Hello again and welcome to another episode of quick question with soaring and Daniel.

The Writing, Comedy and Friendship Advice Podcast promises to touch on at least one of those things every week

or none of them. I am one of your hosts, writer,

author, and person who briefly changed his name in college because he was bored,

Daniel O'Brien, joined as always by my co-host,

Soren.

Soren, introduce yourself.

Hi, my name is Soren Bowie.

I am a writer for the show American Dad,

and I spent the years, about nine years old to 11 years old, being mistaken for my mother on the phone.

Daniel what was your new name? I had two. I was Charlie and what it was a thing that yeah I was so bored in

college that and and here's like a hallmark of all college experience as far as I know is that the very first day of class when you're like going around the room. They're like, hey, everyone say your name and also like if there's a name that you prefer to go by if you have a nickname or whatever, present it now. And I saw that as a great opportunity to try out some different names and so the

explanation was always the same it was like my name is Daniel O'Brien but there are a lot of Daniels in my family so everyone

calls me Jack or everyone calls me Charlie because that's my middle name because you don't

need to prove either of those things and so they were just like a

number of classes throughout my college career that I put Charlie O'Brien or Daniel or Jack O'Brien

on my papers because I was because I was like I want to just like try it out I want to try

out being a jack and then like bizarrely my senior year of college started working for a man named Jack O'Brien. I was like well I can't do this anymore

Are there people in the world who still know you as one of those names?

Yes, that's fucking crazy Dan.

That's a weird, such a weird thing to have done in college.

Is it?

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