The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Comedy Duo of Breen & McDonough

Episode Date: June 5, 2024

The voices of the Sean McDonough and Mike Breen stop by together (despite our lack of Dan) to flip off the nation, discuss splitting meals, praise each other, and share their thoughts on pressure in the NBA Finals and Greg Cote's "McOverrated" take. They also relive a classic Vin Scully mistake and Breen discusses the future of JJ Redick as a head coach. Plus, is Broccoli real? Tony shares some insight as we finish off our hour with some vegetable talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Happy to do it Sean. It's good to see you nice to see you. It's nice to see you too, Mike I don't know why we excluded you from it. It's nice. We just saw Mike I've never met Sean and so that was rude of me Mike. It is very nice to see you, sir. I I feel like we've been bamboozled here. Oh, because LeBittard's not here? Yeah. Mike. We got 20 before we go on.

It's very bad. Mike, you have been on with me 17 times before you went on with dad. Bang. That is a great bang. It should be a bang bang. The NBA finals tip off tomorrow night. Very much looking forward to that series. The Stanley Cup Finals right down here at Sunrise, Florida.

That gets underway on Saturday night. The Panthers taking on the Edmonton Oilers. Greg Cody will join us at 11.15 to talk about the overrated Connor McDavid. Mike Breen is with us, voice of the NBA, voice of the NBA Finals. Sean McDonough is with us. He will be calling the Stanley Cup. Sean, I will start with you. Do people who have never been to Sunrise Florida, Sean, do they think Sunrise Florida is paradise? Absolutely. 100%. It's a great place. We're looking forward to getting back down there.

Dan couldn't be here, by the way, because he's interviewing, part two of his interview with George Sedano out in LA. So he could not make it. I apologize. And Mike Breen seems to be very upset by this. He thinks I duped him. And I did not. Bamboozled, he said. Bamboozled. But Mike has been on with me so many times without Dan. And I'm surprised that I got the reaction that I got, Mike. I'm hurt. We didn't find out Dan wasn't gonna be on till about 15 minutes before I tried to cancel I didn't think it

mattered yeah either way Sean's background amazing so much better than mine already I'm number two here I mean I would like to say this you know I know Mike's very upset that Dan isn't on here and he texted me and said he was going to not do this and I talked him into it, so we're there. You're my guy, Sean. He's been on like 18 times with you guys. So this is the first time I've ever been on and apparently I can't be on by myself.

I have to be on with the legendary Mike Breen and the NBA to get a chance to be on this legendary show. I'd also say like, Mike, don't sell yourself short. It's blurred, but you seem to have great crown molding behind you. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Let me tell you something.

Mike is in the nicest hotel in Boston, regardless of how the background looks, which on the hockey beat, we don't always stay at some of these five star places. There are a lot of five star choices as you alluded to in Sunrise, so there's that. But we don't always get to stay at the five star places. How'd you guys, if you don't mind me asking, and I'm not certain if you guys actually got together for dinner last night, but Sean has to get finger surgery he made it to dinner he's

getting it today by the way he told me that and he's getting it today Can you give me the finger right now please I want to see that I get to hold the mic on national TV like this friends of mine say you're flipping off North America no it's just I don't know, Mike, but I'm so used to holding the mic with my right hand. The producers say, can't you just hold it in your left hand? But I can't. It's not a coincidence that that's the finger. It's from overuse of using it. It's so many people over the past. But I'm wondering, you know, what's the problem? I cannot legally drive now in Boston since I can't use my middle finger. But I am wondering here guys because you were supposed to have dinner.

I don't know if Mike made it. I know Sean did. Now he's here doing the interview. He has to get surgery. He's a hockey announcer. That's a hockey announcer. Okay. Did Mike Breen make dinner last night? By the way, with a nod, Stu got to the hockey playoffs and probably the NBA playoffs as well. I'm referring to this as a mid-body injury. We're not allowed to be specific about injuries. It's an appendage problem. Got it.

