Rhea Seehorn

We had to tell him multiple times after he woke up in the hospital.

I think I was 12, 12 or 13.

And it's Deborah Rae Sehorne.

And... Oh, I see.

So Rae was your middle name.

Rae was my middle name.

And it was shortened to Debbie.

And...

I can't even say why, and it sounds fabricated after the fact, but I really did have a sort of disconnect feeling with the name.

And then I got a little chunky in puberty, and kids started yelling at me, hey, Fat Debbie, do you want some more Little Debbies, which are snack cakes.

Yeah.

I was like, you know what?

I just I it was over the summer one year and I think it was me coming back to eighth grade.

And I was just like, I just I think I just need a fresh start.

And I think I identify more with my middle name.

And weirdly, I there was no issue with kids that had known me forever.

Everybody just sort of was like, yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah, it was called NIS at the time, Naval Intelligence, and now it's NCIS, the Mark Harmon variety.

Right, okay.

Yeah, he was in the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in the Army and then became a ranger and then went to NIS, which I'm not sure if that's an unusual trajectory or not as far as the switch from services.