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e [Music] My name when I started kindergarten was Ramon, and by the time I was in the second grade, everybody was calling me Raymond. You know, out in the playground, in the classroom—Raymond! Hey Raymond! Hey Raymond! Trying to adjust to this, you know what I mean? And if there was a girl named Maria, her name became Mary, and Juanita became Jane.
To one day, we got a new student by the name of Fundo Gonzalez—Fako Gonzalez, man! When he came into school, we noticed they called an emergency administrative meeting. You kind of hear him talking through the door: "What are we going to do with this guy, man? You know I mean, how we going to change his name?" You know? One teacher goes, "Well, you know what? Why don't we try to shorten the name a little bit?" And they go, "Yeah, but how do you spell it? F-A-U-N-D-O?" "Why don't we just spell it F-A?" And one teacher well, that didn't mean his name would be Fu. And the other teacher looked at that, "No, that—you know, that sounds too much like—like a dirty word. You can't be saying, 'Where's your homework?' You know, 'Where's Fu?' You know what I mean?"
Well, that was a trip. We always remembered going to elementary school because Fako was the only guy never got his name changed. [Music] [Music] y [Music]