November 9, 2019 • 22 mins
Bobby and Eddie talk about the stories behind famous stage names and band names. Bobby has a rundown of celebrities explaining how they got their stage names from Cardi B to Post Malone and Sting. Bobby also explains why his band is called "Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots" and why he is named Bobby Bones.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to episode one seventy six. It's Bobby and Eddie.
This is how famous stars or bands got their names. Okay,
by the way, check out Eddie's podcast, The Sore Losers.
It's kind of like a dude show, a sports show. Yeah,
you obviously listen to podcasts, so that'd be a new
one for you to check out, These Sore Losers. But
this one is not avert list of stories behind famous
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stage names and band names, which so that's pretty cool.
So these can be like individual people like Sting. Okay,
is he in there? We'll get to it. Okay. Some
of it's not even music people. For example, like Brie Larson,
her name is not Bree. Well it's I'll tell you. Okay,
I'm interested. Now I'll start with this one because, um,
Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots, which is Eddie and
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my band that was never the name was never Bobby
Bones and the Raging Idiots. It was always just the
Raging Idiots. But first of all, the Raging Idiots was
a my fake band name that I used when I
was a teenager and I would go do bad stand
up comedy and I would say like, all right, there,
Raging idiot, You're gonna play tonight when I'm done, and
they would never show up, and so I would just
pull out a guitar and play a couple of songs. Yeah,
that was always a running gag. And then when Raging
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Adiots sort of playing shows Eddie and myself, I would
always open by doing stand up, so the Markie would
always say Boby Bones and the Raging Idiots, and that's
Eddie's now all the Raging Idiots. Oddly, it was almost
because wherever we would go, they would want to associate
your name to it, because if we just did the
Raging Idiots, I don't think a lot of people would
just put, oh, Bobby's part of this band. So they're
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just like, let's make it obvious that Bobby is here. Well,
I wanted to be like Jacob Diylon, making them get
away from Bob a little bit. Jacob Dillan's a late
singer of the Wallflowers and forever. He wouldn't say it
was Bob Dylan's son. He wanted to make it on
his own. I think the better comparison is like Tenacious
D and Jack Black and not saying like Jack Black
and today no Jacob Jacob. I'm trying to be Jacob Doll,
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but it helps too. Now people just see the markis
and they're like, Bobby Moss coming all right? But do
they say that? I think? So, here's this one. This
is Travis Scott. Don't you open up that window? Travis
got said his name is from his uncle Travis and
Kid Cutty, whose real name is Scott. So is he
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friends with kid Cutty? His uncle Travis and kid Cutty?
So his name his real name is Scott, miss Scutty.
And now he's Travis Scott. Yeah, I mean Travis Scotts
is a normal dude name. I always I'm always suspect
with like the last names. That sounds like a first name.
It's like, that's not really their last name of Scott,
Michael Scott, Yeah, is that his real He's like, actually
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that's next in the list. No, Michael Scott's from from
the office. Yeah. Uh? Post Malone? What are you thinking about?
Post Malone? Do you know this one? Now? It always
reminds me of Carl Malone? Does it reminds me? I
used to put in posts like a post diggers. What
do you mean we put in posts? Oh? When you're
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making a post like a fence. Yeah, yeah, it reminds
me of post Malone, said his fourteen year in an
alias so quote, I ran Austin post his real name
through a random rap generator. He just did the website
where it's rap generator no way, and got post Malone.
That's interesting, So he won't have a rap generator. That's funny.
That's actually like that. Cardi b oooh, what's her is
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be part of her real name? She was born bell
Callus marlanis al mar Nazar. That's it. So that's what
was the first name, Bell callisl Callis. That's the bee.
She said. My sister's name is Hennessey, so everybody used
to call me but Cardi, which is another alcoholic drink. Yes,
since her sister was named Tennessee, she was Cardi, so
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Cardi B and she said, also says the B stands
for not just my first name, but beautiful or bully,
depending on how she's feeling. Okay, yeah, no, I'm a
money more. I don't got a dance. I'm mcmony more.
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are so similar to me. Yeah,
sounding I do the peloton a ride and now did
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the hip hop class, and I guess I just know
their songs for the most part, but they're very similar.
They are very simile and super witty in their in
their rhymes. Yes, but um, who was first? Oh? NICKI Minaj? Right?
A couple of years cardib was on the MTV show
Right Isn't where she was found? Like? Uh was she
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on that? Oh? Yeah, yeah, look it up. She was
on like uh Catfish, No, like Loving hip Hop? I
Love New York or one of those shows. Yeah, I
love and hip Hop. Yeah, she was one of those
like random cast cast every re Brie Larson, Okay, I'm
interested here. Have you seen that movie? I've seen The Avengers, Yes,
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and I've seen Captain Marble. That's what I'm talking about,
Captain Marvel. She was born Brian Desauling Eers, but no
one could pronounce it, which I probably did neither. So
when she was nice, she changed her name and Larson
was from her favorite American girl, Doll Kursten Larson, Oh,
do you know Bobby Bones? That's more of a thing
than raging giddiots And why I didn't start with that.
