July 17, 2025 • 9 mins
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I gotta use as I love a good being.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
And there's Gandhi, and there's Danielle and I see Straight
Night and I see Scotty.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Who else is here? Anyone else? That's all of us? Oh,
let's get going.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
So we were talking on our show not long ago
about people who changed their names. They were given a
name and they were born, it's on their birth certificate,
but some reason, for some reason.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm like, no, I don't want to live with this right.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
So I put it out there, text us, if you
had to change your name because you didn't like it,
and tell us why you didn't like it, any thoughts
before we get started here.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
I wanted to change mine when I was little. I
didn't know any other Nathan's. I wanted to be Patrick.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Did you really did?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I even asked my mom how do I do this?
And she goes, You're not changing your name.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, I think it'd be great to have a name
that no one else has.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I have one of those A little difficult.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
I've always you know, I want to change my last name.
You know, my name is Anthony Skeary with Scary being
my last name, and everyone always called me Scary my
whole life, followed me around. But they were like, you
can't really do that, So I gave that up at
the age of fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, you can do whatever you want to do, for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I never realized how funny the last name Cox was.
I grew up with some Cox when I was younger.
As I got older, I was like, oh, I get
what you might want to change.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We're talking.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Also, on the show How, a woman named her child Vasselinia.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, that's insane, like the petroleum jelly.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, I've got Maritza online eteen. I hope she's not
changing Mariza. That's a great name, Mariza.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, hello, I love I love the name Mariza. I
hope you weren't trying to change that name.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Oh no, I love that name. I named it myself,
but I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh okay, so you named yourself Mariza what's your given name?
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Oh god, so my mom pronounces it the way it's
Puzza pronounced. So it's Mariusi Maruxi, which I don't like.
But then everybody else who reads it either says Maurci
or Marixi. It's supposed me Marixi in English, I guess,
but people say Mariasi. They name me everything, but what
(02:46):
it said Mariza.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't see how Mariza could be that difficult to
figure out. It's it's somewhat common. I've heard Marisa used
a lot.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Have Yeah, Ma, so Marich is what I named myself.
That M A R I cheesy A for rick C
M the A R I you X like X ray.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Why it's mom or my dad.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
For me to be named So you altered it a
little bit? Yeah, I altered it.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
A little bit.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
But the funny part is when I did it was
in the seventh grade because I was tired of people
always like looking at my name, and then the first
thing they would be is like, moron because that's my
last name m O R A, And I'd be like,
and then you know.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Kids can be me and people like, is that your name?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Moron?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
I mean, like in the third grade and be like,
oh god, so you needed to.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Change your name. Hey, so when you changed your name,
how does your mom and dad feel about that?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Well, my dad can Caroline.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
You know, he barely knows everybody's name.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
But my mom when people will call, you know, because
I would have friends call me and then they'd be like, oh,
can I speak to Maritza? And my mother would be
like who oh no, she doesn't live here, and I'd be.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Like, Mom, that's for me, that's my friend.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
So then she'd be like, no, that's not your name.
And then she got to the point where people will
call and she would be like, oh no, Marisa, No,
no prostitute lives here.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What well, hold your mom thinks Maricha is a prostitute name.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yes, she goes through me. I did not name you
a prostitute name, nor.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
I cz A is a prostitute name.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I did not mean your place.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
And I was just like, oh my god, don't do.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That to me.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
And obviously I'm saying my age now because you know,
I say my friends used to call my house back
then you say I have a.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
Land line, not a cell phone, So who.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Has the phone calls all the time?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Your parents dead? M.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Sorry, we have no prostitute named Maricha here. Well, that's
that's unfortunately. It's beautiful all right, now, we know see,
people have just a million different.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Reasons they change their names.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
There's one, right, Thank you guys so much for calling
me back.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I love you guys.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
You have no idea.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
You guys make my day every single day the minute
I wake up on my ALEXA one hundred in the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So please, all right, thank you. We've got Sarah from
Cleveland Online nineteen. Uh, Sarah, Hi, how are you good?
Are you doing well?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
So you didn't try to change your name from Sarah?
Is you Sarah's a great name? No, not me, it's
your brother. Would your brother want.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
To change his name to.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
He changed his name to Anthony?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, what was it?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
His name was Osa?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Good move for everyone.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Where there are places in the world where there are
Osamas and they're totally fine, so many, so many, Yeah,
but we only know I want to Osama here. Unfortunately,
were people giving your name or your brother a lot
of grief over the name Osama.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
So my brother was in high school, then nine to
eleven happened, and then all the kids are making fun
of him. That are bullying him like crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's a tough one here, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So he ended up dropping out of high school because
of the bullying was so bad.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And then he changed his name.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh wow, that's that is awful that idiot did what
he did?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, its most fault.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's not your brother's fault that people don't know that
Osama is a common name in other parts of the world.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But what about some guy like little Bobby Hitler? What
did he do with that name? Where's all the Adolphs?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Isn't Hitler one of the things you are not allowed
to name your child? I think there's a short list
of things I'm gonna look at.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Oh, I didn't know that, although I have heard of
somebody his name was Adolph.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah right, yeah, I know there are some Adolph's rolling around,
but yeah, Hitler's I don't know. Well, so your brother
after he changed his name and quits school, he's okay.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Now right, he's good, Now, okay, all right, you tell
him we said hi, Hi, Anthony, don't call him Osama.
