Berner Phone - Berner Phone #90: Nickname Origin Stories

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

We're all trying to feel connected to those around us and nicknames are one of the most fun ways to do that. The dialers are sharing the origin story of their nicknames and Hannah shares some of her more traumatizing nicknames.

Hi, it's Hannah Burner and Des Bishop. Thanks for calling the burner phone. If you leave a message after the tone, we may have to make it into a podcast. Hi, little dialers. Guess who it is? It's mom and dad. And we're actually recording this on Mother's Day. Yes. Happy Mother's Day. To me and my little dialer, children, and butter. To the live ones in the dead, ones, yo. Shout out. Wow, you brought up death. Straight away. That was a record time. Straight away, man.

Record time. Well, come on, it's Mother's Day. It's Mother's Day. It's Mother's Day. You know what? I didn't think we should have done a Mother Rap. Yeah, that was disrespectful of us. I know. Maybe next week. I wasn't, I wasn't on top of the Mother's Day thing. I've never been on top of the Mother's Day thing because I was in Ireland for all those years. And Irish Mother's Day is in March. And then American Mother's Day's May. So on the Irish Mother's Day, you know, it wasn't Mother's Day, and then American Mother's Day, I wasn't aware

of it because I was in Ireland. Yeah. So anyway, here we are. I do have to say mom stories are the funniest. What would be the, like, what would be the prompt for a mom story? I would want funny stories about moms or like

the, or like most annoying habit of moms kind of thing. Right. So it's like making fun, like roasting moms. Yeah, but I also, it's funny because the world revolves around moms. Actually, here's a good question, which it's a question for myself as well as for you. What do you think as, as you've gotten older,

is the thing that you used to make fun of your mom for or even just be critical of your mom for that as you've gotten older, you've understood? Well, she was always nervous that, like, we were going to get kidnapped or die, and I was like, relax. And now I'm like, I get it. That's definitely one of mine

Like I remember Like I'd be 10 minutes late coming home And she'd be like I thought I thought something happened to you And I'm like what Like I got lost And I was talking to my friend

And I didn't tell you And like whatever But now when I think about me Possibly having a kid Like every second Like your Their life is your responsibility Yes

And then you let them go out And Brooklyn New York Walk into school And you're like Anything can happen Yeah definitely the lack of understanding that I had from my mother's anxiety. Yeah.

As I've gotten older, I've been like, oh, I get it. Yeah. Yeah. And then also just that moms are, they're just a girl. They're just figuring out life too, but they become like superheroes when they become moms. You know, one of my specials is called One Day You'll Understand. I didn't know that. Oh, yeah, yeah.

My Irish one that I recorded in like 2017, 2016, 2016. It's called One Day You'll Understand. that kind of the theme in mind of like getting older and figuring stuff out? I've been recently my comedy exploring why certain jobs are male dominated or female dominated and I was thinking about comedians and how comics, why there aren't more female comics and there's a lot of reasons just because it's not always welcoming environment or safe environment. However, women are just, we're observant. We're we love to gossip. We love to critique

those were empathetic those are all things that make a good comedian and then I was thinking about how like you never go over to a friend's house and be like the dad was really funny like it's always the mom that's hilarious I feel like there's so many situations

especially like I feel like Italian and Jewish moms I mean a lot of cultures the mom is just and I think it's because maybe she's involved in everything but like They're hilarious. There's a reason why dad jokes are called dad jokes. I get it.

But I'm going to say that if you were to look at the data, this isn't going to hold up. It's just not going to. No, I mean, look, I'm speaking. I think it's a crazy statement. I'm speaking from a household where my dad was a comedian. Like, my dad's hilarious. But I'm saying, in general, let's not compare moms and dads, but some moms are fucking hilarious.

Like, from what I know, like, your mom was fucking hilarious. Yeah, well, both my parents were funny. But, you know, my mother could be quite cutting. Some of the things that were hilarious about my mother are hilarious in hindsight. They were difficult. It's hilarious to other people. They were difficult at the time. It's like, well, that was excruciating at the time, but it's hilarious to think back now about how.

Do you know that? I told you the story about the Christmas trees, right? No. I never told you. So I feel like I told the story. So my mother had this thing where she wouldn't get a Christmas treat until Christmas Eve because her dad said that that's when you're supposed to get a Christmas tree

but her dad was just cheap and it's a cheap way to get a Christmas tree because you don't enjoy it. No, because they're throwing them out tomorrow. Exactly. So you only have it in your house for like a second. For a day, yeah. And of course she blamed the Italian. She was like Italians get it early.

We don't get it early. She was like, the Italians have put a Christmas tree up in August if they had a chance. Where's the lie? She got very annoyed when people would put it up right after Thanksgiving. So anyway, so for numerous Christmases in our early years, going out to get a Christmas tree was so stressful because my mother would haggle to the, it was excruciating.

So she'd be like, come on, let's go. I was like, Ma. Like, you know, she was like, no, they're throwing it out tomorrow at Desmond. She'd be like, just follow, just go. And we'd have to follow her. And then the guy would be like, please come back, please, okay, okay, please. You know what I mean? Like, it was torture.

But now I think it's hilarious. But at the time, I was like, my, you're saving like five bucks. So honestly, I'm not kidding. My mother's mission in those early years, it was the 80s, was to get a Christmas tree for $5. She wouldn't pay more than $5. So when she would get it, was she, like, happy? Oh, yeah, it was happy. And then we'd go back and we'd, you know, we'd decorate it.

And I was happy that it was over. I was like, Santa's literally on the way. Can we get this thing up, please? I was also joking about how I feel like it makes more sense for more women to be news anchors because I was joking that like moms know the news before it happens. They're texting you about some, you know, lettuce disease going on that you're going to die of or something or that this happened with so-and-so. They know every single person's, you know, life, what's going on who had a biopsy.

What? You're kidding. That's what my brother and I always made fun of my mother. Because, you know, back in the day, she'd be on the phone. On the phone. Twirling the wire. And then, like, it'd be quiet. And then she'd be like, what? You're kidding!

You're like roar it across the whole house. I mean, my nana wakes up in the morning and has her, like, five phone calls with the five people that she loves to talk to. So she's on the phone all day, even though nothing happened from the previous day when you were on the phone with them. But that's what you do. But speaking of family, I feel like the top. this week makes sense. It's about nicknames. Yeah, so somebody on the Spotify comments. People are making fun of me in the Spotify comments. Yeah, because you're addicted to them. It's creepy. No, excuse me, it's, it's feedback for that. I mean, it's driving episodes. What are they saying?

