Pat O'Neill
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
but it was easy growing up with immigrant parents.
Actually, they were clever, you know?
They knew enough kids at school were calling me a fat retard.
Why would they pay money for me to hear that from a professional?
I used to be fat, but still stupid, so the school system's broken, but fat shaming works.
Yeah, all the fixings, you know?
Cosplay and dancing and, I don't know, camping.
Like in Brazil, they don't understand so much English, but they love it when a gringo dances.
So my name is Surgeon.
I don't know if you guys can tell by looking at me, but my parents are brown immigrants.
And my mom, she wanted me to be a doctor so bad, she named me Surgeon.
It's fucked up.
I know, so much pressure.
Imagine being named after a job.
But my name's kind of cool.
My siblings, they got it so much worse.
My older brother, his name is Engineer.
Yeah, and he grew up to be an engineer because he's a suck-up.
But my little sister, she has the worst name.