That's Not My Name

FANTI

Maximum Fun

Jarrett Hill, Culture, Fanti, Comedy, Tre'vell Anderson, Journalists, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

jarrett and Tre’vell are two Black queers with names spelled unusually. No company selling merchandise with common first names on, say, keychains, has made money off Jarretts or Tre’vells. Starbucks employees never spell their names correctly. So what’s it like going through life with an “unusual” name?

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0:00.0	Hey there, beautiful people, welcome to Santide Pocket Swagos Complex and Complex
0:07.5	out of conversation about the gray areas in our lives.
0:11.8	I'm entertainment journalist, editor, author, rest, time, stew, your boy, your girl, everything
0:18.7	in between and beyond.
0:22.5	Trayvow Anderson.
0:23.5	And I'm just trying to keep up with you because I don't know what you just gave us.
0:27.2	Jared Hill, coming up on the show today, what you just missed that you may or may not
0:33.0	be aware of, but we're going to be getting into having unusually spelled names or unfamiliarly
0:41.3	spelled names.
0:42.3	We're going to get into that in just a little bit.
0:44.0	Up first, we have got to pass the popcorn, okay, y'all know this is our segment.
0:48.5	When we talk about some of the things y'all talking about on the social medias and there
0:52.2	is this video that's been making the rounds on the socials that I have some thoughts
0:59.0	about.
1:00.0	Okay, I'm going to play it in a moment, but to set it up, there's this woman named Stormy
1:04.6	Wellington.
1:05.6	Apparently she's a wealth coach, okay, she's got a million plus followers on the Instagram
1:11.2	and apparently she charges up to $10,000 for workshops, okay, in this clip, she is
1:17.5	holding a plate of food with a piece of corn on it and two chicken wings, okay, and then
1:23.3	there's another woman, apparently her name is Tammy, with a separate, a different plate
1:28.6	that someone prepared for her and it's like, got mashed potatoes on it and a sandwich on
1:34.0	it and hot dog and some other things or whatever.
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