Brain fog, Pokemon cards & how to stop apologizing for everything

This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, happy Monday!! (we recorded this Sunday afternoon but still HAPPY MONDAY!) We open with Harrison's freak accident: he caught a falling glass, the glass did not cooperate, and now his hand is out of commission. Alex's 10:40 PM response ("you can Uber to the stitches..") will haunt her forever hahaha. Harrison’s first thought: thank goodness this didn’t happen before HYROX…  And in HYROX news that we cannot believe is real: POOP-GATE. A competitor at the Beijing race had an.. incident.. mid-race and was allowed to finish, and we have genuine rules questions (you get disqualified for dropping a GEL on the course??)

Then the home front: a toilet learning follow up (yes, we are absolutely pranking the neighbors with the official terminology), and the sweetest new phase: Tate is starting to APPRECIATE things 🥹 We asked her what she wanted to do and she thought about it and said gymnastics.. watching her actually love something is a whole new level of this. Plus the burnt orange feedback is IN (we hear you, we live here, the kids were born here!!), and Saturday's blueprint: 10 AM breakfast, two families over, games on in the background. Which sparked the debate: is non-breakfast food for breakfast genius or psycho?! (Jules eats sweet potato and chicken at 8 AM. Harrison thinks there are seven breakfast foods and that's that.) Then Alex shares the weaning brain fog nobody warned her about.. when you genuinely cannot remember if you showered, you're not losing it, it's hormones!!! 

And Harrison's corner: Pokemon cards have reportedly outpaced the S&P 500 over 20 years?! Harrison breaks down why that’s not exactly accurate (and why we shouldn’t all be rushing out to by Jigglypuff cards lol) Plus an AI update: the rival CEOs all publicly agreed to pace development.. which never happens, and might tell you something.

Then a bit of self improvement: stretching doesn't prevent injuries?! (A 26,000-person analysis says strength training is what actually cuts injury risk.. everything our gym teachers told us is on trial.) The compliment vs. critique rule we're adopting: no mom needs unsolicited advice, every mom needs unsolicited acknowledgment. And do you say "I'm sorry" too much? Our friend's challenge: replace it with THIS, and watch what happens.

We close with the 'Martha' review (the Martha Stewart / Snoop origin story!! spoilers, but like.. this happened 20 years ago lol) and why we're recommitting to date night.

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

Timestamps:

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

00:01:35 Harrison's freak accident

00:05:37 POOP-GATE at the Beijing HYROX

00:09:49 Toilet learning follow up… 

00:12:38 When your toddler starts APPRECIATING things 🥹

00:17:14 Our kids in burnt orange: the feedback is IN

00:22:57 Non-breakfast food for breakfast: genius or psycho?! 

00:28:20 Weaning brain fog

00:29:35 How do Pokemon cards compare to the S&P 500?!

00:38:53 AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development

00:43:08 Stretching doesn't prevent injuries?!

00:46:28 Compliment vs. critique: what every mom ACTUALLY needs

00:49:46 Do you say "I'm sorry" too much? (say THIS instead)

00:52:16 ‘Martha’ Review (w/ spoilers but like this happened 20 yrs ago lol)

00:57:28 Why we're recommitting to date night

00:59:03 LOVE YOU GUYS! 

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Sources:

*HYROX athlete competes amid diarrhea emergency: NY Post — https://x.com/nypost/status/2099484377960816892?s=20 

*Pokemon cards as investments: CNBC — https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/25/pokmon-card-winner-scaramucci-says-collectibles-are-asset-class.html

*The stretching study: British Journal of Sports Medicine (Lauersen et al.) — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24100287/

*Dario Amodei's essay — https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

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