Thank you, Sarah, I have a great day.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
It really is unfortunate that certain people have ruined names
for all of eternity, right, ye, Adolf Hitler Osama bin Laden?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Who was the Damien?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Wasn't Damien the Little Exorcist kid?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Or yeh, he was in that was the movie? No,
the guy in the thing, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
No, it was the guy, the old guy that had
the mustache. He was in all those movies.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
He talk Clark, what was it? He had the six
sixty six behind his ear? The omen, the omen, the omen.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
The Damien ruined that because then there was this kid
my brother went to school with who is Damien?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And then they all made fun of him. Look, he
would pull up your hair. Let's see if the six
six six he.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Should have drawn six six six on his head? Just
a freak on the hell outa.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Kids are fun so sick, Yeah, for sure. I mean
they make fun of you for anything. It doesn't matter.
You could have the world's most beautiful name and they
will crap on you for it. It's just life kind hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Did you ever get Elvis Pelvis?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, but people mispronounced it. People think it's Elvin with
an n oh okay and durant.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You know, Rosie o'donnad used to call me Elvin Durant.
Oh God, Rosie, it's not Elvin Durant. It's Elvis Durant
and Elvis Doran. Yeah, Elvis Doran. I've been called everything.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
My sister's name is Pria, and she got Priya Gonnaia
her whole life. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Nowadays, when you're gonna name a kid, you really should
do the rhyming thing before you picked the name.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
These kids will come up with something inventive and amazing
and evil. It's so funny.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You should ask your friends, Hey, we're gonna name our
kid x y Z. Do you think my kid would
be will be beating up on the playground, right idea?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, like Scotty named his kid. Cooper didn't think with
that rhyme with Cooper
Speaker 1 (09:19):
The Elvis Duran after party,
Get your hair us together, and we're going to start
to party.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
In part I'm ready to party.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
The Elvis Duran after Party.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
It is the after Party Podcast. Come on and everyone
ever seen. There's Scotty Bee eating something. What are you eating, Scotty?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh, I'm eating bing cherries. The season's almost over.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I gotta use as I love a good being.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
And there's Gandhi, and there's Danielle and I see Straight
Night and I see Scotty.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Who else is here? Anyone else? That's all of us? Oh,
let's get going.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
So we were talking on our show not long ago
about people who changed their names. They were given a
name and they were born, it's on their birth certificate,
but some reason, for some reason.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm like, no, I don't want to live with this right.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
So I put it out there, text us, if you
had to change your name because you didn't like it,
and tell us why you didn't like it, any thoughts
before we get started here.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
I wanted to change mine when I was little. I
didn't know any other Nathan's. I wanted to be Patrick.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Did you really did?
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I even asked my mom how do I do this?
And she goes, You're not changing your name.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Well, I think it'd be great to have a name
that no one else has.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I have one of those A little difficult.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
I've always you know, I want to change my last name.
You know, my name is Anthony Skeary with Scary being
my last name, and everyone always called me Scary my
whole life, followed me around. But they were like, you
can't really do that, So I gave that up at
the age of fourteen.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, you can do whatever you want to do, for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I never realized how funny the last name Cox was.
I grew up with some Cox when I was younger.
As I got older, I was like, oh, I get
what you might want to change.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
We're talking.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Also, on the show How, a woman named her child Vasselinia.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, that's insane, like the petroleum jelly.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Okay, I've got Maritza online eteen. I hope she's not
changing Mariza. That's a great name, Mariza.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, hello, I love I love the name Mariza. I
hope you weren't trying to change that name.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Oh no, I love that name. I named it myself,
but I love it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Oh okay, so you named yourself Mariza what's your given name?
Speaker 7 (02:22):
Oh god, so my mom pronounces it the way it's
Puzza pronounced. So it's Mariusi Maruxi, which I don't like.
But then everybody else who reads it either says Maurci
or Marixi. It's supposed me Marixi in English, I guess,
but people say Mariasi. They name me everything, but what
(02:46):
it said Mariza.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I don't see how Mariza could be that difficult to
figure out. It's it's somewhat common. I've heard Marisa used
a lot.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Have Yeah, Ma, so Marich is what I named myself.
