Speaker 1: Welcome to them. Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Have you changed your name?
Speaker 3: Perry, who's to start working on the show, told us
Speaker 3: about his what's his fiancee? Nosy guy was called Michael Clark,
Speaker 3: A nice respectable name.
Speaker 2: Right changes the wolf game? Which great name and now
Speaker 2: is known as wolf?
Speaker 3: That is, you become wolf like if that's your name,
Speaker 3: your hair, you have to change your clothes.
Speaker 2: You got to get rid of Michael's clothes. You're now wolf.
Speaker 2: Imagine Michael Clark test Captain of Australia.
Speaker 3: How much better he would have been as Wolfgang class
Speaker 3: Wolfgang Clark?
Speaker 2: All right, so have you changed your name? Andrew? Good morning,
Speaker 2: you've changed your name?
Speaker 4: Yeah. My father passed away late last year and we're
Speaker 4: at the funeral and Carl started rating out John and
Speaker 4: May and my three brothers are looking at each other, gingho,
Speaker 4: the hell is John away at the wrong funeral? And
Speaker 4: the backstory is when my father was born, my grand
Speaker 4: and granddad had an argument on whether this should be
Speaker 4: called John or Barry. We only ever knew him as Barry.
Speaker 4: My grandma said, his name is Barry, but he got
Speaker 4: registered as John. But every time somebody says what's the
Speaker 4: baby's name? I said, Barry. I mean we always thought
Speaker 4: his name was Barry until the day passed and we're
Speaker 4: at the funeral, and we thought we're at the wrong funeral.
Speaker 2: Andrew, this is incredible.
Speaker 3: You hear about people finding out stuff they didn't know,
Speaker 3: you know, about a parent at a funeral, but not
Speaker 3: about that that's.
Speaker 2: A completely different name. That's remarkable.
Speaker 4: And my throat brothers are all looking at each other going,
Speaker 4: what are we see? What? What's going on here? You do.
Speaker 2: Funeral, but you're at the right funeral, just a different name.
Speaker 2: So yeah, John not Barry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we only we only ever knew him as Barry
Speaker 4: and his real name was John.
Speaker 2: So what did you put on the headstone wherever he
Speaker 2: is now?
Speaker 4: Barry Barry?
Speaker 2: Then maybe in a sharpie be brackets.
Speaker 4: We should have done that in brackets, and that is
Speaker 4: a great call.
Speaker 2: Then we're going to give you a pair of gold
Speaker 2: class double bass tickets.
Speaker 4: I love that story, fantastic.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry about your dad as well, but it gave
Speaker 2: us a great laugh with that. Thank you very much, Andrew,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: John James, Welcome to the show, Good morning, I'm good
Speaker 3: John James.
Speaker 2: So you changed your name? What's your story, John James.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So when I was probably I think I was
Speaker 5: twenty years old, I changed my name to Achilles via
Speaker 5: depot and it was it was just Achille, so there
Speaker 5: was no surname. It was just like like Madonna, Yes.
Speaker 3: You're quite right, Beyonce Madonna. Now when you say you
Speaker 3: were twenty, what else was going on?
Speaker 2: Hate?
Speaker 5: Now what happened was my friend, my friends and all that.
Speaker 5: We all sort of got a step of that movie
Speaker 5: Troy with Achilles, like the warrior that Brad Pitt played
Speaker 5: the part. And now I probably thought I was probably
Speaker 5: good looking at the time, and I was one of
Speaker 5: those cud too sort of was like, oh, you wouldn't
Speaker 5: do it. You wouldn't jump off that, you wouldn't run me,
Speaker 5: so you wouldn't do that anyway. So I said, you
Speaker 5: wouldn't change your name to Achilles, and so yeah, I
Speaker 5: was just so I went into the depot and they
Speaker 5: said it toss thirty dollars to change your name. So
Speaker 5: what happened was I thought I saw an asterisk next
Speaker 5: to the bit that sort of said surname, and I
Speaker 5: said to the guy, I said, why is there an
Speaker 5: asterisk next to the surname and he said, well, technically
Speaker 5: you don't have to have it have a surname. And
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh well, I said, the only thing you
Speaker 5: can't change your name to is God or Jesus. And
Speaker 5: I'm like, all right, well I'll have a bit of
Speaker 5: a chillie and I won't have a surname. And what
Speaker 5: happened was I actually felt at actually forgot about it.
