12-31-25 - Strom Thurmond's White Out Game - 2010 - BO

Summary

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Episode Overview

Title: Strom Thurmond's White Out Game - 2010 - BO
Podcast: Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona
Hosts: John Holmberg, Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo
Air Date: December 31, 2025

This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness is a best-of segment featuring the irreverent, often provocative humor the show is known for. The main focus is a recurring bit featuring a Strom Thurmond impersonator, who hosts a particularly edgy "white out" game themed around a hockey event. The second half of the episode shifts to a lighter, comical conversation about baby carrots and common food misconceptions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Strom Thurmond "White Out" Game Segment

(Timestamps: 01:08–12:08)

• Introduction of the "Guest":
  • The hosts play up the arrival of Strom Thurmond—portrayed as a ghost and a throwback to old Southern stereotypes.
  • The bit is deliberately outrageous, poking fun at outdated, bigoted viewpoints by exaggerating them through parody.
• Strom's Character & Humor:
  • The impersonator revels in the "white out" hockey tradition (everyone in the crowd wears white), twisting it into awkward racial humor highlighting Thurmond's notorious history.
  • Running jokes about Thurmond's lingering views, extended tenure in the Senate, and his outdated attitudes.
• "White Out" Game Mechanics:
  • Strom plays a call-in game where listeners must guess white objects described via clues (“Kids pull this white thing. If you don’t tend it, it grows to the floor. Seen at malls around Thanksgiving.”).
• Humor from Misunderstandings & Callers' Responses:
  • The guests' inability to guess (“hair" as an answer doesn't satisfy Strom) is played for laughs using condescension and mock frustration.
  • Thurmond's overt discomfort with black callers and references to his own bigotry are exaggerated to the point of absurdity, intentionally lampooning racist attitudes.

Notable Quotes & Moments

• Strom on "White Out":
  "All you Arizonan getting together, putting on your white and making the city lily white like I like it." (01:42)
• On Barack Obama:
  "I died just in time. I was against the civil rights movement and still won 20 elections." (02:59)
• To Black Caller Mike:
  "Even when it's all white? Like tonight? Whiteout." – Strom
  "That's why. Cause I'm black." – Mike
  "You're a black man... Are you ready to play the great Whiteout White power game, Mike? The black man." (04:29–05:00)
• Game Clue Sample:
  "Kids pull this white thing. It grows to the floor if you don't tend to it. Seen at malls around Thanksgiving." (05:45, repeated multiple times)
• Satirical Self-awareness:
  "I've never helped a black man do anything. I'm Strom Thurmond, dammit. I gotta keep my reputation." (06:32)
• Winning Answer:
  "Closet's parents" [likely referring to artificial beards for mall Santas] (09:32)
  • Answers like "polar bear" and "White Castle" finally break the string of incorrect responses, with Strom celebrating:
    "We have a winner in white power. It's not the name of the game. White Castle. That's what I call it. White power. Hold on, Dan." (10:34)
• Comic Hostility:
  Unnamed Female Host: "Why is he obsessed with penis?"
  Unnamed Male Host: "He's weird."
  Strom: "Excited white out, that’s why." (11:43–11:47)

2. Baby Carrots and Food Realizations

(Timestamps: 13:11–19:23)

• Host's Realization:
  • The main host confesses, with comedic self-deprecation, that he just learned baby carrots are artificially shaped, not a special carrot variety ("today years old" trope).
  • A string of jokes ensue about farming methods, mistaken beliefs about shredded carrots growing in the field, and the "Mandela effect."
• Co-hosts Weigh In:
  • Brady and Brett join in, admitting they too sorta believed baby carrots were grown, not manufactured.
  • The group jokes about searching for "baby carrot seeds," and the absurdity of imagining tiny-handed farmers.
• Discussion About Food Processing:
  • The conversation pokes fun at modern food processing, designer vegetables, and misconceptions in grocery produce.

Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Baby Carrots:
  "I thought they made baby carrots out of the ground. Like you pick little baby carrots. Like they actually..." (13:31)
• About Planting Baby Carrots:
  "I wanted to plant baby carrots at the house. I was like, I'm gonna..." (13:57)
• Joking about Carrot Farms:
  "I thought some little tiny handed, like, slave baby somewhere was pulling baby carrots out of the ground. Probably Asians, I'm guessing. Most likely a farm, a bunch of Asians with their tiny hands pulling little tiny carrots out of the earth." (16:12)
• Mandela Effect and Admitting Confusion:
  "In fact, in my brain, they call it the Mandela effect, Something that clearly has never happened—in my brain I think has." (17:52)
• Brett Joins In:
  "I'll own it. I'm the same way." (17:46)

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Segment Timestamps

• 01:08 – 12:08
  Strom Thurmond "White Out" Game with listeners; satirical and edgy roleplay about race, politics, and sports
• 13:11 – 19:23
  The group riffs on baby carrots, food misconceptions, and admits confusion about supermarket produce

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Episode Tone & Style

• Relentlessly irreverent and provocative, often engaging in parody and extreme satire to confront uncomfortable topics.
• Fast-paced banter; the hosts riff off each other and encourage the audience to laugh at their own (and others') ignorance.
• A blend of edgy comedy and everyday observational humor.

