August 28, 2025 • 5 mins
"How many Joshes do you have in your phone—and what does that say about society today?"In this hilariously offbeat episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into the unexpected cultural phenomenon: the resurgence of the name Josh. What starts as a quirky observation quickly spirals into a laugh-packed exploration of name trends, celebrity influence, and the strange stats we wish we could track in life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited featuring veteran news anchor Katie's fun tweet? Yeah, okay,
let's talk about it, guys. It's the golden age of
the name Josh.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Did y'all know that?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Shout out Josh Campbell of Voatmeal Pizza.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, bigot to Josh.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I'm shout out, Josh bab Man. That new assume is
cranking out there in Frisco? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Assume at the Star now as well?
Speaker 5 (00:31):
I was curious, like I wish, you know, there's some
things I wish you could get stats on that you
just can't. Yeah, like, uh, things in your life, like
how many times you've used a specific toilet?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It would it be interesting to know how many? Really good?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How many times have you gone to town on yourself
in that one spot?
Speaker 5 (00:48):
How many Josh's you can just count these do each
of us have on their phone?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
If you count Joshua, you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You want to count the Josh's and we're including Joshua
was right?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, yes, I'll allow it context because in this story
it's about Okay, Josh, let me guarantee you that Ben's
got the most for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I have twenty five Wow, I only have four seventeen.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I don't have a lot of context.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I don't either, though, compared to these guys.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Right, I don't want to talk to people. I'm going
to redo it. I think I have twenty three ben.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, okay, how about this, Josh and Lewin. There we go.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Okay, yeah, seventeen twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
By the way, guys, does anybody in here do they
have somebody in their phone with just the name Josh?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Okay, yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm oh, I know it is. Is it the same guy?
Did we do a lot of remotes at his place?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Mine says Josh and then if you open it up,
it says prosper hoops.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Okay, that's different guy than me.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So the share of baby boys named Jah peaked and
or Joshua peaked. In nineteen eighty five, more than one
out of every one hundred babies was given the name
josh or Joshua.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Say it again? How many?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
In nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
More than one out of every one hundred boy babies
was given the name Joshua Joshua.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm assuming that's in America. Or North America for sure,
because I don't think over in India.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
There was a lot of Joshes good Chad's, so it
was sore like nothing in the fifties, hardly any in
the sixties than in the seventies, slowly rose until the
Bears won it all in eighty five.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I love the eighty five Bears, Oh they were great.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Ben went down a little and then back of eighty
eight eighty nine, and then it's been a slow scale
all the way down to where we are now, just declining, declining, declining.
But for some reason, in the past two years, the
percentage of Joshu's has trickled up.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I know why now in this article boh no, no,
if does it say in the article uh no, okay,
because I'll posit my theory after you finished. Now it's
everyone there's been a resurgence of appreciation for the work
of josh Brolin, So wondering about that, I think, like,
you know, what he's been able to do, whether it's
(03:18):
playing w or in uh no country for old men.
I just think that there's we're holding him in a
higher regard than ever before, and we're naming our our
spawn after him.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
There's not a lot of famous Josh's.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Honestly, there's not.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You're right on that Josh Allen might be your most
famous Josh. If you're a sportsman, if you're not a
sports fan, you really do end up at a Josh Brolin,
Josh Grobin, which.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Is Joshua Jackson, Joshua Jackson Duhamel, that is Demel Joshua
Jackson fell off after Dawson's creek went away, Debelle.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Is that the guy that was married to the girl
that beat herself all the time? Fergie?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, maybe what he.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Married the first it's just one time. I think, No,
it's doing it right now.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So there was there was a ton of Josh's back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Now. What they're talking about too in this article is
there's a bunch of politicians now named Josh as well.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And people love politician.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
There could be two or three guys named Josh running
for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Weird and that wild. You will still have elections.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's a fair question. That's a fair question.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Hey, I will do it for us by then, yeh.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Also in politics news, the former Major League baseball player
Mark Teshia is running for Congress in Texas.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah? Ist that weird?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Hey do we have rules about like can we have
a politician on or do we have to have the
other side?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I have both?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You do? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Our buddy Cash s Roy has a friend who was
an astronaut that took a bunch of pictures from outer
space and he's running for something somewhere in Houston, and
I was like, I'd be fun to have a guy
on that was an outer space But I don't know
if we're allowed to.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh, they start conversation that yesterday because Mary doesn't mean
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay, I think you'd have to have the other party represented. Yeah, yeah,
it was offered up to us, but we had to decline.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay. I don't know the rules on that, So yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Forty five year old mart de Chera is running for
the seat that's currently held by Chip Roy, who is
one of Jerry's lawyers.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
A lot of chips hip. That's a big researchon it's
a big resurgence ship.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Better story
Are you excited featuring veteran news anchor Katie's fun tweet? Yeah, okay,
let's talk about it, guys. It's the golden age of
the name Josh.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Did y'all know that?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Shout out Josh Campbell of Voatmeal Pizza.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, bigot to Josh.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I'm shout out, Josh bab Man. That new assume is
cranking out there in Frisco? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Assume at the Star now as well?