No, so somebody in the, well, just somebody was like, Des's obsession with the Spotify comments. Getting out of hand. So, but this, this prompt came from the Spotify comments. Did you mention something about nicknames? I was talking about my nickname on Gigley Squad, one of my nicknames. Oh, that Because I was like, I don't remember we talked about nicknames. So somebody in the Spotify comment said, Hannah talking about nicknames, that's a good prompt idea. Yeah. So that's where it came from.

I think nicknames, first of all, it's a... There's a real spectrum of cruelty to funniness. I was going to say, like, there's the bullying nicknames to like... But some of them stick and then you grow to love it. Yes. And but it also, it reminds you of community and family. But then also it could just be like, you know, kids that are mean to you at school. And we all have a range.

My, I don't know if it is a nickname, but this kid in school, when I was little, called me elf ears. Because my head didn't grow into my ears yet, and my ears, like, point out a little. Right. And I'd wear my hair, like, half up. So I looked like Legalus from Game of, not Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings. Same thing, if you're just a girl. And that stuck with me for a little too long. Legulus?

No, just the thought of it though It didn't like become a thing Keebler would have been a good nickname for you Fun, cute I'm glad I wasn't in school with you It's got to be a step away No, I know, it wasn't really a nickname It just called me that

But my nickname started when I went to the tennis academy When I was 14 And they called me Quadzilla Oh, because you had big quads Because I had big quads Like my kneecap would get hidden From like the muscle coming over my knee And quadzilla definitely

I didn't feel sexy with it, but it was fun. And then in college, my freshman year, one of, like, the freshman hockey guys, like, was, like, following me around at the bar at some point, and I, like, wasn't that into him, and he was, like, calling me burn dog, and then the rest of the hockey team started calling me burn dog. Again, not a cute name. No, too fratty. That's such an American.

I thought it was funny to be, like, burn dog, burn dog. And I was like, I really don't, I don't love that. that stuck a bit I have a yeah burn dog actually did stick burner in general was a really good name and I was called burner

a lot in sports but then my brother came to Wisconsin and he was burner also so it started to get a little confusing you're still in my phone as burn B-E-R-N

I know I tried to text myself yesterday from your phone I couldn't find myself yeah but the funny thing is that there's a heart on it which you put on I don't even know how to do that you're the one

they put the heart emoji on it you know the one with the arrow through it yeah yeah so you didn't change it when you found it the first time. I think I thought it was cute. Yes, it still remains burned. I thought it was cute.

And then I, when I was captain of the tennis team, my senior year, I brought her upon myself. This was like the one thing, because we didn't do hazing, we didn't do any of that. It was like the one thing that I could do where I would name all the girls, their nicknames. So there was Lauren Chappiah called her chips. there was like a bunch of other ones but I remember I couldn't there was this girl Lauren

Burritch and I couldn't think so I just called her Burr like Burr like it's cold and there was a song that was out like Burr I don't know it was like a rap song so Burr stuck her entire college career even though when she came

in as a freshman I go you're Burr like I just couldn't think of one and it stuck forever Burr is actually a common Irish name because, like, they shorten Bernice, and they shorten, there's another Burr name, a male name. So I actually was friends with a guy called Burr. Burr stuck. Now I'm, like, spacing out, but I gave everyone nicknames that I think stuck for a long time.

And I did not put a lot of effort into it. I just, whatever made me laugh immediately. Yeah. And I was just like, on the boss, this is what we call you now. It's kind of like if you become, like, a stripper, you get a stripper name. That was what it was. Yeah. What's your stripper name?

there's all these rules like the well that was like your porn you grew up on yeah your porn name I feel like it was tricksy Trixie That was my first cat's name Yeah who was a stripper I don't know what my

My stripper name is What was your Well Des is a nickname Which is kind of interesting Is it a nickname or is it just shortened Is that actually a nickname when you shorten your name Good question Do you have

Do you feel like When you were with a woman in your life She should call you Desmond I didn't think, you know, I just, when I grew up in America, I was Desmond, and then I moved to Ireland, I became Des. That's it. Did you have a preference? Not really. I mean, I never loved Desmond when I was younger, and it wouldn't bother me now, but when people call me Desmond, it feels weird. Formal? Yeah, but even though when I'm on, you know, doing contracts and things, I, like, anything formal, I write Desmond without thought.

When people call me Desmond, I think it's weird. But the first, like, bad nickname I had, which didn't stick. thank God, was for a while in St. Kevin's, my kids from grammar school, my friends from grammar school were calling me Blue Moon. Because embarrassingly, because we used to hang out in my house a lot. My mother used to like having the kids over the house. So my house became like one of the spots. And for some reason, they went through my underwear drawer, just jokingly. But I guess, I don't know, from like jeans I was wearing or something, there was like blue dye on the bottom of like my Haynes underwear. And they thought it was hilarious to call me blue moon like my like like i had skid marks that were blue and that stood for a while but they didn't

tell me for ages why so that was kind of annoying but the the main nickname i had which still if i meet people from boarding school in ireland they still call me that is yank which is like not great but i didn't really mind it because when i moved to ireland i thought it was so strange that they still used the word yank i i didn't know that that was a thing yeah you know that like yankee still existed after the Civil War. Yeah. So, and it was, they didn't just call me Yank. They called me the Yank.

Yeah. But here's the fucked up thing about it. The teachers called me that too. Oh. Like, and still to this day, when I meet teachers, they, they call me Yank. That's so interesting. Yeah. And it's like, it's, so, but anyway, I got a little bit.

Were you the only American in this, in that, in St. Peters, yeah. In Black Rock College, my nickname was Bish. It wasn't Yank. Bish. They're more cultured. They shortened. Bishop to Bish, which is also John Bishop's nickname Bish. But in St. Peter's, they call me Yank.

There's two teachers. I won't name one because she got annoyed at me for talking about her before. But in my opening special DVD, as we said back in those days, so we used to get the strap in St. Peter's, like a leather welt. We used to get hit on the hands as punishment. Would it leave like a mark? It would leave a mark across your hands. do it like really hard yeah it was really sore like i had corporal punishment when i first moved to ireland

that's insane it's insane yeah so i wouldn't even name him again because he's very annoyed at me but i did name him in my DVD our dean of discipline uh you did full names gave me gave me the strap a lot um and uh so he would always say to me uh he called me a stupid loud melt yank he'd say yank you're a stupid Will you ever be quiet? You're a stupid loudmouthed American. One of these days, that mouth is going to get you in trouble. Yeah, I'm going to talk about you in my next DVD. I opened my special with that.

