9.30: Don Barnes of 38 Special, Who Should Represent the Human Race, and Violent Yawning

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Still got that voice. Brand new stuff from thirty eight special.
That's all I haven't said. New album Milestone came out
last week. Don Barnes is our guest. Hey, Don, how
you doing? Man?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey, good morning. How you guys do it?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Great voice still sounds terrific.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Man, oh man, You didn't get to the chorus part.
That's the best part.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
No, boy, we're going We're going out with the chorus
on that song. Yeah, but let me let me ask
you a question. The Milestone. The new album Milestone came
out last week. A lot of special guests on this
talk about the special guest that you have on this
album with you.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah. I had Pat Monahan from Train. He was a
great guy, just matty. He had done a version of
hold On loosely with the Joe Bonamassa and they'd released
it to YouTube radio of YouTube, and then they got
got like a million hits on it, you know. And
I was going through all these phases of recording this

(01:00):
fiftieth anniversary album. I thought, you know, I'm going to
reach out to his manager see if he'd like to
sing a song with me. So and the guy came
back to me said he'd absolutely love to do it.
He'd been a lifelong fan, and so he came in
and just crushed it. You know, just great soulful vocals
and just a really good guy. He's an Erie, Pennsylvania.
He lives out in Washington now. But I told him,

(01:21):
I said, man, between the two of us, we could
probably scare up a pretty good song. We're going to
do some writing together. So he said yeah, he was
all for that. So another door of opportunity opened, you know.
So but you know, he did a great job. I said,
you know, this is kind of this song said slightly controversial.
It's it's kind of angular, kind of rude. We were
trying to make a more updated, twenty twenty five version

(01:42):
of thirty espression. He said, oh yeah, let's go with
the rude one. So we went in there and we
went down. But also I wrote with Randy Batman from
bot Maternal. Oh yeah, guess who. Yeah, I told him.
I said, man, I used to play your songs and
teen dances in the high school, you know, And I said,

(02:05):
you know, And it was here I was face to
face with him in Nashville. We wrote a song called
Long Long Train. It's a bit of a social commentary song.
It wasn't like neither one of us had ever done
anything like that, I said, but it was. We wanted
to keep it really vague. You know. You don't literally
name names or be a pinpoint anything, because then you
got a protest song. Nobody wants that. So we just

(02:27):
look at it as the way life goes and what
are we leaving to our children and that kind of thing.
But it's a great, great song, real haunting chords and everything.
But I told Brandy, I said, you know, you're you're
part of a kind of a pivotal moment in my life.
I said, back in the early seventies, I was a
young married guy with a baby. And I said, I
was doing landscaping, doing day jobs, you know. And I said,

(02:47):
I was doing digging these palm tree holes in Florida
and down in the heat, you know. And I said,
this radio was playing on the truck, and I said,
I heard the opening guitar boards of Taking Care of Business,
bump bump, got you know. And I said, I'm down
in this hole, and I thought to myself, I can
play that right there. That guy's on the radio. I

(03:10):
can play that. I need to literally get myself up
out of this hole and get to work. You know,
they love that story. You know, I said, just an influence.
I said, it's funny how life dishes it out. All
these decades later, I'm sitting there face to face with
this guy writing a song together, the same guy from
the Palm Tree Hole.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Life could Life could be surreal because sometimes, including yourself, Don,
I never thought that a fifteen year old Dwight Whitten
would be talking to Don Barnes from thirty eight Special.
And it's been Alice Cooper and showing my heroes when
I was young. Yeah, it's very surreal when you're putting
that position, but it's it's very cool at the same time.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, and we did a cruise. Alice Cooper was on
the just We guy, the Great Sound the Earth, very
very intellectual guy and a lot of stories, and you know,
it's great to meet those guys like that that don't
have any ego. It's just, you know, it's what's what
it's all about. We're all human beings out here and
spreading the humanity around I guess, you know. But yeah,
so you know, it's been a long time, and I

(04:14):
got to tell you. We woke up this morning first time.
If we made it to Billboard charts, we're taught number
five and the top rock albums in America.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
There you go, baby, that's where I'm talking about milestone.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, so we must be doing something right.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Don Barnes is our guess, of course, founding member, lead guitar,
guitar singer, thirty eight Special. The new record album is
pretty damn terrific. It's milestone. It came out last week.
That's what we're talking about right now. How long did
it take you to get this record together?

