Best of DLS: The Origin of the Upset Bird

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Best of DLS: The Origin of the Upset Bird
Date: December 23, 2025

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Episode Overview

This special “Best Of” edition dives into classic moments from the Dan Le Batard Show’s archive while blending in some genuinely fresh banter, despite being released over the holidays. The team looks back at some of their most memorable, quirky stories—from the emotional aftermath of the Allen Houston game and the true origin of Greg Cote’s famed “Upset Bird,” to brutally honest takes on CrossFit, surreal conversations with MMA star Georges St-Pierre, steam room etiquette disasters, and a uniquely Le Batardian international basketball interview with Detlef Schrempf.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reflections on Holiday Programming

[03:24–04:27]

• Dan Le Batard and Jeremy riff on the criticism that holiday episodes are all re-runs—promising that this week’s content is a blend of both archival oddities and “the good stuff” handpicked from deep in the show’s quirky history. Fresh banter reassures listeners:
  • “Jeremy, who says we don't do any fresh content during the holidays? This right here, you and I speaking words. This is as fresh as it gets.” — Dan Le Batard (03:24)
  • Audience nostalgia will be piqued by revisiting favorites from as far back as 2006.

2. Pat Riley’s Vulnerability After “The Shot”

[06:16–09:55]

• Stugotz recounts Pat Riley’s surprising admission of weeping alone in the bowels of the stadium after the Allen Houston game eliminated the Miami Heat.
  • Alonzo Mourning’s tough-love moment: “Do your bleeping job. Get up and do your bleeping job. You have a team in the locker room that needs to hear from you.” (06:16)
• The hosts express surprise at Riley’s candor about this private, vulnerable moment, linking it to his reputation for toughness and leadership.
• They analyze how losing to the Knicks, “Pat the Rat” chants, and repeated playoff failures forced Riley to confront the need to rebuild the team.

3. The Origin of the Upset Bird

[09:51–12:19]

• Greg Cote’s famous “Upset Bird” is explained for new listeners:
  • “For 20 years he has kind of been the national football writer for the Miami Herald... In that duty, he has consulted an imaginary bird while making his Friday prediction.” — Stugotz (09:51)
• George St. Pierre (sitting in as a comedic character) describes the bird as a crow or raven a la Poe, speaking in italics, with “Drew Rosenhawk” as its agent.
  • “There is a consultation going on, yes.” — George St. Pierre, when asked if he truly speaks with the bird. (11:13)
  • The bit parodies media traditions and how silly sports rituals can become beloved.

4. Wrestling & Billiards Name Game with Greg Cote

[12:19–14:38]

• Stugotz challenges Greg Cote to name wrestlers; Cote hilariously flails, offering only “Haystack Calhoun,” then mistakes famed African American entertainer Moms Mabley for a wrestler.
  • “Moms Mabley is a vaudevillian African American actress.” — Detlef Schrempf (via joke character) correcting Cote. (14:16)
• Pivoting, they make Cote name billiards players: “The Black Widow, Minnesota Fats, Paul Newman in The Color of Money”—again, showing Cote’s surface-level pop culture familiarity.

5. The Scam and Epidemic of CrossFit

[17:14–23:37]

• The team takes on the popularity of CrossFit with skepticism and biting humor:
  • "It seems like a horrible idea. It seems like a really easy way to get injured. The things that they ask people to do…” — Stugotz (17:32)
  • “CrossFit is running an enormous scam that will injure you.” — Stugotz (18:46)
• Chris admits to buying 15 CrossFit sessions just from seeing ripped people on TV. They mock the short training required for certification and the cult-of-personality trainers.
  • “A, you’re not going to make it through 15 [sessions] and B, you are going to come in limping within four days.” — Stugotz (20:01)
• Listener texts pour in with horror stories, with fitness and medical professionals warning about injury rates.
  • “CrossFit is single handedly keeping our health industry alive in America.” — Listener via Stugotz (20:28)

6. Georges St-Pierre Interview: Humility, Skills, and Hypotheticals

[27:12–35:45]

• The show’s 2012 interview with MMA legend Georges St-Pierre is replayed. GSP insists Frankie Edgar, not himself, is the best pound-for-pound fighter:
  • “There is many guys who have skill better than mine in different departments… I believe in terms of pound for pound, the best right now is Frankie Edgar. That's my personal belief.” — GSP (27:39)
• He explains what he admires in other fighters (Mayweather’s hands, a jiu-jitsu champ’s ground game), likening MMA to being a triathlete.
• Things get ridiculous as Stugotz asks GSP how quickly he could kill Stugotz in a fight:
  • “I believe it could take me less than 30 seconds.” — GSP, deadpan (32:39)
  • “To knock you out, it’s one thing, but to put you technically dead, that’s another thing.” — GSP (33:49)
• GSP’s humility and calmly clinical explanations stand in contrast to the show’s mayhem.
  • He humorously reveals he doesn’t gain weight or watch what he eats: “I can even when I go on vacation and I drink and I get completely drunk, I never get fat… My family is like that. My cousins like that. My sister is like that. My mom does like that.” (34:09)

7. Dan's Steam Room Etiquette Disaster

[38:09–43:44]

• Dan describes a mortifying steam room encounter with an aggressively nude European man looking for a lost item:
  • “He starts. He’s nude, totally nude. And I know this because he’s searching for something around me… Like, this was a very confined space and he was totally nude.” — Dan (39:16)
• The panel debates steam room etiquette—do you go naked? Is it weirder to wear sneakers and socks (as Dan did), or to be barefoot?
  • “His dong looked about 50.” — Dan’s peak TMI moment, delivered with deadpan absurdity (41:19)
• They imagine the European telling his own version—baffled by the American in gym shoes.

