#176 - How Famous Artists + Celebrities Got Their Names

is he in there, We'll get to it. Some of it's not even music people. For example, like Brie Larson. Her name is not Brie. Well, it's I'll tell you. Okay, I'm interested. Now I'll start with this one because, um, the Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots, which is Eddie and my band that was the never the name was never Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots. It was always

just the Raging Idiots. But first of all, the Raging Idiots was a my fake band name that I used when I was a teenager and I would go do bad stand up comedy and I would say, like, all right, the Raging Idiots are gonna play tonight when I'm done, and they would never show up, and so I would just pull out a guitar and play a couple of songs. That was always a running gag. And then when Ragings sort of playing shows Eddie and myself, I would always

open by doing stand up. So the market would always say Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots, and that's Eddie is now all the Raging Idiots. Oddly, it was almost because wherever we would go, they would want to associate your name to it, because if we just did the Raging Idiots, I don't think a lot of people would just put, oh, Bobby's part of this band. So they're just like, let's make it obvious that Bobby is here. Well, I wanted to be like Jacob Dillon, making them on

get Away from Bob a little bit. Jacob Dilan's the late singer of the Wallflowers and forever. He wouldn't say it was Bob Dylan's son. He wanted to make it on his own. I think the better comparisons like Tenacious D and Jack Black and not saying like Jack Black in today, just Jacob, Jacob. I'm trying to be Jacob it helps too. Now people just see the market and they're like, Bobby Moss coming all right, but do they say that? I think? So, here's this one. This is

Travis Scott. Don't you open up that wind though. Travis Goot said his name is from his uncle Travis and Kid Cutty, whose real name is Scott. So is he friends with Kid cutting his uncle Travis and Kid Cutty? So his name his real name is Scott MS Scutty And now he's Travis Scott. Yeah, I mean Travis Scotts is a normal dude name. I'm always suspect with like

the last names. That sounds like a first name. It's like, that's not really their last name of Scott, Michael Scott, Yeah, is that his real He's like, actually that's next in the list. No, Michael Scott's from from the offer? Yeah? Uh? Post Malone? What are you thinking about? Post Malone? Do you know this one now? Now? It always reminds me of Carl Malone? Does it reminds me? I used to put in posts like at post Diggers, we put in posts.

Oh when you're making a post like a fence, Yeah, that reminds me of post Malone's his fourteen yeared an alias so quote, I ran Austin post his real name through a random rap generator. He just did the website where it's rap generator and got post malone. That's interesting, So you won't have a rap generator. That's funny. That's actually like that. Cardi B O what's her is be part of her real name? She was born Bell Callus marlanis al mar Nazar. That's it. So that's what was

the first name, Bell Callus Callus. That's the B. She said. My sister's name is Hennessey, so everybody used to call me but Cardi, which is another alcoholic drink. Yes, since her sister was named Tennessee, she was Cardi, so Cardi B. And she said, also says the B stands for not just my first name, but beautiful or bully, depending on how she's feeling. Okay, yeah, no, I mean money. I

got a dance. I McMahon. What Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are so similar to me, sounding to the peloton a ride and now to the hip hop class And I guess I just know their songs for the most part, but they're very similar. They are very sim and super witty in their in their rhymes? Yes, but um, who was first? Right? A couple of years Cardi b was on the MTV show Right Isn't where she was found? Like? Uh was she on that? Oh yeah yeah, look it up. She was on like uh Catfish. No, I don't like

loving hip hop? I love New York or one of those shows I love and hip hop? Yeah, she was one of those, like random cast cast every real Brie Larson? Okay, I'm interested here. Have you seen that movie? I've seen The Avengers, yes, and I've seen Captain Marvel. That's what I'm talking about, Captain Marvel. She was born Brian the Saulineers, but no one could pronounce it, which I probably did neither.

