The Nicknames We Give Our Belongings

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, Eric. Welcome to the Mender Room.
0:03.3	Ola!
0:04.0	Ola!
0:04.4	Eric, welcome to the program. I had a question, question.
0:07.1	Okay. Eric, any object that you have ever owned in your life, have you ever had a nickname for that?
0:13.9	So, some people like, for an example, let's say, I don't know, the big dumper, right?
0:18.8	If you asked him if you had a favorite bat growing up,
0:22.7	yeah, probably had a name for it.
0:23.8	Or a favorite glove.
0:24.8	Or a boat.
0:25.2	Right.
0:26.3	Or something that you've owned.
0:27.8	Everyone does cars, except you.
0:28.2	Yeah.
0:30.8	A stuffed animal, a blanket when you were a kid. You used to have a plant two years ago outside.
0:32.7	I have no idea what this plant was.
0:34.4	My wife planted it. She told me a million times. Anyway, this thing had like a jet black
0:39.5	stalk, jet black leaves. And for whatever reason, he just became Batman. He looked like the Batman
0:44.5	among the plant. But I realized because I gave him a name, I'd rather water in the yard. And it's
0:49.6	stupid. It's not like the plant talked to me, but I'd be like, what's up, Batman? Here you go, Batman. I didn't talk to any of the other plans.
0:54.4	Just Batman.
0:55.2	Like, we go back or something.
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