For The Record

About For The Record

Welcome to For The Record podcast. Season 2 of this podcast is going to have Rhoni Mohanraj & Joey Simms talk about the world of events, pop culture and share some hilarious stories, share expert advice and maybe some hot takes! Thanks for hoping on the ride with this! If you like what you are listening, please follow us on all the platforms that you can watch and listen this podcast on!

Publisher

Trident Event Group

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

4 Feb 2022

Latest episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

78 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Episode 63 - Ranking the Top 10 First Dance Songs

   Round three of the song game, and this time the stakes are real. Rhoni Mohanraj and Joey Simms rank the top ten first dance songs, blind. Each of them sent five songs to Aiden, who shuffled the whole thing and reads them out one at a time. Neither host knows what is coming, and once a song is placed it is locked. There was zero overlap between their two lists, which surprised both of them. Rhoni admits his strategy up front. Two of his picks are pure cliché, the songs that pack a floor no matter what. The other three he chose on the strength of the lyrics, because he thinks couples pick a first dance on vibe and never actually read the words. He proves the point by reading John Mayer's XO out loud, over Joey's loud objection to turning the episode into a poetry reading. The ranking exposes the real tension in picking a first dance: popularity today against how the song will feel in ten years. Alex Warren's Ordinary was everywhere last season, to the point where Rhoni watched three separate couples get lifted on the chorus, and both hosts suspect it will not age. Meanwhile Elvis has been getting couples onto floors for sixty years. That argument decides the top of the list. Around the ranking there is a lot of shop talk worth having. The Taylor Swift saturation problem and why her requests have dried up this season. A DJ hunting down a Chris Taylor cover of I Hope You Dance that only exists on SoundCloud. An award winning Elvis impersonator booked for a wedding on the eighteenth. And a genuinely good idea neither of them can use: a surprise flash mob at a reception, which fails the moment you try to plan it for your own wedding. It closes with a World Cup tangent, a bet involving Joey's beard, and a round of Things I Wouldn't where the topic is things you should never yell at a live sporting event. That segment gets away from them, and the editor gets some work. ===== TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open: Let's Get Married 0:53 Welcome to Episode 63 1:41 The Game: Blind Ranking First Dance Songs 3:19 Where Would ABBA Go? 3:55 A Word From Trident Films 4:59 The Surprise Wedding Flash Mob Idea 5:45 Ordinary, Alex Warren 6:33 The Taylor Swift Saturation Problem 7:23 XO, John Mayer 9:01 Spin You Around, Morgan Wallen 10:37 Tennessee Whiskey, Chris Stapleton 12:08 Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli 12:54 Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran 14:25 Can't Help Falling in Love, Elvis Presley 15:19 Elvis Takes Number One 16:07 King of Rock and Roll, and an Elvis Impersonator 16:56 You Are the Best Thing, Ray LaMontagne 17:42 Beyond, Leon Bridges 18:05 Amazed, Lonestar 18:28 The Final Top Ten 20:02 World Cup Talk and Joey's Beard Bet 22:27 Things I Wouldn't Yell at a Sporting Event ===== SHOW NOTES The final ranking 1. Can't Help Falling in Love, Elvis Presley 2. Amazed, Lonestar 3. Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli 4. Tennessee Whiskey, Chris Stapleton 5. XO, John Mayer 6. Spin You Around, Morgan Wallen 7. Thinking Out Loud, Ed Sheeran 8. Ordinary, Alex Warren 9. You Are the Best Thing, Ray LaMontagne 10. Beyond, Leon Bridges

2. 