8. Interview with Detlef Schrempf (via archive)

[44:03–49:16]

• The show welcomes Detlef Schrempf, legendary German NBA player, to talk about basketball and culture:
  • “If you and David Hasselhoff walked into the same bar in Germany, Detlef, are you getting any of the women?”
  • “Probably not.” — Detlef Schrempf, deadpan (46:11)
• He explains why Dirk Nowitzki is huge in Germany, riffs on Germans loving both soccer and beer, and why singing David Hasselhoff at the free-throw line is a distraction technique.
  • “Well, he does something to take his mind off what's actually happening on the game, and that's what a lot of guys should do… keeping your mind somewhere else.” — Schrempf (44:46)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Pat Riley and the Knicks
  • “That he was walking in on Pat Riley crying at his desk. I thought it was unusual that Pat Riley would volunteer that story… but he was broken.” — Dan Le Batard (06:16)
• On the Upset Bird
  • “I would forward all of these related questions to his agent, Drew Rosenhawk.” — George St. Pierre as the Upset Bird’s ‘spokesman’ (11:37)
• On CrossFit
  • “CrossFit is running an enormous scam that will injure you.” — Stugotz (18:46)
  • “I've hurt myself 10 times in four years doing CrossFit, but like crack, I can't quit.” — Listener text read by Stugotz (20:14)
• On Getting Killed by GSP
  • “No, no, just a billiard cue. All he's got is… I believe it could take me less than 30 seconds.” — GSP, when asked how quickly he could dispatch Stugotz (32:39)
• On Steam Room Mishaps
  • “His dong looked about 50.” — Dan Le Batard (41:19)
• On David Hasselhoff's Popularity in Germany
  • “Probably not.” — Detlef Schrempf, on whether he could win over women if Hasselhoff entered a German bar (46:11)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Fresh Holiday Content & Archival Preview: 03:24–04:27
• Pat Riley’s Emotional Knick Loss: 06:16–09:55
• The Upset Bird Origin Story: 09:51–12:19
• Greg Cote Names Wrestlers & Billiards Players: 12:19–14:38
• CrossFit as Scam and Injury Magnet: 17:14–23:37
• Georges St-Pierre Interview: 27:12–35:45
• Dan’s Steam Room Etiquette Fiasco: 38:09–43:44
• Interview with Detlef Schrempf: 44:03–49:16

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Tone & Style

True to its reputation, the episode is a blend of irreverent, self-deprecating humor, Miami sports nostalgia, and whimsical deep-dives into sports subculture. The panel’s camaraderie and playful ribbing create a relaxed, joyful vibe with moments of genuine insight—perfect for both longtime fans and newcomers wondering what makes "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" a singular sports radio experience.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a microcosm of the show’s best qualities: wild tangents, classic tales (the birth of the Upset Bird!), sports soul-baring (Pat Riley crying over the Knicks?!), and a sense that sports are as much about personality and absurdity as competition. If you’re just tuning in, you’ll get both the show’s cultural DNA and plenty of laughs—plus a healthy distrust of CrossFit.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Stugotz]

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[Stugotz]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Let's drive.

[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy, who says we don't do any fresh content during the holidays? This right here, you and I speaking words. This is as fresh as it gets.

[Jeremy]

As fresh as it gets. Particularly because we're going to be airing interviews as far back as 2006 this week.

[Chris Cote]

Yes, fresh.

[Jeremy]

Hey Chris. Happy holidays.

[Dan Le Batard]

Happy holidays, Jeremy. What a time. What a time for our audience. What a time to just celebrate our show. And I know some people get a little up in arms about repurposed content, but I'm telling you, we have found the good stuff.

[Jeremy]

No, this is good. This is good stuff. And, and and for that matter, we're actually recording this this week.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like this fresh as fresh.

[Jeremy]

You can hear it. This is zoom. But like we are actually taking the time to do this. But basically what we're going to do over the next four days or so is we went back in like the way, way back machine. Not like in the last couple of years or, you know, since, since COVID We are going back to 2006, 2009, 2012. Like some really good stuff here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Steve Urkel getting at a time machine. Is that, is that. Do you get that reference?

[Jeremy]

I kinda.

[Dan Le Batard]

Steve Urkel, he would like get into a.

[Jeremy]

Well, I don't think I knew that Steve Urkel went. Yeah, I knew Stefan or Kelly.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why did I make it a time machine?

[Jeremy]

I don't think it's a time machine stepped into him. It's just a transformation.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know what? We're becoming Stefan. That's what we're doing.

[Jeremy]

You're becoming Chris Cote.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

As opposed to Stefan or Kel. Is that right? Anyway, we're, we're stepping into a time machine and we're, we're going to start. Chris doesn't know I'm about to intro to him what's going to go in each one of these hours. So we'll have a couple of hours a day over the next several days. Just going back to some truly bizarre stuff, if I'm being where we most honest with you. All right, so the very first thing you're going to hear here, here, here is Dan telling the story of Pat Riley crying. And we're going to learn the origins of the upset bird. Oh, which is pretty cool.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know it exists, but the origins of it. I'm excited to hear this.

[Jeremy]

It's exciting. Well, also something that happened this past week, but also happened in 2012 is talking about how much your dad doesn't know anything about wrestling. So who says we're. We're not doing the same show all over? Also, Dan and Stugots discuss what a scam CrossFit is. We have an interview with George St. Pierre from 2012.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think this is where he tells Stots how quickly he could kill him.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I think, I think you're right. I think that is right. And then an experience that Dan had in the steam room of his building.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, what, what an episode. Let's get to it.

[Jeremy]

And debt left Shrimp.

[Stugotz]

We were talking earlier in the show about that Allen Houston game. There is a great story that Pat Riley volunteered after that game. That had to me some echoing endurance. Pat Riley volunteered After that game, the ball's bouncing on the rim. Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. Goes in, ends Miami season. That he was at his desk in the bowels of the stadium weeping. And Alonzo Mourning comes in in uniform and points to the locker room where everyone's broken and silent and says to Pat Riley, do your bleeping job. Get up and do your bleeping job. You have a team in the locker room that needs to hear from you. That he was walking in on Pat Riley crying at his desk. I thought it was unusual that Pat Riley would volunteer that story. I thought it was. I mean, it speaks to his admiration for Alonzo Mourning, but he was broken.

