The Charlie Kirk Show - How the Hodge Twins Became the Hodge Twins

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00:01:14.000 Joining us for the entire hour are two men I'm a big fan of.

00:01:18.000 Don't ask me to tell you which one is which.

00:01:21.000 It is the Hodge twins. They are the best.

00:01:23.000 How you doing, guys? Welcome to the program.

00:01:26.000 My white friend. Hey, guys, I'm told all the time that I'm a terrible racist, so what are you doing on a show like this?

00:01:34.000 Because I like racist people. 0.97

00:01:39.000 Black man can never have two white friends. 0.98

00:01:42.000 All right, guys. 0.97

00:01:45.000 Well, welcome to the program.

00:01:47.000 You're the host of the Twins Pod.

00:01:49.000 Comedians, content creators, and patriots.

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00:01:53.000 Guys, first, I want to get your reaction to the vice presidential debate.

00:01:58.000 J.D. Vance did very well.

00:01:59.000 What is your reaction?

00:02:01.000 Oh, man. I wish the presidential debate was that good.

00:02:04.000 I mean, they both came off presidential.

00:02:07.000 Yeah. They look like they respected each other.

00:02:10.000 And I thought Vance was great.

00:02:12.000 He was able to articulate his points and the direction for the country that they want.

00:02:16.000 I thought he was amazing. And I loved it when he answered the questions and then when he tried to fact check them, he fact checked the fact checkers.

00:02:24.000 Yeah, he is awesome.

00:02:26.000 So the media has been telling us, especially in the last couple of years, that anyone on the right or Republican is racist, that Donald Trump is a racist for attacking Kamala Harris for certain reasons.

00:02:43.000 Why is it that the media and the Democrat Party is so fixated on race?

00:02:48.000 Because that's how they win elections.

00:02:51.000 Republicans pretty much stick to their principles and policy.

00:02:55.000 I mean, what policies are the Democrats running on? 0.99

00:02:57.000 They're just running on that Trump's evil white supremacist, he's a threat to democracy. 0.99

00:03:02.000 They don't run on policy. 1.00

00:03:04.000 They run on identity politics and painting the other side as racist.

00:03:07.000 That's how they win elections. And they win by misinformation because Trump denounced white supremacy countless times and it's there on YouTube, but they continue to push the narrative that this guy doesn't like people of color.

00:03:18.000 Yeah. I mean, they use this...

00:03:21.000 No, keep going. Please, continue.

00:03:22.000 They say diversity is a strength for our country.

00:03:26.000 Diversity is great, but it's not a strength, especially when you got one party using it to divide the country.

00:03:33.000 I mean, diversity can be a strength, but when you really look at it in reality...

00:03:38.000 Diversity has led to the biggest atrocities this world has ever seen. 1.00

00:03:43.000 Diversity, in my humble opinion, is not a strength unless we can unite under one common goal, the American flag and American values.

00:03:52.000 And Democrats are totally against that.

00:03:54.000 And that's why this country is so divided.

00:03:57.000 And I just think Vance was a breath of fresh air last night, and I loved it that his wife is brown. 0.98

00:04:05.000 Yeah, and he's got brown kids. 0.64

00:04:07.000 I mean, I think that's a good look.

00:04:10.000 I think it'll go a long way to...

00:04:13.000 Because even though I don't think diversity is a strength, we need a little bit more on the Republican side so we can tear down this idea that the right is...

00:04:25.000 I mean, diversity is starting to become a strength because of the Latino vote.

00:04:30.000 Every election, it's like more and more Latinos are starting to switch to Republican.

00:04:35.000 I wish I could say that was true for the black vote.

00:04:38.000 I mean, the black vote is improving, but Latinos really is what's going to end up saving our country because they're starting to come more to the right. 1.00

00:04:49.000 So why is it...

00:04:50.000 Let me ask you guys a question.

00:04:52.000 You guys have been in public commentary.

00:04:53.000 You're super talented. I love your content.

00:04:55.000 It's hilarious. It's awesome.

00:04:56.000 You guys do a great job.

00:05:00.000 I'm sure the messages that you receive from white liberals or liberals in general are nastier than anything that you could even understand or comprehend from the right.

00:05:11.000 Can you talk about that?

00:05:13.000 How are you treated by Democrats as black conservatives?

