April 6, 2026 • 6 mins
You know that feeling when your parents went against what you wanted... how did it happen?!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, so, how did your parents ruin your life?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Actually, Natasha called us online one Hi Natasha, how did
your parents.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Ruin your life?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So I've been going by Natasha my entire life, and
when I was in first grade, we had moved up
here from Philly when I was like four years old.
This preschool, kindergarten, no problem. They took attendance on the
first day of school and they never called my name,
so they called my mom. They were like, who's this child?
(00:38):
Turns out my first name is Anna. So my first
name is Anna and my middle name is Natasha, but
my entire family calls me Natasha, and I.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Your mom and I gave you two first names.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, pretty much, but forgot to tell me about the
second one a hard time, and my entire middle school,
high school career everyone called me Anna. And then finally
about a year ago, I changed all my social media
back to Natasha and everything. So it's like, I don't
I don't write this name.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I think I think your mom and dad could have
been a little they could they could have planned that
a little better.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Maybe, Yeah, you know, you gotta be careful what your
name your kids? All right? Anna, I mean Natasha, thank
you have a great day. Take it easy. Uh, well
say like, for instance, Gandhi. Yes, Like your first name
is Meida.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And my parents really I feel like they really did
a doozy with that one because nobody can pronounce it.
I have to tell them like seven times this is
how you say it. So most of the people in
my life call me Meida, which is inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's made the yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Yo am, what's up? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So that's why we called her Gandhi.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
The best part is that they said, oh, we tried
to give you an easy name so that, you know,
American people could get it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I was like, thanks God, anyone else in the room
with a bad name your name?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I never liked Nate because I didn't know any other
Nates growing up.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I think Nate's a great name.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
How do you do now? I like it, but at
the time you kind of want to fit in with
everybody else and there's no other Nates. I'm like, this
is such a weird name, and then I can As
I was growing up, I found the list of baby
names my mom was trying to find, you know, to
choose from. And my first name is Nathan, my middle
name is David. The third name on the list that
she liked was Tristan.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
How bad Tristan could be fine? I should call you
that anyway, we could just start calling you that.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yeah, I'm fine with that Tristan.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
At least no one was named Horace or something like that.
Horace would be awful.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's a terrible, terrible Horace. So how did your mom
and dad ruin your life? Marissa's online eight? How you
doing Marissa?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Good?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Are you doing well?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
How did your mom ruin your life?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay, So when she went to do all of my
student loans stuff, she put some of my student loans
under her name and some under my name, and the
ones that are under her account information, all of her stuff,
everything goes to her and it's under my socials. So
they were like coming in and I had no idea.
So now I have like a failed credit rating. Yes,
(03:24):
And so she didn't do it like maliciously. She when
I talked to her, she is like, no, no, that's
for me. I'm like, mom, they are linked to my
social Security number, and now I have a failed credit reading.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, and it takes forever. It takes forever to dig
out of that, you know, Thanks mom. Ye, at least
she didn't name you Horace.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Okay, true, true, think about that, all.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Right, Marissa, tell your mom you love her and you
forgive her.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Come on, maybe thanks eleven? Line eleven is ash Hey?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Ash Hey?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Is that short for Ashley?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, but it's easier to go by as Okay, So
how did your parents ruin your life?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So when I moved here from Europe with my family,
the translation of my European last name was Jacob with bees.
But you know, cursive bees and ass look very similar.
In Alis Island, everyone writes some cursies. So from Jacob
it's now jack Off.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Thanks mom. Yeah, so your name is ash jack Off.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yep, that's awesome. But here's the thing. Once they realize
that that it didn't really translate, well, they couldn't have
gone back and officially like, you know, yes, it's too late,
changed it way too late.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, it's too good. It's too good.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Can't change it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I like it, she leaned in. Good for her.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I liked it all right, Thanks for calling ask jack Off.
It's been nice talking to me, So sometimes your parents
ruined ruin it for everyone. I mean, look, you love
your mom and dad, and unless they really drove way
far off the road, you know what I'm saying. But
your parents, like sometimes you expect them. It's like the
(05:19):
end of the day, were talking about parents who just
can't figure out their their electronics, their their their phones
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You just expect that from them.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
If you didn't have one reason to be mad at
your mom and dad, then you know what I'm saying,
it wouldn't be a good relationship, right, You got to
have something to hate them about.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I was like, I mean, I'm sure our parents also
have plenty of reasons how we ruined their lives. So
it's we were born exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, But so many, so many people, you know, they
look to their parents as example for how to how
to have a relationship, how to you know, be you know,
in a loving relationship, and they just some parents just
aren't in a loving relationship. And that's where you learn that.