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Man?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Because it's really quite brilliant, and sometimes albums you can
just turn around. I don't know that in a few months.
Some of them take years. How long did you work
on this one, Don.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, we used to do it. This was a different process.
We used to do albums where we would stay at
the hotel right around the corner from the studio, and
you come in every day and you kind of punch
the clock and do your overdubs and that kind of thing,
play some play, some ping pong and get on back
to the room, you know, and then you do that
for about six weeks or two months, and you're done.
But this one was because we do over one hundred

(05:17):
cities a year. Every year, we're out there everywhere, and
so I had to take it in phases, about eight
different different phases. But I'd have to carve out some
time between touring and go cut three basic tracks in
the studio. We we used Collective Soul Studio down there's
good friends of ours in South Atlanta, and we we'd
go in and cut three three basic tracks and then

(05:38):
jump back out there on the road and do the
several cities, and you know, the next month, would come
back in and do three more songs. So it's one
of those things where you know, you you just piece
meal it together. And then I had to after we've
got the basic tracks cut, I had to do the
overdubs and vocals and guitar solos and harmonies and things.
And I found myself having to fly to Chicago for

(06:01):
Jim Peterick. He's our old songwriter for Wow all the
way back in the early days.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, yeah, all kinds of people with this guy.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, I had the Tiger number one around the world.
You know, I told himself that must have bought a
few dinners still do so we you know. Yeah, So
I was in the middle of Chicago in January. Wrong
place to be in the middle of January with his
ice storms over over the overnight, you know, in the
rental cars covered in half an inch of ice, and

(06:32):
I'm out the scraping going to this need to get
the studio. I'm thinking the things I'd go through for
this band, rental target. But so it was one of
those things. It was a labor love, but we knew
I wanted to have something to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary,
and we came up with a great collection of songs.
We had started writing about a year before, just editing

(06:52):
and rewriting, and I'd brought all these ideas. It's kind
of path done, three quarters done, just pieces of things
that because the live business is so it's gone through
the roof, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
For all those years we were just kind of taking
care of our people. I've got sixteen guys out of
here and all their families depend on the wow them
getting you know, Fade and just my crew guys and
all that. So we were just having a great time
and going home and having a life, you know, but
having to do an album it's a kind of daunting experience.

(07:25):
But you have to put the work in. You got
to have it done. But then he goes into mixing
and mastering, album cover artwork and photo shoots and just
everything else. So it takes a lot to get something
released like that, but we're glad it's finally seeing the
light of day here today.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Don Barnes joins the show, founding member of thirty eight Special,
Elite singer and the new record by the way, it's
really good. It's milestone. It's celebrating the fiftieth anniversary, first
new music in twenty years from thirty eight Special and Done.
You walked away from the band for a while and
then you came back in ninety two. Did you just

(08:02):
was it a burnout deal? What was the what was
the issue there?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, yeah, it kind of was. It was one you know,
you putting so much. I mean we were we were
young guy, we were young boys with a dream. We
made all our mistakes in public. We suffered together when
we we didn't win at the beginning. It was like
three albums and went straight over the cliff, right. So
it's one of those things I don't really recommend it
to somebody because you have to sacrifice so much in

(08:25):
your life but eventually we found some success and found
a style and a formula, and I worked through. And
then you're just selling millions of records and you're selling
out arenas everywhere. Well, you know, somebody, these tours were
three months long, the torture tours. You want to just
stop the tour bus and go touch some grass, right,
So and so it got to the point where I

(08:47):
was I didn't have anybody waiting behind the door for
me at home, and it was just, you know, it
was nothing but trying to be five steps ahead of
yourself and all of that. So I thought, I gotta
I gotta stop. I got to back up a little
bit and just just do something just normal. And I
was a Florida guy, so I didn't know how to.
I've never snow skied. I had a friend of mine said,
let's go to Colorado. Well, I'm teaching. It was teaching

(09:08):
ski and all that, and played golf and got a
boat and did some vacation things. But after when I
came back four and a half years later, it was
like my old place on stage. There was my microphone,
there was you know, it was like we never never left.
We just picked up where we were left off there,
you know. So that was way back there in the
early nineties, you know. But we've been cooking all this way.

