This episode discusses sexual and human trafficking crimes related to pornographic webcam activities
with descriptions of those crimes and the explicit language used by the persons who
committed them.
Some of this language is not meant for younger viewers.
We've decided to not edit out this language because it is important for viewers to understand
who these people are as well as show their flagrant disregard for the crimes they've
committed and the people they've committed them against.
Welcome to this episode of the Common Sense Skeptic.
Now celebrating our third anniversary of producing YouTube episodes and exposing some of the wildest
claims made by the world's most famous, richest, dumbest people.
Those who have accumulated cult followings, despite their public personas being largely
fictional.
Today, we're going to take a break from cracking on Elon Musk to focus on another
well-known personality who has generated a huge cult following by preaching hypocrisy,
misogyny, and nonsense.
A former kickboxer turned human trafficker, known as Andrew Tate.
Also, to a lesser extent, his brother Tristan.
Sorry, Kimball.
This guy, the tag-along younger brother who's going to go down with the flaming coattails
he's been riding his entire life.
See, unfortunately for little bro, Tristan hitched his wagon to someone who made his
fortune not by getting the shit kicked out of him, but by pimping little girls across
the internet, some of whom may have been younger than 16 years old.
And if a look on his face in this recent interview clip is any indication, Tristan
is finally starting to realize his choice to partner up with, and mirror, his psychotic
misogynist brother may have been a poor one.
For the most part, we'll be focusing on Andrew and ignoring Tristan, since he's
obviously not any kind of mastermind here, but just remember as we go, he's still
hanging out in the shadows of Andrew, probably sobbing to himself in the corner
right about now.
But if you think for an instant that Tristan is the sweet and innocent younger
brother, and not at all complicit in the crimes he and his brother are accused of,
think again.
Here's what happens when the girls that work for Tristan don't give him all their
money.
Being in charge of her own phone contact with members who like her, you are setting
yourself up to get scammed.
And that has happened to me before.
I went to the room, smashed the room up, told her I knew what she did.
She sent me all the money, but that has happened to me before.
Here's how Tristan bragged on a podcast about sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl.
And this tweet shows how his 35-year-old brain looks at 15-year-old children.
To be clear, the age of consent in Romania is 15.
However, if an older party abuses their authority or influence to gain sexual
access to a victim, the age of consent then rises to 18-years-old,
which for the Tates is problematic.
However, Romanian age of consent laws are not the only laws that would apply here.
Something you might find interesting if you're an American viewer is that anyone holding
US citizenship or passports, which the Tates do as US-born citizens,
is that there are severe laws on the books for people who have sex with minors abroad.
The laws against the extraterritorial sexual exploitation of children
prosecute people who travel out of the States to foreign countries that rape,
sexually molest, or pay a child for sex.
The penalty for this provision is up to 30 years in prison.
Further, 18 US C-1596 grants extraterritorial jurisdiction to prosecutors to investigate
foreign nationals who commit sex trafficking crimes against children outside the US.
And for all of these statutes, a child is considered to be anyone under the age of 18.
So, if the American justice system decided to step up to the plate,
both the brothers could be looking at severe federal charges as international statutory rapists.
Let's be absolutely clear about Tristan.
You would be hard-pressed to find a lie or exaggeration or a boastful claim
that Andrew Tate made in the past that has not also been made by Tristan.
They are co-conspirator peas of the exact same pot.
One of the first things you have to learn about Andrew Tate
is that absolutely everything he tells you is a lie.
You can be more generous and call it an exaggeration of the truth,
but lie suits far better.
It doesn't matter if he's talking about his family, his childhood,
his kickboxing career, his self-proclaimed wealth.
Everything is exaggerated beyond the point of believability,
including how this receding jawline with hair plugs
is continually promoting himself as the epitome of human accomplishment.
Now, even though this episode was supposed to be avoiding Elon Musk,
it has to be said there will be a couple mentions of him,
because of course Musk finds his way into every topic
and every story under the sun these days.
