Ep. 119: Q&A with M&J - Part One

Summary

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Podcast Summary: You, Me & Mike

Episode: 119 – Q&A with M&J - Part One
Date: October 27, 2022
Hosts: Jenn Todryk (@theramblingredhead, HGTV’s No Demo Reno) & Mike Todryk
Produced by: Thirteen Media

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Episode Overview

This episode marks a fun and lighthearted return after the couple’s recent, more serious “marriage series.” Jenn and Mike tackle a slew of quirky, thought-provoking, and sometimes downright silly questions—in a rapid-fire, off-the-cuff style intended to reveal more about their personalities, relationship, and sense of humor.

Listeners are encouraged to use these questions as conversation starters for their own friends, dates, or significant others.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Tone: A Playful, Relaxed Vibe

• Jenn and Mike joke about their intro and the importance of the “you” (the audience) in the podcast equation.
• Jenn: “We love sharing our life with all of you on Instagram and HGTV, but here we get to dive deeper...” (00:23)

2. Quirky Q&A Segment

Favorite Smell

• Jenn: She prefers “a masculine, woodsy candle—like a clean, burly man who just showered and put on cologne. That’s what I like” (03:06).
• Also enjoys the smell of garlic and onions cooking in olive oil (“you know dinner’s about to be homemade and delicious”; 03:43).
• Mike riffs on using scent, music, and cookies for staging homes.

The Male Ladybug Question (06:02)

• Both puzzle over what you call a male ladybug—land on “male ladybug,” noting the oddness of the naming convention.

Eat or Drink Soup? (07:09)

• Lively debate:
  • Jenn: “You eat soup if you use a spoon; if you tip the bowl, you’re drinking.” (07:34)
  • Mike: “So if I take a bowl of chili...and tip the bowl into my mouth?” (08:58)
  • Discussion broadens into whether eating or drinking depends entirely on utensils.
  • Classic banter about semantics and misused words (“proclamate”; 09:13).

Most Creative Insult

• Jenn recounts being told, “You have a crazy ability of making really ugly clothes look cute. It’s just crazy. You’re so good at it” (09:48).
  • “It was one of those ones where I was like, oh, thank you so much. And then when I turned and walked away, it hit me like a ton of bricks.” (10:24)
  • Mike: “Anytime you wrap an insult into a compliment...creative way to insult people by smiling through it.” (10:30)

Childhood Prophecies and High School Journalism

• Jenn remembers a (somewhat rude-but-accurate) class prophecy that she and her friend would still be “on TV thinking they're funny—jokes on you, suckers.” (11:36)
• Mike details faking sports news in high school journalism: “We would literally make everything up. Everything. ... Fake news was real because we were just—we would know the scores, but the rest was superlatives and things that never happened.” (13:01)

Sexiest Name

• Jenn jokingly responds “Mike,” before admitting more seriously she liked “Brock”—a name Mike finds amusing (16:12–16:42).
• Discussion over name popularity and the couple’s own debates about naming their children.

If You Could Remove a Color from the World

• Jenn, self-deprecatingly: “I’m gonna say light purple because I look like garbage in it. It’s very self-serving.” (22:30)
• Both debate the ramifications of eliminating certain colors, especially primary ones, turning it into a mini color theory lesson (23:09).

Do Aliens Exist?

• Mike: “You cannot disprove that they don’t exist. ... There are things happening that we can’t explain.” (24:52)
• Jenn is much more skeptical: “I can say definitively no one’s seen an alien on Earth.” (25:32)
• Spirited, friendly argument about government cover-ups, UAPs, and who believes what about extraterrestrials (26:13–28:01).

Mermaids: Live Birth or Eggs?

• Mike proposes mermaids are “the only gilled mammal”; Jenn muses about mermaid anatomy with comic exasperation (29:47–31:33).

Starting Rumors About Yourself

• Mike: “No, I can’t say I have.”
• Jenn discusses how tabloids repeatedly get everything wrong about her: “Nothing is right about them. They’re just Internet scrapers...Only one [article] has been written with everything being accurate.” (32:20)
• Both laugh over the internet's errors about Mike’s supposed previous role as a coffee shop manager (33:10).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Jenn on favorite smell:
  "A clean, burly man who just showered but also put on cologne that smells really nice. That’s what I like." (03:06)
• Mike on homemade aromas & home sales:
  "You want to make sure your home smells like an Italian kitchen...then when you walk into the bathroom, it smells like a man." (04:10)
• Jenn, passive-aggressive high school memory:
  “You have a crazy ability of making really ugly clothes look cute.” (09:48)
• Mike, on high school journalism:
  “Fake news was real because...we would literally make everything up. Everything.” (13:01)
• Jenn on internet misinformation:
  “Nothing is right about them. They’re just Internet scrapers...Only one has been written with everything being accurate.” (32:20)
• Mike summarizes the web:
  “Basically, the Internet is in-your-face sports.” (33:32)
• Mike, tongue-in-cheek on podcasting:
  “People are gonna be talking...Did you hear? At 32 minutes in...the Todryks are talking about mermaids having babies.” (31:06)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Topic | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 00:53 | Announcing fun Q&A episode format | | 02:41 | “What’s your favorite smell?” | | 06:02 | Male ladybug debate | | 07:09 | “Do you eat or drink soup?” argument | | 09:27 | Most creative insult | | 11:08 | High school journalism & fake news stories | | 15:38 | Sexiest first names discussion | | 18:33 | Baby naming debates & business naming journeys | | 22:19 | “What color would you remove?” | | 24:40 | “Do aliens exist?” friendly debate | | 29:43 | Mermaids: live birth or lay eggs? | | 31:38 | Have you ever started a rumor about yourself? | | 32:20 | Jenn and Mike on internet misinformation & bad articles |

