MINI: Nominative Determinism Returns!
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Do you have a name that matches your job?
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| 0:00.0 | Christian. |
| 0:01.2 | Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Does your name have anything to do with your job? |
| 0:08.2 | Do you have a job that sounds just like your name? |
| 0:11.8 | Like a weatherman whose name is rain. |
| 0:15.0 | Or a gardener called Alice Bush. |
| 0:17.4 | It's called nominative determinism. |
| 0:19.2 | Is your job just like your name? |
| 0:23.6 | What's your name again? What's your name again? |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah, what's your name again? You call us up a 911, 104, 104.104. Maybe it's you, maybe someone you work with. |
| 0:37.1 | It's your name related to your job. It's a thing called nominative determinism. Don't believe us? Have a listen to these recent ones. She's a schoolteacher and her name is Miss Kid. |
| 0:39.3 | I had a colonoscopy by a doctor in wherever called Dr. Ring. |
| 0:43.3 | The librarian at my kid's primary school was Mrs. Reid. |
| 0:47.3 | Mr Page was a book publisher. |
| 0:49.3 | My wife, Mrs. Carol Money, she worked in the bank. |
| 0:53.3 | I know as a gastro doctor named Dr. Butt. |
| 0:56.1 | Her name was Rosemary, and she was a nurse. |
| 0:58.4 | And she married a guy called Mr. Nurse, so she became Nurse Nurse. |
| 1:02.3 | Two into things there that revealed the difference between Jack and I, right? |
| 1:05.6 | Carol Money really made me laugh. |
| 1:07.8 | Dr. Butt made Jack really laugh. |
| 1:13.0 | Aren't you the one that always finds those ones? |
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