I Get That A Lot

Alayne Dick is a librarian, creative, oh and her surname is is a homonym for a rude word. She tells us all about the reaction people have (and don't have) to her name, the impact of being bad with plates, and the joys of her career as a chaotic librarian.

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Music by Louie Zong

Art by Sam Wade

Lauren Gawne is a linguist and senior lecturer at La Trobe University in Melbourne. As a linguist, there's one (incredibly inappropriate) joke that comes up over and over again, and she tells us about it in this episode. She also discusses her collaborations with the Coen Brothers, the humanity of customer service jobs, and how much she appreciates have very boring and very interesting names.

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Music by Louie Zong

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Nicolette Chin ("Nicolette Conchita Chin, no less" in her words) has jokes about her name coming at her from all angles. Nicolette is an unusual name to start with (unless you're a French grandma or, oddly, at Nicolette Chin's high school), but then add on the surname Chin and people get overwhelmed with choice. She tells us all about it in this episode, alongside discussions of not playing the harp, not being called Nicholas, and what audiobook producers are like.

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Music by Louie Zong

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John Marc Desengano laughs a lot. This is partly because he's a ray of sunshine. But also he laughs whenever someone gets his name wrong. And people get his name wrong more or less constantly. He's on a mission to find out why. Along the way, he also tells us about not being Italian, sort of going on The Bachelor, and how working at Bunnings made him want to be a comedian.

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Music by Louie Zong

Art by Sam Wade

Laura Irish is an actor, writer and fitness instructor whose surname elicits, on a daily basis, one specific question. She joins us to tell us what that question is, what the answer to that question is, how she makes jokes about herself, and how tall poppy syndrome leaves its mark on all of us.

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Music by Louie Zong

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Author, screenwriter and curator Maria Lewis (The Rose Daughter, Josie and the Podcats) joins us to list the unending cavalcade of songs that feature her name, the sad fate of Marias in musicals, and why she isn't a journalist any more, but still sort of is, but not really.

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Music by Louie Zong

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A new interview podcast, hosted by Jim Fishwick. Coming 21st June.

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Music by Louie Zong ('A Radish Beat' from Vegetable Soul)

Podcast art by Sam Wade

Production support by Martin Gallagher of Echidna Audio