How To Properly Say DeSantis. No One Knows

Apparently no one knows how to properly say "DeSantis." Not even Ron himself. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So on the disastrous but inconsequential Ron DeSantis Twitter thing
from the other night. At the end, he at one
point pronounces his name De Santis. And so I heard
a fair number of your pundits over the weekend saying, oh,
that that's the way to pronounce it now. And I
heard this morning. I was watching MSNBC and one of

(00:21):
the hosts said de Santis, and I thought, Okay, are
we all gonna are we all going to change the
way we say the name of the one of the
most famous politicians in America. He's been in the news
for years, and now all of a sudden, we're going
to change away. Just seems weird to me.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
But so the difference between the two pronunciations is practically none.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
But go on, well, anyway, we have five clips here.
We're gonna play back to back to back. Just run
them all back to back to back to back, Michael,
and I'll tell you what they are. You can keep
this straight in your head pretty easily. The first two
are Ron De Santis himself saying his own name. Okay,
generally people say their own name correctly. Yes, then you've
got his wife saying it her name. Two now, Okay.

(01:03):
Then you've got the voiceover for him from a commercial
that you assume he paid for. While at the end
he says, I approve of this message. So and at
the end, then another one from him himself, so at
the beginning, two in the beginning, and one at the
end of him saying his own name, and then in
between his wife and a commercial. So I've not heard this.
Let's let's heard him all in a row right now.

(01:24):
I'm Rond de Santis. I'm Rond de Santis. Everyone knows
my husband, Rond de Santis, Ron de Santis, I'm Rond
de Santis. So twice he says DeSantis. His wife says DeSantis.
His commercial that he paid for, says DeSantis. Then he
says DeSantis.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Did he like meet up with his great grandfather from
the Old Country or something? Who told him Ronnie Ronnie
pronounced d. You got to say the D that shows
what from the eastern southern northern part of the Old Country.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Now I could see if it had gone the other
direction that because Dick Cheney did that. Their name is Cheni.
But somehow it caught on nationally Cheney. So they just
went with it. They didn't argue with every person they
ran into on every cable news show saying, actually it's Genie.
They just went with the way because most people would
look at that and think Cheney and I and I
could see if DeSantis did that, if if if people

(02:20):
started saying DeSantis. He's been saying de Santa's whole life,
and he decided, you know what, we'll just go with it.
That's that's what people that's the way people pronounce it.
But he's going the other direction, it would seem although
he says it both ways himself, and as recently as
Thursday on that Twitter thing he said de Santis. But
the difference is so subtle. This is this is crazy.
Who cares? He's crazy? To correct people? It's just odd. Well,

(02:44):
isn't it weird that he says it's Santis de Santis?
Who cares? Can you run all five of them again?
It doesn't take long. I'm Ron de Santis. I'm Ron
de Santis. Everyone knows my husband, Ronda Santis, Ron de Santis,
I'm Rond de Santis. That last one is his idiot,
he says his name differently. You gotta choose one.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
You know what's funny is my daughter Delaney she pronounces
it Delaney, like the schwa, the upside down e and pronunciation,
and I want to I've said, you know, your name
is not Delaney. Duh, it's d Lamy d d.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
So who owns it?

Speaker 2 (03:23):
The guy who co chose it or the current owner.
I'm the author, co author, with my wife's approval.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
She don't think this is significant at all.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Never argue with a pregnant lady.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's good advice right there. No, this is idiotically insignificant.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Shut up Ron, talk about fiscal policy or woke something
or the border.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Talk about the border. No, So I'm strong. The emphasis
is on the second syllable, I'm strong, armstrong, I'm strong.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
No