Two Parents & A Podcast
Grieving your pre-baby life, parental identify shift & backseat drivers
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
Welcome to the FIRST episode of Two Parents & A Podcast (feels weird not saying ‘back to another episode of Just Alex!!!’). Really gonna keep this low-key - this is the same show you guys know (and love?) - we just finally got around to that rebrand we’ve been promising. (Honestly how many more time could I have said “it’s just Alex aaaaaand Harrison’s here with me tooooo......” hahahha). So here we are, Two Parents & A Podcast - we’ll continue to invite y’all into our home weekly (sorry it’s so messy - we’re new parents) to talk all things parenting, relationships, trending topics, entrepreneurship, and the occasional conspiracy theory. On THIS WEEK’s episode - we get an update from Harrison on attending his first bachelor party as a dad. My first weekend alone with the babe had me thinking a lot about parental identity shift & grieving the pre-baby life, so we dive deep into this and my takeaways from the weekend (also just need to say - S/O TO SINGLE MOMS… you guys are super heroes). Next we’re laughing at the things we DMed eachother - backseat driving and having two babies at once (not twins??). Harrison DOESN’T laugh at the drunk confession I saw on IG that was hilarious. And we finish out the episode with a very valid questions: Where does your Girl Scout cookie money actually go?! One last thing, if you’re new here!!! If you came here for parenting advice - definitely the wrong podcast… But we try our best to share our experiences - this week y’all asked about when you should/when will we move the baby out of the bedroom (answer: we don’t know but we’ll obviously keep you updated). As always - LOVE YOU GUYS! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00:00 Welcome to Two Parents & A Podcast!!! (yay) 00:03:20 Is accumulating airline miles worth it or just a scam? 00:06:55 Harrison’s first bachelor party as a parent 00:11:00 Experiencing parent guilt 00:15:00 Grieving your pre-baby life & parental identity shift 00:22:05 Alex’s takeaways from a weekend by herself 00:23:30 Back seat driving 00:28:30 Having two babies at once 00:32:15 4 months old is hard 00:35:55 Drunk confessions 00:37:40 Where does your Girl Scout cookie money actually go?! 00:41:30 Listener question: when will you move the baby out of your room? 00:42:40 WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! #twoparentsandapod ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to our sponsors this week: - Naväge Baby: Get easy relief for your little ones… order the new Naväge Baby Aspirator and Inhaler today! You can now find Naväge Baby at Walmart or at Walmart.com Or order directly and get full product details from my special URL: https://www.Navage.com/ALEX - Quince: Upgrade your closet this year without the upgraded price tag. Go to https://www.Quince.com/alex for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Alex's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/justalexbennett Alex's TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@justalexbennett Follow Harrison: Harrison's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/harrisonfugman Harrison's 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: What is the significance of the podcast's rebranding?
Let me just be completely honest here. I struggled like I cried an awful lot of tears Saturday night.
Just the idea that like you couldn't if you know you needed a break or you couldn't come or you didn't have a partner to swap out with. That's what really got me.
But I very much so was like, whoa, am I ever going to be able to do anything again?
You know, I don't like ribs. I think it's the most overrated barbecue item.
What do you think is the best barbecue item? Brisket. I totally agree with you. I actually love ribs and brisket. Oh gosh, now it sounds good for dinner. I mean, how funny is that?
Yeah, I'm sorry that I'm not going to give you the reaction you want here. I just think that's not true.
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Chapter 2: What was Harrison's experience at his first bachelor party as a parent?
Welcome back to another episode of, I guess I can't say just Alex. You guys, welcome to the Two Parents in a Podcast podcast featuring me and my baby daddy. Hi.
Hello.
Do you like the name? To be honest, I don't even want to be this dramatic about the new name. Like, I just kind of want... Just Alex was always... Like, we knew I was pregnant when we started Just Alex, okay? But you guys didn't know, but we knew. And so it was always going to turn into something, but we didn't know what it was going to be. And now it's two parents and a podcast.
I think it's a natural fit. I think it's a natural evolution of what we felt. And so I think we just I think we just glide right into the episode. We have our segments this week.