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Tone & Banter

• The overall tone is warm, irreverent, and playful—often veering into inside-joke territory and friendly spousal teasing.
• The conversation is quick-witted, with frequent gentle ribbing (“You’re an orange head”; 24:31), vulnerable admissions, and refusal to take even the silliest topics too seriously.

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Final Takeaways

• This Q&A episode is less about delivering information and more about providing listeners with insight into Jenn and Mike’s dynamic, as well as serving up big laughs and relatable content.
• They encourage listeners to use similar questions for fun, low-stakes conversations in their own lives.
• Part Two of the Q&A is teased for immediate listening.

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For more Jenn and Mike, follow @theramblingredhead and @miketodryk on Instagram, and check out future episodes of "You, Me & Mike."

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Transcript

[A]

Welcome to you, me, and Mike. I'm Jen Todrick, otherwise known as the rambling redhead on Instagram and the host and Designer of no DiMareno on HGTV.

[B]

And I'm Mike, and I'm also known.

[A]

As Mike, and he's Mike.

[B]

Applause anyone?

[A]

Applause.

[B]

And while that sounds really important, it's not as important as the third person in this equation, which is you.

[A]

We love sharing our life with all of you on Instagram and hgtv, but here we get to dive deeper into topics that you suggest, answer questions you submitted, and share stor stories that impact us all. Welcome back to today's episode of the podcast. You, me, and Mike.

[B]

I'm Mike.

[A]

And I'm Jen. We already did that. That's in the intro, Mike. We don't need to do it again. Oh, I just.

[B]

What do people forget? What if they just. What if they just fast forward from eight?

[A]

They probably do. And then you just hit them.

[B]

Now they're like, dang it, you got me again, Mike.

[A]

You made me hear your name.

[B]

By the way, you're you.

[A]

Yes, the audience is you. So today we're doing something really fun. I'm excited about this one. We're keeping it light this week since we just came out of a very special serious series of marriage.

[B]

There's some hot topics.

[A]

The feedback of the marriage series was overwhelmingly good. I love it. It makes me want to, like, continue talking about marriage, but we're going to take a beat. We're going to take a break for a second. Mike got online and has been compiling random questions that are very interesting. Good conversation. You're going to learn a lot about us today. Let's just put it that way. And I encourage you to, if you find this funny, jot some of these questions down. And it's a great just date or conversation starter with your significant other.

[B]

Yeah, there are some wild stuff on Google. Yeah, I mean, you can. You can. You can get some. Yeah, it's like funny, weird questions. There's some ones that are very inappropriate, but hey, we're going to stick with the ones that are.

[A]

There might be some inappropriate ones we'll have to see. Do you want to do the first. Do you want to do the first topic? We both picked out topics that we want to talk about.

[B]

So this is almost like an extended version of random questions, but just questions that I compiled.

[A]

Yeah, right. Yes. All right. Mike picks the questions. Okay, ready? Let's do it. You go first.

[B]

I'm gonna keep it simple for you. When you start this, I'M just going to keep this very simple. And you can. You can keep it a one answer or you can expound into a Y. Expound?

[A]

Is that a word? Yes.

[B]

Expounding as well.

[A]

I don't think that's a word. Expounding.

[B]

To expound.

[A]

Yeah, I've literally never heard that.

[B]

I think it means to extrapolate into, like, detail.

[A]

I think that's just called expanding.

[B]

No. Or expanding.

[A]

No, no. It means. Hold on. Can you elaborate? Elaborate is what you're thinking of.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Gosh. Every time I say that, though, you end up being right, like, and you're like, holy crap, I'm right. Like, you don't even know. Okay, what's the question?

[B]

What is your favorite smell?

[A]

Oh, I know what's not. It's freaking. Your airbutt. Wait, your butt air. It's your butt air that I don't like. What's my favorite smell? I like anything that smells like a man. Like woodsy tobacco, like a masculine candle.

[B]

Well, fun fact, men also smell like butt sometimes.

[A]

So you're right.

[B]

Kind of. You're kind of contradicting yourself here.

[A]

A clean. A clean, burly man who just showered, but also put on cologne that smells really nice. That's what I like.

[B]

Well, then you'd be just smelling the cologne.

[A]

Yeah. So whatever good cologne that man's wearing, that's what I like.

[B]

Okay. You like my cologne?

[A]

I do. I've loved all your colognes, actually.

[B]

So you love. So I'm your favorite smell?

[A]

No, no. Because then that's just a myth. Also, your butt air is in that. And I'm not doing that.

[B]

The world. You just said to the world that I am your favorite smell.

[A]

Masculine, manly candle.

[B]

Oh, so now it's a candle?

[A]

Not Mike. Just to clarify, I.

[B]

Look, I like my cologne, so. Thank you.