[Chris Cote]

Did he volunteer that story around the time where they were retiring mornings Jersey? Or is that. Has it been out there for a while?

[Stugotz]

No, he told me that story, you know, a few weeks after that had happened, after he had.

[Chris Cote]

It's an interesting admission from Riley. It's an interesting story to share.

[Stugotz]

I mean, he just said he was at his desk crying and that Alonzo and he. And he just sort of felt he had his head down and he sort of felt, as you would a giant shadow in his room. In his room. And through tears, he looks up. I just. A, I have a hard time imagining Pat Riley that kind of vulnerable. B, I'm surprised. That bad. Nobody would know that story unless Alonzo Mourning or Pat Riley told it. And I still don't know to this day why Pat Riley chose to tell it.

[George St. Pierre]

Wasn't the pain for Riley accentuated because it was the Knicks, and it was. He was losing to the fans who did the whole Pat the Rat.

[Stugotz]

Well, I'll tell you what accentuated it, but I think even more than that, that he knew then, I've got to blow this up. This doesn't work. I keep getting beaten by this team that's a lower seed. We're maxing out on everything that we have here, getting 60 wins a season. Keep in mind those Morning Hardaway teams wanted a greater rate than this one does.

[Chris Cote]

Yep.

[Stugotz]

This Heat team, in three years hasn't won at the rate that those Alonzo Morning Hardaway teams won at that year. And he sort of realized after adding Jamal Mashburn, he's like, this doesn't work. I keep getting beaten by Latrol Sprewell and Alan Houston and Patrick Ewing. So on top of the pain of having your season that way and that way with a ball bouncing on the rim, on top of that, you come to the realization that your blueprint is flawed and that you have to that you have to blow the thing up when.

[George St. Pierre]

When Riley was weeping at his desk before Zo metaphorically slapped him and said, do your job. I wonder if at that moment Riley was in his mind coining the phrase there's winning and there's misery. Because it was right around that time when that became his phrase.

[Stugotz]

Are you joking?

[George St. Pierre]

No.

[Stugotz]

That that phrase was a Showtime phrase.

[George St. Pierre]

Is that right?

[Chris Cote]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

That phrase. You're like 15 years late to that phrase.

[Chris Cote]

Nobody told me that.

[George St. Pierre]

Yeah, I was not informed a couple of decades there. Wasn't informed of that.

[Chris Cote]

It was like 85, four, something like that, where he created that.

[George St. Pierre]

That phrase actually was coined the first time I heard it.

[Stugotz]

Our thanks to Maurice Claret for joining us earlier. Our thanks to Greg Cody for providing the kind of historical perspective that only he can A texter is pelting us with imaginary bird. Imaginary bird. Can you guys please explain to me what you mean by an imaginary bird? That Greg Cody consults an imaginary bird to make his picks in the newsp Somebody that does have to be funny to somebody who doesn't know what we're talking about. So go ahead and explain it, Greg. Go ahead. Greg Cody. For those of you who don't know, he's over 50 years old, although he's like a woman and he won't reveal his actual age. He is over 50 years old, and for 20 years he has kind of been the national football writer for the Miami Herald, while not wanting to be identified as the national football writer for the Miami Herald. And in that duty as the national football writer for the Miami Herald, he has consulted an imaginary bird while making his Friday prediction.

[George St. Pierre]

And it's just that it's the upset bird. It's a crow. It has sort of an iridescent sheen. Think in terms of the raven in Poe's famous poem and you'll have an idea visually what he looks like. He speaks only in italics, by the way.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, Poe, one of my favorite poets. Do you speak to the bird ever, Greg? Is there an actual conversation that happens there?

[George St. Pierre]

There is a consultation going on, yes.

[Chris Cote]

You share any of that with us or I cannot.

[Detlef Schrempf]

And how does a sentence go from the upset bird? Like he makes picks. How does that show up in print?

[George St. Pierre]

Only in italics.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Yeah, but like, give me an example. If he likes the Bengals and he thinks that Chad Ochocinko is going to have a big game in that playoff game, how would you write it?

[George St. Pierre]

Well, you understand I can't speak for the upset bird. And I would forward all of these related questions to his agent, Drew Rosenhawk.

[Stugotz]

That one was kind of good. I think you wouldn't have gotten the game show sound if you had said Drew Rose at home, which is all my grind was fishing for there. That's all my grind was fishing for.

[George St. Pierre]

I am not an impersonator. I don't imitate the bird.

[Chris Cote]

Were you holding back any laughter at all there, Dan? Honestly? Were you? Because I was.

[Stugotz]

The laughter I'm holding back, though, isn't because it's good good, it's because it's bad.

[Chris Cote]

That was the best of his bad jokes. You would agree, right?

[Stugotz]

It was. It wasn't bad. I've also heard it before about 12 to 13 times. A. A texter writes in. Hey, I love this story about Pat Riley, Weeping Wambulance Walance. That was a great story, well told, even though I might have gotten the year wrong on when that actually happened. Greg, Cody, you have 30 seconds. Name wrestlers.

[George St. Pierre]

Haystack Calhoun. Oh, God. What's that other guy's name?

[Stugotz]

The other guy?

[George St. Pierre]

I don't know any wrestling.

[Stugotz]

Really? You're gonna get Haystack Calhoun. And that's all.

[George St. Pierre]

He's the first one that.

[Stugotz]

That's all you're giving me in 30 seconds? You got 10 seconds. All right, keep going, keep going. The.

[George St. Pierre]

The giant Mom's Mabley.

[Stugotz]

What?

[George St. Pierre]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

Time.

[George St. Pierre]

Wasn't there a wrestler named Mom's Mabel?

[Stugotz]

Are you talking about Mabel?

[George St. Pierre]

I don't know who I'm talking about. Black guy with purple hair who's Mom's Mabley? That's a name that's familiar to me.

[Stugotz]

What are you talking about? And when did you become my grandfather?

[George St. Pierre]

I just don't know.

[Stugotz]

I can't believe what just happened here. Let me try another game here. Ready? Let's see if you could top.

