MINI: Nominative Determinism

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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We're bringing back one of our favourite segments, Nominative Determinism.. Do you have a name that relates to your job?

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist, and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:09.3	Got anything good?
0:11.1	Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:18.1	Right now on the show then, we're talking about a thing called nominative determinism.
0:22.0	It's a theory created by Carl Jung, I believe.
0:26.4	And yeah, this is the only breakfrey show in town where you'll get a Carl Young reference.
0:29.9	I know Fifi does a lot of Carl Young stuff, but I'm more of a Freud man.
0:33.8	It means name-driven outcome that your name will influence the choice you have on some subconscious level to the work you go into.
0:42.3	The butcher Bob Chop.
0:44.9	Stomach surgeon, I had as a child his name was, I swear to God this is true, Dr. Mark Slaughter.
0:52.2	Oh.
0:53.5	I mean, that is a nominative determinism.
0:55.8	If that was a serial killer, it's the theory being proved.
1:00.7	He had no choice.
1:01.8	You couldn't blame him.
1:02.5	Just like Bob Chop.
1:03.3	He had no choice but to be a butcher.
1:05.7	Your Honor, nominative determinism.
1:08.0	This has come from one of you seeing on TV in the UK earlier this week and evening,
1:14.7	all the way in the UK.
1:16.2	This feature, which you've done a couple of years ago, called nominative determinism, is your job.
1:21.4	Or it might be someone you know linked to the name linked to the job.
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