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Summary Takeaway

This best-of episode features the show's characteristic brand of biting satire and off-kilter honesty. The “Strom Thurmond’s White Out” segment uses politically incorrect humor and exaggerated characters to lampoon historical racism and sports enthusiasm. The shift to carrot talk serves as a palate cleanser, revealing the hosts as relatable, bumbling everymen willing to laugh at their own mistakes. Whether playing with taboo or everyday topics, the hosts maintain a playful, provocative edge that defines Holmberg’s Morning Sickness.

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Transcript

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[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Cease and desist at once.

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[Unnamed Male Host]

We've got a guest standing outside. He makes me a little nervous, but he's here strictly because the whiteout is.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Happening on the west side.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Do you have his music ready and all planned?

[Unnamed Female Host]

And why is he knocking on the door?

[Unnamed Male Host]

He's a ghost.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

He's a go. He's polite still.

[Unnamed Male Host]

He's still polite ghost, but he's a gentleman. Ladies and gentlemen, please recognize.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Oh, geez.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Gentleman from South Carolina.

[Brady]

Right this way, sir.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Senator Strom Thurman.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

That's right. Always good to be here. How good to have you. Happy white out, everybody. Happy white out to you too. Do I love me a white out. So you're going to the game? Going to the game. See all that beautiful white all over the place. What a wonderful thing. All you Arizonan getting together, putting on your white and making the city lily white like I like it. Hi, Brady, how are you?

[Byron]

Oh, I'm doing good.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Doesn't the white out just make your paena stand up at attention? Yeah, it does make my paena get all excited. Wanna dress him up White.

[Unnamed Female Host]

What is that accent from anyway?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

South Carolina.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Oh, okay.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

It's a. It's a South Carolinian.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Sounds great.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I'm a South Carolinian through and through. You got a problem with that? No.

[Unnamed Male Host]

No. They love you there.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

They'd still elect me if I. If I could run. They put my dead bone back in that senate and make things happen.

[Brady]

They still write in your name?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Sometimes. The good old boy do. Who playing what? The Great white. Your favorite band is in my game. We gonna have a white night tonight over there@the glendalejobbing.com. i'm excited about it. So let's play the game.

[Unnamed Female Host]

What do you think of Barack Obama? Stromio, See what's going on.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Why?

[Unnamed Female Host]

You've been dead for a while.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I died just in time. I was against the civil rights movement and still won 20 elections.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Amazing how that can happen.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I have no idea. I have no clue how that happened. American little secret. What are you doing, Brady? You writing something? I'm writing. I'm ready to play the game. My penis is ready for tonight. So let's start it.

[Unnamed Female Host]

We got them lined up for you.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

White power.

[Unnamed Female Host]

No, don't say that.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Tonight the game out there. Glendale Arena. All your white and give the Coyotes the power. Power of the white. Didn't know you were a big hockey fan. Yeah, I love it.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Who's your favorite player?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Dave White.

[Unnamed Male Host]

You don't know anything.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I do. You have no idea what's going on. Hockey. My favorite hockey player is Red Grange. I just like watching all those white boys skating around on that ice surrounded by those white shirts tonight, hitting that puck around. It's a dream. Shane.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Don.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

It's my dream.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Like.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Shane.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Down.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Shane. Don't. Good. Where's he from? I don't even know where he from.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Canada.

[Unnamed Male Host]

I think.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

He Canadian.

[Brady]

Huh?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Hi, Mike. How are you? White north from the great white north. How are you, Mike?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Excellent job.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Are you going to. Are you going to do the game tonight?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

No, I don't watch.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

You don't like hockey?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

No.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Even when it's all white? Like tonight? Whiteout.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

That's why. Cause I'm black.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

You're a black man.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Hello.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Do you know who Strom Thurman is? Your opportunity to vent.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

That's all right. When you slap around that black buck, it'll hit you in the face.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Guess what, Mike? It's my fault.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Go on.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I did everything I could to stop this phone call. Are you ready to play the great Whiteout White power game? Mike? The black man.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Let's try it.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Is it Is it okay being a black man in Arizona?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Yeah, it's probably better than me.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Are you wearing white?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

No, I'm not.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

You're not gonna support the Coyote tonight?

