This week on Louder With Crowder, host John Rocha is joined by the Hodge Twins to discuss Bernie Sanders' heart attack, the Nobel Peace Prize, and more. Plus, a Halloween Spooktacular live from the Rudder Theater Complex at Texas A&M featuring special guest Quarter Black Garrett.
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00:05:22.000We have the Hodge Twins on the program.
00:05:24.000They've been making the rounds in the conservative movement now, which is very disconcerting.
00:05:32.000We're the ones who opened up that box.
00:05:34.000We'll be talking about the Nobel Peace Prize and Greta Thunberg, which leads me to question of the day before I introduce, of course, the regulars.
00:05:41.000Do you pay attention at all to who gets awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and has it ever occurred to you?
00:05:48.000That it is totally... I mean, you seem like the Wizard of Oz, you peek behind the curtain, only it's a bunch of globalist socialists who want to destroy the world.
00:05:57.000I'll be making the case later on, as rumors circulate, that Greta Thunberg will be winning.
00:06:01.000We don't know it yet as of the time of this taping.
00:06:04.000We have my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, in with us.
00:08:13.000And I want to be really clear what that means.
00:08:15.000That means scheduling the shoot, preparing the green screen, procuring the costumes, finding a rubber heart, photoshopping an operation game.
00:08:24.000There were many crossroads, opportunities, where we could have stopped.
00:08:28.000We could have turned back, but we never did.
00:08:31.000So I just want you to know that if you're still here with us right now, you saw the ride, you bought a ticket anyway.
00:09:04.000Also in political news, Ilhan Omar officially filed for divorce from her husband, Ahmed, amid affair allegations showing once again that sibling rivalry knows no bounds.
00:09:15.000Can you imagine using the defense, yeah, I married my brother, but I divorced him, so I'm okay?
00:09:20.000Is that really what she's going to be telling people?
00:09:23.000We should be clear, this is not her brother.
00:09:25.000She was married to another person who was her brother, but we really just want to focus on the fact that she banged her brother.
00:09:58.000In what some are calling long overdue reform for the church, Pope Francis is now considering lifting the celibacy requirements for priests.
00:11:08.000After Donald Trump tweeted a meme, HuffPost said the surge happened after the president shared a doctored clip of Nickelback's photograph music video.
00:11:15.000Of course, most outraged by the tweet was Creed.
00:13:50.000It revolved around Jeffrey Chimpanzee.
00:13:54.000But we did realize, you can show someone having their aortic valve being torn out, but the second you have a chimpanzee in a suit with a silver wig hanging itself with a bed sheet, people just think it's sad.
00:15:34.000If Donald Trump had done that, people wouldn't be complaining about the cops planting some keys in a Chevrolet Cavalier or whatever it was, a RAV4.
00:15:43.000They wouldn't be complaining about that.
00:15:44.000They would say, kill Donald Trump by any means possible if he boiled the cat alive.
00:15:49.000Don't take that out of context and say, don't send it to Donald Trump.
00:15:51.000Kill Donald, that's not what I'm saying.
00:16:56.000A driver in a car crash is now being accused, this is a story that came from Orlando, of offering the victim free food at Chili's if the victim didn't call the police.
00:17:06.000Which is scary when you think about it.
00:17:08.000Even more sinister, had the victim called the cops, the man threatened to take them to Applebee's.
00:17:13.000Look, they have great chips at Chili's.
00:17:16.000We've had some good long conversations there where you kick my ass if you do.
00:17:19.000I actually like, I've used to like Chili's, but have you been there recently?
00:17:32.000Because millennials, and this is one thing, millennials are good about this, they're not going out to franchises when they can pay the same amount and get something better and support a mom and pop business.
00:18:23.000There's the latest of course impeachment drama before we get to the Nobel Prize in the Hodge twins
00:18:27.000Democrats are considering distorting the voice and the appearance of the whistleblower at the center of this.
00:18:34.000House Democrats are looking to prevent the whistleblower from being identified, fearing Republicans could leak who it is.
00:18:41.000Obviously, based on the previous whistleblower not having first-hand knowledge, people are questioning the validity of these whistleblowers.
00:18:48.000Some in House leadership are actually concerned That there could be a weakness here, and it could actually be the current one, maybe a White House plant or troll.
00:18:57.000Listen, this Ukraine thing, frankly, is small potatoes, okay?
00:19:01.000I know where the real skeletons are buried, truly.
00:19:03.000Listen, if you're going to impeach, all you need to do is look at- B-b-boy!