And by the way, Sean, don't feel obligated to call him that name. I refuse to call him that. It's Jonathan. Only my mom called me Jonathan, but I'm good with it. Yeah, I'm good with it. So did Mike Breen make it out to dinner? Mike, I actually crashed Mike and Doris' dinner. Wow.

They were sort of the warmup for me, and then I went over and because nobody else would do this, I had dinner with PJ Carlyssimo. So I just stopped by to say hi to Mike and Doris. PJ, one of the nicest people I've ever met. No, you get out more. That's not true. Oh, okay.

I'm sorry. What has PJ done to scorn both of you? I mean. No, you're right. He's a great friend to both of us. He's a great friend to anybody, but his dinners last four to five hours. And if you have a game coming up in the coming days,

it really cuts into your preparation time. When you guys as broadcasting legends go to dinner together, do either of you ever order a meal and beforehand you order different meals and decide I'm gonna eat half of this meal and you're gonna eat the other half and we're gonna split it.

We'll split it. And we'll combine the meals. Well, first off, when we have dinner, this has become a tradition. The entire dinner, we talk in our announcer voice. Yes. Just feel it's better when we do it with talking to each other, talking to the waiters.

It's again, it's all part of the preparation. Mike enjoyed the appetizer last night and when the waiter came over to ask where everything was, he said, which always gets a great reaction. So we do speak. And you know what the problem when play-by-play people get together is, but one time I did a game with Jay Billis on a Saturday night

and then we were driving from Duke up to Virginia to do a game Monday night. So I mentioned to a friend of mine, yeah, Jay and I are just gonna drive up to Charlottesville Sunday. And my buddy said, who's gonna listen? And that's sort of the problem when play-by-play people get together for dinner.

There's just a lot of simultaneous talking. I'll have the bang, bang shrimp. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Breen, have you ever done that? Please say yes. I'll say, that's not the first time I've heard that joke.

What? You brushed him in his ass. He felt so good about it, Mike. He really is cranky that Dan's not here. I wasn't even going to get it first. I am wondering because I've asked athletes this before and sometimes you'll hear other athletes ask, hey, if you could take one thing from another athlete, what is the thing that

you would take? So I will ask you this as play-by-play guys, Mike, if there is something from Sean McDonough's play-by-playability that you could take and implement into your game, what would it be? Alright, I'm going to be serious here for a minute I'm glad you brought that up because this guy is as good as anybody in our in our business and it's because of his

versatility. You think you you find me a guy that does football college and pro hockey baseball basketball at an elite level. He does all sports at an elite level. I'm blown away. I'm in awe of how elite he is at every single sport. I'm a one trick pony.

I do one sport. This guy crushes it on every sport. So to answer your question with one word, versatility. Sean, go ahead. I appreciate that. I'd take Mike's salary. That would be number one. No, I mean, I think there's a reason why I believe it's three times in a row now that Mike has won the National Sports Emmy for play-by-play

in what Scott Van Pelt described on SportsCenter the other night is he was congratulating Mike as a very crowded category. And it really is. So, I mean, that's not just the way his peers feel about him. I think that's the way the audience feels about him. You know, I think I've always said our job is to enhance the viewer's enjoyment of the game and not detract from it. You know, and sometimes there is a fine line. You know, Mike is just he's the best and he's, you know, he's on all the technical

play by play things, it's 100%. But, you know, he adds to your enjoyment of the game with the well-placed story, with his enthusiasm, with the ability, as you just said, bang, to punctuate the big moments. To me, that's one of the great tests of any great play-by-play person. How do you do in the biggest moments? And then his interaction with his teammates. He brings the best out of the people that he works with too.

So, you know. But the salary. I think the Emmys, I'd like the Emmys. I'd like the national sports casters. But the money is what you want, really. But the money is pretty much it. Mike Breed and Sean McDonough are both with us here. Stanley Cup finals get underway on Saturday, NBA finals. Tomorrow, I'll say this in front of Sean because he's from Boston.

