Christian. Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Hey, it's the Christian O'Connell Show. Yesterday, when we were doing funny business, and we look for your weird and unusual and funny business names, we heard about a plumber called John Crapper. Of course he's going to be a plumber. The name John Crapper.

I look this up. There's a theory. It's actually a big thing called nominative determinism.

The theory is, is that your name will influence or can influence the job you take.

I've actually spoken to a guy who is a butcher, and this is his real name.

His name is Bob Chop.

Right.

And his dad, his granddad, or butchers.

He's from a long line of chops.

They literally, he became, and so that's, that's normative determinism in action.

So does your name have something to do with your job?

I've got an email from Miss Patience, who is a secondary school teacher.

Christian, my surname is Speed.

I work at Toyota Headquarters.

Before that, I worked at Nissan Headquarters.

This is Cynthia Speed.

What a great surname.

Yeah, awesome name.

Hello, Speed.

My partner's surname is Bat, and he used to play semi-pro baseball in the USA.

This is amazing.

They're the whole family of living out this theory of nominative determinism.

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