June 23, 2025 • 7 mins
We have realized that we have a terrible habit of nicknaming our colleagues and they are not that nice. For example: Big Nose and American Pyscho.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to the podcast. It's Marcus and Corey, Week
two of our vacation. We miss you as well. I'm
being very presumptuous. Listen. You can catch up with us
online on the Marcus and Corey Instagram at Marcus and Corey,
on TikTok at Marcus and Corey. Obviously, we don't have
any shows on demand because we are on vacation, but
we do want to discuss nicknames you've given your coworkers.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
There was a time when there was like new people
all the time. People were leaving, people were starting, and
I didn't have the time to learn their names, and
they never like send out an official email saying, hey,
we'd like to introduce blah blah blah, there are new
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So we just started coming up to making names.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Why not, It's just easier. So a couple of guys
that don't work here anymore. There was the infamous This
is terrible, by the way, what what did you call him? Which?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
One?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tall one? Hey? Big nos?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh, big nos. That's mean.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It is mean, but it's it's an identifier. I didn't
mean it derogatory, not trying to be mean. It's more
like I just remembered that he has a larger nose.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Right not to never to his face. Oh no, no,
that would be rude.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No no, And then his partner was sociopath.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Right Why did you call him that?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Because he looked like somebody who probably had a body
in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
There's marble Man.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I do like the Marlborough Man. He still works here, yes,
And the thing about him is the reason we call
him that, in my estimation, is that he just looks
like he's been around, He's seen some things.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I don't even know if he smokes.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
He's a good looking man. I can tell you definitively.
I had lunch of them the other day. He doesn't
smoke anymore. He's like me, Okay, he would if if
the opportunity presented himself and no one would find out,
he probably would, but it's probably not in his best interest. No,
But he looks like he's written hard in a few
rodeos in an attractive way. He's an attractive man.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I think, well, yeah, marble man is not attractive.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't have any you know. It's weird that I
was thinking. So we have a lot of other DJs
in this building. We don't really have nicknames that they
don't already have. Yeah, Like we're in the building with KMEO.
So there's Von Johnson who goes by Big Vaughan, but
he does that on the air. I don't have to
give him a nickname. I wouldn't call him anything else, right,
(02:22):
And then there's our dear friend, my best friend, Shay Diddy. Yeah,
who you know. I don't even know her real first name.
Is it Alicia maybe, but she goes by Shay and
so she goes that's her nickname. That's what we call her,
so like her nickname is her real name. But then
there's Carolyn and Court at the Breeze. Do we have Oh,
I do have a nickname for Court. But but Carolyn
(02:44):
got offended when I called him the Ginger, the ginger.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I call him the ginger.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He's the red hair. He doesn't care, he is not
offendable with him before and we called him the We
don't have a nickname for Carolyn. She's too sensitive anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I just don't think it's it's come up. I mean,
you don't have a nickname for me. I don't think
or one that you would say to my face.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Ah, No, I mean stems stems broad skirt. Yeah, there's
that Chris Farley.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
My neighbor said that your Chris Farley impression brings him
life every time you do it, and now you have
to do it okay again, So I'll clear the decks
for Corey to do her Chris Farley impression. Give me
a good one.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, your dad says you want to be a writer,
but I hear you're not using your papers for writing,
but for rule and dooby.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Not even my favorite quote? Give me the good one?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
What the good one? My name, My.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Name is Matt Fooley. I am thrice divorced, and I
live in a van down by the river.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So beautiful God.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I'm here to tell you you're not gonna a mount
to Jack Squat.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I will tell you that when I worked in Seattle,
they had a nickname for me was not flattering. Oh no,
you watched the office, right, Yes, and so the enforcer
quote unquote, the rule follower on the office was Dwight.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So I was what they call the assistant program director,
the guy behind the boss, and I spent my time
policing everybody, okay, to the point where they called me
Dwight Shreut, so every time I showed up, I was Dwight.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I hope they put all of your office supplies in jello.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
They would have, They definitely would. I've loosened up quite
a bit, but I used to be quite the rule follower.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Now you didn't want me to say this one, But
there is something we work with I call American psycho.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well yeah, because there's still a current employee.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
They are. But you get that vibe, you get the
American psycho vibe, the Christian bale.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I'm gonna put on Mike go.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Be on a zoom call with him right now. How
are you doing this with a straight face?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Because he's not here.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
He's a nice guy, he's just I'm going to agree
with Corey on this one. If you met him, be like, WHOA,
what kind.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Of card stock do you use for your business cards?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It'll a bit too well put together, ye, sir, Yeah,
we're terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, if you can't have fun, what's the point.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Some of the best nicknames I've heard of co workers
are by other people. Well, I do remember one in Seattle.
