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Day 13,908(2) - What is in a Name.mp3
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00:00:03 Kevin
You ever meet somebody and they're you just wonder like how they got a personality the way they do.
00:00:11 Kevin
You know, some people you could just tell they grew up in a weird childhood or, you know, one of their parents were kind of goofy or, you know, because we're all little mirrors of our parents to a degree, right?
00:00:23 Kevin
But then you're like, you look at like famous people, right?
00:00:25 Kevin
Like Mel Gibson, right?
00:00:29 Kevin
His name is Mel, right?
00:00:31 Kevin
It's not short for like, you know, Melvin or Milbourne or any of those other things.
00:00:36 Kevin
It's Mel.
00:00:36 Kevin
Mel comes Seeley Gibson, right?
00:00:39 Kevin
Don't ask me why I remember his middle name, but.
00:00:44 Kevin
And then you meet guys.
00:00:46 Kevin
You know, like you see Joaquim Phoenix, right?
00:00:48 Kevin
Like, you know.
00:00:50 Kevin
Heath Ledger, right?
00:00:51 Kevin
Like all these famous people, man, and they've got unique names.
00:00:54 Kevin
And you wonder, like, what does that contribute to them being a unique person in the world and becoming a character, right?
00:01:04 Kevin
A lot of them don't know how to act because there's, you know, you can be a Mike or a Chris or a Steve and just look at other Chris's and Steves and Mikes and be like, Yeah.
00:01:15 Kevin
And you can even intermingle, right?
00:01:17 Kevin
Like a Mike could look at a Chris and be like, Yeah, I'm a common name.
00:01:20 Kevin
I'm just gonna be more like Chris, you know?
00:01:23 Kevin
And Chris seems to be pretty chill, laid back, you know, pretty normal, right?
00:01:26 Kevin
And I don't know, you just wonder like how that, how that lack of normalcy and someone's uniqueness in their name allows them to be more memorable as a person, right?
00:01:38 Kevin
Like, I just left, I just left one of the local, uh, whole food, uh, wholesale stores, right?
00:01:44 Kevin
And, uh, you know, today I got, I'm guessing his name is Chris.
00:01:49 Kevin
or Mike or Steve or, you know what I mean?
00:01:51 Kevin
Like, he just, he doesn't strike me as like an Evan or, you know, whatever.
00:01:57 Kevin
But, you know, and it's like, all right, you know, he just seemed like a regular Joe that like, kind of, you know, the greeter guy, right?
00:02:03 Kevin
And he's forced to talk to you, you know?
00:02:07 Kevin
And it's one of those like, but when you meet one of his coworkers, right?
00:02:13 Kevin
throw a hypothetical name out there.
00:02:14 Kevin
Let's say his name is Emerald, which I'm pretty sure there is one named Emerald, right?
00:02:19 Kevin
Super cool dude! And you remember his name because, like, who names their kid Emerald?
00:02:23 Kevin
And you can just imagine, like, right?
00:02:25 Kevin
Like, super laid-back, hippie-like guy, like, just Rastafarian hat on, but just, like, really old white dude with a beard.
00:02:36 Kevin
And you're just like, Yep, I definitely expected a Willie Nelson type of person out of this guy.
00:02:42 Kevin
And it's, you know, it's one of those, like, very memorable.
00:02:45 Kevin
I'm going to remember Emerald.
00:02:48 Kevin
I may never remember Chris.
00:02:49 Kevin
Just throwing that out there.
00:02:50 Kevin
So I don't know, guys.
00:02:51 Kevin
It's just food for thought.
00:02:53 Kevin
Just another day in the life.