So when she was nice, she changed her name and Larson was from her favorite American girl, doll Kirsten Larson. Do you know Bobby Bones? That's more of a thing than raging idiots? And know why I didn't start with that. Um, my real name is Bobby, but my real last name is not Bones, and I would have never picked Bones. I think it's a stupid name and I'm still embarrassed

about it. Sometimes it's your name, though somebody knew and I made him like, I I have to tell them I Bobby Bones because I feel like a pirate or a porn It's so stupid, but I um. It was given to me my program director, Kevin Cruz in Hot Springs, Arkansas, as a teenager, said Hey, you gotta go on the air, and you have to have a name, So you have

Bobby Z or Bobby Bones. And I thought Bobby Z sounded kind of like there was a wrestler named z man him and Brian pillman Us wrestled together, and then there was and I was like, by Bones, at least sounds like a person. I thought Bobby's he sounds like a medication or something. Out of the two. For sure, you go Bones. Yeah. It's weird though, And I think someone wrote this in an article about me once. For someone who prides themselves on authenticity, I use a fake name,

but I don't say it's my real name. Hide behind. And I couldn't shake it because everywhere I was connected to the last place. But when I was a little rock, I started doing um voice striking in Austin. Austin, I started syndicating the show around the country and then it was just a thing. But before then, weren't you Bobby the Barbarian? I was the Bobman I called like the Bartman in the Simpsons. Was the Bobman. And when I was a kid, I was Bobby the Barbarian and Kevin

cruising like Bobman. I didn't either. I'm glad I didn't stay Whoopi Goldberg. She was born Karen Elane Johnson. But she wanted a fun name, and she goes, if you get a little gassy, you just gotta let it go. So people say you're like a whoopie cushion, and that's where it came from. That's a fun named whoopee. I mean, that's really how everyone will. I mean, she stood out because her name was Whoopi Goldberg. That was a great move on her part. Yeah, and she was also super funny.

She was funny, good actress. Lord l O R D. Listen to this. This is Lord's name, Ella Maria Lanny yell like honor. Wow. Yeah, that's a lot. So she's what the opposite just did Lord? Yeah, I get that. She wanted a name that had grand grand deer to it with Lord. You know what Lord today is Billie Eilish Because when Lord came out. Lord was that kid who was making crazy music and everyone was like, oh, it was crazy. You know, Lord's a teenager. She acted weird.

And now Bill that's Billie Eilish now, which I listened to Bill alesh up all the time, and I feel kind of creepy because she's like seventeen. But she makes good music. It's good. I've only heard the one you've You've played, but I love it. It does remind me of her, of Lord. It was just the this thing being really young. But Lord way hasn't done a lot. Huh. He didn't put it at an album. It's like a

couple of years ago. Miley Cyrus not a real name the Miley Party now think it because she was Smiley and um yeah, constant smiling as a baby. So I think one of her siblings called her trying to call her Smiley but went on Miley. So Miley Cyrus. And she legally changed her name in two thousand eight from Destiny Hope to Miley Ray Destiny Hope. Destiny Hope was her name. Destiny Cyrus could have totally worked too. Yeah,

I mean she was a ray as well. M she's a Ray now, bright I mean Billy Ray, Destiny Ray. She was Destiny Hope. Oh okay, okay, okay, I got Miley Ray. Snoop Dogg Oh yes, I do know this one. Calvin Brotus that's it now said Any reason why they would call him Snoop Dogg. Well, Calvin is not very tough and at that point he needed to be that tough guy. He got it way before he was a gangster. Oh he did, and his family thought it looked like Snoopy.

That's terrible. I guess a little hunchbacks. They called him Snoop I hear it. That is yeah, that's um dang it out. His name is James Todd Smith. Ladies love, Ladies love what That's cool? J L L Right, his name is James Todd Smith. To do it, James Todd Smith, to L L cool j James. I don't know ladies love cool James, Oh cool James. That's j You know who this is? Yeah? He is? He does? Is he? That's pop stars man. Iggy was her dog's name, and a Zella was the street name that her family lived on.

And everyone knows that those two things are how you pick your porn name on the Internet and so she just picked it. She claims that Iggy came for people actually calling her by her pets name. But the porn name game is always what's your dog's name? And then what's the street? Because my name would be Dusty mountain View, which is what does the porn name? Totally does high Dusty Dusty mountain View minds second. For a few weeks now, I've been reminding you that Mother's Day is fast approaching.

