Interview · moment 4 of 33
Andrew Tate, Romania, and Corruption
from The Joe Rogan Experience | #330 · #330
5 min
Guest
Tim recounts performing comedy at a Bitcoin guy's birthday party in Romania and meeting Andrew Tate, describing him as personally lovely despite the human trafficking allegations, and discusses corruption in Romania versus America.
- Tim was brought to Romania by a Bitcoin guy for a birthday party and performed comedy that bombed because the audience didn't speak English.
- A Russian man interrupted Tim's set by yelling "Joe Rogan" at him mid-performance.
- Tim visited Andrew Tate's house and describes him and his brother as lovely people, though he notes the women present were quiet and obedient.
- Tim wasn't stunned by Tate's arrest, comparing it to the unsurprising inevitability of smoking another cigarette.
- Despite people claiming bad things about Tate, Tim hoped the allegations weren't true because some of Tate's messaging about not being a victim seems reasonable.
- Romania is corrupt like other Eastern Bloc countries where people pay each other off to conduct business, unlike America where corruption requires serious capital and billionaire status.
- Tate made the point that American corruption requires billionaire money, whereas in Eastern European countries you only need a small business and enough cash to influence things.
- Tate's defense included that he lives in Romania for freedom, though detractors suggest it's easier to get away with illegal activity there.
- It's a weird place to choose to live if you could live anywhere, though the people there were lovely.
- Tim suggests everyone eventually has to go back to their people—his being in Ireland, comparing it to going to Italy or other ancestral homelands.