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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast.
I'm Terry Morrow and I'm Catherine Jileco.

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As parents and parenting writers, we
can't help but see everything through a parenting

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lens. But as our kids have
become adults, we find ourselves more interested

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in getting caught up on movies and
streaming than I'm going over the same parenting

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topics over and over. So since
we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom

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anywhere, we're going to talk about
what we're watching, what we thought about

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it, and maybe what we can
learn from it, if only what not

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to do. Watch and listen along, and let's all make like we're doing

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something important for our families. Each
Tuesday we bring you our thoughts on a

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newer entertainment property, and for this
week of July twenty second, we're continuing

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with A Gentleman in Moscow, a
limited series on Paramount Plus. This episode

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was number three, called The Last
Rostov. I kinda know about that title

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where it's going to go. Yeah, so rape Grandma, rip Grandmama who

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he thought I believe the count thought
was like happily ensconced in Paris, but

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turned out to probably be in London. In poverty. Right, It sounded

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like yeah and not well. Right, And not only that we had the

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return of Nina, we did now
a teen where Okay, how old was

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she supposed to be the first time? Maybe like nine or ten? Yeah,

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okay, that old? Huh?
She seemed younger to me. I

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don't know how old that actress is, but this, this version seemed too

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old for the amount of time that
had elapsed, right, and also had

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all the joy sucked out of her. Unfortunate, but she seemed like like

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older, surly teen when she should
have been tween or just a little after.

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But maybe I was I was making
the original Nina too young in my

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head. Yeah, I don't know
how old was she supposed to be in

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this She was supposed to be like
nine or ten in the book, and

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then like fourteen when she comes back. I honestly don't remember. Come on,

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you're the one also Awayathren in the
book. You can always quickly look

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back and forth at the date.
That's right, remind yourself of how much

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time has passed, Yes, and
so little they had a number of days

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which I divided by three sixty five, and it had been almost five years

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since he is the beginning of his
captivity. I guess, okay, so

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it didn't seem to me that Nina
should be as old as she was.

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Right, perhaps she was just a
particularly bubbly tweenish child when we saw her

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originally instead of a young a younger
girl. I thought, right, anyway,

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send this version back to wherever she's
been. We're done with her.

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So much fun this Nina. No, this whole thing was a tough one

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for the count, really was,
although he didn't to get to Delhi with

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the actress again. So you go, man, after many years of failure,

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apparently insufficient gumption to go and actually
knock on her door, a gentleman

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just sends champagne and waits for an
invitation of her. Yes, so he

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did. He did have that going
for him. But his friend Misha is

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still loyal, got himself some good
honey up on the roof from that's right.

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He made that badnee keeper. Mm
hmmm, he made that friend who

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basically saved his life later, Yes, definitely, and he continues to not

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be aware that the waiter who has
a sign around his neck that says I

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am a weasel, is in fact
a weasel. I mean, as we've

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discussed before that portrayal is not subtle. No, that guy is not is

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not being advised. Okay, you're
a character who's undercover as a weasel,

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and you want him to think that
you're one of the kindly servants. Nope,

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nope, nope. It's like,
don't give a wine recommendation in front

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of that guy. He's going to
take the line and he did. Yeah,

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yeah, oh dear. But the
other hotel staff continue to be Yes,

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friends and allies and adorably so.
Yes, we like the one guy

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says, don't you miss having people
who appreciate what we do? The count's

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the only guy left. Gives them
the proper respect, right, although a

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Neil the chef not going to be
too happy for him. You had me

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made this great meal and then nobody
showed up, made me keep it keep

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it warm. Yes, but sweet
moments with the seamstress making him his suit,

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I was very sweet. Yeah,
he's This episode was sort of like,

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you know, the the reckoning with
how out of touch he is and

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how much has changed in the outside
world while it's been within the walls of

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a hotel. Yes, even though
his life within the walls of the hotel

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have not been what he would like
it to be, still so very much

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better than those on the outside.
Difficult truth, right, it seems like

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he's possible on the verge to something
approximating a friendship with his jailor or whatever

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we call that guy. He actually
gave a name, and I've forgotten it,

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so OPSI or something. Oh sip. Oh. Yes, that they're

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going to discuss literature and the finer
things in life that he has missed out

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on, and it could be interesting
that he will not just be the enemy,

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right, somebody who is interested in
the way things used to be while

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everybody else is busy chucking it out
a window, taking the labels off the

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wine, painting over the murals.
Oh man, Yeah, not appreciating Anna's

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movie, that's right. Oh yes, I was not sure originally what the

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deal is that she looked so stricken. And then yeah, if it's the

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reason he didn't come was that he
didn't like the movie, that's not good.

