July 30, 2025 • 34 mins
Dan goes down the rabbit hole of what goes into naming a child - and what that label will mean for them for the rest of their lives.
Ryan and Kelly jump in with their own stories when Dan's mountain retreat experiences an internet outage.
Ryan and Kelly jump in with their own stories when Dan's mountain retreat experiences an internet outage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The American way is, we respect each other, and we
understand that jobs are sacred. It doesn't mean matter if
somebody is like a garbage man. I grew up next
to one of the greatest people I've ever known growing up,
mister Keenan. He was a garbage man for the City
of Chicago. You'll never meet a finer person or somebody's
a CEO or whatever, but people's jobs. I mean, that's
at the core, right man. And you know you're supporting family,
(00:37):
or you're supporting maybe you're supporting your husband and the kids,
your wife and the kids. So the way the left
just so casually plays with people's lives and jobs you
see on full display right now in Denver where we
get the announcement today that Mayor Johnston, Yeah, he's going
to be laying off a whole bunch of people in August, right,
all to feed this political vanity project of of housing anybody,
(01:01):
we will get you a home. Right, anybody wants to
come to Denver, including folks coming illegally, we will get
you a home. And he brags about that, and he's
a big star to the radical far left, and yeah,
and then you look at the real working people paying
the price for that. And the Democratic Party is supposed
to be the party of the working people, right, look
at how they treat working people like garbage. So we're
(01:22):
talking about that. On a lighter note, we got off
on this topic of and it's a firm belief of mine.
I bet you share it that names are kind of
self fulfilling prophecies for better or worse, and usually for better.
So we're talking about the best boys' names. We got
some great callers on that, such as the lady who
named her boy Cannon, and then you got some other
good ones there. And I want to talk about girls'
(01:45):
names as well. But I also have to talk to
you about this Aurora dentist, right, found guilty this afternoon.
What a shaker over his wife's murder when he poisoned
her with cinid after doing searches online. And I'm paraphrasing, like,
how do I poison my wife with Sini. So the
question for you and the reason we didn't cover this
case on air. And I've had the privilege of covering
(02:07):
a lot of big trials locally and nationally on air,
I didn't touch this one because it was so obvious.
What's there to talk about there? But now that he's
been convicted, I think the question is, how did he
ever think he was going to get away with it?
I mean, why do you think a guy like that
does something like that? I mean, he can't be a
(02:29):
complete imbecile. I mean he's a functioning dentist. But what
made him think he was going to get away with that?
I want to get your thoughts in that, because I
know it's one of those cases everybody's aware of. It's
big national news because, yeah, Dennis poisoning his wife after
doing how do I poison my wife? Searches? Yeah, that's
(02:50):
you know, that's going to get people's attention. But what
made him think he could get away with it? Why
do you think he did it? I'd love to get
your thoughts on that now that that trial's done. Three
or three seven one three eight two five five text
d A N five seven seven three nine want to
make sure we get to everybody on the phone lines
as well. Colorado Springs. Dave, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Welcome, Hey Dan, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I am living the dream still. How about you listen.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I'm gonna I'm gonna put a little spin on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Your good name.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Thing good.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
My name is David, normal name. Well, my last name
is pronounced boocher b o u c h e r.
But because of a water boy, it's a bouchet. Oh
so so if people don't know my name, I'll go
you remember the water boys? They go, Yeah, I said,
(03:44):
I said I'd make you g and I'm confronting Greek.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's great, that's great. Well, appreciate the call man.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Make me a freak. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Have a good day, buddy, you too, Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Appreciate that. I just think it's so and you know,
I know it's hard to remember when you were a
little kid, but but I just think a great name
really helps the kid. And I was always so grateful
for my last name right because very very proud of
that name everywhere, and certainly growing up in my neighborhood
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and proud of what my dad did as a Chicago
police officer. So I just I was a lottery winner, right,
I mean, just real proud of my parents, real proud
of my name, all that good stuff. I think that
helps kids so much. And then you know our family,
a very Catholic family, and being named Daniel, of course,
you know that Daniel and the lions Den furnas, all
(04:38):
of that, I mean, all of that was just you know,
great thoughts in my head. And then so yeah, just
getting your take on some of the best names boys
and girls. We started out with this more narrow category
of toughest, you know, the toughest, strongest boys name. I
don't know Ryan that we're going to top Cannon from
that earlier caller. Yeah, Hunter. On our Slugger, I've always
(05:01):
liked Slugger. You know, I don't think Amy took me
seriously when I suggested that before Joe was born. I've
always liked Slugger. How can a boy go wrong with
the name like Slugger. Now, in our faith tradition, you know,
you want to name the kids in a way that
fits in with your faith, that sort of thing. But Slugger,
that would be a great name.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
That sounds like it's trying too hard though. Slugger Yeah,
I mean that's not a real name, first of all,
and then said, I make sure my kid's tough.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Slugger yeah yeah. What are some of the worst names,
the worst boy names? I'll throw that out there as well.
And then we all know that there are folks who
end up with really hard last names. And I really
respect the folks who then stick with those names their
family names, even though they can be awkward at times.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
I got a question, Dan, I've always wondered this. I
don't know that I've ever asked it on the air,
But in other cultures and languages, well, for instance, in
Spanish you can your kid Heyeseus. But were we frown
upon naming a kid Jesus? Right? In English?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Why would that be? Why the difference there?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know that is so funny because I was just
talking to Hayesus yesterday and and I was just thinking
about the same thing. Well, I think, obviously, right, you
wouldn't name a kid Jesus because there's only one Jesus,
but you name the kid Heyesus. Just to honor your faith.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
We name women Mary after the Virgin Mary, the mother
of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, but she's only right, right, But I mean, obviously
Jesus is God.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
But why is it okay in the Spanish cultures?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think because it's honoring.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Would it not be honoring to name a kid Jesus
in the English American culture?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And I don't I don't know that it would be
honoring in the Hispanic culture And people can speak better
to that than I can. But but my understanding is
it's pronounced Hayesus in the Hispanic culture, not Jesus.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Well, yeah, and they call Jesus say Zeus. I mean
that translates the same way.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna call a lifeline during the break
because what we have this uh, we have this wonderful,
wonderful colleague at the office, uh, Stephanie Rodriguez, And I'm
gonna I'm gonna call her during the break and get
(07:26):
a full education on that, and I report beck on
that after the break. How about Kevin in Denver? You're
on the Dan Caplis show. Welcome.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Yeah, it's it's not my name apparently, but a tough
kid name or a guy named how about Rocky?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh? Yeah? How do you go wrong? Or rock right?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Or or rock yeah, yeah, yeah, you could go all
the way so real quick.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
I know you were talking to Rick, the uh, the
rancher guy.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So most people, and I'm not a rancher, but most
people have their calves are usually in January, February, March, April,
and even into May. And to my knowledge, the reason
why they do that is because come November they start
to wean them and then cattle is sold by the pound. Huh,
(08:25):
So they have them early so that they put on
a lot of pounds come October November when they go
to sell them.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, interesting, Well thank you man, appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah you too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Growing up in the city, the only cow caf combos
I saw were on a train going to the stockyards.
But I'm learning more about it out here. Speaking of which, Ryan,
I was freezing my tailoff this morning. I'm up here.
