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Speaker 1: Ya Hey there, podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius.

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Speaker 1: I'm Will Pearson, and as always I'm joined by my

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Speaker 1: I found the all time best band name inspired by

427
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Speaker 1: another artist, and it belongs to none other than the

428
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Speaker 1: man who taught the world to do the twist. Mr

429
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 1: Chubby Checker. Oh wow, So who inspired Chubby Checker's name.

430
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,119
Speaker 1: So apparently it's a riff on the name of fellow

431
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Speaker 1: musician and near contemporary Fats Domino. Uh yeah, But the

432
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,959
Speaker 1: first person to ever call Ernest Evans by the name

433
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: Chubby Checker was actually Dick Clark's wife, and they met

434
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 1: when Chubby appeared on Dick Clark's American Bands in nineteen

435
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 1: sixty and during the recording, Chubby launched into this impression

436
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,440
Speaker 1: of Fats Domino, And afterwards he told Mrs Clark that

437
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,959
Speaker 1: his friends actually called him Chubby, and she smiled and

438
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,440
Speaker 1: said as in Checker, and he just kind of liked

439
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,240
Speaker 1: it so much that he used as a stage name

440
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,439
Speaker 1: from then on. You know, this is one of those that,

441
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 1: in hindsight you think that Fats Domino and Chubby Checker,

442
00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: it seems obvious, but actually had never made that connection before.

443
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 1: Al Right, so I will concede this one. Chubby Checker

444
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 1: should have a spot in the band Name Hall of Fame. Well,

445
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,600
Speaker 1: I am glad you're on board, because I really like

446
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,040
Speaker 1: that one, and it just kind of lines up perfectly

447
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: with an article I read about the science of choosing

448
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 1: the perfect band name. Oh, I definitely want to hear

449
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,600
Speaker 1: more about this, but first let's take a quick break,

450
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: all right, Mango, So it's time to spill it. What

451
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 1: is the secret to coming up with a truly top

452
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: shelf band name? Well, if we've shown anything today, it's

453
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Speaker 1: that memorable band names come from all different places, you know,

454
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: summer homages to real life events and people. Others are

455
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: nonsense words or appealing phrases crib from media or other musicians.

456
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: And some names come in sudden flashes of inspiration. I mean,

457
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,119
Speaker 1: others just seem to be whatever drummer happened to be

458
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 1: looking at at the time. And there's really no one

459
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: fixed approach that works. But there actually do seem to

460
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: be some linguistic patterns that crop up among the best

461
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: band names. Alright, So what do you mean by patterns? So,

462
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 1: just on a basic level, most compelling band names have

463
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: something unusual about them. So you know, you think about

464
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 1: like the grateful Dead or the Flaming Lips, and those

465
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 1: are just these unexpected word combinations that you find together

466
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: and when you hear them, they kind of grab your attention.

467
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: But there's also this other factor that's more cultural than

468
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: linguistic and what's that. So this might sound a little strange,

469
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: but it comes down to the way people connect words

470
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Speaker 1: and names that belong to a certain category. So for example,

471
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: like think about something the naming patterns for cars, right,

472
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: two big ones that might come up are fast moving animals.

473
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Speaker 1: You've got things like the Jaguar, the Mustang, even the viper,

474
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 1: and also astronomical figures, so like tourists or mercury, Nova, Saturn, Subaru. Like,

475
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: at this point, we're kind of so used to these

476
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: recurring patterns and car names that any words that fit

477
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: into that genre like that brings true to us, is

478
00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,719
Speaker 1: a good name for a car? That's yeah, that's true definitely,

479
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: But so are you're saying that the same kind of

480
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: thing happens with band names. Totally, But this is something

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Speaker 1: I recognized on my own. It's actually the theory of

482
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: this linguist named chi Lu. And one important thing she

483
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: points out in her research is that these cultural associations

484
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: that we create for categories of names are always changing

485
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: over time. So here's actually a quote from her article

486
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: in j Store where she lays out some of these

487
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: generational patterns of music. She writes, quote, short names beginning

488
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: with the and a common noun is an obvious pattern

489
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Speaker 1: from the mid twentieth century, got the Beatles, the monkeys,

490
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: the animals, the Kanks, and that's seen a revival in

491
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 1: recent times. The heavy metal genre is one of the

492
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Speaker 1: classes with more obvious linguistic patterns, usually involving death, so

493
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 1: Megadeth's Layer of course, and other perils such as dangerous animals,

494
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: white snake weapons, guns and roses, iron maiden, or sometimes

495
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: drugs and unhealthy substances poison. All Right, so I guess

496
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 1: it does make sense. Like when you were talking about

497
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,360
Speaker 1: Chubby Checker before, it lines up pretty well with this

498
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: idea of these these naming patterns. Obviously, in this case,

499
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 1: it was picking a name that wasn't too far off

500
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: from somebody else's, you know, Fats Domino in this case.