Speaker 5: So and I was named after my dad, so John,
Speaker 5: my actual name has gone through like generations and generations
Speaker 5: that I forgot about it because it says about six
Speaker 5: weeks to get approved. And then and then my mum
Speaker 5: got a like a letter in the mail that just
Speaker 5: said a chilling are chilling And she's just coming to
Speaker 5: my room and she's like, what what the hell is this?
Speaker 5: And I'm like, oh no, and don't give me a
Speaker 5: new versesy for getting everything. So I didn't know. Obviously,
Speaker 5: my dad's like losing it. He's gone off the thing,
Speaker 5: and I worked at his whole work, hadn't And if
Speaker 5: the thing is about it as well, is if you
Speaker 5: actually change it by depail, which I didn't know at
Speaker 5: the time either you actually have to have it for
Speaker 5: a minimum of two years, so you can't just you
Speaker 5: can't just like go and change it back. So I
Speaker 5: had to change the passport my life and I had.
Speaker 4: Been going to work.
Speaker 5: For a rather forgettable movie.
Speaker 4: Yes and yeah, so it.
Speaker 5: Was all happening, and then that's pretty much what happens.
Speaker 5: And then in the end I had to get my
Speaker 5: license change and they couldn't put anything where. So with
Speaker 5: the computer, doesn't you know how if you're filling out
Speaker 5: a form, it doesn't just go through to the next
Speaker 5: line unless you feel something where where the surname was.
Speaker 5: So they're like, we're going to have to put like
Speaker 5: a dot there. So it's just a pillies not.
Speaker 1: I am Symbolnce.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: By the police. They used to like take a photover
Speaker 5: that and like send it in to make sure it
Speaker 5: was real.
Speaker 2: I just need to Achilles followed by a dot. I
Speaker 2: can't believe you didn't keep it. Were you rushing to
Speaker 2: get rid of it by the end of the two years.
Speaker 5: It was when I tried to fly and get my partner,
Speaker 5: Like when the pass war got changed. There was a
Speaker 5: lot of complications with that because obviously, yeah, there's obviously
Speaker 5: a lot of the stuff was going on at that time.
Speaker 5: Was like yeah, yeah, so yeah, you want to watch.
Speaker 2: Achilles.
Speaker 5: I wonder if Achilles was going to come over to
Speaker 5: the country for different reasons. Yeah, for the two years
Speaker 5: is a bit of a kick out, obviously because my
Speaker 5: name has been actually had meaning to it, like John
Speaker 5: had meaning to it as well.
Speaker 2: Sure, but just a dumb man.
Speaker 3: I've got to ask this, what was life like for
Speaker 3: those twenty four months as Achilles?
Speaker 5: Now I actually forgot about it, like now that I'm
Speaker 5: going to going through the story again about maybe going
Speaker 5: back to it.
Speaker 3: If it's thirteen bucks, one hundred bucks, this show will
Speaker 3: pay for whatever it costs to change your name back
Speaker 3: to Achilles.
Speaker 2: So he's a great name.
Speaker 5: I'll invoice you for the thirty bucks.
Speaker 2: I gladly give it for the best day bucks in
Speaker 2: my life. They welcome you back to Achilles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my friends still call me Chills, so it's about
Speaker 5: a eight double la and so it's like Chill. So
Speaker 5: my friends still call me Chills, like my old school
Speaker 5: friends still to this day getting a few phone calls.
Speaker 5: But they forgot about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Achilles are going to label you up on
Speaker 3: our phone system only as a kidd.
Speaker 2: Then please call again.
Speaker 3: What that is one of those stories I'm always going
Speaker 3: to remember now about this and he told it brilliantly
Speaker 3: as well. I'm going to give you a price. We're
Speaker 3: going to give you a pair of tickets for gold
Speaker 3: class as well. That was Oh, no, brilliant, brilliant story,
Speaker 3: well told, Kennies. Hopefully we will.
Speaker 2: Speak again, my friend.
Speaker 5: We will, thanks man.
Speaker 2: Maybe tomorrow we have to do Haw's A movie Changed
Speaker 2: Your Life.
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