Are you amazed, Mike Breen, are you amazed that Boston as a city is so unlikable, a sports city is so unlikable, that we have found a way to rally behind Kyrie Irving. I have to leave that. I'm a green team or I will be at game one with my mom. I'm not really what he did to the city he should never be forgiven. He's promised he was going to stay and he left us that he stomped on the logo and all those other horrible things. Jonathan, I could not disagree more.

I mean, it's one of my favorite cities in the country. I love coming here. The atmosphere at the TD Garden is off the charts. They love their team as much as anybody. And as you know, when fans have this unbelievable love affair, sometimes it becomes irrational. But that's the way it is in all the great towns. But this place is, it's an amazing place to be during, not just in the arena, but walking

around town, going to the restaurants last night. It just, they're so into it. To me, it fires me up. But Mike, I think we were talking about this right before you guys came on, and I love Boston. I went to school at Worcester, Massachusetts. I'm just saying as a sports town. Clark University. Clark University, very well done. Excellent, excellent school.

Yeah, I went there though, Sean. Three point record. When people don't get into Syracuse or Fordham, they go to Clark. Well, that happened. Well done by you. But we were discussing right before you both came on, I was saying that Luka has no pressure to win an NBA championship this year, that I think it's all squarely

on the Boston Celtics at Jason Tatum. Mike Breen, I'll start with you, do you agree with that? I don't understand the whole thing. Now, clearly they have pressure to win because they're in the finals, and this is their ultimate goal, and neither one of them have done that. But I just don't understand how it's gonna make or break their reputation.

I mean, Michael Jordan won his first title. He was 28. It was his seventh year. LeBron James won his first title. It was his ninth year. He was 27. I mean, Tatum's 26. Donchich is 25. You know, if neither one of them, you know, obviously one of them is going to win,

but the one who doesn't win, maybe they don't win next year, but then maybe they win three or four in a row. It's, I mean, to put that kind of pressure on somebody in their early 20s or mid 20s, and especially the kind of success Tatum has had, yes, he's fallen short. I just, I never understand that.

Obviously the goal is to win the whole thing, and that's what they're trying for. But let their careers play out before we talk about, you know, did they come short of their potential? Sean, what do you think as a fan, as someone who grew up in Boston? I think if they don't win, Jason Tatum's going to have to leave town. That's pretty much it. I agree with Mike.

He's a great player, one of the best players in the NBA and obviously Don Cicis too. I just don't want to sit too close to courtside tomorrow in case Don just starts screaming at people sitting near the court like he did in the Western Conference final. But I do think there's a little bit of a narrative here in town. Yeah, Jason Tatum's great, but we need him to be great when it matters the most. And obviously this is what it's gonna matter most.

Selvix have been kind of around the championship conversation for several years now with this nucleus. And it's a lot more of a team than just Jason Tatum. I think they have a terrific team that Brad Stevens and the group have built here. But certainly here in town, if they don't win the championship this time, it'll be a huge disappointment.

And I think Tatum will take a lot of the blame for that, whether it's fair or not. Stu Gatz here, summertime is here, which means travel season is upon us. If you're like me and love to travel during the warmer months, the first thing you worry about before traveling is, how safe will my home be while I'm away? I no longer worry about that

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That's not true. Yeah. And there's a World War Two veteran pitching into another white guy and he avoids another white guy Oh my god, Notre Dame the fighting Irish have done it again for the eight time only paying white people Spoo gots Chubby checker I'm sorry He's black

He's black and I was really going what's a white name? Chubby checker I'm sorry man I'm improv'ing here. I thought I didn't hear you correctly. I'm a Hawaiian chubby checker running down the sidewalk. He smells it differently. Maybe you didn't hear me correctly. His name is Chubby Checkers. There's an S at the end. I feel like that should be the largest of funds. Chubby Checker. It sounds like a college football name.