And he said his full name. Fucking damn right. Father Butler. Fuck him. Jim Butler. But I mean, he hit us. What are you going to do? Like, you know, you can I fucking hit us?

You know, sue me because you fucking hit us. So the argument was that it was legal after 4 o'clock. they were responsible for our well-being. So you're no longer like a student there, like you're a guardians because you're in boarding school. That's crazy. Yeah. So I opened my special.

A little bit of spite. You shouldn't, as you know, because I'm now very against. Yes. Like any, like vengeance posts or spite, you know, wouldn't give them the satisfaction. You got to have all the fun and now I have to be Miss Peace offering. But I did open my first special with spite. Yeah. And, but, you know, he, listen, he wasn't the worst guy.

I'm still, I'm still not over Blue Moon because it sounds like you went on an ayahuasca trip. That's what they call to you. I also, you ever, I guess because I'm a girl and I was dating, I was dating guys back in the day. Sometimes you date a guy that everyone calls something, but you're like, I'm not calling my boyfriend, like, by his last name. Yeah. Or like by whatever bro thing you guys are doing. Like, I'm calling him by his first. But then everyone's hanging and I'd say his first name and they'd be like, who?

And I'm like, my boyfriend. They're like, oh, you mean so and so? So it's like, it's interesting how different people in your life call you different things. So have you ever had a situation where you've only known somebody by their nickname and never known them? So I have a good friend. Actually, the guy who recommended the contractor who did the work outside, his nickname is Digger. Yeah. And I've only known him as Digger.

And I've known him for years now. He's like a good friend. Yes. Text me on my birthday. Yes. And he, one day we're at the, oh, we're at the, after golf, I'm looking at like the list of people that are playing in like a competition. And I see a guy that's playing with us.

And I'm like, who's Michael Coswellsky? And he goes, that's me. I was like, that's your name? By the way, that's not his real name. I've made it up because, not because I'm trying to protect him. Because I can't fucking remember his fucking name. is he still just tickets? Mike was now seen.

That's from a Disney movie. No, but it's a bit Polish his name. I actually have a, I was doing a joke about male and female friendships and like how girls are so picky on their bachelorette. Like if you're supposed to wear polka dots and someone shows up in striped, it's like, we can't trust Jessica ever again.

Where men will like invite guys on their bachelor party that they don't even know what their full name is. And they'll be like, it's Mookie. And you're like, what's, you know what's, and I'm like, didn't he look? like cheat on your sister or something like after two beers like mukie's the best like they're just such a different relationship i love how men are always dumb in your routines no they're not dumb they have like i i get jealous like two men will sit next to each other who don't know each other

at my show and by the end they're best fucking friends like it's great like men just have a simplicity i would say right a calmness to their brain i would say yeah so let's um let's let's get into the There's so many. I don't even know where to go, you know. But this one I like. Hey, Hannah, hey does. Love the pod. Love giggly squad.

Goose enough. Mama's recording. Sorry, my dog saw the mailman. But this prompt made me think of the time I nicknamed my stepdad. My mom introduced us when I was 12 or 13. He had really white hair. So I called him Q. and he kept asking me why I was calling him Q.

His name is Glenn, and I said, you look like a Q-tip. Him and my mom thought it was hilarious, so it kind of stuck within the family. And then when we saw Glenn's friends, I would call him Q, so then his friends started calling him Q. So he went by Q for the rest of his life, really. He unfortunately passed away in 2016, but he is still known as Q. And when I actually left the hospital, I looked down and saw a Q-tip right after he passed away. Actually, halfway through that message, I was like, oh, yeah, this is the one where the guy dies at the end now. More death.

Sorry. That's a great one. That's a great one. That's so good. Because he liked it. Yeah. And Q is a nice nickname because it's like James Bond. Also, it kind of feels like when you set your friends up and then for the rest of your life, you're like, yeah, that's because of me.

like the fact that you enhanced his like identity and how people see him in a fun way is like so sweet yeah i thought she was going to be like my fucking stepdad i never called him by his name i'll never call you dad i'll call you cute tip but um i love those stories though at the end where like you see a bird and she loved birds yes i love cute tip on the ground it's like that's so fucking sweet so let's uh i thought of one other thing about me okay go to make this about me again um there's literally like i could count on one hand how many people call me hand and they're always for some reason just like the people i'm closest closest to like no one even tries to call me hand and then one day like like you started calling me hand oh really yeah you'll call me hand no i call you hand all the time

yeah but no one else calls me it except for like people i've been like very very close to in my life oh yeah hand is you got to shorten everyone's got to shorten it you know my mom's lenore she said people used to call her lenny oh yeah i don't like when it becomes like a guy's name well that's like like francis people call him fran sometimes and i'm like okay now we're just changing agendas fran yeah although there is an irish comedy movie that Stephen Mullen is in. That's out at the moment called Fran the Man. Oh, cool.

So Frank can go both ways. Shout out Steve. I have this listed as Butthole Girl, so I'm intrigued. Hey guys. I love you both. My nickname story is not one of my favorites, but my boyfriend is long distance. At one time I called him, and he answered on speaker in the car. And I did not realize he was with.

bunches friends and I called them to tell them about how I had hemorrhoids after shitting and that my butthole hurts and now to this day all his friends call me a butthole girl so that's my nickname she sounds depressed that's a guy that's so guy no a good nickname there would have been like oh she said she had hemorrhoids preparation h and then so they should call her H. Yeah. And then it's like creative. You got to have a couple layers to it.

Yeah, a couple layers. Like, why do they call you H? It's like, well, you're not going to believe this. Hemdog. I had hemorrhoids. Hemdog. Yeah. The dog thing's very like American.