[A]

You know what else I really like? I love the smell of garlic and onions. Like cooking up in a pot. Like, you know, dinner's about to be homemade and delicious.

[B]

So you literally. That's your favorite smell in the world?

[A]

No, I said the masculine candle is number one. But I also like onions and garlic. Cooking in a pot, huh? Specifically in olive oil.

[B]

I don't know what that says about you.

[A]

It means that I probably don't cook as much as I should. So I get.

[B]

So here's what you need to do if you're going to sell your home. It's all about staging your home. And these are things that we can.

[A]

I'm going to cook garlic.

[B]

You want to make sure that your home Smells like an Italian kitchen. When you walk in that, it has rich aromas of. Of garlic. And then when you walk into the bathroom, it smells like a man.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Then your house is going to sell like that.

[A]

Honestly, probably think about it. If you walk in, you're like, something's cooking. It's good.

[B]

I see myself the first time. First time Jen and I sold a home. Remember all the work we went through as far as.

[A]

We were like, my Michael Buble playing in the speakers in the kitchen. It was like, I want to go home. Like, we blaring, and the people are like, oh, my gosh, turn that down. Why are they playing the song on repeat? They listen to I Want to go Home by Michael Buble at least seven.

[B]

Times and over on repeat. And then we had hilarious. We had the candles, and I think you actually baked cookies one time. Probably remember right beforehand, you baked cookies and you left them in the oven.

[A]

Go big. Go big and go home. These people need to see themselves quick.

[B]

Yeah, we sold that home quick. Setting the stage. I'm all about layering emotions and experience. I think that's a good one. All right, you got to ask a question.

[A]

No, I think it's what sold. It is the Michael Buble seven times. You know what? They were like, oh, my holy mother. Just sign it. Just sign the contract. So get us out of here.

[B]

Can we never listen to the song again if we buy this home? Thank you, Mike.

[A]

That's hilarious. I totally forgot about that glaring home by Michael Buble, whatever that song's called. That's so freaking funny. And then I'd probably do it again.

[B]

Remember we had. We had a. Like a small media room there, and I was. I had Avatar playing.

[A]

You're right. It was like a staged home, dude. We knew what we were doing, though, Mike.

[B]

Yeah, we were good.

[A]

Yeah, we were good. That was good.

[B]

Look at this 3D. 3D movie.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Buy this house.

[A]

So cool. So advanced.

[B]

Oh, my gosh. Avatar. I have to buy this.

[A]

I think it's awesome. I think we did a good job.

[B]

It was good. Thank you.

[A]

All right, next question.

[B]

Your question.

[A]

I'm gonna ask this one. This is random, but what would you call a male ladybug?

[B]

A ladybug. I mean, it's a lady.

[A]

I know, right? That's the. That was stupid. Never mind.

[B]

I would call it.

[A]

I just blew a question. I really. I just thought it was kind of. I wanted to see if you're going to say something funny, and you didn't. So what?

[B]

I mean, it's I don't.

[A]

Can't be like man bug.

[B]

What do you, what do you call a male human?

[A]

A male.

[B]

Yeah, you just call it a. But then a male human.

[A]

Female human is a female human.

[B]

You're like, it's a species.

[A]

Doesn't prove the point though, because you're changing the name of something and ladybug doesn't have a change.

[B]

Why is it called. I mean, a better question is A.

[A]

Better analogy, honey, would be like, what's a wolf? If it's a male. A wolf. What's a wolf? It's female. It's a wolf. Right, okay, but you didn't say that you used different genders of human, which is totally.

[B]

But you. The question is, is what is a male ladybug?

[A]

You.

[B]

The gender was in front of it. I, I would call it a male ladybug.

[A]

Yeah, done.

[B]

Boom. That was, that was deep.

[A]

Jen, your question.

[B]

All right.

[A]

And this is the first time we're hearing these. That's why this is all just totally random off the cuff.

[B]

Okay. All right. This kind of goes back to one of our old ones.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Do you eat or drink soup?

[A]

So stupid. I cannot believe you picked that. I saw that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Why you picked that question.

[B]

Yeah, I did.

[A]

Who drinks soup? You don't do that. You eat it and then if you want to like slurp it, fine. But most people don't put aside the spoon and tip up the bowl. No one. Okay, so think about if you're at a nice restaurant.

[B]

Okay, so what makes you eat it there? So what if. Let's just say what if it's just broth, just liquid. It's just broth.

[A]

I think it depends on if you're using a spoon. If you use a spoon, you eat.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

If you're tilting it up, you're drinking.

[B]

So if I take spoon and I.

[A]

Take spoon, I take both.

[B]

I take spoon. Okay. So if I have a cup of coffee and I am spooning my coffee into my mouth, I am eating my coffee.

[A]

Then I guess you're eating coffee. Weird.

[B]

I'll tell you what, you lean deep into your. Like you just, you're gonna, you're gonna be black and white.

[A]

Yes, I am.

[B]

So you eat coffee. So with.

[A]

No one eats coffee though. That's my point. No one takes a spoon and up the liquid. No one. No.

[B]

You testing if it's hot or cold. You take.

[A]

You a 99 year old woman who tested.

[B]

That is how it is. That's what it is.

[A]

No one. No one does that. No one.

