How we built community on our street, rule breakers vs. followers & is it too early for Halloween?!

This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, happy Friday!! We shared a bit about our street this week on socials, and the comments had one big request: "please dig deep on the community y'all have created on the pod." So hi! We get into when it all started, the little ways everyone shows up for each other.. plus the couples trip we just booked with THE neighbors (who we realized we've somehow never hung out with 1:1..) AND, if you want one place to start with YOUR street: host the street-wide barbecue.

Before all that: do you remember the first time your parents embarrassed you in public?? Harrison has a convertible pickup memory, Alex genuinely cannot think of one, and all Jules could come up with was that Nori (Minich) wore a lot of brown LOL.

Then Jules is back from New York with a story we're still processing: she caught her pilot LYING. Pilots need a full 8 hours of rest, hers fudged his timesheet, and someone caught it because the math didn't math. Rules are rules!! (No public shaming.. but a strongly worded DM is coming lol)

On the home front: we are officially a couple who "padels" together, we're going BIG on Halloween because Tate APPROVED the skeletons, and Rocky is giving us 5 to 6 hour stretches since starting the nanny share. There's something to babies being busy and around other babies!!

Plus our coffee GIVEBACK winner is announced (s/o Jetta.. enjoy Hattie's Coffee House in Whitestown, Indiana!!) and the next giveback is live: comment your favorite date night idea and we're treating one of you to it.

Rapid fire: McDonald's says GLP-1 users are their next big opportunity?!, where's the first place you drove when you got your license, the big one: are you a rule follower or a rule breaker?!, handedness is decided in the WOMB?!, the most popular Uber Eats restaurant in America, ergodic theory, and Harrison's AI update: Meta launched Muse (and the rollout is a masterclass).

Come see us at Dear Media by Day TOMORROW!! Sold out, but if you have a ticket: we can't wait!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend :-) LOVE YOU GUYS!

Timestamps:

00:00:00 Welcome back to Two Parents & A Podcast!

00:00:32 Do you remember the first time your parents embarrassed you in public?

00:02:19 Jules caught her pilot LYING?!

00:10:38 We are officially a couple who “padels” together

00:16:40 We're going BIG on Halloween

00:21:36 Rocky sleep update: the nanny share effect

00:23:55 Coffee GIVEBACK winner announced!! (+ our new date night giveback)

00:27:23 We've never hung out with the neighbors alone??

00:29:27 How we’ve created community within our neighborhood

00:35:27 Favorite Halloween costumes (yes, we know it's September lol)

00:37:01 McDonald's says GLP-1 users are their next big opportunity?!

00:41:01 Where's the first place you drove when you got your license?!

00:42:49 Are you a rule follower or a rule breaker?!

00:47:03 Handedness follow up: it's decided in the WOMB?!

00:50:21 The MOST POPULAR Uber Eats restaurant in America?! 

00:53:51 Ergodic theory ( a fun life lesson from TikTok) 

00:55:39 Come see us at Dear Media by Day TOMORROW!!

00:57:13 Harrison's AI update: Meta launched Muse (a masterclass in product launches?)

00:59:22 LOVE YOU GUYS!

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Sources:

• • • Handedness in the womb:  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/202006/does-left-handedness-develop-before-or-after-birth

• • • Forcing left-handers to switch: https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/stuttering-and-retraining-left-handed-children-mid-century-us 

• • • Padel growth: https://athletechnews.com/padel-growth-us-report/

• • • Meta Muse launch:  https://www.benton.org/headlines/meta-debuts-muse-its-long-planned-personal-ai-agent

• • • • McDonald's GLP-1 "next big opportunity”: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/mcdonalds-exec-says-glp-1-boom-is-an-opportunity-204354994.html

• • • • • • • • • McDonald’s Stock Price: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2026/09/25/mcdonalds-stock-fell-29-its-turnaround-plan-could-make-things-worse/ 

• • • • • • The Uber Eats most popular restaurant: https://x.com/BarredinDC/status/2102364966187680053?s=20 https://x.com/BarredinDC/status/2102364966187680053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2102364966187680053%7Ctwgr%5Ede9349122d54bf21483e99d0db8fffab1e1aa826%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.notion.com%2Fp%2FWEEKLY-EPISODES-39dabaf47b5180d9831ce94c7f5877b8

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