This is the Dan LeVatar Show with the Stukats. Big Brother Green, I think the pressure is on the front office, the Brad Stevens and all these draft picks that they've spent to get to this point. So what do you think of that? I think that it may not be on Jason Tatum to perform right now, but I do think that front office should show and tell right now. Well the front office has done a magnificent job. He didn't win executive at the year, but you could have made a claim for it in terms of what they brought in. And again, here they are. They're in the finals in a year where

nothing short of the finals would have been... I mean, that's all that mattered. Let's see how the finals play out. I mean, all different things can happen in terms of whether they win or lose. I just think to throw the definitive storyline because they win one year and don't win another year, that goes a little crazy for me. You know, there are a lot of great players who've never won a championship for some reason or another. Does it put you in a different level? Absolutely. If Jason Tatum averages 10 points a game in the finals and choose 22% and they get swept, okay then then he deserves to be criticized. But let's

wait and see how he handles himself. Let's wait and see how the whole series develops. Sean, Greg Cody of the Miami Herald said that despite his three heart trophies and despite all of his stats, Conor McDavid is overrated. In fact, he called him Mick overrated. What do you think about that? Do we even have to respond to that? No, we don't. We don't.

We don't have an opinion? He was saying it through the prism of he doesn't, he hasn't been in the Stanley Cup final yet. He's the best player in the league. Well, maybe I was just I was just gonna say right there's the parallel to Jason Tatum and I guess to a lesser extent to Don Cich that yeah he's in his ninth year. He's only 27 years old. You know Mike's not the only one who's doing his prep there. Were you actually looking at the notes there Mike? He was.

I like that he's multitasking. He's preparing for the NBA final while being on a legendary program all at the same time. But no, not only is Connor McDavid not overrated, but last year, year and a half ago when we were in beautiful sunrise for the All-Star game, we had a room in the hotel and the day before the game, some of the, many of the players were coming in for sound bites and then I was just kind of chatting with them as they were going in and out to do a little preparation for the game. And, you know, I asked a lot of guys about McDavid and Nathan McKinnon, who might be the second best player

in the world, the Colorado Avalanche, said, you know, everybody here is a great player. He said, but Connor McDavid is at a totally different level than everybody else in the National Hockey League. He is in his own place. And that comes from a guy who would probably like to be able to make the claim that he's the best player in the league if Connor McDavid wasn't alive. So he's not overrated. I think he's already one of the great players of all time, regardless of if he ever wins a championship. And I think it's great that he is in the Stanley Cup final for a lot of reasons.

And I think the matchup of him and a very talented offensive team around him playing against this Florida team that just smothers you is gonna be really fun to watch. Mike, we'll get you out of here in just a second. Both of you, we'll get you out of here in just a second. Mike, do you want to advance? Mike has nothing to do.

Mike has nothing to do. You're both very, very busy. But I'm wondering, Sean, if Mike wants to throw his name into the hat for an NBA head coaching gig, because it seems like everybody he works with wants to leave Mike and go coach somewhere in the NBA. What's going on there? I have my own coaching tree now.

If JJ Reddick indeed gets this job, you've been around him now Mike for a bit. So do you think he'll be a great head coach? I do. His knowledge of the game is scary and you can tell when he talks to coaches how they respond when he talks to players how they respond. And you add that to his love of the game. And you know, I'd always heard from anywhere he went when he played,

he was a great teammate, so he understands all that. I mean, you never know until a guy's in the position, but I think he has all the characteristics to be a great head coach. All right, on the way out here, we had Vince Scully on the show a couple of years ago, and I'm just interested because you guys are the best of the best. And I want to see if something like this something

that happened to Vin has ever happened to you let's play the sound for back about my third year about 1952 the Dodgers were playing Cincinnati and Cincinnati had an outfielder named Lloyd aided merriman i'll never forget it and uh... you know i did have a ball file and my mind told me to say

shot foul and and it never came out and everybody in the booth fell down and I was absolutely mortified. And the reason I remember Lloyd Merriman, I started filling. He's a former Marine Air Corps pilot, saw combat in Korea. I did on and on. That really had to be considering how young I was. Yeah, that was about it. Both of you are laughing. You both love Vince Scully. Mike, have you had a similar type moment?

