In Southeast Asian and Indian families, a one-year-old crawls toward objects like a stethoscope or law book to predict their future career. Indian families often use multiple stethoscopes. The speaker riffs on the tradition with a humorous modern twist: let babies pick their own names instead.
In Southeast Asian culture, they have this ritual when the baby is a year old or so. They put the baby on the floor, and on the other end of the room, they put down like a stethoscope, a law book, and they just let the baby crawl, and whatever it picked, it's like, "Oh, it picked a stethoscope? That means you're gonna be a doctor." Indians do that too, but it's just 3 stethoscopes. Yeah. Except like 50 years ago, they started adding like little motels that you could pick. You know, they're like, "Oh, nice." Alright, go on. And for my bit then I was like, alright, what if we actually did that, but we just have different names? So then she can pick her own name.