That's what you got to learn outside the circle. I
guess all right, but at least they didn't name you Horace.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I don't know who would do that.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Why would someone do that?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
To a child, Would anybody do that to their child,
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, so, how did your parents ruin your life?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Actually, Natasha called us online one Hi Natasha, how did
your parents.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Ruin your life?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
So I've been going by Natasha my entire life, and
when I was in first grade, we had moved up
here from Philly when I was like four years old.
This preschool, kindergarten, no problem. They took attendance on the
first day of school and they never called my name,
so they called my mom. They were like, who's this child?
(00:38):
Turns out my first name is Anna. So my first
name is Anna and my middle name is Natasha, but
my entire family calls me Natasha, and I.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Your mom and I gave you two first names.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, pretty much, but forgot to tell me about the
second one a hard time, and my entire middle school,
high school career everyone called me Anna. And then finally
about a year ago, I changed all my social media
back to Natasha and everything. So it's like, I don't
I don't write this name.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I think I think your mom and dad could have
been a little they could they could have planned that
a little better.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Maybe, Yeah, you know, you gotta be careful what your
name your kids? All right? Anna, I mean Natasha, thank
you have a great day. Take it easy. Uh, well
say like, for instance, Gandhi. Yes, Like your first name
is Meida.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And my parents really I feel like they really did
a doozy with that one because nobody can pronounce it.
I have to tell them like seven times this is
how you say it. So most of the people in
my life call me Meida, which is inaccurate.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's made the yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Yo am, what's up? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So that's why we called her Gandhi.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
The best part is that they said, oh, we tried
to give you an easy name so that, you know,
American people could get it.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I was like, thanks God, anyone else in the room
with a bad name your name?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I never liked Nate because I didn't know any other
Nates growing up.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I think Nate's a great name.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
How do you do now? I like it, but at
the time you kind of want to fit in with
everybody else and there's no other Nates. I'm like, this
is such a weird name, and then I can As
I was growing up, I found the list of baby
names my mom was trying to find, you know, to
choose from. And my first name is Nathan, my middle
name is David. The third name on the list that
she liked was Tristan.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
How bad Tristan could be fine? I should call you
that anyway, we could just start calling you that.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Yeah, I'm fine with that Tristan.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
At least no one was named Horace or something like that.
Horace would be awful.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's a terrible, terrible Horace. So how did your mom
and dad ruin your life? Marissa's online eight? How you
doing Marissa?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Good?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Are you doing well?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
How did your mom ruin your life?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Okay, So when she went to do all of my
student loans stuff, she put some of my student loans
under her name and some under my name, and the
ones that are under her account information, all of her stuff,
everything goes to her and it's under my socials. So
they were like coming in and I had no idea.
So now I have like a failed credit rating. Yes,
(03:24):
And so she didn't do it like maliciously. She when
I talked to her, she is like, no, no, that's
for me. I'm like, mom, they are linked to my
social Security number, and now I have a failed credit reading.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, and it takes forever. It takes forever to dig
out of that, you know, Thanks mom. Ye, at least
she didn't name you Horace.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Okay, true, true, think about that, all.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Right, Marissa, tell your mom you love her and you
forgive her.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Come on, maybe thanks eleven? Line eleven is ash Hey?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Ash Hey?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Is that short for Ashley?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Yeah, but it's easier to go by as Okay, So
how did your parents ruin your life?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So when I moved here from Europe with my family,
the translation of my European last name was Jacob with bees.
But you know, cursive bees and ass look very similar.
In Alis Island, everyone writes some cursies. So from Jacob
it's now jack Off.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Thanks mom. Yeah, so your name is ash jack Off.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yep, that's awesome. But here's the thing. Once they realize
that that it didn't really translate, well, they couldn't have
gone back and officially like, you know, yes, it's too late,
changed it way too late.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
No, it's too good. It's too good.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Can't change it.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I like it, she leaned in. Good for her.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I liked it all right, Thanks for calling ask jack Off.
It's been nice talking to me, So sometimes your parents
ruined ruin it for everyone. I mean, look, you love
your mom and dad, and unless they really drove way
far off the road, you know what I'm saying. But
your parents, like sometimes you expect them. It's like the
(05:19):
end of the day, were talking about parents who just
can't figure out their their electronics, their their their phones
and stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You just expect that from them.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
If you didn't have one reason to be mad at
your mom and dad, then you know what I'm saying,
it wouldn't be a good relationship, right, You got to
have something to hate them about.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I was like, I mean, I'm sure our parents also
have plenty of reasons how we ruined their lives. So
it's we were born exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, But so many, so many people, you know, they
look to their parents as example for how to how
to have a relationship, how to you know, be you know,
in a loving relationship, and they just some parents just
aren't in a loving relationship. And that's where you learn that.
That's what you got to learn outside the circle. I
guess all right, but at least they didn't name you Horace.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I don't know who would do that.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Why would someone do that?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
To a child, Would anybody do that to their child,
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