00:05:18.000 Well, we had countless shows because we used to be on Comedy Tour.

00:05:21.000 They canceled a couple of our shows because they say we're homophobic, but you know how that goes.

00:05:27.000 But for the most part, we've had a lot of success with white liberals.

00:05:31.000 We've switched over a lot of white liberals.

00:05:33.000 We had a lot of success. 0.61

00:05:37.000 It's from, let me say it, black people.

00:05:40.000 Yeah. Yeah. Very nasty comments.

00:05:42.000 Yeah. Because when we started delving into politics, we already had a successful YouTube channel over a million subscribers, a couple of million subscribers.

00:05:51.000 So we had never delved into that.

00:05:53.000 And when we go to our comedy shows and meet our fans, a lot of times they come and say, man, I've been liberal.

00:05:58.000 I've been a Democrat for years.

00:05:59.000 You guys really opened our eyes.

00:06:01.000 Right. A part of what you're saying, the nasty comments from the white liberals, I haven't really seen it.

00:06:06.000 I've seen it from here and now, but most of the hate I get is from black people. 1.00

00:06:11.000 But why is that? Why do you receive hate in general from black people for having a different point of view? 0.84

00:06:18.000 Well, culturally, that's how we were raised.

00:06:21.000 Black families, it's in our church, it's in our music, it's in our TV shows.

00:06:24.000 You're a Democrat.

00:06:26.000 It's like part of black culture. 0.78

00:06:28.000 And when you go against that, you're seen as somebody who hates himself or wants to be white. 0.52

00:06:34.000 Right. Which is very illogical, but the reason why they come at us that way is because they're actually projecting.

00:06:44.000 Because it's a cultural issue of black people.

00:06:46.000 You have to vote Democrat. That's why when they say stupid, nasty things like you hate yourself, you want to be white, you tap dancing for masks, that's the reason why they're sending those comments, because they're actually projecting their belief system onto us. 1.00

00:07:00.000 So it seems there's a change, though. 1.00

00:07:03.000 Black men under 50 seem to be coming around more in the conservative direction.

00:07:07.000 Why is that? Yes.

00:07:09.000 I just had a friend.

00:07:10.000 He was the biggest Trump hater.

00:07:13.000 Yeah. He wore Kaepernick jerseys.

00:07:15.000 He hated Trump.

00:07:17.000 Yeah. And he sent me a text a couple days ago.

00:07:20.000 Yeah. And he said he's going to vote for Trump.

00:07:22.000 And I asked him, what changed your mind?

00:07:24.000 He said, because of my religious beliefs.

00:07:27.000 Well, it took them long enough.

00:07:30.000 Right. So, that was like a breath of fresh air.

00:07:33.000 And he said, yeah. I said, man, when you sit down and you listen to both sides, one side sounds satanic.

00:07:38.000 The other side sounds sane and logical.

00:07:40.000 Yeah. And it's more religious if you're voting for a Republican.

00:07:43.000 You don't have to be... Evangelical.

00:07:45.000 You can even be an atheist and vote Republican, but some of the things, some of the policies that these people are pushing on the left for kids and for our schools, it just sounds demented.

00:07:55.000 And you know, I don't think it's a coincidence.

00:07:56.000 He turned after Trump was almost assassinated.

00:08:00.000 Right. And you remember what Trump said?

00:08:02.000 He said, pull into more black voters because of the way he's treated.

00:08:05.000 I know the left demonized him and vilified him for that, but it's actually true. 0.81

00:08:10.000 And I think a lot of...

00:08:12.000 Like, what is it, 50 and over?

00:08:14.000 Under 50.

00:08:16.000 Under 50, yeah. Yeah, I guess because, well, as you get older, you know, you become a lot more wiser.

00:08:25.000 Because I remember when I was in my 20s, I voted Democrat every election.

00:08:27.000 I voted for Gore, Kerry, Clinton.

00:08:32.000 I hated George Bush.

00:08:34.000 But I still hate George Bush.

00:08:37.000 That hasn't changed.

00:08:39.000 Yeah, right, that hasn't changed, yeah.

00:08:41.000 But, uh... I can't really put my finger on it.