It's true. My real name is Bobby, but my real
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last name is not Bones, and I would have never
picked Bones. I think it's a stupid name. Eddy. I'm
still embarrassed about it. Sometimes it's your name, though, somebody
knew and I meet him, like, I have to tell
them I'm Bobby Bones because I feel like a pirate
or a port It's so stupid, but I um, it
was given to me. My program director, Kevin Cruise in
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Hot Springs, Arkansas, as a teenager, said Hey, you gotta
go on the air, and you have to have a name.
So you have Bobby Z or Bobby Bones. And I
thought Bobby Z sounded kind of like there was a
wrestler named z Man. Him and Brian Pillman used to
wrestled together, and then there was And I was like,
Bib Bones at least sounds like a person. I thought
Bobby Z sounds like a medication or something. Out of
the two. For sure, you go Bones. Yeah. It's weird though,
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And I think someone wrote this in an article about
me once. For someone who prides themselves on authenticity, I
use a fake name, but I don't say it's my
real name, hide behind it true. And I couldn't shake
it because everywhere I went was connected to the last place.
But when I was a little rock, I started doing
um voice striking in Austin. Austin, I started syndicating the
show around the country and then it was just a thing.
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But before then, weren't you Bobby the Barbarian? As I
was the Bobman, I called like the Bartman. Okay, in
the Simpsons it was the Bobman. And when I was
a kid, I was Bobby the Barbarian. And Kevin Cruis
didn't like Bobman. I didn't either. I'm glad I didn't stay.
Whoopie Goldberg. She was born Karen Elaine Johnson, but she
wanted a fun name and she goes, hey, if you
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get little gassy, you just gotta let it go. So
people say you're like a Whoopie cushion, and that's where
it came from. That's a fun name, whoopee. I mean,
that's really how everyone will. I mean, she stood out
because her name was Whoopie Goldberg. That was a great
move on her part. Yeah. She was also super funny.
She was funny, a good actress. Lord l O r D.
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Listen to this. This is Lord's name Ella Maria Lanny
Yell like okay, honor Wow. Yeah, that's a lot, so
she went the opposite, just did Lord. Yeah, I get
that she wanted a name that had grand grand deer
to it with Lord. You know what Lord today is
Billie Eilish because when Lord came out, Lord was that
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kid who was making crazy music and everyone was like, oh,
this is crazy. You know, Lord's a teenager. She acted weird.
And now bill that's Billy Eilish now, which I listened
to bill alshup all the time and I feel kind
of creepy because she's like seventeen. Yeah, but she makes
good music. It's good. I've only heard the one you've
You've played, but I love it. It does remind me
of her, of Lord. It was just the this thing
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being really young. But Lord way hasn't done a lot. Huh.
He didn't put it out an album. It's like a
couple of years ago. Miley Cyrus not a real name,
the Miley parts. Yeah. I think it's because she was smiley,
um yeah, constant smiling as a baby. So so I
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think one of her siblings called her trying to call
her Smiley but a Miley Wow. So Miley Cyrus and
she legally changed her name in two thousand and eight.
From Destiny Hope to Miley Ray Destiny Hope. Destiny Hope
was her name. Destiny Cyrus could have totally worked too. Yeah,
I mean she was a Ray as well. M she's
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a Ray now right, I mean Billy Ray, Destiny Ray.
She was Destiny Hope. Oh okay, okay, okay, I got
Miley Ray. Okay. Snoop Dogg? Oh yes, I do know
this one. Calvin Brotus. That's it now. Any reason why
they would call him Snoop Dogg? Well, Calvin's not very
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tough and at that point he needed to be that
tough guy. He got it way before he was a gangster.
Oh he did. His family thought it looked like snoopy.
That's terrible. I guess a little hunchback, so they called
him Snoop I hear it here? That is yeah, that's umug.
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Hisr name is James Todd Smith. Ladies love, Ladies love
what That's cool? J LLL right, his name is James
Todd Smith's to do it James Todd Smith. To LLL cool,
j James. I don't know, Ladies love cool James, Oh
cool James, that's j You who this is? Yeah? He
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does that's those pop pop stars. Man Iggy was her
dog's name, and a Zelia was the street name that
her family lived on. And everyone knows that those two
things are how you pick your porn name on the internet.
Oh yeah, and so she just picked it. She claims
that Iggy came for people accidentally calling her by her
pets name. But the porn name game is always what's
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your dog's name? And then what's the street? Because my
name would be Dusty Mountain View. Yeah, which is what
does the porn name? Totally does high Dusty, Dusty Mountain View.
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producer Rob, who also was her boyfriend at the time,
was the first to call her Gaga because her voice
style reminded of the song Radio Gaga from Between, which
was that one radio Google Radio. They play you know
that song? No, I don't. They played it even in
Bohemian Rhapsody, So I still haven't seen that movie. Oh
you haven't. You would like it? Yeah, you say I
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would because we're music nerds. You wouldn't like it? Because
you're a music nerd. Oh, because you could get mad.
