Eric Toppenberg has changed his name many times to make it in the radio business. At 16, he briefly changed his name to “Chuck the Duck” for a gig as a radio station mascot in his hometown of Oklahoma City. Then it was “Cody the Coyote” when he got poached by a rival radio station. He changed it to a more radio-friendly Eric Logan when he got an on-air job and has kept that surname ever since — despite the fact he’s no longer on the air.

“I was a horrible, horrible disc jockey,” said Logan, who adopted the last name of his uncle — a radio newscaster.