[B]

Everyone does.

[A]

I'VE never seen you do that. And we've been together.

[B]

We want a coffee shop. So I know.

[A]

I also own that same coffee shop. And that's not a thing.

[B]

It is literally. It's called spooning. It is how you test coffee. It's what curators do.

[A]

Spooning is a word, but it's a different definition. That's not it.

[B]

It is literally how coffee raiders test coffee. You take it and they slurp the spoon. It's really gross sounding, but it's not called spooning.

[A]

You just made that up. You're like, you know what? I've seen this person do it. I'm gonna call it spooning. No, spooning is when you're cuddling.

[B]

It's called cupping, but they use a spoon. Anyway, point is. So you're saying is that you can.

[A]

Eat coffee, I guess if you take a utensil to it. You're now eating it. You're drinking it if you use your mouth or straw.

[B]

Okay, so. So what if I take a bowl of chili with those, like, really thick or like a stew, and I tip the bowl into my mouth?

[A]

You're gonna drink that thick stew? It's very simple.

[B]

You're wrong.

[A]

No, that's a wrong. Can't tell me I'm wrong on my thought. No, it's totally wrong. It's not.

[B]

Well, I'm. I'm here to. To. To proclamate to the world. Proclamate. To proclaim to the world.

[A]

But that's like two, three times now. You've misused words in one podcast episode.

[B]

So you're leaning in my favor or wrong?

[A]

Okay, my question.

[B]

You're either right or wrong on that one.

[A]

What's the most creative insult you can think of? Oh, I've got one. It's been said to me. Do you know what I would say the most creative insult?

[B]

Is it the one where you're a kid?

[A]

Yeah. You remember it?

[B]

Yeah. Let me see. Yeah, it was the. Jen, you really have a way of making ugly clothes look nice.

[A]

Cute. You nailed it.

[B]

Yeah, something like that, right?

[A]

So a girl. I got best dressed. This isn't a flex. Although I realize now that it sounds like a really lame flex, but it's not. So, you know, senior awards. I got best dressed for my class, and someone told me before that they were like, you have a crazy ability of making really ugly clothes look cute. It's just crazy. You're so good at it. I was like, thank you. Thank you so much. It's one of those ones where I was like, oh, thank you so much. And then when I turned and walked away, it like hit me a ton of bricks. I was like, I was kind of actually mean a little bit, but, you know, your 17 year old brain takes you a minute to stew on that. Yeah, I don't know if she meant it that way, but she probably did actually, now I think about it.

[B]

I mean, it's. I think anytime you wrap a insult into a compliment, it's probably there's some truth there. There's a really creative way to insult people by. By smiling your way through it.

[A]

It's.

[B]

It's so. Yeah, that's like the passive aggressiveness of a 17 year old. It was well done on her part.

[A]

It was very well crafted. I will say one more thing about. So there's this thing called senior. I think it's called proclamations. I can't really remember. Did your school do this where they like make prophecy? Oh, senior Prophecies. When they make prophecies of like, what's going to happen in 10 years.

[B]

So we're getting into conspiracy stories.

[A]

No. So, for example, it's crazy because me and my friend Charity, the woman who helps edit this podcast, my best friend since high school, we did broadcast journalism together and we did the news for the school. So we were on the TV on Fridays and it was called fml. It stands for Friday Morning Live, but.

[B]

But it was called FML presented by rbf.

[A]

Yeah, FML stands for F my life. And so it's just hilarious.

[B]

Forget my life.

[A]

Charity brought that up the other day. She's like, can you believe they let us name it that? And I was like laughing hysterically because I don't remember. I didn't remember that. Anyway, so we did broadcast journalism and we were the broadcasters. So we were on the television giving the news. The whole student body watched it. Right. So we basically news anchors. And so our. Someone made a class prophecy. Prophecy about Charity and I. That said, in 10 years, Jenning, Charity will still be on TV thinking that they're funny jokes on you suckers. Wow. And so I. We talked about this the other day and we were dying because Charity is a very successful children's podcast. She's amazing. She's a professor at a college, like, totally killing it. Has a master's in TV broadcast, like, so successful.

[B]

But do you think you're funny?

[A]

I mean, I can make myself laugh.

[B]

Okay, there you go. So the person wasn't wrong, even though they were saying it's such a negative though.

[A]

It's so freaking Rude. And so anyways, we were talking about it the other day, and I was like, it was just wild. And it came true. It was wild.

[B]

So in high school, on your journalism, this wasn't a prophecy, but I was the sports writer. Did you know that?

[A]

I didn't.

[B]

Yeah, it was called in your face sports. It was hardcore.

[A]

Really hardcore.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Honey, you cannot spell anything. I'm so surprised you think anything.

[B]

Thank computers. Even in the late 90s or early 90s, there was spell check. So my buddy Steve and I. Steve actually was. He's a phenomenal.

[A]

Hold on. Back up. There's no way. You can't even form decent text. Mike. There's no way. Mike can't even text appropriately. He texts like a robot. He's like, must get pizza night for dinner. Like. Like a robot.

[B]

Texts are utilitarian. It's not like you need to give a ship on it and be like, have creative arts on it. I am a creative person when it comes down to it. I can do creative storytelling, which is what.

[A]

Right.

