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All right, this is 101 with the one and only Dana White at the White House at USA 250.
Join Dana White at the White House for UFC 250 preparations, workouts, and exclusive behind-the-scenes moments.
Key Takeaways
- Dana White offers an exclusive, personal look at UFC 250 preparations at the White House.
- The video blends casual lifestyle content with professional fight event buildup.
- Behind-the-scenes access includes training, event logistics, and unique White House locations.
- The UFC event is a large-scale production with significant planning and excitement.
- Viewer interaction is encouraged for future content ideas.
Summary
- Dana White hosts a vlog at the White House during UFC 250 event preparations.
- The video includes casual moments like getting Starbucks and shopping for snacks.
- Shows behind-the-scenes access to the White House lawn and UFC octagon setup.
- Features a workout session with Dana White discussing his training routine and wrist surgery.
- Highlights the excitement around the UFC 250 event and logistical challenges.
- Includes a preview of Travis Pastrana's planned backflip on the White House lawn.
- Discusses the involvement of the President’s Own Band and music’s role in UFC events.
- Captures interactions with UFC fighters, staff, and guests at the venue.
- Provides a glimpse into the ceremonial weigh-in and event atmosphere.
- Encourages viewer engagement for future 101 series guests.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Morning Routine
- 01:08Shopping and Snack Run
- 02:00Heading Back to the White House
- 03:37White House and Octagon Tour
- 04:51Workout Session with Dana White
- 06:14Discussion on UFC Event Logistics
- 08:09Music and Atmosphere for UFC 250
- 09:20Training Details and Personal Insights
- 09:58Closing and Event Preview
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There you go. Thank you, guys. All right, guys. Good morning. It's the Dana White vlog. It's the morning right now and we're going to go get Starbucks. We got to go to Sephora. We got to go grab some snacks and yeah,
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that's the plan. The cost of yeah. Hey, how are you? Good morning. Can I get the refresher? Which one is like the pink one with the lemonade?
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All right. Thank you. Yeah. Nice to meet you guys, too. Yeah. Yeah. Say travel's back. Yeah. Nice to meet you. I'm drinking a strawberry refresher because I don't know. I just felt like getting a strawberry refresher today. We got to go to Sephora now.
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Yeah. Like my makeup's been like blotchy when I put it on. Like it's like not blending with my skin. I don't know why.
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Is that weird? Guys, we're getting one of these. Get one. I literally have one in my bag 'cause you asked about it.
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Yeah. We need one of these. I can't want people touching my hands right now. I'm like a germ freak if you guys don't know. I'm big time germ.
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No, I'm very big germ freak. Like I'm the type of person where it's like you can't wear shoes in my house. Like I will not have anyone wear shoes in my apartment.
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Oh, I need salt spray. Okay, I forgot my salt spray. Yeah, we're going to need to get it curled up for today.
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Absolutely. This stuff is really good. Hold on. Yeah. Boom. Time. This is like will keep your, you will be on all day. I bet.
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We're going, we're going to Walmart right now to grab a protein bar. So, I used to do the barbells a lot, but I'm low key, I'm low key feeling with the GoMacro right now because I don't know.
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I actually might grab two 'cause I know if I don't eat I get like angry but get hangry. They have chomps. Oh, perfect. Right here.
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Protein and all. I mean stuff you Oh my god. Have you seen these Bill Bars?
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No. These, these are like the candy ones. I love Bill Bars. Okay, we'll grab one of those. Try that out. All right, guys.
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So, now we're heading back to the White House. It's been kind of crazy today.
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Well, it's going to be more crazier throughout the day, but we're going to go back to the White House and just chill, get ready, do stuff. I don't know. It's really hot, too. But all right, guys. So, this is the
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octagon over here. All the presidents here. We're looking at the octagon and the rose garden. That's George Washington.
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The rose garden. That's actually not George Washington. That's Benjamin Franklin though over there. And then that's Alexander Hamilton. And you know why? And you know why I know that? From Hamilton.
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Right over there's the Oval Office where many important decisions are made right in the West Wing. Right now, I think they redid the stone.
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Look how nice the stone is. Wow. Wow. This is where the fighters are going to walk out. Imagine like here.
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Why don't you show us? Go over there. Imagine you're a fighter. We're pulling up right now to see Dana.
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So, let's go. No, this is not Oh, wait. There's a code. Come on in.
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Thank you. What's up? How are you? I'm good. Nice to see you. Crazy morning.