Sean, go ahead. I'm sorry. I was at part of an embarrassing moment. I met Vince Scully and I was with Mike and Mike asked Vince Scully, hey, Vin, what's it like to be the second best play-by-play guy ever to come out of Fordham? Really un-thoughtful but just to hear that voice again, oh my goodness. Yeah. Mike, I'll yield to you. Yes, have you had an embarrassing moment, Mike? Oh, we've all had numerous. I've had multiple. I mispronounced my own name on the airwaves. multiple i just pronounce my own name on the air it's my green how that's hard to do it just came out what brought for some reason it came out in the these things to happen unfortunately too often that was probably the heavy drinking before the game which thankfully is part

of your past now so i think that's really good uh... the i said something very similar been Vince Kelly. I was thinking about it. Can you curse on the show? Yes, she can. Yeah, I was doing it. It was actually a Red Sox game, but it was on ESPN. It was with Ray Knight, the analyst. And Dwight Evans came up the batty at 2,299 career hits. So I wanted to say, here's Dwight Evans. He's one hit shy of 2300 for his career.

And I said here's Dwight Evans. He's one shit high of 2300. That's a lot of shits. Let's end on that. He was an older guy. I don't know what the rate is. That would strike me as low for a guy with probably... Three thousand shits. ...a greatest career. Yeah. I must have paid that. the rate is that would strike me as low for a guy with three thousand shits yeah made his career yeah and it's the same kind of thing as you know everybody else in the booth is laughing and you know when you stumble over something you have

to play it back in your head and and then you realize oh my god that's what I just said you know but yeah so and we've all I'm sure Mike said we've had plenty more when you've done as many games as we have Guys, thank you for doing this. We appreciate it. Sorry Dan was not here Mike. I'm sorry You're mad at me. My mom used to call me Jonathan when she was angry at me, which is what you're doing But I say Jonathan with love. Yeah, Jonathan with love But we thank both of you for doing this very busy time for you guys and we appreciate you joining us here both of you for doing this very busy time for you guys and we appreciate you joining us here.

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for three seconds. Me, me. I gotta go out here, I gotta fight a dude to come off the line of scrimmage just to get into my route, go run a route, fake another dude out, go turn, catch a ball that's being projected down the field fast, flying somewhere between heaven and earth, snatched it out the air, mid air, come down, put my foot on the ground,

all while somebody's trying to take my head off and I don't get a tear till I get in the end zone. I'm like, please, come on, man, let's be real. This is the Dan LeVatar Show with the Stoogats. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"] That's right, it's time for... Again, Sportsbook! And of course it's brought to you by DraftKings Sportsbooks. Stay tuned because you'll hear all that DraftKings has to offer throughout the show.

DraftKings, the crown is yours. Jeremy Tesche, kick us off. Well, you guys know I'm a big tennis guy now, ever since seeing the movie Challengers. You hit that one, Billy's two and oh, his last two times going. He had Rangers plus two and a half a couple weeks ago. Rangers, Panthers before that, Billy's on fire.

Everyone's on fire, what do you got? Billy, you making a pick here? No, I was told no. Well at four a.m. in the French Open, the number one, Ega Swiate why attack is taking on Coco Goff and we all love Coco Goff down here in South, Florida So I'm gonna go ahead and say Coco Goff plus 500 Yeah, it's a money line I'm doing this right I

It's a spread, it's a spread, we're gonna pretend it's a spread. It's a money loss. Not doing this for you. Roland Garros. I love the red clay at Roland Garros, my god. All right, second leg. Eric Moldz. That's Thursday Thunder. My against the spread, I'm going to the Association Dallas Mavericks,

getting 6 and 1 half. Oh, I love that. Points. Versus the Boston Celtics, game one of the NBA Finals, I'm taking the Dallas Mavericks against the Sprains! Plus six and a half. Sprains, Sprains, Sprains. Roy Bellamy.