For example, when Musk challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a cage match,
which Zuck immediately accepted and Dana White started promoting it as
the fight of the century, because reasons.
Andrew Tate reached out to Mr. Potato Head
and offered to train him while Tate was under house arrest in Romania
if Musk's mother was going to let him fight at all.
See, May and her eldest son, pictured here entering the Giochasta edipus cotillion,
share a special bond.
At 52 years of age, it seems he still requires
mummy's permission to come out and play.
And it would appear as of today he's not allowed,
even if he was going to be trained by one of the highest profile
sex traffickers in Romania.
So instead, Musk has appealed to his mother's Canadian roots
and taken up George St. Pierre's offer to train in order to win mom over.
We'll point out other connections between these two Neanderthals as they come up,
but we're kind of getting ahead of ourselves here.
Let's back up a bit and find out who Andrew Tate is,
where he came from, and how the hell we got here.
First off, Andrew Tate's name is not actually Andrew Tate.
His birth name, Emery Andrew Tate III, was given him by his African-American father, Emery Tate
Jr., a second tier chess player and former Staff Sergeant Airman in the U.S. military,
and his British mother Eileen, who was a part-time dishwasher.
And he was born in late 1986, his brother Tristan in mid-1988.
The two parents produced these two partners in crime and a daughter named Janine.
Janine, the youngest child, is a lawyer in the U.S. who has very little contact
with her older brothers, while the two boys are reportedly inseparable.
Obviously, Janine is the smarter of the siblings.
Emery Tate III now chooses to go by his middle name, Andrew.
His parents divorced in 1997 when Little Andy was about 12.
His mother returned to England with the children,
and when Andrew started making money through his kickboxing career,
he decided for his mother she could retire and that he would take care of all of her
expenses, which sounds very noble and generous, until he realized that Tate's entire asset portfolio,
cash, and crypto has now been seized due to being proceeds of his ongoing criminal enterprise
that was funding Eileen's retirement, which she is not too happy about.
Which means Eileen will probably wind up suffering as a result
if she hasn't been banking some of her allowance.
Tate's father, on the other hand, who Andy likes to describe as a
genius as a way to pump up his own imagined intellectual prowess, died in 2015 in his 50s,
so Emery Jr. was spared this chapter of his son's lives and the repercussions of it.
Andy also has no qualms about calling his father abusive, and he likes to tell stories of his tragic
youth suffering at the hands of Emery Jr., who was busted down from sergeant to janitor
due to some conflict with his superiors, then he was eventually drummed out of the military
completely in 1992.
When they discharged him, they said he had a narcissist and personality disorder,
and the reason they said he had that is because he refused to listen to one of his commanders,
and my father was arguing with him about the translation of a certain word.
My father believed it was slang for something else,
his superior believed it was something else, they got to a personal beef,
it developed over months and months and months of arguments about translations,
and eventually at the end of my dad ended up being told to sweep outside for eight hours a
day. Then I got to the point where my father got discharged, and they offered him this
military pension and he refused it. He said my sanity is not for sale.
Out of his diagnosed narcissistic pride, which would seem to be passed on genetically on the
male side of the Tate bloodline, Emery Jr. refused his military pension, which drove
his family into destitution as Emery Jr. pursued chest tournament glory and alcoholism.
Another trait that seems to be genetic in the X-Y's of the Tate family is misogyny.
Take for example this tweet where Andy relays how his father described his mother to him.
She fed you healthy meals every day, cleaned the house, and was largely quiet.
Although Emery Jr. claimed to love her very much, that's not how a loving husband describes his
wife. That's how someone describes a servant, a maid, or a nanny. As the final line in the
tweet states, according to Andrew, that's literally all a man wants.
Andrew has since stepped up the misogyny quite a bit, but we're going to get to that later.
