This week on Two Awesome People:

Michael Jackson was a huge part of Don’s childhood. Kelly? Not so much.

In this episode of Two Awesome People, we debate Michael Jackson, the new movie, nostalgia, parenting, and the uncomfortable question of whether you can separate the artist from the person.

We get into:

• Kelly admits she is a total catastrophizer
• why Don still sees Michael Jackson as a once-in-a-generation performer
• why Kelly changes the channel when his music comes on
• what we tell our kids about famous but morally complicated people
• competitive jigsaw puzzling
• Don’s buttered toast cookies

This one gets messy, funny, dark, and very real.

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📌 Chapters:

00:00 The long game on Michael Jackson
00:18 Don grew up with Michael Jackson
01:01 Kelly discovers she’s a catastrophizer
03:37 Why Michael Jackson still matters
05:39 Kelly’s first memory of Michael Jackson
06:02 Don’s circus story and MJ childhood nostalgia
07:31 The Super Bowl halftime show changed everything
08:30 Kelly only knew Michael Jackson through controversy
09:06 Do you keep the song on or change the channel?
10:36 Parenting and what we tell our kids
11:26 “Awesome dancer” vs “awesome person”
12:31 Kelly’s catastrophizing meets Michael Jackson
13:02 Will the movie do well?
14:20 Would you want this kind of fame for your kids?
18:00 Recommendation time
18:11 Competitive jigsaw puzzling is real
24:12 Don’s buttered toast cookies
26:46 Our Friday night plan

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🍪 Buttered toast cookies Recipe:

Toast Flakes:

3 slices toasted sourdough bread

1Tbl unsalted butter

Wet

3 1/2 T unsalted, cubed, cold butter

6 T unsalted butter, browned

1 tsp white miso paste (optional)

3/4 C. sugar

1/4 C. brown sugar

1 egg & 1 yolk

1tsp vanilla

Dry

2 C. all purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 C raspberry jam to swirl into the dough

1 C. White Chocolate Chips/Chunks (optional)

Pulse toasted and butter bread in food processor. Set aside 2/3 of the Toast Flakes for the dough and 1/3 to coat the outside of cookies before baking.

Brown the butter is a small saucepan and then remove from heat and cool for 30 minutes

• Mix the cubed butter with cooled browned butter, miso paste, sugar, and brown sugar. Mix until creamy.
• Mix in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla.
• Add dry ingredients into wet mixture. Do not overmix
• Fold in 1/2 the toast flakes you set aside earlier
• Marble in the jam (don’t mix in)
• Portion the dough into 1/2 C. balls, roll each dough ball in the remaining toast flake.

Place cookies onto a parchment lined tray and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, up to 30 hour

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and bake for 10-12 minutes. You should have visible browning. Allow to cool on the tray for 5-10 minutes.

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The Artemis II crew just flew 40,000 miles past the moon and back — and we have thoughts. A LOT of thoughts. Plus: can a compliment be an insult? We play the game and things get awkward fast.

In Episode #58, Kelly and Don break down the Artemis 2 mission — four astronauts, one very small capsule, a moon crater named after a lost love, and an astronaut who may or may not have taken maple syrup into space.

Then we get into quiet compliments: those small, specific things someone says that hit harder than any grand gesture. What makes them land? Why do men and women hear them so differently?

Then we play "Quiet Compliment or Backhanded Slam?" — because some things really walk the line. ("You're not as annoying as most people." Compliment? Insult? Both?)

Plus: NASA goes full cat content, Don attempts a moon song (badly), and we wrap with our recommendations for the week.

Chapters
00:00 – We're Sharing Air Now, Apparently
00:31 – Artemis II Mission Recap
06:15 – NASA's Cat Tweet Goes Viral
07:52 – Wake-Up Songs in Space
11:00 – Coachella & The Japanese Forgetfulness Trick
12:24 – Quiet Compliments: Small Words, Big Impact
26:17 – Game: Quiet Compliment or Backhanded Slam?
30:09 – Kelly & Don's Recommendations This Week

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Are you accidentally insulting your partner without realizing it? Kelly and Don break down the phrases couples say every single day that secretly sting — and rate which ones are truly unforgivable.