(09:29):
We've been doing it one hundred over one hundred cities
a year, going out there, seeing the instant reactions from people.
They see the high five in each other, they're singing along.
I've got my sound man, he says, sometimes I have
to turn you up louder because the crowd is singing
louder than you are. So it's a joyous time, you know.
It's a great job to bring that kind of joy

(09:50):
to people. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
At Don Barnes, thirty eight Special joins the show of
the brand new albums, that first new music in twenty years.
Milestone's already out, but just this year alone, you mentioned
that you guys do at least one hundred dates a year,
and you always have these great double bills. There's always
great double bills with thirty eight Special, like this year
you've been out with you in Kansas, the Outlaws, Jefferson's Starship,

(10:12):
John Waite, who I just saw just a few weeks ago.
But you always have these great tour packages that you
were a double bill with. But early on in your career,
you all had you opened for Kiss when they were
at the height of their success. Is it tough being
thirty eight special to win over a Kiss audience at

(10:32):
the height of Kiss.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, we took it as a challenge though. Yeah. We
would go out there every night and nobody never heard
of us. And of course Kiss was making four hundred
million that year, that was the largest year. And what
was funny is the funny story about that. But we
would go out there and of course nobody never heard
of us. We were greening, we were brand new, you know.
So uh, but they every city had the radio contest

(10:56):
of kiss Face contests, So if you were a big
fan of whatever member of the band, you would put
grease paint and paint your face like that member of
the band. So we would go out there and the
first eighty rows is nothing but kiss Faces. It was
like the Twilight. So it was funny. Yeah, I go.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Ahead, no, go ahead, go ahead, I.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Was gonna tell you that. So backstage, you know, I
walked down the hall and when Jeene Simmons was up
on a pedestal, the door was opened a little bit
and as I walk by head his handlers. It's a
couple of people snapping on his big boots and bat
wings and all that, and I looked up at him
and he kind of shrugged his shoulders, like, can you
believe the crap I have to go through? It's just

(11:46):
too funny, you know. Here we are out there, just
regular shirts, regular clothes.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Anyway, go ahead, hey, John, play a little bit of
hold on loosely for a second, if you don't mind.
Don Barnes is our guest thirty eight special, first new
music in twenty years. The name of the album's milestone.
Let's hear a little bit of this. This song right
here is just absolutely timeless, and it's one of those
for me that just does not get old. And when

(12:11):
it comes on, you got to turn that volume up,
volume up, and just crank it up. I want to
hear the origin of this story. The story I get
on this song is that it was by dumb Luck.
And if I'm if I'm wrong, correct me. That you
all were just sitting around your kitchen table and you
start writing this song and somehow it comes out. Is

(12:32):
that the story? If not, how did this song come about?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah? I uh, I was a young man with thinking
all that you're trying to put everything you can into
your career because it's you start out with a lot
of desperation. Young bands don't they show they don't want
to show that desperation, but they're out there and it's
just basically it please like us, please buy this, because
we don't have anything to fall back on. We rolled

(12:55):
the dice with nothing to fall back on. I'm going
to ruin our life, you know. So we got together
with Jim Peterrick from the band Survivor. The first day
we met him, we went to Chicago and we were
doing some songwriting Jeff Carlisi myself, he was the original guitarist,
and so we're at his kitchen table and he said,

(13:16):
you know, so, how you guys have been doing. And
the songwriters have to have notebooks of titles and notebooks
of lines, and you know that kind of said when
you do write it, you do write a song, you
open those notebooks and you might sing a little line
that might be lined three in the verse or something.
But if it sings well, then you might build a
story around it. But anyway, I said, he said, how

(13:38):
you big guy's been doing. I said, man, you know
I was going through in relationship. That was kind of
going south really bad? And I said, what is it
about people that just can't seem to tolerate their differences
and they try to change the other person. They will
keep them under their thumb. They don't want them to grow.
And I said, I had my title book there. I said,
what do you think about this title? Hold on loosely?