[George St. Pierre]

It's a source of pride that I don't know.

[Greg Cody]

Wrest.

[George St. Pierre]

By the way.

[Stugotz]

I'm gonna give you another 30 seconds. You. You're. You got a top two here. Are you ready? Name billiards players.

[George St. Pierre]

The Black Widow, Minnesota Fats, Paul Newman in the Color of Money. I. I get that on a technicality, right? So I've already won 3 to 2.

[Stugotz]

Keep going. You got 15 seconds left.

[George St. Pierre]

I forfeit the rest of my time because I've already won. I'm sa.

[Stugotz]

I can't believe what just happened on our air.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Moms Mabley is a vaudevillian African American actress.

[George St. Pierre]

Wait a minute.

[Detlef Schrempf]

A vaudevillian act?

[Stugotz]

Really? Cody, Cody, Cody. You have somewhere in the recesses of your mind, you are so Fossilized and ancient. That you just made a vaudevillian reference. You just. You. That just happened. That just happened.

[George St. Pierre]

There a professional wrestler named Mabley. Or moms or.

[Stugotz]

30 seconds. Ready? New contest. 30 seconds. Name Vaudevillian characters. Go.

[George St. Pierre]

Mom's Mapley.

[Stugotz]

That's one. Go.

[George St. Pierre]

Jimmy Durante.

[Stugotz]

He's gonna name more.

[George St. Pierre]

Jimmy Durant. Ruth Buzzy. I don't know.

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Jeremy]

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[Stugotz]

Theaters. Don LeBatard. 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.

[George St. Pierre]

Shecky. Oh, you got to know who Shecky.

[Stugotz]

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

[Detlef Schrempf]

I. Your.

[Stugotz]

Ally. No, no. Yeah. I don't like my allies.

[George St. Pierre]

Bel. I have the soul of a borsch belt comedian. I should be in the Catskills in 1945 opening for Shaggy Green. That's who I was destined to.

[Stugotz]

Be. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. I'm watching a CrossFit commercial on television right now.

[Chris Cote]

Stugats.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. And this is becoming hugely popular. CrossFit it.

[Chris Cote]

Is. I'm about to join a program, believe it or.

[Stugotz]

Not. It seems like a horrible idea. It seems like a really easy way to get injured. 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.

[Chris Cote]

Days. Are you saying I should abort.

[Stugotz]

Dan? I'm. 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.

[Chris Cote]

Healthy.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. And if 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 furtherm, you can become a CrossFit trainer if you pay $1,000 for a weekend. That guy's training you and he's going to hurt you because he doesn't know what he's.

[Chris Cote]

Doing. But it's so convincing, like they're promoting health. Are you saying they're putting everyone.

[Stugotz]

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 $1,000 for it? Let me explain something to you. CrossFit is running an enormous cam that will injure.

[Detlef Schrempf]

You. So not shocking that Sue, God says, oh, yeah, I think I'm going to do that. Because he goes with all the fads he probably has an outfit.

[Stugotz]

Already. Anything that's.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Popular. I have friends that are like workout monsters that started doing that and they're always complaining about their shoulder being thrown.

[Chris Cote]

Out. I'm.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Doomed. Oh really? You blew out your shoulder like doing the dumbbells on the tire.

[Stugotz]

Swing. That's surprising. So let me. 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. The train who wasn't watching after paying for $1,000 for his.

[Chris Cote]

Certification. Now my trainer who, who did pay $1,000 and got his certificate within a weekend, within 40, 48 hours. He wants to videotape my entire experience. Is that something you'd be interested in seeing.

[Stugotz]

Dan?

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

Okay. Including the.

[Chris Cote]

Injury. Because we start. Because we start next week and he is going to videotape session. What? I have 15 sessions. I've signed up for him. He will videotape.

[Stugotz]

All. This is going to be great. A, you're not going to make it through 15 A and B, you are going to come in limping within four days. A texture writes in. I've hurt myself 10 times in four years doing CrossFit but like crack. I can't quit.

[Detlef Schrempf]

It. Sue. Guys, I guarantee you, like you're going to break a bone and it's going to break the skin 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.

[Stugotz]

Minutes. Another texture. Right then hold on. I want to expose this.

[Chris Cote]

Scam.

[Stugotz]

Dan. I'm a massage therapist and I have a clinic in Weston. I work on at least three people a day from CrossFit injury. CrossFit is single handedly keeping our health industry alive in America. I mean, you people are idiots. All you got to do is watch what these people are doing. It's not normal human.

[Chris Cote]

Behavior. My chiropractor swear to.

[Detlef Schrempf]

You.

[Stugotz]

Damn. I mean it's.

[Chris Cote]

Crazy. Ryan said you start. You just sent me a text. You start crossfitting next week. I'll see you in two.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Weeks. Everybody has that friend that's been a bartender like three times in the service industry. He just can't it. That friend is trying to become a CrossFit trainer. Like that's his next big get rich quick scheme CrossFit. I never, never. What are you like you're like on a treadmill but you're also on.

[Stugotz]

Sand. But we have just tapped into something because the text are just pouring in. I have my certification from The National Academy of Sports Medicine. The same people who train the heat. And we frown upon CrossFit is one of the worst things for the unconditioned athlete in the.

[George St. Pierre]

World.

[Chris Cote]

World.

[Stugotz]

Wow. So stugats though, to have bought 15.

[Chris Cote]

Sessions. I, I purchased 15.

[Stugotz]

Sessions. Did you do it because you saw it on TV and there were a bunch of six packs jumping on a.

[Chris Cote]

Box? That's exactly why I did it. Now I did this, dan. I purchased 15 sessions. I believe they're 45 minutes a piece. How far into the over under. On how far into the first 45 minute session before I.

[Stugotz]

Cancel? Well, it's really.

[Chris Cote]

Hard. I know it's.

[Stugotz]

Hard. And, and 45 minutes that maybe they're going to throw in a lot of stretching. Maybe you have one of the world's few responsible CrossFit.

