Quinta Brunson isn’t sure if Bon Jovi and Jon Bon Jovi are same person

When it comes to understanding Bon Jovi, Quinta Brunson isn’t even halfway there.

The Abbott Elementary star recently admitted that she doesn’t have a strong handle on the band’s name in relation to its frontman, Jon Bon Jovi. “I don’t know white people,” Brunson said on Amy Poehler‘s new Good Hang podcast. “I know you, I know Tina Fey. That’s it. I know white people in comedy, okay?”

The topic arose after Poehler asked Brunson’s longtime friend and Abbott co-writer Kate Peterman for potential questions in their forthcoming conversation. “Ask her if she now knows if Bon Jovi and Jon Bon Jovi are two different things,” Peterman told Poehler, “because she asked me in confidence in a little whisper, she was like, ‘Are Bon Jovi and Jon Bon Jovi the same guy?'”

After Poehler revealed Peterman’s involvement in the question, Brunson groused, “Shut up, Kate, shut up. Don’t go through Amy to do that. That’s not nice, Kate. That’s not okay, Kate.”

Brunson also disclosed that Bon Jovi isn’t the only ’80s rocker she hasn’t wrapped her head around. “I just like don’t know some people,” she said. “I understand the name Phil Collins. I don’t know what Phil Collins looks like.”

Poehler responded, “Sorry to that man,” quoting Keke Palmer‘s viral interview where she admitted to not recognizing Dick Cheney.

“That Keke moment was so on point,” Brunson said. “That is how i move through life. If they’re not in comedy, truly, I don’t know.”

Poehler argued that knowing a lot about pop cultural figures that don’t interest you is useless anyway. “I actually think it’s also a wonderful way, almost a gentle form of rebellion, which, I have to say, my generation was told that we had to know a lot of these people, and now we don’t really need to know them,” she said. “It’s okay.”

Brunson reiterated, “I don’t have a reason to know who — I’m not crazy! It’s crazy to be in a band called Jon — is he Jon Bon Jovi, or is the band Bon — see. I couldn’t tell. It’s crazy.”

Poehler then dropped more information about the “Livin’ on a Prayer” singer. “I’m going to blow your mind even more,” the Parks and Recreation star said. “His original name was Jon Bongiovi, and the band name was Bon Jovi, a shortened version of his real name, so then he started going by Jon Bon Jovi. But true fans know that it was Bongiovi.”

Brunson had no patience for such a trivial distinction. “You know everything you just said sounds crazy, right?” she said. “And the thing is, I’m supposed to know this, but then I’m supposed to deal with people who can’t tell me and Keke Palmer apart, or say my name. If you know about Bon Gionviovi, and I’m too difficult. It’s two syllables: Quinta!”

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Brunson also volunteered another point of pop cultural confusion from earlier in her life. “You know who I got mixed up for the longest time?” she asked. “Not anymore! But there was no reason for me, as a young girl in Philadelphia, to understand the difference between Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts. There was no reason for me to know the difference.”

Poehler responded, “You might have a little bit of face blindness.”

Brunson agreed. “I do. I do have that,” she said. “And they know, I know Sandra knows now, because that’s my girl. Of course I can tell you guys apart now. But growing up, no reason for me to know that.”

Watch Brunson and Poehler’s full converation above.