MINI: Why Are You Called That
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Christian O'Connell chats with his listeners about their names and the stories behind them. Hear from people with unique and often humorous name origins.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | How did you get your name? If you have a story about how you got your name, share it with us today. |
| 0:24.6 | Call me 135522. |
| 0:27.4 | Morning to Santo. |
| 0:28.5 | Christian, you're right about Australians, just adding whatever they want to your name. |
| 0:32.6 | I obviously have a foreign name. |
| 0:34.4 | Santo. |
| 0:35.0 | Santo is a great name. |
| 0:36.1 | I believe it's Portuguese or Spanish for |
| 0:39.1 | Saint. Oh, Sainte. Yes. I have to wear a name tag for my job. It says, actually says on it, |
| 0:46.4 | Santo. But everywhere I go, it says Santos. No one calls me my actual name that's written, |
| 0:52.9 | so you can read it easily. They just add the old S at the end Welcome to Australia, St. Toss. Christian, my son is Russell. Russell Hobbs. That's his real name? Yes. Oh, wow. Yeah, even now in his 30s, people still ask if he was named after the kettle. It was a... I would ask that as well. That's the name game, as in, as in the kettle. Where don't we racing for that one? Hobbs, Russell Hobbs. It's after his late uncle. Christian, my name is Kara. My parents, Tom, was named after a character in the novel Bride's Head Revisited. But I'm pretty sure the character was a prostitute. No, no. I think she's a mistress. I don't know about that. She was the mistress to a lord, but I don't, I'm not sure. I'm not sure that's true. I hope you've grown up believing that. What do you do? I just whacked my glasses against the market. So sometimes I get too close. |
| 1:46.4 | I don't have very good vision. |
| 1:49.0 | Every day I try my best with these people. |
| 1:55.0 | Hi Christian and my mother was a big movie fan. |
| 1:56.5 | Love the Western Shane. |
| 1:58.9 | So she called me Shane off the back of that. |
| 2:04.1 | Christian David Jones was a breakfast announcer for decades in Newcastle at 2NX and 2KO. |
| 2:06.2 | So he's DJ DJ. |
| 2:07.1 | DJ. I hope he used that. |
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