¶ Welcome, Karaoke, and Shoutouts
Hello, my little pizza boxes. Welcome to This Fucking Guy, a podcast about self-care if self-care is one long scream into the void. Here is where we use expletives and alcohol to emotionally process the creeps, jerks, and pee words that compose the shitty elevator music of our lives. I'm halfway there. Ren Martinez. And I'm living on a prayer, Ginger Golub. Well, we're back. Oh. I'm halfway there.
What a good song. Not a great karaoke song. The reason it's not a great karaoke song is because there's a lot more filler to that song that people remember. Oh, yeah. a lot they need to really embrace karaoke versions of songs that don't involve the like three minute long guitar solos um Nobody's told the DJs that. Also, I'm always very nervous to sing along with you on these recordings because I don't know what the lag is going to do to it. And I don't want people to think that I am a fool.
I try to edit it so it's not too laggy. You're a good woman. So. Yeah. Scream at me, baby. So first, I wanted to say a couple of shout outs. Okay, so. I wanted to give a nice little high five to our two newest Patreon subscribers.
actually it's three three new patreon subscribers oh man they were very sweet and they were like oh my gosh like you guys deserve some love and you need more than you have so i want to say uh thanks to dizzy brandon and miss malvolia for deciding to become patreon subscribers we love you very much so much um are we able to shout out our existing patreon subscribers as well Yes, the ones on our page here include Julieta and Patty. And then we also have Sabrina and Rebecca.
I think we do have a lot more people who follow our Patreon, but not necessarily are in our paid tiers. That's fair. I don't blame any of you. We see you, A Clockwork Orange Ruffy. We see you, Tomboy LaCroix. We still appreciate and love that you guys. want to follow us and be sending me the content all day, every day. And also Patty, I am fairly certain is the sweet angel who took my mother-in-law's cats. So.
¶ Public Figures Under Scrutiny
Oh, my gosh. Patty, much love, baby girl. We love you, Patty. Thank you. Guys, we're just like two middle-aged moms who just like have a lot of feelings and you guys are into it and it makes me so happy. Fuck off with middle-aged. I'm barely in my late 30s. I'm going to be 38 this year. You know what? 38's the new hot. I don't know. 38 is the new hot, baby. So, but I wanted to give a lovely shout out. Love you all. Kisses. That is so wonderful. Also shout out to what seems to be.
a great number of you who think that we are the Crooked Media Podcast. Again, no. No, that's not us. We're not, but you guys stay. That's the cool thing. Just stay because we don't have ads. We don't have ads. A beautiful ad-free experience. If you're thinking about turning this off, you're not going to have to listen to...
Any fucking thing about Bomba socks. Do I wear, I'm not wearing socks right now. You can imagine my feet for only $5 a month on the Patreon tier. Any less, any less you're not allowed to do that. Oh my God. You know, when we start actually having multiple tiers, we get to like a $10 tier. It's like, do you want feed pics? Is that...
What you want? We have offered feet pics in like three consecutive episodes, I feel like. In terms of Screaming Into the Void, I wanted to give... A nice round of applause to Senator Cory Booker, who just ended his record-breaking speech, 25 hours and five minutes filibustering. fucking rad. And he's now about to break the world record for longest pee ever taken. Yeah. Oh, my God. Just like the probably the best feeling post-speech.
That you could imagine. Like the applause is nice, but like what a fantastic piss. Because if you think about it, you can't go into it completely dehydrated like you want to. Because if you go into it completely dehydrated, your mouth isn't going to work.
¶ Andrew Tate: The Initial Charges
you're gonna get like very verklempt very early. So you have to like be hydrating somehow and just hope you sweat it out. So it's not coming out the piss tubes. I mean, you could do like, you know, my child to just fucking diaper that shit. You know what I mean? Pull it up. Do you think he's a stadium buddy kind of guy? And do you know what a stadium buddy is? No. I can guess.
So yeah, I wanted to give like a little kudos to Cory Booker. I also wanted to talk about Elon Musk whining on the internet. which is very funny to me um you're going to have to be more specific well okay so again like elon musk is actively destroying democracy and trying to create a financial oligarchy so he can like own government and just continue accumulate
Massive amounts of wealth that's far beyond anything we can comprehend, mostly because he wants to be Morpheus from The Matrix. We've discussed this. So he recently was complaining about... The personal cost of essentially being the shadow president on a rally on Sunday. This is before he paid like the millions of dollars to buy off voters. The Wisconsin government was like, yeah, that's cool. Or the court or whatever.
