This Dan Le Batard Show postgame episode revisits a confusion over the name Dana White, after reports that Donald Trump considered a Dana White for press secretary, and the hosts question whether the offer was real or a joke. The conversation then turns to the 2020 Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference and Rudy Giuliani, with the hosts suggesting these moments are worth introducing to younger listeners.
The episode closes with the hosts updating the show's audience polls on sports questions, and they note that some poll questions are missing.
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Going to update the polls here in a second with Jeremy. A reminder that right after this postgame, we've got a new episode that is live of Football America. It is Football America with Dave Damishaw.
That's weird, right?
Also weird from this weekend: the story that came out about Donald Trump, that orange, greedy, rapist, racist turd—allegedly—Donald Trump wanted to make his press secretary, Dana White. And I don't know what's true here and what's not true here, because Donald Trump used that age-old Abraham Lincoln trick of, "I was just kidding." I was just kidding about Dana White being my press secretary.
That's specifically "I was just kidding." "I was just joking." He'd done that a lot in the last 10 years.
Yes. That's the move I think he learned from some of our greatest forefathers: to just say, "I was just kidding," when you're doing something. I'm assuming there—because he's always lying—I'm assuming that Dana White turned him down because Dana White doesn't really want to work for anybody. And Dana White certainly doesn't want to work for somebody who is going to be a loser, as Donald Trump presently is. And it would fire all of his press secretaries, because the last one lasted 5 days. But do we know what's true here?
Like, do we know? Did Dana White—what is Dana White saying? Not that he can be trusted on truth-telling either.
There seemed to be some wishy-washiness with Dana White overall. There was reports from TMZ and CNN that conflicted with one another. The bigger thing in all of this is that everyone thinks that Trump was told to hire Dana White, a woman who works for the Department of Defense.
War.
The Department of War.
War.
My apologies.
Oh, get out of here.
And then thought that he was being told to hire Dana White of UFC. And ultimately, the other Dana White, the one who works for the Department of War, had to put out a statement on her LinkedIn, basically saying, like, "It's wonderful to be confused for Dana White on this side of things for once." Because normally she's getting a bunch of emails and tweets from people that are confusing her for the UFC one.
Do you know how asinine it is that it is likelier and makes more sense that Donald Trump would have, speaking on his behalf, a carnival barker from the fight game instead of a Black woman? Like, you know that it's more ridiculous to think that he's going to allow a Black woman to be his voice than Dana White. He's going with the white White, not the Black White. But do we think that there's an actual confusion here? Like, do we think that that's.
Oh, there's definitely a confusion. I mean, there has to be. There's no other way that this happens and then becomes, "Oh, well, maybe," and then, "I'm just kidding." It's perfect because it's on the 6-year anniversary of the Four Seasons total landscaping fiasco as well, where Rudy Giuliani was just, like, leaking from the ear. I mean, this—it's just perfect for this administration.
I mean, even that, though. I could see someone saying, like, "We should hire Dana White from the Department of War," and him being like, "What about the other Dana White? The real Dana White?" "What do you mean by real?" "You know exactly what I mean."
When you say "leaking from the ear," I feel the need to tell people that Rudy Giuliani had some hair dye that was sort of trickling down the side of his face. And I also feel the need to—because this was not—this was not reported as much as it should have been, even though it was reported plenty. They did that press conference from Four Seasons landscaping because clearly someone made a mistake thinking it was a Four Seasons hotel, and instead everyone just gathered in.
Whoa.
Do you not remember this?
No.
It was incredible.
It's a—they're like a construction site.
You don't remember this? This is one of the great moments of 2020.
Whoa.
And there were so many.
There was a lot happening in 2020, all right?
So, Jeremy, I think there are two things that our production team has to start putting together. The first thing is a series of famous sports moments that our local young people have not seen, where we are doing a segment that we introduce somebody to the wonder and awe of something all of us already know about. I think that's one segment. I think another segment is, let's just put political things from the last 10 years in front of Zaz that he doesn't know about because he's only been paying attention to sports.
I think we can put a lot of things in front of him that he doesn't know about, because that was one of my favorites. Them showing up at Four Seasons landscaping because someone clearly made the mistake of thinking it was a Four Seasons hotel and then having Rudy Giuliani's hair dye streak down the side of his face.
I really feel like Giuliani has slid on a lot, but probably no greater thing than when Sacha Baron Cohen had an actress present herself as underage and Giuliani was unbuckling his pants for it, and it was totally fine. And that actress went on to play Ivanka Trump in The Apprentice.
Yep. At Le Batard Show, if you didn't know about that. That is just a great thing to learn that way, if you don't know about that. I imagine Zaz didn't know about that.
Some people forget. Some people forget.
And some people never noticed. Like Zaz.
Flooding the zone works. That's one thing that the last decade has taught me. Flooding the zone positively works.
At Le Batard Show is where it is that you get to vote on the polls. We didn't even get to today a cowboy player pooping himself and there being proof that he pooped himself during the game. Let's go ahead and update at Le Batard Show. We also didn't get to Mike Florio saying—Mike Florio saying he's going to ignore all Diana Ruscini reports because he doesn't believe in her credibility anymore. So anything that she reports that is fact-exclusively, Mike Florio is taking the stand of, "I'm not paying attention to her or any news that comes from her at all."
At Le Batard Show, on the polls, what do you have, Jeremy?
Is Divine Diablo the best name in professional football? 74% of the audience says yes.
Yeah, I have.
If you have a cast on your arm in football, is it a weapon? Should it be allowed? Now, this is a classic Dan asking two questions at once and then putting yes or no. 60% of the audience says yes.
Yeah, I have.
Does any kid grow up wanting to be an offensive guard? 78% says no.
Yeah, I have.
And finally, would we all be cowards as punt returners? 93% of the audience says yes.
Yeah, I have.
There are questions missing here today. There are poll questions missing here today. I will rummage throughout the entirety of our catalog tonight, and I will come back with what those questions are tomorrow. Dave Damishack and Football America is live next.
Bye-bye.
"Leaking oil from the ear."
Before we update today's Polls, a confusion over the name 'Dana White' has us reliving some of the more laughable political moments of the last decade.
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