Al Stewart 24 Carrots

24 Carrots and the Great Vegetable Subterfuge! 🥕🎸

Lock your doors and hide your hummus, because this week on The Wednesday Night Podcast, we are peeling back the orange veil of deception. We kick things off with Al Stewart’s 1980 album, 24 Carrots, a title that suggests high-carat luxury but serves as the ultimate trigger for Chris and his long-simmering resentment toward the root vegetable industry. While the rest of the world sees a healthy snack, Chris sees a global conspiracy of "Carrot Subterfuge" that has infiltrated every school lunch and party platter since the dawn of time.

The episode quickly descends into beautiful madness as Chris exposes the "Whole Truth" that Big Agriculture doesn't want you to know. We discuss the suspicious rise of the "Baby Carrot"—which Chris maintains is just a regular carrot that’s been put through a witness protection program—and the historical propaganda dating back to WWII. We debate the dark origins of the carrot cake, a dessert designed to trick us into eating fiber under the guise of cream cheese frosting, and whether the orange color itself is just a clever branding move by 17th-century Dutch rebels.

By the end of the hour, the "Year of the Cat" feels like a distant memory as we navigate through Chris’s binder of "evidence," which includes blurry photos of grocery store displays and a very confusing chart regarding the vitamin A lobby. It is an episode that is one part folk-rock appreciation and three parts unhinged vegetable whistleblowing. Stay tuned for the conclusion, where we finally determine if carrots are actually a nutritional powerhouse or if we’ve all been victims of the most elaborate, crunchy prank in human history!

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