“I have a question,” Zoë Kravitz posed to her Caught Stealing co-star Austin Butler and Rolling Stone film critic David Fear while playing a Nineties trivia challenge game recently. “How old you were when you when you realized what Pearl Jam means? It’s jizz, dude.”

“I’ve also heard that it was a jam that Eddie Vedder’s grandmother made where it was an hallucinogenic jam,” replies Fear. “You’d take it and have visions.”

Their confusion about the origin of Pearl Jam’s name is understandable. In the early days of the band, they were asked about the name in nearly every interview. Vedder always gave the same response. “Great-grandpa was an Indian and totally into hallucinogenics and peyote,” he told Rolling Stone ‘s Kim Neely in October 1991. “Great-grandma Pearl used to make th

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