Oh yeah, yeah, I get ready for Trott's freezing my tailoff,
and I run into this, not literally, but this baby
deer that I wonder how small a deer is when
(09:00):
it's actually born, because it can't be any smaller than
this one. This thing must have been born like an
hour before, so it was it was just so cool
to see. But yeah, I mean winter is coming.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
How about your female stocker? Has she shown her face again?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
There? No, no, no, no, And I would not make
that allegation. It was probably just somebody with natural curiosity
about you. But yeah, no, I have not seen her since.
But of course, what are you laughing at?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I was just gonna say she was I had a
curiosity about you, Dan Caplis.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, you know, there aren't a lot of options up here.
I was a male, she's out in the middle of
the woods. I'd leave the blinds open in the cabin
because I think there's you know, who's going to be looking.
And then somebody was so I close the blindes. I
don't think I've opened them, says Okay. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
It's like a Tarzan and Jane situation. Was she feral?
What's going on there?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I have no idea. I have no idea and no
interest whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
True.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I know, I know that I'm the happiest married man
in the world, and my head is just other than
these two are the day. It's just totally in trial prep.
But I would like to hear from people, and I
know we got to pop this break and get your
thoughts too on this Dennis right. I didn't cover the
trial because it was such an obvious slam dunk. But
now that it's done, what was he thinking? What do
(10:25):
you think made him think he could get away with it?
Or do you think he wanted to get caught? And
what do you think was going on there? So we'll
continue to talk about that. The name thing. I want
to come back and talk more about this very serious
story because it's so revealing about the left right. It
is the opposite of the party for working people. Just
look at all the hard working people about to get
laid off by the city of Denver by Mayor Johnston
(10:48):
in particular. You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Wow Lines of Jammed. We're talking about a lot of
serious stuff, and then we got off on the issue
of names and how names shape people, particularly children and
then into adulthood and what are some of the very
best and worst names for boys and girls. So that's
been a thread throughout the show as we talk about
Mayor Johnston now laid off a bunch of people in
(11:16):
Denver so he can pursue his political vanity projects, and
some of the other hot topics of the day. Let's
go to our gem lines and let's start with gent
You're on the Dan Kaplis show.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Welcome Jen, Hello Dan. Yeah, I don't hear my name anywhere.
I think it's pretty unique. Ge and t Gent.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Hello, still waiting for Dan Kaplis. Looks like we lost
the connection. They're up in the cabin. Not sure if
his female visitor made and stop by yet again, but
we're talking to gent in Denver and Jet. My apologies.
I'll try to take this to the bottom of the hour.
But what's the origin of that name. I'm assuming it
was short for gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I like to think so it was a one syllable
of a long German name. Pardon me, I'm writing in
a really rough vehicle here, Okay, but it's a long,
long German name of a pilot that rescued my dad
in Korea.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
So so it's a little bit more to the story.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, it's I heard it once when I was a kid,
but it's it's it's one of those really deep German
names that, like I said, I got one syllable.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Of or your one? Fine, gent then aren't you.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'd try to be so I would get singled out
where I think it affected me and in coming up,
like people would single me out in classroom like elementary school,
junior high or whatever and say like, tell us about
your name, and it would make me sort of want
to live up to the individualism and uh sometimes people
(13:14):
would say it doesn't mean gentleman, and I would try
and strive for that. So, yes, I think, like Dan's
talking about, right, it does sort of shape you or framed,
you know, give you.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
To be a proper gentleman. Now when you were maybe
you were a suitor seeking the love of a fair
maiden and you would introduce yourself maybe to her father.
Did this play well with him?
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Some that wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
That's not your real name, right, yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Or call me call me Ghent Dent, Yeah, Ghent instead
of gent to correct you. Remind me of one of
my girlfriends back in high school that her dad and
I went around all the time. He was calling me again,
it's giving you a hard time.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
That's what the fathers have to do. Well, Jack, thanks
for sharing your story with us, really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Brian Schuling here just pinch hitting for Dan. We had
a problem with the connection there. So while we're live,
we're gonna continue. Now, here's another great name. How about Vinton,
like Bobby Vinton out a Parker and Vinton. Are you
calling to talk about your own name or others?
Speaker 10 (14:24):
No, I have a well like that, gentleman, I don't
hear my name very yuch?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
No, Vin, sure, but yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
I had a friend at school. His first name was
Justin and his last name was Case, just a Case.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
That's funny. My brother, one of his good buddies in
high school was an entrepreneurial young youth, and he was
trying to come up with a name for his pizza place,
and his name was Justin, and they went with justin time. Well,
the joke about that was, though you know it used
to be Domino's Pizza in the eighties, we deliver your
pizza twenty minutes or it is free. There guarantee was
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we're gonna get there just in time. Won't be early,
but it won't be late.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
That's awesome, you know, because there's a there's a a
friend of mine that was I played a little bluegrass
and he got married and he played the mandolin and
he won the name.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
His daughter winn A mandolin. That works. That definitely works,
he said, no, oh, man, come on, have some fun
with it. Benon, what was the origin of your name.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
It's a family name. I'm named after a great great
grandfather was a.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Civil War veteran. Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Yeah, I fought with a seventy third Ohio and was
at Gettysburg and and funny and the cool thing about
it he survived the war. So yeah, I have discharge
I have discharge papers and all that.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
So that's pretty cool, awesome, great stories, Vinin, thank you
for that. Reminds me of my own heritage. So my
great great grandfather might be another grade in there. But
his name was Hiram Hiram Castler, and I don't know
that I wanted that name though. That's definitely a dated name.
It's one of those, oh girl, and Hiram back there
on the Union Forces fighting for the Michigan Cavalry, and
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that's what he was. And he had many descendants and
I am one of them. I'm very proud of my
great great maybe one more great grandfather, Hiram Castler. It's
going to Mark and Highland's ranch. We got time for him.
Commenting on names, Ryan schuling pin hitting for Dan Campllis
to finish out the segment, Mark what he got?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Well, uh, choices of names? I would have been either well,
Troy or Trey or Trace, except do you don't know
how many Brazilion marks and Michael's and David's there.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Well, just to go through the original fork on the
fab four of the Bible, the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John You're one of those, and there's a lot
of those, except I would say there are a lot
fewer Lukes than any of the others Matthew, Mark and
John right.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Yes, seemingly statistically probably so.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
So do you wish that you had gotten the name
of Trey or Trace like Trace Alger from Fox News?
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Well, I was thinking about Trace Atkins.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Who Yeah, you know what you just inspired me.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
We're going to place some Trace Atkins coming back. So
thanks for checking in, and again we're commenting on names.
What makes a good name, what is a horrific name
that would be a nightmare to have? And do you
have one yourself one or the other, good or bad?
And what names are you wanting to avoid? Dan will
hopefully be reconnected and back. My apologies for the technical
difficulties and for having to tolerate me. Ryan Schuling on
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the other side here going back up to the mountains
with Dan on the Dan Caplass Show. After this, you're
listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast to name that
one's for Kelly? Is that your favorite song by Google Doles?
It's one of them.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It's up there.
Speaker 11 (17:50):
It's definitely up there. But I would say, slide and
stay with you.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Okay, Well you're going to see Google Doles again soon,
aren't you?
Speaker 12 (17:56):
Yes, in August August it is.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Okay, that's called name by the Good Holes. Ryan Schuling
having to fill in Dan's lost in the mountains, and
I find it interesting. I find it very compelling. Jennifer
just texted me as well, saying it was just so
happen to coincide with me mentioning his female peeping Jane. Yeah,
and all of a sudden, now he's gone, I don't
want to start anything. Well, I certainly don't want to
(18:20):
start anything with Amy, but I.