We're talking about feels like not much of a change from the way things have been going over the past eight to 12 weeks.
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Chapter 3: How do parents cope with guilt after leaving their baby?
Exactly. So I think like I think it's very natural to fit into our lives.
But what I guess like how would you describe the podcast? Well, I would what this podcast how you describe what this podcast is.
It's like having dinner with your parent friends. It's like the babies are down for their nap.
You've cracked open, I don't know, a cold one, maybe a Michelob Ultra if you're you, an Aperol Spritz if you're me, and you're sitting around the table and you're talking about – this is why we do the brain break part of this, which is think of our neighbor friends that are also parents, okay, that their baby's two weeks older than ours, younger than ours.
Chapter 4: What does grieving your pre-baby life look like?
We talk about real life stuff with them, which is the brain break. It has nothing to do with kids. It can be any situation. I don't know. Today we're talking about Girl Scout cookies and whether or not that's a scam. But then we also talk a lot about our kids. And so this podcast is that.
And things we DM'd each other.
And things we DM'd each other. And bachelor parties. And anything that comes to mind. But I like the structure of this podcast because it's a beautiful blend of parenting, but also like parenting's on our whole identity. You and I, like we both work. We both read a lot. So this is everything wrapped into one.
And any difference between the podcast this week versus the past few weeks?
No, I would say it's the same. All of our segments are the same.
Just a new name.
Exactly.
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Chapter 5: What lessons did Alex learn from a weekend alone with the baby?
Cool.
Chapter 6: What are the challenges of backseat driving with kids?
Okay. All right.
I knew that. That was for the listener.
There we go.
Let's start. Podcaster.
You're a seasoned host. Today, the meat and the bones that we're going to get into, guys, is mourning your old life.
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Chapter 7: How does having two babies change parenting dynamics?
and grief of your personal identity but before that we're going to start with the IRL stuff which is Harrison went oh you've just been a little travel guy your airline miles have got to be through the roof you went on a bachelor party and how was it how was being away from the tater tot I'm going to pivot okay
I think airline miles are an all-time waste of time. I've never understood something less in my life. So I used to not do airline miles. I didn't think they made any sense. And I've started to do airline miles. And this just feels like the biggest waste of time. So I got my little thing here.
i'm a advantage platinum pro okay on american that like sounds pretty nice right and so like i was like okay so i do this so that way you get upgraded right that's like the main thing no so why do i do it because i was 16 on the upgrade list on my way back from miami number 16 you do it for the points but what why do you need the points
Sometimes you're so smart, and then sometimes you just miss. Sometimes you just want the easy way out. That's what you want.
Oh, my God. Like the points to book a flight.
Sometimes you just want.
So I do all that effort. So fine.
No, no, no, no, no.
Let me explain to you. So I have 130,000 points. Yeah, that's pushing. Where can I go with 130,000 points? Nowhere.
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Chapter 8: Where does Girl Scout cookie money go?
Those are amateur numbers.
I fly 24-7. Okay. Okay.
Let me explain it to you. It's the easiest thing on the planet to log in. It tracks your airline miles for you. It's not a waste of time. You just log in and then whenever you book a flight, they give you points. Once you accumulate enough points, you can use those points to fly somewhere for free. It's the best gig on the planet. Whoever thought of it's a genius.
You just want to use it to skip the line and be upgraded to first, but you only have 130,000 miles. People have millions of miles, right?
Who are these people with millions of miles?
People that travel for work a lot. Me, I have 400,000. I'm just a regular old person over here. And you need to pick one airline and you need to fly it and you really need to get a credit card also with that airline and then you can really rack them up. I usually get upgraded. If I need to call American Airlines, I have a different line to call.
And that's not because I did anything special other than I picked one airline, I logged into my account, and I dedicated my life to it. And I picked it because they fly to Oklahoma City more than any other airline.
Yeah, I just don't think that it's all worth it.
Oh, yeah. No, no, no. You could die on that cross. Die on that airline miles suck. Don't log in.
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