Cooler. So some of his things, the radical left are saying somehow we're stealing social security. Like, first of all, like, I don't, I don't need the money. Okay. In fact, it's costing me a lot to be in this job. You had Tim Waltz dancing on stage, showing a chart on Tesla stock, which is a really awful thing for him to do. Because I don't know if you're aware of this.
Shares of Tesla entered Monday down more than 34% year to date. Good. It's been cut nearly in half since December because no one likes this man.
¶ Greta Thunberg's Viral Comeback
actively dislike even. Here's another quote continuing. So not only is it, I'm not getting paid. I'm definitely not stealing money. I would never get away with it. But the value of my Tesla stock is in half. So this is a very expensive job is what I'm saying. Okay, no one's asking you to do this. I don't think Trump was asking you to do this. I just love, okay, again, like, I can't.
I cannot emphasize enough that this man is actively dismantling our country in a way that will take decades to recover yeah like the amount of power in evil that he is capable of doing and is actively doing is beyond reckoning but he still wants people to like him And he's like, people are maining me on the internet. He made fun of my Tesla stocks. Why? Why does it? Why don't they like me? Shut the fuck up. We hope you continue crying, Elon Musk, because we do need to move on to therapy.
All right, Genji. I guess we're going to do another round. Yes. Amore Andrew taught. What? I was trying to, I said, Amore. Andrew Tott. Oh, Emery Andrew Tate. Okay, I got confused with the Emery, even myself, even though I knew that that was his name. You told me that that was his official first name. I did, but that I didn't have to remember. After his shitty dad. Oh my gosh. I have to say...
So my husband, bless him. Rick doesn't really listen to podcasts unless I'm in the car and being like, you have to hear these funny jokes me and Ginger made. And definitely played. some of his quotes you were saying about how he was like, my dad was the best dad. You could tell he was the best dad because he never paid attention to me. And like, and, and re going. Oh, no. Oh, bud. Oh, bud, bud. Oh, buddy. So, it was very funny. I think... Last off, we were talking about...
All of the terrible pre-crimes. And now we're going to move on to the alleged crimes. Yes, we were talking about the pride and now cometh the fall. If you guys did not listen to our part one episode on Andrew Tate. You should. You should. I guess you don't have to, but there will probably be some callbacks. Do I remember what they are? No, I haven't read this since we recorded last week. Why would I?
¶ Pizza Boxes Lead to Arrest
But yeah, we spent the last hour or so fucking around and now it's time for the finding out. In April 2022. The U.S. Embassy received a report that an American citizen was being held against her will in the Tate Brothers property in Romania, or should I say one of their properties in Romania. Romanian police raided the home and a nearby webcam studio belonging to the Tates where they discovered four women.
Two of them told the police they were being held against their will, sparking an investigation into human trafficking and rape by the Romanian Anti-Organized Crime Agency that I am not even going to. Get into the acronym for that. You don't care and I don't care. And it's a lot of vowels because Romania. So. All of this was happening in the background, but this was being kept hush-hush. What was not kept hush-hush was the...
Twitter fight heard round the world. The Greta Thunberg versus Andrew Tate Smackdown. Yes, yes, yes. So, I had to pull this up. Was Greta still a... teenager during this interaction? I think she was like 17, yeah. Okay, so, because I want to specifically say this grown ass near 40 year old man, like... Getting in a social media battle with a teenager. Embarrassing. This was so stupid. Again, Andrew Tate is a loser. And he started it. It was not like...
He was replying to something of hers, even. He just tweeted, Hello, at Greta Thunberg. I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a W16 8.0 liter quad turbo. My two Ferrari 812 Compatoni Zoni, maybe, I don't know, have 6.5 liter V12s. This is just the start. I do think that that was probably a pasta dish. Shut up. Right, the rigatoni bologna. The rigatoni bologna. You could have brought your husband on, but we're not getting into it. oh my god that's so fucking sorry continue please do that by the way um
This is just the start. Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions. Followed by a picture of him refueling a like weird pumpkin orange car. Sorry. He wishes he had an enormous emission. To which she just responded, yes, please do enlighten me. Email me at smalldickenergy at getalife.com. Which is objectively the funniest thing that happened that year. And I know, I know, some people are like...
So he like stewed on this for a day or two. And then posted a video of himself seated in a wood paneled room wearing a Versace robe. Gross. Smoking a cigar. Gross. Describing Tunberg as a bitter, quote, slave of the matrix who's trying to convince you to beg your government to tax you into poverty to stop the sun from being hot.
