Dana White isn’t an actor however generally he performs one on TV … or no less than on podcasts.
Again in February, within the days main as much as UFC 298, the UFC CEO was going by a typical pre-fight “automobile wash,” the place he’ll make appearances on a slew of podcasts and radio reveals to advertise an occasion. In doing so, White made headlines by becoming a member of comic Howie Mandel on his podcast earlier than proclaiming seconds into the interview, “I’m so f*cking bored with doing podcasts.” White then eliminated his headphones and walked out of the studio.
Mandel and his different visitors sat there in surprised silence for just a few moments as White exited. Now, months later, White revealed that the entire thing was truly a setup that he did as a favor for Mandel after assembly him that very same day.
“So what occurred was I did the Sage Steele podcast when she known as me Joe Rogan,” White stated throughout an look on the Flagrant podcast. “To begin with, Sage Steele and I are good associates, I like Sage. She requested me to be her first visitor on the podcast, so I’m going on the market. Now, the studio is owned by Howie Mandel the place these podcasts happen. She was signed to Invoice Maher’s podcast firm and so they’re all completed there in Howie Mandel’s studio. So we get completed with the podcast and Howie Mandel walks in and he’s like, ‘100 podcasts per week occur right here, I’ve by no means watched any of them. I watched the entire podcast, love who you’re, what you stand for,’ and all these things. We hit it off, began speaking. Nice dude.
“So he’s like, ‘Let me present you across the studio.’ He’s concerned in every kind of shit. He owns social media firms and all this different stuff. Howie Mandel owns a number of shit that individuals don’t understand. Good man, nice man. So we’re strolling by and stuff and he goes, ‘Would you do me a favor?’ I stated, ‘Yeah, what’s up?’ He’s like, ‘Would you are available in and stand up and stroll off my podcast?’ I’m going, ‘I might be f*cking honored to stroll off your podcast as a result of I’m so f*cking sick of doing podcasts, it’s not humorous.’
“We go in there and do it, proper? He’s like, ‘Take this to the grave.’ I stated, ‘Completed, I’ll take it to the grave.”
Clearly, White didn’t take that secret to his grave. So why is he giving up on the bit now after the setup labored so nicely?
Because it seems, White was out doing a separate look when a room stuffed with followers started an anti-Mandel chant out of loyalty to White, and he couldn’t let that stand. So now White is telling the true story behind the podcast walkout whereas assuring anyone listening that Mandel did completely nothing fallacious and deserves no blowback from his followers.
“I’m going do that factor with the Nelk Boys, we’re doing this ‘Monkeybomb’ f*cking tour, the entire f*cking crowd begins chanting, ‘F*ck Howie Mandel!’” White stated. “I’m going, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, timeout, I can’t do that.’
“Howie Mandel’s the f*cking biggest dude ever. Sorry, Howie. It’s simply once I exit and other people simply begin f*cking shitting on the man — and I’m certain he might give a flying f*ck — I couldn’t do it. So Howie Mandel’s f*cking superior.”