Five years after Emery Jr. got the boot from the military, his lady servant decided she'd
had enough of being broke and cheated on, so she packed up the kids and moved back to the UK.
So when you see tweets like this or hear stories about how Andrew Tate's daddy was a
linguistic genius CIA operative, that is a lie. Told by a seven-year-old boy to his buddies
to make his unemployed alcoholic father seem like less of an asshole.
The problem is Andrew still tells the story like it's real. Another lie that little Andy
likes to tell about his daddy is that Emery Jr. was a genius grandmaster at chess.
My father was a chess grandmaster. I was on track to become a chess grandmaster.
He was a legitimate chess grandmaster. My father was the highest rated black chess player in history.
Really? Yeah. It is well documented that while dad was a renowned chess player,
a reported trailblazer for African-American players having won several tournaments over his
lifetime, Tate Jr. never exceeded the rank of international master, the second tier,
with a max FIDE rating of 24-13 in 2006, barely cracking the barrier between master
and international master and 87 points shy of the grandmaster rating that his oldest son
likes to credit him with. My father was a chess grandmaster.
Again, most likely to swell Andy's own artificial, self-proclaimed intelligence level.
Now as for the other, even more outlandish claim made by Andy about his daddy.
My father was the highest rated black chess player in history.
Really? Yeah.
Emery Tate was not in fact the highest rated black chess player in history.
That honor belongs to Jamaican-American Maurice Ashley, who was the first black
man to achieve grandmaster in a game of chess, receiving that honor in the year 2000,
15 years prior to Emery Jr.'s death. Maurice Ashley, new of Tate, even played him to a draw
in the New York Open in 1993 and wrote about Tate after his death.
But Ashley rose to grandmaster in 2000, and Tate took until 2007 to receive his
second tier international master ranking. Maurice Ashley was the first black grandmaster,
and three other black men have followed suit. None of them named Tate.
Pontius Carlson from Sweden awarded grandmaster in 2007.
Amon Simotawe from Zambia awarded in 2009.
And Kenny Solomon from South Africa awarded grandmaster in 2015.
All of these men exceeded Tate's accomplishments in the chess arena during Tate's lifetime.
In the same vein, Andy likes to tell the world that he himself was a chess prodigy,
winning the Indiana State Championship at the age of five with a rating of 1600.
Here's a recent tweet that he deleted and a video to go along with it.
I was state chess champion age five in Indiana at the under 16, so it's the youngest ever won it.
I remember, I remember I was sitting there, I was sitting there across,
I was sitting there across from some 16 year old, when you're like five and a half,
that's scary, right? And I remember when I beat him, he cried, that made me happy.
I was like, haha, not so big now.
At five years old, you were the Indiana State chess champion.
In the under 16, yeah, so it's the youngest ever won it.
So I was on the way to becoming a grandmaster.
That is the story told by little Andy Tate.
Wonder how truthful it is?
Well, the U.S. Chess Federation has all the records.
So let's see what they say.
Here's little Andy's USCF profile going by Emery Tate Latterd.
Says here he had a top regular rating of 896 and a quick rating of 1056,
a little shy of the 1600 he was bragging about.
This site provides records of every tournament that Andy played in,
going back to October of 1992 when Andy was almost six.
In this tournament from 1992, the one he's bragging about,
he came in 10th of 10 players with four straight losses.
His dad won that tournament with four straight wins.
Maybe Andy meant this tournament that happened a couple weeks later.
No, he came in 13th of 15 with four losses and a buy into the second round.
His dad won that tournament as well with five straight wins.
Those are the only two tournaments that he entered in 1992.
Also, this tournament that his dad won didn't have a 16 in under category.
None of them do.
The state championship tournaments especially are divided into grade levels
so that children are playing other children close to their own age.
He played two tournaments in 1993 in May he came in dead last with three losses and a draw.
Again, daddy won that tournament.
In October of 1993 he placed 19th in a field of 22,
scoring two points off of two wins in five games.