¶ Exploitation, Harassment, and Jail
Yeah, that's what Greta's trying to do. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Per the NPR article that I'm literally reading off of right now, midway through the video, he gestures off camera asking someone to bring him pizza. Quote, make sure that these boxes are not recycled. He quips as he sets the two pie carrying parcels down on the table. So the blue and red branding of Jerry's pizza is clearly visible to the camera. Okay, two things here. They're not the two things that they should be.
But I do have to put it out there. You can't recycle something if it's contaminated with food, oil, including pizza boxes. You can maybe recycle the tops of your pizza boxes. Do not recycle the bottoms of your pizza boxes. Um, also Jerry's pizza sounds bad. I'm sorry. I just, I have to sit. sit with this for another moment yeah yeah because you know how like last episode we had that moment with like the phd thing where it hurts so bad i needed to press onto it like a bruise but this is very good
This hurts so good. This is like so enjoyable. I have so much dopamine right now. Like, oh, it's so good. It's really good. Just imagining him in basically a bare room wearing... a robe that of course shows his chest and a cigar because how else are you going to prove how masculine you are being half naked with a cigar in your mouth and then being like bring me the pizza and for some reason the fact that it's only two boxes
like there's something that's so lonely bachelor that is so i have nothing else better to do on a tuesday night And he didn't eat pizza by myself in my robe. You know that pizza sauce got on the robe. And this is because, again, he fucking for no reason went at.
a climate activist teenager for no reason for no reason to talk about his again his like fucking you know rigatoni baloney cars his fucking bugatti spagatis whatever the fuck and she basically again she didn't like leap up to that very bad bait um and was just like basically said smell you later chief and he couldn't handle it he said say it don't spray it and he was so offended that he had to do this fucking performance art piece
Oh, my God. It's so incredible. It is truly one of the best things that happened. Tunburne's tweet about smalldickenergy at kidlife.com is one of the most liked tweets ever.
¶ Escalating Legal Battles
And he is like accused her of having of like having bots like the tweet. And it's like, no. Oh, my God. Yes. Okay. Yeah, Andrew. Okay. I feel like Trist did like that tweet. She got you there, bruh. She got you. I mean, it was good. I know virtually nothing about Tristan Tate. The vibe is a little bit that he would be like, it's pretty good, though.
It's pretty good, though. It's pretty good, though. No, Tristan gives me the vibe of a monster, but one that is also really doesn't like the monster he's working for. Yeah. Codependency. Such codependency. Codependency. So, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly, and a lot of sources on the internet will tell you this is not true, but allegedly, Romanian police investigating Andrew Tate, because this
This is all going on since like 2011. He has multiple houses. He's bopping between them, seemingly to evade this investigation. Seemingly. The day after he posted this stupid fucking video, police arrested the Tates and two Romanian women. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. Because they could track him down from the pizza boxes. Yes. Oh, my God. To which Greta Thunberg. This makes me want to come. Oh, my God. This is incredible. To which Greta Thunberg final nail in the coffin.
Finish him. Tweeted, this is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes. Ren has gone into a state of near sexual ecstasy. It is absolutely sexual ecstasy. I require a cigarette for some reason. But not a cigar. I will also be in a robe with a cigarette and two pizza boxes, but because how good this was. How fantastic.
It was very good. So going back for a moment to the arrest, the police arrested the Tates and two Romanian women, Georgiana Nagel and a former police officer turned Tates cam girl. Alexandra Luana Radu, according to The Guardian, allegedly, allegedly. Allegedly? I...
You don't see their names reported in a lot of the reporting around this, because I think a lot of the reporting does not give a shit about these two. But they allegedly, like... trafficked women and are kind of standing by these dudes so fuck it um All four were suspected of human trafficking and forming an organized crime group, and one of them, although Romanian laws don't specify who, but I fucking wonder, is suspected of rape.
Romanian authorities seized 29 assets, including cars, properties, watches and money, totaling almost four million dollars, which does lead me to ask how.
¶ Tate's Deception and Harmful Influence
fucking cheaper houses in romania um hold on let me pull up romanian zillow zillow um properties for sale in romania This is in Snagov Bucharest. $240,000 for a three-bedroom, two-bath. To buy? To buy. Okay, well. Call Gabriel Dragomir for more information. I want us to start. I want our only ads to be Romanian real estate agents.
Honestly, this is the saddest looking apartment I've seen in a long time. Everything described and photographed of his over there is the saddest looking shit you ever saw. None of it's in nice neighborhoods. And like me saying it's sad. and not in nice neighborhoods. This is not me shitting on the poor, but it's also not me saying, like, Andrew Tate has no money. Andrew Tate has some money. He cons...