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com slash bones Lady Gaga. She said her music producer Rob, who also was her boyfriend at the time, was the first to call her Gaga because her voice style reminded of the song Radio Gaga from Queen, which was that one radio Google Radio played you know that song, don't they played even in Bohemian Rapsy. So I still haven't seen that movie. Oh you haven't. You would like it? Yeah, you say I would because we're music nerds. You wouldn't like it because you're a music nerd, because you could

get mad. They skipped over a lot of stuff. But if you just sit back and watch the movie, I've heard they kind of like just make it look like it was an overnight success, just like, hey, we just met, We're going on the BBC, what we're playing a stadium and then they get into stuff. But as far as the movie goes, I think you would like it. Okay, how about this one here, let's do Black Eyed peas Um, let's see Black Taboo. So they chose it because it

was a name that was soulful like their music. I remember the Black at Peace before they even had Fergie. The Black at Peaces would do songs and bring people on. First of all, they beat themselves, but they had a song with Macy Gray called like um telephone, see if you can find that. It's like telephone or call me up or something. And then Fergie joined. Request line, Oh that's it, request line, Yeah, you were right around it.

And then Fergie joined the group and they blew up when Fergie joined the guy do you ever see that picture of Fergie like peanut pants on stage? It was like it was a viral thing where they say like, oh yeah, Fergi like and they showed the shot and it was like she Peter pants. But I was wondering if that was a really or not. Did she have to pee real bad or was she drunk or that was just the story was just that she had Pete on stage. Have you seen um La? Yeah? Oh my gosh,

it's terrible. That part's terrible. How awkward was it watching that? It just feel bad for him? There are cringeworthy things. I was watching the Office last night, and but I've seen a thousand times. Have you seen The Office? Um? Which which episode? The one where they're doing uh that

I cringe a lot? The Office, I know, but that's one where they're doing the play and the play is the guy who does the cutting hair and he chops at people my mind escaping me, but and he's on stage in itself and send my cellphone is going off the theater and it turns out it's his. Oh it's so cringeworthy. I just feel like every time Michael Scott opens his mouth, crue is worthy. So cringeworthy. Okay, bowling pursuit, Oh wow, old school, old school. I just think they

were so cool. I remember I had Jared's cell phone number, the lead singer, and I was like, this is the most famous because I'm ever gonna eat. Did they live in Texas? They lived in like Denton or Yeah? Yeah, it was hard to get his number. Is it like, hey, but he gave it to me? Really? Yeah? Are they

still a man? Yeah? Are they for They were inspired by Steve Martin's bowling for beat s h I t routine from his nineteen seventy nine comedy album Wild and Crazy Guy, and so bowling for Soup came from bowling first interesting bowling Eminem, I'm crescent and everything you beat me is not mcnapthine. That means there was nothing. What do you just talked about? I just talked about this one's so easy. But I don't think a lot of

people know Eminem. Why is eminem's Eminem? It's his favorite candy, obviously, think about it. Really, his name is Marshall Mathers, M and M. There it is Marshall Madden. There's two letters m Eminem spell it differently. It's spelled emin yang. That's simple. But I love that he didn't just do M and them. I guess he couldn't because it's probably a huge trademarket. Cops right on that meat Loaf. What's this dude's deal?

Tell him about meat loaf? The rocker got his name meat when he was just four days old because his skin was so red in. His dad said he looked like nine and a half pounds of ground chuck, And so they always call him meat, and then his Boblech was like, I think we're just gonna call you meat. Loaf. Loaf such a gross word. It is gross. Any loaf, like a loaf of bread is gross. Teer. I think he got he got bones. He was told what he was told, what his name was gonna be. You did

ask about Sting. He gained his nickname after his habit of wearing a black and yellow sweater with hood stripes. Cool like a bee, like a bee. He'd look like a b so they call him Stings. It's just something simple, like you look like a bee. I'm gonna call you Sting. That's like what people do with their friends. Spice girls, who you gonna do all of them? Because I think all of them are easy baby Spices like a baby

and she would suck on a pacifier. Jerry Halliwell said she come with the idea for the name Spice after an aerobics class. Jerry was ginger. Yes, and then girls because there was already a group named Spice, so they want with Spice girls. Spice already happened. What is Matt like? They were just humongous, This K pop group BTS. They're humongous. Yeah, crazy, Mike Diana were talking about it, and I don't get it, but I'm not supposed to get it. But what don't

you get? They sing in Korean, right, I don't know what they're saying. Well, I feel like I feel like this is a testament to where like there's much more than the United States, and this is blowing up in the United States. I know, but for the first time, because you know what, English speakers that don't speak Korean. I think it's cool because for the most time, for

