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Dana White

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

I think this guy would get drunk or do drugs every night or whatever his deal was. This guy would call me, text me, and threaten my life every day. I used to go, fuck you. You said fuck you. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Especially back then.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

I think this guy would get drunk or do drugs every night or whatever his deal was. This guy would call me, text me, and threaten my life every day. I used to go, fuck you. You said fuck you. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Especially back then.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

yeah but yeah but i mean this is the type of shit that went on in the early days that this guy this guy who was one of the owners of affliction was like one of the you know not a good human let's put it that way what about the business side of it it's tough to make money in this business yeah we weren't making money so you know trying to build this thing corrupt uh

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

yeah but yeah but i mean this is the type of shit that went on in the early days that this guy this guy who was one of the owners of affliction was like one of the you know not a good human let's put it that way what about the business side of it it's tough to make money in this business yeah we weren't making money so you know trying to build this thing corrupt uh

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

yeah but yeah but i mean this is the type of shit that went on in the early days that this guy this guy who was one of the owners of affliction was like one of the you know not a good human let's put it that way what about the business side of it it's tough to make money in this business yeah we weren't making money so you know trying to build this thing corrupt uh

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

corrupt uh the guys that work for in-demand pay-per-view at the time uh were not good dudes you know and that thing was a fucking total monopoly god i wish i could remember his name right now he used to run in demand and he was a fucking bad guy then he then he comes over and starts running direct tv who we always had a great relationship with and he's the reason we left direct tv and said fuck it we'll just go streaming then

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

corrupt uh the guys that work for in-demand pay-per-view at the time uh were not good dudes you know and that thing was a fucking total monopoly god i wish i could remember his name right now he used to run in demand and he was a fucking bad guy then he then he comes over and starts running direct tv who we always had a great relationship with and he's the reason we left direct tv and said fuck it we'll just go streaming then

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

corrupt uh the guys that work for in-demand pay-per-view at the time uh were not good dudes you know and that thing was a fucking total monopoly god i wish i could remember his name right now he used to run in demand and he was a fucking bad guy then he then he comes over and starts running direct tv who we always had a great relationship with and he's the reason we left direct tv and said fuck it we'll just go streaming then

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

Yeah, I don't remember his name. I'd have to ask Lorenzo. So in general, just in this whole space, there's a lot of shady people. Yeah, it's just everybody you deal with is shady.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

Yeah, I don't remember his name. I'd have to ask Lorenzo. So in general, just in this whole space, there's a lot of shady people. Yeah, it's just everybody you deal with is shady.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

Yeah, I don't remember his name. I'd have to ask Lorenzo. So in general, just in this whole space, there's a lot of shady people. Yeah, it's just everybody you deal with is shady.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

dealing with a lot of different forces and your hands are in a lot of different businesses, you know, from the venue business to the merchandise business to the video game business, the pay-per-view business, you know, the list goes on and on of all the different types of the production business of all these different, you know, when I first started this, we had a production team that was the production team

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

dealing with a lot of different forces and your hands are in a lot of different businesses, you know, from the venue business to the merchandise business to the video game business, the pay-per-view business, you know, the list goes on and on of all the different types of the production business of all these different, you know, when I first started this, we had a production team that was the production team

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

dealing with a lot of different forces and your hands are in a lot of different businesses, you know, from the venue business to the merchandise business to the video game business, the pay-per-view business, you know, the list goes on and on of all the different types of the production business of all these different, you know, when I first started this, we had a production team that was the production team

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

That was in it before we bought it. So there was this incident with Phil Barone, where Phil Barone, we did an interview with him, and Barone flips out in the interview when they're interviewing him and goes crazy. And I thought it was awesome. So I'm like, we're going to leave this in. We're going to leave this interview in. And the production guys were arguing with me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

That was in it before we bought it. So there was this incident with Phil Barone, where Phil Barone, we did an interview with him, and Barone flips out in the interview when they're interviewing him and goes crazy. And I thought it was awesome. So I'm like, we're going to leave this in. We're going to leave this interview in. And the production guys were arguing with me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

That was in it before we bought it. So there was this incident with Phil Barone, where Phil Barone, we did an interview with him, and Barone flips out in the interview when they're interviewing him and goes crazy. And I thought it was awesome. So I'm like, we're going to leave this in. We're going to leave this interview in. And the production guys were arguing with me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

They're like, we can't leave this in. This is totally unprofessional. I said, I don't give a shit. This is what we're doing. We're going to do this and clip it like this and do it like that. We're sitting in the venue that night. And I lean over to Lorenzo because the fight's coming up. I go, wait till you see this fucking interview with Barone. They didn't fucking do it. They didn't do it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

They're like, we can't leave this in. This is totally unprofessional. I said, I don't give a shit. This is what we're doing. We're going to do this and clip it like this and do it like that. We're sitting in the venue that night. And I lean over to Lorenzo because the fight's coming up. I go, wait till you see this fucking interview with Barone. They didn't fucking do it. They didn't do it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#421 โ€“ Dana White: UFC, Fighting, Khabib, Conor, Tyson, Ali, Rogan, Elon & Zuck

They're like, we can't leave this in. This is totally unprofessional. I said, I don't give a shit. This is what we're doing. We're going to do this and clip it like this and do it like that. We're sitting in the venue that night. And I lean over to Lorenzo because the fight's coming up. I go, wait till you see this fucking interview with Barone. They didn't fucking do it. They didn't do it.