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Speaker 1: How did you get your name?
Speaker 2: If you have a story about how you got your name,
Speaker 2: share it with us today Call me thirteen fifty five
Speaker 2: twenty two Morning to Santo Christian. You're right about Australians
Speaker 2: just adding whatever they want to your name. I obviously
Speaker 2: have a foreign name, Santo. Santo is a great name.
Speaker 2: I believe it's Portuguese or Spanish for Saint Awesness. I
Speaker 2: have to wear a name tag for my job. It
Speaker 2: just actually says on it Santo. But everywhere go it's
Speaker 2: say Santos. No one calls me. My actual name has
Speaker 2: written so you can read it easily. They just add
Speaker 2: the old s at the end. Welcome to Australia, Santos Christian.
Speaker 2: My son is Russell Russell Hobbs.
Speaker 1: That yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Even now in his thirties, people still ask if he
Speaker 2: was named after the kettle.
Speaker 1: It was a I would ask that as well.
Speaker 2: That's the name game, as in, that's in the kettle
Speaker 2: where don't we racing that one Hobbs Russell Hobbs is
Speaker 2: afterwards late uncle Christian.
Speaker 1: My name is Kara.
Speaker 2: My parents Tom was named after a character in the
Speaker 2: novel Brideshead Revisited. But I'm pretty sure the character was
Speaker 2: a prostitute. No, I think she's a mistress. I don't
Speaker 2: know about that. She was the mistress to a lord,
Speaker 2: but I don't I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I
Speaker 2: hope even grown up believing that.
Speaker 1: She just whacked my glasses against him. Sometimes I get
Speaker 1: too close. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Every day I try to really these people, Hi, Christian.
Speaker 2: And my mother was a big movie fan, loved the
Speaker 2: Western Shane, so she called me shame off the back
Speaker 2: of that, Christian. David Joe was the breakfast announce of
Speaker 2: a decade in Newcastle at two n X and two
Speaker 2: KO everything.
Speaker 1: So he's DJ DJ. I hope he used that. I
Speaker 1: hope he used that. All right, let's take some cols here.
Speaker 1: Oh god, we actually have a David Jones on the line.
Speaker 2: Now, Morning David, Morning, Christian. How are you. I'm good, buddy,
Speaker 2: welcome to the show. See you are actually a David Jones.
Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, named after my grandfather gotcha.
Speaker 1: And do you get any confusion with the department store?
Speaker 3: Yes? Always, always, so I play on it, Neil, I
Speaker 3: take photos if I'm standing out for.
Speaker 2: The David Jones, thank you very much for calling him.
Speaker 3: No worries. That a good day.
Speaker 1: Thank you now, Steve, morning, Steve.
Speaker 4: Good morning gang.
Speaker 3: My brother's name is Drewen, named after Drewen from.
Speaker 1: The place near Gippsland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it was only until we got a little
Speaker 4: bit older when we realized what the true meaning of
Speaker 4: it was. When mum and dad said that they had
Speaker 4: a very nice weekend there.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a whole side category for this is named
Speaker 2: after the place you were conceived.
Speaker 4: I really thought there was a lot of immacular conception
Speaker 4: going on there.
Speaker 1: Regional Victoria. All right, Steve, thank you very much. You
Speaker 1: killed me.
Speaker 4: Have a good day, have a great day, guys.
Speaker 1: Elise, good morning, Lise. Hello, Now when I pronounce your
Speaker 1: name right, yes it is Elise, Elise. How did you
Speaker 1: get your name? What's the story?
Speaker 4: So my parents were massive hippies back in the seventies.
Speaker 4: They lived for some time in a cave in Greece,
Speaker 4: in Syros, and it was a nerdiest colony. I was
Speaker 4: named I was conceived there information that was shared with me,
Speaker 4: and I was named after one of the ladies that
Speaker 4: they lived in the cave with.
Speaker 1: Wow, cave lady, this is incredible. Who of us can
Speaker 1: say we were conceived in a cave? Man it's And.
Speaker 4: It was very funny when I had my first child
Speaker 4: and I was at the birth in class and they said,
Speaker 4: let's go around and talk about our names and where
Speaker 4: they came from, and people like I was named after
Speaker 4: my grandmother and I was named after my uncle. And
Speaker 4: then I was like, okay, so so.
Speaker 1: And then they just moved back to Australia and litter
Speaker 1: led a normal life. Were they in the caves?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they just you know, they were hippies just
Speaker 4: traveling around. And yeah, they came back and lived the
Speaker 4: normal life.
Speaker 1: And have they got any photos of that time?
Speaker 4: They do, and the friends.
Speaker 2: They're going to bring those out, They're going to bring
Speaker 2: those out. It's a cave lady's knock around with.
Speaker 4: Yes they do. And my friends have all seen the photos.
Speaker 2: And parents love getting out old embarrassing photos of you,
Speaker 2: like oh and here you are naked?
Speaker 1: Have never gone out.
Speaker 4: Naked?
Speaker 1: What a great story though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a good one, that is.
Speaker 1: I love that. Thank you very much. You give us
Speaker 1: a call.
Speaker 4: Thanks have a good day.
Speaker 2: That was almost merging into you couldn't make it up.
Speaker 2: Whomers can say our parents conceived in a cave, naked
Speaker 2: in Greece.
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