Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Jileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
Speaker 1: help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
Speaker 1: our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
Speaker 1: in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
Speaker 1: going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2: So, since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
Speaker 2: thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
Speaker 2: if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
Speaker 2: and let's all make like we're doing something important for
Speaker 2: our families.
Speaker 1: Each Tuesday, we bring you a watch or rewatch of
Speaker 1: an older entertainment property, And for this week of August fourth,
Speaker 1: we are continuing with Loss Season three, episode ten, Trisha
Speaker 1: Tanaka is Dead, a episode that, despite its kind of
Speaker 1: morbid title, is a whole lot more fun than last
Speaker 1: week's Yes we don't even have Jack is not even
Speaker 1: in it at all. They barely remember that he used
Speaker 1: to be a friend of theirs. Only Kate, only Kate
Speaker 1: cares that he's not there.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So meanwhile, we're doing.
Speaker 2: We're doing fine. Probably don't either.
Speaker 1: His tattoos grouped me out, honestly, they say. But this
Speaker 1: episode centers on Hurley and more we see more of
Speaker 1: his bad luck, including a chicken restaurant he has purchased
Speaker 1: being destroyed by a meteor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked like just sort of an alien space.
Speaker 1: A flying fiery object from space which blows up the
Speaker 1: chicken restaurant and also the titular u Tricia Tanaka, who
Speaker 1: was a reporter doing a story on his incredibly good luck.
Speaker 2: Right, and it was the chicken place that he.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it was. Yeah, And uh, I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was a shock to you, Catherine, And I'm sure it'll
Speaker 1: be a shock to our listeners who are following along
Speaker 1: that Herly has daddy issues. Who wouldn't just, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: was that a criteria for being on that plane. It's like,
Speaker 1: we would like a plane little load of people with
Speaker 1: daddy issues, police, and we'll crash them on an island together. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean they guys have other storylines, right.
Speaker 2: I feel like it is a classic. You know, someone
Speaker 2: wins wins the lottery, Yes, relatives in ques exactly. Yes,
Speaker 2: So Buturley was not an immuneto that to that be
Speaker 2: following him.
Speaker 1: I guess right, but uh I Cheach Maren coming in
Speaker 1: there for a little cameo as Hurley's dad when he
Speaker 1: was a kid, and then Hurley's dad later on. Hurley
Speaker 1: has changed quite a bit in the interim, Cheach, not
Speaker 1: so much, but uh.
Speaker 2: Not so much. We'll give him a little gray hair,
Speaker 2: or more likely, will darken his hair for the for
Speaker 2: the flash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but get a little bit about Hurley working
Speaker 1: on cars when he's a kid, so that later on
Speaker 1: he can resurrect a VW bus that has been unused
Speaker 1: for a very long time, a very long time sitting
Speaker 1: crashed in the jungle, and then Hurley brings it back fully.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I don't know what's what's stretches credulity more
Speaker 1: that they could get that bus started again, or that
Speaker 1: anyone could drink that beer and not immediately die of
Speaker 1: batulism or whatever you got. Well, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: they are pretty desperate for booze. But still, how long
Speaker 1: has that been sitting there in the.
Speaker 2: Roger?
Speaker 1: Yes, Roger, Yeah, he was a workman. But we will
Speaker 1: we will, it will not surprise, you get back to
Speaker 1: Roger at some point.
Speaker 2: But no, the ridiculous the opening, the opening of that episode.
Speaker 2: You know, just what got us started down this path.
Speaker 1: Was Vincent.
Speaker 2: Trotting out of the jungle with a human arm in
Speaker 2: his mouth.
Speaker 1: At least he didn't drop it to play fetch. You know,
Speaker 1: he uh just just said, mind guys, there's more over here.
Speaker 1: That's something for you, Vincent. I don't care. I won't
Speaker 1: nit pick Vincent. It's always good to see Vincent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the acknowledgment that there's a dog wandering around having
Speaker 1: living his best life.
