Hour 1: I Admire Your Violence (feat. Jiří Procházka)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, Hour 1: "I Admire Your Violence"

Date: April 2, 2026
Featured Guest: Jiří Procházka (UFC Fighter)
Theme: Exploring the intensity, psychology, and philosophy behind MMA challenger Jiří Procházka, with Le Batard and crew delving into his mindset, unique approach to training, and the primal essence of fighting.

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Episode Overview

This hour centers on MMA fighter Jiří Procházka, who is in Miami preparing for a light heavyweight title fight. The segment offers an engaging discussion about his reputation as a “violent finisher,” his unorthodox and mentally rigorous training methods, and the deeper philosophical motivations behind his journey. The hosts bring their signature humor and irreverence, balancing awe, curiosity, and comedic relief as they probe both Procházka’s physical prowess and philosophical outlook.

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Key Topics & Insights

1. First Impressions: “The Assassin Enters”

• [00:15] Dan describes Jiří as a “violent finisher” built out of rocks, noting how the office cleared a path as he entered:
  Dan Le Batard: “He is a strike first guy, and he's built out of rocks. ... A fighting machine has walked in here.”
• The crew jokes nervously about his imposing presence, shaking hands “made out of rocks.”
  Tony: “Dan, he's got some mitts on him. Went to shake his hand.”
  Bomani Jones: “Damn, big hands.”
• Comedic riff on whether Procházka should drink Cuban coffee before a fight: Dan: “He better not have any Cuban coffee. He won’t be allowed to fight.” (01:33)

2. Training Extremes & Samurai Mentality

• Dan attempts to understand Jiří’s unconventional mental and physical discipline, asking about his extreme regimens (02:30):
  Dan Le Batard: “To be great at what you're great at, the way you punish yourself in training seems to take a mental strength that is really unusual.”
• Procházka explains that elite athletes must go “above the normal line”:
  Jiří Procházka: “Every high level athlete ... the sport on the top level is not so healthy, not so usual, not so normal. That's why we have to be a little bit above the normal line.” (03:05)
• On punching trees and the tradition of hardening his fists:
  Jiří: “I changed a lot of things. ... It came from the Japanese style ... to punching the makiwara, like wood stick.” (04:00) Dan: “But also hardens your fists so much that they are rocks and you cannot hurt your hands almost by striking anything.”
  Jiří: “Correct. That's right. ... But it's not so smart to punch like the big big tree.” (04:44)

3. Extreme Challenges & Mental Mastery

• Dan probes a viral video of Jiří swimming under ice:
  Dan: “You went under ice water here ... you can drown at any point. ... How long are you underwater?”
  Jiří: “There was like 35 seconds. ... It's about to calm the mind in every aspect of your life. ... Swimming under the ice was like, when you're trying something first time in your life, like, like sex, you know.” (05:33)
• The hosts riff about “sex memes,” keeping the tone playful.
• Most dangerous training? Jiří describes getting lost in the mountains, trying to survive without a map: Jiří: “It was not funny then. It was just not funny. It was just survive.” (07:15)
• Why push himself to such extremes?
  Jiří: “I'm trying to challenge my mind to stay calm in every aspect, in every situation, to be calm, to be ready for whatever will come.” (07:41)

4. Calm Amid Danger & Facing Fear

• Jiří details adventures in snow mountains—including a reckless ascent to the top of a volcano in Iceland during a blizzard.
• The crew jokes about scary noises, imagined wildlife, and the real dangers he faced alone:
  Jiří: “But you have to stay calm. ... Because in another case, you will just freeze yourself.” (08:34)
• Primal Competition Philosophy: Dan: “You have something about you that ... wants to challenge yourself to the biggest possible, you know, embarrassment, consequences. ... To fight other men for money.” Jiří: “We are warriors. ... In all cultures in all human history ... that's the original sport. ... Who’s better, me or you? We fight.” (14:35 – 15:18)
• On the essence of MMA:
  Jiří: "We gave some ethic and some rules ... so we have MMA here, UFC, and here we are." (15:20)

5. Relationship to Fear

• What drove Jiří to such extremes?
  Jiří: “Fear. ... I wanna be so in, so deep contact with the fear, to see through him, because he's just shaking the mind.”
  Jiří: “Once you say, I'm a master of that, then you lost that ... you have to every day ... there is a new challenge.” (15:51 –16:42)
• The crew jokes about fearfulness and who among them would fare best in a cage fight.
• When goaded to hypothetically “kill Jeremy,” Jiří laughs, refuses to give a time, and points out it’s not about the time, but overcoming circumstances:
  Jiří: “It's not about the time, but I need to overcome these, whatever it is.” (18:54)

6. On Fatherhood & Perspective

• Tony congratulates Jiří on becoming a father soon, joking, “Congrats on all the fear training. Nothing will prepare you for this.”
• Jiří, laser-focused on his upcoming fight, says:
  Jiří: “Right now, there is no other ... things than Carlos. Than the mission next week. ... I just believe that I can ... be successful in my mission. ... My girlfriend, I believe in her.” (21:27)
  The show jokes about the “real fight” being with a newborn.

