Would You Sell Your Fingernails for Cash… and Are You Guilty of Biobaiting?

On today’s Nina’s What’s Trending, things take a weird, and wildly relatable, turn. From an unexpected way people are making extra money (yes, it involves fingernail clippings) to a new dating term you need to know, this segment covers the trends you didn’t know you were already part of.

The crew breaks down biobaiting, the art of exaggerating your dating profile to seem cooler, more adventurous, or more successful than reality. Is it harmless marketing… or a red flag waiting to be exposed? Add in some strong opinions, laugh-out-loud reactions, and a reality check on modern dating bios, and you’ve got a trending segment you won’t want to miss.

Listen to find out if you’re being bio-baited or if you’ve accidentally been doing it yourself.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give us three minutes and we'll give you everything you
need to know for the day with Nina's what's trending?
Have you been biobaited or are you biobating? We'll discuss
and find out if you are coming up in just
a second. But first I need to tell you how
you can make money off of your fingernail clippings.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ew I have said this before.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
There will always be a way to make money because
there is always a need for the weirdest things.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
And don't be grossed out.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is actually really cool because according to Chinese traditional medicine,
fingernails are valuable ingredients to different concoctions they use to
treat various conditions. So there's companies in China that are
asking people to send them in their fingernails. I guess
this was like a really big thing before the sixties,
but then when that hit, people started to paint their
nails and so it was contaminating the product. And it's like,

(00:44):
you can't send in your painted nails. But now if
you grow out your regular fingernails and you send them in,
you can make twenty one bucks a kilogram. I feel
like that's a little bit, isn't a kilogram.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Little Yeah, but does that mean like I don't know
if you saying for a whole year, But isn't there.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It says that human adults only grow about one hundred
grams of fingernails per year.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
What if you go one.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Hundred times twenty one? Like that's just some extra Yeah,
that's some extra money in your pocket just from growing
out your fingernails.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
But is there any way a fingernail can trace back
to you?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Would it matter?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, you're sending it like that, like as you're like
your DNA or what do they.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Grind it up? How do you know that for sure
that's what's gonna happen. That's what exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
They're gonna use a regular fingernail just randomly popping up
and having somebody swallow it to cut their esophagus.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Ew.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I feel like not what I was thinking, because what
they do is they take the fingernails, they grind it
up into a powder, and then it gets mixed in
into their various medicinal products.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
I'm just thinking, like, what if that's like your DNA,
you're just like giving away I mean, I guess we
give it away other ways.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, you could be walking down the street somebody pulled
your hair and you didn't even notice, and the next
thing you know, they've.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Got your DNA. Yeah, you got a good point, so
I wouldn't worry about it too much. Let's make that money.
And lastly, biobaiting.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yes, it's a new term that you need to know
in the dating world, but also I think that it
just works in general because it's basically saying that you're
exaggerating your bio and all of your dating profiles to
sound cooler.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Who doesn't, I'm sorry, but everyone that I every profile
I've seen, like half of them, they all do like what's.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, but they're talking about how people are like love
to travel, and then when you fact check these people
when you meet them, they're like, I've only been down
the street or whatever, and maybe in theory they love
to travel but haven't actually traveled. Another one that people
are baiting with is when they describe themselves as an entrepreneur.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh, that one's funny.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
That used to be like they don't have a job. Yeah, usually,
but I'm an entrepreneur and I have a job too.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
That's different, Like, I don't know, there's half of them
who work from cop shops who actually are like starting
a business in the other half who are just like
I want to start a business and this is what
I want to but don't do anything else.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah. Yeah, well entrepreneur used to mean unemployed. Yeah, like
that used to be like kind of what we would
look at it as. And you definitely swipe no on
an entrepreneur. But now that I am one, I kind
of understand what it takes. But be careful what you
used to describe yourself, because you are biobating another one
people uses they say that their foodies or that they're spontaneous,

(02:58):
and they're actually not.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I feel lot of spontaneous on there. I don't want
spontaneity right now. If you text me in the middle
of the day and be like, hey, it's going to hike,
absolutely not, homie. I'm doing work.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I got things to do.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
So what do you say in your bio, Like, what's
the strongest, most accurate descriptive word that you use?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Chaotic?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I think