I know very American. But it, yeah, that's again, there's two different kinds of nicknames, the ones where it's literally like making fun of someone so they never forget something embarrassing or something that's so like, I love you so much that I want to come up with a special name for you. that one though let's can we discuss speakerphone in relationships well it just in general i mean aden has a routine about it like we've talked about it before on the pot i think like it's it's you have to let people know they're on speakerphone you have to um have them consent to being on

a hundred percent 100 percent that's like one of those subway takes yeah like you know he always goes 100 percent like that should be a subway take like it should be a crime to not let somebody know they're on speaker phone. That's a really good one. Like a human right. You should submit that one. It's a human right. Well, I think sometimes people... I'm submitting pineapple and pizza. People subconsciously want to be like, hey, look at, like how sweet my man is talking on the phone with me. But you never know what's going to happen on the phone. You never know, man. What they're talking about. No, especially because they can talk about the people that are in the car? 100%. Like, we still have to go to that fucking asshole's party? It always sounds awkward when you're like,

by the way, I'm on speaker. And that's when you have to make a joke. Like, by the way, don't talk shit about my mom. We're on speaker. Well, Aiden will always make her. So if you say Aiden I'm on speaker, then Aiden will always be like, oh, I won't tell it that we got the prostitutes coming tomorrow and 9 o'clock. You know, like, Aiden will always have to make like that kind of a joke. It's just when you have to say we're on speaker, it makes you feel guilty in front of everyone else for some reason, like you were about to, like, trash talk down.

Yeah. Like, suddenly there's like a cop behind you and you feel like you've done something wrong. Yeah, but I am a huge, I love speakerphone. I don't know why. You love it. Yeah, too much. I don't like putting the, holding the phone up. And you're guilty. You don't let people know they're on speaker a lot. Sometimes, yeah, I'm guilty.

Like, we'll be talking and then suddenly your mom will chime in. I'll be like, oh, shit. You know? I know. But sometimes, like, the mom's in the room. She's out of the room. Like, she's not really part of the conversation. But there's just no need to be on speaker.

Yeah. I know. I don't. But I guess, I guess I'm just from a generation where, you know, speaker just, honestly, I remember speaker phones coming into, like, speaker phones were, like, in the office. And then suddenly it's like, we have speakerphone at home. No, you're 100% right, but sometimes putting the phone up to my face, I feel like I get acne.

What? If you, your phone is dirty and you're putting up to your... Okay, RFK Jr. with the fucking phone close to your head, misinformation. I brought up... I was talking shit about Bluetooth to a podcast this week, and he was like, be careful what you're going to say. Yeah, exactly. I was like, I believe in science. This is a science-backed pod.

So my best friend, I feel like I have a couple of names for her, my best friend Becca. So I call her Beckles, Becklstein, Beckle Steiner, Bex. Yeah, Bex is good. I call her Bex a lot. The Beckham was Bex. There is something fun about like you're the only one that calls them that, you know? Like there is one where it sticks, but like with us, she's Bex to me. She calls me Byrne.

Yeah, I mean, I think Byrne's good. This is, I don't know what this is. is. And you gotta let it burn. All right. So my name is Kimberly. And in high school, when I met my group of friends that ended up being some of my lifelong friends, they, one of them in that group asked me when I first met them, oh, your name's Kimberly. Do you go by Kim or Burley? So essentially, they started calling me burly which then inevitably turned into burlap sack

people called me burlap sack that's a funny one I love that this first of all it's hilarious to be like do you go by Kim or Burley? Yeah well Burley what? First of all Kimberly's the most beautiful name ever and Kim is obviously

feminine cute and then Burley is literally the opposite of that Is Kim Disorbo, Kimberly? Yeah. Oh, she is? Yeah. But then to go, to turn into burly sack or whatever it is, I love that they're just...

That's a stretch. No, but I love that they're leaning into... Burlap sack. Be like, do you want burlap sack to meet us a brunch? That's hilarious. It is. That's a fun one. That's very fun one.

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Hey, Hannah and Des. My name is Hannah, too. My family calls me poopie Hannah because I took a shit in the woods like one time. and came back and told them about it. And now they make fun of me all the time. I'm in everyone's phone as poopie Hannah.

And my brother makes cartoons about poopie Hannah. And they even told my husband about poopie Hannah. So, yeah, that's me. Poopie Hannah. Thanks so much. Love the show. I mean, it's kind of cute. I feel bad because I'm going to ask to pooper.

I think because I pooped. much there's not like one event that like really stuck to people and I feel like she's been just a good old citizen I mean and what also you're I mean if you're poopie Hannah I if you're poopie hannah I mean I I can't count I can't count the amount of times I've pooped outside I when I first started dating des I was on the phone with him and he's like I have to shit myself I'm going to pull over the car exit 68 I did it on on what you might call it he signed the Declaration of Independence what the hell is the name of that Smith what's that

John Smith No exit 68 I'm just having a blank on the I'm having a blank on the name I don't think people care about the detail No I know it's just like one of those Because it came up in a table quiz Who is a signer of the declaration

Jack right no from Suffolk County Oh And he has a nomrade after him And I And there's a beach named after him too And anyway it doesn't matter Really like actually really doesn't matter I know it's just one of those things

That it's like annoying me now because it was anyways I got off at exit 68 and I pulled off the side I mean I listen I want to get too graphic but I've pooped at the side of the LIE I literally pulled over the side of the LIA

and went into the trees I've had so many emergency poops and other members of my family too like long jogging you just sometimes you got to do it so the fact that they held on to poopie Hannah is insane also not not creative yeah but it's cute though

that's the thing it's cute it did remind me of like how we nickname our pets and how like I want to get like a pet psychic to be like she really hates when you call her poopersene because I love Cooperstein is a good nickname I love calling butter for some reason I call I'm like hi poops

hi poop we had hi pooh oh yeah you like poop I love poop I just call them poop for no reason it's not like they had a specific but I remember I wonder if butter is like it's not Smith it's William Floyd it's fucking William Floyd the William Floyd Parkway

God it was driving me in same. Anyway. Wow, everyone feels better now. Everyone can move on with their day. Thank you. Thank you for that. Can we jump out of the nickname for a sec? Because there's something that came up that I think is worth talking about.

Yeah. Wait, can you hear the birds in the background? I just need to thank you for this. App suggestion, the Merlin Bird app. If you can hear, I have lots of birds. My mom's 200 miles away. She has lots of birds. We hear them while talking on the phone.

And now we compete to see who can get the most birds. And we some pictures. And today, she's like, what's that bird I hear? And I look at the Merlin app, do the little recording. It's a summer tan something. I don't know. My name is summer. I'm like, oh, the bird's named after me.

That's the loudest one we're at this time of day. I love this app. It's the best app ever. Thank you, guys. We love an update. I love you both so much. Bye. We love an update.