7. Reflecting on Jiří’s Presence

• After the interview, the crew jokes about being intimidated by Jiří’s physicality:
  Dan: “Look, the size of his hands, their pallets.” (28:21)
  Mike Ryan: “At every moment, I was worried Dan was gonna say the wrong thing and then he would start pummeling. ... If he started pummeling you, I would have joined in. Out of fear.” (28:07–28:17)
• The guys marvel at the fact that someone knocked out Jiří twice—and that the only reason he’s fighting for a title now is because the man who beat him vacated:
  Tony: “Somebody who is scarier than that guy.” (29:26)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dan Le Batard ([01:02]): “This is a proud samurai who honors the mixed martial arts by being an assassin striker in the fighting game.”
• Jiří Procházka ([03:05]): “Every high level athlete, the sport on the top level is not so healthy, not so usual, not so normal. That's why we have to be like a little bit above the normal line.”
• Jiří Procházka, on conquering fear ([15:51]): “I want to be so in, so deep contact with the fear, to see through him, because he's just shaking the mind.”
• Dan Le Batard ([18:31]): “If the assignment was to kill him—to kill Jeremy ... How fast? ... What’s the fastest?”
  Jiří Procházka ([18:54]): “Why this question? ... It’s not about the time. ... I need to overcome whatever it is.”
• Tony, congratulating on fatherhood ([19:47]): “Congrats on all the fear training. Nothing will prepare you for this.”
• Jiří Procházka ([21:27]): “Right now ... there is nothing more important than this week in your professional life. ... I just believe that I can do my mission.”

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Important Segments and Timestamps

• [00:15–01:02] — Jiří enters; crew reacts to his physical intimidation and “hands built from rocks.”
• [02:30–05:00] — Discussion of extreme training, punching trees, Japanese traditions.
• [05:08–06:39] — Under-ice swimming video; mental discipline compared to “first time sex.”
• [06:47–08:13] — Training gone wrong: lost in the mountains, survival stories.
• [08:22–10:43] — Climbing a mountain alone in Iceland during a snowstorm.
• [14:07–15:35] — Philosophy: fighting as the primal, original sport.
• [15:47–17:10] — Fear as motivation; ongoing journey towards comfort with fear.
• [17:46–18:59] — Who among the crew would win a fight? Jiří on skill vs. appearance.
• [19:41–21:49] — Fatherhood talk; balancing personal and professional “missions.”
• [28:01–29:44] — Crew’s admiration and fear of Jiří; context for his title fight.
• [30:21+] — Transition to basketball and other sports (WNBA, Hall of Fame etc.)

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Tone and Language

The show maintained a humorous, slightly self-deprecating and awestruck tone. The hosts vacillated between genuine admiration and comic anxiety about Jiří’s presence. Jiří himself spoke with calm seriousness, humility, and conviction—a disciplined, philosophical samurai among wisecracking sports guys.

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Conclusion

This episode shines as a fascinating, sometimes hilarious exploration of what creates an elite MMA fighter—from iron-hard knuckles to a mind conditioned to confront and absorb fear. The conversation with Jiří Procházka is both illuminating and entertaining, revealing not just the brutality but the philosophy and spirit beneath the violence. The hosts keep things lively, never missing a chance for a joke—even while (barely) containing their awe.

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Recommended Segment:

• [15:47–17:10] — Jiří’s explanation of his relationship to fear is a standout, both profound and accessible.
• Best Quote:
  Jiří Procházka: “I want to be so in, so deep contact with the fear, to see through him ... Once you say, I'm a master of that, then you lost that ... Every day, there is a new challenge.”

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan lebatar Show with the Stugats podcast.

[Stugotz]

This episode of the Dan Lebatart show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Mike Ryan]

No pause.

