in light of all the modern bullshit that's going on with all these spoiled cump celebrities,
- [0:37](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=37) I had someone explain to me that addiction is a disease. And I said, well, addiction is not a disease because there's a choice you make at the beginning.
- [0:43](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=43) I don't know a disease on earth where you make a choice
- [0:46](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=46) At the start,
- [0:48](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=48) which begins the series of events.
- [0:51](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=51) If you have an addiction,
- [0:52](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=52) you make a choice
- [0:54](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=54) to get up, get dressed, go.
- [0:56](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=56) meet the person who has whatever substance, purchase it, go home,
- [1:00](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=60) and inject it. There's a whole bunch of choices
- [1:02](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=62) before the actual act itself. And they said, "No, addiction's a disease "because it's been shown in their brain "that when they withdraw." I'm like, "Yeah, I'm sure in your brain, "you can see brain chemicals, you know, obviously, "certain things you enjoy and
- [1:15](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=75) If you miss something, you can measure it. I understand all of what you're trying to say. I still do not see how addiction is a disease because there's a choice in the beginning.
- [1:22](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=82) But they corrected me.
- [1:24](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=84) They said no.
- [1:25](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=85) Addiction is a disease.
- [1:27](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=87) even though there's a choice at the start.
- [1:28](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=88) because it's very difficult to quit,
- [1:30](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=90) And if they don't do the whatever activity they're doing, whether it's gambling, whether it's taking drugs, whether it's alcohol, whatever, whatever, you can notice in the brain serotonin levels drop, etc., etc.,
- [1:39](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=99) I said, "Okay, well,
- [1:41](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=101) You know what I like?
- [1:43](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=103) Free shit.
- [1:44](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=104) I like free stuff.
- [1:46](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=106) So even though I make the choice to steal,
- [1:50](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=110) I have a disease because if I don't steal,
- [1:52](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=112) It's very difficult for me not to because you can measure in my brain that I'm pissed off. I haven't got free things.
- [1:58](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=118) So I started small with my Orbit chewing gum.
- [2:01](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=121) But I actually intend on getting
- [2:04](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=124) Big time. Banks, cars, I don't even know. Whatever. I can take whatever I want now. I have a disease. Stealing is officially a disease.
- [2:11](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=131) If having addiction is a disease,
- [2:12](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=132) and the choice at the start of it
- [2:15](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=135) completely has nothing to do with your own personal responsibility, and you have absolutely zero part to play because you're ill,
- [2:22](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=142) Well then I'm ill. I'm ill too.
- [2:24](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=144) and stealing is my affliction.
- [2:26](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=146) So I want you all to feel sorry for me.
- [2:29](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=149) So when I go to court,
- [2:30](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=150) I want all of you to be protesting outside that the judges don't understand that I have a disease. It's not my fault I steal.
- [2:35](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=155) It's not my fault that I get up, get dressed, go to the place where I'm stealing from, consciously try and hide my action, steal whatever I steal and leave because I have a disease.
- [2:44](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=164) And I want the entire justice system to reflect that. Like, just like with the junkie.
- [2:48](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=168) Everyone feels sorry for them, they get counseling, millions and millions of dollars are spent trying to rehabilitate these diseased people. That's what I deserve for my stealing.
- [2:57](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=177) I want exactly the same thing. In fact, if you're a murderer,
- [3:01](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=181) It's not your fault. It's a disease. Yeah, you made a choice to chop that person's head off, but if you didn't do it, you might have been unhappy because they really annoyed you. And the only way you could think of to satisfy your urge was to fuck them up. So you went and did it. And even though you made a choice at the beginning, it's not your fault. Addiction is a disease. Stealing is a disease. Anything bad anyone does on earth is a disease. None of us are responsible for anything we do. There's zero personal responsibility involved in any of it. We're just feathers in the wind,
- [3:31](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=211) catch some terrible affliction that allows us to steal, not allows, compels us to steal.
- [3:47](https://www.wordtoclip.com/v/bd808886-a790-47be-a4bb-39addc3a68ce?t=227) Orbit Watermelon Choo-Yah.

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