Hey, all you are welcome and this country was to keep and good. Welcome to Keith and the girl. I'm Keith Malley. And I'm Andrea Jones Roy. Andrew. Hello, Andrea. How are you? Nice to meet you. I love your podcast behind the data. Oh, thanks, Keith. I love this podcast. I am doing well. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Thank you. I like talking about people's names up front that are new to

Keith and the girl. And Jones Roy, is that two names and those are your parents' names? It is, and you

got it right. It is my, Jones is my mother and Roy is my father. But as I got older, people used to,

well, tended to assume I was married. And I am not. My parents are just, they were progressive for the 80s.

So, uh, would you be on dating apps?

Would you be on a dating app and have to be clear?

Like, just saying, it's my parents' names.

Yeah, you'd have to get, a lot of times what would happen is, is I would be like, like once I was on a first date with someone and we ran into a colleague and he said,

oh, so nice to meet your husband. And I was like, oh, this is so awkward. Like this is, that's my

parent's name. So, yeah. Was it ever hassle growing up? Like, hey, why can't I just have one name?

Huge. I still have a problem with it. When I was in third grade, I tried to go just by Roy, because I thought of the two, it was the more interesting name. No offense to the Joneses out there. And I started to feel so guilty about my mother. She didn't care. But I felt so guilty about her that I brought it back. But I've always been envious of a single name. I think the other thing my parents didn't think through A, filling out any form, airline reservations, official ID, it's a hyphen, it's an apostrophe, it's a space, it's nothing, no one knows.

But the other thing is I am highly Googlerable.

So there's a, if you're looking me up, it's either my brother or me.

So there is that, which is good or bad, I guess, depending on your view.

Did you get some kind of

hassle in school? Like, you're like, hey, my parents, whether they're married or not, this is,

they're together and don't look at me like I'm a bastard of some kind. You know, I didn't get much.

I think my friends and I didn't traffic in last names very much, but my mother got a lot of grief. She would constantly get,

you know, well, why doesn't your name match your children's? If she was here to pick us up from

school, it wasn't a perfect match. I mean, at least the Jones was in there. But her last name

was just Jones, not Roy. She added the Roy later. So people would get confused about whose parents

were whom, and that's, it never made her feel particularly good.

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