Andrew tapes records and in 1997 with a total of 20 events on his profile.
The last event he played was in May of 1997 giving him an end rating of 896.
Earlier that year he played the Indiana State Championships
in the sixth and under category in April placing 76 in a field of 144 players
so didn't break the top half.
64 players state tournament in January of 1997 where he placed 21st in the sixth grade and under.
January 1996 in the state third grade and under championship field of 64 he came in 21st again.
In January of 1995, same tournament level, third and under, same finish,
21st in a field of 65.
And in all the other registered tournaments he played between 1992 and 1997,
Tate never took a top place finish, ever.
His best finishes were third of five in his second grade school tournament
and fifth of 39 in the reserve category of the Elkhart County Scholastic
which added 59 points towards his rating.
But in most cases, Emery Tate III finished middle of the pack
if not tied for bottom position.
So let's hear him tell that story again.
The state chess champion age five in Indiana, the under 16,
the youngest ever win it.
So I was on the way to becoming a grandmaster.
Now going through all of this elementary school stuff might seem petty to you,
nitpicking, but you have to ask yourself this question.
If Andrew Tate needs to lie about his childhood prowess
while playing a board game to impress people,
what else do you think he's willing to lie about
to make himself seem far better than he is?
As for his claims of being the smartest person on the planet,
yes that is a claim he often makes.
I'm the smartest person on this fucking planet.
His academic career is not at all impressive.
The majority of Tate's schooling was done in the UK.
His grand educational accomplishment
is the UK equivalent of an American high school diploma
and he never attended post-secondary classes.
He holds no diplomas or degrees in any discipline,
although he was reportedly accepted into the free union ascol.
Tate didn't bother writing the personal statement that was required for admission
so he became ineligible to attend.
Instead he pursued a kickboxing career that would eventually give Tate
a little bit of money and prestige.
Tate proudly announces that he is a four-time
international kickboxing champion,
that is his first and only somewhat legitimate claim to fame.
But as with everything else Tate related,
even the stats of his kickboxing career are suspect.
For example, if you go to Tate's Wikipedia page,
you'll see in the right hand column
a kickboxing record of 76 wins,
23 by knockout, and 9 losses.
Below that he has a very average MMA record of 2-1 from fights in 2007 and 2010.
So when people describe Tate as an international MMA champion,
that is completely false.
If you scroll down on that page,
you can see a list of the recorded fights that Tate had.
There are 31 fights listed here, not 85.
There are 8 KO's, not 23.
And there are 8 losses, not 9.
And although the platform states the list is incomplete,
where are those other fights?
Who is in charge of the bookkeeping at ISKA
that somehow misplaced the result of 54 Andrew Tate fights?
The US Chess Federation has the state records
from when Tate was 5 years old.
So what gives?
Either the list is incomplete,
missing about 2 thirds of the information,
or more likely, a lot of those fights are imaginary,
just like Tate's chess state championship title.
Henry Sehudo had some thoughts on Tate's record
after breaking down some of Tate's performances.
And today we're going to be breaking down the one and only Andrew Tate.
I mean, for this guy to have more than 80 fights,
I mean, this is 2020.
Yeah, okay, so he was 75 and 9 here.
So I don't know when is it that he retired,
but he shouldn't be fighting a guy that's 3 and 2 or 2 and 3.
You know, it's absolutely ridiculous.
So this is against Kaz Min Lingar.
Again, for a guy who's 76 and 9,
I mean, he's going to put against a guy that has,
is making his debut.
This is what I'm saying, man, a lot.
This is where you guys, you fans, you people that follow guys
that you guys are thinker, are good fighters.
This dude's making his damn debut against a guy
that has over 80 fights, which is ridiculous.
In other words, this is what you call a tomato can.
I mean, he seems like a pretty smart dude,
dude, but he also has a padded record.
So you can have 80 fights and fight 80 different scrubs.