Speaker 12 (18:23):
Didn't even think about that. But you could be onto.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Something all of a sudden. Now, I say all of
us sudden, Dan says, all of the sudden. Which one's right?
Speaker 12 (18:32):
Both are acceptable?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Are they really?
Speaker 11 (18:34):
According to which vernacular? Ofular you know the United States?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Too early for a word like then or maybe too late? Okay,
why don't we just say suddenly?
Speaker 12 (18:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Why not? I don't here's the advert, okay, five seven, seven,
three nine. You can text us. Kelly's going to get
a load on those three zero three seven one three
eight two five five. We are commenting on names. That's
the song that you heard, Good ones, bad ones, anywhere
in between, unique ones, strong ones. Mike, that's a good name,
Mike and Lakewood commenting on names on the Dan Kampel
(19:04):
Shoga and Ryan Schuling filling in on the Mike Mike, how.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Are you good?
Speaker 13 (19:08):
Ryan, I've got some nominations for the worst.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Let's go, okay, good go.
Speaker 13 (19:14):
I was a public servant who worked for a time
in far northeast Denver, and three African Americans that we
ran into who uh These were their legal given names.
The first one was young lady named Ladasha ladl l
a hyphen a, oh no, no no. The second one was.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
A young man named Lomngelo spelled lemon gell O.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
Oh wow, the legal given name. And the last one
that takes the cake is Shi Fai Shi.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
T h e a d ship aid fade.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
These are interesting names. And the fact that the dash
looks like the actual punctuation mark, but it's pronounced dash correct. Okay,
that's a nightmare that name.
Speaker 13 (20:07):
I've often wondered if there is a book of African
American names that they pull from.
Speaker 12 (20:15):
Oh, I'm sure there is.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, let me tell you a little story about that.
So Mike, for me. Picture this. I'm gonna be like
Sophia on The Golden Girls. Picture this Sicily nineteen thirty two. No,
picture this. River Rouge nineteen sixty. Orner raised in South Detroit,
you know they call it downriver. South of Detroit, there
was a town called e Course, and right next to
e Course was River Rouge, and that's where my mom lived.
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My mom went to school with a lot of kids
who were the children of factory workers on Zug Island
and auto factory workers, blue collar working class, and then
included my own grandmother, my babba. Her name was Jubiza.
It's a Serbian for violet. My mom's name didn't have
a translation, but she went to school with a lot
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of aff American kids and Greek kids and Serb kids,
and that's pretty much what made up the demographics of
her school. My mom's name was Dushanka. Now to your point,
think about this. She applies to Michigan State University and
she's from River Rouge High School, the Panthers, and her
name's Dushanka, and they don't have like the racial profiling
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that you fill out now, the AFFRONTOVCTI was before that stuff.
And she shows up on campus and she is matched
up with several black roommates and they looked at her
like they had seen a ghost because they were expecting
that Dushanka was going to be a black woman. And
my mom was not black. She tanned well as a Serb,
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but that name alone led people to draw certain conclusions,
and so that kind of led her down the primrose
path at Michigan State University in the dorms. And there's
another story from there since then. I'm just winging it here,
filling in for Dan because this is I think it's
an interesting story. I think I told Kelly story before.
So my mom went to Michigan State in the mid
(22:03):
to late sixties and this was the height of Duffy
Doherty and his coaching tenure. There and he was a
hero for many reasons, but one of them was Duffy
Doherty recruited black players from the South because the southern
schools didn't want them. University of Texas Longhorns, no black players,
University of Alabama, Nope. I mean talk about these powerhouse
schools that if they had black players on their teams,
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so much better they would be Duffy Dorty's like, I
don't care if they're black and they play, come on
up to East Lansing. Two of those players were named Smith,
and one of them was named Bubba And you might
remember Bubba Smith from the Police Academy move and he
was an NFL star the San Francisco forty nine ers. Well,
he had a younger brother, and the reason I bring
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the story up is in part because of my mom's name,
but also this nickname. I don't even know what his
real name was. What they called him, Tody, Tody Smith.
He was the little brother of Bubba Smith and Tody
had gotten himself into some legal trouble and he was
put in jail and to bail them out it was
gonna be fifty dollars. Well, my mom's roommates they didn't
have that kind of money, my mom. She did because
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my grandfather was a very hard working told the story
before Serbian farmer in southern Illinois. That could have been
a sitcom, just him going around with that accent. How
you doing, John? Because he changed his name from Ivan
Ivan to John because he wanted to be American and
he wants to speak English, want to be a farmer,
and they loved him down there. They made some decent money,
and he sent my mom. He wired my mom fifty
(23:30):
dollars to bail Tody Smith, Baba Smith's little brother out
of jail. Well, weeks go by, a month goes by
or so, and she's not getting her money back. And
my mom turns into Jimmy Conway from the Goodfellas, hunting
down the two pay sales, wanna where's my money? Better
(23:50):
have my money? Choking with the phone court. And that
was my mom. Believe me. She did not mess her out,
She did not mince words. She suffered no fools, and
she was on the war pass. She wanted her fifty
dollars back, wasn't getting it. Tody was avoidant, duck and
meet what's going on over you? She didn't talk like
them and just for the purpose of the story. So
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my mom shows up at the football building, Duffy Dorerty's
office and says, I need to talk to coach Doherty
and the secretary's like okay, and she just goes right
into Duffy Doherty's office and reads him the riot Act
about how she had lent fifty dollars to bail his
player Tody Smith out of jail and if he didn't
want her going to the newspapers and telling them all
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about it, she wanted her money back. Well, to Duffy
Doherty's credit, he did get her her money back.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know that?
Speaker 11 (24:40):
So sounds like Deshanka and you have told me that story.
The strangest one I have is when I taught swimming lessons.
I had two twin girls and their names were Asia
and Africa, but the way they spelled them was aazio.
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Don't get creative with the spell a f r ika.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
No, no, no, it doesn't need to be changed to
be that, to be a name. You know, you get
this a lot with frik Well, several names they have
unnecessary vowels or unnecessary consonants, like just give a nice, traditional, strong,
beautiful name. A big, beautiful name. Okay, now, my mom
always she had mixed feelings about her name. Towards the
(25:24):
end of her life she embraced it once again. It
was unique. Have you ever met another Dashanka?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Now?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I saw when I was placing calls to the league
office of Arena Football in Chicago. So there's a lot
of serbs in Chicago, and one of the gals that
was working for media relations, I swear to God, had
my mom's name, but it was spelled with like the
accident on the s. It was in true cyrillic Serbian translated.
I remember calling there one day, this like twenty odd
(25:50):
years ago, and she answers the phone. I go, Deshanka.
She goes, yes, I go, that's my mom's name. And
she didn't believe me. She thought I was joking with
I don't. Oh yeah, that's funny. No, no, seriously, I'm
half served in. My mom's name is Dashanka. I just
thought it was kind of neat that I talked to
one other ever in my life. But in the eighties
she went by Dde because the people in Pinkney are
(26:13):
not really aware of cultural differences and so forth, and
they call like Dashanka and you know, and she took
my dad's last name, so think about it. Her name
is Deshanka Shuling, so it kind of has a weird
little truf, Deshanka Shueling. And then, uh, remember in the
nineties Michigan, the Wolverines had a running back named Shimanga
Biyakabatuca short for Tim Biakabatuca. And we joked with my mom,
(26:37):
my brother, Nate, and I that she should divorce my
dad and marry Tim and she'd be Doshanka Biyakabatuca. And
that's my story about my mom and her name.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Yeah, I don't have any good stories about my name.