[Chris Cote]

Trainers. There is a 10 minute stretch beforehand. There is.

[Stugotz]

Right? It's 10 minutes a stretch and then you get shot out of a cannon. Cannon. And they tell you touch 100 times your toes to this bar that.

[Detlef Schrempf]

You'Re hanging from and then compete in a bull fight. It's very dangerous with it becoming a fad because a lot of people, like, the people that I know do it were like workout guys beforehand, but it becoming a fad. Everybody's like, oh, I got to get off the couch and CrossFit. No, you're gonna kill.

[Stugotz]

Yourself. No. He is so right on this though. This is what it is. You're gonna go for your first session and the first 10 minutes is going to be stretching and then it's going to be 100 toes to bar and then it's going to be a bull fight and then you're going to be lost at sea and then it's going to be over. That'll be your first session. That's right. That's how it works. Session one.

[Chris Cote]

Over. You know what else I tend to do with, with things like this, Dan? After the first session, like, I'll check myself out in the mirror and I'll be like, why aren't I ripped yet? Like, I do that all the time. I bought the ab roller. I have every single ab roller that's ever been put out there in the. Like, I have. Like, seriously, if you come up.

[Stugotz]

With a clever Jake Body by.

[Chris Cote]

Jake. If you do an infomercial, I'm there.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Yeah. Like he has the one that if he just sits on his couch, like it makes abs for.

[Stugotz]

Him. Then it just vibrates his stomach, takes your fat and makes it. I do fat.

[Chris Cote]

Converter. I do have that one. I do have that.

[Stugotz]

One. Let me see here. But you're gonna go in there. I.

[Chris Cote]

Do. I do the same thing with the ab roll. And then I'll complain about it. Like I' one session on the ab roller, look in the mirror, wonder why I don't have a six pack yet. And then I'll call and.

[Stugotz]

Complain. Please videotape this because it's gonna be. The first 10 minutes are gonna be stug out stretching like Jim Carrey and cable guy. Like, he's gonna put the mouthpiece in, he's gonna do some sprints, and then they're gonna ask him to do some Olympic lifts. And then. And then. No, they're Olympic lifts. I'm not making that up. They're Olympic lifts. They're gonna ask you to do some Olympic lifts. And I believe stage three or four of Stugat's CrossFit session will be one. He will do one rep of quitting.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Forever. All right, let's just close out with the quitting. Let's just close out strong. Let's just skip to the.

[Stugotz]

Quitting. I know you're breathing hard after the Olympic lifts you got. Let's do. Give me one rep of quitting forever, and we keep your money. Oh, man, I'm winded.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Yeah. You finished.

[Stugotz]

Stretching? What's the quitting? When do we get to the.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Quitting? Sir, you just completed the stretching. That's all that.

[Chris Cote]

You. You maintaining? He'll keep my.

[Stugotz]

Deposit. I love the text we're getting. I'm a cop, and my CrossFit instructor is a guy I've arrested. What? What a scam. CrossFit is like a total scam. It's on all your.

[Detlef Schrempf]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Stugotz]

Today. Here's a question. You walked into a stash house and found it full of $20 million. How much would you steal? Ask the question Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have to answer. In Netflix's new movie the Rip, they play a team of Miami cops alongside Teyana Taylor, Steven Yeon, Catalina San Deno, Kyle Chandler and Sasha Calle, all trying to decide are they the good guys or the bad guys. This movie is an edge of your seat thrill ride the entire time, keeping you guessing until the very end. Don't miss the Rip. Only on Netflix on January 16th. Don LeBatard. He for some reason would do a Gary Stevens impersonation of the offensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins and the University of Miami. Go ahead. Do you want to do that for the people? You're Gary Stevens impersonation. You want to give people some of that 30 years in the making. St.

[George St. Pierre]

What? Who needs.

[Dan Le Batard]

Me? Oh, that my whole.

[George St. Pierre]

Life. You're gonna go to Buffalo and win with Bernie Pomele. Who needs.

Baby? This is the Dan Levatar show with the ST.

[Stugotz]

Ca. You are widely regarded as one of the best pound per pound fighters in the history of this sport. George, is there anyone you look at who's got a skill in your sport, Any weight class that you say to yourself, I wish I had that skill. That guy has a skill that's better than my.

[George St. Pierre]

Skill. There is many guys who have skill better than mine in different departments. But mixed martial art, that's the beauty of it. You need to be well rounded. There is guy. A lot of guys are better than me at a lot of different things, but I believe in terms of pound for pound. The best pound for pound. I believe right now it's Frankie Edgar. That's my personal belief. That's why I.

[Stugotz]

Believe. Well, wait a minute. It's you, George. It's you or Silva. Everybody thinks it's you or Silva you're doing Edgar. Why you're being humble. You're being modest George St. Pierre again, aren't.

[George St. Pierre]

You? No, no, no. I truly believe he is the best pound for pound he was fighting for in a weight class above is and he was world champion and even Though he lost his two last fight, I believe the judges made a difference, made a mistake. I believe I gave him these two fights. You know, that's my personal opinion.

[Stugotz]

Opinion. This Saturday you can Also check out UFC Macau China 9am Fuel TV and then November 17, Saturday at St. Pierre Con. And everybody loves fighting. This guy loves watching his fight. He is in artist, he is a tactician. I guess the way that I should have asked the question, George, because I do understand that some guys are better at certain skills than other guys. I'm just wondering if you could point to one guy, George, that you look at and say, I wish I did X as well as he.

[George St. Pierre]

Does. You know, it's a lot of guy, you know, like I look at boxing, the quickness of Floyd Mayweather, I wish I could have the quick, the hands as quick as Floyd Mayweather. You know, it's a lot of guy that I couldn't do. Take what they do well. And I would like to add it to my fight game. Like a guy came training with me, his name is Brawl Us. Timo is jiu jitsu world champion. I wish I could be as good as him on the floor with submission hold, you know, but I'm not, you know, and I can say that about tons of guys, but you know, you need to put it all.