the most part, they get what we give them. You know, it's like, oh, the American music or even like the British music gets big and then the whole world likes it. In this case, for the first time, we're listening to something we don't even understand and we're liking it. I'm

agreeing that it's it's cool. Yeah. Again, it's so rare that a song comes out that's not English that I can feel I need to hear it over and over, like desposse to But even then he's Bieber does in English, and even Makarina they started to put English words and then in English version too bad. So Halsey sings that part. But BTS is an acronym for bankton sonoed in I don't know. In English, it means bulletproof boy scouts. BTS when I see it means behind the scenes to some

people will do a hashtag BTS. I'm thinking the talk about the Korean group, but it's like behind the scenes. Oh, that's just another ways I got it, got it um so, But yeah, I don't. I don't know the words. And I had a friend who wrote that song. He wrote that a massive song, melodio to it and some of the lyrics. It's crazy. I didn't even know she wrote it. She did it randomly and they came back like you're on the song and you did this. She's like, that's

what that was. Yeah, it's crazy. She said, how long do you think they stay for a long time? You think so? And do you mean like boy bands? It's bad, but five years, three or four? Okay, that's that's a good life. And there are like other ones like Black Pink is a girl group. They k pop I think so. Yeah, So there's a lot of them. So K pop is like a pop genre, j pop the Japanese. Wouldn't you just make it now. Yeah, that's what it's called. J pop um. Obviously you have pee pop, Puerto Rican and

Philippino jo is it is a good thing. How about Nirvana? What do you think about that? Okay, I don't know because no idea where that would have come from. Kurt Cobain wanted a name that he wanted it to be beautiful or nice and pretty instead of mean, raunchy punk name like the Angry Samoans. And before they became Nirvana, they were known as skid Row, fecal Matter and Ted ed Fred skid Row. That's what it's already a name movie it was like in eighties band What about fecal Fred?

Was that? Ever? Nirvana was sued by a British and that's our next band. Nirvana was sued by a British psych pop pop rock band with the same name they had been active in the nineteen The two bands reached a settlement in court and the British Nirvana sees on the opportunity releasing a tongue in cheek psychedelic cover of Nirvana's hit Come As You Are. And that was a thing. I mean, I'm sure they were watching MTV and they're just like, yeah, let's just give up on to some

voice the US bigger lawyers richer. You are the bigger lawyers. You have The Cranberriers originally named the Cranberry Sauce. The rumor as they got the name from the last two lines of John Lennon Strawberry Fields, Strawberry Fields Forever. I don't know. I don't know what the last I think with the last time of um. There anybody in country music that's not that doesn't use their name. Yeah, you can explain to Thomas Rhette one. Oh, that's that's his

real first and middle name. Because the first time I heard it, his wife was just like, yeah, this is what I call him. And I'm like, why do you call him that? And they're like, that's because that's his real name. So Thomas Rhett that's what people call him as his first name. His real name is Thomas red Akins. His dad is red Akins um And so because of red Akins and the confusion there and also the ched Atkins and the Rodney Atkins, and they were like, we're

just gonna call you Thomas Rhett. Now that being said, nobody calls Thomas right Thomas because his name is Thomas Rhett. It'd be like Amanda, Joe, Peggy, anybody like that. So, I mean, I know Toms show a little bit. I just call him t r because that's what everybody calls him because he wants to say Tom's right his wife. That's how his wife calls him. But that's his first name to people, from Thomas Rhett, and so it's not

his first and last name. And if and if anyone's like, hey, have you seen Thomas, I'm like, oh, they must not know him, because if you know him, you know his name is actually Thomas Rhet. Who else Luke Brian is he is? He? Yeah, let's not luc And Dirk Spentley is not Dirk's Fred. And I wonder if they try to keep these under wraps and like just kind of like, let's see how long it goes before people nowadays, No,

back in the day you could have Lucas Thomas. Thomas was just a nickname, like more than a stage name. So anyway, I thought that'd be a fun little one to do today. That's fun. Thanks man. I learned more than I contributed, so thank you. Well that was all just to come in and learn. Ye good check out the Store Losers. Thank you, um, and that's gonna wrap up this episode. I think Jada Marcus Rascal Flats coming

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