[Dan Le Batard]

I just saw an assassin walk into the other room. I saw all of you get out of the way a little bit. We have a guy who is a violent finisher of combat sports. He is a strike first guy, and he's built out of rocks. I saw what just happened out there where a sea opened up to him as he walked in, because it is a fighting machine that has walked in here.

[Mike Ryan]

Ethan.

[Stugotz]

Oh, there he is.

[Bomani Jones]

Oh, boy.

[Tony]

Dan, he's got some mitts on him. Went to shake his hand.

[Bomani Jones]

I was like, damn, big hands.

[Tony]

Cheeto walking away.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, the side. Well, it's not just that they're big hands. It's that they're hands made out of rocks. Those are blunt instruments. He finishes fights with them. He's a violent finisher.

[Tony]

Yuri Prohaska is the guy we're talking about who's fighting across the street at the Kaseya center on Saturday, April 11, against Carlos Ulberg for the light heavyweight title in the ufc. And he is a scary dude.

[Stugotz]

He's taking our. He's taking our water machine for.

[DraftKings Announcer]

He's trying.

[Tony]

Trying to figure out how to use it.

[Bomani Jones]

It is tough.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm just glad he wasn't here yesterday when that stupid ass water machine was doing April Fool's Day.

[Tony]

I know.

[Bomani Jones]

I hated that.

[Tony]

So dumb.

[Mike Ryan]

Just, hey, just pour my water.

[Stugotz]

He pushed the water button and it would just flavor.

[Bomani Jones]

Just stupid.

[Mike Ryan]

We got the vitamin boost. That's what you do. That's the move, right?

[Stugotz]

He's going cold. I can tell he's going cold.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's got to be careful what he puts in his system before a fight. We don't if. He better not have any Cuban coffee. He won't be allowed to fight.

[Tony]

Should we have Fuentes make some Cuban coffee for him?

[Dan Le Batard]

He'll get banned. He will succumb in the face of. Yes, this person. Bring him in here, please, at his leisure. Don't.

[Tony]

Don't hurry him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please do not hurry. Don't hurry him. Request his presence in here.

[Tony]

If he's gonna open the door, Amin, don't look down.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, but just so Amin knows this is a proud samurai who honors the mixed martial arts by being an assassin striker in the fighting game. And those guys are always unusual champions and creatures.

[Bomani Jones]

And Amin, he agrees with me on all my he takes and mine on Marlon's attendance.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yuri, welcome thank you for being with us. I admire your violence. I admire your training. I admire your discipline.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Thank you. Hello guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. So you're, you're fighting here across the street from us. And what I've read about you, your training regimen is. It seems crazy.

[Will Hardy]

Crazy for who Ah, got you there, Dan.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah, maybe, maybe crazy for somebody who don't know that. But what you mean, especially

[Bomani Jones]

Jesus Christ.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes. I'm not, rest assured I am not questioning your training measures. I'm saying that to be great at what you're great at, the way that you punish yourself in training seems to take a mental strength that is really unusual.

[Yuri Prohaska]

You know, every high level athlete, the sport on the top level is not so healthy, not so usual, not so normal. That's why we have to be like little bit above the like the normal line. So. And I like to go through the, through these levels which is like behind the normal.

[Dan Le Batard]

So why, why are they laughing? Why are you guys that.

[Stugotz]

I admire your violence.

[Bomani Jones]

I admire your violence is, do you get that compliment all the time?

[Dan Le Batard]

T shirt.

[Yuri Prohaska]

I, I, I just, I just see the video. Yeah, the punching to the tree. Yeah. But this is like, you know, this is old me. This is old me who did all these stuff. And this is not old me to punch and work on my garden, but to do like sometimes I'm trying to do like really crazy stuff like to punching tree. This is not good idea, you know. Like it came from, from the Japanese style to punching the makiwara. Makiwara is the like wood stick, you know. And they use that in karate to punch that and response from that stick. Is that give you energy back to the body so you can know where is the space. How to tense the body in the right places to be stable, to have a right technique, you know.

[Dan Le Batard]

But also hardens your fists so much that they are rocks and you cannot hurt your hands almost by striking anything.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Correct. That's right. That's right. But it's not so smart to punch like the big big tree. So like I like I did on video. So, so I changed a lot of things. But I like to do these videos and, and be, be a little.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well what is this video here? What is this? This is dramatic breathing and ice work. What are you doing here, man?

[Yuri Prohaska]

I like the challenges, you know. I like the challenges. And this challenge was especially one year back. It was the 6th of April, 2025.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, this is terrifying. You, you went under ice water here and you can drown at any point if you get lost here. And how Long are you underwater?