[Stugotz]

Together. But you would feel right, George, given your multifaceted skill set, you feel if I put you in the octagon with any boxer, any time in history, anyone from the heavyweights, Tyson to Floyd Mayweather, you feel like you would, you would beat a one, any one dimensional fighter.

[George St. Pierre]

Correct? Yeah, of course. In a mixed martial arts fight, you, you put me in a ring with for example, Mike Tyson and then boxing fight, I'm gonna have a bad night, you know, but in a mixed martial art fight, it's a different game, of course, because I'm allowed to kick, punch, knee, elbow throws on the floor, submission. All this is a different sport. And I'm suited for my sport. And they're suited for their sport. Their sport are more specific to what they do. Our sport is more like general, it's a general fighting, it includes different sports. So of course it's like a triathlete. A triathlete, he's good at running, long distance, swimming, long distance and biking. But if you take only a runner, a guy that does only running is going to be better than the triathlete. Triathlete and running, the biker, same thing. And the swimmers, the same thing. But if you put it all together, the triathlete Will be. Triathlon guy will be the.

[Stugotz]

Best. Who are your top three pound for pound UFC fighters right now? You said Fred, Frankie Edgar is number one. Who's two and three for you.

[George St. Pierre]

Frank Edgar Anderson's voice very good to Jon Jones right now. Jose Aldo is very good. It's hard to say, you know, it's very hard to say, but you know, sooner or later. At one point, I remember it was Fedor Magnalenko and he lost. So every. And he lost, you know, so these things can change in a blink of an eye. And there is some weight class that I believe that they're more competitive than others, you know, and this, we can argue, you know, all day about that. It's like in boxing they used to say, oh, back in the day, we used to have better heavyweights than. Than we have now. And you know, this arg. This is an. It's an argument that everybody can argue about. So it's the same thing in ufc, you know, there's some weight class that have more competition than other than I believe. And you know, so it is what it is, you.

[Chris Cote]

Know. George, how quickly could you kill me if you wanted.

[George St. Pierre]

To? To? I don't know. Depend of you. You. Do you have a weapon on your. On your. So maybe you can kill me faster, you.

[Chris Cote]

Know? No, no, I have no weapon. And you.

[George St. Pierre]

Just. Nobody is faster than a bullet, my.

[Chris Cote]

Friend. Okay, but. But take the gun and the weapon out of it. I have no weapon. You just decide you don't like me and you want to kill.

[Stugotz]

Me. He's got a pool cue. He's got. Let's give him a pool cue. How quickly can you. How quickly can you kill.

[George St. Pierre]

Him? You have any, any. Do you have any sharps object near.

[Stugotz]

You? No, no, just a billiard cue. All he's got.

[George St. Pierre]

Is. I'm sure you have a pen. I'm sure you have a.

[Chris Cote]

Pen. No.

[Stugotz]

Pen. No pen. Okay, okay. We've got a. We've got a billiards. We've got a. We've got a pool stick and we've got a pen. How quickly could you kill.

[George St. Pierre]

Him? Hard to say. I mean, they depend who get the pen first. You know, maybe he can hurt me, you know, George, but I believe it could take me less than 30 seconds. Thank you, George and his.

[Stugotz]

Life. But are you killing me with the pool cue and my.

[Chris Cote]

Pen? Like what's.

[Stugotz]

Happening? You're asking a lot of questions. I'm.

[George St. Pierre]

Interested, you know, you know that we talk about it, but you know, for example, a chokehold, you Know some people, sometimes they get choked and they passed out. I believe it takes 30 seconds before it starts. The brain, you have to keep the choke after the person pass out. Like 30 seconds before it start to have like brain like.

[Stugotz]

Damage. Okay, so a little more than 30.

[George St. Pierre]

Seconds.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Okay. Because you go for the choke, right?

[George St. Pierre]

Okay. It takes more time. Maybe that choke, the strike, it's hard to say, you know, it will be. It's not like in a movie movie, you know, you see the guy give a punish, a person is dead. It's hard to kill someone. It's much harder than.

[Stugotz]

People.

[Chris Cote]

Dan. I'm confused though. I mean, this guy could choke me out less than 30 seconds. He's concerned about a.

[Stugotz]

Bit. George St. Pierre, again, to knock.

[George St. Pierre]

You out, it's one thing, but to put you technically dead like that. Another thing, you.

[Stugotz]

Know, last thing before we let you go, when George St. Pierre decides to really eat poorly. And I don't believe that you've had a bad calorie in the last 10 years. You probably haven't had a carbohydrate in about a decade. But when you decide that.

[George St. Pierre]

You. True. I just ate a chocolate cake my last meal. It was actually pretty good, you know, You're a jerk. I'm not kidding you. I don't watch what I eat. I try to eat as healthy as I can, but I don't have. I'm not one of these guys that watch what I eat. I'm lucky I don't get fat. I. I can even when I go on vacation and I drink and I get completely drunk, I. I never get fat, you know, so it, it's. I'm. I'm lucky. My family is like that. The. My cousins like that. My sister is like that. My mom does like that. So I don't. I don't need really much to. To watch what I.

[Chris Cote]

Eat. I think what dad's upset about is that you ruined his.

[Stugotz]

Psych. I mean, I just hate this about this guy. As if he's not better than me and.

[George St. Pierre]

Everything. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but there's a truth. It's like my family. Let me tell you something. Nobody does sport in my family. They all smoke cigarettes. And my sister, my both sister, they have. They have two babies and they have abs. You can see the abs. And they contract, you know. Oh, come on. Like.

[Stugotz]

That. How.

[George St. Pierre]

Fast? They don't do sports, you.

[Stugotz]

Know. How fast could your sister kill.

[George St. Pierre]

Stuff? Well, I did this. I.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Don'T. I don't.

[Stugotz]

Know. I don't know, same.

[George St. Pierre]

Fear. You asked me. You asked me. It will take me to kill you. Listen, I don't know how long it will take me to kill you, probably. But to put you out of order, that, like, put you unconscious, could take me maybe, like, 10 seconds. Maybe I can do five, 10 seconds. But killing, technically dead is hard. To kill someone. Maybe it will take more. You guys.

