Ep. 2467 - The Andrew Tate Reckoning Is Here
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm going to name a bunch of things that used to get you kicked out of polite society. Being a pornographer. hitting a 15-year-old girl with a belt on camera in essentially a sexual fetish video, bragging about teaching men to pimp hoes, suckering women into posing nude on camera for your own financial gain, running a grift business where you convince ignorant young men that if they post videos of you shirtless in your Romanian warehouse with fancy cars, smoking cigars, with a bunch of clout chasing women in the background, they will get rich. teaching those same young men that all women are trash and whores. You know, people who did such things, things like this, used to be unwelcome. Unwelcome to dinner, unwelcome at church, unwelcome in the halls of power, and unwelcomed by important and influential voices shaping our politics and our culture.
No longer. But here is the thing. Sin has consequences. Always and forever. On Saturday morning, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in Miami for extradition to the UK on 38 new criminal charges, bringing the total charges against them to 59 criminal charges, including child and extreme pornography, rape and sexual assault. I'll explain all the details, why this is happening and what comes next. But far more importantly... I want to talk about why these two obvious scumbags and grifters were welcomed into polite society, championed as heroes and as truth-tellers, because a society that embraces sin destroys itself. We'll get to all that in a moment. Plus, the latest in Iran, Hasan Piker channeling Dwight Schrute and Sherman Mao, and much more.
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Sin has consequences. I know it's not cool to point out that sin actually exists and that it actually has real world consequences. So here's the good news. I don't give a damn about being cool. I mean, look at me. I've never been cool and I don't care. I have never cared. I will never care because the truth is still the truth and reality is still reality and sin is Always has and always will have consequences. Engaging in sin is like jumping off a 100-story building. The first 99 stories, super fun. And then that last story... Their face meets the concrete. Well, yesterday, pornographer, grifter, alleged rapist, and admitted pimp Andrew Tate and his idiot brother Tristan were arrested in Miami for extradition to the UK.
Their faces finally hit the concrete. So who are the Tates? Well, we've done a few episodes on them. So if you listen to the show regularly, you know some of this. The Tate brothers are two failed kickboxers whose scam originated originally as a webcam operation in Romania. where they essentially dragged more than 75 women into webcam pornography. And they made a lot of money from it. But in 2016, after getting kicked off Big Brother UK, it's a British reality TV show, for repeatedly hitting a woman with a belt, Andrew Tate formed ties with the likes of Alex Jones and then glommed onto pro-Trump anti-woke messaging with a slew of transgressive political talking points. And this is where his big fame and fortune came in.
The next part is important because even if you've never heard of the Tate's, your kids definitely, definitely have. Since 2016, TikTok has been the primary drive of Andrew Tate's reach. You know, like communist Chinese party TikTok. Videos tagged with Andrew Tate have amassed over 13 billion. billion views. On YouTube, even though the Tates have been banned from the platform officially, clip channels dedicated to reposting the Tates content have accumulated some 230 million views. On X, Tates account regularly achieve millions of impressions. By 2019, Andrew Tate had expanded his red pill brand and the Manosphere became a part of our cultural conversation. The Manosphere was a bunch of essentially men explaining that the only way to truly be a man was to treat women like trash, work out a lot, walk around shirtless, and violate all of society's taboos.
Keep in mind, a lot of Tate's reach, not entirely organic.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:01
2
What were the charges and circumstances of Andrew and Tristan Tate's Miami arrest and UK extradition?
4:01–11:17
3
How did Andrew Tate build his online empire and exploit TikTok, Hustlers University, and webcam sex work?
11:17–21:16
4
Why did right‑wing influencers and GOP figures defend and amplify the Tates for years?
21:16–39:23
5
Which documented abuses and criminal allegations link Andrew Tate to rape, trafficking, and child pornography?
39:23–53:12
6
How does the show explain the cultural shift that made transgressive figures like the Tates popular on the right?
53:12–1:01:05
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