[Unnamed Female Host]

It's not a prerequisite.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

It is to wipe the whole city out. It's a dream come true for me, Mike.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Okay. If I lose, I will. White.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Okay. That's a deal. All over in your face and stuff. One day.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

No.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Show up to work and scare everybody. I'm coming for the promotion.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Like you want a man.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

All right. Are you ready?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Let's go.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I'm gonna give you three clues. You tell me what the white object is. It either has white in the name or it's a white thing. Ready?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Ready.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Kids, pull this white thing. It would grow to the floor if you didn't tend to it. And it's seen at miles around Thanksgiving.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

What was the second one?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

It grows to the floor if you don't tend to it. Like an afro.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Oh, I have no idea.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Let me give you the clues one more time.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Yeah, one more time.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

One more time. Why?

[Unnamed Female Host]

Do you want him to win?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Yeah, I do, actually. It'd make me get me elected, kid. Kids, pull this white thing. It grows to the floor if you don't tend to it. They are seen at malls around Thanksgiving.

[Unnamed Female Host]

I don't think that's helping.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

No, it's not.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Didn't help you at all, Mike.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

I have no idea. I guess I have to wipe away my streak.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Continues. I've never helped a black man do anything. I'm strom sermon. Dammit. I gotta keep my reputation. Mike, congratulations, I hope. Good luck on your job hunt.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Oh, yeah.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

All right, we'll talk to you later, Mike. The black guy made me nervous right off. Oh, my penis is so strong right now. Brady. The white out right down in.

[Brady]

You want to zip that up?

[Unnamed Female Host]

They have Viagra in there.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I don't need Viagra. This whiteout's all I need in hell Time. Are you there?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Yeah, I'm here.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Yeah, they do have Viagra in hell.

[Unnamed Female Host]

That's good to know.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I know. I run the pharmacy. Feel good? You don't happen to be a black man, do you?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

No, sir.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Oh, thank goodness. I can breathe easy. I thought that man was gonna crawl through the phone and kill me.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Goodness, what are you talking about?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Look, I'm a coward as well, okay? All right, Tom, are you ready? Yeah. Kids, pull this white thing. It grows to the floor if you don't tend to it. It's seen at miles around Thanksgiving.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Oh, man.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Did an easy one and not so much.

[Unnamed Female Host]

I. I have no idea.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Really?

[Unnamed Male Host]

Yeah.

[Brett Vesely]

You're tough.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Strong. All right. Tough on everybody. Well, it's easy.

[Brady]

I don't know.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

It's even. Free. Free and equal. Everyone here, the team. Hello, Randy. How are you?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Good.

[Brady]

What's up?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Happy whiteout day.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Happy Whiteout.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

That's right. White as far as you can see. The old west the way it used to be. All right. Are you ready, Randy?

[Unnamed Male Host]

Yes.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Kids pull this white thing. It grows to the floor if you don't tend to it. Seen at malls around Thanksgiving. Kids pull it.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Seen at malls around Thanksgiving.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Yep. Well, starting around then.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Starting around Thanksgiving.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

You people have a short memory. Got five seconds?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

I'm gonna say hair.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Really? You don't see hair any other time at the mall at Thanksgiving? Just only. Only around November people bring their hair to the mall.

[Unnamed Female Host]

You have to be condescending.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Couldn't. Gotta be condescending. That's dumb.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Maybe you should ask a different one.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Maybe I should. Maybe it's because my music is off. Turn my music back on. Bring a great white back.

[Unnamed Female Host]

All right.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

What's the matter with you?

[Brady]

A couple of times there, Stroma. Now, Now.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Yeah, but you done?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Don't take that, Brady.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

You don't have to take that. Oh, you got to take it from me. I'm a 52 time senator. Hello, Dan. How are you?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

I'm all right.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Do you have any answer for me? Happy whiteout day, by the way.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Happy whiteout.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Are you going to the big white out?

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

No, I'm not.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Celebrate all that white power for the coyotes.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

I'm white, but I'm still poor.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

All right, here we go. That doesn't mean nothing. That's probably my fault too somehow. All right, kids, pull this white thing.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

That's a closet's parents.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Thank God. Fanta be it. Is your. Is your penis just pumping full of blood for the white out tonight? Just saying it. Just saying white out. Just pumping me up. You ready?

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I gotta keep it simple for you. All right. Arctic Al Gore, Coca Cola ad campaign.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

Polar bear.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Polar bears, right. Nice job. We might have us a winner. Good luck. Ready? Yeah.

