Former White House communications director and host of "Pod Save America" Dan Pfeiffer and Hall of Fame cornerback and NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders.

The Peter King Podcast

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4.4 • 872 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Pfeiffer on his hot-off-the-presses book "Yes We (Still) Can," on the universal lessons he learned in six years in the grind of the Obama White House that can help people in any business, on the challenges of new journalism, on how conflicted Barack Obama is about being a football fan, and on how he thinks Obama would have handled the NFL's National Anthem conundrum. Sanders on the immense conflict he felt as the best two-sports athlete of the last quarter-century, on how hard he had to work to be a good baseball player when playing football came so easy to him, on his feeling about the term "cover corner," and on the state of the game today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, where I am joined by some of the biggest
0:07.2	influencers in pro football and a few people in other walks of life who I enjoy having conversations with.
0:16.2	This week, a new author, Dan Fyfer, the former White House Communications Director, he'll join me.
0:24.3	He's got a new book out.
0:25.6	It's called Yes, We Still Can.
0:28.0	Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump?
0:31.6	I read this book over the weekend, really enjoyed it a lot of lessons about
0:36.4	things other than just politics and we'll also be joined by Dion Sanders. Now this is going to be a little bit of a different Dion Sanders interview because I interviewed Dion at the Super Bowl and I've been saving this because the vast majority of this interview is about baseball.
0:55.8	And I want you to understand if you're young or if you forget a little bit that a quarter century ago,
1:03.5	Dion Sanders was LeBron James.
1:06.5	Dion Sanders was starting in the world series
1:11.2	and he was also the best cornerback in pro football.
1:15.0	So we'll get to Dion about a lot of things,
1:19.0	but mainly about baseball.
1:21.2	But first, just a couple of things in my last podcast until we get close to the start of NFL training camps.
1:30.0	You know, I am, I'm struck by a couple of things about pro football and one is that the National Anthem
1:39.0	controversy just simply won't die every time I turn on the radio, turn on Twitter, turn on whatever, I hear
1:47.0	something new about the National Anthem Controversy. And you know, it's odd when the NFL owners thought that they were basically being
1:57.1	done with this when they voted on it recently at the NFL meetings. They thought, okay, look, this might not be the most
2:05.4	popular thing to do, but this is what we're going to do. This thing is not going
2:09.7	away, it's not going to die, Donald Trump is going to keep bringing it up. This is going to be a
2:16.4	gigantic headache at the start of training camp when people come back and really start thinking and talking about football again.
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