00:08:44.000 I think black men... 0.63

00:08:46.000 I think it points to this. 0.95

00:08:48.000 You know, we have a racist past in our country where women couldn't vote, blacks couldn't vote. 0.76

00:08:54.000 But the one thing that changed first was men could vote before women. 0.94

00:09:00.000 A black man could actually vote before a white woman could. 1.00

00:09:04.000 I think black men, men in general, they're more logical.

00:09:10.000 They take the emotion out of things. 0.88

00:09:12.000 And that same statistic, when you switch it over to the black woman, it's like the direct opposite, I'm sure. 0.99

00:09:20.000 Right. Right. I think, Charlie, a majority of the reason why a lot of blacks are switching over to the Republican side is because they have more sources. 0.55

00:09:28.000 Like you have TikTok, you have YouTube, you have other platforms like Instagram.

00:09:33.000 You're able to get new information, more information than what the media is feeding you.

00:09:37.000 And you have a lot of black creators such as ourselves, Candace, and amongst...

00:09:42.000 I was on YouTube the other day, and there's like...

00:09:45.000 When we first started YouTube, you could count the black conservatives on YouTube on one hand.

00:09:50.000 Now you can't even count them on both hands and both of your feet.

00:09:53.000 And I think that's one of the major reasons why black people are switching over to the Republican Party. 0.96

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00:11:02.000 Just so you guys know, the second gentleman in the United States, he condemns toxic masculinity, Doug Emhoff.

00:11:10.000 Let's play cut 132.

00:11:12.000 Talk about masculinity for a moment. 0.98

00:11:15.000 Has being second gentleman changed your own view of perceived gender roles or what it means to be a man?

00:11:24.000 This is something I've thought about a lot and something I've spoken about a lot.

00:11:28.000 There's too much of toxicity, masculine toxicity out there and we've kind of confused what it means to be a man, what it means to be masculine.

00:11:38.000 I think it's a problem and I'm going to continue to use this platform every time I get to speak out against this toxic masculinity that's out there.

00:11:48.000 Guys, why are you so toxic? 0.85

00:11:50.000 I don't know what that guy's talking about, but he's got white rage. 0.97

00:11:56.000 I don't think there's a problem with toxic masculinity.

00:12:00.000 You're just being a man.

00:12:01.000 I think we have a problem in this country is toxic femininity. 1.00

00:12:05.000 And that's why we've been having this discussion about toxic men. 0.98

00:12:09.000 It's coming from the toxic females in this country. 1.00

00:12:11.000 But you're telling men they can't be men, but you can tell women they can be men. 0.98

00:12:14.000 That's just backwards. Yes.

00:12:16.000 Without toxic... I think when I hear that label of toxic man, I think of a blue-collar worker who doesn't put so off anybody's nonsense.

00:12:24.000 That's all they're talking about. They want men. 1.00

00:12:26.000 They want to feminize men, emasculate men. 1.00

00:12:29.000 And why? I have no idea.

00:12:31.000 I mean, they build all the buildings.

00:12:32.000 They do all the construction jobs, all the dirty jobs that effeminate men don't want and women don't want. 0.95

00:12:39.000 They take care of that. And without that, you have no infrastructure in this country.

00:12:43.000 We need toxic men. 1.00

00:12:45.000 Without toxic men, this society will fall. 1.00

00:12:48.000 I mean, who would fight our wars?

00:12:50.000 Who would protect their wives? 0.99

00:12:52.000 Everybody would be just sword boys. 0.99

00:12:53.000 It doesn't make any sense for a man to be feminine. 0.99

00:12:58.000 It's not even natural.

00:13:00.000 So let me also prove this, that real men do not touch women. 0.85

00:13:05.000 Meaning they do not hurt or harm women ever is what I mean, obviously.

00:13:09.000 Doug Emhoff accused of forcefully slapping New York City girlfriend for flirting with another man at the Ritzy Gala in 2012.

00:13:18.000 Now guys, shouldn't Doug have punched the guy?

00:13:23.000 I mean, all of it's his fault. 0.99

00:13:25.000 He's the one that's dating a nasty woman. 1.00

00:13:30.000 I mean, a man's going to be a man, but I lay all the blame on the female. 1.00

00:13:36.000 You're with a man.

00:13:37.000 You show your spouse, your boyfriend respect.

00:13:41.000 I mean, that's the ultimate sign of disrespect for you, to be with a woman and that woman disrespect the man she's with. 0.98

00:13:47.000 Yeah, you shouldn't slap her. I wouldn't slap her.