Is said that I was supposed to be Carl.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Name you're given. Yeah, they did well with Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
Well I well, obviously I couldn't be Carly because my dad.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Carly Simon left Carly to Carly and Hilen.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
My mom. No, not Carly and HI love Carly and Hylend.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
No, my dad.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
My dad dated a woman named Carly and then he
started dating my mom and kind of dumped.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Her for him.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Well, and your mom wasn't keen on that name.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
No, okay, no, so I did not become Carly all right.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Your story is about names five seven seven three and
I don't get some text, maybe some more calls three
zero three seven one three eight two five five. Dan
is in communicado. Our theory is the feral woman that
had been stalking him has reappeared at the cabin, and
we don't know what happened from there. Trying to get
the details. There may be breaking news when we come
back to close out the Dan Capla Show including Tracy
(27:44):
and Longmont after this and now back to the Dan
Kaplas Show podcast. She might have been Carly. I could
have been if her dad didn't break Carly's heart, yeah
and leave her for Jan the Jan.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
The Jan.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
The gen didn't want to name you after his ex
girlfriend who he left for Jam.
Speaker 12 (28:04):
Come on, Oh no, So I was named after Grace Kelly.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Okay, so what's in.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
A name there?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
It is?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
You got it. I was named after Ryan O'Neill because
my mom thought the name was rare. It was at
the time until the mid seventies, and everybody named their
son Ryan like me and the movie Paper Moon came
out the summer of seventy three. I was conceived honor
around Christmas Day of seventy three and born September twenty sixth,
nineteen seventy four. I was a Christmas present that I know,
(28:33):
Ryan Wings that like a pro says this textor well,
thank you, I appreciate. I'm doing my level best five
seven seven three nine Ryan. My name is Duke. Middle
name E, middle initial E, So Duke E. My nephew
calls me poops.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
A buddy of mine that I worked with overseas has
the name Talon. Did the chickens have sharp talents? Name
that movie? Kelly Knt. She's never seen Napoleon Dynamite. Yes,
she's a communist. Three girls names for you, Eliana, Ioanna,
and Evania. There are a lot of bows thereind of
like your last name. Yeah, I got a vow to spare.
(29:11):
I can tell you one like will of fortune. You know,
I feel free to have one.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
I went to school with two girls, which I love,
this name Reagan, but then the Exorcist totally ruined that name.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
Well, yes, and that's who they were named after. But
then when the Exorcists, when we all got old enough
to see it, it was like, oh, does she have
to be named Reagan?
Speaker 12 (29:30):
And then the other one.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
Was the parents were big Fleetwood Map fans, and they
named her Rheanne Rhiannon.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
I vowed at one point in my life had I
had a daughter, and I haven't that that might be
on the on the playing on the shortlist, on the shortlist, Rhiannon.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
Ryan Rhannon, but it's definitely different.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I met a Rihanna and she was a waitress at
Z's Bar and restaurant in Grand Rapids. Finally, from the
text line, my second grade teacher, Rocky Mountain, male name
Richard Weed. You can do the math from there. Yeah,
but how about Dick Bukiss. That guy had to go
through life with that and he's tough as nails.
Speaker 12 (30:07):
So that's true.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Let's go to Ryan in Denver on Michigan State. Am
I talking to myself? Ryan? Welcome to the Dan Campli show.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Hey there, Ryan, real quick, A very good friend of
Mine's a film producer here based in Denver, Yeah, and
a director, and there he's doing a documentary on that
same story about the Michigan.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
State football team.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Sixty recruiting black players from the South.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
That is phenomenal to hear. So that's in production right now,
you're saying.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Ryan, Now, they're they're they're working on it right now.
I'm doing a lot of Yes, they're they're working on
it as we speak. So okay, not sure when it's
supposed to be out, but I can report back to
you and give you the heads.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Up on that.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Absolutely please do so. And I would love if they
include the movie the scene with my mom and coach
Georgan who would play my mom, Bro sand Bar. They're
like twin sisters. So if you ever want a picture,
what was Ryan's mom like? Roseanne's pretty much get And
I told my mom that one day I came home
from school in my high school buddies, Oh my god,
your mom's Roseanne. I go, don't tell me. I know
(31:11):
just why I don't watch the show. So I go home,
I say, Mom, the guys at school they see that
you reminded them of Roseanne. And she didn't like deny it.
She didn't get mad. She's like, yeah, I know, she
stole my material and she's making money off of it,
so she acknowledged the similarity. Let's go to Tracy and Longmot.
How you doing on the Dan Campus Show?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Hey, what's happening? Ryan, I got a song for you. Yeah,
I got one for dance. Okay, But back to the
the Y and the J and the H.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You know, there's no J in.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Hebrew either, so you know, so you get this confusion
going on. But anyway, back to the name game, and
it's actually Solomon here. Kelly might find this one offensive,
I hope not, but it's Kelly belly bo belly benise
Belly Kelly belly bo belly Kelly. And then he could
do it this way, the name Game, Ryan, Ryan Bo Bye,
(32:09):
Banana Fana Po Pie and peeo miyan.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Lyon Tracy, we love you. And I got a story
about that one too. So we're on a trip to Florida,
my entire family us, the four kids and the parents
up front, and my brother and I are you know,
we're brothers, and we have two younger sisters. And Angie
was the next in line. She's probably about five six
years old, and we were doing the name game Banana
(32:35):
Fana game, and we had her do chuck and you
know where that's going, and she said it. She did Angie,
five six year old Angie, and we're like, oh, Angie,
And then my mom got so mad. But not at Angie,
at us you dwe are you boys. It is terrible.
Why would you do that? Because we're older brothers, that's
what we do. Imagine if you had an older brother, Kelly,
(32:57):
you would have turned out a lot differently.
Speaker 12 (32:59):
I think, I don't know, I'm pretty close to being
a guy.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
No, if you had had a big brother, though, that
picked on you, and you know that's just what we
do and it's not of love. I would say mostly yeah,
but if you.
Speaker 11 (33:10):
Have to think about it, I had many big brothers
when I was a diver because everybody, yeah, there warn't
a lot of female divers.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Well before Lizzie, it was just Angie. So the three
of us, me and my brother Nate and Angie, we
would have like the Olympics Downstairscause nineteen eighty four. La
Olympics were all into it. Carl Lewis, Greg luganis merrily written,
et cetera. And instead of giving Angie the bronze medal
for third, well like your last place. So there, we
can't give you bronze, So we have to give you
the poop medal. To this day, to this day, that
(33:37):
has scarred her for life. Of course, she's really upset
about it. She brings it up from time to time.
And my sister just turned forty five. So Auntie, I'm sorry,
but yeah, I would get gold because I'm the oldest
and I was the biggest and strongest of the fastest,
and then Nate before he surpassed me because he became
a phenomenal athlete. He was perfectly fine with silver as
long as he didn't get the poop medal that always
(33:59):
went to Angie. So again, I apologize to my sister
for that. She turned out okay though she did, and
the show turned out okay for being thrown into the
blender thanks to Kelly Cacerra, Dan Camplas, don't know feral Woman.