[Stugotz]

Are. He's so meticulous about how he would kill you and how. How.

[George St. Pierre]

Long I've been doing. I've been doing interviews, the promotion of this fight, you know, for weeks. This is the crazy interview I.

[Greg Cody]

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[George St. Pierre]

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[Detlef Schrempf]

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[Stugotz]

Ounces. D ler ahoy is Captain Slappy. STS is this chum bucket. This is the D Levatar show with the stuff. I was in the steam room with a German or an Italian man. I did not recognize the accent. Who. Now keep in mind, I want you know how these steam rooms work. Usually there are, you know, it's double decker.

[Chris Cote]

Seats.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Yeah. This.

[Stugotz]

Works.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. And there's.

[Stugotz]

Steam. There's steam. Correct. And I'm sitting there. I'm sitting there with my elbows on my knees. Okay. Yep. And I'm sitting uncomfortably close to the front door, but it's a pretty small steam room. And this guy comes storming in there and he's just way too comfortable with his nudity. And my head's in the wrong place. And so I. I think there, there should be some sort of steam room etiquette.

[Chris Cote]

Right? Well, I feel like there is, but. But go ahead, move on with the.

[Stugotz]

Story. He starts. He's nude, totally nude. And I know this because he's searching for something around me, like something he thinks he's left in the steam room. Keys.

[Chris Cote]

Something. Right. Perhaps the key that goes on that little like, rubber band thing that you put around your wrist and somehow you misplace.

[Stugotz]

It. What should be the etiquette there? Shouldn't he ask me? I mean, maybe he was asking me. I didn't understand the language he was speaking, but shouldn't he ask me to move or something instead of rummaging around near me and sort of searching? You know what I mean? Like, this was a very confined space and he was totally nude. Like he wasn't wearing a towel around his waist. Nothing. And he's just. And I'm describing it as rummaging because he thinks it's either. That it's either behind.

[Chris Cote]

Me.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Or around.

[Chris Cote]

Me. Well, where's he sitting in relation to.

[Stugotz]

You? Where is he sitting? He's not sitting. He's. He's standing. He's come in and he's standing and he's Sort of facing me, and I'm. And I'm. But all I'm saying, like, I didn't understand his language and he understand mine, because my language was, oh, oh, hey, whoa. My language was just. Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

Whoa. I mean, this guy must be thinking, does this guy say anything other than, whoa.

[Stugotz]

Hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey. Shouldn't that be universal in a steam room? Shouldn't everyone be fluent? And hey, whoa, whoa.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Hey. How old was this.

[Stugotz]

Gentleman? I mean, come on, now. It's not like a tree where you're testing rings around the waist to find out the age of a person? I don't know how old he was. I never saw much of his.

[Chris Cote]

Face. Are you telling me there was no. At no point he said, hey, I think I lost something? Is it around you? Can you help me look for this.

[Stugotz]

Particular. It became evident soon after.

[Detlef Schrempf]

My. Looking for something had to have been an older gentleman, because they tend to really rock the nude look in. In the steam room. Like, at a certain point, you just don't care.

[Stugotz]

Anymore. His dong looked about 50.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Oh. So I took care of.

[Chris Cote]

It. Let me cross that question off. I was gonna ask if you took a peek. I think when you go into the steam bath, Dan, the etiquette is you should actually. To be honest with you, you're in a steam bath. You should be naked. Like, let's start right.

[Detlef Schrempf]

There. Oh, sue. Is that.

[Stugotz]

Guy. I wasn't naked. I was wearing shorts. I was not.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Naked.

[Stugotz]

Shorts.

[Chris Cote]

Yes. You see, I would say that everyone. At least you go with the towel with nothing.

[Stugotz]

Underneath. Yeah, but I didn't. I just walked.

[George St. Pierre]

In.

[Stugotz]

In. I mean, it's in my building. I was.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. See, I'm thinking that everyone else in there is thinking you're the strange.

[Stugotz]

Guy. If you make me think about it now, I think I might have been in there with socks and shoes, too. Sneakers. So you think I should have. I didn't have flip flops. It's part of the problem. And I didn't want to walk around on those floors. On those floors. I didn't want to walk.

[Chris Cote]

Around. You didn't walk into a steam room with sneakers.

[Stugotz]

On? I did.

[Chris Cote]

Yes. There are places in Europe where they'll arrest you for.

[Stugotz]

That. Yeah. Sneakers and socks and shorts. And then this guy comes in sneakers, socks, and shorts. That's correct. I didn't feel overdressed.

[Chris Cote]

Admittedly. Hold on. Did you bring. Did you bring a cup of.

[Stugotz]

Coffee? Admittedly, I felt.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Overdressed. You're kidding, right? You wore sneakers? I.

[Stugotz]

Did. No, I'm not Kidding. I'm not.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Kidding. I wore sneakers because people like you wore sneakers in there and you didn't want to walk around.

[Stugotz]

Barefoot. No, there was. Yeah. Because people walk around there barefoot. And I don't want. Because this German guy or Italian, even though those accents are nothing.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Alike. Don't know how you got those confused. They're very.

[Chris Cote]

Different. I don't think the German guy, now that you're giving us more details, was looking around for anything that he lost. I think he was just trying to get a closer look at determine. Is this man wearing.

[Stugotz]

Sneakers? These New Balances. I wonder if those guys are doing like a show right now in Germany or.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Italy. You're on a hidden camera.

[Stugotz]

Right? Where they're. No. I know another TV show that he's doing, a sports radio show in Germany or Italy. He's talking about. About sneakers in the steam bath. I don't. I don't know what that accent was. Can you do a German accent? Let.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Me. Was wearing sneakers and.

[Stugotz]

Vice. Yes, that's much.

[Chris Cote]

Better. So.

[Stugotz]

Some. These.

[Chris Cote]

Guys. This guy is telling his.

