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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Best of DLS: The Origin of the Upset Bird

23 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.672 - 27.343 Dan Le Batard

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27.624 - 36.67 Dan Le Batard

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38.472 - 56.237 Chris Cody

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56.697 - 72.296 Chris Cody

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Smirnoff!

72.737 - 85.352 Chris Cody

Here's the kicker. One lucky fan will take home the grand prize, a trip to the biggest game of the offseason. Plus, one fan will win Alaylee May's one-of-one game day jacket. Wow. The merch will be dropped on select dates from December to January 21, and it's all courtesy of what brand?

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Smirnoff!

86.228 - 105.195 Chris Cody

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105.215 - 114.868 Chris Cody

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Chapter 2: What are the origins of the Upset Bird?

874.433 - 901.682 Mike Ryan

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903.35 - 926.252 Mike Ryan

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926.232 - 945.056 Mike Ryan

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945.296 - 968.24 Mike Ryan

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968.6 - 981.816 Mike Ryan

Download the GameTime app today. Don Levitard. I got somebody here making fun of me. How old do you have to be to reference Shecky Green? Man, I went comedically there with the funny name of a comedian. That's on you for not knowing who Shecky Green is.

981.836 - 982.897 Chris Cody

Oh, you got to know who Shecky Green is.

982.917 - 984.919 Mike Ryan

No, you don't have to know who Shecky Green is.

Chapter 3: What humorous anecdotes are shared about wrestling knowledge?

984.939 - 988.162 Mike Ryan

He's your ally. No, no. Yeah, I don't like my allies here. King of the Borscht Belt.

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Chapter 4: What criticisms do Dan and Stugatz have about CrossFit?

988.182 - 991.565 Mike Ryan

Stugatz. I have the soul of a Borscht Belt comedian.

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992.185 - 996.209 Greg Cody

I should be in the Catskills in 1945 opening for Shecky Green.

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996.229 - 1000.553 Unknown

That's who I was destined to be. This is the Don Levitard Show with the Stugatz.

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1000.533 - 1007.603 Mike Ryan

I'm watching a CrossFit commercial on television right now, Stugatz.

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Chapter 5: How does George St. Pierre describe his fighting skills?

1007.863 - 1008.143 Dan Le Batard

Yeah.

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1009.125 - 1020.6 Mike Ryan

And this is becoming hugely popular, CrossFit. It is. I'm about to join a program, believe it or not. It seems like a horrible idea. It seems like a really easy way to get injured.

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1020.58 - 1044.765 Mike Ryan

this thing is getting popular more and more popular and it seems really unhealthy the things that they ask people to do people like you like it's one thing to do them at 24 25 years old you are gonna you are almost sure to get into crossfit do 18 minutes of insanity and you are going to be injured inside of 10 days are you saying i should abort then

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1044.745 - 1059.767 Mike Ryan

What I'm telling you is that CrossFit seems like it's getting more and more popular. And is anyone checking on injuries? Because I assure you, at the risk of sounding like your grandfather, that what those people are doing is not healthy.

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1059.747 - 1087.476 Mike Ryan

you're any kind of brittle or if you're older or if you have any kind of age on you you are going to tear a hamstring a quad joints are going to be a problem what those people are doing doesn't seem any kind of safe and furthermore you can become a crossfit trainer if you pay a thousand dollars for a weekend that guy's training you and he's gonna hurt you because he doesn't know what he's doing but it's so convincing like they're promoting health are you saying it's an

1087.456 - 1109.835 Mike Ryan

They're putting everyone on there who's not going to get hurt because they've got six packs and they look great. But the people who go to them and go again, the trainer for CrossFit in a weekend gets expertise and pays a thousand dollars for it. Let me explain something to you. CrossFit is running an enormous scam that will injure you.

1111.199 - 1125.435 Mike Ryan

So not shocking that Sugat says, oh yeah, I think I'm going to do that because he goes with all the fans. He probably has an outfit already picked out. Anything that's popular. I have friends that are like workout monsters that started doing that and they're always complaining about their shoulder being thrown out.

1125.455 - 1126.517 Dan Le Batard

I'm doomed. Oh really?

1126.797 - 1137.409 Mike Ryan

You blew out your shoulder like doing the dumbbells on the tire swing. That's surprising. So let me see here. So you hurt yourself because you were doing that toes to bar thing and they only asked you to do a thousand of them.

Chapter 6: What story does Dan tell about Pat Riley crying?

1137.389 - 1141.514 Mike Ryan

The trainer who wasn't watching after paying for $1,000 for his certification.

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1141.615 - 1154.051 Greg Cody

Now, my trainer, who did pay $1,000 and got his certificate within a weekend, within 48 hours, he wants to videotape my entire experience. Is that something you'd be interested in seeing, Dan?

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1154.071 - 1160.761 Mike Ryan

Yes. Okay. Including the injury. Because we start... Because we start next week and he is going to videotape session one.

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1160.801 - 1164.426 Greg Cody

I have 15 sessions. I've signed up for him. He will videotape all of them.

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1164.446 - 1183.498 Mike Ryan

This is going to be great. A, you're not going to make it through 15. And B, you are going to come in limping within four days. A texter writes in, I've hurt myself 10 times in four years doing CrossFit. But like crack, I can't quit it. So, guys, I guarantee you, you're going to break a bone, and it's going to break the skin.

1183.598 - 1203.024 Mike Ryan

And you're going to show up to work with a bone protruding out of your skin. And that's only going to be the first 15 minutes. Another texter writes in, hold on, I want to expose this scam. Dan, I'm a massage therapist, and I have a clinic in Weston. I work on at least three people a day from CrossFit injuries. CrossFit is single-handedly keeping our health industry alive. In America.

1203.525 - 1226.197 Mike Ryan

I mean, you people are idiots. All you got to do is watch what these people are doing. It's not normal human behavior. My chiropractor, swear to you, Dan. My chiropractor. I mean, it's crazy. Ryan said, you just sent me a text. You start cross-fitting next week. I'll see you in two weeks. Everybody has that friend that's been a bartender like three times in the service industry. He just can't.

1226.657 - 1246.093 Mike Ryan

That friend is trying to become a CrossFit trainer. Like, that's his next big get-rich-quick scheme. CrossFit. Never. Never. You're like on a treadmill, but you're also on sand. But we have just tapped into something because the texts are just. Pouring in. I have my certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. The same people who train the heat.

1246.434 - 1268.476 Mike Ryan

And we frown upon CrossFit as one of the worst things for the unconditioned athlete in the world. Wow. It's so Stugatz, though, to have bought 15 sessions. I purchased 15 sessions. Did you do it because you saw it on TV and there were a bunch of six-packs jumping on a box? That's exactly why I did it. Now, I did this, Dan. I purchased 15 sessions. I believe they're 45 minutes apiece.

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