[Unnamed Female Host]

He did the man. Woohoo.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

I did hear that.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Did you hear that?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Very white of you. Here we go. White whiteout for the win in white power. Dan. 5 million steam fried burgers sold annually. Onion nuggets. Walter Anderson and E.W. ingram.

[Mike / Randy / Dan (Callers or Guests)]

I'm gonna go with White Castle.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

White Castle.

[Brady]

White.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

We have a winner in white power. It's not the name of the game. White Castle. That's what I call it. White power. Hold on, Dan. Oh, don't. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Dan wants to win my game. Great work, Dean. I bet you he's all pumped up in another region.

[Unnamed Female Host]

I need a break from you. Can you go out in the hallway.

[Unnamed Male Host]

For a little bit?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Penis pumped up for white out. What are you doing behind me, Prisoner Toledo sneaking around.

[Brady]

You know Toledo, Strong?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Oh, everybody know Toledo in hell. All the crooked deals he make for RVs. He'll be here soon. He can't wait for someone to die with a recreational vehicle so he can have it. I'm gonna be in the hallway.

[Brady]

Jewel up for you.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

There's my old friend Chuck Artee. I gotta go.

[Unnamed Female Host]

He knows Chuck.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Of course he knows Chuck.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Oh, man.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

How you doing, buddy? Hi, Strong. Thought you were dead. Can hear him in the hallway.

[Unnamed Male Host]

They're very excited to see each other.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Look at his penis.

[Unnamed Female Host]

Why is he obsessed with penis? I don't know.

[Unnamed Male Host]

He's weird.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Excited white out, that's why.

[Unnamed Male Host]

One more round. Excited all the way around for.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Are you kidding me?

[Unnamed Male Host]

Strom Thurman's only here once a year. That's only if the Coyotes make the playoffs.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Another round of the whiteout.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Sure. Strom thurman's whiteout.

[Unnamed Female Host]

It's 98k white power anymore.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

But not when I say it and he says it.

[Unnamed Female Host]

I think he wants to change the name. It's 98 KUPD.

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[Unnamed Male Host]

I'm struggling with something this morning because I am today years old when I found out. What? That baby carrots aren't a thing. I love baby carrots. You know what they are?

[Brady]

I just thought they were shaved.

[Unnamed Male Host]

They are. Yeah. I thought they were actually like little tiny carrots that grew in little tiny carrots.

[Brady]

Like the little navel oranges. Yeah.

[Unnamed Male Host]

I thought they made baby carrots out of the ground. Like you pick little baby carrots. Like they actually.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

Yeah.

[Brady]

No, I never.

[Unnamed Male Host]

No, they just take regular carrots and they process. They cut them in little 2 inch hunks.

[Brady]

More expensive.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Yeah. And then they put them through this machine and they shave them down, make them the same shape, roll the eggs. It's like Cheetos. It's. I don't know why. It's disappointing to me. I wanted to plant baby carrots at the house. I was like, I'm gonna.

[Brady]

But you kept looking for the seeds.

[Byron]

Yeah.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Well, I don't know if you do seeds or what, you know, partially serious about it because I get these ideas sometimes to plant food and then I do it. One time I tried peppers and I put peppers in the same garden thing as what else was in there. It was like a cucumber thing. And then like green peppers, yellow peppers in it. No, it was like. It was a little cucumber. It's kind of baby cucumbers garden.

[Brady]

Okay.

[Unnamed Male Host]

So I just had this box and put it on it. And I didn't realize that when the dirt's all the same, the trees get confused and start just doing whatever they want. I had this island, a Dr. Moreau vegetable thing where these green and yellow peppers were growing with the strangest cucumber flavor you've ever. It was so gross. Some of it was hot. It was just weird. But they all kind of just go, you know? And then I realized you got to do better job. And I'm like, well, I'll just do one thing in the box and baby carrots. It's a small garden, but I'm like, that'd be a good idea. And I'll go find some baby carrots. One of these. Just this morning, reading them, I was very upset. It was like, baby carrots aren't a thing. That's a. They're Cheetos. They're basically. They're man made designer.

[Brady]

Designer carrots.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Yeah. That's not right.

[Brett Vesely]

So you didn't go to the store and could I get baby carrot seeds, please?

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

No, no.

[Unnamed Male Host]

I want a tip top or whatever. I would have gone over to Barrage or Tip Top or someplace and said, hey, where you guys hiding the baby carrots? Because I've looked everywhere. What are you talking about? Baby carrots, asshole. You know, little baby carrots, everybody. They're amazing.

