Story Of The Missing Bubble Gum is from a radio program I did with Nigey Lennon in 2001. Our show, “The Non Objective Reality Show”, allowed for this kind of stream of consciousness. The music beneath our conversation was the original track idea I had for the song “Oh My Darlings”.
lyrics
JT : The story of the - of the missing bubblegum.
Nigey Lennon : Ok.
JT : At one point, I - I don't know if it's still true, you could buy baseball cards. and they used to have bubblegum in them?
NL : Hum, hum. Now they have like Jennifer Lopez on the cards.
JT : They have pieces of Jennifer Lopez in the actual...
NL : That you can chew!
JT : That you can chew on the bubblegum.
NL : Yeah.
JT : Well, I remember in and around this time 'cause baseball season, I think it started already, right?
NL : Hum Hum.
JT : Yeah.
NL : Eric was watching it over the weekend.
JT : Yeah, so there you go. And I got like some baseball cards. 'Cause they're you know, good thing for kids to collect and to put'em on your...
NL : Put'em on your spokes of your bicycle.
JT : On your spokes, right?
NL : Yeah.
JT : Actually I wanted to just collect'em 'cause I was hoping to get, I don't know... whoever was popular at the time. You know, like a special signed one. ' Member being very excited actually got a little bit of money from some... some raking job. Or something. Something I did. Some sort of lawn activity...
NL : Kid, kid labor. Yeah...
JT : So I remember going all the way into St. James. Going into the place called the "Sugar Bowl". And ah, they had a bunch of collectable cards.
You know, just a rare collection of things and I got the cards, and I was really really proud. Really happy about it. And I came home and I, you know I left the cards on - on my bed.
NL : Hum hum
JT : And meanwhile, I went to go get something to eat. Perhaps it was some you know, strawberry ah, yogurt and then some pickles and then some pepperoni...
NL (laughs) A little bit...
JT : Sandwich or something.
NL : A Little bit of chocolate sauce per...
JT : Poptart. Something with you know, whatever... And I remember coming back in to my room and then lo' and behold I - I saw all the cards, they were all spread around, they had all this like liquid goo on them and not too far away from them was my little dog, a little Yorkshire Terrier.
NL : Uh oh
JT : He had eat - he got through all the baseball cards...
NL : Oh no.
JT : And had eaten all the gum.
NL : Oh no.
JT : And, and that's really what I was pissed off about.
NL : (laughs)
JT : He had eaten the gum. It's like, that was the..
NL : (laughs)
JT : That's really what I wanted. Let's face it you know?
NL : (laughs)
JT : And ah, you know I kinda laughed and it was very interesting because then he would go outside and he'd try to go to the bathroom and like little bubbles would come out of his rear end..
NL : (laughs)
JT : So
NL : Oh man.
JT : That's my story of the day.
NL : Surreal...
JT : Hope you enjoyed it.
NL : Is this dog still above the sod or...
JT : No, this dog died...
NL : This was many years ago?
JT : in 1986. Yeah, he had a stroke. It's very sad when animals go. And, and they're very dramatic when they leave.
NL : Yeah.
JT : Something that I really, I hope nobody has to witness but you know, what are you gonna do? That's life.
Recorded at WUSB, at the State University at Stony Brook,
Background music : Orignal track to the song "Oh My Darlings" from the CD, "Tell Me Why Then!"
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