400 some dudes into giving him like five to eight thousand dollars to join the fucking war room um but yeah no i'm pretty sure i mean yeah he's evading He's doing like the mafia thing of like, I can't go where it's like too nice or they'll find me. Well, I also think that like, again, knowing nothing about Romania. I think you're either living in an adorable Hansel and Gretel cottage with a literal witch on Baba Yaga legs, or you're in a gray cinder block house from, like...
Chernobyl I don't think there's many other options in Romania I don't know I also don't know Admittedly, I would love to move into a cabin on Baba Yaga chicken legs. So that sounds really quaint and adorable. I thought that's why you bought your new house. It does not come with the chicken legs, unfortunately. Why are you even bothering to me? My husband was really depressed because he's like, ugh, it's a colonial.
Oh my god, Rick, shut the fuck up. He's like, it's just so boring. I'm like, babe, I don't know what to tell you. The house of the colonizer. As he would say, colonize these nuts. Anyway, in January 2023, the BBC reported that Tate and his brother Tristan had used social media to contact underage girls in an attempt to get them to join their. webcam business. I'm so shocked.
Two of the accusers reportedly went into hiding after being targeted by an online harassment campaign described as an attempt to scare them into silence by a troll army. Not... Adorable Romanian trolls just men on the internet. You know that whole, like...
¶ Political Ambitions and Final Verdicts
It's happened to all of us. Right. Where we we there is like perhaps a celebrity or an artiste or something where we're really identified with them and their work and we're big fans. And then they end up doing something shitty. Right. And. Not like in a, you know, vague sort of way, but like in a real shitty sort of way. And we have to reckon with that as people. And the answer is not. support them no matter the horrible crimes they do that's not the correct response the correct response is oh
I am, this makes me depressed and sad, but also fuck you. Yeah. You horrendous bastard. You know what I mean? I'm having a lot of feelings about Neil Gaiman recently. Oh boy. which obviously not the subject of this podcast, but my response is not double down. You don't double down. You don't double down. Different people have conflicting opinions on separating the art from the artist. In my opinion, it is what it is. But if you still like someone, you...
can still like somebody. I don't care. Don't harass their accusers online and try to make them recant their testimony. Also, Andrew Tate, not an artist. Not bringing anything positive to the world. No. A scummy piece of... trash on the bottom of my shoe, a wet cigarette on the cobblestone streets of Bucharest. You know what I mean? Like, that's who he is as a person. So it's like, what is there to protect my mans?
His webcam business? Oh, the great art we might lose from his webcam business. Like, let those ladies be independent contractors. Be their own bosses. Yes. Be the feet pics you wish to see in the world. Senior legal counsel at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation who...
is who are? I don't know. These lawyers are advising the ladies that accused Tate. They allege that the Tates following, both Tates, targeted the clients, the accusers, with thousands of online threats, including doxing the accusers, their relatives, and using private investigators to try to track them down and intimidate them. So that's gross and I hate it. The side of righteousness. But to bring some serotonin back to you, remember that Andrew and Tristan are in jail while this is happening.
They are in a Romanian jail, which I now have very weird specific opinions about that. But in a newsletter, Andrew fucking somehow posted about the cockroaches, lice and bed bugs. were his only friends at night. And somehow... Yeah, you didn't think that that's where he was going with that. And somehow he was able to fucking tweet.
That he's growing a long beard and a full head of hair. While in entertainment. In one universe. In no universe. In no universe, Andrew. You're on too many steroids for that. Allegedly. According to Rolling Stone, quote, wiretapped conversations from jail appear to show Tate passing instructions to women in his circle, some of whom are...
classified as victims by the Romanian prosecution, to speak out on his behalf. On January 28th, he called his assistant, who patched him into a call with another associate. Tate needed supporters, women, backing him up too. He needed girlfriends and female employees to talk about what a great guy he was and how he and his brother, who was also being held, were innocent.
Of the wiretapped conversations, a spokesperson for Tate said, quote, at the time of these recordings, Andrew was not able to make an official statement in the case file. Therefore, all. therefore explored all available avenues to defend himself. At this point in the investigation, the brothers are presumed innocent. However, some outlets are acting like they have already been convicted.
What? No, so basically he's like, you can't count him desperately trying to find people who will just say shit on his behalf as real statements. Or witness tampering. Or witness tampering because That's kind of what he was doing, but he didn't have many options. Yeah, they're basically saying like, no, it's not weird. It's not witness tampering. How else is he going to clear his name? Not through trial, certainly. Not. By being innocent, allegedly. No, allegedly.