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No, you're good. All right, guys. I'm here with Dana White right now. We are at Thesis Gym in Washington DC. And this is the start of my 101 series. I'd love to have you on the channel. So, thanks so much for
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coming. And we're going to just follow him along the day. Tomorrow's the big fight that you see 250 Freedom. And yeah, it's been great.
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We're going to, we're going to work out and then we're going to head over to the White House. Travis Pastrana is going to do a backflip on the White House lawn.
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So, we're going to be, we're going to be there for that. And then yeah, just follow you along.
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We got the wings. And we got a full day. We have a full day. It's going to be a very long day.
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Exactly. But we're going to work out right now. You ready? Yeah. Let's do this.
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There you go. My Saturday workout is we do all upper body on Saturday. So, I actually, I don't mind that there. I have to go a little easy 'cause I just got wrist surgery a while ago.
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Yeah. But when I get, we already got excuses coming in. Excuses are already being mailed in right now.
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That's true. How do you normally work out? Do you do weight training?
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I do a lot of weight training. Yeah. Okay. And past two days I've done legs. So, I'm happy to do upper body. I have no more legs. See, this is, this is a great day to film. Honestly, this is like
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perfect. Thank you for doing, there's so much stuff going on today. Yeah. And I know it's been a busy day. Very busy day for you today. So, thank you for letting us film and follow you along. Appreciate it.
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Pleasure. He's got me. Always. Always got me. Always. Always. Well, the great thing about having a trainer is you, I come in, all I have to do is what he tells me. He sets everything up.
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Come over here, do this, do this, do this, and next thing you know, you're out of here.
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But I've been slacking. I've been bad. We're just getting, we're getting back on it.
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We ready? Ready. All right. I'll go after him. Yeah. I'll adjust all the weights and all that.
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Perfect. There's, there's. All right. Why are you laughing at me? I know. I know. There's nothing there.
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You got to adjust the weight for her. I got that. What is that? 80, 100 lbs?
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But like just like that. Oh my pecs. High reps like 15, 20 reps. Oh, really? I'm actually the same way. I always do like 12.
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Ah, I love these. Yeah. His schedule's usually so insane where he's got to get in and out.
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Yeah. This is like how you move in the gym. This, this is how I now what I'm doing.
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Now we're going to go flat. You can go chest press. You press a bar.
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Oh, easy. If you want heavier, let me know. I know you're strong. All right.
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Go. Go. Go. Go. How's your wrist feel? Good. Okay. Yeah. Logistically, how has it been planning this versus all the others?
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Yeah, this one's like any event we've ever done, you know, times a thousand. So, but yeah, this is a, this is a beast.
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This is bigger than I expected. Yeah. Well, the good part is that her grandfather's an animal, so you know, he doesn't back down to anything. So, we're not worried about the weather or see the press conference
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yesterday and just how it looked on TV being there, the people. Tomorrow night's going to be incredible.
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It's going to be sick. If it snows, it's going to be good. You have the, is the Army Navy band?
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Yeah. Yeah. So, we started thinking about 'cause obviously music's a big part of fighting.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But as we started to try to play some of the other music and then you hear their band, they're so good. It's called the President's Own Band is the name of the band.
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Okay. Wow. And yeah, it's his band. So I didn't even know that. Yeah, that's really cool.
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It's incredible. How you feeling? Good. I mean, I work out every day, so I mean I should like not be out of shape, but I feel pretty good. So we do, we cycle through all these things without resting and then you get a rest and then
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we do three sets of this. So I normally whenever I work out I never rest. I just go from like one thing to the next thing to the next thing. I like just getting out of the gym. I like just like getting it over
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with and then going. So I'm used to this. It's good. Do you ever do cardio or no?
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Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We do our cardio at night. Okay. So over at our hotel we got treadmills.
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You know it's like a tiny little gym. So we go in there and do cardio at night.
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Oh nice. Sweet. I normally do like 20 minutes of sir master every day and I always do right before I work out so I'm like nice and warm and then I go through my workout. I just leave afterwards. So
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I'm out. You excited about the U? I am. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
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What's your, what's your major going to be? I'm going to do marketing and management. Do both of them. See what happens. But yeah, your grandfather's like the biggest marketing genius of all time.
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I know, right? Seriously.
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I'm never nervous. I'm never nervous, too. You see, that's a whole big day. It's going to be a long day tomorrow.
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Yes, it is. Yes. And today, we went to bed at 4:15 last night. What time did you wake up at?
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I was up h 10:00. I was up doing tickets all night. Tickets is the worst part of this business.