00:13:50.000 I'd be like, oh, okay, I see what you're doing here.

00:13:54.000 You're on probation. You know what I mean?

00:13:58.000 Right. It's like, I mean, I've never, I just turned 50, what, two weeks ago?

00:14:03.000 We turned 50. And I've never put my hands on a woman.

00:14:06.000 I never had been in a circumstance where I had to do that.

00:14:09.000 Oh, yes, you have. Your ex-wife.

00:14:11.000 Wait, no, hold on, guys, guys.

00:14:13.000 Wait, did you say you turned 50?

00:14:14.000 Yeah. Yeah, we turned 50.

00:14:16.000 September 17th. Yep.

00:14:18.000 There's an expression, if I say it, they're going to say it's racist, but you don't look 50.

00:14:22.000 I know, I look 48.

00:14:24.000 Do you know what expression I'm talking about? 0.91

00:14:27.000 Yeah, black don't crack? That's right. 0.96

00:14:30.000 Black cracks all the time. 1.00

00:14:31.000 They're all in jail. They fill out prisons. 1.00

00:14:34.000 I mean, come on. 0.97

00:14:36.000 Black don't crack. Black don't do nothing right. 1.00

00:14:42.000 If we make up half of the violent crimes in this country, black don't crack. 1.00

00:14:46.000 We crack all the time and lose it. 0.94

00:14:49.000 I didn't say it.

00:14:51.000 You guys said it.

00:14:52.000 Yeah. Now the liberals see ya.

00:14:56.000 That's why Charlie likes them.

00:14:59.000 They hate their own kind. 1.00

00:15:01.000 We're just joking, having fun.

00:15:03.000 Just having fun.

00:15:05.000 But you guys look great for 50.

00:15:07.000 I mean, that's an accomplishment, I gotta tell ya.

00:15:12.000 Are you hitting on me, Charlie?

00:15:14.000 Huh? Are you hitting on me?

00:15:16.000 Not quite. I'm not Pete Buttigieg.

00:15:18.000 You don't have to worry about that. Okay.

00:15:21.000 Just checking. Shut up, Joe. 1.00

00:15:24.000 I do want you guys to tell your story because, I mean, we kind of glossed over that. 0.98

00:15:29.000 It's a really remarkable one and you guys have such a powerful voice and it's a really important thing that you're doing here.

00:15:35.000 Really quick, can you guys plug your YouTube channel?

00:15:37.000 Yeah, you can find us on conservative twins on YouTube.

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00:15:43.000 Or you just type in hard twins.

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00:16:53.000 So guys, let's take a step back here.

00:16:54.000 Why don't you tell us your story?

00:16:56.000 How'd you get into this? How'd you get into commentary?

00:16:58.000 Were you always political? Were you always conservative?

00:17:00.000 You guys said you voted before.

00:17:02.000 Take some time. Tell us your story.

00:17:03.000 We wasn't very political.

00:17:05.000 I always vote Democrat because I thought it was the right thing to do being a black man.

00:17:10.000 But I didn't know anything about politics.

00:17:12.000 I just know the other side, I was told, wanted to lynch me.

00:17:16.000 So, of course, I went to vote Democrat.

00:17:18.000 So it all started in 2008 when we created our first YouTube channel.

00:17:22.000 And it was just something that we was going to do just to make ends meet, you know?

00:17:27.000 So I don't get my car repossessed.

00:17:29.000 But anyway, after doing it for a couple years, it started to grow and we started earning an income and it became my full-time job.

00:17:36.000 But when we started, it was just commentary on outrageous news events.

00:17:41.000 It wasn't political at all.

00:17:43.000 We did fitness and we had a YouTube channel where we talked relationships.

00:17:48.000 And then after a while, we built up millions of subscribers.

00:17:52.000 We started paying attention to what was going on in the world.

00:17:56.000 I think the changing point for us is when it was a kid in a Whataburger in Texas.

00:18:00.000 He was wearing a MAGA hat, and it was a Mexican gentleman that walked up to him and took his hat, assaulted him, took his hat, and it went viral. 0.54

00:18:09.000 So me and Keith did a video.

00:18:11.000 I was like, you know, let's do a video about it.

00:18:13.000 Let's talk about it. Yeah, I say, hey, we're not too political.