On March 31st, 2023, the Bucharest Court of Appeals amended the brothers' pretrial detention to house arrest. They were actually held in police custody for three continuous months. During the rest of this, they're like in jail, out of jail, in jail, out of jail. out of jail with more freedom, out of jail with less freedom. It's boring. It's whatever. But they had to be in jail for three months. There is some small amount of justice in the world for that.
The next month, the brothers filed criminal complaints in Romania against two of the witnesses in the case. The witnesses' lawyers characterized this as intimidation. Like innocent people. Yeah, yeah. Intimidation. Doy. And the lawyer noted that the witnesses had received death threats. Obviously. We know this. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
In June, Romanian police adjusted the charges from human trafficking to human trafficking in continued form, a more serious charge. And by this time, there's seven victims identified. So it's gone from two to seven. That same month, the Tate brothers filed a... The Tates claim... That the five conspired to falsely accuse them of human trafficking and rape, costing them their freedoms as well as income from social media and business ventures. Get fucked. Get fucked. Um...
Did they file in Florida? I think they had their attorney file it in Florida. Do they... Do the people live in Florida? Yes. Some of the accusers in people who were in Romania were Americans. And this was against the... No, I just was like... I hadn't quite made that brain connection because I'm just overwhelmed by how stupid this man is. Oh, very. So I was just like...
Why? So I was just in my in like thinking Romania, Romanian, and then being like, why would you choose a court in Florida? You're not in Florida. Can you just choose a court in a different state? for crimes in another country. So that was my thought process. There is part of me that kind of assumes that you can do anything you want in the Florida court system. That's true. If I get arrested in Thailand, can I like...
It's worth a shot. This is not legal advice. This program is for entertainment only. Oh my God. It's so not legal. Oh my God. Please don't listen to us for anything except for maybe self-care tips. In January 2024, so we're up to 2024. We're getting closer to the present, Wren. A U.S. district judge dismissed one of the brothers' defamation lawsuits.
This is not the main one against the girl who was the accuser. They had sued a former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who reported Tate to the U.S. Embassy in Romania. Which led to his arrest by Romanian authorities. Oh. So. You have defamed me by turning me into the law. Yes.
I have thus been defamed. In March 2024, the UK issued a European arrest warrant against Andrew and Tristan Tate based on allegations of sexual aggression from 2012 to 2015. Yes, those allegations Seemingly, they came back, allegedly. And then and then because now England's like in it. England's in it to win it. It's kind of at this point a race of what country can press the most charges against the Tate brothers. So in July 2024, the Devon and Cornwall police.
began civil proceedings against Andrew and Tristan for tax evasion. It's always tax evasion. Who's surprised that they weren't paying their taxes? Because it's not me. You can get away with so many crimes if you pay your taxes. This is, again, not legal advice. But also, not wrong. But not legal advice. Allegedly. So many crimes if you pay taxes. The cops won and got to seize 1.2 million pounds. They were awarded 1.5 million pounds.
¶ Self-Care Against Toxic Masculinity
in british money um but somehow that point three alluded them uh the money will allegedly go to support victims of violence against women and girls so that's another win So, yay. Allegedly, I don't know what the fucking cops are going to do with it, but in this case, I am pro-cop if it's anti-Andrew Tate. Wow. Strange bit. What a bold stance. Anyway, in August 2024, Romanian police once again expanded their investigation against Kate, against Tate, against Kate.
To include trafficking minors, sex with a minor, money laundering, and attempt to influence witnesses. Yay! Does, does Andrew... Do you think that among Andrew Tate's war room is a little known man known as Matt Gaetz? Do you think Matt Gaetz... I just want to get the roster of who's got eight grand to burn and wants to join a robust network with illustrious subjects like Jacob Wall.
¶ Podcast Farewell and Tip
uh are you googling this right now yeah um um i can i see like what is the war room inside the war room cats in the war room they may not have like leaked the Official thing. Like the list. I mean, we know Jacob Wall was involved because he was very public about being a member. Yes. So I don't know who else might be in there, Elon Musk. I don't know who it could be.
speculation speculation um so again this is romanian police expanding the investigation at this point this isn't expanding charges but prosecutors said the new investigation involved 35 alleged victims, including a woman who was a minor at the time. The accused are alleged to have made a total of $2.8 million via sexual exploitation. That is... Both an astronomically high number, considering that it's built off...