[B]

So it's doesn't mean that I can't write. My buddy Steve has a.

[A]

So he carried the weight. He carried the weight. Got it.

[B]

So Steve does have a master's in. I think it's from Columbia in literary art. So, like, the guy is an author, like, legitimately very talented. So. So he was a. So he was on the newspaper. He asked me to come do it with him. So the fact that we actually didn't want to go to all the games, all we would do is ask people that went to the games and asked the athletes, and then we would literally make everything up. Everything. We made every single thing.

[A]

So you were there for comedic humor, whereas Steve was actually forming the sentence.

[B]

Steve was there, too. He was culpable. He was culpable. So what I learned in the early 90s, that fake news was real because we were just. We would know the scores, but then we'd be like. We would say, like. Like, Josh took. You know, took an amazing dunk. Like, we'd have all these superlatives and things in there that never happened because it was. We were 7:16.

[A]

And I was like, no one was like, hold on. I was there. And this. It sounds good when we say it.

[B]

We also. The very end of the year, we did a top 10 athletes. We rated the top 10 athletes. And we had to recuse ourselves because clearly Steve and I would have been the best.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So we recused ourselves.

[A]

Got it.

[B]

And we caused, like, a firestorm. People were angry about It.

[A]

I could see that we gave our.

[B]

Best friend number one. We just. Josh was number one. Just added because he was our best friend. So we threw him in there.

[A]

I got. I got you, dude. We got you.

[B]

Anyway, all right.

[A]

So I could see that being like.

[B]

So don't trust high school news. That's the. That's the end of the day.

[A]

That is true. All of our news casting, charity and I was very factual. And we had integrity. That's.

[B]

I guess we had integrity.

[A]

Look, this FML was the most accurate thing ever.

[B]

Our scores were accurate. Our scores are correct. And it was creative. It exercised creative arts. All right, so going back to your question, what is the most. I don't know what I can think. That's. You put me on the spot on that one. I do think the. The kind of.

[A]

The point of the exercise, isn't it?

[B]

That's a hard one. All right, let me. Let me. If I can think of something during it, I'm going to pause it, but I'll. I'll go ahead and ask you a question so we keep things going.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

All right, cool.

[A]

He's passing.

[B]

What is the sexiest name you've ever heard? Like a first name.

[A]

Mike.

[B]

Nice. Mike.

[A]

I remember whenever you. I figured out, you know, you said your name, I was like, mike. Remember? I was like, mike just isn't popular in Texas. I didn't know a single mic in my school. Like, Mike. Just like Mike. Like, I never heard that in my life. I have heard it. I had Uncle Mike, but he's like 70 something. So. Yeah, Mike. That's it. So that's Mike.

[B]

It's not even Michael. Michael.

[A]

No. I don't know. I'm trying to think of what it is. I'm. I'm sure it associates with like a hot actor. Actress, right? Like, if you think about it, it has to associate to, like an attractive person. That's what our brains do.

[B]

Or you just like the name gives you tingles.

[A]

I've always liked the name Brock, and I know you hate it.

[B]

I don't hate the name Brock because there's probably a Brock listening. Dude, like your name. Awesome, bro. That's awesome, man. What's up, Brock?

[A]

Like, you are lying.

[B]

Brock Lesnar. I mean, that sounds like a gigantic meathead, but it doesn't. Doesn't mean Brock is. Because Brock could just be this awesome, sweet young guy that's like, hey, I'm just here to chill. I'm just here to get my vibes.

[A]

Brock. Brock Todrick is just a mouthful of be. Like Brock Ricks.

[B]

That's Rock Rick.

[A]

What's your. What's the sexiest name?

[B]

Yennefer.

[A]

Whatever. That's a lie. It's a lie. That's a dumb question. Why did you ask it if we're just gonna say ourselves? Boring.

[B]

You know, it's funny, we were going on the names. You say Mike. Mike was so popular when I was a kid. Everyone had to go by their last initial. I was Mike T. There was a Mike G. There was a Mike H. There was a Micron, the Bachelor. Literally every single person had because there were so many mics. It was crazy. In the 70s, late 70s, it was the number one name by far for boys. And then I don't. I don't know any more Michaels. And if there's actually. I don't know any mics. I've heard a couple young boys named Michael, which is. But they never go by Mike. It's just Michael, y'.

[A]

All. We had, I want to say it maybe was the largest fight we've ever had over naming Von Michael. And I was very.

[B]

Wasn't over.

[A]

It was the first baby.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Very much against it. And then we unfortunately miscarried. And obviously it has nothing to do with that argument, but we took it to heart that we're never going to argue over something so stupid again. We just want a healthy baby. And also we're not naming our kid.

[B]

You know what? The thing is, because of me, it's one of the. It's sort of like naming businesses. Whatever you end up naming becomes. Right? Like Vaughn, Vivian Berkeley. Like I can't imagine another name for them because it's who they are.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Like the name doesn't matter as much as like the, the. The embodiment of the person around it. Right. And same with even business like Armor. Remember how much we struggled? I mean, the name matters a lot to me, but Armor is what it is. I can't even imagine our business be called something else.

[A]

It was supposed to be called the Armory, which I also liked. But for trademark, you just got to tread lightly on that stuff if there's other businesses like that. So we didn't name it that way.