00:18:16.000 It's just coming in the middle, common sense approach.

00:18:19.000 I say no one should be abused for expressing that First Amendment right.

00:18:22.000 And as soon as we posted that video up on Instagram, we lost like 20,000 followers within like four hours.

00:18:31.000 Right? So I was like, what?

00:18:33.000 Then we started to pay more attention to it.

00:18:36.000 And I was like... And I started listening to more of my older brother.

00:18:39.000 I came across Ben Shapiro, Larry Elder, Candace Owens.

00:18:43.000 Candace Owens. And it amazed us because these people have been following us for years and they just threw us away like we were like a used condom or something.

00:18:52.000 You shouldn't have said that. Oh, Jesus.

00:18:54.000 That's a great metaphor. Like an old newspaper.

00:18:57.000 Right. So it kind of actually...

00:18:59.000 Pissed us off. So I said, I'm going to keep doing the videos.

00:19:02.000 I want to see this go to zero there.

00:19:05.000 And we started doing the political videos.

00:19:08.000 But we wasn't really conservative.

00:19:10.000 We're just licking it from a common sense approach.

00:19:12.000 I wasn't a Republican. I was a Democrat.

00:19:14.000 Yeah. I think we've always been liberal, though.

00:19:17.000 Right. Not progressive.

00:19:18.000 We've always been liberal. I always consider myself like an old school liberal like RFK Biden back in the day when he said...

00:19:26.000 When he had that crime bill.

00:19:29.000 When he said marriage is between a man and a woman, like, Biden used to be an old-school liberal, but he changed, he became progressive.

00:19:36.000 I think that's what we've always been.

00:19:38.000 And then the Democrat Party slowly became something that I didn't want to be a part of any longer.

00:19:46.000 And so I started looking at the right, and liberals and conservatives for years have been pretty much like this.

00:19:51.000 It was just a couple of issues that broke them apart.

00:19:54.000 And I was like, well, I guess I'm conservative now.

00:19:57.000 And so we started doing the content and our fan base exploded from that.

00:20:04.000 I thought we was committing career suicide.

00:20:08.000 Right. But I remember when we first started doing it, doing the political content, I remember we had a comedy show and it wasn't sold out.

00:20:14.000 It was just, it was half empty.

00:20:16.000 Right. But it was full of Trump supporters.

00:20:19.000 Right. Yeah. It was in Canada.

00:20:22.000 Right? Yeah. Right, but our fan base changed overnight, it seems to me.

00:20:27.000 But now when we do comedy shows, everything sells out, and it's the most amazing people and fans we've ever had.

00:20:35.000 Yeah, it's like when we come out on stage, before we even speak a word, they give us a standing ovation.

00:20:40.000 Never got that before. And they won't sit down.

00:20:43.000 I'm like, okay. It's like, it's so uplifting and it's amazing.

00:20:46.000 You'd be dead tired. You've been doing shows all week and then you go out to an audience and it is right there clapping, screaming for you.

00:20:53.000 So, and then after the show, we get a standing ovation.

00:20:56.000 I mean, the love we got from white conservatives and conservatives, period, has been astounding.

00:21:02.000 I remember we had a show in Nashville.

00:21:05.000 Yeah. And the shows were selling out.

00:21:07.000 I think we did four shows there.

00:21:08.000 Right. And the first show, we go out there and I'm looking out the curtain.

00:21:11.000 I like to look at the crowd before I go out.

00:21:13.000 And I looked out there. I was like, who the hell are these people? 0.64

00:21:16.000 Who are these people? Right. 0.89

00:21:19.000 Our fan base totally changed.

00:21:21.000 Our crowd's always been a good mix.

00:21:23.000 Right. But now it looked like they was coming to a Bruce Springsteen concert.

00:21:26.000 It was like no black people there.

00:21:29.000 Right. Well, there was black people there.

00:21:31.000 Yeah. But they had a white wife. 1.00

00:21:34.000 Weird. Or it'd be a black woman and she's with a white dude. 1.00

00:21:39.000 Yeah. It's like, you know, I thought that was funny.

00:21:42.000 But, man, I cannot believe the support we've gotten from our concerto fans has been amazing.

00:21:48.000 Yeah. Once we switched over to conservatism, I mean, it changed my life.

00:21:56.000 I was always wealthy.

00:21:57.000 I had a house. I had cars.

