is giving a kid a weird name a good or bad thing let’s talk about that hi I’m Justin aka lunchbox from Kentucky good mythical morning good mythical morning this episode is brought to you by catalyst calm the guys with the goods check out their website they have things like the amazing collapsible what’s this thing called kitchen island cart no don’t sit on it it’s for meat dude you cut meat up there I am meat no you’re not okay roll that back out I can be on The Price is Right they haven’t up dude on the prices right now I’m male model and you’re do you dream about him I dream of being I’m fine with you doing this just take as much time as you need if this will get it out of your system then I’m okay with it if you want to do it every day I probably will have a problem with it but once it’s fine did you get it out of your system yes Holly Madison you may remember her she was one of Hugh Hefner’s women at some point in the past she’s taking a little heat lately for naming her child a weird name which is rainbow Aurora rainbow Aurora rainbow Aurora Madison I guess okay and of course this is nothing new celebrities name their kids weird things all the time I’m going to go through a little list here length see how well you know your celebrity weird names okay kal-el whose kid is that um Nicolas Cage bingo anyone crazy enough to take the starring role in The Wicker Man is only someone who no gay kid that this is my dog my dog no I’ll be dealt a like you’re doing it for nothing pilot inspector um also Nicolas Cage Jason Leigh’s kid uh-oh Apple gwyneth paltrow Coco Courtney Cox and David Arquette kid k yd kid k yd kid Kid Rock nope that’s David Duchovny and Tia Leone Oh sage moon blood ooh moon blood yeah I got moon blood in my veins baby I don’t know Sylvester Stallone Destry uh I don’t know Steven Spielberg ocean don’t know Forrest Whitaker rocket Rodriguez uh Robert Rodriguez this room filmmakers daughter Moon Unit and diva thin muffin these are the best ever moon unit uh uh Frank Zappa that’s right Moxie crimefighter really Penn Jillette named his kid that crime fighter is a middle name Moxie crimefighter and the last one your majesty think about it it’s a play on the name Jermaine Jackson yeah you sounded it down wow the only ones remain and only one your majesty so yes it is well established that celebrities often named their kids weird things now I will introduce more circles of strange people who call themselves mythical beasts we made you considered pseudo celebrities we’re not really celebrities but we have weird names and we also named our kids weird names so I think it’s interesting for us to explore the ramifications of having a weird name or naming your child a weird name because every child has a parent who named them and I think the best example about it I think well no there are some nameless children oh I said let’s not go there the best example of this of course you know my name is write your names link yes I have kids Locke and Shepherd you have Lily and Lincoln and the Lando. Lando I kind of feel like we were flirting with a little bit of you know weird name mission ish for a while and that grandparents my parents your parents kind of like wink so long as we named our kids Locke and Shepherd and Lily and Lily and Lincoln are not weird Lincoln is after you and Lily is proof named for dry now but you really you potentially toed line or in in lots of people’s minds you may have crossed a line an imaginary line when you went with Lando now here’s a story of how our how how how let me say that again how we came to name our third child Lando you know I mean for those of you are married who have children you might understand what I’m about to say that once you have a certain number of kids then you reach a conversation of negotiation associated with should we have another child so you know after two we waited a little bit longer to think about having a third child and Christy was thinking about it more than I was she wanders a third she wanted a third a little bit more than me I love you Lando and I’m glad that you’re here but at the time I just wasn’t sure you know I just I just didn’t know but then the thing that put it over the edge for me is I think hmm I have a bargaining chip here so I said to Christy I said listen I’m fully onboard in participating and having a third child if I get to name the child her loss and I knew I wanted to stay in the l’s and we were watching Star Wars with Lily and Lincoln and I was like let’s just simplify it let’s pick an L name from within Star Wars and lo and behold Lando Calrissian and you know I’ll be honest you know I was also thinking about the fact of that conversation that I knew I would have with lots of people said well Lando yeah could your child be named after Lando Calrissian the coolest character in all of Star Wars and my response would be yes and you know and I would feel cool well I’m just being on which feeds my theory I know this is true of me is and I think this is why celebrities do it people name their kids weird names not for the kids sake but for their own sake it is a selfish endeavor mister named your kids three L’s right you haven’t I did that just to I did that stuff I just to simplify just an arrow but it doesn’t simple form a pattern because when you’re when you’re yelling at them you just start with an L you know you you can go anywhere like you know they all deserve it that might be at any time usually I mean but Locke and Shepherd are still pretty interesting names people think that you name them after the television show Lost right listen and I’m I would search lame doesn’t seem to admit I’m the first to admit I named them because my wife and I picked us you’re a big fan of totally separately Locke we picked we both liked