Speaker 5 (00:31):
I was curious, like I wish, you know, there's some
things I wish you could get stats on that you
just can't. Yeah, like, uh, things in your life, like
how many times you've used a specific toilet?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It would it be interesting to know how many? Really good?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How many times have you gone to town on yourself
in that one spot?
Speaker 5 (00:48):
How many Josh's you can just count these do each
of us have on their phone?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
If you count Joshua, you want to do that?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
You want to count the Josh's and we're including Joshua
was right?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, yes, I'll allow it context because in this story
it's about Okay, Josh, let me guarantee you that Ben's
got the most for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I have twenty five Wow, I only have four seventeen.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
I don't have a lot of context.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I don't either, though, compared to these guys.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Right, I don't want to talk to people. I'm going
to redo it. I think I have twenty three ben.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, okay, how about this, Josh and Lewin. There we go.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Okay, yeah, seventeen twenty three.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
By the way, guys, does anybody in here do they
have somebody in their phone with just the name Josh?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Okay, yes, I do.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I don't know who it is.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I don't either.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm oh, I know it is. Is it the same guy?
Did we do a lot of remotes at his place?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Mine says Josh and then if you open it up,
it says prosper hoops.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Okay, that's different guy than me.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So the share of baby boys named Jah peaked and
or Joshua peaked. In nineteen eighty five, more than one
out of every one hundred babies was given the name
josh or Joshua.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Say it again? How many?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
In nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
More than one out of every one hundred boy babies
was given the name Joshua Joshua.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm assuming that's in America. Or North America for sure,
because I don't think over in India.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
There was a lot of Joshes good Chad's, so it
was sore like nothing in the fifties, hardly any in
the sixties than in the seventies, slowly rose until the
Bears won it all in eighty five.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I love the eighty five Bears, Oh they were great.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Ben went down a little and then back of eighty
eight eighty nine, and then it's been a slow scale
all the way down to where we are now, just declining, declining, declining.
But for some reason, in the past two years, the
percentage of Joshu's has trickled up.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I know why now in this article boh no, no,
if does it say in the article uh no, okay,
because I'll posit my theory after you finished. Now it's
everyone there's been a resurgence of appreciation for the work
of josh Brolin, So wondering about that, I think, like,
you know, what he's been able to do, whether it's
(03:18):
playing w or in uh no country for old men.
I just think that there's we're holding him in a
higher regard than ever before, and we're naming our our
spawn after him.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
There's not a lot of famous Josh's.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Honestly, there's not.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
You're right on that Josh Allen might be your most
famous Josh. If you're a sportsman, if you're not a
sports fan, you really do end up at a Josh Brolin,
Josh Grobin, which.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Is Joshua Jackson, Joshua Jackson Duhamel, that is Demel Joshua
Jackson fell off after Dawson's creek went away, Debelle.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Is that the guy that was married to the girl
that beat herself all the time? Fergie?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, maybe what he.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Married the first it's just one time. I think, No,
it's doing it right now.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So there was there was a ton of Josh's back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Now. What they're talking about too in this article is
there's a bunch of politicians now named Josh as well.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And people love politician.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
There could be two or three guys named Josh running
for president in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Weird and that wild. You will still have elections.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That's a fair question. That's a fair question.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Hey, I will do it for us by then, yeh.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Also in politics news, the former Major League baseball player
Mark Teshia is running for Congress in Texas.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah? Ist that weird?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Hey do we have rules about like can we have
a politician on or do we have to have the
other side?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I have both?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You do? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Our buddy Cash s Roy has a friend who was
an astronaut that took a bunch of pictures from outer
space and he's running for something somewhere in Houston, and
I was like, I'd be fun to have a guy
on that was an outer space But I don't know
if we're allowed to.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh, they start conversation that yesterday because Mary doesn't mean
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Okay, I think you'd have to have the other party represented. Yeah, yeah,
it was offered up to us, but we had to decline.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay. I don't know the rules on that, So yeah,
there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Forty five year old mart de Chera is running for
the seat that's currently held by Chip Roy, who is
one of Jerry's lawyers.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
A lot of chips hip. That's a big researchon it's
a big resurgence ship.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Better story
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