They skipped over a lot of stuff. But if you
just sit back and watch the movie, I've heard they
kind of like just make it look like it was
an overnight success, just like, hey, we just met, we're
going on the BBC, what we're playing a stadium and
then they get into stuff. But as far as the
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movie goes, I think you would you would like it. Okay,
how about this one here, let's do Black Eyed Peas. Um,
let's see taboo. So they chose it because it was
a name that was soulful like their music. I remember
the Black Eyed Peas before they even had Fergie. The
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Black Et Pieas would do songs and bring people on.
First of all, they'd beat themselves. But they had a
song with Macy Gray called like um telephone, see if
you can find that. It's like telephone or call me
up or something. And then Fergie joined request line. Oh
that's it, request line. Yeah, you were right around it.
And then Fergie joined the group and they blew up
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when Fergie joined the groups. Remember did you ever see
that picture of Fergie like pean ter pants on stage?
It was like it was a viral thing where they
said like, oh yeah, Fergie like and they showed the
shot and it was like she Peter pants. But I
was wondering if that was real or not. Did she
have to pee real bad or was she drunk or
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that was just the story was just that she had
Pete on stage. Have you seen um yeah, yeah Star?
Oh my gosh, it's terrible. That part's terrible. How awkward
was it watching that? It just feel bad for him.
There are cringeworthy things. I was watching The Office last night,
and which I've seen a thousand times. Have you seen
The Office? Um? Which which episode? The one where they're
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doing that? I cringe a lot The Office, I know,
but that's one where they're doing the play and the
play is the guy who does cutting hair and he
chops at people my mind escaping me. But Andy's on
stage in his self and somebody cell phones going off
in the theater and it turns out it's his. Oh
it's so cringeworthy. I just feel like every time Michael
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Scott opens his mouth's cringe worthy, so crune worthy. Okay,
bowling pursuit, oh wow, old school, old school. I just
think they were so cool. I remember I had Jared's
cell phone number, the lead singer, and I was like,
this is the most famous because I'm ever gonna be eat.
Did they live in Texas? They lived in like Denton
or Dallas? Yeah, yeah, it was How did you get
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his number? Was it like? Hey, but he gave it
to me? Really? Yeah? Are they still a man? Yeah?
Are they up? They were inspired by Steve Martin's bowling
for beat s hi t routine from his nineteen seventy
nine comedy album Wild and Crazy Guy, and so bowling
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for soup came from bowling first interesting m bowling fish. Eminem, Oh,
I'm mc coffee crescent and everything you beat me is
Tom mcmathe. That means there is nothing. What do you
just talked about? I just talked about this. One's so easy.
But I don't think a lot of people know Eminem.
Why is eminems name? Eminem's his favorite candy? Obviously, think
about it. Really, his name is Marshall Mathers M and M.
(14:50):
There it is Marshall mad. There's two letters M Eminem
spell it differently. It's spelled M yang. That's simple. But
I love that he didn't just do M and them.
I guess he couldn't because it's probably a huge trademark.
Cops right on that meat loaf. What's this, dude's a deal?
Tell him about meat loaf. The Rocker got his name
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meat when he was just four days old because his
skin was so red in. His dad said he looked
like nine and a half pounds of ground chuck, and
so they'd always call him meat, and then his bobbles like,
I think we're just gonna call you meat loaf. Loaf
is such a gross word. It is gross. Any loaf
is like a loaf of bread is gross to here.
I think just meat loaf. And he got he got bones.
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He was told what he was told, what his name
was gonna be. You did ask about Sting. He gained
his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and
yellow sweater with hood stripes. Oh cool, like a bee,
Like a bee. He'd look like a bee, So they
call him Sting. That's cool story. It's just something simple like, Hey,
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you look like a bee. I'm gonna call you Sting.
That's like what people do with their friends. Spice girls,
who is it? You can do all of them because
I think all of them are easy. Baby Spice was
like a baby and she would suck on a passifier.
Jerry Halliwell said she come with the idea for the
name Spice after an aerobics class. Jerry was ginger. Yes.
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And then Girls because there was already a group named Spice,
so they went with Spice Girls. Spice already happened. What
a smack like? They were just humongous. This K pop
group BTS, They're humongous, Yeah, like crazy. Mike Diana were
talking about it and I don't get it, but I'm
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not supposed to get it. But what don't you get?
They sing in Korean, right, I don't know what they're saying. Well,
I feel like I feel like this is a testament
to where like there's much more than the United States,
and this is blowing up in the United States, I know,
but for the first time, because you know what, English
speakers that don't speak Korean. I think it's cool because
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for the most time, for the most part, they get
what we give them. You know, it's like, oh, the
American music or even like the British music gets big
and then the whole world likes it. In this case,
for the first time, we're listening to something we don't
even understand, and we're liking it. I'm agreeing that it's
it's cool. Yeah. Again, it's so rare that a song
comes out that's not English that I can feel. I
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need to hear it over and over, like Desposse too.