This week on Two Awesome People: we got news about an animatronic Olaf taking a nosedive at Disneyland Paris, kimchi doing something wild for your gut health, and the most intense office chair race you've never heard of. Then we get into it — the top unintentional insults couples throw at each other (yes, "you look tired" makes the list), and we quiz each other on whether common phrases are kind, rude, or secretly brutal.

Spoiler: Don says "you look tired" within the first 30 seconds. Classic.

Timestamps:

0:00 — Don immediately proves Kelly's point
0:36 — News: Olaf dies at Disneyland Paris
1:08 — Kimchi vs. nanoplastics
1:44 — Office chair racing in Japan 🏆
2:24 — Top 10 unintentional insults in marriage
29:16 — The Quiz: Kind, Rude, or Secretly Brutal?
31:25 — Wrap-up

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💬 Which phrase on our list has your partner said to YOU? Drop it below.

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Welcome to Two Awesome People, where we explore the internet's weirdest corners! 😂

In this episode Kelly and Don dive into a hilarious April 1st joke, discussing how the best prank ideas rely on the target falling for it. We share some funny jokes and even a bit of stand up comedy as we ponder why some people are so easily fooled. This is definitely one to make you try not to laugh!

We debate pranks that are too far, the awkward moment kids ask the big holiday questions, Easter Bunny logic, viral AI fruit drama, and why Chuck Norris memes deserve respect.

From fake vacations to Costco, autocorrect sabotage, cereal pranks, Santa heartbreak, and the internet’s newest obsession with dramatic AI fruit, this episode is pure middle-aged chaos.

We get into:
• April Fool’s pranks for kids: too far or just right?
• the right age to tell kids about Santa
• why the Easter Bunny makes less sense than Santa
• the bizarre rise of AI fruit reality-drama videos
• remembering Chuck Norris facts and early internet humor

If you like funny podcast conversations about parenting, pop culture, weird internet trends, and middle-age reactions to modern nonsense, this one’s for you.

Chapters
00:00 Fake headline: people over 40 shouldn’t learn new apps
00:19 April Fool’s quiz: too far or just right?
00:52 The “stolen car” April Fool’s story
01:18 Autocorrect prank chaos
02:22 Gross food pranks and fake family texts
03:00 The “for sale” sign prank
03:31 Best April Fool’s prank for kids
04:41 A totally real history of April Fool’s
05:10 Easter Bunny origin and why it makes no sense
07:01 When your kid asks if Santa is real
08:38 Leprechaun toilet prank fallout
09:28 The right age to tell kids the truth about Santa
11:31 Regret, honesty, and parenting the Santa question
15:24 “Kids should be seen and not heard”
16:01 Kelly vs reality TV
17:11 Viral AI fruit drama explained
20:21 Why people are obsessed with AI fruit stories
24:09 RIP Chuck Norris and the return of the memes
25:29 Final thoughts and holiday sendoff


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Welcome to Episode 55 of Two Awesome People — your middle-aged take on pop culture (keeping us “old people” informed).

This Episode dives into the hilarious confusion around the phrase "rawdogging." Toxic people who may actually age you faster, the bizarre rise of Scream Club, and the latest Banksy identity conversation. Funny, weird, and very middle-aged.

Kelly and Don try to figure out what this specific slang means, leading to a classic comedy moment as they discuss slang words and english slang. This funny short is a great example of the everyday English communication we tackle on the podcast.

In this episode:
• Raw dogging boredom
• Meditation vs. Gen Z wellness trends
• Toxic people and aging
• How to handle “hasslers”
• Scream Club explained
• Banksy identity talk
• Opening Day / baseball button


Chapters
00:00 What does “raw dogging” even mean?
01:43 Raw dogging boredom = meditation?
06:01 Toxic people can age you faster
09:27 How to deal with “hasslers”
10:33 The baseball parent example
14:40 What is Scream Club?
18:08 Don tries screaming
22:11 Banksy’s identity revealed?
29:08 Opening Day and baseball pride

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St. Patrick’s Day in your 40s is less about green beer and more about dyeing the toilet water green so your kids think a leprechaun peed in it.

The Manosphere is targeting young boys — and we have thoughts. 😤

In this episode of Two Awesome People, Kelly and Don cover the weirdest corners of the internet and pop culture this week: Italy’s espresso machine celebration at the World Baseball Classic, the newest emojis and how they’ll absolutely be misused, therians and furry-adjacent internet culture, the bizarre origin of “get your goat,” the 90-second anger rule, and a surprisingly real conversation about the manosphere and raising boys in a very online world.