All right, Braves at Red Sox. The Braves are a run and a half favorite. The Braves have won the last 11 Wednesday games against American League teams with losing records. So I'm going with the Braves against the Sprains. What's the matter? The Stanley Cup finals about to start. You're the hockey guy, the hockey show, and you pick Braves Red Sox?

That's right. Why can't you tell us? The baseball show. I want Billy's hockey pick. So do I. You're on fire. Give me game one. What do you got?

It's the Stanley Cup now, Billy. I mean, you already know my answer. He wasn't ready for this, guys. He said we could start caring now. We could start talking about it. He's still not caring about this. Now, I will say this. I wasn't prepared to make this.

I haven't done the proper research. But if I had to give you an against the spread pick, I would take Edmonton plus one and a half. Don't listen to him. In game one. Oh. But Roy said not to listen to you. That's fine.

You don't have to listen to me. And I couched it on the front and I said, I didn't do all of the research. He has the Panthers winning by one. Exactly. I'm not saying that Ed't have to listen to me. And I couched it on the front and I said I didn't do all of the research. But I would say. He has the Panthers winning by one. I'm not saying that Edmonton's going to win, I just don't know if the Panthers are gonna win by two. Against his friend.

All right. Against his friend, yeah. Two and O's, last two. They also like, I'm looking at this and if I'm wrong, I could be wrong. Against his friend. Against his friend. Tony, I have checked out the calories in a shepherd's pie from the cheesecake factory. What did you say? What was your guess?

I said 8700. You were very quick with that. 8700 is ridiculous. It would kill you. That's impossible It's 1520 calories. That's just the dish like we're not talking appetizers. That's if you eat the plate We're not talking the cheesecake at the end. The recommended amount of calories per day is 2,000. Really, by whom? Whatever I'm looking at on my screen right now. That sounds about right. I think it's right.

That's low. Well, I think it depends on the person too. Oh, I could crush one at 2,000 calories a day. Get out of here. When did they make it like 18, 19 when you were eating hay or something? Get out of here. You could do it with one shepherd's pie

Shepherd fine a coke you're good. Yeah, why are you telling everyone that broccoli isn't real look guys I'm here to bring truth to the masses rarely Broccoli as we know it is not real As we know it as we know it broccoli as we know it is not real and I'm not here to say that it's a GMO Okay, it's not Jenner General motors. It's a plant modified organism. Yep. Thank you. I'm gonna need a little more behind this So I feel like you're mailing in this take no, I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not It's just like broccoli is not real discuss

Your thoughts no Broccoli as we know it does not come from the ground they had to like genetic or not genetically But they had to modify it over years of farming to get broccoli as we know it the Romans H of Romans Created broccoli by like co you know what's the word? Wi-Fi strand no straining like when you coast rostraining training order yeah yeah not restraining order cross it's breeding cross breeding exactly right so with cross biology created broccoli that we know now but broccoli did not exist before that not a real thing hmm so our

multicultural people not a real thing okay Okay. That's your take. I don't know what happened there. I'm asking you. That's a question, not a take. I mean, just wondering. Multicultural people are definitely a thing. I don't know. He boxed you in there.

It was a terrible thing to do. Billy's a terrible friend. I don't get the thread between broccoli and between multicultural people. Right. What was that? That doesn't matter. Crossbreeding.

Google said broccoli's real. It was a question. I just. What did you search in Google? What was that? It's a matter crossbreeding Google said broccoli's real And Google said yes, yes also Your point though. I think lemons are the same way that lemons were like they're not real They're they're very real, but they're they weren't originally lemons They were a cross between a wild citrus, known as a citron, and a semi-domesticated variety of bitter orange. So there's things that we have that we eat.

They're real. But are they? But they weren't always the way they were. They've evolved. Yeah, they changed. I think what Tony is saying is broccoli, in its original form, was not good enough to serve as a food.

It didn't exist. It didn't exist. They had to add something to the broccoli to make it exist. I think you're saying broccoli was invented. Like it was invented, but it wasn't like naturally. I get what you're saying. It didn't come from the ground. We just woke up one day like, damn, there's broccoli.