She's out there, she's up in the mountains. Will report
back tomorrow. Ryan Shuling on The Dan Campless Show.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The American way is, we respect each other, and we
understand that jobs are sacred. It doesn't mean matter if
somebody is like a garbage man. I grew up next
to one of the greatest people I've ever known growing up,
mister Keenan. He was a garbage man for the City
of Chicago. You'll never meet a finer person or somebody's
a CEO or whatever, but people's jobs. I mean, that's
at the core, right man. And you know you're supporting family,
(00:37):
or you're supporting maybe you're supporting your husband and the kids,
your wife and the kids. So the way the left
just so casually plays with people's lives and jobs you
see on full display right now in Denver where we
get the announcement today that Mayor Johnston, Yeah, he's going
to be laying off a whole bunch of people in August, right,
all to feed this political vanity project of of housing anybody,
(01:01):
we will get you a home. Right, anybody wants to
come to Denver, including folks coming illegally, we will get
you a home. And he brags about that, and he's
a big star to the radical far left, and yeah,
and then you look at the real working people paying
the price for that. And the Democratic Party is supposed
to be the party of the working people, right, look
at how they treat working people like garbage. So we're
(01:22):
talking about that. On a lighter note, we got off
on this topic of and it's a firm belief of mine.
I bet you share it that names are kind of
self fulfilling prophecies for better or worse, and usually for better.
So we're talking about the best boys' names. We got
some great callers on that, such as the lady who
named her boy Cannon, and then you got some other
good ones there. And I want to talk about girls'
(01:45):
names as well. But I also have to talk to
you about this Aurora dentist, right, found guilty this afternoon.
What a shaker over his wife's murder when he poisoned
her with cinid after doing searches online. And I'm paraphrasing, like,
how do I poison my wife with Sini. So the
question for you and the reason we didn't cover this
case on air. And I've had the privilege of covering
(02:07):
a lot of big trials locally and nationally on air,
I didn't touch this one because it was so obvious.
What's there to talk about there? But now that he's
been convicted, I think the question is, how did he
ever think he was going to get away with it?
I mean, why do you think a guy like that
does something like that? I mean, he can't be a
(02:29):
complete imbecile. I mean he's a functioning dentist. But what
made him think he was going to get away with that?
I want to get your thoughts in that, because I
know it's one of those cases everybody's aware of. It's
big national news because, yeah, Dennis poisoning his wife after
doing how do I poison my wife? Searches? Yeah, that's
(02:50):
you know, that's going to get people's attention. But what
made him think he could get away with it? Why
do you think he did it? I'd love to get
your thoughts on that now that that trial's done. Three
or three seven one three eight two five five text
d A N five seven seven three nine want to
make sure we get to everybody on the phone lines
as well. Colorado Springs. Dave, you're on the Dan Kaplas Show.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Welcome, Hey Dan, how are you man?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I am living the dream still. How about you listen.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I'm gonna I'm gonna put a little spin on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Your good name.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Thing good.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
My name is David, normal name. Well, my last name
is pronounced boocher b o u c h e r.
But because of a water boy, it's a bouchet. Oh
so so if people don't know my name, I'll go
you remember the water boys? They go, Yeah, I said,
(03:44):
I said I'd make you g and I'm confronting Greek.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's great, that's great. Well, appreciate the call man.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Make me a freak. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Have a good day, buddy, you too, Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Appreciate that. I just think it's so and you know,
I know it's hard to remember when you were a
little kid, but but I just think a great name
really helps the kid. And I was always so grateful
for my last name right because very very proud of
that name everywhere, and certainly growing up in my neighborhood
(04:18):
and proud of what my dad did as a Chicago
police officer. So I just I was a lottery winner, right,
I mean, just real proud of my parents, real proud
of my name, all that good stuff. I think that
helps kids so much. And then you know our family,
a very Catholic family, and being named Daniel, of course,
you know that Daniel and the lions Den furnas, all
(04:38):
of that, I mean, all of that was just you know,
great thoughts in my head. And then so yeah, just
getting your take on some of the best names boys
and girls. We started out with this more narrow category
of toughest, you know, the toughest, strongest boys name. I
don't know Ryan that we're going to top Cannon from
that earlier caller. Yeah, Hunter. On our Slugger, I've always
(05:01):
liked Slugger. You know, I don't think Amy took me
seriously when I suggested that before Joe was born. I've
always liked Slugger. How can a boy go wrong with
the name like Slugger. Now, in our faith tradition, you know,
you want to name the kids in a way that
fits in with your faith, that sort of thing. But Slugger,
that would be a great name.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
That sounds like it's trying too hard though. Slugger Yeah,
I mean that's not a real name, first of all,
and then said, I make sure my kid's tough.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Slugger yeah yeah. What are some of the worst names,
the worst boy names? I'll throw that out there as well.
And then we all know that there are folks who
end up with really hard last names. And I really
respect the folks who then stick with those names their
family names, even though they can be awkward at times.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
I got a question, Dan, I've always wondered this. I
don't know that I've ever asked it on the air,
But in other cultures and languages, well, for instance, in
Spanish you can your kid Heyeseus. But were we frown
upon naming a kid Jesus? Right? In English?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Why would that be? Why the difference there?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know that is so funny because I was just
talking to Hayesus yesterday and and I was just thinking
about the same thing. Well, I think, obviously, right, you
wouldn't name a kid Jesus because there's only one Jesus,
but you name the kid Heyesus. Just to honor your faith.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
We name women Mary after the Virgin Mary, the mother
of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, but she's only right, right, But I mean, obviously
Jesus is God.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
But why is it okay in the Spanish cultures?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I think because it's honoring.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Would it not be honoring to name a kid Jesus
in the English American culture?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And I don't I don't know that it would be
honoring in the Hispanic culture And people can speak better
to that than I can. But but my understanding is
it's pronounced Hayesus in the Hispanic culture, not Jesus.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Well, yeah, and they call Jesus say Zeus. I mean
that translates the same way.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna call a lifeline during the break
because what we have this uh, we have this wonderful,
wonderful colleague at the office, uh, Stephanie Rodriguez, And I'm
gonna I'm gonna call her during the break and get
(07:26):
a full education on that, and I report beck on
that after the break. How about Kevin in Denver? You're
on the Dan Caplis show. Welcome.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Yeah, it's it's not my name apparently, but a tough
kid name or a guy named how about Rocky?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh? Yeah? How do you go wrong? Or rock right?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Or or rock yeah, yeah, yeah, you could go all
the way so real quick.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
I know you were talking to Rick, the uh, the
rancher guy.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So most people, and I'm not a rancher, but most
people have their calves are usually in January, February, March, April,
and even into May. And to my knowledge, the reason
why they do that is because come November they start
to wean them and then cattle is sold by the pound. Huh,
(08:25):
So they have them early so that they put on
a lot of pounds come October November when they go
to sell them.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, interesting, Well thank you man, appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah you too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Growing up in the city, the only cow caf combos
I saw were on a train going to the stockyards.
But I'm learning more about it out here. Speaking of which, Ryan,
I was freezing my tailoff this morning. I'm up here.
Oh yeah, yeah, I get ready for Trott's freezing my tailoff,
and I run into this, not literally, but this baby
deer that I wonder how small a deer is when
(09:00):
it's actually born, because it can't be any smaller than
this one. This thing must have been born like an
hour before, so it was it was just so cool
to see. But yeah, I mean winter is coming.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
How about your female stocker? Has she shown her face again?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
There? No, no, no, no, And I would not make
that allegation. It was probably just somebody with natural curiosity
about you. But yeah, no, I have not seen her since.
But of course, what are you laughing at?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I was just gonna say she was I had a
curiosity about you, Dan Caplis.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, you know, there aren't a lot of options up here.