[B]

Yes. Attorney said you may be able to do this, but yeah, we just didn't.

[A]

Want to step on anything.

[B]

We knew the business podcast. Next one. We can talk the whole story.

[A]

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[B]

You want me to?

[A]

Okay, take it away.

[B]

So if I were to be banned, it's either going to be because I have checked out too many books, not returned them, or just. Frankly, the librarians just so impressed about how many books I have read. And she's she or he accurate. She or he is going to say bro, bruh.

[A]

Okay?

[B]

You read too many books, let other people have a chance.

[A]

Don't even like read ever.

[B]

Okay, bro.

[A]

So that's why you checked out too many bros brethren.

[B]

You know, you can check out movies.

[A]

Too many movies.

[B]

You know, you have books at the library. Not just movies, Mike.

[A]

That's more accurate. Well, I've been banned from a local library because I didn't pay my late fees.

[B]

Was it for life? Wasn't it for life?

[A]

I mean, they didn't like declare that Jennifer Todrick may no longer come to the library, but if I go back, I'm paying like a lot of money, I think I said, which I did. I did, actually. Hold on. I cleared my name because I told myself, you know what? This stinks. But also, you know what I'm donating to the library. If you think about. I'm donating $200.

[B]

Your picture was behind the counter as a. Do not.

[A]

Do not let her in. She may not. And then yours is next to the movies. Do not let this man rip. Movies.

[B]

You keep checking out old Disney movies on vhs. Weirdo.

[A]

Suspicious activity.

[B]

You know, Kidding, right? All right. Ooh, let me see if I'm gonna do this one.

[A]

This is what a good taste of Mike. Ordering at a restaurant. By the way, he says he's ready, and that's. Oh, that's not true.

[B]

Hey, Charity. That's not. That's right.

[A]

It's so true. That's so true.

[B]

It's rude.

[A]

Painful. Okay, you can cut it.

[B]

That's not.

[A]

Just laugh.

[B]

This is. It's not funny.

[A]

It is funny.

[B]

It's not how I.

[A]

That's how you are.

[B]

No, it's not. It's not. It's not how I order.

[A]

Trading. Cut it out.

[B]

Even though it's true, it's not funny. Mark these times first. Easier for.

[A]

I don't have a time. Oh, 22. Okay, okay, okay. Ask your question.

[B]

All right. If you can remove one color in the world, what would it be and why? Got to do a Y on this one.

[A]

I'm gonna say light purple because I look like garbage in it. It's very self serving, but it's such a pretty color.

[B]

You like the color purple?

[A]

I love deep purple, like plum.

[B]

Oh, but purple is like. I would say.

[A]

But I feel the way same way about baby pink. Get rid of both of them.

[B]

But it's a weird thing.

[A]

You can't. You can't.

[B]

Okay, I. I'm gonna say not necessarily. Okay. What primary color would you remove or secondary? Okay, because what you're doing is like. If you're saying purple, because you could get into like a shade of paint that happens to be maybe orange. Just get rid of orange. So what about your hair then? Something.

[A]

You're not orange. Jerk. Yeah, my hair is auburn.

[B]

Yeah, but it has orange tones in it.

[A]

Well, it. Then it just goes more red, I guess.

[B]

You just literally be red.

[A]

My hair. Nothing about my hair is as oranges.

[B]

You have orange tones, but if you got rid of the orange in your hair, it would be brown and red. Okay, but you can't have brown without orange. Ooh.

[A]

Right, Mike, I'm just. You asked me A simple question, and you've turned it into a math formula. I don't know. Just orange. That's what I'd say. What about you?

[B]

I would get rid of the color. That is tricky if it's a primary one.

[A]

Well, I'm ready for you to answer so I can attack your. Your question, your answer, like you did on mine.

[B]

Attack you?

[A]

I feel. I felt so, so sorry when you attack me. It makes me feel.

[B]

Because, you know what's weird is I keep going. I would go back to the orange as well, but then it's like. Then there's problems.

[A]

Well, there is, because. Don't steal my answer. Be original.

[B]

Don't want. I mean, green. I want to have green outside.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Right. But, yeah, there's a lot of issues. You like. Can't get rid of it.

[A]

Take away green. It's a beautiful color.

[B]

Can't get rid of blue. No. Can't get rid of white. Can't get rid of black. Can't get rid of.

[A]

Actually, red's pretty. Not very cute. We could get rid of red.

[B]

Yeah, but then how would you know? In nature, if something's harmful, isn't red the same?

[A]

Ladybugs.

[B]

It's. It's a.

[A]

No, one's like vicious ladybugs.

[B]

It's a primitive, instinctive thing. If it's red, you stay away. That's nature.

[A]

Never heard that.

[B]

Seriously? No, it's true.

[A]

How did you start dating me? How did you start dating me? I'm a redhead.

[B]

You're an orange head.

[A]

Okay. All right.

[B]

See how we circle back?

[A]

Okay.

[B]

All right, you go.

[A]

All right, my next one is. My next one is. Do you think aliens really exist? And I picked this one on purpose because. Mike, go ahead. I know you believe that there are aliens.

[B]

Well, here's. Here's what I'll say. You cannot disprove that they don't exist.

[A]

What?

[B]

You can't say definitively they don't exist. You can't.