[Yuri Prohaska]

There was like 35. 35 seconds. 35 second use, man. Like.

[Dan Le Batard]

But you can die.

[Bomani Jones]

It's incredibly dangerous. It's terrifying.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yes, it's terrifying. But it's about to calm the mind in every aspect of your life. And these challenges gave me the opportunity to control myself as much as I can. So that's why I do these things. And this challenge last year, the swimming under the ice was like, you know, like when you're trying something first, first time in your life, like, like sex, you know, I'm listening. You do that and then, you know, then, you know, till that moment, you. You don't know. You don't have.

[Tony]

He's right about that.

[Yuri Prohaska]

You have just. You have just imagination. Yeah, about that. But after that, you really know what is about that once you do it,

[Bomani Jones]

you know, you know about that sex meme.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, I know all about that. I know all about that.

[Dan Le Batard]

So.

[Yuri Prohaska]

So that was the. Especially these. This thing, because it was really totally another world.

[Mike Ryan]

So you experiment, you search for these extreme training methods. What's one that you did? And after you said, I'm not doing that again.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Which one of these.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, one that you did and you said, after that was a bad idea. I'm never doing that again, man.

[Yuri Prohaska]

I will do all of these things. But what I learned, do it more professionally, you know, I did many times. Like, I just took the bag and all this equipment and. And I just went to the mountains somewhere. Somewhere. I didn't take a map and I just went to the mountains and I lost myself. And I just tried to survive there for a few days. And it was not funny then. It was just not funny. And it was like, just survive.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is careless, though. You went into the jungle to live for two days and you had to kill your own food and you had to find drinking water. And this is not smart.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah, this is not smart. This is really not smart. Because you have to know the rules.

[Dan Le Batard]

But why are you doing that? You don't have a death wish. You're trying to challenge yourself.

[Yuri Prohaska]

That's it. That's it. Maybe that's it. That's why. Because I'm trying to challenge my mind to stay calm in every aspect, in every situation, to be calm, to be ready for whatever will come. Yeah. You know, how dangerous was this jungle?

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, what are the things that happened that you weren't expecting as you're trying to be calm in all circumstances?

[Yuri Prohaska]

Which, which one you mean when you're

[Dan Le Batard]

saying that you're spending two days in the in the jungle or in the forest for two days, trying to survive

[Yuri Prohaska]

that you in mountain. In mountain.

[Dan Le Batard]

In mountain. Mountain.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Snow Mountain. No. No food, nothing Rocky. Yeah, yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

Any wildlife?

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

Like bears and wolves?

[Yuri Prohaska]

No, no, no, just some. I didn't saw anything, but just. Just hear it. You hear it in something. Something around your. Your. Your town.

[Stugotz]

What noise did you hear?

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah, some. Some noise. Some was like. Yeah, something. Something like that. Yeah, yeah, but you have to stay. That's like. Like I said, you have to stay calm. You have to stay. You have to know what to do. Because in another. Another case, you will. You will just. You'll just freeze yourself, you know, you have to know what to do.

[Tony]

Yuri, when you were climbing that mountain and the things were happening in Mexico back in the day, how was that for you? When everybody started telling you, like, hey, there's like explosions and fires happening and like you were on the top of a mountain. How did that feel?

[Yuri Prohaska]

You know which mountain it was? It was.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a great sentence. Which. Which mountain it was as the rugged warrior that samurai says, I've climbed so many mountains.

[Jeremy]

Which mountain was this?

[Yuri Prohaska]

No, because there was a many mountain, I think, and one of that was. It was not in Mexico. There was one too, also, but there was one in Iceland. And one guy took me by Uber there to the mountain and he stopped. And I can't go more. You know, there is a snow. There is a bad, really bad snowfall. I can't see anything. And the bad way. And the mountain is not good today because they, they just. They just know how to read.

[Dan Le Batard]

You hate to hear the mountain's not good today.

[Bomani Jones]

So this is how every Dracula movie starts.

[Yuri Prohaska]

So, so I, I went from the car and I said him, wait here for me two hours. I will go there and back and I'll be. I'll be there. Yeah. And so I, I just ran to the to. And I wanted to see the, the. The top of the volcano. You know, the volcano, but not far. So I ran, ran, ran a place

[Dan Le Batard]

a human being shouldn't be.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah, I don't think so. I think there was some like. But not usually. So it was successful.

[Mike Ryan]

There's a path on the road or you just.

