Two Parents & A Podcast
Can friendships survive kids?! (+ supporting your partner & living a more spontaneous life)
Thu, 13 Mar 2025
Happy Thursday! We’re back with another episode, and this one’s a fun one. Getting ahead of this now - I’m SORRY for the scream at the beginning (but I know you guys understand 🕷️🕷️). First up—Harrison just launched a new product (not an ad #NoFreeAds). Then, we get into our family’s secret languages (do you have one??), an update on Tate (she’s 6 months old!!! is this the end of pumping?), and the TL;DR of the house situation is that there’s no update and we’re like 30 days out. We’re also talking about friendship after kids—does having a baby mean losing friends? Does your FRIENDS having babies mean losing friends? And how can you be a supportive friend when your bestie becomes a parent? Plus a reminder to pay attention to how your friends talk about their partners!!! A sweet dad-to-be calls in and we share our #1 tips for prepping for baby. And, of course, we’re ending with the usual chaos—Fyre Festival 2 is somehow happening (allegedly), and we have some (alleged) thoughts. We LOVE YOU GUYS!! Timestamps: 00:00:00 Welcome back to Two Parents & A Podcast! 00:03:50 Harrison launched a new product!! (#NotAnAd lol) 00:07:35 Your family’s secret language 00:09:20 Tate is turning 6 months old (am I done pumping??) 00:12:55 Our weekly house update (TL;DR - there’s no update) 00:17:28 Skincare company recalls acne treatment due to cancer-linked chemicals?! 00:19:34 Things We DMed Eachother: Babysitting co-ops are a thing?! 00:25:15 Things We DMed Eachother: “My friends abandoned me when they had kids” 00:31:15 Listener Question: How can you be a supportive friend to new parents? 00:38:20 Pay attention to how your friends speak about their partners 00:45:50 Listener Question: How can I prepare to be a first-time dad? 00:48:20 Brain Break: Fyre Festival 2 00:51:45 LOVE YOU GUYS! #twoparentsandapod ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to our sponsors this week: * Nutrafol – For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to https://www.Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code TWOPARENTS. * Ollie – Dogs deserve the best, and that means fresh, healthy food. Head to https://www.Ollie.com/TWOPARENTS, tell them all about your dog, and use code TWOPARENTS to get 60% off your Welcome Kit when you subscribe today! Plus, they offer a Clean Bowl Guarantee on the first box, so if you’re not completely satisfied, you’ll get your money back. * Calm – For listeners of our show, Calm is offering an exclusive offer of 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription at https://www.calm.com/TWOPARENTS. * Quince – Give yourself the luxury you deserve with Quince! Go to https://www.Quince.com/alex for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to the pod on Spotify/Apple Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/7BxuZnHmNzOX9MdnzyU4bD?si=5e715ebaf9014fac https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-parents-a-podcast/id1737442386 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Two Parents & A Podcast: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twoparentsandapod TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@twoparentsandapod Follow Alex: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/justalexbennett TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@justalexbennett Follow Harrison: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/harrisonfugman TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@harrisonfugman ---------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by: Just Media House – https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Can friendships survive after having kids?
Miles Smith.
That's who I saw at... You loved him. Yeah. The Stubbs Theater with my sister and Dave.
You love a concert. So... Okay, let's start by recapping. I'm excited about this episode. We've got a lot of good things on the docket.
We've been so busy.
So busy. We were at Expo West, which we're not going to take you down memory lane on Expo West, but one thing I do want to talk about is Harrison launched a new product called Baconic, and I tried it. It's freaking good. It's basically a barbecue. There's two. There's a barbecue sauce with bacon bits in it. It's good. And then there's a spicy one that's spicy.
A hot sauce.
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Chapter 2: What are the signs of a supportive friend?
That's what it's called, a hot sauce. And it's hot.
Yep.
So here's my question that I've been refraining from asking.
And I definitely don't want this like to turn into an ad in any way.
It's not an ad because you can't buy it yet. Can you buy a Baconic right now?
Not yet.
Okay. So this is not an ad.
Okay. But more conversational versus like promotional.
We're not promoting Baconic. I am just telling you objectively speaking that it tastes good and I am proud of you.
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Chapter 3: How can you prepare to be a first-time dad?
