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 on
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. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property, and for this week of September sixteenth,
Speaker 2: we're discussing season four, episode four of Only Murders in
Speaker 2: the Building. It was called The stunt Man, And you
Speaker 2: may have feared that we were going back to Hollywood,
Speaker 2: but we were not really, except that's a very end.
Speaker 2: But the whole thing was still Hogwood.
Speaker 1: Yes, because it was TV shows, Grid of People, Stuntman. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's Paul Rudd, It's Paul's screen time that he had
Speaker 1: the entire season last year. Oh my goodness, did they
Speaker 1: like owe him a favor? Yeah, okay, we killed you
Speaker 1: off twice, but you can come back the following season,
Speaker 1: Apple whole showcase to yourself, to an accent, you can wear.
Speaker 2: Facial hair, you can do all sorts of weird still,
Speaker 2: black out one of your teeth, do whatever you want. Man,
Speaker 2: you just go wild.
Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, it was nice to see him for
Speaker 1: five minutes and then it's like, oh, this is just.
Speaker 2: Gonna be too much free for all of Paul Rudd. Yes,
Speaker 2: he was playing his character Ben Glenroy's stunt double because
Speaker 2: this episode, as we said, is called The stunt Man,
Speaker 2: so they were kind of thought following the thread of
Speaker 2: sas in the stunt person community and to the stunt people.
Speaker 2: Bar visited The stunt Person Chiropractor and I will just
Speaker 2: as a brief aside, I did end up watching The
Speaker 2: fall Guy recent you which stunt people. It was fun.
Speaker 2: It was, you know, just very very slight and frothy,
Speaker 2: which you would expect from what you know about it,
Speaker 2: but it was quite entertaining and I enjoyed Emily Blunt
Speaker 2: in it as well as Ryan Gosling, you know, just
Speaker 2: again similar to his portrayal of Ken was just you know,
Speaker 2: no vanity, like just constantly being like beat up and
Speaker 2: dropped from high places and punched and all kinds of
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was you know, him as a stuntman,
Speaker 2: and there was quite a bit of you know the
Speaker 2: actor playing him or the actor he he doubled for. Yes,
Speaker 2: there was. Well, the whole plot was involving the two
Speaker 2: of them and Hannah Wantingham also, right, Hannah Wattingham is
Speaker 2: in it, and she's very fun too. She plays a producer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so yeah, it was. It was very entertaining. I would
Speaker 2: say it.
Speaker 1: Sounds I wonder if it's the sort of thing that's
Speaker 1: more fun to watch on streaming than to go to
Speaker 1: a theater for although it sounds like it would be
Speaker 1: maybe fun to watch it with other people who were
Speaker 1: into it. Yeah, because it didn't do at the box
Speaker 1: office what they thought it was going to.
Speaker 2: Do, right, and there's nothing does right now, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hope that it will recover in streaming, which I
Speaker 1: think might well happen. I would love to see it.
Speaker 1: It's on Peacocks, so yeah, I wish I wish them
Speaker 1: both well. All three of them. Well, actually, yes, movie
Speaker 1: and give me something to watch other than just rewatching
Speaker 1: all the Ken stuff over and over again. Oscars one
Speaker 1: scene from Crazy Stupid Love that keeps coming up that
Speaker 1: I see all over and over and over again with him.
Speaker 1: Never seen the movie, don't even know if I want
Speaker 1: to see the movie, but that scene is just I
Speaker 1: could just watch it endlessly.
Speaker 2: Right anyway, anyway, back to the stun people.
Speaker 1: I mean, the stun person bar was fun. A lot
Speaker 1: of the stunt person processing stuff was fun, yes, and
Speaker 1: Paul Rudd was fun for the first little bit but
Speaker 1: then okay, man, okay.
Speaker 2: And also the movies Buddy, what's good? What's going on
Speaker 2: in your career? My friend? Did you have? The was
Speaker 2: inconsistently applied as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, but so you know what, they just.
Speaker 2: Let them run, right, So we did get a little
Speaker 2: more backstory on the Westies.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Parenting wise, we had the surly teen complaining about how
Speaker 2: comes she can't have her own apartment? Yes, which was fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, especially if what she wants is the apartment
Speaker 1: that's like right next to her parents, next door to
Speaker 1: her parents, seems like that seems like a good deal. Man,
Speaker 1: You might want to consider that, Dad. It's working for
Speaker 1: my family. It's not exactly a separate apartment that we have,
Speaker 1: but it's downstairs, right, better than her trying to find
Speaker 1: an apartment someplace else in New York and not I mean,
Speaker 1: as Mabel illustrates, not really possible, right, but.
Speaker 2: Not for the sum that they are.
Speaker 1: Somehow I think there's going to be more to it
Speaker 1: than this, but maybe not right.
Speaker 2: I have a friend, somebody I used to work with
Speaker 2: years and years ago, who has a rent control apartment.
Speaker 2: Uh huh that is on Madison Avenue in the sixties,
Speaker 2: you know, like prime and enormous that you know he's
Speaker 2: paying something like one hundred dollars, you know, a ridiculous
Speaker 2: thumb like it's it's a true New York rent control
Speaker 2: yeah thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Is there some like some story somewhere of like like
Speaker 1: real estate developers killing off these people? Yeah, if that
Speaker 1: is the only murders in the building, I would like
Speaker 1: to see, let's let's get some New York flavor in there.