But even then he's Bieber does his English, and even
Macarina they started to put English words and then in
English version two back. Yeah, so Halsey sings that part.
But BTS is an acronym for banketon sonoded in I
don't know. In English, it means bulletproof boy scouts, Okay,
(17:45):
BTS one, I see. It means behind the scenes, so
some people will do a high tight BTS. I'm thinking
the time about the Korean group. But it's like behind
the scenes. Oh, that's just another ways I got it,
got it um so, But yeah, I don't. I don't
know the words. And I had a friend who wrote
that song that's crazy, wrote that a massive song, melodio
to it and some of the lyrics. It's crazy. Didn't
even know she wrote it. She did it randomly and
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they came back like you're on the song and you
did this. She's like, that's what that was. Yeah, it's crazy.
She said, how long do you think they stay for
a long time? Think so? And do you mean like
boy bands? It's bad? But five years three four? Okay,
that's that's a good life. And there are like other
ones like Black Pink is a girl group. They K pop,
I think so. Yeah, so there's a lot of them.
So K pop is like a Kreorean pop genre, J
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pops the Japanese. Wouldn't it be a thing? I don't know.
He's like, you just make it out, Yeah, that's what
it's called. J pop. Yeah. Um, obviously you have Pee
pop yea Puerto Rican and Philippino jo. It is a
good thing. How about Nirvana? What do you think about that? Okay?
I don't know no idea where that would have come from.
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Kirk Oban wanted a name that he wanted it to
be beautiful or nice and pretty instead of mean, raunchy
punk name like the Angry Samoans. And before they became Nirvana,
they were known as skit Row, fecal Matter, and ted
ed Fred skid Row that's what I was already a
named movie. It was like at an eighties band. What
about fecal Fred? Was that Nirvana was sued by a
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British and no, that's our next band. Nirvana was sued
by a British psycho pop rock band with the same name.
They had been active since nineteen sixty five. The two
bands reached a settlement in court and the British Nirvana
sees on the opportunity releasing a tongue in cheek psychedelic
cover of Nirvana's hit Come as You Are. And that
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was a thing. I mean, I'm sure they were watching
MTV and they're just like, yeah, let's just give up
on to some voice. They got us bigger lawyers. Yea richer,
you are the bigger lawyers. You have The Cranberriers originally
named the Cranberry saw Us. The rumor as they got
the name from the last two lines of John Lennon
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Strawberry Fields, Strawberry Fields Forever. I don't know. I don't
know what the last I think with the last time
of um, is there anybody in country music that's not
that doesn't use their name? Yeah, Oh, you can explain
to Thomas Rhett one, Oh that's that's his real first
and middle name. Because the first time I heard it,
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his wife was just like, yeah, this is what I
call him, and I'm like, why do you call him that?
And they're like, that's because that's his real name. So
Thomas Rhett that's what people call him as his first name.
His real name is Thomas red Aikins. His dad is
red Aikins Um And so because of red Aikins and
the confusion there and also the ched Atkins and the
Rodney Atkins, and they were like, we're just gonna call
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you Thomas Rhett. Now that being said, nobody calls Thomas
right Thomas because his name is Thomas Rhett. It'd be
like Amanda, Joe, Sure, Peggy, Sue, anybody like that. So,
I mean, I know Thoms showed a little bit. I
just call him t r because that's what everybody calls
him because he wants to say Tom's right. Yeah, his
wife that's how his wife calls him. But that's his
first name to people from Thomas Rhett and so it's
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not his first and last name. And if and if
anyone's like, hey have you seen Thomas, I'm like, oh,
they must not know him, yeah, because if you know him,
you know his name is actually Thomas Hrett. Yeah, who
else Luke Brian is he is he Yeah, let's not
lu and Dirk Spentley is not Dirk, right, it's yeah,
And I wonder if they try to keep these under
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wraps and like just kind of like, let's see how
long it goes with four people nowadays. No, back in
the day, you could have Lucas Thomas Thomas that was
just like more than a stage name. Yeah. So anyway,
I thought that'd be a fun little one to do today.
That's fun. Thanks man. I learned more than I contributed,
so thank you. Well, that was all just to come
in and learn. Yeah. Good. I check out The Sore Losers,
(21:41):
Thank you. Um, and that's gonna wrap up this episode.
I think Jada Marcus Rascal Flats coming by next week
or soon. And he just has a he just has
a book out right, Yeah, and I think one part
of it he revealed that he gave up a kid
for adoption. Every stuff. Dude, that that might be you
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Thank you so much, and I hope you like this.
So I know it was only half an hour or so,
less than that, but I thought that was pretty fun,
little little knowledge bomb dropped on you there, all right,
have a good on everybody,
Welcome to episode one seventy six. It's Bobby and Eddie.
This is how famous stars or bands got their names. Okay,
by the way, check out Eddie's podcast, The Sore Losers.
It's kind of like a dude show, a sports show. Yeah,
you obviously listen to podcasts, so that'd be a new
one for you to check out, These Sore Losers. But
this one is not avert list of stories behind famous
(00:21):
stage names and band names, which so that's pretty cool.
