Emory Tate

And so he also was a grandmaster in bridge.

And also the person that introduced me to Emory Tate, the famous chess player, who we can talk about him also a little bit later on.

But yeah, I saw Nate playing poker and I was like, Nate, why are you playing poker? You could be making more money playing chess.

And he was like, nah, nah, you know, what am I going to make playing chess? Like, you know, 20, 30 bucks, you know, hustling all day.

[laughs]

Uh, because his name is Emory Andrew, and they want to differentiate him from the Andrew Tate character he plays professionally.

Yeah, that's a nice touch.

But it absolutely failed in this case.

I came from nothing.

My dad, Emery Tate, a chess genius, raised me on discipline and pressure.

We didn't have silver spoons.

We had grit.