00:21:59.000 Money wasn't an issue.

00:22:01.000 But conservatives have given so much to us, we started giving back to them.

00:22:07.000 We started giving away trucks, cars, muscle cars, and things like that just to the people because of the support they've given us.

00:22:14.000 Yeah, we used to give money to Facebook and Instagram to market.

00:22:17.000 Whatever was selling and to promote whatever we're doing.

00:22:21.000 And they were censoring us, especially Facebook.

00:22:23.000 They shut our Facebook down.

00:22:25.000 So we decided instead of incentivizing people to support us through ads, let's just do giveaways and incentivize them that way and stop giving this money to big tech.

00:22:34.000 And I think it's been a win-win for everybody.

00:22:37.000 Yeah, so far we've given away over two million in cash prices and trucks and cash to people that support us.

00:22:44.000 Yeah. Wow. And so how did Donald Trump play into all of this in your political journey?

00:22:50.000 He's the man that's been called a racist more than any other person.

00:22:53.000 And then we've been talking about race the last eight years, BLM, George Floyd, Kamala.

00:22:58.000 Talk about how that has been ingredients in your journey.

00:23:03.000 Yeah, we've been talking about race ever since Obama got in office.

00:23:06.000 He started all of this. But when I first came across Trump, I liked it that he wasn't I'm a politician.

00:23:15.000 And I liked his policies, the direction he wanted the country.

00:23:19.000 And he's not afraid to say what he really thinks.

00:23:21.000 Yeah, but it just seems like, because I've been following politics here and there, it just seems like they put on a mask for you so you can go vote for them.

00:23:30.000 You see a lot of that with Democrats, especially Kamala, when she's in front of a black audience, she talks a certain way. 0.99

00:23:35.000 They just come off really fake.

00:23:37.000 But when Trump was up there, it's something that's really genuine and sincere about him.

00:23:42.000 Right. And that's what resonated with me.

00:23:46.000 Yeah, sure, if he said some things that, you know, that somebody who sees life through a racist lens, it will come off as racist to them.

00:23:56.000 Mm-hmm. But all he's doing is being brutally honest with whatever he's saying.

00:24:01.000 He's not a racist. I don't think he's racist.

00:24:03.000 I grew up in the South. I know a racist when I see and hear him.

00:24:07.000 I can feel it. It's like a second sense a black guy has. 1.00

00:24:11.000 The look in the eyes, you can tell when somebody despises you because of your ethnicity or your race.

00:24:16.000 I've met Trump.

00:24:18.000 I've seen Trump talk. I don't think he has a racist bone in his body.

00:24:21.000 He might be racial insensitive, but he's definitely not a racist.

00:24:25.000 He's just a brutally honest man.

00:24:27.000 Yeah, I think we all have our biases.

00:24:30.000 And a lot of times when you mention something about a particular demographic of people, such as black people, it hurts their feelings, even though it may be true. 1.00

00:24:40.000 And they're quick to label everything racist instead of acknowledging what he's saying.

00:24:46.000 A lot of times, especially with the black community, in my humble opinion, they hate looking in the mirror. 1.00

00:24:52.000 They're very bad at that, and it's always somebody else's fault. 0.92

00:24:56.000 They're always victimizing themselves.

00:24:59.000 That race card is a powerful card for Democrats.

00:25:03.000 Like we said earlier in the broadcast, diversity is not a strength of the Republican Party. 0.79

00:25:09.000 It's becoming, it's getting better over time with the Latinos, and some blacks are coming over, but that's the main reason why they push race so much, because black people actually go to the polls and vote because Kamala is, they think Kamala's black, and they think Donald Trump is a white supremacist. 0.91

00:25:25.000 Yeah, very powerful.

00:25:26.000 So you guys tell me, the media says that this line from Trump is racist.

00:25:31.000 This is from the Alabama-Georgia game.

00:25:33.000 Playcut 138. That is insane.

00:25:56.000 I think Trump's got, after you get this, winning this election, he's got a rap career in front of him.

00:26:02.000 I know I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

00:26:06.000 There's nothing racist about that.

00:26:08.000 It's funny. No, go ahead.

00:26:10.000 No, it's nothing racist.

00:26:11.000 I mean, when a black person says certain things, it's okay. 1.00

00:26:15.000 But when a white man says it, then they have an issue.