And perfect message for Mother's Day. Yeah, great mother-daughter bonding there. And not to brag, but we used the app this morning. We used it this morning. What was it? It was a song sparrow. What do we have this morning? We had a song sparrow, and we had

I know there's a way to look at your... You know, I feel like Aiden has... Aidan does have a bit about this, but how the National Geographic guy, David Attenborough, I was like, oh, the birds are flying along the water where if it was in your accent, it would be hilarious. Well, Aidan has a bit about the Discovery Channel. Yeah, yeah.

He goes, well, it's Shark Week. Shark Week. He goes, hey, it's Shark Week. Today we're going to talk about the Great White Shark Nation. ferocious predator. See that fish over there? He's fucked. Because he basically says that this isn't the most intelligent accent.

Anyway, we love the Merlin app. We like feedback. Aiden, your brother, I grew up with a neighbor called Aden. Irish family. And they had the youngest brother, like you guys,

with Aiden, but they used to call him AIDS. And I was like, is that the best nickname? Hold that thought, because I was holding on to that. So my name is Aiden, power girl, quite confusing. Boys, I forgot, but we moved. My dad was ahead of the game back in whatever year is more than 995. And at my hometown in Scotland, people would call me AIDS, which I never thought much of.

I just was accepted that it was short of Aiden. And then I went down to university in Edinburgh, and there was an entire lecture room on the first day, filled with all the primary education students and peace chins. there was literally hundreds of people in that room and a boy I knew from home walked past at the back of the lecture room I was trying to call my attention

and showed AIDS across the lecture hall and I turned around to respond to the name our reflection probably shouldn't do that I mean I know we're moving forward with everything here but it wasn't a very enjoyable thing to turn around to the time but that was my first day wait can you translate what you said well the important part is that as a kid she was called AIDS her name is Aiden even though she's a girl

and she's Scottish yeah and so she was at university and she's also kidnapped right now if you can't yeah she was kind of whispering into the phone an American struggle with the Scottish accent at the best of time and the funny thing is that she has quite like an educate like a nice Scottish accent like a gentle yeah like a posh gentle Scottish accent yeah that was the like but she was kind of like whispering into the phone so she was saying she is I love when people are in hiding when they send it so she was at Did you get that bit that she was in college? Yes. Because they say university, yeah.

And then in a lecture, in a big class, like hundreds of kids, somebody she knew from home shouted at her AIDS. And she looked, which she shouldn't have, in front of all those people, it was quite embarrassing. Yep. So. I look for you turned Scottish while you're... Yeah, so anyway, so we used to call Aiden Aids,

but in fairness, we stopped calling Aiden Aids when AIDS became like a real, you know, epidemic. Oh, you guys were pre-AIDS. Oh, my God. He was first. He was the first AIDS. Obviously, AIDS was around, like, Aidan's born in 1980.

Yeah. But, like, AIDS really became a thing, like, in the mid-80s. Yeah. And the more, like, AIDS became, like, an epidemic. We stopped calling Aiden Aiden Aids. Yeah. But we did, my dad used to call Aden 88-Aid. What?

88-Aid. Yeah, 88-Aid. You know what my little 80-8-Aid? I love Aido. But that, that, That came from Ireland. Oh, okay. So that was like, Aiden moved to Ireland,

and Irish people like to put an O at the end of things, particularly Dublin people. So once he started being friends with, like, Dublin guys, they were like, all right, I know, what's the story? Do they put an A for a woman? For a woman, let me think of, I'm trying to think of, I'm trying to think of a, like a, what do they call Shavon?

No, they don't shorten Chavon. But some people, I guess, say Shiv. Shiv, yeah, yeah. But Shiven in succession is short for Chavon. Yes. So I don't know how they shorten women's names, actually. The O is definitely more for men, but obviously you're thinking in terms of Spanish. Yeah, I know.

But there's no masculine feminine. It was the Larry Baldwin, the cucumber. Yeah. Cucumber. How do you say? Oh, yeah. anyway so but it was funny not to call out your family but Aiden's been shortened down to yeah Ado yes but then you call one of your brothers Michael John well no because his name is

Michael John I know but how has that not been shorted no we call him Mike as well you call him but just sometimes it just depends on that situation you say Michael John a lot yeah because that's what we grew up calling him Michael John because you know he's the thing is that he's named after my dad's uncle yeah Michael John yeah you know and there was so many Michaels in middle that he was Michael John, you know? You could have just called him John. I know, but my dad wanted to name him after, you know, my dad's name is Michael, too. I know but I'm saying shortening it.

It could have been shortened to John. Yeah, but if everyone was Michael, which, by the way, everyone in my family's Michael too, which is a very Italian Irish crossover. Yeah, I mean, everyone's John and Michael. When I'm with him, I call him Mike, but when I'm talking about him, I call him Michael John. That is so true. Yeah. You never call him Mike to me when you're talking.

But it is funny. Both our families are full of mics. and Johns, and then there's Michael John who's in between. Yeah, and also I have a cousin name John Everett, and I always call them John Everett. Yeah, you do like a full name, for sure. Yeah. Or John Patrick,

my cousin, John Patrick. Yeah. But in Ireland, they shorten John Patrick to JP a lot and Patrick Joseph to PJ. Some of the best, yes. I do love a DJ, PJ kind of thing. Best friend, PJ. Although, the funny thing about PJ is he doesn't go by MJ. Now, PJ doesn't go by PJ anymore. Just you call him PJ? Yeah, but I still call him PJ. I can't call him Paul.

It's just like weird to me. But when I'm around like people at his work, they think it's funny that I call him PJ. The work thing is funny. Yeah, my brother, my brother's Daniel. My dad is Dan to work people and Danny to my mom. Right. And then something happened where someone called my brother Dan recently and I was like, who the fuck are you talking about? And he was like, Dan, your brother. And I was like, That's not his name. That's my dad. I go, he's making you call him, Dan. He's trying to be a grown-up.

That's adorable. Sometimes I call my brother Miho, but that's just like kind of joking around. Yeah. Well, I used to call my- My nickname for Daniel was dental, just because when I was little. You say his name so much, like, down, down, down, like, down. I don't say Daniel. So then you're just down.

Well, for a while, I have a buddy called Joe Lane, good buddy of mine. I saw him recently. So many people are getting exposed on this podcast. today. No, but when Aiden, when Aiden was really small he used to call him Jophis. So we call him Jophis for a while. So,

anyway. That is funny. I don't think Jolene listens to the pop, but he won't, he won't mind to mention. Shout out to Jolene. I mean, we have so many, but just because this is Peruvian. Hi, Hernandez. This isn't really how my nickname was originated. It's mostly a question.