501
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: And so you kind of found that ultimate shortcut to

502
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: making a recognizable band name, right, And I mean that

503
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: seems to be like the cardinal rule of rock and roll,

504
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: where the music is always derivative, right, Like it's always

505
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: pulling from the blues. So why shouldn't the naming conventions

506
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: be derivative as well? Just copy the other guys? Yeah,

507
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: it's a good point and it does seem to work

508
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: all right. Well, I wanted to come back to some

509
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: of these other names, but I'm not sure if you

510
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 1: experienced this, but in doing the research, there were definitely

511
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: a ton of fun band name origins that they kind

512
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: of don't fit into a particular category. I feel like

513
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: we should take a little bit of time to just

514
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: throw out a few wild card entries for our band

515
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 1: name Hall of Fame. Yeah, I love that, it's perfect.

516
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: So I've actually been dying to talk about Dexis Midnight Runners,

517
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: and I don't think there's any other way I could

518
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 1: work them in. Yeah, it sounds like kind of a

519
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: tough sell, so I have to admit, who are they exactly?

520
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: So you might remember them as the British band that

521
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: gave us the eighties hit song come On Eileen, No,

522
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: I definitely don't remember them as that. I mean, of

523
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: course I remember the song, but I couldn't have told

524
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 1: you sung it well either way. Their naming situation is

525
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: basically the exact opposite of what happened with the Bloodhound Gangs.

526
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,919
Speaker 1: So instead of being like a raunchy band with an

527
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: innocent name, the Dexis Midnight Runners were I guess, like

528
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: a squeaky clean band with a highly suspect name. That

529
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: sounds pretty funny, but I think you're gonna have to

530
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: walk me through because I honestly have no clue what

531
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: a Dexi's Midnight Runners. Okay, So the band openly admitted

532
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: that the dexis part of their name comes from a

533
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, a stimulant called dexadrine and this was popular

534
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: among soul music fans in Northern England during the seventies,

535
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: and the Midnight Runners part that refers to the users

536
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: who used the drug as a way to dance all

537
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: night long. Wow. So so, but you said these guys

538
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: were like a squeaky clean band totally. So they were

539
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: completely sober and they didn't even have alcohol at any

540
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: of their shows. Oh wow, that's pretty bizarre, But that's great.

541
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: All right. Well, I think my wild card pick is

542
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: an oldie but a goody, and that would be the

543
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: one and only led Zeppelin. You can kind of think

544
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 1: of this as the Yankee Doodle Award for our Hall

545
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: of Fame name because you know, just like in that song,

546
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: the name led Zeppelin has its origins and something that

547
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,719
Speaker 1: was originally intended as an insult. So the story goes

548
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: that The Who's Keith Moon was actually invited to drum

549
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: for this new London band, but ended up being so

550
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: unimpressed with the other members and he mockingly predicted that

551
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: they would quote go down like a lead balloon. So

552
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: then John entwhistle basis for The Who went even further

553
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: than that, and he remarked that the new band would

554
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: be such a colossal failure that it would be more

555
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: like a led Zeppelin, which is pretty harsh but also

556
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 1: kind of clever. Yeah, it was, but maybe as clever

557
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: as that. When the insult made its way back to

558
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: Jimmy Page and his manager, they actually thought it was

559
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: so funny that they decided to make it the official

560
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: band name, though only after dropping the A from lead,

561
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: and the whole reason was to, you know, to keep

562
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: Americans from mispronouncing it as Lead Zeppelin. So I don't

563
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: know what I should be impressed by how much they

564
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: cared about preserving like that lead balloon joke at all costs,

565
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: or I guess insulted by how little they thought of

566
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 1: American intelligence. I don't know. I sort of think it

567
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: was a smart call. I mean you remember the pronunciation

568
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: guide I mentioned about Leonard Skinner, Right, Yeah, of course,

569
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: And I guess I understand that desire to make sure

570
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: your name comes across as intended, because the name of

571
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: band goes with can have this major impact on a

572
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: musician's career. Didn't bring everything from their radio exposure to

573
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: merchandise design to you know, what kind of people will

574
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: actually listen to the songs? And even after the music

575
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 1: stops and the spotlight shifts to someone else, a good

576
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: name can still keep a band afloat in the cultural site, guys,

577
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: so long as there's an interesting story about where it

578
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: came from. Oh yeah, I mean, I think you're absolutely right.

