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If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how nicknames for young boys can actually help them socialize better.

How archaeologists in Poland have unearthed the grave of a woman people feared might return from

the dead, and a new study that disproves Freud's theory that more

successful people are usually unhealthier than less successful people.

And without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

Kallie, did you ever have any embarrassing nicknames growing up?

Uh, okay, no, not embarrassing, like my family had a really sweet nickname for me.

I was called Happy Eyes growing up or

Cal by my friends but that was fine but I'm just Cali you know.

Sure okay I hear that well I recently found out that specifically for young

boys, nicknames can be really important. Recently a clinical psychologist

Jet Stone wrote an article talking all about the importance of boyhood

nicknames and what they say about our sense of belonging and how they can help

us become better people even if they're kind of embarrassing nicknames like jerk face or turkey rot or gravy goblin.

Okay wait are these nicknames of people you know?

No and not any nicknames that anyone ever gave me. Never mind.

Anyway, research shows that the prevalence of nicknames has actually been declining

in the last few years.

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