Did you know Ellis Island never changed a single immigrant's last name? The clerks never even wrote names down. …We looked into it.

Welcome to Valid Source? The podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging.

This episode: Ashley comes back from the beach with vacation brain, and a stranger's question about Harley's ethnicity sends us down our biggest rabbit hole yet. Where do last names actually come from? We break down the four buckets every last name on Earth falls into, then take apart the Ellis Island name-change myth, so stop blaming them (and The Godfather Part II). We get into the heavier history of the names freed people chose for themselves after emancipa ...