This is It's not great. But we had a guy
that I worked with that was in a band. He
was in his early fifties, had phenomenal flowing hair, the
likes of which I can't even describe. Dark flowing up
(05:34):
in a ponytail most days. And it was so striking
that I met him for the first time at the
copy machine and I just looked over and he goes, hey,
what's up, Marcus? And I go, hey, what's up? Hair?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Hair?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's all I said, wow, And somebody overheard me, and
for the next six years he was just called hair.
It's amazing how these things stick.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I call Kim my friend poodle.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
She calls me lamb chop right and then and then,
of course, you know, Jeff is the Jeff who has
taken to using his own nickname himself.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I felt that he realized I gave him that tongue
in cheek. Oh no, no, no, it's a real thing. Is
there a plaque above the fireplace?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, there's a In our cars, you can do a
personality profile, so the seat will go to your settings,
and his is the.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Jeff warms my heart? Does ACDC start playing when he
hits his button. I dated a woman who worked in
an office setting, and this is the best best nickname
I think i've heard in a while. There was a
guy who came in for an interview and brought pastries
(06:47):
for the whole staff and coffees and had his interview
and everybody in the office got a thank you note
almost before he even left the lobby.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And they just called him overkill and that was his nickname,
the sweetest guy. But he just went a little hard,
too hard. I don't know if you want to check
in on this, If anybody's listening to this podcast, hello,
helloh leave us. You know what I what I'd love
(07:18):
is a DM on Instagram of your favorite office nickname,
somebody you've given to somebody's maybe it was yours, a
note on the Marcus and Corey Instagram. A DM would
be amazing while work, so we can read them when
we're back from vacation. Yes, and we appreciate you for listening.
We'll be back on Monday on Star one on one three.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Bye.
Welcome back to the podcast. It's Marcus and Corey, Week
two of our vacation. We miss you as well. I'm
being very presumptuous. Listen. You can catch up with us
online on the Marcus and Corey Instagram at Marcus and Corey,
on TikTok at Marcus and Corey. Obviously, we don't have
any shows on demand because we are on vacation, but
we do want to discuss nicknames you've given your coworkers.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
There was a time when there was like new people
all the time. People were leaving, people were starting, and
I didn't have the time to learn their names, and
they never like send out an official email saying, hey,
we'd like to introduce blah blah blah, there are new
blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So we just started coming up to making names.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Why not, It's just easier. So a couple of guys
that don't work here anymore. There was the infamous This
is terrible, by the way, what what did you call him? Which?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
One?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tall one? Hey? Big nos?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh, big nos. That's mean.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
It is mean, but it's it's an identifier. I didn't
mean it derogatory, not trying to be mean. It's more
like I just remembered that he has a larger nose.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Right not to never to his face. Oh no, no,
that would be rude.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
No no, And then his partner was sociopath.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Right Why did you call him that?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Because he looked like somebody who probably had a body
in the backyard.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
There's marble Man.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I do like the Marlborough Man. He still works here, yes,
And the thing about him is the reason we call
him that, in my estimation, is that he just looks
like he's been around, He's seen some things.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I don't even know if he smokes.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
He's a good looking man. I can tell you definitively.
I had lunch of them the other day. He doesn't
smoke anymore. He's like me, Okay, he would if if
the opportunity presented himself and no one would find out,
he probably would, but it's probably not in his best interest. No,
But he looks like he's written hard in a few
rodeos in an attractive way. He's an attractive man.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I think, well, yeah, marble man is not attractive.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't have any you know. It's weird that I
was thinking. So we have a lot of other DJs
in this building. We don't really have nicknames that they
don't already have. Yeah, Like we're in the building with KMEO.
So there's Von Johnson who goes by Big Vaughan, but
he does that on the air. I don't have to
give him a nickname. I wouldn't call him anything else, right,
(02:22):
And then there's our dear friend, my best friend, Shay Diddy. Yeah,
who you know. I don't even know her real first name.