Like our Lucky Charms real. No. Like Red Delicious Apples. Like blood oranges yeah like red delicious apples those were like genetically modified they're hybrids yeah which is crazy because those are the worst I can't believe they like very much not delicious I would think broccoli wishy I would think broccoli wouldn't be healthy if it was like created in a lab but it was like a mix of fruit or vegetables. Lemon's the mix of fruit. Also not made in a lab.

This started in the sixth century BC. Just like the idea of a lab. Ancient Romans. Yeah. I like the idea of a lab too. Like a beaker, liquid and beaker. The lab is all outside. And I have made broccoli.

And then a fork comes out and you're like, oh, what's this? It's kind of like a cannabis, you know, like a hybrid. Exactly right. little sativa Mash it all together and boom. Oh, does it feel good? Valhalla broccoli doesn't make me lay on my couch for an hour and crush a pint of ice cream though depends Brock you're getting Splitting there I split it with myself. Oh my God.

How did you decide to go on this broccoli journey? What were you? Because I was thinking about it, I was like I've never really seen anybody be like, oh here's a broccoli farm. You know what I mean? So I started doing a little research on broccoli and I realized we used to not grow it,

obviously used to in a small amount of time between the entire planet's history versus the time that humans have been alive and creating broccoli. Like it used to not a small amount of time between the entire planet's history versus the time that humans have been alive and creating broccoli. Like, it used to not always be that. It's gotta be humans, just to be clear. Right. Yeah. So how is broccoli made now?

On a farm. On a farm. So there are broccoli farms. Yeah, but I had never seen one, so I was thinking about broccoli. They're in California. It's a weird thing to be thinking about. 90% of the broccoli. Yeah. Broccoli? You never about. 90% of the broccoli. I gotta be honest. Gums.

Broccoli? You never know. Really? I do know. I've taken gummies that I've never thought about broccoli, ever. Wait, 90% of broccoli in the world? The United States is from California

and they ship 15 to 20% of it to Asia. We talked about broccoli. They produce a lot of broccoli in China, it looks like. China, India, US, Spain, Mexico. California, I don't think has a fair reputation. That is such a farming state. There's so many farms there. We talked about horse girls earlier.

Lucy, broccoli girl. I like broccoli. You know a lot about broccoli. I can't stand broccoli. Well, I've just been looking it up as we've talked. It started with, is broccoli real? Favorite vegetable. I'm asking, I'm not saying it's broccoli.

Sweet potato. I think broccoli. No Brussels sprouts. I love Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts are good. Have in a moment. I love Brussels sprouts. They get very unfairly portrayed in TV shows and movies.

The kids are like, we'll never eat Brussels sprouts. It's always that vegetable. And I feel like they're great. It's just because of the smell of when you cook them that I think they projected, hey, this doesn't taste good. And kids were afraid of it. But that's almost a cycle within itself.

Chicken and egg sort of scenario of, do we not like Brussels sprouts? Or were we just fed that by the media trying to manipulate us? Maybe owned by big broccoli trying to get us away from eating Brussels sprouts and into eating broccoli. Guys, I don't want to say this, but broccoli has been modified. Excuse me.

Modified. Oh, that sounds delicious. No, no, no, no, no. Brussels sprouts have been modified. I did Google while you were talking about Brussels sprouts, are Brussels sprouts real? And it says, yes, Brussels sprouts are a real vegetable. But then the second sentence is they're human engineered strain of the wide cabbage plant.

And then later on it says Brussels sprouts are in the same family as broccoli. So are Brussels sprouts real? Well, here's the thing. It's a mini cabbage. They were modified to take out the bitterness originally and we've been getting fed Brussels sprouts that aren't bitter which is why we like them now. The only reason they're good now is because they're fried That's it. I'm sorry or just burn in an oven. It's an unfair advantage. No, I've had

No, they are like you can over, like, I'm with you. You want them crispy. For you, they might be. For me, they have to be fried with just dripping in butter. I'm telling you, I could cook some oven Brussels sprouts that you'd be like, these are bleeping good. Air fryer Brussels sprouts. Oh, I love air fryer Brussels sprouts.