Speaker 2: Right, having his own adventures that we rarely find.
Speaker 1: I still say, there's there's a whole missed opportunity not
Speaker 1: to have a side series of Vincent and his adventures,
Speaker 1: because I bet he's I bet he's seeing and doing
Speaker 1: incredible things out there in the weird Island. What is
Speaker 1: he thinking about all of this?
Speaker 2: Right? Great question?
Speaker 1: Is he having visions of the future? Is he? Uh?
Speaker 1: Does he have tattoos? Maybe a micro.
Speaker 2: Jow mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, so the parenting wise, I think we just
Speaker 1: need to drop in as a parenting tip if you
Speaker 1: personally listening to this are a daddy, don't do things
Speaker 1: to make your kid have issues. Seriously, every damn person
Speaker 1: on this island. It can't be that common, is it.
Speaker 2: They're all being tortured in their own unique way, and
Speaker 2: it's all your It's all your fall dad.
Speaker 1: What the heck? Don't leave your kid and not come
Speaker 1: back promising trips to the Grand Canyon. Don't forget to
Speaker 1: tell him how to fly a kite. Don't get yourself shot,
Speaker 1: don't shoot your wife and yourself. Don't steal your kid's kidney.
Speaker 1: It's not that hard.
Speaker 2: It really doesn't seem like it should be that hard.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's daddy Isshie Island. So what else have imported?
Speaker 1: Did anything?
Speaker 2: I know it really did anything.
Speaker 1: It was mostly just and honestly, I'll take it, just
Speaker 1: the joy of seeing herly get a win. And these guys,
Speaker 1: Charlie knows he's gonna die imminently, Sawyer's just been having
Speaker 1: a time. Jin is completely confused, and all of them
Speaker 1: just get to have themselves a dang joy ride. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just need a joy ride.
Speaker 2: Was like a Buddy comedy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and to this ridiculous, glorious I will take it.
Speaker 1: And you know what that is maybe a parenting tip
Speaker 1: in itself. Sometimes you just need a joy ride. You
Speaker 1: know what your problems are bearing down on you. It's
Speaker 1: it's hard to see any light of hope. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just need to drive around in a resurrected car and
Speaker 1: just not care for fifteen minutes. Maybe things will be
Speaker 1: better after, maybe they won't, but at least for that
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Yeah, yourself a good time, right, I think parents.
Speaker 2: There are occasions where putting a kid in.
Speaker 1: A car and yes, striving, yes, can really help you know.
Speaker 2: I mean sometimes when they're baby, right, it can help
Speaker 2: them sleep, you know, just kind of a change of scene. Right,
Speaker 2: or like you said, even if you're not going anywhere,
Speaker 2: but just enjoying the ride. Yeah, you know, listen to
Speaker 2: music or yes, you can have really good conversations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Listen to books. So yeah, get yourself an old timey
Speaker 2: Volkswagen mini bus and just get out there.
Speaker 1: Get out there, just go for a ride. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter where, it doesn't have to be to a place,
Speaker 1: just the soothing sound of tires on pavement and the
Speaker 1: mild vibration and just the feeling like, okay, this is
Speaker 1: something I can do I can just I can drive.
Speaker 1: It's I can point the car someplace, I can put
Speaker 1: my foot on the pedal. Everything else seems out of control.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, have yourself enjoyed it. I bet was
Speaker 1: he was in there at some point. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he was in the car at some point, yes, or
Speaker 1: in the van at at some point. But I I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think he was like having the full dog
Speaker 1: experience of having his head out the window and letting
Speaker 1: the wind flap his ears. But he was just happy
Speaker 1: to be rolling. He's happy to be with the guys.
Speaker 1: That's right, see any humans at all, right, just just
Speaker 1: a delightful moment when he comes running out of the
Speaker 1: jungle looking so happy with with an arm. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: let's play look what I come on, come on, there's
Speaker 1: more body parts. Come on.