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Every Saturday. It's like seating people for a wedding. Yeah, it's terrible. And then you know wherever I I I see people.
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Yeah. Now your grandfather has to look at it and he has to decide what he wants and so this is uh difficult times too for this one.
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Okay. How many seats are there? Uh 4,000. Okay. And then there'll be 85,000 people over at the Ellipse. The Zack Brown concert is tonight.
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Okay. He's performing over there. Oh, nice. Yeah. Do I like buff to the camera?
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This lighting is also the shadow. The lighting in here is good. Last thing I need to do is start another business. Believe me when I tell you.
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All right, so we just finished the workout. That was killer. You kicked my butt. But now we're going to head to the White House. We're going to see someone jump in the lawn on a motorcycle, right?
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Yes. So, we're going to go back flip. Oh, wow. Okay. So, we're going to see someone backflip on the lawn in front of the White House and Yeah. We'll see you there.
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All right. There you go. Well, guys, we're going to we're going to walk to the front. We're going to film some Tik Toks here. This is the entrance of the White House. when you normally come through in you normally
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drive to there's now there's a whole stadium in front of the white house so you cannot drive there anymore you norally drive through you come in through those doors and then you walk through that door um and yeah so
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come along sorry it's heavy door top of the white house right now looking out at the freedom 250 what's up how are you.
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Hi, sweetheart. Good to see you. How are you? I'm doing good. Have fun. Yeah.
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You look very patriotic. I love it. I We're filming with Dana, so we're like going to go over there and see him.
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Amazing. Yeah. Amazing. Have fun. Oh, yeah. Can we? This is This is really cool.
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Are you so excited? Yeah. Wait. It's like a It's like It's a lot softer. No. No. It's like a lot softer.
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like one of the coolest things I think I've ever witnessed. This is literally history ever. I don't know if this will ever happen again, but it's so cool to be here, see it live in action. I've seen photos of it, and now like being
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inside the octagon and seeing everything is really, really nice. Cool. And it's great now like the White House is literally right there. like it's literally right there. So, it's it's just insane how this is literally on the White House lawn and I cannot wait for
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tomorrow. And I think tomorrow's just going to be so cool and so fun and everything like that. So, I'm really looking forward to it. We're waiting on Dana White to pull up so he should better be here soon. I don't know. That
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might be No, I think there's fireworks right there. What? What up? How are you?
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You s there. I say what's up? How are you? Where Where do you want me to go?
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This is good. Well, you do whatever you want to do. You film your thing. You do your thing. Travis, you know Travis, he's going to Travis came to me and wanted this so bad. He's like, I want to do a flip on
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the White House lawn. How are you? That's sick. This is exciting. Isn't he Isn't he the one who jumped out of a plane without a parachute?
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Coolest thing that I saw that video on YouTube. It's insane. Yeah. And it's the coolest thing still to this day that I've ever seen.
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This guy's got more metal in his body than these two Hummers. That's awesome. He's broken like what?
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Every bone. Yeah. Yeah. Do you ride motorcycles? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love motorcycles. Beautiful.
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That's insane. Oh my god, that's crazy. This is insane. I'm I'm like shocked right now that it happened on the White House lawn. But yeah, crazy good view.
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How are you? Not yet. Nice to meet you. Thank you so much. Hi. How are you?
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Had a legend, dude. That's right. Nice to meet you. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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How are you? Nice to meet you. Thanks for taking the time to come out.
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No, it's awesome. Yeah. Thank you guys for coming out and doing this. Great. Nice to meet you. Yeah, Jeremy.
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Nice to meet you. Good to meet you. Good to meet you. Thank you. All right.
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Thanks, boys. You're nice. Yeah. They'll fit you. Um, thanks for being a part of this place.
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Thanks. We wouldn't miss something like it's all because of him. Thanks for the opportunity.
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No, I love it. Thank you so much. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Really nice.
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You mind if we get a photo, too? Yeah, of course. My wife. Awesome. Hi. How are you? Hi. Nice to meet you.
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Nice meeting you. Hey, nice to see you again. Yeah. Good to see you. Good to see you, too.
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Oh, awesome. Hey, nice to see you. Yeah. Oh awesome. That's the whole team. Sweet.
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So, when do you eat then? Do you like not eat like do you not eat breakfast or something or do you kind of just Yeah, I I try to to fast and eat once a day.
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Okay. I normally eat at like 12:00 as my first meal. I always skip breakfast. I don't like breakfast. I don't know why.
