Transcript
I'm being asked the same question repeatedly.
And people don't like my answer. Because usually people come to me as a bastion of knowledge.
They come to me for a very simple, concise, compendious answer to the world's problems.
We have this extremely complicated problem that no one else can solve.
Let's go to Tate and he'll fix it in less than a sentence.
Become the greatest human alive.
And I'm doing that, but people aren't seeming to understand my answer.
So let me explain it to you.
Thank you.
The question I'm being asked is,
different versions of
What would you do in this scenario? The guy choking the guy on the subway. Would you have choked him? How long would you have choked him for? Or some other video of some fight on a plane? What would you have done, Andrew? What's the right thing to do? Like a thousand of emails about this. Road rage fights, fights in gas stations, all this shit.
Without going into specifics,
It's actually quite a difficult question to answer.
If I was on that subway,
and that guy was being a dickhead, I would try my very best to ignore him.
I wouldn't want to be a superhero because I understand that in New York, the government, who I pay taxes to,
will destroy my life and lock me away for trying to protect other New Yorkers.
So I would sit there and just think, fuck it.
But if it got to a point where he attacked me or attacked an old lady or something, which I really believed I truly had to intervene.
I would have hit him, likely.
I wouldn't have choked him for 10, 15 minutes. I would have hit him probably once.
knocked him out. This kid is dangerous. Like his style or not, he will knock you out. Who says that wouldn't have killed him?
All I know is Dim Mach. All I know is the moral touch. If I hit somebody, they're in big trouble. I hit some fucking dumb shit.
Everyone I've ever hit has had serious damage. If I hit some fucking chump, he might be done. I don't know how to throw half a punch.
So all these scenarios are difficult, right?
People are asking me, Tate, what'd you do here? What'd you do there?
And I'm trying to explain all the nuance of it. But truthfully, there's a simple answer. And the simple answer I give, because like I said, I like to be compendious...
I want to give an answer in one sentence. I don't want to go through the specifics of each scenario. Andrew, look at this road rage event.
Specifically, would you have hit him? How hard would you have hit him?
Would you have held the choke for this long? Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Thank you.
All of these situations
are brokey.
situations.
So I explained to people, the simple answer is don't be poor. What do you mean?
What do you mean, what do I mean? Why the fuck are you on a subway?
Well, to get to work, because you're broke.
Subways are for brogies.
The world has now changed. You can no longer safely be a brokey.
You could have been a brokie in the 1960s, and lived a safe, relatively calm, normal life. But if you're no longer rich,
It's not just about the fact that I get to wear diamond watches and drive all these supercars and fly on private jets. It's about the fact that I get to avoid...
99.9%
of dumb shit
dumb shit in which I'm in a scenario where there's no easy answer,
Both moves I make her wrong. Do I go to jail? Do I let this guy punch this woman?
Do I risk getting stabbed? Do I hit him first? All this shit is avoided.
When you're rich,
You send me videos of some people fighting on a plane, and I'll send you back a video of me on a private jet. You send me videos of some bullshit on a subway, I'll remind you that I haven't ridden a subway,
in 10 years and I'm never gonna ride a subway ever again for the rest of my fucking life.
So I don't give a shit how many psychos are on the subway, whether they're microdaction impersonators, or drug addicts, or looney tunes, I'm sure it's full of them. I will never encounter these people
I will never be in these scenarios, ever!
Ever. Someone comes to me and goes, "What do I do on the subway?" "Don't ride the subway."
Get rich.
Oh yeah, but, but, no but.
The world has changed to the point where being rich is no longer just about material possessions. It is a necessity. It is vital for survival. It is literally vital.
for you to live a calm and balanced, nice, peaceful life.
for you to be a person who has a lot of money.
Because the world's fucked.
And as it continues to get more and more fucked, as people become more and more broke, and more emotional, and more upset, and more divided,
It's just going to get worse.
Do you think the subway in 10 years from now is going to be a better place?
Do you think there's going to be less psychos on the New York subway in 10 years from now or more?
Think about that question and think about what's your plan to make sure you never have to ride the fucking subway again.
You're showing me Delta Airlines and all these people fucking fighting like savages. It's 50 bucks a ticket.
What the fuck do you expect?
Of course, of course. I have none of them problems in my private jet. None of them problems in the private jet terminal. I don't go to the Brokey Airport. I'm not with you guys in the lines. No, I go to a door around the side, Mr. Tate, straight on board.
I avoid all this shit.
All this dumb shit is so easily avoided.
I will never encounter a scenario with random violence ever again, probably for the rest of my life, unless I decide to be a degenerate and go get drunk with my old friends at a stupid place.
Unless I do some dumb shit.
If I actually live my life how I live it, I will never encounter random violence,
drug addicts, mental illness, none of it ever, ever again. I can walk with my three-year-old girls, I can walk with my daughters or all my children,
and absolute safety.
Well, Andrew, what about gas stations? Yeah. When my fucking...
Entourage rolls up at the gas station with my private security teams and blacked out Escalades. I don't have to worry about some dickhead
It's not my problem. I don't get out the car.
Do you understand? Some of you Brokeys may have been at a gas station. I may have been there.
Imagine that, your dream came true. I was up to the same guy, she said, okay, you didn't see me.
Arigata.
I don't fill up my own car with gas. I don't do that shit. Not my job. And you know what's funny? Cigar break.
I'm monumentally more physically capable than every single one of you watching this. I am monumentally more physically capable than every single version of man watching this.
And I still don't want to be in these scenarios.
I still don't like the idea of having to use my insane force
and monumental prowess
to destroy the jaw of some random psychopath on a fucking subway.
I don't like
the idea of those scenarios, with my capability,
You dorks with no capability!
are having to deal with those scenarios.
monumentally less equipped for the scenario than I am. You're not prepared to deal with it like I am.
And you're the ones having to deal with it. I could actually handle 99% of this shit.
I could have fucking hit that dude in his sternum, dropped him, probably wouldn't have died. He would have rolled around the floor like a bitch and everyone would have been okay. I'm more equipped for this crap than you are and I'm not doing it.
And I never will for the rest of my life. So when you come to me and say, Andrew, there was this road rage fight. What would you have done? Andrew, there was this fight on the airplane. What would you have done? Andrew, there was this fight on the subway. What would you have done? Andrew, look at this guy got shot in downtown. What would you have done? I would have got rich.
That's what I would have done. I would have got rich because I understood the world is fuck. I'd understood it's on a downward trajectory. I understood the chance of any of this shit getting better is zero. I'd understand there's no right move to making these scenarios. And what I would have done is dedicate myself to get rich. So I never have to deal with any of this shit.
Ever. That's my answer, and let me promise you something.
It's worked.
A message from outside the Matrix.
The Matrix has you. The hard part is in the beginning. I nearly quit. After a few months, I didn't make any money. After three months, with zero cash, I landed two clients in one day. So far, I've made $5,480, and that was in the span of six months.
me completely 100 convinced that it was worth it. Quitters never win. Life of quitter #258, quitter #346, quitter #198, 058, 482. You were almost there. I'm putting in I'm here but I'm not getting anything back. I nearly quit twice. You were on the path. The hard part is in the beginning.
Started seeing any real, real success. Just do not quit. And then after that, it kind of just skyrocketed. Once you start winning, then it's easy. This month I did somewhere between 5K and 6K. Everyone tells you, you'll never make it. And then I'm just sitting there showing them win after win after win. And they're just like, how are you doing this? I was like, because I put the time and effort in and I believed I could. Do not give up.
Join the real world.
Oh, oh.