(13:59):
He said, oh yeah, it don't let go?

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
The first thing out of his mouth it was a
perfect couplet, like a perfect book. ND that encapsulated that
whole story. So in an hour and a half we
wrote that song and it's been all these years later.
It's the anthem mixed song. People wait for that one,
and you know, we favored for the end because it's
like a sherry on top of this huge emotional show.

(14:22):
But I've had people come up all through the years. Man,
that song meant so much to our relationship. It's saved
our marriage and all this stuff. And I'm like, really,
because we weren't trying to do that. We were just
starting to get on the radio. Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Don Bardes thirty eight Special, first new music from a
thirty eight Special in twenty years. Folks, check out this album.
It's quite brilliant. For the fifty to anniversary, we're celebrating
with the album Milestone Milestone. It's really good stuff. Don
listen man, I heard the album. I reached out to
you to see if you come on. You were generous

(14:56):
enough to spend some time with us. For that, I say,
thank you man.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay, absolutely gwy thanks for having me on. You guys
live it up. And I just failed to mention I
think we've made Billboard top top Rock albums time.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's awesome. As we leave, as we leave with this
beautiful chorus, Don Barnes, I'll see you on the road, brother.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Thank you, buddy, Come see you man, oh.

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(16:36):
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Speaker 1 (16:57):
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Speaker 3 (16:59):
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Speaker 4 (17:01):
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Speaker 3 (17:04):
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album that came out that year.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh, they had the greatest hits.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
In three compilation or something like that. It wasn't from
an individual album. Solda Squeezes all by itself.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Okay. So I asked whether, I said, who should represent
if we have contact with First Contact, which is aliens,
who should represent the human race? And we said Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise is charming. Everyone loves Tom Cruise. Let's let's
go with Tom Cruise. I said, I bet you AI

(17:37):
has got thoughts on it. So the number one person
on this list that is they said, there's.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
No, it's maybe Bill Clinton. Hey, you got lady Aliens
up there with you.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
There's no single consensus on who should represent humanity in
First Contact, but common suggestions include this guy you going,
this is Kingdom of Plants with.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I'm exploring the fascinating.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Work, Sir David Attenborough.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I don't know who that is.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
You don't know who David Attenborough is. You don't watch
any of these nature shows, do you?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
No?

Speaker 4 (18:16):
He's been doing.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Beginning of the Harry Potter movies.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Whis technology Litville a whole new dimension in the Lives
of plants?

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Do he choose a British guy right the accidents.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I mean it's Clinton.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Oh no, for the love of all that holy no, no, no, President.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
How many boobies do females have on your planet? We're
limited to two.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
If it's a British person, who do you go with?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Ricky Gervaise?

Speaker 4 (18:46):
No, not Ricky Gervais.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I would like to listen to. This guy has to
go to sleep at night though they put me to sleep.
It's a calming effect about this guy.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
He's been doing, you know, Animal Kingdom documentary since the
nineteen fifties.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
First two different kind of documentaries, like you know, if
if it's the kind of animal documentary where it shows
like a little bug and he builds his little bug
house and then starts a bug family and then that's that.
I watched that. But anytime there's like a gazelle just
hanging out and is taking a drink from a brook
and then a line just fuck devours it the whole

(19:23):
I don't like those.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
David Edinborough again, I mean he's done a million of
these shows. Again, he goes way back to the fifties.
Here's some other suggestions from AI doctor May Jimminson, a physician,
engineer and former astronaut respected for her intelligence and understanding
of diverse subjects.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
I think we should send Kanye West. He's crazy enough
to steer them in the wrong.

Speaker 4 (19:45):
Steer him out of here. Yes, yeah, King.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Charles doesn't care about black people.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, that's good. King Charles is on this list. No way,
no away, Okay. I think I think Tom Cruise is
the answer if we want one person to represent the
human race as we have first contact.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
I wonder how many sweet nothings you could whisper in
his ear? Those are big ears?

