The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Roy Can't Find The Sound

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

"Shoulda you wanna?" Tony breaks down the recent UFC event and the calamity at a weigh-in, and we update a raucous day of The Polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It took Roy a minute, but he has now located the three sounds from the prodigious Zaz library of mispronunciations. Let's go with sound number one. Shitty you want to know how that? What were the kids doing? One of the greatest of all times. Shit do you want to know? That is, just to play this again, this is, this is Zaz's description of the movie weapons. Shitty you want to know how that?

What were the kids doing? it. Give me another wonderful zaz sound from the library of mispronunciations. I don't think strange for me, but like... Oh, boy. The rare Mike Ryan pity instead of bouncing on you. It doesn't happen very often. And finally, we played the other one where he got all of the results wrong and had the Packers winning a game they lost and the Bears losing a game they won. Why would you pick the net? Well, yeah, it was an inspired effort.

That is totally different, and it is from a different part of the library. Roy, I don't know where you've been the last few weeks. It's clearly not around the sound. Now play Roy and now play Tony's sound of him messing it up. Would you wather me? See, I knew that one. I was like, ah, I got to go. It's not that bad, though, compared to some of these.

Oh, compared to his, no, this is nothing. But you quit early, though. No, is it two seconds of you just give it. No, no, I knew because the moment I, the wather came out. I was like, oh, I'm done. Yeah. I felt Mike going like this. Yeah, I was there.

I was just like that. I was right there. You'll get the note later. Yeah, no, I've already written it down. Got one for Roy. So you, you know, I've got a ton for Roy today. Oh, come on, man. The UFC this weekend, a couple of surprising results.

But what's not surprising is that that sport is more prone to the gambling issues where Dana White had to this time, now that he's learned the lesson, had to pull a fight that had suspicious activity in it. And the reason I say this sport is more prone to gambling corruption, it's because it's not only an individual as opposed to a team that you have to buy in order to contaminate the result, but it's an individual in a sport that does not pay well. And so the athletes are more vulnerable to this kind of thing because Dana White famously does not pay these people. will. And so your thoughts were what, Tony, you covered this weekend from Dead Flamingo. You covered a couple of surprises this weekend in the sport. There were a handful of upsets,

betting upsets. But I am unsurprised to see that Dana White's got a problem on his hands when it comes to suspicious gambling results because of that combination I'm telling you about. You can get a vulnerable individual. You don't have to buy a team. College basketball, it can be pretty easy to infiltrate college sports in general before recently, now that we're actually paying athletes. Well, I think UFC more susceptible than tennis or anything else because of how poorly they pay the- Months ago, we told you to keep an eye on college basketball. There have been like five things that have happened since then. The early odds in college basketball, a toxic wasteland of that kind of stuff. But continue with the UFC conversation.

So, Dan, we'll start with the fight that got pulled. Yeah, there was increasing pressure from sports books and the gambling agencies that told the UFC, hey, something's going on here as far as the spread is concerned. So Dana learned from the last time, pulled the fight from the card. And, you know, that's part of like what you said, when you're not paid, when you're seen as a professional athlete and not paid like a professional athlete, not unionized like a professional athlete, you have more incentive to maybe do things to get more scratch when, you know, maybe If you're on a 25 show, 25 win where you're going to make 50 grand, yeah, but if I can make 100 doing something illegal but nobody knows about it,

like it's more incentive for that. So, yeah, Dana did the right thing. That's going to happen. I mean, I feel like that's the only thing you can do is pull, because if not, you might get somebody killed. No, he learned the lesson. He learned the lesson from the last time. He's going to pull those fights every time now that he gets a call about suspicious activity.

You have to, right? You have to learn this stuff as we go because it's still a relatively new sport. and the normalization of gambling is something that is also new. I saw they're giving out a lot more money for bonuses. Is that a good thing? Or is that like some phony baloney? No, no, no, absolutely. It's in part because of this, I would say.

I mean, it's been a complaint for a long time. They are giving more bonuses. And the $7.7 billion that they made from the Paramount deal, which is also nice. But from $50K up to $100K, 5'0-9 bonus. And if you finish somebody without getting the fighter-to-night bonus, you make $25K also. So, like, that's a little bit more of an incentive. there but we'll go with the biggest up to the night which is Justin Gachy beating Patty Pimlet

Patty Pimlet a super huge fan favorite people were wearing the wigs, they do the dance he's a very personality driven fire He had never lost in UFC hadn't lost in the UFC I've been fighting a couple old guys in tomato cans on the way up This was his true first test when it came to fighting somebody that has

championship caliber like we've seen Justin Gachey where the interim golden lightweight division before but Justin at 37 38 years old absolutely battered and beat down Patty Pimbley. But again, scousers don't get knocked out. Dan, there was a couple times where Justin had him dead to rights with elbows, with hammers, with fists, and Patty just kept coming up. More of a chin than I thought went immediately to the hospital afterward.