So my name is Maria Garcia. And he, here in Peru, my nickname is MAGA, which is short for that. But the thing is that I'm moving to the U.S. for college in a couple of months, so I really, like, I'm really scared that people are going to think that MAGA has something to do with Trump, which it absolutely doesn't. I actually hate him, so I don't want people to think that. So I don't know if I should change my nickname. I also don't want to, like, explain to people, like, that doesn't mean that.

but I also don't think that people first of all I don't think people are going to be able to pronounce Mariazia but I don't know maybe I should get a different nickname I don't know I've overthink I've over thought about that so much anyways I love you guys hope you listen to this

oh my God I mean we love it we love an international do you know that somebody somebody messaged in I didn't put it in but somebody messaged in saying hi I'm from somewhere she said like I can't remember where it's a foreign country it said one more sentence in them was like, I'm really not.

I'm American, but Des seems to like ficking foreign people. No, Des really loves to be like, this is an international pod, which it is. Which it is. Well, first of all, first of all, this is hilarious. It's great that she's aware of what's going on in the States, because she doesn't want to, you know, be

part of any controversies. Yeah, but listen, you're coming to the States to study, you know, they're sending kids away. So I think maybe it's a smart move to keep your nickname as MAGA. Yeah. Because if they, if they, if they, if they come up to you and they're like, why are you protesting? You'd be like, hey, my nickname's MAGA. I just want to see what these fucking liberals are talking about.

Was what she says it. Maya, Maya. Yeah. Mara. Mara. You know, I think... By the way, you are 100% of correct that everybody is going to struggle with the pronunciation of your name. People will. However, then this are two ways.

Do you educate? Do you have to teach everyone and say this is how you say it? The teaching moment? Or do you say, fuck it? I'm changing my name. Susie. Or Mary. Mary's a bit closer, right? Mary. Magdalene. Mary Magdalene. But it is funny. Some people, you know, you're very connected to your name and you shouldn't

have to change your name just because you're in a different place, but also you don't have to deal with all the BS of, you know, just vocal people not being able to use their tongue in the right way to pronounce the name. Yeah, because it's hard and you have like a very, you know, you have like a, actually, I feel like, do the Peruvian? even people sound a bit more like people from Spain because I felt like she had a bit of the the th-th-th-th-th-th-th-but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe, maybe. Anyway, it's not my.

But it sounds, I'd rather hear her say her name beautifully than have someone be like, hey, Maga. Just because I love Dora the Explorer. Hi, Hannah. Hi, so an interesting nickname that I call my husband is Magellan or like Dora, the Miss Explorer,

because he literally can never find a singular thing, even like if it's right in front of his face or if he's holding it, like, can't find it. So that was funny. So Magellan. That's cute. Dora, then Miss Explorer. I know.

Daddy can never find anything. It's really sad. Okay, love you guys. Bye. I love her getting the kid in on it. Because he's always explored. She can't find anything ever when you need anything. That was cute.

I see, I love that. I love an inside joke. And you know what that is? That's intimacy. Yeah, Magellan is better than the door or the whatever. You know what it is. It's a bit. And if you read how to giggle, we talk about how important bits are in everyday life to find joy.

This is a good nickname. I need to know the story of why. I literally thought when I saw this prompt that I wasn't going to have anything to say. And now this is my third time recording something. in high school so my maiden name is provost and in high school freshman year this a senior boy decided to dub my nickname provolone and he would yell it from down the hallway like provalone um and then that progressed you know this stuff for a while and then it progressed to um in my junior year being called pro v1 after the

golf ball. A lot of boys I hung out with golfed. So, yeah, third prompts, charm, you know, love it. I'm a nickname gal. I do have to say, I love provolone. A boy yelling a nickname across the hall, that is one thing for sure he has a crush on you. Yeah. And sometimes it's an ugly nickname, but you know, moms would be like, if he's mean to you, he likes you. If he comes up with a nickname for you, he's obsessed with you, but doesn't know what to do. But I think Provoone's a good nickname. It's hilarious. You're going to have a nickname like Provalone's fine.

That's hilarious. But in Ireland, they would have showed it to Provo, but that's problematic because that's a nickname for the provisional IRA. Oh, yeah. I do think we need to normalize nicknames in the workplace. I feel like it's very bonding because teams, if you look at any sports team, it's all nicknames. And it really is a bonding thing. Yes. But at work, it's like so formal and annoying.

And I think if everyone had a funny nickname, it would bring some joy to the Zoom call. Do you know what Mark Viantos's nickname is for the New York Mets? What? Swaggy V. Swaggy V. Well, yeah, a lot of, we're watching the Mets, a lot of the Mets players, and it makes them more personable and connected. There's a, I love when there's, like, a little story or anecdote, but it is embarrassing when, like, you know someone's name and everyone's calling them something else, and you're like, when do I get the privilege to call them that name? Yeah, when are you in on that? How do you get in it?

Because you don't just start calling someone provolone. Yeah. Unless if she introduced herself as provolone Which I don't think you should do I don't, hot take, I don't like when people are like Hey, you know, my name is spicy meatball It's like, no, you need someone else to call you that Even if someone has, you can't, it's a natural thing

You can't force people to call you that funny nickname That's the point of the nickname Is that it was given to you Yeah, not everybody And then, oh yeah, there was a girl name On my tennis team, Nasty and we called her nasty obviously. Nasty was the best

fucking name. Oh my God. And I love when they loved it and we'd start yelling it and stuff. Oh, that was fun. Well, when you're in on the nasty then it's good. Do you know what's crazy? What? Last week I go to the New York Public Library

there was like a dinner that I posted about recently. Hannah trying to make it seem like she's reading. You were going to meet Anna. I went to The New York Times best-selling author, so let's not poke fun. But I get there, and they're like, yeah, the dinner's at the New York Public Library, and I'm like, I don't know what that means.