[Yuri Prohaska]

No, you just see the top. You just see the top and you just go.

[Bomani Jones]

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[Mike Chedda]

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[Bomani Jones]

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[Mike Chedda]

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[Yuri Prohaska]

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[Bomani Jones]

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[Mike Chedda]

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[Bomani Jones]

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[Jeremy]

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[Tony]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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You insist on living big because what you're doing in UFC327, when you pour everything you care about into a single night because you want to be a champion. You've been working for this knight all of your entire life. You have something about you that, if not a death wish, wants to challenge yourself to the biggest possible, you know, embarrassment, consequences. Because what you guys do for a living is an unusual kind of courageous. To fight other men for money.

[Yuri Prohaska]

We are warriors. You know, in all the cultures in all human history, that was the. This is the first. The sport. This is the first competition of the men's. You know, that was the first competition. There was no football or hockey or, or tennis or whatever, playing with the balls or whatever. No, there was a. Who better? Who's better, me or you? We fight and we fight, and that's. That's the original.

[Tony]

There you go, Dan.

[Jeremy]

He's nobody.

[Tony]

We fight.

[Jeremy]

No, but he's at. That's the original sport.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's the first one.

[Yuri Prohaska]

That's the essence. That's the principle of the fighting, of the. Of the competition. Yeah. Then it changed. For balls, for. For soccer, for. For whatever.

[Dan Le Batard]

But the most primal of them is the fight.

[Yuri Prohaska]

The most primal is the fight. Yes. And we gave the. Some ethic. Ethic and some rules into this age to these fights. So we have MMA here, ufc, and here we are.

[Dan Le Batard]

What.

[Mike Ryan]

What introduced you into training this way? I'm assuming when you started, you were training traditional, and then something told you, I need more. I need to go to the mountain. I need to swim under frozen water.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have to do more to be a champion.

[Will Hardy]

What.

[Mike Ryan]

What started that for you?

[Yuri Prohaska]

Fear. Fear. I. I hate fear. No, no, I. No, I don't hate fear. I want to be. I wanna be so in. So deep contact with the fear, to see through him, because he's just shaking the mind. He is just shaking Your emotion and asking you, is this, are you sure in this? Are you sure in this? Are you stable? Here, here, here, here. And I don't hate. I hate these type of questions inside myself, to myself. So that's why I'm doing all these things and trying to be a little bit closer, a little bit closer, A little bit closer day by day to the calm mind to see totally through.

[Dan Le Batard]

There's no such thing as fearless, correct?

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah, that's it.

[Dan Le Batard]

But you want to be so comfortable with fear that you do not fear it.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Man. I would like to say yes, but it's daily work. Every day. Every day. Once you say, I'm a master of that, then you lost that because then you started to be. Then you started to be. Oh, man, I don't need to do anything more. No, you have to every day. Because every day there is a new challenge.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why are they laughing back there?

[Stugotz]

Because they cut to Jeremy.

[Bomani Jones]

Because I'm just nodding along, listening.

[Tony]

Incredible answer about fearlessness and being comfortable with fear. And they showed Jeremy for some reason

[Stugotz]

he's afraid of everything.

[Bomani Jones]

I'm constantly fearful.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

You can tell by looking at him.

[Yuri Prohaska]

That's good, that's great. But you can, but I appreciate you can say and be honest. I feel gotta stare through the fear.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Yuri Prohaska]

But you have to stay. Don't just.

[Tony]

I fight through it every day.

[Yuri Prohaska]

You have to. Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

Showing up to this workplace where they're

[Tony]

gonna call out how fearful I am.

[Stugotz]

That's one of my fears. When you look around the room here like, you know, as fighters, who do you think here of us would do the best in the cage?

[Yuri Prohaska]

One more time.

[Stugotz]

Sorry, like who would fight the best? Look around the room here.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Who's fighting the best?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, who do you think?

[Yuri Prohaska]

Man, sometimes it's sometimes the, the, the, the, the, the guy who, who think. Who, who looks like, like Jeremy, the. The most non. No fighter. He sometimes is. He's this. He's the best. You know, it's not about the look. It's not about the look. It's about the skill. It's about the skill. Self confident and being ready to do whatever is necessary.

[Dan Le Batard]

If I tell you right now, how long would it take you if the assignment was to kill him? To kill Jeremy?

[Bomani Jones]

How, how long?

[Dan Le Batard]

And you have to do it as fast. It has to be fast. What's the fastest? Yes. What's the fastest?