[A]

Well, we can right now because no one's ever existed. So that's a really dumb thing to say. Yes, I can 100% be like, there's never been an alien.

[B]

Well, you don't know there hasn't. So explain.

[A]

Yes, I do. There hasn't been one.

[B]

Blame all the recent uap.

[A]

I'm like. I'm laughing hysterically inside because just that statement, there's never been an alien seen on Earth. So I can definitively say maybe. Do you know there has never been alien.

[B]

What if it's been covered up?

[A]

All I'm Saying is it's never been seen.

[B]

No, but you don't. You're saying that as definitive. But like how do you know?

[A]

I can say definitively no one's seen an alien on Earth.

[B]

That's not true.

[A]

It hasn't been reported. It's definitive.

[B]

Sure there has. Area 51's been reported. May not. You may say it's a conspiracy. You may say it's fake. Right, right.

[A]

But there's no hard evidence that.

[B]

Well there you go.

[A]

Alien.

[B]

But what about. What about the evidence that's coming out right now that even Congress.

[A]

Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix. Ain't it Hunter?

[B]

Literally this week NASA has put together a like I think there's like 29 scientists that are coming together to specifically investigate UAPs and UFO phenomena because of the dad. Unidentified aerial Phenomena. It's basically we know for. Here's thing. Here's what you know definitively. We know for a fact there are things that are happening out there that we cannot explain.

[A]

Do you trust our government to give us knowledge? But that's wholeheartedly. And that's the.

[B]

Here's the thing. It could be from this earth that has just advanced technologies completely somewhat like. But here's what's happening with these UAPs. They're exhibiting physics defying movements.

[A]

Honey. That's from the Netflix documentary. We just. This is 72, 000 miles.

[B]

These are from the military pilots have come out that have the net. The. The Pentagon has released footage and said yeah, this has happened. These are coming from warships that are. That are out there with radar that are having phenomena of. Of basically these things coming in and out of the ocean. Here's the thing. There are things happening that we can't explain. We don't know. I can't say aliens exist or don't exist. I'm interested in it because it's a unknown. But something is definitely happening now whether.

[A]

It'S what if a whale dies and God's like taking the whale up from the sea.

[B]

Could it be spiritual? Sure. There's a lot of these things could be physical, metaphysical, like we don't know. Here's things. I don't know if it's aliens. We just know. We do know because even the government is now researching this because it's showing so much things that it could be something but we don't know what it is. I mean it is weird.

[A]

My trust in the government though is very.

[B]

So what are you saying?

[A]

Not to be like anti our country because I love America and I'm very patriotic. But I take everything that I don't understand super well, like government stuff and take it as a grain of salt.

[B]

But that's not just the government. It's also.

[A]

Well, you keep throwing out the word. You keep throwing out the word.

[B]

I'm saying they've released these.

[A]

It doesn't sway me when you say that, like, oh, the government. You know, like, I'm just. Like, I'm not. I'm not. Right. I'm saying that's. My personality is. I'm not like, oh, the government said it's so.

[B]

You know, like, the fact that NASA is investigating the fact that Congress and Senate are putting in. In. In basically organizations to continue to research to figure out what is going on.

[A]

I think it's great. And when one day an alien scene, I'll be a believer. Because I'll be like, all right, it's there. All I know is that I don't. Right now. I don't believe aliens exist. But that doesn't mean that I won't believe once I see it. Of course I'll believe when I see it.

[B]

Well, there are other. There's other things that do exist.

[A]

In your opinion. Great. Love that.

[B]

In my. In my Christian opinion?

[A]

Well, yeah, of course.

[B]

Yes, other things. Other things exist that are outside spiritual realm 100%. So. So we don't.

[A]

But that's not an alien. So that's my point. You know, you said the question said aliens, not angels and spirits.

[B]

I could debate this.

[A]

Well, let's not move on to the next question.

[B]

I could absolutely debate that.

[A]

I know you can debate anything.

[B]

All right, which person do you know that totally reminds you of a character in a TV show or movie? Is there one person you're like, oh, man, that person. Is that person on TV or a movie?

[A]

Gosh, I don't really have anything. Hold on. I feel like my dad is someone.

[B]

Your dad is like Bruce Willis and the.

[A]

And, no, he just looks like him.

[B]

And. Yeah, he doesn't act like.

[A]

There's a character that we saw recently that was like, that's my dad. But I can't remember what it is. Anyways, it's a movie we both saw recently.

[B]

That was your dad?

[A]

Yeah, we were like, that's my dad as a character.

[B]

Interesting. Anyone on Friends since that was relevant to your life for a while?

[A]

Like, do you have my dad?

[B]

No. And I say, dad, do you have, like. Do you have, like, a Ross in your life or. Or a Rachel or a Phoebe?

[A]

No. No.

[B]

This is an awful question. Then it's a horrible Question.

[A]

How do we cut this is keep it in. We don't have one. Okay, Ask another one then.

[B]

All right, since we were in the alien topic, relevance here.

[A]

No, I don't want to do another alien.

[B]

Do mermaids.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Have live babies or do they lay eggs?

[A]

Well, I'd have to see what. I don't know what, like, all that looks like down there. So I'd need more information.