And I get dropped off, and it's like the huge, beautiful New York Public Library, the lions outside. And I'm kind of standing there. I don't know where to go. And I hear Hannah, and I think, like, oh, maybe it's a giggler. I turn, it's nasty from my tennis team. Get out of town. And I'm like, what the fuck are you doing here? and the publicist comes

and she thinks I'm like talking to a listener or something and I'm like sorry I went to college and played tennis with her and she's like I live here now and I'm like what the fuck are you what the fuck dude it was crazy that is crazy and she was always really really smart and driven but yeah I haven't seen her since being on the tennis team with her 13 years ago

I love a shout to nasty nest hanging outside the New York Public Library Who would have thought New York City is so small sometimes so let's do uh let's do one or two more before we hit the road uh this is a cute one hi mom and dad i sent another voice recording but i don't know if it sent so my nickname growing up was my little chiro um my grandmother gave me that nickname because i would push cheerios off of my high chair table and fling them across the room and so she called me her little cheerio for a long time. And she's French. So in French, she would call me

mon petite chitty-o. And so I got that tattooed on my ribs. So that's my story. Bye. Very cute. We are the most worldly podcast. Hannah is triggered. We're the most worldly podcast. Not to make about me, but I, this is so much less cultured. But I, um, I was going to get Brooklyn tattooed on my ribs when I was younger. Really? Because, well, everyone, you know, when you're, like, what tattoo would you get? And, like, Rihanna had, like, a cool tattoo under her boobs. And I was like, I would just get Brooklyn in script under my boob.

That was where I was mentally. Also, sorry, the Mets are on. You literally said before we started recording, don't tell them that the Mets are on. Look, it's across the room, and we just have it on mute. And this guy, Luis Turenz got hitting the balls. Got hitting the balls. And he's been laying down for five minutes, and he won't get up. And you know that there's been a couple of catches

that actually had to have a testicle removed for what happened to him, so it's actually quite serious. Wait, but doesn't he have a cup? But even though the fact that I have survived testicular cancer, I wasn't going to talk about it because you told me not to mention that the Mets weren't. Because in the meantime, Pete Crowe Armstrong, who we gave to the Cubs in a bear trade in 2021,

hit a home run, but I didn't say anything. Well, now you did. I didn't say anything, but it was... I was keeping it in. Was not going to be interesting to the girls. This is funny. This guy still is not up. He's lying down.

Doesn't he have a cup? Yeah, but if a ball's coming out, you're at 95 miles an hour, it does move the cup a bit, you know? Yeah, this guy's not okay. Because what happened was it was a foul tip, and the tip actually puts more pace on a ball. But at this point, let's take him out. Why is he lying?

Like, let's put in the other... Well, this is a perfect example of when sometimes women go, God, he's just exaggerating. It's not that painful. It's painful enough for an athlete that gets hit by balls all the time because he's a catcher, the toughest position to be lying on the ground for now five minutes. No, I do think it hurts to get kicked.

yeah this is which but like yeah this has been the longest injury time out i've ever seen in baseball but it's also it's it's it's a it's a man's sport so there's not anyone there going guys come on hurry up everybody's like oh no yeah everyone is acting like someone died yeah everyone is shaking their head yeah and he's he's i mean i can't imagine what he's feeling right now. But anyway, Hannah, come on. Okay, it's... But how cute was that, My Petit Chirio? No, it's... Mon Petit Chirio. It's very cute.

And then you were going to put Brooklyn on your ribs. But then, every time, Where Brooklyn are! We're Brooklyn at! We're Brooklyn. You would have had to, like, flash your rib. Yep. Yep. Missed opportunity. Missed up, yeah. So many times. Okay, so I'm going to give you an option to finish off, okay?

We'll play out... There's so many of these. We'll play out plenty of them, okay? So do you want the South African Pigeon story? Do you want funny baby nickname or do you want Tortuga? I mean, I like them all. Okay, well, you just have to pick one. I want the South African Pigeon. Okay, here we go.

Hey, Hannah and Des, Dialer from South Africa over here. So the one day I was in the gym and this girl came up to me, didn't know her. She tapped me on the shoulder and she said, I'm so sorry to bother you, but I just had to come here and tell you that whenever I look at you, God sends me a vision of a pigeon. I was very confused. I did not know what she was talking about. She could tell that I didn't know, so she decided to interpret it for me and said that,

basically, I think that I'm an annoyance to everyone in my life, and God is there to remind me that I'm not. So, yeah, that was a very interesting experience for me. I'm not a religious person, so it did not know what to take from that. And from that day on, my friends all called me Pidge, like a pigeon. And whenever a pigeon flies past us, they told me to go and join my friends. We had a pigeon stuck in our flat once. And my friends said I was go and communicate with it to get it out. Yes.

So now I am Pigeon. Couldn't even be a dove. No, have to be a pigeon. It's a cute story. Pige is not the worst nickname. Pige is cute. Pigeons are fucking powerful. They used to like do all the organization for war back in the day.

And now everyone just forgot about them. And now they're just hanging out in New York City getting fat. Yeah. But that's like... I do love that there's a meaning behind it, though, basically, whether you're religious or not, just the concept when you think of a pigeon that, you know, you're not annoying and your worth is valuable.

And obviously, you know, we're showing off that we're international. And we're an international podcast. I do want to point out that our dialer from Ethiopia messaged in again, but I couldn't use it because it was very funny. but like it's inappropriate for white people to play it like we wouldn't have been able to talk about it but I just want to if she's listening I just want to represent that it was very funny but I didn't feel comfortable playing it from us because it's it's kind of it was actually like it's like comes from like a joke that's considered racist but the fact that she sent it to me

was hilarious so I'm acknowledging the humor but I didn't think it was appropriate to play on the pod and you're thanking her for sending it to you. Well, I know, because I think I understand why, you know, she thought it was funny, but I also, I think she'll understand why it would have been problematic for me to play. We're hitting every part of the world. We're hitting it all. And we will not forget any of you.

So, guys, we're going to play out loads afterwards. Yeah, stay tuned, get inspired. Sorry, we're a little late again, but, you know, we do our best. We love you guys so much. And I added another show in West Hampton this summer, so if you're in Long Island at all, come through. And I only have two more weekends before I power down and start writing a new show for the summer. So if you're near Mohegan Sun Casino in Unksville, Connecticut, I'll be there for the weekend. And then the following weekend, or actually, yeah, no, the following weekend,

I'm in Stanford, Connecticut. So a lot of Connecticut, but far enough way that it's not an issue, come and see me. Then I'm writing a new show throughout the summer because I'm recording my special Tuesday, which is sold out. But thanks to any of the dialers who already got tickets for that. So thank you guys. Have a wonderful day. Guys, don't leave me hanging. Leave the Spotify comments. Like and subscribe. Spread the word. You know, we are a top 100 podcast on the American Comedy Podcasts, but we would like to get into the top 50. So do spread the word. Get some new subscribers. Obviously, you know, leave a comment in the Apple comments, but we don't look there. It's not a safe space. But the Spotify is a safe space.

space. So thanks, everybody. Okay, I don't know if this counts. My full name is Alexis, and everyone has always called me Lexi. So the time I was little, and I didn't know that my full name was Alexis for a very long time. I always thought it was just Lexi, and I used to cry in the shower when I was like three. And I'm crying, crying, cry because I hated my name Lexi. And then it was even more devastating when I found out my name was Alexis. And I just used to hate my name. I like it now.

