The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Mike Elko's Sausage Fingers (feat. Matthew Berry)
05 Dec 2025
"Thank you for playing." Zaslow searches for Valentine's Day advice as the crew learns that The Village People are still kickin', discusses the majestic 2007 Houston Rockets, and hears the story of Dan and Greg sharing a motel room. Also, Matthew Berry! Matthew Berry! MATTHEW BERRY! MATTHEW BEEERRRRRYYYYYYY! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What Valentine's Day advice does Zaslow seek?
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Chapter 2: How did the 2007 Houston Rockets perform?
This is my last weekend. I'm going to the SEC Championship game. I'm leaving this afternoon, and then I'm here on Fridays. That's right. Okay, so here's what happened. So I'm taking my wife for Valentine's. We're going to Vegas. She's never been before. So we're going to Vegas, all right? And, you know, we're perusing the flights. We want to get a good deal. Do we do nonstop?
Do you go for the cheapest flight? Yeah, usually nonstop.
Chapter 3: What story do Dan and Greg share about their motel experience?
We found a great flight. This was two days ago. Found a great flight. Actually, I think it was yesterday morning. We found a great flight coming back from Vegas, flying back here on JetBlue. Nonstop, Dan. $1.75. That's an incredible, one way.
That's a top tooth. Good deal.
$1.75, nonstop, not even at the crack of dawn. It's like 11 a.m., you know, Pacific time. Don't need to explain time zones, Dan. You understand how time zones work, right? So anyway. I go to book them both, but the price for the two of them, it ends up being like 500 bucks. Like, whoa, 500 bucks? When I had just one person, it was only 175. Okay, I'll back out. I'll buy them each individually.
All right, you know, 175, 175, get the good deal. So I book mine, 175, great. I go back to book my wife's, 450. Within minutes, they changed the price and even said that value is not available any longer. I'm like, all right. Well, as of right now, I'm the only one flying back from Vegas.
I know what happened. You weren't grouped together in the same tier.
Yeah.
You don't know what happened? You don't know if the price went up the moment your one ticket made availability make the price go up because there were fewer tickets available?
And then I had to explain. No, but there were lots of seats on the plane still. That's the bull. And then my wife, she's like, hey, you know what? Why is there only one ticket booked? And I was like sheepishly embarrassed. Well, here's what happened. So she's like, so I'm not flying home. I live in Vegas now.
You know how sometimes you see on a ticket only one left? I never believed that. Maybe that was the case.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Matthew Berry provide about fantasy football?
A salute to America. And if you put in a random FIFA entertainer generator, who performs at this thing? It spits out Andrea Bocelli first. We got him. It spits out Robbie Williams second. And then it spits out Nicole Scherzinger third. Does it ever spit out the village people? I wonder whose call that was. I'm not at liberty to guess. But the village people are also going to be there.
They're still doing it. The village people are still doing it. I don't know whose call that was. It seems random.
Are they going to win the Peace Prize? They can't still be doing it.
You're going to see the dance. And you're going to see the village people doing the dance. And you're also going to see a proud Miami hometown hero. Danny Ramirez is a part of this broadcast.
Ooh, that's Falcon.
Yeah. Heidi Klum and this guy. Glad to see him finally getting some work. Kevin Hart is going to be part of the proceedings.
Are you not stunned that the village people are still out here doing it? Put it on the Paulette Levitard show. I was surprised the other day to see that ACDC is still touring.
Yeah, still running around there in a schoolboy outfit.
At almost 80. This has got to be 80 years old. I can't believe. I didn't think that the village people were still a thing. Did you guys know that the village people were still a thing?
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Chapter 5: How does the team discuss the upcoming World Cup draw?
But, like, how close were they to actually hiring him? No, the deal was done. He was boarding a plane. Like, he was the coach. He won the search. And they threw a rash and a... They threw both of them. Both of them? Both of them. A rash and a shit. I thought it was a rash of shit. No, a rash and a shit. Our former caller? No, not a rash.
I thought it was a rash of shit. You're saying it's a rash and shit. Both of them.
Yeah. Or what some other people call a hissy fit. And they made their school not hire Mark Stoops and hire Mike Elko instead. This happened once before where the Tennessee fans didn't want Greg Sciano, I believe. Oh, yeah. Remember that? I guess that one worked out. Chiano's not lighting the world on fire over at Rutgers. But they were invoking Penn State as a reason why to not hire him.
But a lot of times we like to hold up when fans thought a head coaching hire was going to be bad and you're stupid. You've got to let the pros decide. This time the fans were on the money. And Texas A&M is one of the best teams in the nation. They're in the college football playoff. And it's all thanks to their passion.
Them taking to the streets in the way that Premier League fans have changed the history of soccer. They stopped Super League. The only thing close in this nation to the power that the fans have in Europe is college football in college towns. And those fans deserve to be saluted.
How about when WWE fans got rock out of the main event of WrestleMania so Cody Rhodes could finish his story? How about that?
If you want to talk wrestling, now we have our opportunity to talk about... Is Heyman your favorite professional wrestling manager in the history of... Bobby Heenan.
Bobby Heenan for me, but Heyman's right there.
All right. So Heyman had a moment the other day that was great professional wrestling manager heel moment where he just shoves a kid. There's a kid in his way, and he didn't want to see the kid, and he just physically... moves the kid in a way that's aggressive and I think could constitute something close to assault.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the Village People in the current entertainment landscape?
Because the sneeze was muffled, but it was muffled in a way that allowed me to hear the dampness of your hands from what came out of your nose.
It was like a three, though, on the scale of how wet it could be. He caught it. A three? What's a ten?
A ten is like mucus where I can separate my hands and you can see the... He caught his sneeze, and here's the thing. Because he was thinking, his mouth was open, and some of the wetness also came out of his mouth. So the fact that you have a tissue on the ready there for what sounded like a very wet sneeze that was only muffled by your hand... You know you're gonna so-so day drive for my sneeze.
It was damp. It sounded, the sneeze sounded damp. Thank you. Get me the Rhys Davis talks to Lou Holtz, one of the great moments of improv in the history of ESPN.
I'll get the longer version. I heard you say the F word one day and was setting that up.
Now, Marshall, usually it's all Rakeem Cato who did throw a touchdown pass in his 40th game. Devin Johnson put up 272 yards. That's a Marshall record. Nothing to sneeze at. So good from Rich. That's good stuff.
That's what you call a callback. I love Rich's work. Rich Davis's work. Let's go ahead and just play that again so that people can be alarmed at what that sneeze sounds like. Because if I told you without context that that sound was a sneeze, you would not believe it.
Also, mentioned Amir Abdullah. Now, Marshall, usually it's all Rakeem Cato who did throw a touchdown pass in his 40th. Devin Johnson put up 272 yards. That's a Marshall record. Nothing to sneeze at.
Do me a favor. I want to hear the whole thing again just one more time so that people can hear before the sneeze arrives the seizing in Lou Holtz's body right before the sneeze as he tries to keep it down, but he fails.
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