Welcome to Episode 46 of Two Awesome People — your middle-aged take on pop culture (keeping us “old people” informed).

Today we get into:

• The rise of “grandma hobbies” (a.k.a. analog activities) as people try to escape doomscrolling — with searches for “analog hobbies” spiking fast lately.
• TikTok’s “Great Meme Reset of 2026” and why 2016 is allegedly the “golden era” again.
• How Olympians think about success/failure… plus the eternal truth: don’t bring heavy topics to bed (Kelly disagrees).
• A group of Buddhist monks walking 2,300 miles from Texas to Washington, DC on a Walk for Peace — and the very real accident they endured along the way.
• The Stanford Medicine research that suggests aging doesn’t happen smoothly — it can hit in big molecular “bursts” in the mid-40s and again around 60.
• And yes… we end with Autistic Barbie and the complicated line between inclusion and corporate “good business.”

If you’re in your 40s, tired, doomscrolling, nostalgic, or just here for the banter: you’re our people.

Chapters

00:00 – “Sponsored by moms” + middle age is gross
00:40 – Grandma hobbies / analog activities (doomscroll escape)
02:45 – Needlepoint vs crocheting (we do NOT know things)
03:20 – DVDs are not analog, they’re just annoying
04:10 – Driving slow: the new grandpa sport
05:15 – Ken Burns loud + closed captions debate
07:35 – The “Great Meme Reset of 2026” explained
10:35 – What “meme” actually means (Dawkins 1976)
14:20 – Olympians: success, failure, resilience, and sleep
15:45 – Don’s rule: no heavy topics before bed
19:30 – Hard left turn: Buddhist monks peace walk (Texas → DC)
22:35 – Crash + monk’s amputation (sobering moment)
23:45 – “Aging cliff” + why two beers now hurts
26:35 – Autistic Barbie: inclusion vs marketing
29:00 – Wrap

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