MINI: Nominative Determinism

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

There are rare few of us with amazing names, especially to do with our work. So if you're one of the lucky ones with a name that matches your job, we want to hear from you!

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0:00.0	Christian.
0:01.2	Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
0:04.7	Last week then, we were asking, is your name related to your job?
0:08.8	There's something called nominative determinism, where your name can influence the job you'll end up taking.
0:15.0	It's a real thing.
0:15.9	We're turning it into now a weekly feature.
0:18.6	Do you have a job that sounds just like your name,
0:22.2	like a weatherman whose name is rain,
0:25.3	or a gardener called Alice Bush,
0:27.7	it's called nominative determinism,
0:29.5	is your job just like your name?
0:31.4	What's your name again?
0:32.9	What's your name again?
0:34.4	Big reach on that one, Rio, and I like it.
0:36.7	Well done.
0:39.1	He shoots, he scores.
0:45.7	All right, that's what we found ourselves saying last week was we're going through so many of these.
0:49.6	What's your name again? Here's some of the ones then. So it's called nominative determinism,
0:54.9	and it's your name influencing the job you choose. Last name is Sedler and he's a roofer.
0:56.2	I am Katie Kitchens.
0:57.4	I work in food technology.
1:01.7	My dad's family, so their surname is Martini and they used to run a pub.
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