You put a guy like with annotate with Jake Paul.
I think Jake Paul gets it done pretty fairly quickly.
While we're here, check out the screenshots
of those two fights from 2020.
Notice anything unusual about Andrew Stats?
When he was fighting the guy that was 3 and 2,
Tate's record on the screen was 40 and 7.
10 months later, when he was fighting the tomato can,
his last fight on record, by the way,
Tate's record had somehow jumped to 75 and 9.
So his true record is anybody's guess.
Regardless of his actual record,
Tate's ability in the ring as a strict counter striker
was not strong enough to impress Arthur
from the channel YouTube Boxing.
We'll let him explain why.
Andrew Tate does have kickboxing skills.
He's fast for his weight and has good reflexes.
But he lacks kickboxing basics.
He's not a championship caliber fighter.
Tate is a tough mid-tier fighter.
If he really was a world-class fighter,
he would have been willingly invited
to compete in K1 or Glory.
Because Andrew's peak came at a time
when both leagues existed.
Andrew himself said that in this world,
you need to earn everything.
Things find their value if they are difficult to achieve.
Unfortunately for him,
he did not achieve the title of a real-world champion in kickboxing.
Andrew Tate guy, if you were wondering,
is he legit or is he just so-so?
He's so-so.
Any kickboxer who's half-decent at his weight class
within Glory or 1FC,
any of those guys are going to annihilate him.
Arthur, the narrator, also describes ISCA,
the International Sport Karate Association
that became the International Sport Kickboxing Association,
the organization through which Tate won his titles.
ISCA is one of the international bodies regulating sport karate
and kickboxing matches.
The pool of athletes competing in this very narrow fighting style
is nowhere near that of boxing or kickboxing.
These types of kickboxers typically do not do well in MMA.
These tournaments are rather semi-professional
for those who could not get into the major leagues.
To make it clearer,
being an ISCA champion is like in MMA being a Bellator or 1FC champion.
In the world of MMA, there is only one title that matters,
and that is the UFC belt.
So Tate's prowess in the ring,
against a very narrow field of competitors,
is largely overstated,
but his earnings in that sport certainly are not.
The best purse Tate collected for any of his efforts in kickboxing
came in about 100 grand.
Compare that to the Connor McGregor Floyd Mayweather boxing match
where McGregor got paid $30 million,
even though he lost the fight.
Mayweather, on the other hand,
was guaranteed $100 million for the same fight,
win or lose, and that was in 2017 dollars.
Safe to say, although Andrew Tate was competing at this same time,
he did not and likely could not compete at their level.
Tate effectively retired from kickboxing in 2017,
citing the multiple surgeries he had on his weak eyes to reconnect his retinas.
We'd also add his glass jaw that dropped him like a stone,
anytime a competitor landed one on his button.
Through his minor celebrity in kickboxing,
Andrew Tate was invited to participate in two reality TV shows,
Ultimate Traveler in 2009 and Big Brother Season 17 in 2016.
In both cases, Tate was gone within a couple of weeks.
In Ultimate Traveler, after making an ass of himself,
lying to and deceiving his own teammates,
he caught an eye infection and was sent home.
His big brother, Stint, didn't go so well either.
He lasted seven days on the program,
before a pornographic video of him whipping a woman was leaked to producers,
forcing them to give him the boot.
Did I say the word listen?
Did I say the word f***ing listen?
I didn't say the word listen.
Did I say listen?
Look at the camera.
Did I say listen?
Did I say f***ing listen to you?
Did I say it?
No.
Did I say it?
Look at the camera.
Listen to what happened.
You don't f***ing listen.
Look at the camera.
Why are you getting hit?
Why are you getting beaten?
Do you not f***ing listen to you?
Do as I say.
Shortly afterwards, this unnamed woman came forward
and declared she was the woman in the video
and that the act was consensual.
Hello, everyone.
