Baby gear expert: Best & worst baby products, car seat safety & baby-proofing basics
Two Parents & A Podcast
Alex & Harrison Fugman
4.1 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of two parents and a podcast. Today is the day where people are going to learn a lot. |
| 0:06.9 | Right? Yeah. We are joined by Jamie Grayson, who is a, I have to, I don't know it. So it's a, you are a certified CPST, which a child passenger safety technician. |
| 0:18.7 | You did great. And you're a baby gear expert. I didn't know such a thing |
| 0:23.6 | existed. Yeah, I kind of invented the category with a couple other people 20 years ago. So, |
| 0:28.8 | not CPST, but in terms of like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But in terms of like people who worked |
| 0:33.9 | heavily in baby gear, like, I'm one of the like core people that started when |
| 0:39.1 | social media became a thing back in the day and now I'm one of the last remaining people |
| 0:44.5 | from the old the old school I like it well baby gear as a parent is top of mind safety is top |
| 0:53.8 | of mind but we have to ask you first before we get in, |
| 0:57.3 | because we have a lot of questions. We have questions for you in terms of like, I'm just |
| 1:00.9 | going to read the listener some really quick. Like three popular items parents should avoid, right? |
| 1:06.4 | You know, three baby products that make parents life easier and kids lifesaver so we're going to get into |
| 1:11.8 | stuff like that but before that we're also going to talk about like we're about to grow out of |
| 1:17.4 | the duna etc so some things that are personal to us and then some things that will provide value |
| 1:22.5 | but first like how on earth did you get into this because it's so unique and you know I don't have kids. I have 70s and nephews and I've been around kids my whole life. But 20 years ago, I got off tour of Best Little Horehouse in Texas. What? Best Little Horehouse in Texas, the musical. Dolly Parton did the movie of it. Yeah, my backgrounds musical theater. You know, I lived in New York. I was on tour, did all the things. And back when By-Buy Baby was in Chelsea, they were hiring actors to demonstrate product. And this is back when the Bunkaboo Frog first hit the market. And it was on Sex and the City. And so everybody went crazy. Everybody wanted to know how this stupid stroller folded. |
| 2:01.8 | Not stupid, but like this stroller folded up. So they had this idea to hire actors. So a handful of us in the store treated certain items like a trade show. So like I was on bugaboo. Somebody was on a crib. Somebody was on a glider. Somebody was on a McLaren stroller. and all we did three days a week was like, this is how the stroller folds. |
| 2:19.5 | So I just got very, very bored and started learning all the stuff on my own. |
| 2:24.4 | Eventually started doing like mass stroller demonstrations to 50, 60 people at a time of like the top eight strollers in the store, got bored with that. |
| 2:33.3 | And then eventually learned everything in the store, got bored with that, and then eventually learned everything |
| 2:34.7 | in the store and started doing like baby registry appointments for people, like building |
| 2:39.5 | people's registry. And because there were mom message boards in New York at the time, like, |
| 2:45.3 | and the moms liked to talk, you know, so I was booked three and four months in advance doing baby registries five or six days a week at the baby store. |
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