[Stugotz]

Version. Yes, he's telling his version of the story. I lost my keys and I had to creep around this guy who was wearing shorts and sneakers. Sneakers and socks in the steam room. Those stocks. Those socks got.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Moist. So did he find what he was looking.

[Stugotz]

For? It wasn't in there.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Evidently. But I'm sure you found what you were looking.

[Stugotz]

For. That's how the story ends, my friend. And I found it forever. We're joined now by what I'm guessing I may be wrong here. I'm doing this off the top of my head. Is the second best basketball player in the history of that country. He now coaches for the Sonics. Detlef.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Shrimp. Are.

[Stugotz]

You. It's you and Dirk Nowitzki. That's it.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Right? Pretty much, yes. Assume that's what you can call.

[Stugotz]

It. Okay, so Detlef Shrimp. The second best basketball in the history of an entire.

[Chris Cote]

Country. It's.

[Stugotz]

Amazing. Stu Gods. He joins us now on 790. The ticket filled with rage right now because he's saying to himself, who the hell says Dirk Nowitzki was better than I was? I was really good. Good. So we want to get to the bottom of this debt left real quick. You hear that? Dirk Nowitzki loves to sing David Hasselhoff to himself at the free throw line. And you say to yourself, I am ashamed of him on behalf of my countrymen. Don't.

[Detlef Schrempf]

You? Not really. It's not the music that matters, but the process of.

[Stugotz]

It. I don't.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Understand. Well, he does something to take his mind off what's actually happening on the game, and that's what a lot of guys should do. That struggle at the free throw line and that's not focused on making or missing the free throw, but basically just going through the motion and keeping your mind somewhere else. And he does a good job at that. As good as anybody else in the.

[Stugotz]

League. Do you like David.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Hasselhoff? I, frankly, I could not tell you, you know, if I heard him, if it was him, I don't think I've ever heard his.

[Stugotz]

Music. So he's pretty greasy and creepy, don't you think? Hold on a second. We're going to play some of it for you and. And see if you think it's okay. On behalf of hip hop and a hip hop league, if you think it's okay to be singing this to yourself. I can't stop this.

[Chris Cote]

Feeling. Detliff bigger with the younger guys in Germany. Detlef a little bit older. Maybe he's not down with David.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Hasselhoff. I've never heard this before, but it would definitely keep your mind of, you know, missing the free throw because you probably have to laugh. Laugh at yourself for thinking of.

[Stugotz]

That. Those damn German kids. What are they doing in that country? Shaming it with this crappy, crappy.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Music. Hey, Selling some records for him right.

[Stugotz]

Now. Well, that's true. And he's an international superstar, right? He's. He's huge in.

[Greg Cody]

German.

[Stugotz]

If. If you and David Hasselhoff walked into the same bar in Germany, Detlev, are you getting any of the.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Women? Probably not.

[Stugotz]

No. And because he's hugely famous there.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Correct. I don't know. You know, I don't go back. I mean, I go home every summer, but I don't spend much time in the bars to listening or seeing David.

[Stugotz]

Hasselhoff. So who would you say is the most popular person in.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Germany? The most popular person. Wow. Probably Andrea right.

[George St. Pierre]

Now. The.

[Stugotz]

Chancellor. The.

[Chris Cote]

Chancellor. Okay.

[Stugotz]

Sure. So if he walked into a bar with David.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Hasselho. It's a.

[Stugotz]

Sheet. Oh, she. I'm sorry. I didn't hear what you said. The.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Chancellor.

[Stugotz]

Okay. If she walked into a bar with David Hasselhoff, then we'd know that David Hasselhoff was dating the.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Chancellor. If you say.

[Chris Cote]

So. All.

[Stugotz]

Right. Detlef Shrimp joins us on 790, the ticket. What else do Germans like that Americans don't understand soccer. Yeah, that's true. Anything.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Else? Well, I think they understand beer, so I don't think that's an issue right.

[Stugotz]

Now. We've got that in common. It's what brings our countries together. We'd never let a woman run our.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Country. No, you have. Not yet. But hey, don't you worry. Sooner or later, Germany's just a few centuries.

[Stugotz]

Ahead. In that regard, yes, in that regard, it is. All right, Detlef, we salute you. Anything? Any final Hasselhoff thoughts that you.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Have? No, no Hasselhoff. I thought we were talking basketball, but.

[Stugotz]

No. Who's gonna win the series? Debt left. Who do you got, Dallas or.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Miami? Oh, it's pretty tough to go against Shaq and Wade, but I like to. I like to see Dirk have a good series. That would make it very interesting. So I'm gonna go with Miami in.

[Stugotz]

Six. Break it down as a coach for us, if you would.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Detlef.

[Stugotz]

Why? Why Miami in six? Because they have Shaq and.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Wade. Well, they. You know, when Shaq is playing the way he has been the last couple series, he is. He's very hard to contain and, you know, getting into the lane, getting guys into foul trouble and with Wade penetrating and now everybody else playing off them, it's going to be pretty tough. But on the other hand, they're going to have to contain dirt and they're picking roles and that's going to be tough on.

[Chris Cote]

Miami. Also that you played with with Gary Payton, we kind of have some fun with him and his trash talking. You have any funny stories from your playing days with Gary.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Payton? Oh, there are lots of funny stories, but that's in the confines of the.

[Stugotz]

Team.

[Chris Cote]

Okay. So that's not gonna share.

[Stugotz]

Those. But he. He's the best trash talker you've ever heard in the sport, is he.

[George St. Pierre]

Not?

[Detlef Schrempf]

Not well, you know, they're different trash talkers. They're pretty funny guys and guys that are pretty clean and make good comments. And then they're guys that talk about your mama and everything else. And Gary's probably one that falls into the latter.

[Stugotz]

Category. The yo mama. Can you give us some German trash talk before you.

[Detlef Schrempf]

Leave? No, you'd have to ask Hasselhoff for that.

[Stugotz]

One. Okay. We were trying to go. We're trying to contact him. Thank you, Detlef. We appreciate.

[Detlef Schrempf]

It. All right, take.

Care. Thank.