And Gachie's like, don't, I've been in a ton of these. I don't need to go to the hospital. I'm good. Dan, did you see during the weigh-ins the day before this guy, Smotherman, where he weighed in and, you know, they cut weight, and they're crazy the way that they're. they do this. It can't be healthy. And did you see this where he

passed out? But the part that really stands out is the commentators who are talking over it, specifically Michael Bisping. Watch this. Give us a listen. There's a dog, but he's been on the wrong side of a couple of decisions. 135 and a half for Cameron. Oh, no. Oh, shit. Oh, no.

Oh, my God. Oh, gosh. What happened? Oh, no. Oh, that's not good. Okay, right before that, I'm sorry. I should have said it up better, maybe. right before that Michael Bisping literally says, because they see that he looks like not well. Frail. And Michael Bisming is saying,

I don't feel bad for any of these guys. You only have one job. That's to cut weight. And then, dude, faceplants. For the audio audience, what you just saw is a guy during the portion of the telecast where you're doing the way in, you're standing in front of people,

wearing only your shorts, your shirtless. He looks a bit sedated. and not totally there. And then as he walks off the stage to just leave after making weight, literally falls right on his face because of how unhealthy it is to cut that amount of weight in a short period of time. If you're not familiar with how they do this in terms of just like wrapping yourself in saran wrap and then jumping rope in a sauna while not drinking water.

They're chewing ice in towels. No, but not even. Not even being able to chew ice because, because you can't have it. You're trying to lose water weight. Right, but apparently they chewed in the towels because apparently it tricks your brain into thinking that you're drinking water.

So by chewing it through the ice, you're not actually getting any of the water. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's the worst thing in professional sports when it comes to any sort of training or any sort of getting ready for either a game, a match, whatever it is that you're going to do. Nothing is worse than cutting weight. And a lot of these guys, Alex Podeta famously, who walks around in 235 pounds,

would have to cut down a buck 85. But why do they do this? I mean, isn't it like cheating? Because they all cut the weight and then they put like 25 pounds on. Yeah, but it's about getting down to the weight. So that you can be strong enough in the octagon to fight at 205 for a higher weight. 20 pounds heavier is an advantage to have.

Right. He's saying why do they allow that? Yeah. Why cut the weight? They should be at that weight for the fight. That's more conversation of like there should be more weight classes so people don't have to drop as much, right? Because Alex dropping from 235, now he's a 205 champ. dropping from $2.35 to a buck 85, you're talking about 40 pounds, 50 pounds.

It's like, it's a lot of weight. Zazzo's not wrong, sort of wondering ethically, why does the violent sport not do more things in order to have people be healthier? Why is it so violent? Why is it so crazy? unhealthy things. By the way, U.S.C. 325, live from the Dead Flamingo, Alex Volcanowski

versus Diego Lopez 2 on your way. What did you think of the Paramount debut? I thought it was good. I thought it was clean, obviously watching it from my perspective, like doing the show, I didn't really notice as much of the commercials. People were saying there's a lot of ads, a lot of commercials. Dana White came out and said, hey, it's $19 a month. Like, you're going to get commercials.

They've got to get their money, too. It is what it is. But from the perspective of the show itself, production was amazing. But that's the UFC thing. That's UFC producing and not Paramount. Paramount badly, badly needs young men. And that is why they got into that investment because it's all murder she wrote and Matt Locke and a And now it's Taylor Sheridan shows, Dan.

You got 19 Taylor Sheridan shows, and UFC, they got me, baby. They have to get young men. Jeremy, update the polls, please, for us at Lebitard show. First poll. Did you know Mike McDonald spelled his name with a lowercase D? 80.8% of the audience said no. Small D. Can you name five good football movies?

53% of the audience says no. If you were watching football for the first time yesterday, would you think, that those four teams were playing the same sport. 79.7% of the audience says no. Ah, Dan, the NFL news, it never stops. Breaking as of seven minutes ago, the Chargers have officially hired former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel

as their new OC. Capital D. Is the program a good movie? 60.7% of the audience says yes. Does Jerry McGuire count as a football movie? 62.4% of the audience says, yes. Is the original longest yard,

best football movie ever. Dan, unfortunately, 75.7% of the audience says no. Did you enjoy watching the Broncos Patriots game? 66.3% say no. Is any given Sunday a good movie? 63.1% of the audience

says yes. Does propositioning a sex worker before the Super Bowl take you out of the running for the Walter Peyton Man of the Year Award? 74.2% of the audience says yes. If you want to be a champion, can you see your family.

Do you think your family? 78.2% of the audience says no. And best movie, Friday Night Lights, Jerry Maguire, Remember the Titans, or the original longest yard. 50% of the audience says, remember the Titans. And those are your polls. I'll lay.