Chapter 4: What are family secret languages?
I don't have to lie to you and tell you that it's good. And I fear the damage that you trying to put that concoction together will do to our kitchen.
I've been rereading the recipe like twice a day just to like really get it under wraps.
Just read it. Don't try it.
I haven't tried it yet. I ordered the ingredients though. So I've been staring at it. It's top of mind. Okay. Okay, let's do this. Ready? I just need to know, was that a spider? Is it a dead spider?
It's nothing.
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Chapter 5: How do you manage house updates while parenting?
Kill, or get, you have to pick the spider. I'm like, we cannot record. It's a dead spider, but like, what on earth? The problem is that spider was in the house.
I'm sure there's far more women afraid of spiders than males. No! No!
There's nothing I hate worse. Sorry, I just sounded so loud. It was a real scream. I'm really sorry. I'm so sorry.
And welcome to Two Parents in a Pod.
Oh, you did the intro today. We'll just leave that in. I'm in fight or flight mode now, so I need to calm down, calm my senses down.
Let's roll. What are we doing?
Do you know how to calm your senses down? Something you see. Okay, I see bricks. Something you smell. Fresh air. Oh, I'm just like imagining a spider. Something you hear. My voice. And it's very still in here. You do your five senses. I've forgotten. Taste. I do have a bit of like a burnt taste in my mouth. All right, ready? Yeah, let's go.
Well, you already entered us, so technically we're rolling.
We are.
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Chapter 6: What are the impacts of hormonal changes after stopping pumping?
Chapter 7: What is the importance of structure in spontaneity?
Tater's dad. Now the internet though, we made a TikTok and I didn't read the captions and you call her Bubbers, but it generated Harper. And so people are like, oh, her name is really Harper. And it's like, no, I didn't get stuff monogrammed with Tate to really have her name be Harper.
But do you know what's crazy?
What?
And I don't know if we ever recorded us talking about this, but what was the original name that we had for her? Harper. Yeah.
Harper. That was it. Wanted to name her Harper. So if some people are saying her name really is Harper.
I've transitioned away from Bubber more towards Nae Nae.
Nay-nay, because when she's hungry, I don't know if people know this, but there are certain types of cries that will give you hints as to what's wrong. And when she cries, she goes, nay, nay. She's hungry, so I call her nay-nays. And now we say, are you nay-ers? Or are you leapers, which means sleepy?
Yeah, what are some of the best kind of nick? I don't know what they call them, nicknames?
Code words?
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Chapter 8: How does Expo West benefit new product launches?
Like we built up enough common interest that like when we're hanging out, not like as, as much as I love Tate, like we don't need to talk about Tate. Cause like, I know you don't care about her sleeping schedule. I know you don't care or likely don't care about Tate. what's going on with her eating. And so let's talk about the things that we find funnier, we find interesting.
So this is something I'm so glad you brought this up because I never cared and I never went to meet anybody's baby, nor do I need anybody to come meet my baby at all whatsoever. But I do find a lot of people will ask me, how is she sleeping? Oh, is she teething yet? And I I can't imagine that they care, but I actually think they do. And a lot of them have nieces or nephews.
Like a lot of people are way more maternal or paternal than we were. And I do think that's a real thing. I know it's... I've thought about this a lot though, Harrison. I know it's impossible for us to understand because we weren't this way.
Yeah, but I just like still would rather like... you know, talk about things that, hopefully we're just talking about things where there's genuine interest, plain and simple.
So I agree with that, but this person to write in to ask this, they genuinely care.
I think they care about their friends. Well, actually, everyone's so different. But I think in many scenarios, they care about their friends as opposed to caring about the details of their friends' children's lives. Obviously, they care about the babies. But what I don't think they care about is the sleep routine and the eating schedule and transition to solids. You know what I mean?
So I guess let me clarify that.
But this girl's asking like, how can I show up for my friend's best? I'm saying, I think be understanding and that's good enough for me. And you're saying like, if you don't actually care, you don't need to pretend to care because also you really don't. I do agree.
Cause like we have, we have our pockets of stuff that, that are pockets of like the foundation of our friendship that were not built around children. And so like, let's go lean into that. Even if we're talking about fast food subject matter.
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