579
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: I was actually this close to talk about Hoodie and

580
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: the Blowfish today and Mango, it's two thousand eighteen. Well,

581
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: you haven't missed your opportunity yet. It's time for the

582
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: fact off, and there's still a few empty spots left

583
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: to talk about band names. All right, we'll dust off

584
00:28:54,120 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: your Blowfish. Hootie, you're coming in, so I'm gonna start

585
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: his off. And I love it when bands named themselves

586
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: after songs from other bands as somewhat of a tribute,

587
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: and that's actually how radio Head got their name. When

588
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: they first formed in the mid eighties, they were known

589
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: as on a Friday, which was the day that they

590
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: got together to practice. But then five or six years later,

591
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: when they signed with E. M. I, they actually changed

592
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: their name to Radiohead as a tribute to the Talking

593
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: Heads and the song Radiohead. You know, something similar actually

594
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: happened with the Rolling Stones. So Jagger and Richards first

595
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: formed the band back in the early sixties, and at

596
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: that point they were called the Blue Boys. The story

597
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: goes that during an interview with this jazz focused newspaper,

598
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: guitarist Brian Jones spotted this Muddy Waters record. It was

599
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: just sitting there on the floor where he was doing

600
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: the interview, and it made him think about that song

601
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone from the same album, and that's where they

602
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: got the name. That's really cool. So, you know, having

603
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: played an a band in high school or several bands

604
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: in high school, I love stories of groups that you know,

605
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: met his kids and kept performing together. And another one

606
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: of those was a group that came together in the

607
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: nineties out of Cleveland. They were just in junior high

608
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: school when they started rapping together and one day Anthony

609
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: Crazy Bone Henderson had this minor crash on his moped,

610
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: and in somewhat of an act of solidarity, the group

611
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: all supported bandages and they started calling themselves the band

612
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: Aid Boys, And while that name didn't stick, we now

613
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: know them as Bone Thugs and Harmony. You know, I

614
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: also think it's fun when bands don't seem to actually

615
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: remember their origin, or at least they're competing stories for origins.

616
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: And one of these where I saw so many different

617
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: stories on this was Pearl Jam, and so I won't

618
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: share all of them. But there have been some claims

619
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: that the band name was inspired by Eddie Vetter's great

620
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: grandmother Pearl, who apparently made this famous peyote jam. I

621
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: don't know if this is true enough. And I thought

622
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: that was pretty funny, and then it ranges to the

623
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: much less interesting. You know, one of them that they

624
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: just liked the word pearl and then they added jam

625
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: to it because that's what a group of musicians do.

626
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna stick with the great grandmother story.

627
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: It just seems so much more fun to believe. Yeah,

628
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. Well, I know we're not

629
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: really focusing on cover bands, but there's one that's kind

630
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: of a cover band but also kind of a weirdly

631
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: inspired band called Austrian Death Machine, and apparently they sing

632
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: entirely in the style of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and all their

633
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: songs are from some of his famous one liners. So

634
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: you know, like it's not a tumor. You can actually

635
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: find on the band's first album, Total Brutal, which is right,

636
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: that's actually the first album. Oh, just the first album. Wow,

637
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: this band is something else. I would imagine that's one

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Speaker 1: so hilarious, and for the first five minutes it's so hilarious,

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Speaker 1: and then it's just torture from that point on. Alright, MANO,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to disappoint anybody, because we promised to

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Speaker 1: include Hootie and the Blowfish, and I'm here to deliver.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that we actually did promise, but we

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Speaker 1: said Hoodie and the Blowfish. We did. We promised Hootie.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think most people assume that the frontman,

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Speaker 1: Darius Rucker, was Hoodie and that his supporting band members

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Speaker 1: were The Blowfish, but it actually turns out the he's

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Speaker 1: kind of both or at least both names came from

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Speaker 1: people that Darius went to school with. So one was

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Speaker 1: this kid they called Hoodie because I guess he kind

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Speaker 1: of looked like an owl. And there was a separate

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Speaker 1: classmate that had these puffed up cheeks and was nicknamed Blowfish.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure why they decided to combine these two,

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Speaker 1: and I kind of want to see pictures of these

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Speaker 1: guys because it's just would make for an interesting story.

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Speaker 1: But it seemed to work. And I've actually got an

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Speaker 1: equally important fact because just recently a friend reminded me

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Speaker 1: that in our high school yearbook there was a photo

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Speaker 1: of me playing basketball in a game, and for some reason,

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Speaker 1: when I was dribbling, I would do this thing where

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Speaker 1: I blow out my cheeks like a blowfish, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of like Jordan's tongue, but much less cool and

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Speaker 1: much less effective, of course, But when you weren't dunking,

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Speaker 1: when I wasn't dunking, that's what I was doing. And anyway,

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Speaker 1: I was doing that in this photo, and the capture

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Speaker 1: under it said Willie and the Blowfish. So how about that, Mango?

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Speaker 1: Pretty good? Well, I feel like you deserved today's trophy

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Speaker 1: just based on that story alone. Thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: and thank you guys for listening. I know we must

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Speaker 1: have left out so many great origin stories of band names,

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