Again, the sexploitation of women and girls, which is horrific and disgusting. Way less than the billions he was doubting. Yeah, he at one point claimed that he was the world's first trillionaire, which is... Stupid. Okay. Like, I get that some of what he's doing is probably an online persona, but I have no idea where you draw the line when shit like this. Because there's not, it's not...
I was like weirdly wrestling with this all week. There's no world in which he's secretly a good guy. No, no. That's not a thing. The thing is, is like, again. Andrew Tate is a loser. He's just a full-blown loser. And his online persona is just him desperately trying to be like... It's essentially min-maxing. You know what I mean? Like, he's trying to emphasize what he thinks is cool so you don't look at the man behind the curtain, which is the loser. But it's all the same man.
Yeah, it was like he and Elon Musk were basically the same build, but there was one slider and on one far end was testicles and on the other far end was brain and they just chose different sides of the scale. Also, one's like very doughy, like very Pillsbury. I mean, Elon Musk looks like a blobfish who wished to be a man, and Andrew Tate looks like Gollum who wished to be an MMA fighter. Just... Horrendous. Just both of them. Hideous creatures.
I don't mean this to be body shaming or shaming based on looks. There are plenty of people out there in the world who think that these are fine looking people. If they had good personalities... We might be into it, but they don't, and so we'll never know. Yeah, see, you can be, you can be, here's the thing. You shouldn't, like... want to have sex with shitty people in general because they're shitty but like you can be hot and a shitty person right you can be ugly and a super cool person
In different ways, that's both fuckable. You know what I mean? Again, very different kinds of fuckable, but still fuckable. If you're ugly and a shitty person, unfuckable. Completely unfuckable. Nothing worth redeeming. Pass out in a ditch, maybe? This is what's going to get us canceled, huh? Is weirdly saying we wouldn't fuck Andrew Tate and Elon Musk. There's so many reasons I wouldn't fuck them before you even get to any aspect of their face and or bodies.
There is not a world. There is not a world. On February 27th, 2025, which felt when I was writing this like breaking news. Tate flew from Romania to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, because his travel restrictions had been eased due to speculatively... pressured from the trump administration speculatively oh he couldn't use one of his other dozen passports is that not oh no that didn't work out
Once in Florida, he became the immediate subject of a statewide criminal investigation. It didn't even let him get his first mimosa. They were like... Fuck you. No, in another example of a broken clock gets it right twice a day, Ron DeSantis fucking hates Andrew Tate. Ron DeSantis wants Andrew Tate to go fuck himself. And with this and possibly no other issue, I agree with Ron DeSantis.
You know what? Someone's going to clip that. Which would be a hilarious title for this episode. I agree with Ron to sit. Meatball Ron's got a point. Meatball Ron's got a point.
For legal reasons, I will note that the Tates have denied all of the above and, in fact, below, as we'll see, allegations. Also, two women who have lived with the Tates have publicly defended them, and two of these six alleged victims... six seven who the fuck knows uh that the romanian police identified have denied that they were victimized from the guardian quote
Tate's digital army of followers say his arrest in Romania is a setup orchestrated by what they call the Matrix, a worldwide conspiracy of mainstream media and politicians who are trying to silence and control. him i'm part of the matrix you probably are too anyone who thinks tate's brand of misogyny is a bad thing as part of the matrix the matrix has attacked me tate tweeted after his arrest but they misunderstand you cannot kill
an idea. Oh my god. Oh my god. Shut up. You are not. Shut the fuck up. You are not in B for Vendetta. Okay. No. No. You are the bad guy. You're the bad guy. I don't know how to. You're the. You're the villain. You die at the end of the film. Yeah. Honestly, if he's anyone, he's Bane. But, like, not in a good way. Bane was still cooler. That's true. He was raised in the darkness, not in Luton, England. Raised in the darkness. No, he's just...
A shitty high school bully. Yeah. Just weaselly, rat-faced, like, misogynist. Like, you're not unique or... Or special in any way. This is why your dad didn't love you. Oh, God. Because you're not special. Because you're not special or unique in any way. You have failed utterly. Allegedly. Allegedly. They are very litigious. The Tates have engaged a legal strategy of delaying and drawing out the case. So who knows when the fuck it'll be over. There's no date currently set for trial. We think.
We think, I don't know, several victims are also suing Tate. We will get back to that in a minute because I do have like an entire cultural impact section because I thought that that was the end of the legal stuff. And then time happened. Jesus fuck. Okay, in terms of wealth, no one seems completely sure what the Tate's influence is, how much money they have, where it's coming from. I don't think they know.