So these can be like individual people like Sting. Okay,
is he in there? We'll get to it. Okay. Some
of it's not even music people. For example, like Brie Larson,
her name is not Bree. Well it's I'll tell you. Okay,
I'm interested. Now I'll start with this one because, um,
Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots, which is Eddie and
(00:43):
my band that was never the name was never Bobby
Bones and the Raging Idiots. It was always just the
Raging Idiots. But first of all, the Raging Idiots was
a my fake band name that I used when I
was a teenager and I would go do bad stand
up comedy and I would say like, all right, there,
Raging idiot, You're gonna play tonight when I'm done, and
they would never show up, and so I would just
pull out a guitar and play a couple of songs. Yeah,
that was always a running gag. And then when Raging
(01:04):
Adiots sort of playing shows Eddie and myself, I would
always open by doing stand up, so the Markie would
always say Boby Bones and the Raging Idiots, and that's
Eddie's now all the Raging Idiots. Oddly, it was almost
because wherever we would go, they would want to associate
your name to it, because if we just did the
Raging Idiots, I don't think a lot of people would
just put, oh, Bobby's part of this band. So they're
(01:26):
just like, let's make it obvious that Bobby is here. Well,
I wanted to be like Jacob Diylon, making them get
away from Bob a little bit. Jacob Dillan's a late
singer of the Wallflowers and forever. He wouldn't say it
was Bob Dylan's son. He wanted to make it on
his own. I think the better comparison is like Tenacious
D and Jack Black and not saying like Jack Black
and today no Jacob Jacob. I'm trying to be Jacob Doll,
(01:48):
but it helps too. Now people just see the markis
and they're like, Bobby Moss coming all right? But do
they say that? I think? So, here's this one. This
is Travis Scott. Don't you open up that window? Travis
got said his name is from his uncle Travis and
Kid Cutty, whose real name is Scott. So is he
(02:09):
friends with kid Cutty? His uncle Travis and kid Cutty?
So his name his real name is Scott, miss Scutty.
And now he's Travis Scott. Yeah, I mean Travis Scotts
is a normal dude name. I always I'm always suspect
with like the last names. That sounds like a first name.
It's like, that's not really their last name of Scott,
Michael Scott, Yeah, is that his real He's like, actually
(02:31):
that's next in the list. No, Michael Scott's from from
the office. Yeah. Uh? Post Malone? What are you thinking about?
Post Malone? Do you know this one? Now? It always
reminds me of Carl Malone? Does it reminds me? I
used to put in posts like a post diggers. What
do you mean we put in posts? Oh? When you're
(02:52):
making a post like a fence. Yeah, yeah, it reminds
me of post Malone, said his fourteen year in an
alias so quote, I ran Austin post his real name
through a random rap generator. He just did the website
where it's rap generator no way, and got post Malone.
That's interesting, So he won't have a rap generator. That's funny.
That's actually like that. Cardi b oooh, what's her is
(03:16):
be part of her real name? She was born bell
Callus marlanis al mar Nazar. That's it. So that's what
was the first name, Bell callisl Callis. That's the bee.
She said. My sister's name is Hennessey, so everybody used
to call me but Cardi, which is another alcoholic drink. Yes,
since her sister was named Tennessee, she was Cardi, so
(03:38):
Cardi B and she said, also says the B stands
for not just my first name, but beautiful or bully,
depending on how she's feeling. Okay, yeah, no, I'm a
money more. I don't got a dance. I'm mcmony more.
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are so similar to me. Yeah,
sounding I do the peloton a ride and now did
(04:00):
the hip hop class, and I guess I just know
their songs for the most part, but they're very similar.
They are very simile and super witty in their in
their rhymes. Yes, but um, who was first? Oh? NICKI Minaj? Right?
A couple of years cardib was on the MTV show
Right Isn't where she was found? Like? Uh was she
(04:21):
on that? Oh? Yeah, yeah, look it up. She was
on like uh Catfish, No, like Loving hip Hop? I
Love New York or one of those shows. Yeah, I
love and hip Hop. Yeah, she was one of those
like random cast cast every re Brie Larson, Okay, I'm
interested here. Have you seen that movie? I've seen The Avengers, Yes,
(04:44):
and I've seen Captain Marble. That's what I'm talking about,
Captain Marvel. She was born Brian Desauling Eers, but no
one could pronounce it, which I probably did neither. So
when she was nice, she changed her name and Larson
was from her favorite American girl, Doll Kursten Larson, Oh,
do you know Bobby Bones? That's more of a thing
than raging giddiots And why I didn't start with that.
It's true. My real name is Bobby, but my real
(05:06):
last name is not Bones, and I would have never
picked Bones. I think it's a stupid name. Eddy. I'm
still embarrassed about it. Sometimes it's your name, though, somebody
knew and I meet him, like, I have to tell
them I'm Bobby Bones because I feel like a pirate
or a port It's so stupid, but I um, it
was given to me. My program director, Kevin Cruise in
(05:27):
Hot Springs, Arkansas, as a teenager, said Hey, you gotta
go on the air, and you have to have a name.