Speaker 2: We could probably discuss this later in the week. But
Speaker 2: I have video footage of one of my dogs discovering
Speaker 2: something in the wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, dogs, you gotta love them.
Speaker 2: I'll get excited about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my dog was very disappointed with me when I
Speaker 1: wasn't excited to watch her and kill a groundhog or
Speaker 1: baby bunnies. It's like, look what that I can do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: stop screening, Willy, what's your problem? I have a rancid beer.
Speaker 1: We appreciate Sawyer teaching chin, but what is it the
Speaker 1: uh oh yeah, the three things a woman needs to hear.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I was wrong. And those pants don't make
Speaker 1: you look fat? Right, I'm got a thrown I love
Speaker 1: you in there somewhere. But other than that, it's you know, it's.
Speaker 3: It's not bad still, And how did Sawyer come upon
Speaker 3: all this wisdom that he doesn't seem to be used
Speaker 3: in the room.
Speaker 1: No, No, the rest of his life he could use
Speaker 1: some lessons of his own.
Speaker 2: I have never heard him tell Kate that those.
Speaker 1: Pants don't make well, that's because Kate weighs about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no matter what pants she's she's going to look slender.
Speaker 1: But he has a dating history, you know, He's learned things, yes,
Speaker 1: And so this is a Sun is just going to
Speaker 1: teach Gin English by only speaking English to him. They
Speaker 1: don't have somewhere in the like well, Sawyer's story doesn't
Speaker 1: have a stash anymore, which he's come back to notice angrily.
Speaker 1: But he didn't have like a English Korean dictionary in there. Someplace. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they find things all the time. We'll go into one
Speaker 1: of the hatches and they'll be one. It'll be fine.
Speaker 1: So there's a duo lingo thing somewhere on the island,
Speaker 1: they'll find it behind a bush.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what was the.
Speaker 1: The old timey went Berlitz. Yes, that's what would be there.
Speaker 1: Probably the Dorma Initiative had had to train people from
Speaker 1: other countries, and so they would have had like a
Speaker 1: whole library of tapes. For sure. We just need to
Speaker 1: wave a wand and have him able to speak englisha.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, which is basically what they do.
Speaker 1: We got a couple another couple of weeks with Nicky
Speaker 1: and Poulo. Maybe they have some experience teaching languages, because
Speaker 1: they I do not appreciate them giving herly attitude. No, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: stop that mm hmmm. That's not nobody nobody messes with
Speaker 1: herly stop. That's right, but especially not you newcomers, people
Speaker 1: who we don't know and will not know for long.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think what else happened, But all I cared about was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just fun and relaxing, you know. It
Speaker 1: was a just was a nice, funny and fun episode.
Speaker 1: Even though, you know, bad things did happen to Herley,
Speaker 1: but just beforehand, and it's nice seeing him have a.
Speaker 2: Win, and bad things happened to Tricia.
Speaker 1: To Yeah, she seemed a little full of herself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she thought she was so smart going in the restaurant
Speaker 1: to film ha. Yeah. But poor Hurley, nobody will believe
Speaker 1: him that he's cursed. Yeah, and maybe a parenting tip
Speaker 1: is that you can't jolly your child out of existential dread.
Speaker 1: Although I mean his father couldn't do it when he
Speaker 1: was certain he was cursed. Tried to find ways to
Speaker 1: get him to just drop it. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hurley kind of shook Charlie out of it for a
Speaker 1: short while anyway, right, and even sort of himself, Yes, exactly, curly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he left his troubles behind for a brief time
Speaker 2: while he was behind the whom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we know Charlie not going to die because
Speaker 1: Desmond's nowhere around. Desmond would have been chasing the bus
Speaker 1: if this was the time. He's Charlie dying, So yep, yep.
Speaker 1: So even though it looks like they're just about to
Speaker 1: drive a bus off a cliff, it's it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: It'll be fine. It'll start, Sure, it'll start.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's been on its side in the jungle in
Speaker 2: the elements for who knows how long.