I was a male, she's out in the middle of
the woods. I'd leave the blinds open in the cabin
because I think there's you know, who's going to be looking.
And then somebody was so I close the blindes. I
don't think I've opened them, says Okay. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
It's like a Tarzan and Jane situation. Was she feral?
What's going on there?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I have no idea. I have no idea and no
interest whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
True.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I know, I know that I'm the happiest married man
in the world, and my head is just other than
these two are the day. It's just totally in trial prep.
But I would like to hear from people, and I
know we got to pop this break and get your
thoughts too on this Dennis right. I didn't cover the
trial because it was such an obvious slam dunk. But
now that it's done, what was he thinking? What do
(10:25):
you think made him think he could get away with it?
Or do you think he wanted to get caught? And
what do you think was going on there? So we'll
continue to talk about that. The name thing. I want
to come back and talk more about this very serious
story because it's so revealing about the left right. It
is the opposite of the party for working people. Just
look at all the hard working people about to get
laid off by the city of Denver by Mayor Johnston
(10:48):
in particular. You're on the Dan Caplas Show.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
And now back to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Wow Lines of Jammed. We're talking about a lot of
serious stuff, and then we got off on the issue
of names and how names shape people, particularly children and
then into adulthood and what are some of the very
best and worst names for boys and girls. So that's
been a thread throughout the show as we talk about
Mayor Johnston now laid off a bunch of people in
(11:16):
Denver so he can pursue his political vanity projects, and
some of the other hot topics of the day. Let's
go to our gem lines and let's start with gent
You're on the Dan Kaplis show.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Welcome Jen, Hello Dan. Yeah, I don't hear my name anywhere.
I think it's pretty unique. Ge and t Gent.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Hello, still waiting for Dan Kaplis. Looks like we lost
the connection. They're up in the cabin. Not sure if
his female visitor made and stop by yet again, but
we're talking to gent in Denver and Jet. My apologies.
I'll try to take this to the bottom of the hour.
But what's the origin of that name. I'm assuming it
was short for gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I like to think so it was a one syllable
of a long German name. Pardon me, I'm writing in
a really rough vehicle here, Okay, but it's a long,
long German name of a pilot that rescued my dad
in Korea.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
So so it's a little bit more to the story.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, it's I heard it once when I was a kid,
but it's it's it's one of those really deep German
names that, like I said, I got one syllable.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Of or your one? Fine, gent then aren't you.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I'd try to be so I would get singled out
where I think it affected me and in coming up,
like people would single me out in classroom like elementary school,
junior high or whatever and say like, tell us about
your name, and it would make me sort of want
to live up to the individualism and uh sometimes people
(13:14):
would say it doesn't mean gentleman, and I would try
and strive for that. So, yes, I think, like Dan's
talking about, right, it does sort of shape you or framed,
you know, give you.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
To be a proper gentleman. Now when you were maybe
you were a suitor seeking the love of a fair
maiden and you would introduce yourself maybe to her father.
Did this play well with him?
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Some that wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
That's not your real name, right, yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Or call me call me Ghent Dent, Yeah, Ghent instead
of gent to correct you. Remind me of one of
my girlfriends back in high school that her dad and
I went around all the time. He was calling me again,
it's giving you a hard time.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
That's what the fathers have to do. Well, Jack, thanks
for sharing your story with us, really appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Brian Schuling here just pinch hitting for Dan. We had
a problem with the connection there. So while we're live,
we're gonna continue. Now, here's another great name. How about Vinton,
like Bobby Vinton out a Parker and Vinton. Are you
calling to talk about your own name or others?
Speaker 10 (14:24):
No, I have a well like that, gentleman, I don't
hear my name very yuch?
Speaker 6 (14:28):
No, Vin, sure, but yeah.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
I had a friend at school. His first name was
Justin and his last name was Case, just a Case.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
That's funny. My brother, one of his good buddies in
high school was an entrepreneurial young youth, and he was
trying to come up with a name for his pizza place,
and his name was Justin, and they went with justin time. Well,
the joke about that was, though you know it used
to be Domino's Pizza in the eighties, we deliver your
pizza twenty minutes or it is free. There guarantee was
(14:59):
we're gonna get there just in time. Won't be early,
but it won't be late.
Speaker 10 (15:03):
That's awesome, you know, because there's a there's a a
friend of mine that was I played a little bluegrass
and he got married and he played the mandolin and
he won the name.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
His daughter winn A mandolin. That works. That definitely works,
he said, no, oh, man, come on, have some fun
with it. Benon, what was the origin of your name.
Speaker 10 (15:29):
It's a family name. I'm named after a great great
grandfather was a.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Civil War veteran. Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 10 (15:35):
Yeah, I fought with a seventy third Ohio and was
at Gettysburg and and funny and the cool thing about
it he survived the war. So yeah, I have discharge
I have discharge papers and all that.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
So that's pretty cool, awesome, great stories, Vinin, thank you
for that. Reminds me of my own heritage. So my
great great grandfather might be another grade in there. But
his name was Hiram Hiram Castler, and I don't know
that I wanted that name though. That's definitely a dated name.
It's one of those, oh girl, and Hiram back there
on the Union Forces fighting for the Michigan Cavalry, and
(16:06):
that's what he was. And he had many descendants and
I am one of them. I'm very proud of my
great great maybe one more great grandfather, Hiram Castler. It's
going to Mark and Highland's ranch. We got time for him.
Commenting on names, Ryan schuling pin hitting for Dan Campllis
to finish out the segment, Mark what he got?
Speaker 9 (16:23):
Well, uh, choices of names? I would have been either well,
Troy or Trey or Trace, except do you don't know
how many Brazilion marks and Michael's and David's there.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
Well, just to go through the original fork on the
fab four of the Bible, the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John You're one of those, and there's a lot
of those, except I would say there are a lot
fewer Lukes than any of the others Matthew, Mark and
John right.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Yes, seemingly statistically probably so.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
So do you wish that you had gotten the name
of Trey or Trace like Trace Alger from Fox News?
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Well, I was thinking about Trace Atkins.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Who Yeah, you know what you just inspired me.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
We're going to place some Trace Atkins coming back. So
thanks for checking in, and again we're commenting on names.
What makes a good name, what is a horrific name
that would be a nightmare to have? And do you
have one yourself one or the other, good or bad?
And what names are you wanting to avoid? Dan will
hopefully be reconnected and back. My apologies for the technical
difficulties and for having to tolerate me. Ryan Schuling on
(17:29):
the other side here going back up to the mountains
with Dan on the Dan Caplass Show. After this, you're
listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast to name that
one's for Kelly? Is that your favorite song by Google Doles?
It's one of them.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It's up there.
Speaker 11 (17:50):
It's definitely up there. But I would say, slide and
stay with you.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Okay, Well you're going to see Google Doles again soon,
aren't you?
Speaker 12 (17:56):
Yes, in August August it is.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Okay, that's called name by the Good Holes. Ryan Schuling
having to fill in Dan's lost in the mountains, and
I find it interesting. I find it very compelling. Jennifer
just texted me as well, saying it was just so
happen to coincide with me mentioning his female peeping Jane. Yeah,
and all of a sudden, now he's gone, I don't
want to start anything. Well, I certainly don't want to
(18:20):
start anything with Amy, but I.
Speaker 12 (18:23):
Didn't even think about that. But you could be onto.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Something all of a sudden. Now, I say all of
us sudden, Dan says, all of the sudden. Which one's right?