But I used to hate my name Lexi, but I didn't even know it was a nickname. But I think I hated Alexis even more. So Lexi stuck. Bye. Hey, Hannah and Des. I love you guys so much. I saw you both in Atlanta, and it was the best show ever. So my name's Anna, and my last name starts with an L.

And from the time that I was 15 years old in high school, the boys in my class called me anal. This was extremely devastating to a scrawny little girl who had never had a boyfriend or had never kissed anyone and was being referred to as anal. When we would go on, like, church strips and stuff, they would, like, the boys would be like, guess what her name is, name is anal um and that's how people knew me and that's how they would introduce me to people at

other schools so that's the worst thing that ever happened to me this prompt is literally made for me i hope that made you guys laugh laugh you up bye hi hannah and des so my name's abbey and i got the nickname baby abbey and how i got that was i went to a music festival i live in canada and uh i did some molly that night and I didn't remember anything and I woke up in the morning and looked at my phone and I texted a 60 year old lady that I worked with named Ginny

and all it said was I a baby and now I'm baby Abby okay I'm at a beach club in Miami but I have to submit this so in college I think I had the weirdest nickname my name is Michelle but my new best friend off of maybe one or two days

of knowing her, started calling me meaty, Michelle. When you're trying to make friends, especially in a small college, this nickname did not help. It started to snowball into any meat-related byproduct. So meatball, meatloaf, beef. Yeah, it was beef. It really just ended up becoming beef. And my entire track team just called me beef.

When my parents would come to track meets, they would be like, are you getting bullied? But it made me laugh. Okay, go with me on this one. So my name is Rebecca, but I go by Becca. And my family lived in China during the Beijing Olympics. So we actually lived in Shanghai. But so I don't know if you guys remember, but like the characters for the Beijing Olympics, there's like Bebe, Jingjing, Nini, there's another one, but whatever. So my name is Becca. Like my name is Becca. And then during the Beijing Olympics, like Bebe was a character.

and so my family called me Bay Bay and then we shortened that to Bay for a second which is funny because now Bay means something completely different and we're like that's weird Bay Bay let's just make it BB but now that also means something different but yeah people call me BB still yeah Des and I hope you appreciated the China shout out Hi, Hannah and Des. So this isn't about a nickname for me, but it's about one for my husband. His nickname is Buddha, and that's what everyone knows him by. Origin story is when his dad was a kid, his dad was chubby. His football coach called him Buddha one day. It stuck with his dad, and then my husband was born. He ended up playing football,

had the same football coaches who called him Buddha. The name has stuck so much to the point where we live in the town he grew up in. And when people like ask who my husband is because I find out he's from this town, I say, oh, and I say his first name and his last name, no idea who it is. I say Buddha. They're like, oh, Buddha. So I think that's hysterical. When we first started dating, I absolutely could not stand it. But now he's just Buddha.

Hi, Hannah and Des. My nickname story is not the best, but about four years ago, I was. I was cutting jalapinos in the kitchen, and I forgot that I was doing that, ate dinner, went to the bathroom. It was unfortunately that time of the month, went to change my tampon, and forgot I had jalapeno juice all over me and burned my vagina very badly. And I called all my mom's friends because they're all nurses, and they all started calling me fire crotch from that day forward because I set my crotch on fire with jalapeno juice.

So from this day forward, a bunch of 60-year-old men or women and men have called me firecrotch. Hey, Hannah and Des. Love this prompt. My nickname story is actually about my daughter and from when she was like a little baby about seven months old or so. And she was so chubby and delicious. And I used to love to kind of like pinched and bite her little thighs and called them, you know, her chubbies. And then all of a sudden realizing I was raising a girl and I didn't want to be calling her chubby. I, in the middle of changing her, called them her chumbas or her chumba wumbas, as in tub thumping and the song and the band. And so we just call her chumbas and it stuck and now it's chumbies, but she still has that nickname and has no idea that I call her jumbies because I was talking about her thighs

as a baby. So there's that. Hey guys, huge fan, big giggler. So my best nickname is what my bonus kids is what I call them gave to me. And it's Katie Peanut because one day, my name's Caitlin and the middle child called me Katie one day knowing that. I didn't like it. He was saying it jokingly, and I called them all Peanut. And I'd be like, hey, Peanut, come on, let's go Peanuts. And so they put it together, and they called me Katie Peanut, Katie Peanut. And now, for the last two years, all they do, three of them from 14 to four all call me

Katie Peanut. And whenever they're referring to me to their friends or to anyone, they say, oh, yeah, Katie Peanut. And it's the best nickname ever. It's way better than stepmom. So I love it so much, and it warms my heart every time I hear it. All right. guys so much. Bye. Hi, Hannah and Des. I absolutely love the pod. This is my first time phoning in, I guess. I apologize for my voice. I'm getting over some sickness. Um, but my last name is

Kiefer. And in middle school, that came with the very unfortunate nickname of Miss Kwefer, Chief Kweef, um, you know, King Kweef, all the things. Anything Kweef. Um, um, um, you know, King queef, all the things, anything queef. Also lots of weed jokes came with that. So that was super, super fun for a middle school girl. Hi, Hannah and Des, love the pod. My name is Carly, and my nickname Origin Story is in college. I don't remember if it was my freshman year or my sophomore year. Some of my friends started calling me Stromboli. I think it originally, because I was Italian and most of my friends were Jewish, and I could cook Italian food. I don't really know, but it started out of stromboli.

It probably would have been a better alliteration if they called McCarly Canoli instead of stromboli. But here we are right now. We're almost to our mid-30s, and I still get called stromboli sometimes. Thanks. Oh my gosh. Hi, Hannah. Hi, hi, Des. I've never done this before.

you're asking about nicknames and I had a boyfriend once I'm like short and he wasn't even tall so I don't know why he called me this but he would always refer to me as thigh high just kind of as a joke

but it stuck and it's weird but like yeah thigh high what a weird fucking nickname oops I guess I can swear you guys do okay bye love you In high school, they called me blueberry because I was fat and I always wore blue. Or they called me Tortuga, which is turtle.