Speaker 1: And it has gas some of that beer and it
Speaker 1: might run on that. Oh my gosh, that beer. I
Speaker 1: just I just all right. This is the biggest suspension
Speaker 1: of belief in the entire episode. It's that that beer
Speaker 1: would not immediately kill you or explode when you opened
Speaker 1: the can.
Speaker 2: True, yes, and think of how I think it's a
Speaker 2: jungle like it would have gotten so hot.
Speaker 1: Oh oh well, I guess they figured the alcohol kills everything.
Speaker 1: But it is just Peter anyway. Fun episode, Yeah, lots
Speaker 1: of fun. Yes, in advance much plot. No, it did
Speaker 1: not until the very very end where Kate is insisting
Speaker 1: on going back to get Jack. Really really, I think
Speaker 1: you guys can have funner times without him. But and
Speaker 1: she goes looking for Danielle and informs her that there's
Speaker 1: a girl there who's probably her daughter, which I thought
Speaker 1: they had done before. I thought, well, n Claire, because
Speaker 1: Alex kind of rescued Claire too, and I thought Claire
Speaker 1: sort of suggested to her that.
Speaker 2: Well, and didn't Danielle like take them there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, she seemed real surprised at the possibility
Speaker 1: that her daughter could be there, But I feel like
Speaker 1: she had had at least strong hints of it before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if she's like surveilling them all the time, would
Speaker 1: she not have noticed, Hey, there's this girl who kind
Speaker 1: of looks like you. It's about the right age. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, she's maybe she's been drinking rantid
Speaker 1: beer someplace and her memory is not too sure. Confused,
Speaker 1: She'll just follow along. But yeah, I gotta get back
Speaker 1: to them, gotta get back to the drama. To that.
Speaker 1: There's not some highways on the island. They could take
Speaker 1: the bus instead of walking.
Speaker 2: But right, yeah, I'll they's gonna like leave it in
Speaker 2: that clearing anytime, and they need a little pick me up.
Speaker 1: Just get up. I believe. I believe we do see
Speaker 1: it again.
Speaker 2: Do some donuts.
Speaker 1: Welltimes. Next Tuesday, we will continue with season three, episode
Speaker 1: eleven of Lost, which is sadly not the Life of Vicent,
Speaker 1: but Enter seventy seven, which sounds like we're back in
Speaker 1: putting stuff in a computer or deactivating alarm or going
Speaker 1: to a hotel to room seventy seven. I don't know
Speaker 1: we will find out who is this eighth flashback.
Speaker 2: Pedia says it's it's a said episode and it's pronounced
Speaker 2: enter seven seven.
Speaker 1: Enter seven seven. Alright, then why.
Speaker 2: Would they not put a space in there?
Speaker 1: Then? Yes, or a dash or something? Yeah, sayid flat.
Speaker 1: We haven't had a SAYI flashback in a long time.
Speaker 1: But you know, at this moment, I don't really care
Speaker 1: about Studes that story. We haven't really spent much time
Speaker 1: with him lately. And man, that's been fine. Why didn't
Speaker 1: he go? Where was he when they were doing the minibus?
Speaker 1: He could he could have used a joy ride that man, Yes,
Speaker 1: and Desmond too would have enjoyed a joy ride. They
Speaker 1: got to give people joy raids. They gotta go find
Speaker 1: Sad Sacks on the beach and say you know what
Speaker 1: you need.
Speaker 2: You need take turns, we'll develop, we'll drop them.
Speaker 1: You need a ride in a in a VW bus
Speaker 1: and a ransom beer. Clear up all your problems, man,
Speaker 1: and we will see you to back here tomorrow to
Speaker 1: discuss the Gilded Age, a show on which a great
Speaker 1: many people could use a ride in a VW minibus
Speaker 1: and a ransom beer. It would solve a lot of
Speaker 1: problems mm hmm. Thank you for listening. You can find
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