Two Parents & A Podcast
Posting kids online, stocks for christmas presents & this time last year
Thu, 19 Dec 2024
Welcome back to another episode of Just Alex! So, hypothetically—if you’ve exhausted all resources and anticipated all needs—what’s the least amount of cries a 3-month-old could have in a day?! And who's gonna tell Harrison it's more than 3?? Anyways, Christmas/Hanukkah (Chanukah????) are next week, so we discuss what we were doing this time last year, what we’re getting each other as presents, and do newborns need gifts?! (Is a stock a gift??) Then we try out some new segments: Things We’ve DMed Each Other (Influencers making fun of their kids, Bitcoin at $100k), Biggest Parenting Fail of the Week (write us in yours!!), and Today I Learned (see: Chanukah). OK—HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! We love you guys. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00:00 Welcome back to another episode of Just Alex 00:01:05 What's the least amount of cries a 3-month-old could have in a day? (hypothetical) 00:05:15 De-puffing pregnancy face 00:07:45 Neighborhood holiday activities 00:13:00 This time last year… 00:18:40 Are you supposed to get your newborn gifts for Christmas? 00:24:48 What we’ve DMed eachother this week (Making fun of your kids, Bitcoin) 00:42:50 Parent fail of the week 00:46:15 Chanukah or Hanukkah? 00:49:28 Listener question - pumping/feeding schedule? #justalexpod ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to our sponsors this week: - Lumen: If you want to take the next step in improving your health, go to https://www.lumen.me/JUSTALEX to get 15% off your Lumen. Thank you, Lumen, for sponsoring this episode! - Navage Baby: Order the new Naväge Baby Aspirator and Inhaler today! My listeners can order directly from my exclusive URL: https://www.Navage.com/ALEX - Mint Mobile: To get this new customer offer and your new 3-month premium wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://www.mintmobile.com/alex. $45 upfront payment required (equivalent to $15/mo.). New customers on the first 3 month plan only. Speeds slower above 40GB on Unlimited plan. Additional taxes, fees, & restrictions apply. See MINT MOBILE for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to the pod on Spotify/Apple Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/7BxuZnHmNzOX9MdnzyU4bD?si=5e715ebaf9014fac https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-alex/id1737442386 Follow Just Alex Pod: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/justalexpod/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@justalexpod 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 was last year's Christmas like for Harrison and Alex?
And I've been thinking a lot about this. Okay. If you committed your full day to making sure your three-month-old doesn't cry or limiting their amount of cries, what's the least amount of cries you think you could get?
you really got to be on offense and know she's going to get hungry, you know, and feed her the bottle beforehand and burp her. And, and if you do all of those things, maybe the least amount is nine, 10, You know, you got to hope nobody drops loud noises. No, nothing breaks.
So, so here's what I was thinking. I was thinking like, what are the main reasons why, why three month old cries, right? Or why, why she cries. So obviously like hunger is one. So I think you nailed like just being on the offense. Two is diaper. So I think if you're committing to this, you, you got to go no diaper for the day.
Oh, no, no, no. I don't agree.
No, because that way you see it happen, you clean it up right away, and you're moving forward.
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Chapter 2: Should you get gifts for a newborn?
What are you seeing it in?
You're going to get dirty. But you're getting dirty to avoid the cry.
No, no, no. No, sir.
She would not cry. A baby wouldn't cry if they went to the bathroom on you.
Okay, I'll debunk that after.
Then burping I was really confused about because I noticed that when I'm feeding her and I stop the feed because she's so hungry and she starts burping, and you start burping her, she cries. Mm-hmm. Versus if I don't burp her, I feel like she doesn't cry, but she'll just throw up. So I think burping leads to more crying. So I don't know. I think I could do under five.
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Chapter 3: What are the best gifts to give a baby?
Honestly, I think I could do three. I would try to do zero. I think I could firmly do under three.
Harrison tried this the other day. He was like, I'm trying to go the whole day without her crying. But sometimes when you change your diaper, she just cries because she's cold.
Oh, but that was the other thing. So I was thinking about all the things. So she gets cold. Make the house really hot.
I do agree with that. I think it's cute that you want her to go the whole day without crying. But I just think her crying is a way of telling us things too. So it's okay.
But can we... I think that's exactly my point. Can we predict what she wants before she tells us? That's the challenge you're kind of going through.
Yeah. Can we change her diaper ahead of time?
Or just not let her wear a diaper. She just doesn't wear a diaper.
I saw on Instagram this girl had like a really mini pot that what what stopped me from scrolling was the caption said my two-month-old has only pooped in a diaper one time and I thought what so I watched the video and it was this like little potty and she had her baby sitting on and it was going in the bathroom in it and she was like look I already I already potty trained my baby and
That's ridiculous. It was absurd. People were just like, change the diaper. Do less. Do less. I hated it. I hated it. So... Yeah. Yeah. I'm not for it.
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Chapter 4: What parenting fails did we experience this week?
I don't know because mine is about, well, I pump when I do it a lot of times. So I could tell you exactly, it's around eight to nine minutes, but I'm doing, so I think that's probably a lot longer than most. Um, but I'm doing the electromagnetic face gym thing. The massager that's like, you have to charge it. Like it actually is, is moving. Like it moves my face around.
Like my eye twitches when I do it because I'm deep puffing from a pregnancy face.
I've never seen another woman go like that at night. And you do that every night in the mirror for like two to three minutes.
What are you doing? Swiping outward. I'm doing lymphatic drainage towards the ear and then down. Oh, yeah. So I go out and then I go down. You got to open up your lymph nodes. Yep. Oh, yeah.
I don't want to be on your TikTok, whatever you're saying.
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Chapter 5: How do we feel about posting kids online?
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Why do some people on our street have just one candle in their windows? Have you noticed that? A lot of people have one candle in their windows.
No, because as I walk down the street, I try not to look at the homes because so often people are on the patios. I just try to avoid eye contact. So I actually... I love our neighborhood.
Love it.
Our neighborhood, the people spend an outsized amount of time on their porch.
They do.
And like you're not locked in. You're just kind of walking down. It's like a parade just waving. It's really intense.
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Chapter 6: What are our Christmas plans this year?
But why are you being like this? You're not a Grinch. I don't like you saying that when you're in fact the opposite. You're quite jolly.
Okay. I'm jolly. I'm jolly Harrison.
You love dressing up, Tater.
No, no, no. I do. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Okay. Okay. So we're going to jump into... Like, we have some segments today. So we have a listener question at the end, which I love. And then we're going to do... We're trying out new segments. So we're trying out parenting fails, which, by the way, please. So write in listeners questions to the Just Alex podcast page.
Also start writing in parenting fails because we're going to either if we have one, we'll do ours. If we don't have one, we'll we'll share yours. And then we're also going to do our first segment. Let's like jump into our first segment. OK.
All right.
So, one more thing before we get into our newfound segments. Let's talk, speaking of holiday cheer, about what you and I are doing for Christmas and what we're doing for Tater for Christmas. So, Harrison and I, last year we did... Do you ever think about where we were last year versus this year? So this week, last year, Harrison and I went to Miami.
And our Miami trip, should we ever go back, looked very different then than it would now. We, like, hit poppy stake. What else did we do?
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