Speaker 4 (20:16):
Whose ears?

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Charles?

Speaker 4 (20:18):
King Charles?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
What?

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Actually? King Charles would be last on my list. If
we had to send somebody, I am not sending him.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
You think I can hear a mouse fart with those
big jacket of ears?

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Are we going to send somebody that could relate a
little bit with normal people?

Speaker 3 (20:34):
If she was still alive, would you have sent Queen
Elizabeth to talk to the alien? No?

Speaker 4 (20:38):
No queens. No queens are killings or no presidents.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
I feel like she was universally at least. Maybe I'm wrong.
Nobody very much enjoyed by other people.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
And nobody from the military.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
He sath no dissect him?

Speaker 4 (20:50):
No, no military guys, that's just sex you And should
we send a woman?

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Hillary Clinton? Or I said, Bill Clinton?

Speaker 4 (21:01):
Stop, why are you irritating us?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (21:06):
What woman? Would you said?

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Which one is? Who did you buy the candle from?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Now Paltrow? Maybe she's a big fat liar. Missus Abernathy,
missus send Missus Abernathy up there?

Speaker 4 (21:18):
You know what an old school third grade math teacher.
And you know what, it would be a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
And she'll bring a pie.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah, she'll bring a pie. Aunt Bee? Can we just
get somebody to act like aunt Bee and send aunt
Be to represent the human race and.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Under we have some green people over punch.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Or Missus Cunningham from the we had her.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
On the day.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
She was cool, she was great, and then when we
started talking about uh Bosley Tom Bosley, mister Cunningham, she.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Was not a fan.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
She unloaded. She wasn't mean, but she she was a
matter of fact, talked about how horrible he was to her.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
I gotta tell you, John, when we when we uh
interviewed Missus Cunningham from Happy Days, it was like we
were talking to him. She was in character, like that's
who she is.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
And we heard her voice and then you go back
to the seventies when you're watching her on happy days
and a little bit freaked me out. It was really wild.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah. The one thing that well several things have driving
me crazy about Jackie that I love my wife totally,
but she when she yawns, and you two have been
yawning all morning, it's been driving me crazy all morning.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
You're quite boring.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
She does.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I'm sorry, uh, just dude, come on now, just kidding.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
She does the noise when she yawns, so it's.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
I also do the very obnoxious stretch you've probably seen
in the camera numerous times.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yes, Well, meet Haley Black a Haley. She nearly died
after yawning so hard she broke her own neck. Oh
my god, that's a hell of a yawn. When at
the hospital, doctor found that two bones in her neck
were shot forward into her spine after the force of

(23:05):
a yawn. Haley spent six months in a wheelchair and
had to learn to walk again after yawning, which is
not ya. Yawning is not because you're tired. It's a
it's a lack of oxygen, that's why you yawn.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
So what does it have to do? Like, surely the
lack of sleep or being tired makes you not have oxygen,
so you yawn. That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Yes, you need if you just do some breathing, just
breathe in and out, breathe in and out, you won't yawn.
It's a lack of oxygen. It's not that you're tired.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Are you sure?

Speaker 4 (23:44):
I'm not a doctor, but I've played some on TV commercials.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Before I played doctor when I was like six. Yeah,
Fortney next door. A lot of trouble for a lot
of trouble from.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Alpractice is what I heard. But yes, Haley Black broke
her own neck. But again, yawning because you're tired, Jewels.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
That comes on here a lot and talks with us
about adoption, child adoption. Yes, Betty White is her suggestion
to talk to the aliens.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Didn't Betty White pass away?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
And she she died like a couple like a few
weeks four, one hundredth birthday.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yes she did, she passed away. Why to bring that up, Jewles,
No kidding?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Why to drag the room? Great job, Jewels.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Uh, maybe we take phone calls on suggestions on who
should represent the human race in my first contact, which
by the way, is a great movie.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Never seen it.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
It is a it's a long movie, but it's a
great movie.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Do you know I've never seen what's the one where
they built the mashed potatoes up to look and come
out and all that.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
Oh, Close Encounters the third kind?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Never seen that.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
You've never seen toast Encounters? What were you doing in
the seventies? You we're not going to movies. You went
to see Jaws. I saw Jaws, but there was a
run there of Close Encounters are the third kind? Jaws,
King Kong, the the James Bond movies were just perfect
for that time. Moonraker and Spy Will Love Me because

(25:14):
we're all good movies.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Great. Now I'm in a uh now I'm in the
middle of an argument between you and Jules. Oh really,
you said you said Betty White's dead. She goes, Queen
Elizabeth dead too. What's your point?