[B]

I mean, you can't really tell. Like, you think about, like, in the pictures and movies, like, where do they. Where do they go to the bathroom?

[A]

I wonder if there's, like, a little bitty hole in the back.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That we can't see.

[B]

They don't wear, like, loincls on the bottom part. Right. So how do they actually.

[A]

I know the tail covers up, but.

[B]

How does the baby thing happen?

[A]

Think of a fish. It's like they just have little poop holes that just come out of nowhere. I'm pretty sure a mermaid would have the same thing. So I would say probably, maybe birth a live one, since it has that humanistic aspect. It'll come out the back out of a hole. Think that's. It'd be more like.

[B]

And then there's the baby.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So they have them like whales. I would say a mermaid is more like a mammalian sea creature.

[A]

What is a mammalian.

[B]

A mammal.

[A]

Okay. Like a mammal.

[B]

They're more like a man.

[A]

Agreed.

[B]

So we're going to define this year. We're going to definitely dig in. Say mermaids are mammals that can. That don't have to breathe. Oxygen.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Well, they have. They need oxygen, but they can. They can. They have guilt.

[A]

They get it from the sea.

[B]

Right. So they're a guild mammal. They're the only guild mammal. That's the only guild.

[A]

I don't feel good about myself talking this much about a mythical creature. Like, I just don't. Like, do we need to get other jobs? I feel like this is just bad.

[B]

This is. This is. People are going to be talking. This is going to be a podcast and be like, guys, did you hear? At 32 minutes in. I don't even know if that's where we are.

[A]

34.

[B]

Did you hear 34 minutes in this podcast, the toddler talking about mermaids. I mean, it's changed my life. I mean, the ability for me to connect with my spouse. Because knowing a mermaid's birth out of a hole in the back and they have. You know what? They're the only guild creature mythically, that is a mammal. It's crazy. It's so crazy.

[A]

So dumb. So dumb. All right, I have one more question for the segment. Ready?

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Have you created a rumor about yourself just to be the talk of the town? Have you created a rumor about yourself like in high school or anything?

[B]

No. No. I mean, no, I can't say that I have.

[A]

I will say the rumor that. I don't know, the only like scandal I could ever. Not ever, but the only scandal I could think that comes to mind that would be easy is I never wear my wedding ring. So it's like Jennifer Todrick scene without wedding ring when I never.

[B]

Oh, you're talking about modern. But it's not like you're starting that too intentionally.

[A]

No, I'm not. I'm trying to think of a rumor that I would. Let's change it up. What rumor would you want to start?

[B]

Jen? You're apparently a top singer according to one of the websites. Right. Don't you have a. Don't you have hits from singing or something like that?

[A]

Oh, as an artist, that. That horrible article that had nothing accurate about it. I've said this on Instagram and I'll say it again. I no longer believe any form of written media about celebrities because only one. Hundreds of articles written. And I don't. I don't share them because they're just crap articles. Nothing is right about them. They're just Internet scrapers. So they type in my name, they get all sorts of wrong information, they compile it, all this stuff that has my picture on it and none of the facts are right. Only one has been written with everything being accurate. And it was because that person is part of my Instagram community. She's a follower and she happens to be a reporter. And she did a lovely job. I shared it back in the day. I believe it was the only article that was correct. And one article was like a. Well, a well known musician. I was like, what? Hilarious.

[B]

I have one. One of the ones says I was a. I was the manager of the coffee shop before I purchased it. Which is not.

[A]

Seriously?

[B]

Yeah, I didn't know that. Huh. It's good to know it. Which actually didn't happen that way. We'll talk about the whole journey. You know, I actually never managed a coffee shop in my life.

[A]

That's really funny to me. I don't know why it's funny because it's not true. And people write with such authority.

[B]

Basically, the Internet is in your face, sports.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

[B]

In your face, Internet.

[A]

And with that, we are gonna put a pin in it. Part 2 of this episode is ready to be listened to. Go check out. We will continue this conversation. Dive into more mindless, weird topics as you get to know us better. Mindless, great.

[B]

I love it.

[A]

It's actually really fun.

[B]

I like deep diving into these.

[A]

Like mermaids having babies.

[B]

Yeah, this is good.

[A]

It's like a weird therapy where we're solving nothing.

[B]

And everyone out there, you're welcome for this. And you know what? If you love these strange questions, make sure you review. Come on, keep doing it. Smash that like button.

[A]

You're such a good. You're such a good cons. You're good at something. Promotion. Thank you.

[B]

I'm not self promoting.

[A]

I hate it. So thank. I'm being honest. Like you're really good. I'm supposed to be like, give us a five star review every single time. And I don't. Yeah.

[B]

If you haven't read it literally takes one second. It actually does go along.

[A]

We do appreciate it. We do read them. My dad reads every single one of them. He lets me know when he wants. When there's a person who doesn't say something nice and he wants to attack them, my dad's there. So we're reading all.

[B]

You know what the interesting thing about this entire segment is?

[A]

What?

[B]

There is literally zero need for jarwood questions.

[A]

No, this is.

[B]

We could be like jar of not strange questions. Jar of serious questions.

[A]

All right, guys, go listen to part two. It is ready and have a wonderful day. Bye, guys. You, me and Mike is a production of the Rambling Redhead from thirteen Media.

[B]

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[A]

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