00:19:15.000It's amazing to me that Democrats are more concerned with distorting the image of the whistleblower than they are with actually verifying the whistleblower and validating the claims.
00:21:19.000I think, if anything, he knew the problems of not just going with merit.
00:21:22.000If you're just saying, oh, I want to play politics, I want to check boxes, I want to go for the media, you're going to inevitably make decisions that even make the people who have been selected I think Obama was that way.
00:21:34.000I think he realized he hadn't done anything at that point to deserve it, and then it really watered down the prize and made it something it wasn't.
00:21:40.000Because he is a connoisseur of reaching high positions of authority without having done anything.
00:23:34.000A lot of people don't know the history necessarily of the Nobel Peace Prize and the winners, but it's going to be announced I think tomorrow.
00:23:40.000This whole The whole thing is a fraud, and it really is what bothers me is that it's about optics.
00:23:58.000So I'm not talking about, but the peace prize in and of itself, it's not about who is most deserving.
00:24:04.000It really is about optics, and that is something that at a certain point you just have to say, well, this serves no purpose.
00:24:08.000So if we're talking about climate change, right, let's go with that.
00:24:11.000Let's go with cleaning up the environment.
00:24:12.000Let's assume that humans can affect it.
00:24:15.000Let's assume that in some intergovernmental panel we could stop the 1.6 degree warming, which I would not be able to discern if that happened in the studio.
00:24:39.000Just this week, he announced, after five years, over 250 models, he has this autonomous plastic retrieval system, and it's successfully retrieving debris from the ocean right now.
00:25:56.000Well, I think, to understand that Greta Thunberg is winning this prize because, instead of awarding it to real problem solvers, and I do think, even if I disagree with the politics, if someone is actively trying to solve a problem, great!
00:26:08.000It used to be for people like Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, I think it'd be tough to argue with that, like when you think of... Yeah, no.
00:26:14.000I'm not a Catholic, we're not Catholics, but like, Mother Teresa did some pretty good stuff.
00:27:53.000In 2007, Al Gore won for his efforts to, I want to make sure I read the quote, disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change along with doing stuff with masseuses.
00:28:05.000I think more lying, I think, is what the prize was for.
00:29:04.000Of course, when we talked about that, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
00:29:12.000He wasn't even a year into his presidency.
00:29:14.000I don't remember the exact length of time.
00:29:15.000Little did they know that he would be the first president to be at war for all eight years of his two terms.
00:30:27.000I do find it interesting, as you know, all the criticism on the left about Citizens United and other cases that say that corporations can donate and have the ability to exercise certain rights because they're a reflection of people, and just the outrage on the left about that.
00:30:38.000And yet, an entire discombobulated government body created out of whole cloth that has been an unmitigated disaster that everyone's fleeing from.
00:30:48.000Do you remember what was happening in 2012?
00:30:50.000Economies were failing, entire countries were going bankrupt in the European Union, but a prize is definitely in order.
00:30:58.000I will tell you, I don't fully understand the European Union, because, you know, Pantelis works for us, he helps write, and he's Greek, he blames the Germans, and then the Germans blame the Greeks, and I just think, just bomb that whole area.
00:31:21.000We have this thing with Winston Churchill.
00:31:22.000A parody of Darkest Hour will be the intro.
00:31:24.000And what's funny, when you listen to that speech, though, he does talk about how if Great Britain falls, that the British Empire will continue the fight.
00:31:31.000And I'm going, isn't that kind of, like, I get that you didn't gas Jews.
00:32:38.000I'm just saying, I'm not sore about it, but I'm kind of sore about it.
00:32:42.000No, I mean, you know, and what's even better is not only are we not going out there to create new states, of course someone's going to say, oh, we're trying to install democracy in governments that don't want it.
00:33:57.000All right, here's another point about Greta Thunberg.
00:34:00.000I guess it's kind of a hybrid of the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:34:03.000Let's go back to why Greta Thunberg is just a pits.
00:34:07.000For one, and this isn't her fault, she's a child, right?
00:34:11.000We're talking about giving away a prize.
00:34:12.000Now listen, I'm not saying, please let me be clear, I'm not saying that we should never listen to young people, like David Bowie and such, like I get it.
00:34:18.000These children that you spit on as they try to change the world.
00:34:25.000I don't listen to British Empire music.
00:35:49.000I remember I got into trouble because I was talking about it on Red Eye, and I said, you know, I think it's... I'm always uncomfortable with a 12-year-old sort of Alex B. Keaton lookalike, because I think they're really parroting what their parents are telling them to say, and there's a very strong likelihood that he will end up being a pot-smoking hippie at Berkeley.