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Just never been my thing. I've been out of control. So, uh I'll show you where you guys sit.
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So, this is holding 4,000. Yeah. 4 4300. Okay. This is my table where I'll be sitting with your grandfather.
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Yeah. There it is. There's me. right here. And then this is all your family right here.
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Oh [ __ ] That's awesome. That's sick. And I don't know if you know this or not, but this is your grandfather's band.
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That's sick. This is This is called the President's Own Band right here. They're incredible.
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Really? What's up, man? Good to see you guys. What's up, my man? Good to see you.
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The British ARE COMING. THE BRITISH ARE COMING. All right, guys. You made it. How are you? Thank you.
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Good to see you. Hi. Hi. How are you? This is Kai Trump. Hi. How are you? Nice to meet you. Thank you.
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Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Have a good night. Thank you. Sweet. Thanks for the support, man. Appreciate you.
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Thank you. What's up, boys? That's awesome. Great. You love to see it. Do you know uh Nina Drama?
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No, I don't. Nina Drama, get over here. Hi. This is Kai Trump. Drama. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
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Oh, just following all you around. Yeah. This guy. This is my buddy. This is my little Did you go cold plunge?
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No, we did not go cold plunge. We worked out though. Oh, you worked out? Did you do death row? That was cool.
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No, we she said she did legs twice this week. So, and today's like my whole upper body day.
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Oh, your upper body day. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool. It was a pleasure meeting.
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Yeah, nice to meet you as well. Two rock stars meeting each other for the first time.
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There's so many people. So pumped. They're so excited. Yeah. All right. Love you. See you. See you.
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Yeah, there's a lot. What's up, GUYS? How are you? Yeah. Woo! My goosebumps got goosebumps. All right, guys. So, we're upstairs right now in Stan White. We're overlooking everything. I mean, like, it's insane, but we're all trying to squeeze in nice
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and tight, but yeah. CRAZY. I love it. What is this? That was like evolution or something.
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Roosevelt. Thank you, Dad. Thank you. Thank you, brother. Thanks for coming you guys. Thank you.
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Thank you guys. Thank you. How are YOU GUYS? OH MY GOD. I LOVE IT. WHAT'S UP?
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What's up? Thank you so much. Oh, WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT was that? What was it?
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I'M BUYING YOU ANOTHER ONE. I just ran through the crowd out there. I'm winded.
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What's up, gang? How are you, everybody? Nice to meet you, Dannon. Nice to meet you.
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It's a pleasure. What's up, guys? How are you? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, sir.
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Nice to meet you. Pleasure. Thanks for coming out. Pleasure to meet you. You, too, sir. Thank you.
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Thanks for coming. Pleasure. Thank you, sir. Pleasure. Thank you, sir. Thanks for having us.
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Yeah. Thank you. How are you? Hi. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming, you guys.
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Right here because this is THE BACKDROP. COME ON, BOYS. GET IN THERE. One small step to the right.
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Beautiful. All right, boys. Crazy. I agree. The walk out is insane. That's really nice. There's a lot of people here. It's insane.
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All right. Now we're next. All right. Now we got to do some voice over. Where we at? Here.
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Thank you. Yeah. It's nice. Even bigger than I imagined. Mic check. 1 2 3 4. Mic check for Dana.
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Are we good? Let me know. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you to the UFC Freedom 250 CEREMONIAL WEIGHIN.
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Please welcome your master of ceremonies, Joe Rogan. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, DICK CLARK HIM POSSIBLE. How about Red and Chrissy Campbell, Nick Later, and Sean Shelby Maxire.
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We got a banging card for you, ladies and gentlemen, at the White House. Now, LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE TWO MEN INVOLVED IN the first fight of the night.
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Heat. Heat. Are you fighter? What's up, chat? We're on stage right now. Steph is laughing right now. I can hear her laughing from here.
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Later guys. three different. All right, guys. That's great. Now, I don't know where we're going, but That was the end of the 101 with Dana White. I hope you guys enjoyed. It was a crazy vlog and we'll see you guys on the
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next one. One. And if you want anyone to join the oneonone series or whoever you think is best, just comment down below.
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And uh see you guys in the next one. Don't forget to like and subscribe and hit that notification button. See you guys in the next one.
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Everything is going to be all right. You just relax standing.
Topics:Dana WhiteUFC 250White HouseUFC FightBehind the ScenesWorkoutTravis PastranaPresident's Own BandCeremonial Weigh-inKai Trump