   24 Jul 2026

   Episode 62 - The World's Weirdest Wedding Traditions, Ranked

   Rhoni Mohanraj opens episode 62 by confessing to a grocery order that got away from him. He saw a picture, he saw a price, and he bought seven kilograms of bananas for eleven dollars. His mother's review of the purchase was short and devastating. Joey Simms enjoys this more than is strictly polite, and the two of them are off. The episode proper is a game. Joey brings a list of wedding traditions from around the world and reads them out one at a time, and he and Rhoni decide whether North America should steal them. Some are gorgeous. Norwegian brides wear a crown to keep evil spirits away. Mexican couples get wrapped in a lasso shaped like a figure eight for infinity. Indian brides get henna, and Lebanese families kick the whole day off with a Zaffe, a loud procession of music and dancing before anyone gets near an aisle. Others go sideways fast. In the Congo, the couple is forbidden from smiling for the entire wedding day, because grinning suggests you are not taking marriage seriously. In China, the groom shoots his bride with a headless arrow, several times, then snaps the arrows. In Mongolia, a couple cannot set a date until they kill a chicken and find a healthy liver inside, and they keep going until they succeed. And in one Chinese tradition, the bride cries for an hour a day for a month before the wedding, with her mother joining at the ten day mark and her grandmother ten days after that, until every woman in the family is weeping in harmony. Along the way the guys get properly derailed. A Czech fertility ritual that involves placing an infant on the couple's bed turns into a full business plan for a baby rental service, complete with domain name brainstorming and a supply chain problem neither of them can solve. Rhoni goes on a genuinely useful tangent about hundred dollar bills and why nobody in Canada will take one. Two DoorDash orders arrive mid record. Joey checks in on wedding season, and reports eight or nine weddings and grads in June alone. It closes with each of them picking a favourite and a worst, and a new round of Joey's Things I Wouldn't segment. For a show that started with bananas, it lands somewhere close to a real point about weddings: the traditions worth keeping are the ones that build the day up rather than putting the couple through something. ===== TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS 0:00 Seven Kilograms of Bananas 1:10 Welcome to Episode 62 3:04 The Game: Should We Adopt It? 3:49 Wedding Season Check In 5:05 Norway: A Crown Against Evil Spirits 6:49 Mexico: The Lasso and the Figure Eight 7:34 Armenia: Bread on the Shoulders 9:35 A Word From Trident Photo 10:05 Congo: No Smiling Allowed 11:05 China: Shooting the Bride With Arrows 12:35 France and Greece: Heart Cutouts and Shaving the Groom 15:19 Brazil, Lebanon and Germany, Back to Back 16:51 Czech Republic: The Wedding Baby 17:38 Babies for Hire, a Business Idea 19:56 Nigeria: Breaking the Kola Nut 21:30 India: Stealing the Groom's Shoes 23:04 The Money Dance and the Hundred Dollar Bill Problem 24:35 Mongolia: The Chicken Liver Test 25:50 China: Crying on a Schedule 26:55 India: Marrying a Tree First 28:21 Sweden: Stealing Kisses 29:51 Favourites, Least Favourites, Things I Wouldn't

3. 

   19 Jul 2026

   Episode 61 - The Baby Nobody Saw Coming

   This is the one. After teasing a "fatherhood cliffhanger" last episode, Rhoni sits down and tells the full, jaw-dropping story: he is about to be a dad, and almost nobody, including Rhoni, saw it coming.The short version is that Rhoni and his wife had built a whole life around not having kids. She took a job in Dubai, they sold their house, and Rhoni started splitting time between Manitoba and the Middle East. Then, in the middle of a friend's wedding in Winnipeg, he gets an urgent call, hops on FaceTime, and sees a positive pregnancy test. What follows is a genuinely wild ride: a cryptic pregnancy with almost no symptoms, months of heartburn misread as a stomach issue across doctors in Sri Lanka and Dubai, and a gyno appointment that finally reveals she is 33 weeks and four days along. Due date: July 1st. They are filming this on June 11th.Rhoni tells it the only way he can, half in disbelief, laughing at himself the whole way, from thinking his wife was pulling the world's greatest prank to greeting her at the Winnipeg airport with the immortal words, "you are so big." Joey plays the perfect co-pilot, cracking up, keeping it moving, and floating the only logical follow-up: can the baby come on the next episode? Before the story even starts, the guys open with a chaotic cold open (popcorn basketball, a Snow White bit, and Mission Impossible set in India) and cap it off with a "Things Joey Wouldn't" segment. Warm, funny, and completely unforgettable.=====================================================TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTERS0:00 Cold Open: Popcorn Basketball2:07 Mud Brown and the Seven Bhangras3:12 Culture-Swapped Movies (Mission Impossible in India)5:16 Wait, What Episode Is This?5:47 The Fatherhood Cliffhanger, Answered7:19 Trident Music Ad Read8:27 Dubai, and Life Apart9:34 The Call: May 16th11:11 Two Tests, One Says "Real Pregnant"12:14 The Ultrasound and a Loud Heartbeat13:47 A Cryptic Pregnancy14:52 Sri Lanka, Heartburn, and the Gastritis Mix-Up16:56 "How Far Along Am I?"18:58 Four Hours of Waiting20:03 Butterflies and the First Kick21:37 Due July 1st, Filming June 11th23:17 48 Stairs and No Elevator24:53 Up All Night, Screaming Internally26:30 The Airport: "You Are So Big"29:37 Brandon, It Brings You Back30:39 A Bonus "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" Special31:10 Things Joey Wouldn't

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Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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91

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Engagement

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