That M A R I cheesy A for rick C
M the A R I you X like X ray.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Why it's mom or my dad.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
For me to be named So you altered it a
little bit? Yeah, I altered it.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
A little bit.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
But the funny part is when I did it was
in the seventh grade because I was tired of people
always like looking at my name, and then the first
thing they would be is like, moron because that's my
last name m O R A, And I'd be like,
and then you know.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
Kids can be me and people like, is that your name?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Moron?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
I mean, like in the third grade and be like,
oh god, so you needed to.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Change your name. Hey, so when you changed your name,
how does your mom and dad feel about that?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Well, my dad can Caroline.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
You know, he barely knows everybody's name.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
But my mom when people will call, you know, because
I would have friends call me and then they'd be like, oh,
can I speak to Maritza? And my mother would be
like who oh no, she doesn't live here, and I'd be.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Like, Mom, that's for me, that's my friend.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
So then she'd be like, no, that's not your name.
And then she got to the point where people will
call and she would be like, oh no, Marisa, No,
no prostitute lives here.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
What well, hold your mom thinks Maricha is a prostitute name.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yes, she goes through me. I did not name you
a prostitute name, nor.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
I cz A is a prostitute name.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I did not mean your place.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
And I was just like, oh my god, don't do.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
That to me.
Speaker 7 (04:40):
And obviously I'm saying my age now because you know,
I say my friends used to call my house back
then you say I have a.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
Land line, not a cell phone, So who.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Has the phone calls all the time?
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Your parents dead? M.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Sorry, we have no prostitute named Maricha here. Well, that's
that's unfortunately. It's beautiful all right, now, we know see,
people have just a million different.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Reasons they change their names.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
There's one, right, Thank you guys so much for calling
me back.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I love you guys.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
You have no idea.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
You guys make my day every single day the minute
I wake up on my ALEXA one hundred in the morning.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So please, all right, thank you. We've got Sarah from
Cleveland Online nineteen. Uh, Sarah, Hi, how are you good?
Are you doing well?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
So you didn't try to change your name from Sarah?
Is you Sarah's a great name? No, not me, it's
your brother. Would your brother want.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
To change his name to.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
He changed his name to Anthony?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Okay, what was it?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
His name was Osa?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Good move for everyone.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Where there are places in the world where there are
Osamas and they're totally fine, so many, so many, Yeah,
but we only know I want to Osama here. Unfortunately,
were people giving your name or your brother a lot
of grief over the name Osama.
Speaker 8 (06:04):
So my brother was in high school, then nine to
eleven happened, and then all the kids are making fun
of him. That are bullying him like crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's a tough one here, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So he ended up dropping out of high school because
of the bullying was so bad.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
And then he changed his name.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh wow, that's that is awful that idiot did what
he did?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, its most fault.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's not your brother's fault that people don't know that
Osama is a common name in other parts of the world.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
But what about some guy like little Bobby Hitler? What
did he do with that name? Where's all the Adolphs?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Exactly?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Isn't Hitler one of the things you are not allowed
to name your child? I think there's a short list
of things I'm gonna look at.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Oh, I didn't know that, although I have heard of
somebody his name was Adolph.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah right, yeah, I know there are some Adolph's rolling around,
but yeah, Hitler's I don't know. Well, so your brother
after he changed his name and quits school, he's okay.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Now right, he's good, Now, okay, all right, you tell
him we said hi, Hi, Anthony, don't call him Osama.
Thank you, Sarah, I have a great day.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
It really is unfortunate that certain people have ruined names
for all of eternity, right, ye, Adolf Hitler Osama bin Laden?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Who was the Damien?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Wasn't Damien the Little Exorcist kid?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Or yeh, he was in that was the movie? No,
the guy in the thing, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
No, it was the guy, the old guy that had
the mustache. He was in all those movies.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
He talk Clark, what was it? He had the six
sixty six behind his ear? The omen, the omen, the omen.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
The Damien ruined that because then there was this kid
my brother went to school with who is Damien?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And then they all made fun of him. Look, he
would pull up your hair. Let's see if the six
six six he.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Should have drawn six six six on his head? Just
a freak on the hell outa.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Kids are fun so sick, Yeah, for sure. I mean
they make fun of you for anything. It doesn't matter.
You could have the world's most beautiful name and they
will crap on you for it. It's just life kind hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Did you ever get Elvis Pelvis?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, but people mispronounced it. People think it's Elvin with
an n oh okay and durant.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
You know, Rosie o'donnad used to call me Elvin Durant.
Oh God, Rosie, it's not Elvin Durant. It's Elvis Durant
and Elvis Doran. Yeah, Elvis Doran. I've been called everything.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
My sister's name is Pria, and she got Priya Gonnaia
her whole life. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
Nowadays, when you're gonna name a kid, you really should
do the rhyming thing before you picked the name.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
These kids will come up with something inventive and amazing
and evil. It's so funny.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You should ask your friends, Hey, we're gonna name our
kid x y Z. Do you think my kid would
be will be beating up on the playground, right idea?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, like Scotty named his kid. Cooper didn't think with
that rhyme with Cooper
Speaker 1 (09:19):
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