[Strom Thurman (Impersonator)]

There's bags of them.

[Brady]

Run into a guy that's really tiny. I work in a baby carrot.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Yeah. Well, follow me. And he takes me to the carrots. He goes, you do the work. I'm like, well, that's upsetting. I thought this was. It's just. It was an inconvenient thing. It's very strange. I don't like that. I, I feel duped. I feel like a fool. They're just not.

[Brady]

So I gotta figure the, you know, when they make the baby carrots, they gotta do both too. The shredded carrots.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Well, shredded carrots I knew weren't growing anyway.

[Brady]

I know, but I'd have to be.

[Unnamed Male Host]

A pretty big idiot to just realize that there isn't a field of shredded carrots somewhere. You have to be a moron to have that thinking.

[Brady]

I'm just saying that the practicality of the reason they're making the baby carrots, they've got to be doing shredded too, because you're taking so much carrot away in order to make them.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Well, yeah, Brady, that makes sense.

[Brett Vesely]

Go easy on Brady. He's not a vegetable. You don't want the waste.

[Unnamed Male Host]

That's true. That's right. Well, I know. I'm not even talking about the waste. Of course they're utilizing the rest of the carrot. You don't understand what I'm upset about. That there is a rest of the carrot that I thought some little tiny handed like slave baby somewhere was pulling baby carrots out of the ground. It's getting a big people heads. Probably Asians, I'm guessing. Most likely a farm. A bunch of Asians with their tiny hands pulling little tiny carrots out of the earth. Or like they grow like strawberries or something. I didn't know and now I'm upset about it. And I don't know why it bothers me. It's because I'll never. It's just not a thing in your mind.

[Brady]

They're like, they taste so much better.

[Unnamed Male Host]

No, I wasn't an idiot. I'm not the dumbest person. This is just a dumb moment. I'm not the dumbest man alive. Yeah, I'd have to be pretty stupid. Where's the salad fields? No, I know that lettuce comes in a ball and then you pull it apart. I'm not a little.

[Brady]

Baby spinach.

[Unnamed Male Host]

What's the matter with you? What aren't you getting about this again? He's not a vegetable guy. It's true this John, thanks this morning with your morning wood. Or thanks for the morning wood with your voice. I was about to start tugging, but as soon as I heard Brett and Brady, boner gone.

[Brett Vesely]

You're welcome.

[Unnamed Male Host]

P. S. Don't have kids, Israel.

[Brady]

All right?

[Unnamed Male Host]

Not the country. The whole country. Just email. I gave Israel a boner this week. Anyway, about your people. Strange about the baby carrots. That's all I'm saying. All I'm saying is, and I'm not alone, there's somebody driving around out there going, wait a minute.

[Brady]

What?

[Unnamed Male Host]

Just like. I was like, that's not a thing.

[Brett Vesely]

I'll own it. I'm the same way.

[Unnamed Male Host]

You thought there were baby. Thank you, Brett. Thank you for stepping in.

[Brett Vesely]

I'll be honest.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Thank you for stepping in and understanding. You also assumed that they were trying, and all they had to do is peel the little tiny green thing up. And so did I. In fact, in my brain, they call it the Mandela effect, Something that clearly has never happened in my brain, I think has. Where I've actually thought, oh, they didn't get the. The little green stalk part off the top. And I have peeled off little baby carrot green where it was. Where it was once on the vine. I don't know how carrots work. And I love them. I love them. And I'm just gonna look at that. Next time I look at that bag or the bowl garbage.

[Brett Vesely]

When I go to Costco and you buy the bag of them or whatever.

[Unnamed Male Host]

It'S all like, oh, all right, cool. I always thought that sometimes some of them had, like. And I understood that they were, I guess. I guess, stupid. Sometimes it happened. It's just a thing. Sorry. Baby carrots, they threw me. It threw me for a loop. I wasn't expecting to start the day with that, but I'm like, you got to be kidding me. And then in my brain, I'm like, oh, of course. How big would that field like of people? Like, it's such a tiny little.

[Brett Vesely]

Which? Old Brad Williams.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Yeah, loads. Like oompa Loompas.

[Brady]

I mean, there are a ton of carrots that are like. There are smaller carrots, but different colors.

[Unnamed Male Host]

They're not the orange, Brady. We're talking about baby carrots, and they not. They're not real. So don't try to appease me with their.

[Brady]

I'm just trying to make you feel better about how dumb.

[Unnamed Male Host]

Well, there's yeah, you're the one who said also, shredded carrots aren't grown. We know. Follow the bouncy ball. Stay on topic. Now you're thinking about extra carrots. And what you can dip them in.

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