So you have Bobby Z or Bobby Bones. And I
thought Bobby Z sounded kind of like there was a
wrestler named z Man. Him and Brian Pillman used to
wrestled together, and then there was And I was like,
Bib Bones at least sounds like a person. I thought
Bobby Z sounds like a medication or something. Out of
the two. For sure, you go Bones. Yeah. It's weird though,
(05:50):
And I think someone wrote this in an article about
me once. For someone who prides themselves on authenticity, I
use a fake name, but I don't say it's my
real name, hide behind it true. And I couldn't shake
it because everywhere I went was connected to the last place.
But when I was a little rock, I started doing
um voice striking in Austin. Austin, I started syndicating the
show around the country and then it was just a thing.
(06:11):
But before then, weren't you Bobby the Barbarian? As I
was the Bobman, I called like the Bartman. Okay, in
the Simpsons it was the Bobman. And when I was
a kid, I was Bobby the Barbarian. And Kevin Cruis
didn't like Bobman. I didn't either. I'm glad I didn't stay.
Whoopie Goldberg. She was born Karen Elaine Johnson, but she
wanted a fun name and she goes, hey, if you
(06:32):
get little gassy, you just gotta let it go. So
people say you're like a Whoopie cushion, and that's where
it came from. That's a fun name, whoopee. I mean,
that's really how everyone will. I mean, she stood out
because her name was Whoopie Goldberg. That was a great
move on her part. Yeah. She was also super funny.
She was funny, a good actress. Lord l O r D.
(06:54):
Listen to this. This is Lord's name Ella Maria Lanny
Yell like okay, honor Wow. Yeah, that's a lot, so
she went the opposite, just did Lord. Yeah, I get
that she wanted a name that had grand grand deer
to it with Lord. You know what Lord today is
Billie Eilish because when Lord came out, Lord was that
(07:15):
kid who was making crazy music and everyone was like, oh,
this is crazy. You know, Lord's a teenager. She acted weird.
And now bill that's Billy Eilish now, which I listened
to bill alshup all the time and I feel kind
of creepy because she's like seventeen. Yeah, but she makes
good music. It's good. I've only heard the one you've
You've played, but I love it. It does remind me
of her, of Lord. It was just the this thing
(07:35):
being really young. But Lord way hasn't done a lot. Huh.
He didn't put it out an album. It's like a
couple of years ago. Miley Cyrus not a real name,
the Miley parts. Yeah. I think it's because she was smiley,
um yeah, constant smiling as a baby. So so I
(07:56):
think one of her siblings called her trying to call
her Smiley but a Miley Wow. So Miley Cyrus and
she legally changed her name in two thousand and eight.
From Destiny Hope to Miley Ray Destiny Hope. Destiny Hope
was her name. Destiny Cyrus could have totally worked too. Yeah,
I mean she was a Ray as well. M she's
(08:16):
a Ray now right, I mean Billy Ray, Destiny Ray.
She was Destiny Hope. Oh okay, okay, okay, I got
Miley Ray. Okay. Snoop Dogg? Oh yes, I do know
this one. Calvin Brotus. That's it now. Any reason why
they would call him Snoop Dogg? Well, Calvin's not very
(08:37):
tough and at that point he needed to be that
tough guy. He got it way before he was a gangster.
Oh he did. His family thought it looked like snoopy.
That's terrible. I guess a little hunchback, so they called
him Snoop I hear it here? That is yeah, that's umug.
(09:00):
Hisr name is James Todd Smith. Ladies love, Ladies love
what That's cool? J LLL right, his name is James
Todd Smith's to do it James Todd Smith. To LLL cool,
j James. I don't know, Ladies love cool James, Oh
cool James, that's j You who this is? Yeah? He
(09:31):
does that's those pop pop stars. Man Iggy was her
dog's name, and a Zelia was the street name that
her family lived on. And everyone knows that those two
things are how you pick your porn name on the internet.
Oh yeah, and so she just picked it. She claims
that Iggy came for people accidentally calling her by her
pets name. But the porn name game is always what's
(09:51):
your dog's name? And then what's the street? Because my
name would be Dusty Mountain View. Yeah, which is what
does the porn name? Totally does high Dusty, Dusty Mountain View.
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(11:19):
producer Rob, who also was her boyfriend at the time,
was the first to call her Gaga because her voice
style reminded of the song Radio Gaga from Between, which
was that one radio Google Radio. They play you know
that song? No, I don't. They played it even in
Bohemian Rhapsody, So I still haven't seen that movie. Oh
you haven't. You would like it? Yeah, you say I
(11:40):
would because we're music nerds. You wouldn't like it? Because
you're a music nerd. Oh, because you could get mad.