Also: preschool stories, opera car salesmen, poison oak in unfortunate places, and Don once again struggling with names.

In this episode:

• St. Patrick’s Day parenting pranks
• Italy’s espresso machine baseball celebration
• The weirdest new emojis
• What a Therian is
• The difference between furries and therians
• “Get Your Goat” explained
• The 90-second rule for anger
• The Manosphere and boys online
• Preschool teacher stories
• Don butchering names again

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Chapters
0:00 St. Patrick’s Day in your 40s
0:24 Italy’s espresso machine baseball celebration
1:12 The weird new emojis
4:36 What is a therian?
10:36 Opera-singing car salesman
12:05 “Get your goat” explained
13:24 The 90-second anger rule
17:32 The manosphere explained
26:00 Preschool stories with Kelly
28:06 Don apologizes for pronouncing names badly
29:23 Wrap up

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Welcome to Two Awesome People Episode 53, a funny pop culture podcast with Kelly and Don covering the Oscars 2026, Dusking (Wellness Trend), parenting fails, weird food, and middle-aged reactions to modern life.

In this episode:

• the bizarre rise of dusking
• why people in Amsterdam are apparently staring at trees
• Oscars talk, predictions, and why they’re even called the Oscars
• the red carpet origin story
• Sinners, Train Dreams, and Kelly’s awards opinions
• the weird internet theory that Jim Carrey is fake
• what city boy actually means
• the Washington licensing line that gave accent instead of Spanish
• Kelly’s new preschool-teacher era
• boy dinner and boy kibble
• Harry Styles vs. 90s boy bands
• and the work phrase that absolutely broke both of us:
  “It’s like taking your pants off to fart.”

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Chapters

0:00 Weirdest analogy ever
0:56 What is “dusking”?
2:42 The new wellness trend of 2026
4:04 Staring at trees in Amsterdam
6:16 Would teenagers ever go dusking?
7:31 Oscar talk begins
7:59 Why are they called the Oscars?
9:13 Oscars predictions and Conan hosting
10:28 Best Picture and actor picks
13:26 Who has won the most Oscars ever?
14:44 Explaining Michael Jackson to a 10-year-old
16:10 Oscar quiz chaos
18:30 Kearney Cerny tacos
19:20 Press 2 for Spanish… but not really
21:08 Jim Carrey conspiracy theory
22:25 Kelly’s new job
24:00 Boy dinner and boy kibble
26:12 Harry Styles vs 90s boy bands
27:55 Back to the best analogy ever
30:26 Wrap-up

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Welcome back to Two Awesome People — where medium people talk about new things and pretend we know what we’re doing.

This episode starts with an IKEA orangutan sponsorship (as one does), then spirals into a religious holiday “explosion” featuring Holi, Lent, and Ramadan… with bonus mispronunciations we definitely regret.

Then we hit the real chaos:

• Kelly updates the world on Punch the Monkey (and the IKEA Jungleskog orangutan shortage)
• Kelly returns to work while Don thrives as a house husband
• And we descend into the rise of prediction markets (aka “gambling but make it finance”)
• Finally: why loot boxes and online games feel like a gateway into gambling for kids

Chapters below 👇
Like, subscribe, and tell us what you’d give up for Lent (besides this podcast).

Chapters / Timestamps

00:00 Orangutans from IKEA (sponsor?)
00:45 Tea vs coffee = old lady lifestyle
01:00 The “religious explosion”: Holi + Lent + Ramadan
02:15 Kelly’s Lent flex: gave up chocolate
03:30 What people give up for Lent (overthinking, procrastination, etc.)
05:20 Baths are disgusting (Kramer ruined everything)
06:45 Ramadan explained (Don’s Middle East shoot story)
08:20 Punch the Monkey update + IKEA Jungleskog sells out
11:30 IKEA furniture: falls apart, but emotional support animals slap
12:00 Don becomes a house husband
13:30 “We’re gambling away groceries” (prediction markets)
16:25 Scream 7 betting + the Rotten Tomatoes line
18:40 Survivor 50 + Mike White + spoiler culture war
22:15 Daylight Savings stress (tournament incoming)
27:30 Loot boxes + kids + gambling pipeline
30:00 Guardrails parenting + bread exit

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