00:26:17.000 It's just a double standard for white people. 0.91

00:26:20.000 And it's a racist standard they've set for white people because they don't even hold black people to that same standard. 0.50

00:26:26.000 So Trump has really become a cultural phenomenon in so many ways and the media continues to attack and continues to smear and slander him.

00:26:36.000 So the question I think a lot of us have in front of us is this current election and what Trump needs to do to try to win over more voters and especially black voters.

00:26:46.000 What can be done, if anything, to try and expand the Trump base as we go into this election?

00:26:52.000 I think he's already doing everything he possibly can.

00:26:55.000 Yeah. You don't want to change him too much because what resonates with the majority of his bases is just him being himself.

00:27:02.000 I think his vice president pick, him having a motor racial family and his wife being a person of color and his kids people of color, that's a great look for the Republican Party.

00:27:13.000 I think that that team of Vance and Trump is perfect.

00:27:18.000 And a lot of black people are starting to wake up to the Republican Party.

00:27:22.000 They're not so sensitive to some of these issues.

00:27:25.000 And I wouldn't change anything at this point.

00:27:27.000 Yeah, I wouldn't change it.

00:27:30.000 I don't think there's really much you can do.

00:27:32.000 It's just, like what we're saying from the Latino voters, how they're switching to the Republican Party, that's starting to happen with the black vote.

00:27:38.000 But it's going to be a much slower process because...

00:27:43.000 Democrats have indoctrinated that demographic for decades and it's nothing

00:27:48.000 really you can do to fix that overnight or in two weeks in a month in six months

00:27:52.000 years it's gonna take decades. I think Vance can make a lot of leeway but like

00:27:57.000 I said because his family's multiracial but we really need and I don't like DEI 1.00

00:28:02.000 I want people that's qualified to be you know to run for office with the

00:28:07.000 but we just need more black politicians on the Republican side. 0.97

00:28:10.000 Just like people of color. 1.00

00:28:12.000 Yeah. Yeah. People of color, women, blacks.

00:28:15.000 Yeah. It would help a lot.

00:28:16.000 Do you guys like Vivek? It does matter to a lot of black people.

00:28:19.000 I love Vivek.

00:28:21.000 I love Tulsi Gabbard.

00:28:23.000 I think they would have been great options as vice president.

00:28:26.000 But Vance is amazing.

00:28:28.000 Just a little too white. 0.79

00:28:32.000 It's always against us white people. 0.51

00:28:34.000 You guys are awesome.

00:28:37.000 What does a white person have to do to get ahead in this country, guys?

00:28:40.000 I mean, seriously. Come on.

00:28:42.000 I guess get cornrows, wear a bandana or something.

00:28:44.000 I don't know. But, no, Vance blew me away.

00:28:47.000 He came off presidential.

00:28:49.000 He's well-spoken.

00:28:51.000 He was a breath of fresh air, and he fact-checked them when they tried to fact-check him.

00:28:56.000 That guy's sharp.

00:28:58.000 I mean, I have nothing against him.

00:29:00.000 Yeah, he's an amazing man, great father.

00:29:03.000 I'm just, you know...

00:29:05.000 When hopefully Trump wins this election and he should win this election, I see Vance being a two-term president because some of the things they say about Donald Trump, you cannot say that about Vance.

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00:30:22.000 Okay, you guys gotta make sense of this.

00:30:24.000 The Hodge twins are with us. Help me.

00:30:26.000 You guys gotta be my translators for me, okay?

00:30:28.000 What does Kamala Harris mean by this?

00:30:30.000 Play cut five. I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.

00:30:34.000 You know? What can be unburdened by what has been.

00:30:39.000 what can be unburdened by what has been what can be unburdened by what has been

00:30:47.000 what can be unburdened by what has been what does that mean?

00:30:54.000 i don't know you know she sounds like she sounds like you know 0.99

00:30:58.000 somebody go to prison they start reading and they think when they get out they think they can 0.98

00:31:02.000 they added some words to their vocabulary and then they talking but they just sound even stupider 0.99

00:31:07.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:31:08.000 Um.

00:31:09.000 I can't even make out.

00:31:10.000 She's using words that's typically not used in the way she's using them, and she's trying to give off the impression that she's very smart or intelligent, which I don't deny she's got a certain level of intelligence because she's a lawyer.