They skipped over a lot of stuff. But if you
just sit back and watch the movie, I've heard they
kind of like just make it look like it was
an overnight success, just like, hey, we just met, we're
going on the BBC, what we're playing a stadium and
then they get into stuff. But as far as the
(12:00):
movie goes, I think you would you would like it. Okay,
how about this one here, let's do Black Eyed Peas. Um,
let's see taboo. So they chose it because it was
a name that was soulful like their music. I remember
the Black Eyed Peas before they even had Fergie. The
(12:21):
Black Et Pieas would do songs and bring people on.
First of all, they'd beat themselves. But they had a
song with Macy Gray called like um telephone, see if
you can find that. It's like telephone or call me
up or something. And then Fergie joined request line. Oh
that's it, request line. Yeah, you were right around it.
And then Fergie joined the group and they blew up
(12:42):
when Fergie joined the groups. Remember did you ever see
that picture of Fergie like pean ter pants on stage?
It was like it was a viral thing where they
said like, oh yeah, Fergie like and they showed the
shot and it was like she Peter pants. But I
was wondering if that was real or not. Did she
have to pee real bad or was she drunk or
(13:02):
that was just the story was just that she had
Pete on stage. Have you seen um yeah, yeah Star?
Oh my gosh, it's terrible. That part's terrible. How awkward
was it watching that? It just feel bad for him.
There are cringeworthy things. I was watching The Office last night,
and which I've seen a thousand times. Have you seen
The Office? Um? Which which episode? The one where they're
(13:23):
doing that? I cringe a lot The Office, I know,
but that's one where they're doing the play and the
play is the guy who does cutting hair and he
chops at people my mind escaping me. But Andy's on
stage in his self and somebody cell phones going off
in the theater and it turns out it's his. Oh
it's so cringeworthy. I just feel like every time Michael
(13:45):
Scott opens his mouth's cringe worthy, so crune worthy. Okay,
bowling pursuit, oh wow, old school, old school. I just
think they were so cool. I remember I had Jared's
cell phone number, the lead singer, and I was like,
this is the most famous because I'm ever gonna be eat.
Did they live in Texas? They lived in like Denton
or Dallas? Yeah, yeah, it was How did you get
(14:05):
his number? Was it like? Hey, but he gave it
to me? Really? Yeah? Are they still a man? Yeah?
Are they up? They were inspired by Steve Martin's bowling
for beat s hi t routine from his nineteen seventy
nine comedy album Wild and Crazy Guy, and so bowling
(14:26):
for soup came from bowling first interesting m bowling fish. Eminem, Oh,
I'm mc coffee crescent and everything you beat me is
Tom mcmathe. That means there is nothing. What do you
just talked about? I just talked about this. One's so easy.
But I don't think a lot of people know Eminem.
Why is eminems name? Eminem's his favorite candy? Obviously, think
about it. Really, his name is Marshall Mathers M and M.
(14:50):
There it is Marshall mad. There's two letters M Eminem
spell it differently. It's spelled M yang. That's simple. But
I love that he didn't just do M and them.
I guess he couldn't because it's probably a huge trademark.
Cops right on that meat loaf. What's this, dude's a deal?
Tell him about meat loaf. The Rocker got his name
(15:12):
meat when he was just four days old because his
skin was so red in. His dad said he looked
like nine and a half pounds of ground chuck, and
so they'd always call him meat, and then his bobbles like,
I think we're just gonna call you meat loaf. Loaf
is such a gross word. It is gross. Any loaf
is like a loaf of bread is gross to here.
I think just meat loaf. And he got he got bones.
(15:35):
He was told what he was told, what his name
was gonna be. You did ask about Sting. He gained
his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and
yellow sweater with hood stripes. Oh cool, like a bee,
Like a bee. He'd look like a bee, So they
call him Sting. That's cool story. It's just something simple like, Hey,
(15:55):
you look like a bee. I'm gonna call you Sting.
That's like what people do with their friends. Spice girls,
who is it? You can do all of them because
I think all of them are easy. Baby Spice was
like a baby and she would suck on a passifier.
Jerry Halliwell said she come with the idea for the
name Spice after an aerobics class. Jerry was ginger. Yes.
(16:18):
And then Girls because there was already a group named Spice,
so they went with Spice Girls. Spice already happened. What
a smack like? They were just humongous. This K pop
group BTS, They're humongous, Yeah, like crazy. Mike Diana were
talking about it and I don't get it, but I'm
(16:38):
not supposed to get it. But what don't you get?
They sing in Korean, right, I don't know what they're saying. Well,
I feel like I feel like this is a testament
to where like there's much more than the United States,
and this is blowing up in the United States, I know,
but for the first time, because you know what, English
speakers that don't speak Korean. I think it's cool because
(17:00):
for the most time, for the most part, they get
what we give them. You know, it's like, oh, the
American music or even like the British music gets big
and then the whole world likes it. In this case,
for the first time, we're listening to something we don't
even understand, and we're liking it. I'm agreeing that it's
it's cool. Yeah. Again, it's so rare that a song
comes out that's not English that I can feel. I
(17:22):
need to hear it over and over, like Desposse too.
But even then he's Bieber does his English, and even
Macarina they started to put English words and then in
English version two back. Yeah, so Halsey sings that part.
