Is it better to be well-rounded or deeply specialized? 360 Ready or Specialist Energy?

Don & Kelly debate the multi-hyphenate hustle, “craft-maxing,” and how to guide kids toward college apps (hello Star vs Spike). We detour into wild candy trends (Dubai chocolate, freeze-dried Skittles, chocolate cotton candy?!), muse about AI/robots and jobs, relationship boundaries (can you hang with an opposite-sex friend?), and close with

Things We Loved: Bo Burnham: Make Happy and that jaw-dropping Louvre robbery story.

If you’re a parent, creator, or recovering specialist, this one hits.

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00:00 – Cold open: “Opinions are like…”
00:14 – Welcome to Two Awesome People
00:33 – Multi-hyphenate mania & hustle culture
01:24 – Thesis time: Well-rounded vs. deeply specialized
03:38 – Kids & early specialization (Tiger Woods debate)
05:00 – Don’s conundrum: interesting vs. successful
05:56 – “Craft-maxing,” “dialed in,” and surgeons
07:56 – Rocket-to-Mars specialist or curious generalist?
08:10 – Grind stories: editing till 2 a.m.
08:31 – The Star Approach (specialize in related spikes)
09:14 – Taylor Swift ≠ butt doctor (comic detour)
10:12 – Party test: can specialists talk beyond one lane?
11:18 – Gig economy realities & many income streams
13:10 – Robots & AI: are surgeons next?
15:30 – Filmmaking, AI shifts, and adapting
15:44 – Tap Into a Question: dating opposite-sex friends
18:31 – Next on Tap (culture trend segment)
18:56 – What is Dubai chocolate?
19:31 – Freeze-dried candy craze
20:37 – Pitch: chocolate cotton candy (!?)
21:44 – Parenting to college: Star vs Spike for apps
22:26 – What colleges actually look for (no scatter!)
23:11 – Let kids be kids (not mini pros)
24:10 – ChatGPT: fascinating… until it’s boring
24:35 – Q2: White House renovation hot take
27:16 – Tap Out: Things We Loved
27:33 – Bo Burnham: Make Happy still slaps
28:08 – The Louvre robbery story
29:05 – Wrap: find your “pointy middle”

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