Little Asian sauce on top, too. Make them look an Asian style. I drizzle a little honey on top of it and then put it back in there for five minutes. Love that shit. Welcome to June. Did you just fist bump in on that? Asian style I just a little honey Trivia vegetable trivia, what is the most consumed vegetable in the world corn? Yeah? Tomatoes tomatoes really It is tomato tomato is a fruit I think yeah, what's not I mean I so it's not the internet messing with me Supreme Court do something important with your time

Tomatoes tomato was a fruit felt like the Pluto as a planet right same sort of energy back and forth Not sure what are we doing? Why don't we do that to Pluto? It's really disrespectful to Pluto. It's still out there Don't do that to Pluto. It's really disrespectful to Pluto. It's still out there. Pluto's just chilling out there. Not pissing anyone off, not doing anything. Pluto probably has no clue. No clue that it's a plant. I would say probably not, yeah.

They got the information late. Now, tomatoes are the most consumed, but I have what I believe to be just the most important vegetable, and I don't think anyone would say it, the most important. All right, this is the best. Hold on a second, tomato is not the most consumed vegetable

because it's not a vegetable, it's a fruit. It's a fruit. So it cannot be the most consumed vegetable. Google lied to me then. I said is tomato a fruit, and it comes out, yes, it's a fruit. Is it the AI? You can't trust that on Google.

Yahoo, which is the most eaten vegetable in the world, tomato? It's not a vegetable. But again, it It's not a vegetable. I'm just telling you what the internet's telling me. It's classified as a vegetable because of the Supreme Court, but it's actually biologically. Supreme Court? Yeah, biologically it's a fruit.

Why are we getting judicial here? I don't understand this. Why is the court ruling on this? Any court? I don't know why. Also the Supreme Court rulings only apply to the United States if it was the US Supreme Court. So is it internationally a vegetable, but nationally a fruit?

I don't know. US versus tomato? Like what's the case here? What is, our lives would change the most if we got rid of this vegetable? I have the answer. Hold on a second, we're still by the other one. What's the second most important vegetable?

This is a different way of framing the most important vegetable. Are we talking Supreme Court or no? The answer to this question is not tomato. The question I'm asking. Corn. Nope. What's the second most different way of framing the most important vegetable? We're talking Supreme Court or not? The answer to this question is not tomato. The question I'm asking. Corn. Nope.

Why not? Because it's a starch, it's not a vegetable. The most important. I think corn is the least healthiest vegetable. Well, no, I thought you said the most useful. George Sadano once told me that it has a lot of, what is it? Maybe Dan can ask a question. What was your prompt?

What was your question? The question was the one that we rely on the most. It was most consumed at one point. No, because that most consumed was tomato. I thought it was rely on those. But like there's ethanol and high fructose corn syrup. And they put corn on everything. Corn is animal feed.

So I think corn is the most used. The answer for the most important, this is just my opinion. This is not the one. Okay. No, no, no. I want to hear it. The tomato thing was just internet is telling me this is the most important, this is just my opinion, this is not the one. Okay, so that means it's. No, no, no, no, no, guys, it's two different things. The tomato thing was just internet is telling me this is the most consumed. Now I have what is just, it's the most underrated

because I don't think anyone here would say it. Also from you. In your personal record book. Start throwing them at me. What is the most important vegetable? How did you answer, Tony? I already said corn. All right, and I deny that.

You're the only one that's guessed and I deny that. What is the most important vegetable? What's your opinion right? I don't know what lettuce? Okay, lettuce why salads burgers? Other stuff you're right. All right, you can have a salad without lettuce If we get rid of blank vegetable your life changes the most if lettuce is gone. I'll just use kale instead. Or arugula.

Arugula sucks. Kale sucks. Let us use another option. Oh boy, Jeremy. Get out. Come on, man. No, stay here. I needed an accent.

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