that name independently 12 years ago even before we got married Shepherd Jessie has always liked the name Shepherd we happen to be fans of loss at the same time we were picking names but it never crossed our minds until two years later someone was like you named your kids after lost characters and were like uh no but that is a good theory but you stick but did you do it I god I did it for me you did it for you we did it for us okay that makes me feel better I mean I’m not I’m totally open with admitting it I I have it I have a theory about what it’s going to do for them personally but we named our kids those things things because both my wife and I have an interest selfishly and kind of seeming like oh we’re a little different we we’re not gonna name our kids that we’re not going to go on don’t say another name because it’s gonna think we’re not going to go on the top ten most common names from last year and pick one of those because we’re not common I’m just being honest I will I will it’s more defensible because we have weird names and I will say it’s been a good experience for me I take pride in the fact that my name is is different so it’s like huh what is Zelda what is that was like no Zelda was named after me not Zelda but link the character in Zelda but the whole game you know it was spawned by me not true but I do say that but the question also is so it makes me feel it makes me feel cool so I was like okay I will give my kids the gift of an interesting name and I would be more risky the more kids that I have because you know like I’ve already established by the time you get to three it’s like just all bets are well that’s the real question I mean we’ve established that we named our kids weird names for selfish reasons because we wanted to seem like we were a little weird or something but then the second question is what does it mean for the kid is it a disadvantage and I will not I’ll say that’s not the only reason we named our kids things interesting with we are creative people who like to express ourselves a nickname as an opportunity to express yourself it’s not what I’m saying it’s about the parents when kids name their kids something it’s about the parents it’s a child that I don’t exist status right wound probably and so but the question is is there a line that you can cross because I didn’t name my kid your majesty I didn’t name my kid moon unit you know I didn’t name a kid something that is sage moon blood to me I don’t think there’s a line if you give them a way out like Lando’s middle name is James you know for Penn Jillette to say Moxie crimefighter she has no other options her middle name is crime fighter she can’t it’s not like it’s Cindy Moxie Cindy you know so Lando has a way out you know if he starts getting flying so hey I’m James and if he wants to change the name to something else then I’ll respect that it’s it you know he can do that I sincerely hope he doesn’t that he’ll see it as a gift but he has an option that you cross the line but it don’t move you’re crazy it’s a name though Lando is a name it is when it existed Locke and Shepherd are also write names they’re also objects but it was a name somewhere well if we had a daughter net moon unit is a thing it’s a unit in the moon on the moon if we yeah and what is that if we had a daughter Divac thin muffin do you know you know what I was gonna name the daughter right diva thin muffin no ninja I was going to name our daughter ninja if we had another daughter and I just I told Christy everyone I was like listen it’s just Nina with a J okay but you’re saying that would be too far that would have cross a lot here’s how you know you when you cross the line when you’re introducing your you have to think about the moment in their lives when they’re introducing themselves okay when Lando introduces and introduces himself he doesn’t do that yet because he’s like three right was he starting to when he introduces himself and he says I’m Lando people are gonna be like oh that’s an interesting name Lando and then you they get past it and then they have a normal conversation when you say my name is moon unit the only thing the person is thinking of moon unit it derails everything you once you cross a line in the whole focus of every interaction that you ever have is about your freakin name that’s when you cross the line and I think that calling a girl ninja it would do that what should a ninja ninja like a you’re a ninja what if we walk around quietly yes but if and if you knew the person it would it would suddenly morph into the person’s name it wouldn’t be a cool occupation anymore but every single time that ninja introduced herself to people they would expect her to like throw a Chinese star them you do what I’m saying that Lando I believe is completely within the this imaginary you’re just being nice you don’t say that if you don’t think it’s true no I think it’s a cool name it’s like Orlando without the or I’m being more definitive and Lando yeah it’s like just it’s not Orlando there’s no choice here it’s just Lando okay yeah it’s Orlando some people named Orlando or Carl and oh so yeah I’m not mean short for Lando no short for Orlando that’s as far as the conversations gonna get them right you’re fully in the clear I think we’re both in the clear but I’m just saying that moon unit is not in the clear what is she doing now what is what a rainbow rainbow she shouldn’t be taking flak for rainbow rainbow Aurora it’s Porter look let us know in the comments if you have an interesting name tell us what it is and tell us if you’re glad that you have it or if you’ve named a child something crazy let us know oh my goodness the bullet dude is this bad or good hug a stranger what do you got there all right well thanks for the hug yeah yeah