[Stugotz]

You're allowed to.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's okay from right now. If I gave you permission and. No, sorry, yeah. If I gave you permission, I give you the championship. I give you the championship next week. All you have to do is go there, kill him as fast as you can. How fast? How long does that take you? Yeah.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Why this question?

[Mike Ryan]

Why this question?

[Yuri Prohaska]

I know you, you like all these types of question, but it's okay.

[Bomani Jones]

I can take it.

[Yuri Prohaska]

It's not about the time. It's not about the time, but I need to overcome these, these whatever. Whatever it is.

[Bomani Jones]

The most time would be walking into the room. Yeah. It would take you longer to walk out there and hear you think.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

That's the adversity he's facing, Jeremy. It's opening the door.

[Jeremy]

He said there's a chair in the.

[Bomani Jones]

I agree. You also have to account for him running.

[Yuri Prohaska]

New fear unlocked.

[Tony]

He'll catch him. He will catch him.

[Dan Le Batard]

UFC327, sir, thank you for being with us. Good luck and thank you for allowing us some insight into your mind. I'm fascinated by guys who choose to do what you do.

[Mike Chedda]

Dan.

[Tony]

I have. I have more questions. I got a couple more questions.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go ahead.

[Tony]

Yuri about to be a father for the first time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey.

[Tony]

Welcome to the youth.

[Bomani Jones]

Honored to be born very soon.

[Stugotz]

Congrats on the sex very soon.

[Bomani Jones]

And congrats on all the fear.

[Tony]

You know what it feels like now.

[Bomani Jones]

Congrats on all the fear training. Nothing will prepare you for this.

[Tony]

I was going to say dark. You spent dark room for what, three days, two days. No food, no water. Just in there, focused. Nothing will prepare you for having that daughter in your hands for the first time. Being like, I have to make sure that she breathes every single second. Like, I just had a daughter.

[Will Hardy]

She.

[Tony]

Well, last year my wife did, but not me, you know?

[Bomani Jones]

You know?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Are you asking about his kid or just talking about.

[Tony]

No, I'm telling him my experience so he can be ready for his experience, which is in the hospital. I had to sit there and stare at the baby and every single second to make sure that she was breathing. So it's like all these. Yes. All these trainings that you do are just outside of Carlos. Forget about Carlos this weekend. Forget about that. This is the most important fight that you're gonna have is you and a seven pound baby for six months.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Understand, man. But right now, no, there is no other, other, other things than Carlos. Then the mission next week.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

Take a money line.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah. I believe. I believe that my girlfriend will handle these, these, these things and everything will be all right after. After a fight. But I have my mission and she have her mission about that. So.

[Tony]

So you'll be ready once you get the strap over your.

[Stugotz]

You know, and Carlos then baby Tony.

[Dan Le Batard]

You tried to tell a charming tapestry of story of what it great. How great it is to be a father and what he's telling you he's been working all his life for this week. Yeah. And nothing Carlos Ulberg, that nothing, nothing else matters other than the baby that makes him fight in the mountains. There is nothing more important than this week in your professional life. Correct.

[Yuri Prohaska]

That's right. That's right. And I just believe. I just. I just believe that, that I can. I can do my mission. I can do I be. I can be successful in my mission. And. And my girlfriend, I believe in her. I believe she can handle all these moments right now she's like in the, you know, the, like last.

[Tony]

At the finish line.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Yeah, at the finish line. And so we are in contact every day and we are selling to power each other. So we have everybody, we have our fights.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you, sir. Good luck. Thank you for being with us.

[Yuri Prohaska]

Thank you. Thank you too awesome, folks.

[Bomani Jones]

Listen up.

[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don Lee.

While there's nothing official and conversations are still ongoing, was that a fake shifter?

Because it was pretty good.

[Bomani Jones]

I feel like there's legs.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I tried at the beginning and then I lost confidence in it.

[Mike Ryan]

Good.

[Bomani Jones]

It was good.

[Dan Le Batard]

You got this.

Nothing official. Yeah. So conversations are still ongoing.

[Bomani Jones]

Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is trending towards Nick Sirianni remaining the head coach of the Eagles.

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

I am legitimately amazed that Mike Grind got away earlier in the show with leveling what I believe to be the greatest praise you can to baseball in this market right now at this time. He said, quote, I had a really decent time at the game. Whoa.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is the biggest praise I have seen for Marlins baseball from Mike Ryan because he went home, and on the way home, he caught excellence for two hours. Quick and easy. Too quick for Tony's liking because Sandy mows them down too quickly. And he wants to go with his baby pitch clock.