I just wanted to say something about the video
that's been released recently about me
and my ex-boyfriend Andrew Tate.
Andrew is my still great friend.
What you guys saw in the video,
it's just what we used to do.
It was just pure game.
He's a great guy.
He would never hurt anyone.
Although Andy did his best to portray himself as a baddie
on both of the reality TV appearances.
So I know I'm the most intelligent person in this house
and I'm the most capable person in this house.
Fact.
He thinks he's f***ing smart.
He's not that smart.
He's sneak a little shit.
Got his number.
That f***er is a sly little f***.
The idea of staying here for two, three days
ain't appealing.
It was this video that gave the public
the first insider's view
of what happens when his real bedroom doors are closed.
The first light to penetrate the veil, as it were.
And whether or not the act was consensual,
although everybody has their kinks,
the very kindest light you could shine on this video
is that andritate gets sexual gratification
from causing the physical pain of other people.
This is giving me pleasure.
Don't f***ing touch me.
In this particular video, the woman says
she was a willing participant.
But in this video, the woman was obviously
not a willing participant.
You have a f***ing belt because you're a jerk.
Show me the burgers.
One, three.
Oh, baby.
I have an idea.
All right, lock the door, you f***er.
You knew I was going to beat the f*** out of you.
If you behaved, I wouldn't have to hit you, would I?
You f***ing don't.
Get out.
You can't stay in there forever.
So on camera, we have Tate admitting
he bruised her with a belt, then threatened to beat the f*** out of her
after she locked herself in the bathroom.
What a man's man.
Then taking it one step further, here's Andrew Tate talking to a woman
he strangled during sex.
Am I a bad person?
Because the more you didn't like it, the more I enjoyed it.
I f***ing loved how much you hated it.
Turn me on.
Why am I like that?
Why?
I am one of the most dangerous men on this planet.
Sometimes, you forget exactly how lucky you were
to get fucked by me.
Would you rather me pin you down and make you do things you didn't like?
Or would you rather f*** k*****?
You didn't like that I was thinking I could do whatever I want to you.
That's what it is.
I'm the smartest person on this f***ing planet.
Are you seriously so offended, I strangled you a little bit?
You didn't f***ing pass out?
Chill the f*** out, Jesus Christ.
I thought you were cool.
What's wrong with you?
Such a man.
even wet the victim blaming route on that one, because that's how a top G
handles ungrateful bitches that aren't cool with being choked. Now to the
unnamed woman in the first video who publicly excused Tate's behavior in
the video where she was beaten with the belt, you need to recognize that you
absolutely played a role in the violence that these other women suffered
by allowing Tate in his mind to equate sex with violence against his
partners. Now Andrew Tate obviously has no qualms about inflicting that
violence on people, whether it's consensual or not.
I got up and looked at him and went, what's wrong? She said, this guy
literally laid there and went, I'm just debating whether I should rape you or
not. And started strangling me, forcing my trousers off me. I was trying to
keep them on and he started screaming at me, take the effing trousers off,
bitch. Tate then raped her, Amelia said. As he did, she said he continued
to choke her saying things like, who do you belong to? Even as she was unable to
physically speak due to his hands constricting her throat. He's like,
effing say it, bitch. You're not effing saying my name. Say my effing name.
Otherwise, I'll kill you.
Once the misogynistic veil on Andrew Tate was pierced following his big
brother exit in disgrace, more and more Tate related material flooded
social media domains. Much of it material Tate himself is responsible for as he
began making an infamous name for himself through his burgeoning social
media empire. When we come back, we're going to take you through as much of
that eye-opening material as we can, covering interviews, articles, his own
statements and his self-help courses, as well as his inevitable arrest
last December. If you thought we went digging for this part of the
series, you ain't seen nothing yet. Grab your popcorn, boys and girls.
This was the warm-up act. The entertainment portion is about to begin.
Click here when you're ready for part two of Andrew Tate, King of the
Weabooz.