00:36:06.000I was right about all of it, except he went to Columbia.
00:36:10.000And then there was another, I can't remember his name, there was a young black conservative who was making the rounds, wanted to be, I think we had him on once, but then he was supporting Ted Cruz, then he was supporting Bernie Sanders, and then he went back to Trump.
00:36:22.000There is a lot of, I don't want to say grifting, but the thing is, there is an open avenue to push the gimmick of being young.
00:36:28.000And a lot of politicians... Could you say their opinions aren't developed yet?
00:39:10.000Let's compare that with the treatment of, if you remember, the Covington children.
00:39:15.000Swift backlash against the behavior of those Kentucky teens who traveled to Washington this past Friday on a school trip to attend the March for Life.
00:39:23.000The diocese of Covington Catholic High School, where some of the boys attend, condemning their actions, saying in a statement, this behavior is opposed to the church's teachings of dignity and respect.
00:39:33.000The matter is being investigated and we will take appropriate action up to and including expulsion.
00:39:39.000Yeah, I mean the behavior of simply standing there smiling while they're being berated by black Hebrew Israelites.
00:41:39.000So what's interesting is even American law as it relates to the First Amendment has a concept of if you thrust yourself into the light it's called being a public figure or a limited purpose public figure.
00:41:49.000So even a person who's private who decides to actively put themselves into the light is now at a different standard for defamation, slander, libel,
00:42:20.000It's not that she did something wrong per se.
00:42:23.000She's, you know, subjecting her parents, putting her out there, but we definitely have to criticize the ideas, and it's hard not to criticize those ideas without criticizing the vessel as well.
00:43:16.000If she's struggling with depression, and as someone who has struggled with depression, it's a mental illness.
00:43:20.000Doesn't mean that it needs to be debilitating, but I think we should be honest about this, and I don't think we should silence people for bringing it up.
00:43:26.000I am not at all condemning Greta for struggling with whichever one of these afflictions she may have.
00:43:32.000But why would anyone in their right mind use her as a political pawn knowing that she responds so poorly to stress?
00:45:03.000So the parents are obviously the ones guiding the ship that leads to these diagnoses.
00:45:08.000The same parents, by the way, who dress her in the Antifa flag, lest you forget.
00:45:15.000But if you were to pick a person off a rack, right, and pick any mental affliction that you could, in an attempt to make them immune from criticism, this is what you would pick.
00:47:03.000How many, how many people with, how many people had to develop that website when they were drinking from aluminum Red Bull cans and having caffeine farts?
00:49:51.000I think one of the interesting things is when you dive into the process for this, so people don't know this, you know, most people think, oh, you know, Alfred Nobel, he's Swedish.
00:49:59.000All the other awards are given by a Swedish committee.
00:50:01.000The Peace Prize is given by a Norwegian committee.
00:50:04.000The Nordic government gets to choose who's on that committee, and the guy who was proposing that the European Union be an awardee.
00:51:05.000I do blame the parents and the people, all people who use children as political pawns.
00:51:09.000If anything, I wish that I could talk to Greta and tell her that these people, just like we said this about David Hogg, and look, where is David Hogg now?
00:51:18.000These people are going to use you up, Greta.
00:51:23.000The end result of political wunderkinds perfectly mirrors that of child stars.
00:51:28.000The most valuable skill that Greta needs to acquire in life right now, right now, Greta if I could talk to you, it's not confidence, it's not boldness, it's not bravado, it's discernment.
00:51:38.000Specifically discernment In who to trust.
00:51:41.000That's gonna be big for you, sweetheart.
00:51:43.000I really don't want to see you go the path of David Hogg or Corey Haim.
00:51:47.000All right, we have the Hodgetwins coming up after this.
00:51:50.000I'm looking forward to it, but have your finger on the beat.
00:53:53.000Most of them are just Haitian, and French Canadians can't stand them because they're racist.
00:53:56.000But we had a few black kids who would create this lingo, and it was a hybrid of Canadian as well as American, and that's when it started to chill.
00:54:31.000Before I bring them on, I'm going to toss to a clip.
00:54:33.000You can follow them at Hodgetwinstour.com because they're speaking live quite a bit.
00:54:37.000And they're doing more of that now since YouTube apparently is giving them similar treatment as our It's all going around.
00:54:42.000But I was – listen, let me set this context before we bring them on.
00:54:46.000The first time we had them in the studio, they were like, man, I don't know, because they weren't out of the – they weren't really conservative, right?