[Tony]

It's like the pitch clock is back. 20 seconds. All right, back to 20 seconds again. 20 seconds. Like, no, man, let me enjoy this. Let me. Let him wind up. Let him. Let him do one of these.

[Stugotz]

I'm on to you here. I'm on to Tony with this. I don't like.

[Tony]

I need the catcher throwing some signs, him saying no, waving them off.

[Mike Ryan]

Like, I need a lot more conversation between them.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, I mean, it's no surprise. I was having beers with the boys. The sun was out, the Marlins played well. I was in and out. And all the things that I've been openly complaining about the sport have been resolved and fixed. And, yeah, you do all those things. You give me a nice afternoon. Of course I'd have a great time. I'm not so stubborn that I'd be like, well, I've been saying baseball sucks for several years. Let me turn my back against this. I've been giving the sport a try. I've been enjoying the games on tv. I like the style of play. I love the pace. They're. Yeah, they're on an uptick.

[Mike Ryan]

Was it open air? Did they open the.

[Bomani Jones]

Sandy doesn't like the roof open, but the window in the back was cracked open and then, you know, right behind the bar. Yeah, the ushers are very kind. You can pretty much sit anywhere in the house.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, no, that's my favorite place. Thing about that place, that there is, because some of these places, some of these buildings, some of these ballparks, some of these stadiums, Dan, it'll be empty. And then you go and sit in, and they're like, hey. I'm like, come on, guy.

[Stugotz]

They go every other section at Marlins Park. So if you walk by an usher, you're a sucker.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, I mean, there are ushers. And I walked by an usher that

[Will Hardy]

he had no problem.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, they let us sit where we wanted, which is, you know, part of the appeal for a getaway day, I guess. But, yeah, I went closest to the sun and I had a good time. I'm excited about the team. I like I like what I saw. I saw a couple. What's with baseball, though? There was a ball that went over the fence, and there were. Everyone was like, is that a home run?

[Mike Chedda]

What?

[Bomani Jones]

The ball went over the fence. Why was there any kind of discourse over the Liam Hicks one? I was like, no, there's this little gap. If it hits the top, I'm like, ball go over fence. Home run.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

What are we doing?

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to show people the range that this show has, because it's not. Pitch clock here in a little bit. That will show you that it is the difference between two kinds of ways to measure toughness. When you're talking to a potential UFC champion who's very intimidating, and he does this. Why this question versus what was happening right before he came on with us, when David Sampson was dealing with what he was describing as a major animal?

[Coca]

Not. It's really not. There is a major animal in this apartment. I don't know what I'm gonna do here.

[Will Hardy]

Hold on.

[Stugotz]

So earnest.

[Coca]

Can't do a show like this. Coca. There is something that is going to hit.

[Tony]

What is Coca expecting there?

[Mike Ryan]

Like.

[Tony]

Like a pigeon inside his apartment?

[Mike Ryan]

I just thought it was.

[Tony]

Holy cow.

[Coca]

Hey, we're live. I don't like. Can you imagine doing a show like on a safari? Oh, sorry. Got him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you guys please just. Just enjoy for a second the special insanity that is doing a show by yourself there. Tackling difficult subject matter and being distracted by the smallest bug. Because your life is filled with fear at all times. And so you stop doing. He's doing a live show and there's no one there to help him.

[Jeremy]

And he is totally distracted by the fact that miles above a. The tiniest of insects is flying through.

[Dan Le Batard]

And now he can't discuss anything and he can't say, coca, help me, because he's distract.

[Jeremy]

He's totally distracted by the prison.

[Bomani Jones]

In the meantime,

[Jeremy]

he has no help, and so he's distracted by a fly.

[Dan Le Batard]

And then he just kills it on air and is proud of himself.

[Bomani Jones]

Welcome back to the Right Time with Bomani Jones.

[Stugotz]

Something got caught down my throat.

[Yuri Prohaska]

It took him longer to kill that

[Bomani Jones]

bug then I would have been killed.

[Tony]

Yuri's terrifying, right?

[Bomani Jones]

He's horrifying.

[Mike Ryan]

I was. At every moment, I was worried Dan was gonna say the wrong thing and then he would start pummeling. And Dan, I'm gonna tell you right now, if he started pummeling you, I

[Will Hardy]

would have joined it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Out of fear.

[Bomani Jones]

Get him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look, the size of his hands, their pallets.