Is it Alicia maybe, but she goes by Shay and
so she goes that's her nickname. That's what we call her,
so like her nickname is her real name. But then
there's Carolyn and Court at the Breeze. Do we have Oh,
I do have a nickname for Court. But but Carolyn
(02:44):
got offended when I called him the Ginger, the ginger.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I call him the ginger.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He's the red hair. He doesn't care, he is not
offendable with him before and we called him the We
don't have a nickname for Carolyn. She's too sensitive anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I just don't think it's it's come up. I mean,
you don't have a nickname for me. I don't think
or one that you would say to my face.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Ah, No, I mean stems stems broad skirt. Yeah, there's
that Chris Farley.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
My neighbor said that your Chris Farley impression brings him
life every time you do it, and now you have
to do it okay again, So I'll clear the decks
for Corey to do her Chris Farley impression. Give me
a good one.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Well, your dad says you want to be a writer,
but I hear you're not using your papers for writing,
but for rule and dooby.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Not even my favorite quote? Give me the good one?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
What the good one? My name, My.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Name is Matt Fooley. I am thrice divorced, and I
live in a van down by the river.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So beautiful God.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I'm here to tell you you're not gonna a mount
to Jack Squat.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I will tell you that when I worked in Seattle,
they had a nickname for me was not flattering. Oh no,
you watched the office, right, Yes, and so the enforcer
quote unquote, the rule follower on the office was Dwight.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
So I was what they call the assistant program director,
the guy behind the boss, and I spent my time
policing everybody, okay, to the point where they called me
Dwight Shreut, so every time I showed up, I was Dwight.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I hope they put all of your office supplies in jello.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
They would have, They definitely would. I've loosened up quite
a bit, but I used to be quite the rule follower.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Now you didn't want me to say this one, But
there is something we work with I call American psycho.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Well yeah, because there's still a current employee.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
They are. But you get that vibe, you get the
American psycho vibe, the Christian bale.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I'm gonna put on Mike go.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Be on a zoom call with him right now. How
are you doing this with a straight face?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Because he's not here.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
He's a nice guy, he's just I'm going to agree
with Corey on this one. If you met him, be like, WHOA,
what kind.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Of card stock do you use for your business cards?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
It'll a bit too well put together, ye, sir, Yeah,
we're terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, if you can't have fun, what's the point.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Some of the best nicknames I've heard of co workers
are by other people. Well, I do remember one in Seattle.
This is It's not great. But we had a guy
that I worked with that was in a band. He
was in his early fifties, had phenomenal flowing hair, the
likes of which I can't even describe. Dark flowing up
(05:34):
in a ponytail most days. And it was so striking
that I met him for the first time at the
copy machine and I just looked over and he goes, hey,
what's up, Marcus? And I go, hey, what's up? Hair?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Hair?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's all I said, wow, And somebody overheard me, and
for the next six years he was just called hair.
It's amazing how these things stick.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I call Kim my friend poodle.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
She calls me lamb chop right and then and then,
of course, you know, Jeff is the Jeff who has
taken to using his own nickname himself.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I felt that he realized I gave him that tongue
in cheek. Oh no, no, no, it's a real thing. Is
there a plaque above the fireplace?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, there's a In our cars, you can do a
personality profile, so the seat will go to your settings,
and his is the.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Jeff warms my heart? Does ACDC start playing when he
hits his button. I dated a woman who worked in
an office setting, and this is the best best nickname
I think i've heard in a while. There was a
guy who came in for an interview and brought pastries
(06:47):
for the whole staff and coffees and had his interview
and everybody in the office got a thank you note
almost before he even left the lobby.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And they just called him overkill and that was his nickname,
the sweetest guy. But he just went a little hard,
too hard. I don't know if you want to check
in on this, If anybody's listening to this podcast, hello,
helloh leave us. You know what I what I'd love
(07:18):
is a DM on Instagram of your favorite office nickname,
somebody you've given to somebody's maybe it was yours, a
note on the Marcus and Corey Instagram. A DM would
be amazing while work, so we can read them when
we're back from vacation. Yes, and we appreciate you for listening.
We'll be back on Monday on Star one on one three.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Bye.
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