Speaker 12 (18:32):
Both are acceptable?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Are they really?
Speaker 11 (18:34):
According to which vernacular? Ofular you know the United States?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Too early for a word like then or maybe too late? Okay,
why don't we just say suddenly?
Speaker 12 (18:43):
No?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Why not? I don't here's the advert, okay, five seven, seven,
three nine. You can text us. Kelly's going to get
a load on those three zero three seven one three
eight two five five. We are commenting on names. That's
the song that you heard, Good ones, bad ones, anywhere
in between, unique ones, strong ones. Mike, that's a good name,
Mike and Lakewood commenting on names on the Dan Kampel
(19:04):
Shoga and Ryan Schuling filling in on the Mike Mike, how.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Are you good?
Speaker 13 (19:08):
Ryan, I've got some nominations for the worst.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Let's go, okay, good go.
Speaker 13 (19:14):
I was a public servant who worked for a time
in far northeast Denver, and three African Americans that we
ran into who uh These were their legal given names.
The first one was young lady named Ladasha ladl l
a hyphen a, oh no, no no. The second one was.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
A young man named Lomngelo spelled lemon gell O.
Speaker 13 (19:40):
Oh wow, the legal given name. And the last one
that takes the cake is Shi Fai Shi.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
T h e a d ship aid fade.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
These are interesting names. And the fact that the dash
looks like the actual punctuation mark, but it's pronounced dash correct. Okay,
that's a nightmare that name.
Speaker 13 (20:07):
I've often wondered if there is a book of African
American names that they pull from.
Speaker 12 (20:15):
Oh, I'm sure there is.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, let me tell you a little story about that.
So Mike, for me. Picture this. I'm gonna be like
Sophia on The Golden Girls. Picture this Sicily nineteen thirty two. No,
picture this. River Rouge nineteen sixty. Orner raised in South Detroit,
you know they call it downriver. South of Detroit, there
was a town called e Course, and right next to
e Course was River Rouge, and that's where my mom lived.
(20:37):
My mom went to school with a lot of kids
who were the children of factory workers on Zug Island
and auto factory workers, blue collar working class, and then
included my own grandmother, my babba. Her name was Jubiza.
It's a Serbian for violet. My mom's name didn't have
a translation, but she went to school with a lot
(20:59):
of aff American kids and Greek kids and Serb kids,
and that's pretty much what made up the demographics of
her school. My mom's name was Dushanka. Now to your point,
think about this. She applies to Michigan State University and
she's from River Rouge High School, the Panthers, and her
name's Dushanka, and they don't have like the racial profiling
(21:21):
that you fill out now, the AFFRONTOVCTI was before that stuff.
And she shows up on campus and she is matched
up with several black roommates and they looked at her
like they had seen a ghost because they were expecting
that Dushanka was going to be a black woman. And
my mom was not black. She tanned well as a Serb,
(21:43):
but that name alone led people to draw certain conclusions,
and so that kind of led her down the primrose
path at Michigan State University in the dorms. And there's
another story from there since then. I'm just winging it here,
filling in for Dan because this is I think it's
an interesting story. I think I told Kelly story before.
So my mom went to Michigan State in the mid
(22:03):
to late sixties and this was the height of Duffy
Doherty and his coaching tenure. There and he was a
hero for many reasons, but one of them was Duffy
Doherty recruited black players from the South because the southern
schools didn't want them. University of Texas Longhorns, no black players,
University of Alabama, Nope. I mean talk about these powerhouse
schools that if they had black players on their teams,
(22:25):
so much better they would be Duffy Dorty's like, I
don't care if they're black and they play, come on
up to East Lansing. Two of those players were named Smith,
and one of them was named Bubba And you might
remember Bubba Smith from the Police Academy move and he
was an NFL star the San Francisco forty nine ers. Well,
he had a younger brother, and the reason I bring
(22:46):
the story up is in part because of my mom's name,
but also this nickname. I don't even know what his
real name was. What they called him, Tody, Tody Smith.
He was the little brother of Bubba Smith and Tody
had gotten himself into some legal trouble and he was
put in jail and to bail them out it was
gonna be fifty dollars. Well, my mom's roommates they didn't
have that kind of money, my mom. She did because
(23:08):
my grandfather was a very hard working told the story
before Serbian farmer in southern Illinois. That could have been
a sitcom, just him going around with that accent. How
you doing, John? Because he changed his name from Ivan
Ivan to John because he wanted to be American and
he wants to speak English, want to be a farmer,
and they loved him down there. They made some decent money,
and he sent my mom. He wired my mom fifty
(23:30):
dollars to bail Tody Smith, Baba Smith's little brother out
of jail. Well, weeks go by, a month goes by
or so, and she's not getting her money back. And
my mom turns into Jimmy Conway from the Goodfellas, hunting
down the two pay sales, wanna where's my money? Better
(23:50):
have my money? Choking with the phone court. And that
was my mom. Believe me. She did not mess her out,
She did not mince words. She suffered no fools, and
she was on the war pass. She wanted her fifty
dollars back, wasn't getting it. Tody was avoidant, duck and
meet what's going on over you? She didn't talk like
them and just for the purpose of the story. So
(24:10):
my mom shows up at the football building, Duffy Dorerty's
office and says, I need to talk to coach Doherty
and the secretary's like okay, and she just goes right
into Duffy Doherty's office and reads him the riot Act
about how she had lent fifty dollars to bail his
player Tody Smith out of jail and if he didn't
want her going to the newspapers and telling them all
(24:32):
about it, she wanted her money back. Well, to Duffy
Doherty's credit, he did get her her money back.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know that?
Speaker 11 (24:40):
So sounds like Deshanka and you have told me that story.
The strangest one I have is when I taught swimming lessons.
I had two twin girls and their names were Asia
and Africa, but the way they spelled them was aazio.
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Don't get creative with the spell a f r ika.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
No, no, no, it doesn't need to be changed to
be that, to be a name. You know, you get
this a lot with frik Well, several names they have
unnecessary vowels or unnecessary consonants, like just give a nice, traditional, strong,
beautiful name. A big, beautiful name. Okay, now, my mom
always she had mixed feelings about her name. Towards the
(25:24):
end of her life she embraced it once again. It
was unique. Have you ever met another Dashanka?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Now?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
I saw when I was placing calls to the league
office of Arena Football in Chicago. So there's a lot
of serbs in Chicago, and one of the gals that
was working for media relations, I swear to God, had
my mom's name, but it was spelled with like the
accident on the s. It was in true cyrillic Serbian translated.
I remember calling there one day, this like twenty odd
(25:50):
years ago, and she answers the phone. I go, Deshanka.
She goes, yes, I go, that's my mom's name. And
she didn't believe me. She thought I was joking with
I don't. Oh yeah, that's funny. No, no, seriously, I'm
half served in. My mom's name is Dashanka. I just
thought it was kind of neat that I talked to
one other ever in my life. But in the eighties
she went by Dde because the people in Pinkney are
(26:13):
not really aware of cultural differences and so forth, and
they call like Dashanka and you know, and she took
my dad's last name, so think about it. Her name
is Deshanka Shuling, so it kind of has a weird
little truf, Deshanka Shueling. And then, uh, remember in the
nineties Michigan, the Wolverines had a running back named Shimanga
Biyakabatuca short for Tim Biakabatuca. And we joked with my mom,
(26:37):
my brother, Nate, and I that she should divorce my
dad and marry Tim and she'd be Doshanka Biyakabatuca. And
that's my story about my mom and her name.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Yeah, I don't have any good stories about my name.
