The Daniel Cormier Show - Ben Askren & Daniel Cormier on Ben's double lung transplant recovery, DC vs. Jon Jones match, Khabib
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iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.3 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In a much anticipated episode, Ben Askren IS OFFICIALLY BACK on the Daniel Cormier Show with DC in a brand new edition of Funky & The Champ! Askren talks about his long road to recovery since his double lung transplant. Ben also talks to DC about the days leading up to being in the hospital and what that journey has been like for him as well as his friends and family. After, the guys talk Real American Freestyle (RAF), and Cormier says he'd wrestle Jon Jones and BEAT HIM. Plus, the guys talk about Khabib Nurmagomedov's viral comments about the UFC and promoting superstars, Justin Gaethje "wanting to be scared" to fight Ilia Topuria, and Ben's role with the RAF wrestling competitions! #Volume
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.3 | The volume. |
| 0:09.7 | Daniel! |
| 0:11.5 | Somebody! |
| 0:13.7 | Ben, you're like kind of looking like yourself now. |
| 0:19.6 | Like, you know, for a while, I didn't know if you'd ever like start looking like yourself again. Yeah. It was a man, it's, well, it's been a while now. It's funny when you start looking and feeling normal again, sometimes I forget what happened. Like, I'll just be doing shit around the house and I'll just get all tired. And I'll be like, why am I tired? It's like, oh, yeah, |
| 0:39.7 | that lung transplant thing. That's a big. That's crazy. Hey, you know, it's been a while, guys, |
| 0:47.6 | welcome back to Funkie and the champ. I know Ben and I have not done this for a real long time. |
| 0:51.7 | And obviously it's well documented. What Ben went through, |
| 0:55.6 | Ben, we were on air the week of the issue. That was the craziest thing. Like, you were excited |
| 1:04.8 | to go to Vegas and then when we go to Vegas, Vegas is a nightmare. You're going to have, like, |
| 1:09.3 | bad dreams about going to Vegas for the rest of your life now. |
| 1:12.1 | Well, who knows? |
| 1:12.9 | Maybe I'll never go again. I don't really happen. I would never go to. If that happened to me, I would never go to Vegas. I don't think it's Vegas's fault. I think it was in the process of happening. I can't remember we podcasted Monday or Tuesday. That week I left Tuesday. uh louise is a date on there but he doesn't have a day |
| 1:28.9 | yeah may 27 it was we filmed on is Monday or Tuesday that week. I left Tuesday. Luis says a date on there, but he doesn't have a day. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah, May 27th. We filmed on like Monday or Tuesday. Normally we used to release on Wednesdays. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah. And I went to the hospital for the first time on May 28th and I went back in on May 29th. |
| 1:40.5 | It's to my recollection. Yeah, I said that back pain and I didn't think much of it. |
| 1:45.1 | I thought it was a muscle sprain or a muscle spasm or something. And then, well, you guys know the rest. |
| 1:52.4 | Ben, did you go back and look at us on the podcast when you were like kind of in your recovery, |
| 1:57.6 | like looking at you on those videos to see if you could see anything |
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