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Yeah, so you drink the champagne
while you can. That's all right.

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She's great, though. I do
enjoy her and also her servant whatever,

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Olga, you're disapproving servant, Yes, all right, you're done for

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the night. She just gives him
the biggest eyeball, like, yes,

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you better be nice, buddy.
Yeah. Well, from a parenting point

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of view, if we could return
to Nina for just a moment, isn't

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that just what happens when you send
kids away? They come back full of

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ideas that you do not care for, and that caused them to look at

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you officially, whether it's it's college
or communist and doctrination camp or wherever it

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is, you send a kid away
too, you know, they come back

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looking at you like, well I
know more than you, right, and

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they have everything I believe is correct
and everything you believe is wrong. Yeah,

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we have a very beefs yeah and
humorless. You just kept that little

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girl walked away in the hotel would
have been fine, right, She could

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have learned from him, but they
just she just that's what she got to

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worry about, thinking for themselves.
We can't have that. No, No,

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I mean, is she thinking for
herself? Well, that's true,

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that's true. They think they're thinking
for themselves exactly. We do. We

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all did this we were kids once. Yes, you come home and you

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go no, no, parent,
no, no, no, no,

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that's not right, right, that's
the way I have. I have figured

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things out, that's right. And
I know the drill, yeah, yeah,

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And the entire overhaul of the hotel
is you know when you have kids

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and you have to like put everything
that you love up on a high shelf,

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and yeah, you have to put
safety devices on all your furniture,

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and then there's still grape juice on
everything, and you know, it's just

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like you have to just say,
well, this is the new regime,

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right, this is the way it's
going to be. There's going to be

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legos everywhere, and you know,
anything breakable has to just go away for

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ever. And oh they tore all
the labels off all the cans because they

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were playing store. Okay, well
we'll just be fun. It'll be a

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little mystery, a little surprise every
day. Things can never stay the same,

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they can never stay nice. We
can't have nice things anymore. That

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China is all getting broken. Oh
dear, I know that look of heartbreak

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and betrayal when your things are no
longer as you like them. That's right,

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poor Alexander. Yeah, that's right. Things and your children, right,

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that's right, right, no longer
are no longer the way you felt

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it all to be right and proper
and well, I think most of us

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refrain from wanting to throw ourselves off
a roof about it. You know,

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there are days when maybe you just
get in the car and drive for a

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while. I think I could see
going. I could keep going. Yeah,

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it's the thing I can do,
But I could, right. I

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just want you to know I could
oh out with the old happen. But

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survive. That's our like our hopeful
word here is that the bees. I

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assume the bees survived. And the
guy wasn't just saying that to get him

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off the right. Well, he
gave him some more honey. Well,

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but there was honey before. But
you're right right, I think I picked

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that up at the store on the
way. Just there are more d's now

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that'll give you a reason to live. Bees, bees climb up the bees.

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I'll take my chances with the brown. Yeah, but that's very sweet,

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literally because it's honey. And also, yes, the wise the wise

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man. We've never seen that fella
before, had we. He's just a

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guy who's on the roof. Yeah, I mean, and he said he

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was a caretaker or the caretaker at
some point. Okay, but I feel

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like in the book, he was
like living on the roof, okay,

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kind of on the dow, you
know, like I knew he was up

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there because the count's been going to
the roof since the last episode. The

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end of the last episode, and
some time has passed. You ever saw

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that dude before? Yeah? Well
didn't he? Oh yeah, trying to

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lie low, I guess, yes, exactly. Don't ask too many questions.

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Just enjoy, joil enjoy mm hmmm. Yeah. Well so next next

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week, next Tuesday, we we'll
discuss episode four of A Gentleman in Moscow.

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It is titled good Times, good
Times. That is that ironic or

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is that actually? I know good
times in the book? Does he ever

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have good times? Again? Yeah? He does have your good times while

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you can, sir, I think
things are going in the other direction.

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Well, we'll see, we'll see
see yeah, and we'll see you back

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