00:31:25.000 She passed the ball exam, but... 0.98

00:31:27.000 I don't know what the hell she's talking about.

00:31:30.000 You know what she's doing? This is what she's doing. 1.00

00:31:33.000 Like, Martin Luther King, I'm going to bring him up.

00:31:37.000 He was good with words, right?

00:31:42.000 Like his I Have a Dream speech.

00:31:44.000 It was like, the way he spoke, it was like, I can't even put in words.

00:31:50.000 It just sounds amazing, right?

00:31:51.000 That's what she's trying to do. 1.00

00:31:53.000 She's trying to sound amazing, but she sounds just dumb. 1.00

00:31:56.000 Whatever she's trying to do. 0.98

00:31:58.000 Because whenever you sit down and talk to her, she doesn't have much to say.

00:32:02.000 And she tries to fill it in with laughter.

00:32:06.000 She cannot articulate her message.

00:32:10.000 Like Vance last night, he can articulate.

00:32:12.000 Vivek, he can articulate.

00:32:14.000 She just can't articulate.

00:32:15.000 It's crazy how far she's been able to go in her career to see where this woman is at. 1.00

00:32:20.000 She can't articulate anything.

00:32:23.000 I think Kamala's biggest problem when she speaks is that she's not genuine.

00:32:44.000 You don't have to put on a fake show and try to sound like you're brilliant or smart or anything.

00:32:48.000 I think that's her biggest obstacle she's trying to overcome because she's not a very genuine, likable person.

00:32:56.000 She doesn't come off very likable, and she's trying to overcome that, but she can't.

00:33:03.000 I want to play a tape here from some undecided black voters in Georgia.

00:33:08.000 Play at 140. What's your biggest hesitation about voting for Kamala Harris?

00:33:15.000 Is she going to be able to do the things that she says she's going to be able to do?

00:33:20.000 Mikkel, how about you? Everything that glitters ain't gold.

00:33:24.000 Yeah, for sure. Is she going to be able to take a punch and give one or two less? 1.00

00:33:32.000 Your thoughts, guys? From the look from those black people, they are very scared to say anything against the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:33:40.000 You see how short and concise it was? 0.84

00:33:42.000 They didn't want to say anything negative because they are in fear of being demonized.

00:33:48.000 Yeah, by their own race.

00:33:51.000 They didn't even want to look at the camera when they were talking.

00:33:54.000 They were so afraid. It's like they were afraid to say what they were saying.

00:33:56.000 But it does give me hope that black people are starting to open their eyes. 1.00

00:34:00.000 I mean, for them to say what they said is a lot.

00:34:03.000 Right. You know, and I think the pendulum is going in the right direction with the black vote in a lot of circumstances. 0.92

00:34:11.000 It still needs a lot of work, but that little clip you showed me gives me hope.

00:34:15.000 But those people were afraid to say what they were saying.

00:34:18.000 That clip you just showed us epitomized the problem with the black community when it comes to voting. 1.00

00:34:24.000 They are scared to jump outside of that box and speak for themselves.

00:34:28.000 That's the major problem.

00:34:29.000 Right there in that video illustrates that.

00:34:32.000 What guidance do you have for people that are afraid to speak out because they say the cost is too high?

00:34:36.000 Well, in a lot of circumstances, the cost is too high.

00:34:39.000 You have to be smart. You don't want to put your family at risk of putting food on tape.

00:34:43.000 You just got to be smart. Go to the polls and vote.

00:34:47.000 That's the most powerful thing a black person can do is go to the poll and vote how you feel, what is right.

00:34:53.000 Vote on your beliefs, not what people are telling you how to vote.

00:34:57.000 Go and vote in what appeals to you and your family and your standards and your And how you feel about it.

00:35:03.000 Yeah, your decision should not be based on your skin color.

00:35:06.000 It's bad for white people to do it. 0.99

00:35:07.000 And it's bad for black people to do it as well. 1.00

00:35:10.000 I think it's twice as bad when a black person does it. 1.00

00:35:12.000 Yeah, because they should know better. 0.99

00:35:13.000 Right. Hodge twins, you guys are the best.

00:35:15.000 Thank you so much. Hope to see you soon, guys.

00:35:17.000 Thank you. Thank you.

00:35:18.000 Thanks for having us. Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:20.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 03, 2024

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