[Stugotz]

Terrifying.

[Dan Le Batard]

No. And they are, they are made of like he.

[Jeremy]

They are made of rocks. Like you shake his hand and it's like sticking your hand in a coral reef. Like. And when you put maroon, like it's just bit in your. Like.

[Mike Ryan]

I couldn't stop staring at his knuckles. I said holy. At one point I realized he had two watches on. And I wanted to tell Tony, but I was too afraid to say it out loud and through the comms because I thought he might hear me and kill me.

[Dan Le Batard]

He. Well, he wouldn't hear you because of the cauliflower ears. Right. Which are like the seventh thing you notice again.

[Stugotz]

Now you say it.

[Dan Le Batard]

All of him has been hardened.

[Bomani Jones]

No, you wouldn't have said it in front of him. You have.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don't pretend.

[Bomani Jones]

He had no problem hearing

[Tony]

best years ever.

[Bomani Jones]

The second watch is to time himself as he kills Jeremy. Well, when he walks up to say

[Yuri Prohaska]

goodbye and he goes, where is this guy?

[Bomani Jones]

I was like, he wants to say goodbye, right? Like in a nice way. I've watched him fight several times before. I always knew that he was long, but I was impressed by like the shoulder. And never during an interview have I been like, I'm going to put 100 bucks on this person. And I did.

[Stugotz]

You're telling me somebody knocked that guy out twice?

[Tony]

Somebody, somebody who is scarier than that guy. If we were ever to have that guy here, that would be terrible. Get fumigated.

[Bomani Jones]

There would be nobody here curry favor with Zins.

[Dan Le Batard]

The only reason he gets to fight for this title is because the guy who beat him twice vacated this title

[Bomani Jones]

to go up to go up a

[Tony]

division to get his third title in a third different division. Never been done before in UFC history.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that's how bad that guy is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, speaking of never in history, give me the stat of the day music here, please.

Start of the day, start of the day it is your start of the day Start of the day Start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day Start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day Start of the day it is the start of the day.

Amin, I'm glad you're here for this. Please put this in some sort of context that the people can understand. This is from NBA Stat. Over the last last 15 games, Victor Wembanyama has 400 plus points, 150 plus rebounds, 50 plus blocks, 30 plus threes, made a 150 record. No one else in NBA history could match that stat line. Even if he took the best 15 game span of his Career in each category separately.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I was thinking about that as I was listening to you say the numbers. I was thinking maybe David Robinson. And as soon as he hit three, it's like, nope. And that's the difference maker right there. Is that the first X amount of numbers in that stat? There are been some incredible big men in NBA history to I think, flirt with that. David Robinson, Hakeem Elijah won. But once you enter three point shooting into the equation, we've never seen anyone be as dominant inside and outside as Victor Wembanyama and will still grow. Yeah, I mean, look, he can still get better. His shot, which is good, can get better. Still not very consistent from three point range. His handles can get better. And as always, we keep saying this, he gets stronger. However much power he's added since last season, he's still got a ways to go. Particularly when you talk about core strength, that inability for people to just push him out the way or knock him off of his trajectory.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you guys see who it is that got into the hall of Fame? Do you guys still care about the basketball hall of Fame? A little easier to get into than the others, but. Elena Deludon, Candace Parker, Amari Stoudemire, Doc Rivers, hall of Famer. Doc Rivers.

[Bomani Jones]

Doc Rivers is a Hall of Famer as a what?

[Will Hardy]

As a coach? One of the greatest coaches of all time. I mean, that's not my opinion. You could ask the NBA at 75, they voted me as one of the 15 greatest coaches. You can ask. Well, you can ask the players that I've coached. Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Blake Griffin.

[Dan Le Batard]

They would say. They would say that you've lost a lot of games, a lot of game Sevens. That, that's a Hall of Fame resume. That's probably for player and coach.

[Will Hardy]

Actually, no, just as a coach. And also you got to win a lot of games in order to lose a lot of game Sevens. I don't see Bill Fitch up, down and see what's the kid. Will Hardy. Will Hardy hasn't lost any game Sevens. You know why? His team's terrible. It's not Blake's fault, though. He's not there. He hasn't even played there.

[Jeremy]

Why would it be Blake's fault?

[Will Hardy]

That's what I told you.

[Jeremy]

But Blake doesn't have anything to do with anything. He's in broadcasting. He's been out of basketball for a couple of years and some of them were spent with the Nets.

[Will Hardy]

Hence, not his fault.