00:54:53.000They kind of were just – I thought military entrepreneurs, they might instinctively be more traditional, successful.
00:55:00.000And I think I read an interview with them in like the Rob Report, which is basically like a – it's like a magazine about yachting.
00:55:06.000I don't know, maybe they have a yacht.
00:55:07.000But now, it seems as though they've crossed over entirely, because I caught this, the full video, we just have a clip of them headlining the Black Leadership Summit, I believe, from Turning Point, USA.
00:55:48.000You were sort of pulled into this kicking and screaming, and now I see you headlining a summit from one of the most reviled right-wing organizations in the world.
00:57:53.000I don't necessarily know how you make that leap to, hey, men should have a say in what we do with our offspring, to mushroom tip in sphincter.
00:58:00.000Which, thank you, though, for repeating exactly what it was that got your video removed on my program.
00:59:13.000Not only YouTube has gotten upset with you, but you lost followers from doing some of your political videos, which surprised me because it seems like your audiences are packed now when you perform live.
01:00:23.000He's been a fan of yours for a long time.
01:00:24.000When we brought you in, you didn't come up as black conservative commentators.
01:00:28.000You were successful black entertainment artists who then came out of the closet as conservatives.
01:00:34.000So you stood to lose something, which is why I think it was harder and I think is more helpful to people out there.
01:00:40.000It's one thing to look at it as a career path, like, oh, I know, if I say the right things as a black conservative, I can get some speaking engagements.
01:00:47.000You guys actually lost some fans in the process.
01:00:49.000Yeah, like, that's one of the biggest comments we get from black people.
01:02:24.000Do you usually see these crimes in the news and think, probably fake?
01:02:27.000Have you reached that point now where you tend to lean toward, it's fake until proven otherwise?
01:02:32.000Soon as I see that they put MAG on the walls, I know it's fake, because Make America Great Again does not stand—that slogan's not for—to bring back slavery.
01:02:41.000That's what the TV's told black people.
01:02:43.000So when I see a black person victim of a hate crime, I know they did it.
01:03:14.000Have you ever encountered, and it doesn't mean that this doesn't happen, but encountered to the degree that it's fake, those kinds of racist actions or hate crimes?
01:03:23.000Like, have you ever actually encountered someone who has painted, I don't know, a Nazi swastika in your bathroom or written MAGA on your Chevrolet Cavalier?
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01:13:48.000And I think it's important to highlight this, not only because it's narcissistic, not only because it's just wrong, but because this one simple, this myth, this lie that we tell ourselves that people think of as sort of a benign greeting card slogan, if believed, can ruin you.
01:14:12.000But Pink wrote a song about it, so everyone seems to believe it now.
01:14:15.000If you're starting off point in life, it's predicated on this notion that you deserve to be happy simply through the qualification of having a pulse.
01:14:24.000Not only is it going to lead you astray through how it dictates your actions, it'll also remove the lens of self-criticism that's required to improve as a person.
01:14:34.000It will ultimately rob you of the tools that you need to achieve true happiness.
01:15:12.000If you could do one thing that would guarantee you, people around you, your friends, your family, that they would be happier right now, would you do it?
01:16:15.000So let me just be clear here, but we probably know people like this.
01:16:18.000The decision, though, was that it wasn't working, and so this woman would make a life-altering decision predicated on the idea that she wasn't happy and she deserved it.
01:16:38.000But I'm not even—let's put that on the shelf.
01:16:40.000This woman was justifying a decision that would knowingly harm another human being, her husband, potentially irreparably, Through the notion that she deserved happiness.
01:16:52.000What parts of that action merits happiness?
01:16:56.000I'm going to hurt someone else because I deserve to be happy?
01:16:59.000And then I had to wonder how many decisions were made based on this false, evil idea that everyone deserves happiness that ultimately led to this situation in the first place.
01:17:29.000Maybe they never went to marital counseling because they'd rather hang out with friends, which, in the moment, made them happier, and by God, they deserve that happiness.
01:17:40.000And this goes back to the fundamental difference between the right and the left, okay?
01:17:44.000Today's progressive left, they believe in enforcement of equal outcomes because everyone deserves to be happy.
01:17:50.000Conservatives, constitutionalists, like whatever you want to call us, like myself, we believe in freedom because everyone has a birthright to enjoy the opportunity of pursuing happiness that they deserve.
01:18:01.000But again, deserve by definition means earned, and here's my challenge to you this week, okay?
01:18:06.000If you're watching, you're listening, and you find yourself unhappy, if you're happy, move on down the trail, okay?