Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Prager Interviews The Hodge Twins
Aired: 2020-10-20
Duration: 06:18


=== Learning From Failure (05:58) ===

[00:00:00]  YouTube channel, one and a half million subscribers.
[00:00:03]  That's a lot of subscribers.
[00:00:05]  And it's Keith and Kevin, the brothers or twins.
[00:00:10]  So, yes, I have a lot of questions still.
[00:00:14]  I want to get back to the victim thing.
[00:00:16]  Yeah.
[00:00:18]  One of you were saying, and it's so critical, it is a lot easier to believe you're a victim than to look in the mirror.
[00:00:26]  Yeah, it's easier to blame somebody else.
[00:00:30]  For your inadequacies than to look in the mirror and fix the situation yourself.
[00:00:36]  Because whenever you fail at something, Dennis, it's not failure.
[00:00:42]  It's an opportunity for you to learn from that.
[00:00:45]  That's how all successful people are.
[00:00:47]  They fail and they learn from their failures.
[00:00:49]  I think a lot of people on the left, they make a horrible decision.
[00:00:53]  They blame somebody else.
[00:00:55]  One of the biggest destructions to the black community is identity politics.
[00:00:59]  I mean, me being in the military, I was working in the 45th companies all life.
[00:01:07]  From every black person I've ever known, man, they always had this thing with other people being racist when they don't even know that person personally.
[00:01:16]  For example, when I went to school and I got a degree in accounting, I was like, Once I got that degree, Dennis, I went to like, I want to say like 15 interviews.
[00:01:25]  No one ever called me back.
[00:01:29]  I fell in that hole victimization.
[00:01:31]  Oh, it's got to be because I'm black.
[00:01:33]  It's got to be.
[00:01:34]  So, you know what I did, Dennis?
[00:01:36]  I said, you know what?
[00:01:38]  What I'm going to do going forward when I get another interview, I took all those questions that they were asking me during the interviews.
[00:01:45]  I'm going to go ahead and prefer...
[00:01:46]  Perfect my answer for every question they ask me.
[00:01:49]  And my next interview, I'm going to knock that sock off.
[00:01:53]  I'm going to smile.
[00:01:54]  I'm going to improve my interviewing skills.
[00:01:58]  So the very next job interview, I put myself like a week.
[00:02:03]  And every interview I went to, I asked them the same question, but I didn't have a good, solid answer for them.
[00:02:07]  So my next interview, I answered every question.
[00:02:11]  I was very articulate.
[00:02:12]  I gave them great answers.
[00:02:14]  And I got the job.
[00:02:19]  After 15 rejections.
[00:02:21]  After 15 rejections.
[00:02:23]  I could have very easily...
[00:02:24]  By the way, did you wear a suit and tie to the last one?
[00:02:29]  I wore a suit and tie to all of them.
[00:02:31]  Okay, just checking, because you guys do not wear a suit and tie on your podcast.
[00:02:35]  Right, right, right.
[00:02:37]  We're pretty laid back on that part.
[00:02:38]  Yeah, I was going to say, right, if you showed up in one of those t-shirts, that might have been one of the reasons, but all right, now it's clear to me.
[00:02:47]  Okay, that's fair.
[00:02:50]  So the great challenge is to get that message to more blacks.
[00:02:57]  You're hurting your lives by buying this victim mentality.
[00:03:03]  Yeah.
[00:03:04]  But, you know, Hollywood and our culture, our musicians, our celebrities, our civil rights, man, they got their hooks so deep into black people, you can't even talk to them.
[00:03:18]  They're so mentally enslaved, they don't even know they got shackles on them.
[00:03:22]  I try to talk to black people, no, I'm not going to dance with a white man.
[00:03:26]  You sound like a white person.
[00:03:27]  I'm saying, no, man, I'm just being clear.
[00:03:31]  Everything's just my...
[00:03:32]  It's just not about being black and African.
[00:03:35]  We all are just people with the same life, the same wants, the same dreams in America.
[00:03:40]  Drop all that pro-black, pro-Africa.
[00:03:44]  I said, man, you're just an American.
[00:03:46]  Nothing more than that.
[00:03:47]  You're American just like everybody else.
[00:03:50]  That's right.
[00:03:51]  That's the dream, and that's what I believe.
[00:03:53]  That's exactly right.
[00:03:54]  I am in the, let's see, I'm in the second toughest group to crack.
[00:03:59]  I'm a Jewish conservative.
[00:04:02]  So, whereas you got 90% of the vote Democrat, I only have 70%.
[00:04:09]  Jews vote 70%.
[00:04:12]  So, I start off with a little advantage when I speak to Jews.
[00:04:18]  But the truth is, the left-wing Jew will turn me off, just as the left-wing black will turn you off.
[00:04:26]  Right.
[00:04:27]  It's sad, really.
[00:04:28]  I mean, our former government in America is more of a Republican form of government because no democracy can ever survive because of this mob mentality.
[00:04:41]  That's right.
[00:04:41]  You see it on the left.
[00:04:43]  You see what these riots are.
[00:04:45]  That's a total.
[00:04:45]  That's a pure democracy right there.
[00:04:48]  It's just mob mentality.
[00:04:49]  Everything's based on the whim.
[00:04:51]  There's no logic.
[00:04:52]  It's all in motion.
[00:04:53]  Yeah, just imagine, Dennis, if we didn't have the electoral college.
[00:04:56]  we would never have a Republican president.
[00:04:59]  Never.
[00:04:59]  That's right.
[00:05:01]  And nobody would campaign in Wisconsin or Michigan or Ohio.
[00:05:06]  It would be irrelevant.
[00:05:07]  They'd just get Los Angeles and New York and go home.
[00:05:10]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:05:12]  And Philadelphia, I guess.
[00:05:13]  By the way, you guys are living in Vegas.
[00:05:16]  Vegas is hurting, isn't it?
[00:05:19]  Yeah, it's the highest unemployment in the country.
[00:05:21]  Yeah, because the majority of the economy out here is tourism.
[00:05:24]  Hotels.
[00:05:25]  Exactly.
[00:05:26]  And people are still not coming?
[00:05:29]  It's starting to open up a little bit.
[00:05:32]  I mean, the governor out here, Sisolak, he just opened up the casinos about a week ago.
[00:05:38]  I think the churches are still closed out here.
[00:05:41]  I mean, what's really worried me about this whole pandemic is the left always preaches about follow the science.

=== Thank You, David (00:34) ===

[00:05:50]  The science is pretty clear now.
[00:05:52]  If you're under 50 and you're in good health, This virus has very little effect.
[00:05:58]  That's right, my man.
[00:06:00]  Listen, I gotta say goodbye, but I'd love to do this again.
[00:06:06]  Your treasure's in American life.
[00:06:08]  I just want you to know that.
[00:06:10]  Thank you, David.
[00:06:11]  Thank you.
[00:06:12]  You're very welcome.
[00:06:13]  The Hodge twins, and there's a link to them.
[00:06:16]  You go straight to them, or there's a link.