Is said that I was supposed to be Carl.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Name you're given. Yeah, they did well with Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (27:00):
Well I well, obviously I couldn't be Carly because my dad.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Carly Simon left Carly to Carly and Hilen.
Speaker 12 (27:08):
My mom. No, not Carly and HI love Carly and Hylend.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
No, my dad.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
My dad dated a woman named Carly and then he
started dating my mom and kind of dumped.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Her for him.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Well, and your mom wasn't keen on that name.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
No, okay, no, so I did not become Carly all right.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Your story is about names five seven seven three and
I don't get some text, maybe some more calls three
zero three seven one three eight two five five. Dan
is in communicado. Our theory is the feral woman that
had been stalking him has reappeared at the cabin, and
we don't know what happened from there. Trying to get
the details. There may be breaking news when we come
back to close out the Dan Capla Show including Tracy
(27:44):
and Longmont after this and now back to the Dan
Kaplas Show podcast. She might have been Carly. I could
have been if her dad didn't break Carly's heart, yeah
and leave her for Jan the Jan.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
The Jan.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
The gen didn't want to name you after his ex
girlfriend who he left for Jam.
Speaker 12 (28:04):
Come on, Oh no, So I was named after Grace Kelly.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
Okay, so what's in.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
A name there?
Speaker 10 (28:10):
It is?
Speaker 6 (28:10):
You got it. I was named after Ryan O'Neill because
my mom thought the name was rare. It was at
the time until the mid seventies, and everybody named their
son Ryan like me and the movie Paper Moon came
out the summer of seventy three. I was conceived honor
around Christmas Day of seventy three and born September twenty sixth,
nineteen seventy four. I was a Christmas present that I know,
(28:33):
Ryan Wings that like a pro says this textor well,
thank you, I appreciate. I'm doing my level best five
seven seven three nine Ryan. My name is Duke. Middle
name E, middle initial E, So Duke E. My nephew
calls me poops.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
There you go.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
A buddy of mine that I worked with overseas has
the name Talon. Did the chickens have sharp talents? Name
that movie? Kelly Knt. She's never seen Napoleon Dynamite. Yes,
she's a communist. Three girls names for you, Eliana, Ioanna,
and Evania. There are a lot of bows thereind of
like your last name. Yeah, I got a vow to spare.
(29:11):
I can tell you one like will of fortune. You know,
I feel free to have one.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
I went to school with two girls, which I love,
this name Reagan, but then the Exorcist totally ruined that name.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 11 (29:22):
Well, yes, and that's who they were named after. But
then when the Exorcists, when we all got old enough
to see it, it was like, oh, does she have
to be named Reagan?
Speaker 12 (29:30):
And then the other one.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
Was the parents were big Fleetwood Map fans, and they
named her Rheanne Rhiannon.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
I vowed at one point in my life had I
had a daughter, and I haven't that that might be
on the on the playing on the shortlist, on the shortlist, Rhiannon.
Speaker 12 (29:47):
Ryan Rhannon, but it's definitely different.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I met a Rihanna and she was a waitress at
Z's Bar and restaurant in Grand Rapids. Finally, from the
text line, my second grade teacher, Rocky Mountain, male name
Richard Weed. You can do the math from there. Yeah,
but how about Dick Bukiss. That guy had to go
through life with that and he's tough as nails.
Speaker 12 (30:07):
So that's true.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Let's go to Ryan in Denver on Michigan State. Am
I talking to myself? Ryan? Welcome to the Dan Campli show.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Hey there, Ryan, real quick, A very good friend of
Mine's a film producer here based in Denver, Yeah, and
a director, and there he's doing a documentary on that
same story about the Michigan.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
State football team.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Sixty recruiting black players from the South.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
That is phenomenal to hear. So that's in production right now,
you're saying.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Ryan, Now, they're they're they're working on it right now.
I'm doing a lot of Yes, they're they're working on
it as we speak. So okay, not sure when it's
supposed to be out, but I can report back to
you and give you the heads.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Up on that.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Absolutely please do so. And I would love if they
include the movie the scene with my mom and coach
Georgan who would play my mom, Bro sand Bar. They're
like twin sisters. So if you ever want a picture,
what was Ryan's mom like? Roseanne's pretty much get And
I told my mom that one day I came home
from school in my high school buddies, Oh my god,
your mom's Roseanne. I go, don't tell me. I know
(31:11):
just why I don't watch the show. So I go home,
I say, Mom, the guys at school they see that
you reminded them of Roseanne. And she didn't like deny it.
She didn't get mad. She's like, yeah, I know, she
stole my material and she's making money off of it,
so she acknowledged the similarity. Let's go to Tracy and Longmot.
How you doing on the Dan Campus Show?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Hey, what's happening? Ryan, I got a song for you. Yeah,
I got one for dance. Okay, But back to the
the Y and the J and the H.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You know, there's no J in.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Hebrew either, so you know, so you get this confusion
going on. But anyway, back to the name game, and
it's actually Solomon here. Kelly might find this one offensive,
I hope not, but it's Kelly belly bo belly benise
Belly Kelly belly bo belly Kelly. And then he could
do it this way, the name Game, Ryan, Ryan Bo Bye,
(32:09):
Banana Fana Po Pie and peeo miyan.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Lyon Tracy, we love you. And I got a story
about that one too. So we're on a trip to Florida,
my entire family us, the four kids and the parents
up front, and my brother and I are you know,
we're brothers, and we have two younger sisters. And Angie
was the next in line. She's probably about five six
years old, and we were doing the name game Banana
(32:35):
Fana game, and we had her do chuck and you
know where that's going, and she said it. She did Angie,
five six year old Angie, and we're like, oh, Angie,
And then my mom got so mad. But not at Angie,
at us you dwe are you boys. It is terrible.
Why would you do that? Because we're older brothers, that's
what we do. Imagine if you had an older brother, Kelly,
(32:57):
you would have turned out a lot differently.
Speaker 12 (32:59):
I think, I don't know, I'm pretty close to being
a guy.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
No, if you had had a big brother, though, that
picked on you, and you know that's just what we
do and it's not of love. I would say mostly yeah,
but if you.
Speaker 11 (33:10):
Have to think about it, I had many big brothers
when I was a diver because everybody, yeah, there warn't
a lot of female divers.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Well before Lizzie, it was just Angie. So the three
of us, me and my brother Nate and Angie, we
would have like the Olympics Downstairscause nineteen eighty four. La
Olympics were all into it. Carl Lewis, Greg luganis merrily written,
et cetera. And instead of giving Angie the bronze medal
for third, well like your last place. So there, we
can't give you bronze, So we have to give you
the poop medal. To this day, to this day, that
(33:37):
has scarred her for life. Of course, she's really upset
about it. She brings it up from time to time.
And my sister just turned forty five. So Auntie, I'm sorry,
but yeah, I would get gold because I'm the oldest
and I was the biggest and strongest of the fastest,
and then Nate before he surpassed me because he became
a phenomenal athlete. He was perfectly fine with silver as
long as he didn't get the poop medal that always
(33:59):
went to Angie. So again, I apologize to my sister
for that. She turned out okay though she did, and
the show turned out okay for being thrown into the
blender thanks to Kelly Cacerra, Dan Camplas, don't know feral Woman.
She's out there, she's up in the mountains. Will report
back tomorrow. Ryan Shuling on The Dan Campless Show.
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