They've seemingly lied about having a chain of casinos that are turning out a million dollars a month. They've lied about the number of students in their online platforms, saying that a number that is... The number of people they have is higher than it should be, but they're alleging that they've got like 100,000 people enrolled in like the fucking Hustlers Academy or whatever. Lying is like really easy to do.
Yeah. It's possible that fucking what daddy coin or whatever is the most lucrative thing that they've done. But who knows when it comes to crypto, and it may have lost all of its value between the time that I looked up what it was worth and now. But the little rat fucks do have cultural influence. Tate's influence on teenage boys and young men is a fucking public health issue.
The New York Times has described his views as brainwashing a generation due to his influence in British schools. The Anti-Defamation League reported that Tate teaches his acolytes that women are inferior and morally deficient beings who deserve to be. physically, sexually, and emotionally abused. In February 2023, Tim Squirrel of the... I love that name. I only put in...
introduction to this because his name's Tim Squirrel. He's from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. That doesn't matter. Said that Tate posed a risk of radicalizing young men into misogynist extremism. Shortly thereafter, N Violence Against Women Coalition's director said it's hugely concerning that Tate continues to wield influence on a significant portion of younger men who say they agree with his views on women, masculinity, and how to be a man.
CNN reported that students as young as middle schoolers regurgitate his abuse and harass female classmates. I would be surprised if there weren't a couple of fifth graders in there, honestly. Who have just shitty big brothers. Don't let your kids on the internet like that. People, come on, man. Please don't. But, I mean, TikTok is being like... Be a fucking parent. You shouldn't be letting your fucking 11-year-old... be on tiktok unfiltered right what the fuck is wrong with you
And one of the, okay, so I didn't really get into this in my script, but I did think that it was an interesting consideration. A lot of people have really, like... been looking at the fact that he converted to Islam in 2022 as a way to leverage
his celebrity with a really specific population, because people who are like traditional Christians either are going to like him or not, depending on what he says about women. But by converting to Islam, he really like... leveraged the influence of like, no, mom, he's a spiritual leader with a certain cohort of young British boys. young european boys that don't really see themselves represented heavily in the media and so that's gross and bad and i don't like that he did that
Outspoken teachers have explicitly identified Tate's influence on students in reference to a dramatic increase in sexism, misogyny, and sexual harassment in Australian classrooms. In February 2023, courses for teachers in the United Kingdom on how to... dress tate's views sold out police in the uk had also also had to start working with counter-terrorism teams to combat the risks of young men being radicalized into um radical misogyny radical anti-feminism
In October 23, 23? Yeah, that works. The Australian government allocated three and a half million dollars to combat harm, which is like no money, to counter harmful gender stereotypes perpetually. perpetuated online in response to young fans of Tate who have been described as increasingly bringing misogynist views into Australian schools. According to researchers at Mansa University, Tate is
other Manosphere influencers. Dad, the Manosphere is the real bad part of the internet. It's not a good place. It's the shadowy place. It's bad. Don't go there. Don't go there. You've made it this long. You don't need it. Manosphere influencers have shaped the way boys treat women and girls and led students to openly espouse male supremacist views to the extent that some Australian teachers have quit their jobs.
Cool. But of course, Tate's supporters paint a different picture with many of them coming to his defense and suggesting that Tate has himself... Nope, that is not a sentence that I wrote. Tate supporters paint a different picture, and many of them have suggested... as Tate has also suggested, that his persona isn't real and he doesn't really buy what he's selling. It's just for broadcasting and entertainment purposes only, right, fellas?
From Rolling Stone, the bombastic wheeling and dealing pimp-like entity that Tate has created is, according to his supporters, simply an act intended to advance his mythos. What a lot of people fail to realize is that Andrew's online persona, especially his early YouTube videos, is like that of a WWE wrestler, says Sterling Cooper, don't believe that name, a member of Tate's fraternity-like organization.
war room and an adult actor and men's sex coach who sells $97 manuals on how to grow your penis. It's like a character he's playing. You're not... He's not wrong. It is a character. It's a shyster. He's a scam artist. Like, that's, it's the scam. It's the, it's the whole, like, um, we got trouble, y'all. We got it right here in River City. It's a capital P. He's Harold Hill, but instead of selling a marching band to children, he's selling misogyny to make money.
Yes. And if you are selling misogyny to make money, you are not appreciably different from a misogynist. It's the same shit. Whether or not that's what you believe. Whether or not your mom's your hero, your... teaching men how to sex traffic women via an eight thousand dollar online course you craven motherfucker allegedly is he a misogynist because he believes it or misogynist because of capitalism who cares who fucking cares who who gives a shit He's a misogynist. He's a piece of shit.
