Jared Osmond
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Podcast Appearances
Like, what are you doing?
Why are you on this show?
Donnie's reached out.
donnie's reached out yeah and he's and he's giving you the wtf yeah kind of yeah yeah and then donnie sort of they're all great my family they they're all very kind and loving humans but they literally don't know what i'm doing is he a cousin he's my uncle my dad is his oldest brother so my dad's deaf okay he didn't sing with the osmonds in fact the osmond family back in the 70s started singing because they were trying to buy hearing aids for my dad
And so they formed a little boy band, a little quartet, and then it just kind of grew from there.
And that's how they became famous.
Isn't that crazy?
I did.
He did get his hearing aids.
He and his brother Tom are both deaf, the two oldest kids.
Interesting.
Crazy, huh?
They were actually, we found out later on in life, we thought it was genetic, but they were actually put under radiation as babies.
As a form of medical treatment, and it caused nerve damage.
Crazy.
They're actually in the Harvard medical journals.
I understand for bad medicine.
So crazy.
So what did, what did, what did Donnie say to you?
Well, he didn't, it wasn't so direct.