But BTS is an acronym for banketon sonoded in I
don't know. In English, it means bulletproof boy scouts, Okay,
(17:45):
BTS one, I see. It means behind the scenes, so
some people will do a high tight BTS. I'm thinking
the time about the Korean group. But it's like behind
the scenes. Oh, that's just another ways I got it,
got it um so, But yeah, I don't. I don't
know the words. And I had a friend who wrote
that song that's crazy, wrote that a massive song, melodio
to it and some of the lyrics. It's crazy. Didn't
even know she wrote it. She did it randomly and
(18:05):
they came back like you're on the song and you
did this. She's like, that's what that was. Yeah, it's crazy.
She said, how long do you think they stay for
a long time? Think so? And do you mean like
boy bands? It's bad? But five years three four? Okay,
that's that's a good life. And there are like other
ones like Black Pink is a girl group. They K pop,
I think so. Yeah, so there's a lot of them.
So K pop is like a Kreorean pop genre, J
(18:28):
pops the Japanese. Wouldn't it be a thing? I don't know.
He's like, you just make it out, Yeah, that's what
it's called. J pop. Yeah. Um, obviously you have Pee
pop yea Puerto Rican and Philippino jo. It is a
good thing. How about Nirvana? What do you think about that? Okay?
I don't know no idea where that would have come from.
(18:51):
Kirk Oban wanted a name that he wanted it to
be beautiful or nice and pretty instead of mean, raunchy
punk name like the Angry Samoans. And before they became Nirvana,
they were known as skit Row, fecal Matter, and ted
ed Fred skid Row that's what I was already a
named movie. It was like at an eighties band. What
about fecal Fred? Was that Nirvana was sued by a
(19:13):
British and no, that's our next band. Nirvana was sued
by a British psycho pop rock band with the same name.
They had been active since nineteen sixty five. The two
bands reached a settlement in court and the British Nirvana
sees on the opportunity releasing a tongue in cheek psychedelic
cover of Nirvana's hit Come as You Are. And that
(19:33):
was a thing. I mean, I'm sure they were watching
MTV and they're just like, yeah, let's just give up
on to some voice. They got us bigger lawyers. Yea richer,
you are the bigger lawyers. You have The Cranberriers originally
named the Cranberry saw Us. The rumor as they got
the name from the last two lines of John Lennon
(19:54):
Strawberry Fields, Strawberry Fields Forever. I don't know. I don't
know what the last I think with the last time
of um, is there anybody in country music that's not
that doesn't use their name? Yeah, Oh, you can explain
to Thomas Rhett one, Oh that's that's his real first
and middle name. Because the first time I heard it,
(20:15):
his wife was just like, yeah, this is what I
call him, and I'm like, why do you call him that?
And they're like, that's because that's his real name. So
Thomas Rhett that's what people call him as his first name.
His real name is Thomas red Aikins. His dad is
red Aikins Um And so because of red Aikins and
the confusion there and also the ched Atkins and the
Rodney Atkins, and they were like, we're just gonna call
(20:37):
you Thomas Rhett. Now that being said, nobody calls Thomas
right Thomas because his name is Thomas Rhett. It'd be
like Amanda, Joe, Sure, Peggy, Sue, anybody like that. So,
I mean, I know Thoms showed a little bit. I
just call him t r because that's what everybody calls
him because he wants to say Tom's right. Yeah, his
wife that's how his wife calls him. But that's his
first name to people from Thomas Rhett and so it's
(20:59):
not his first and last name. And if and if
anyone's like, hey have you seen Thomas, I'm like, oh,
they must not know him, yeah, because if you know him,
you know his name is actually Thomas Hrett. Yeah, who
else Luke Brian is he is he Yeah, let's not
lu and Dirk Spentley is not Dirk, right, it's yeah,
And I wonder if they try to keep these under
(21:20):
wraps and like just kind of like, let's see how
long it goes with four people nowadays. No, back in
the day, you could have Lucas Thomas Thomas that was
just like more than a stage name. Yeah. So anyway,
I thought that'd be a fun little one to do today.
That's fun. Thanks man. I learned more than I contributed,
so thank you. Well, that was all just to come
in and learn. Yeah. Good. I check out The Sore Losers,
(21:41):
Thank you. Um, and that's gonna wrap up this episode.
I think Jada Marcus Rascal Flats coming by next week
or soon. And he just has a he just has
a book out right, Yeah, and I think one part
of it he revealed that he gave up a kid
for adoption. Every stuff. Dude, that that might be you
might get into some deep stuff there. Yeah, I mean
I get ads that all the time. Check out Get
(22:02):
Real with I mean like the deep crap, no good,
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We have Morgan Evans coming by soon and other podcasts.
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(22:23):
and The Sore Losers, all podcasts on the Nashville Podcast Network.
Thank you so much, and I hope you like this.
So I know it was only half an hour or so,
less than that, but I thought that was pretty fun,
little little knowledge bomb dropped on you there, all right,
have a good on everybody,
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