Whatever. Also, this picture of him from that fucking Greta Thunberg video, I just was looking it up because I was like, why did he convert to misogyny? It looks like the beginning of a Key and Peele skit. Like, it looks so cartoonish. Oh, yeah. It's really deeply unfair that Key and Peele went off the air before the Andrew Tate stuff came up because I do want to see Keegan-Michael Key play Andrew Tate. That's the only time that I would like him.
But yeah, no, it doesn't matter why when the impact is still bad. Like... If I were saying stabbing someone to death because they sold $100 manuals on how to be like a better man on the internet or whatever the fuck this guy does. And it's like, do I really, I could be stabbing you because I really believe in knives, right? I just believe in the power of knives. And I'm super into knives and their knife ability. And like, ah, yes, I believe in knives. Or.
Someone was like, hey, go stab this guy for a million dollars. Like, those are two very different motives. legally the title of the podcast cannot be go stab this man for a million dollars so like both again very different motives but the result is you're dead still dead still still dead so does it matter
The last Rolling Stone quote, this is from a childhood friend of Andrew Tate's, who said, this character he's created is based on what he thinks masculinity should be. And that's the sad thing about it. He's been playing this. character for so long that he's actually become worse than the character he portrays he drank his own kool-aid he drank his own kool-aid tate reportedly has a number of children living in romania who he occasionally visits
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon. Little boy blue and the man in the moon. We need getting released from jail that I don't know when. But we'll get together then. Yeah. It might be a while. In 2025, it's going to get worse before it gets better. In 2025, Tate stated he launched a new political party. The bruv for Britain restoring underlying values. Bruv. Party. Which was reported to be... What's that? Which was reported to be part of his plan to become UK Prime Minister.
The party's official website stated, this is a war to reclaim Britain. No excuses, no compromises, no second chances. We will defend our borders, crush crime, purge corruption. and restore pride to a nation under siege. Yeah, governor. In it. In it. You bellend. Take dismiss... Kate dismissed claims that this was all a PR stunt stating, I am 100% serious. I am in the next election. Nothing you do is anything. but a pr stunt you fucking narcissistic donkey's ass like what the fuck literally
The Twitter handle for the political party was suspended. However, after Tate made a complaint to Elon Musk, the account was restored. Of course. Like, of course. So, just as I was wrapping this up the first time around to go and record what I... I hoped and was wrong would be a one part episode. I saw that the Tate brothers had surrendered themselves back to Romania to face a trial. So hooray for that. At least.
That was gonna be your self-care plan. That's cool. Also, that is now also old news. And guess what? His ex-girlfriend has just sued him for assault. You know... Couldn't have happened to a better person. Everything's coming up roses for me and for you. So unless you want me to just digress into WikiQuote for 20 minutes, that is all for now. I've got a self-care plan, though. Okay. Ren, I actually, like, looked up...
actual, for real, self-care plans for combating toxic masculinity. So this one goes out to the cis bros and masks among us. Daddy masks is people who present as masculine. I love every time you explain things to your dad. Hi! I know that he was... Certainly thinking that and thinking I was saying M-A-S-K-S and not M-A-S-C-S. I digress. Number one.
Prioritize emotional expression and processing, like journaling and expressing yourself vulnerably, and not through YouTube videos. That's not how you do that. Number two, build supportive networks. Not the war room. Go to fucking therapy. Number three. Challenge gendered stereotypes and be the change you want to see in masculinity. 4. Engage in self-care activities, like prioritizing your physical health.
engaging in hobbies that you actually like rather than ones that you feel like you have to participate in, like football. I don't believe anyone actually likes football. Fight me. Practicing self-compassion and forgiveness and setting boundaries, like learning how to say no to things that don't serve you and prioritizing your needs. Namaste.
well that's gonna be all for us this week folks wow wowie if you like what you're hearing and again don't know why you wouldn't but uh delightful listen um you should check us out at this fnguypod.com um that's where all our citations live as long as as soon as i update everything but we have to update it because no thanks litigation. We're also at the...
I'm sharing it with you now. We're also at this effing guy pod on our social medias. We're on Blue Sky. And obviously this fucking guy on our Facebook. Hi Frank. We still curse. Hi Frank. I'm Ren Martinez. As always, I'm Ginger Golub. Here's a bonus self-care tip. Change your air filters before the pollen overtakes you. And don't be this fucking guy. Peace.