Speaker 4 (25:29):
I said Queen couldn't She couldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
What's your point.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
We're not sending any queens or kings.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
And she goes on to say, you know, you're really
the star of the show, Dwight. You're far superior, smarter,
and sexier than both John Auden and Tony Venetti put together. Wow,
thank you Jules people.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Okay, we have a story John that will attach to
this new story. Okay, and it's pretty creepy. We used
to work with this very pretty nice sales executive that
was dating a nice young man. I will follow this
up after I do this story.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
I know you know what I'm talking about because it
never leaves your head. Once you get it in your head,
it never leaves your craniumment.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yes, stop.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
People are selling their fingernail clippings online in China. Yes,
people in China are selling their fingernail clippings online as
ingredients for traditional Chinese medicine. For example, a woman from
the Hebi province, sure I'm pronouncing that correctly, was selling

(26:44):
her fingernail clippings for about twenty one dollars.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Question.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
And by the way, that's that's two pounds of clippings.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
As for medical reasons. Can I ask you this question,
what is it cheaper or more expensive if the person
who clipped their fingernails has used tiling all.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Recently, companies that make traditional Chinese medicines buy nail clippings
from schools and villages, then wash dry and grind them
into a powder that gets mixed into medicine.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I'm going on Amazon and look and see if I can.

Speaker 4 (27:21):
Buy I know they do that with deer PEPs. Deer. Yes,
that's the scientific.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Term talking above the heads, right.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
So that's a disgusting story. So here's the story. So
she comes to us. We're having lunch and we're all
talking and she's like, I've met this.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I think we teased. Do we tease it? Do we
have time?

Speaker 4 (27:45):
We're going to do it right now. Time, We're going
to do it right now.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, this is gross im.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
So she says, she goes, well, I've met a boy.
And we're all like, oh, good for you. Great, great.
She goes, we've been dating for a little while.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Now, let's call her.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
She said, he's perfect, he's very good looking, he's got
a great job, he's nice, he's funny. And this is
back when you could talk to each other in the
office and it wasn't weird. Okay, And she goes and
he's great in the sack. I mean that's what she said. Okay,
she said it. We didn't ask she said, ay. And

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then that department is fantastic and we're like, okay, what's
the problem. She goes, well, I realized that he kept
putting his hand in his dressed jacket pocket and pulling
something out and chewing on him. And we said, well,
what was it?

Speaker 3 (28:39):
She goes.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
It turns out he keeps his own nail clippings, puts
him in a little baggie and then pulls him out
as a habit and choose on them throughout the day.
And I said, well, what are you gonna do? She
goes already broke up with him, and I'm like, you
mean the perfect dude. She was like, yes, the perfect man, goes.

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I can't get past it.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
And she couldn't bring it up, like, hey, can you not?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
You know?

Speaker 4 (29:04):
She just couldn't get past it.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
He had like a special drawer. Okay, I got a
compartment in his drawer for these.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
So John, So even if so, what she's saying is,
even if he stops doing it now, you couldn't get
She couldn't get it. She couldn't get it out of
her head.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
I told her, I said, look, man, you're lobbing to
wound up getting athletes foot of the mouth. If you
kissed the guy, thank you rottingey. I just looked up
Fingernoult clippings for sale on Amazon. They don't have any.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, thank the Lord, I don't have any Amazon underground market.
That's crazy. All right, We're gonna take a short pick.
We'll come back. Hour number two is in the books.

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(30:02):
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Speaker 4 (30:20):
Back after this on news radio, we're gonna take your
phone calls. Who should represent the human race? If we
have first contact the Tony and Dwight Show. Vote for
Tom Cruise back after this on news radio eight forty
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