Speaker 2: Let's hope that's not what happens to my friend. No,
Speaker 2: but I could see I could see that being or
Speaker 2: like want to live in New York, want to shove
Speaker 2: them out. Yeah, I could see that playing a part.
Speaker 1: There's a movie that's just coming out called His Three
Speaker 1: Dollar with Natasha Leone and Carrie Kohon and Elizabeth Olsen.
Speaker 1: And I was just reading a I've seen various clips
Speaker 1: of it, and I was just reading a synopsis of
Speaker 1: it the other day, and there is a plot line
Speaker 1: that hinges on rent control rent rent a control department
Speaker 1: and who should who should receive it when its current
Speaker 1: occument passes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a.
Speaker 1: Thing, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seems like more interesting than some of the stuff
Speaker 1: they're serving us up. But I'm crabby, apparently I'm grabby.
Speaker 1: So and boy did they double triple quadruple down on
Speaker 1: the old guys with technology?
Speaker 2: Ohrious goodness, just yelling at Oliver, yelling at the iPad,
Speaker 2: turn it down.
Speaker 1: He doesn't know how to turn down the dim the
Speaker 1: brightness on his iPad, but he knows how to set
Speaker 1: up a Finsta or he knows to set up a
Speaker 1: fence to account.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think he would know how to set up
Speaker 1: an Instagram account at all. Mabel would need to do
Speaker 1: that for him. So it's like selectively.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just possibly because I am now an old person.
Speaker 1: Knock it off.
Speaker 2: I am the dvlogy person in my family.
Speaker 1: I'll have you know.
Speaker 2: Even Howard is like Mabel, you need to teach me podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh body google it. There ye are endless tutorials. Right,
Speaker 1: go get yourself some audacity and then you can for
Speaker 1: free edit it yourself.
Speaker 2: That's great, super eazy. I'm sure everybody wants to hear
Speaker 2: you talk to a.
Speaker 1: Pig, right, Yes, So I noticed that that actor who
Speaker 1: plays Howard, Michael Searle Creighton, is that his name? He
Speaker 1: is like in the opening credits now after them, just
Speaker 1: like he's like the only other regular. He's like the
Speaker 1: fourth member of the Chao. I don't think he had
Speaker 1: that billing in the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So maybe because he's like the only person who's been
Speaker 1: in four of them other than the leads. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he got that, but it's like they are
Speaker 1: committed to giving him one weird scene a week. Right,
Speaker 1: this week, you're gonna be in bed with a pig
Speaker 1: and talking about doing a podcast with animals. Right, and oh,
Speaker 1: actually he also got to audition to play himself, to
Speaker 1: play himself and yes.
Speaker 2: And it was weird because they were like, you're not,
Speaker 2: like they were very dismissive of him, but they also
Speaker 2: were like, you're amazing and you're going to be in it.
Speaker 2: Didn't they say something like that was cause Hollywood, Hollywood
Speaker 2: people who knows what they're on about?
Speaker 1: He's crazy screenwriters, nutty producers.
Speaker 2: The directors called the brothers, yes, our sisters. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you know, however believable the rent control thing is
Speaker 1: and the subletting and all that. Obviously, the stuff about
Speaker 1: the lady on the ham radio is not has not
Speaker 1: been been convincingly explained, right, But I did enjoy them
Speaker 1: saying that that she's the wrong kind of weirdo, Like
Speaker 1: we're all she's the wrong kind of weirdo, because I
Speaker 1: feel like, from a parenting point of view, that your
Speaker 1: kid gets that sometimes you know, your kid's a little
Speaker 1: different and everybody else wants to be a little different,
Speaker 1: but not that kind of a little different, right. I
Speaker 1: think my kids have both at one time or another,
Speaker 1: been the wrong kind of weirdo, and you know, we
Speaker 1: like to encourage them to.
Speaker 2: To be their be your own cum a weirdo, but.
Speaker 1: It's rough when even the other weirdos won't give you
Speaker 1: the time for.
Speaker 2: Sure, Although it's a little hard to buy Camille nan
Speaker 2: Gianni as a weirdo because the only thing that makes
Speaker 2: him weird is the Christmas thing. You know, he's like attractive,
Speaker 2: super built influencer. You know, why is he hanging around
Speaker 2: with these people?
Speaker 1: How much money do you make being an influenll Yes,
Speaker 1: you need you need the two hundred dollars builder. I
Speaker 1: think you need the two hundred dollars apartment and the
Speaker 1: free ham and.
Speaker 2: Somebody to play card games with. I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2: Those hams I believe are extremely expensive. Yeah, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know if Dude enof is making any money on
Speaker 2: this deal if he send them one of those giant
Speaker 2: hams once a month, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, these don't understand hams. What is the purpose of
Speaker 1: having a pig there? I thought the gig was a
Speaker 1: future ham, But it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Take years for that pig to be the right side.
Speaker 1: Pretty just so much stuff thrown up against the bulletin
Speaker 1: board without any particular apparent plan, right, but a lot
Speaker 1: of Hollywood process not so much mystery, but a lot
Speaker 1: of Hollywood process. Yes, indeed, and then Charles is led
Speaker 1: through his dreams to remember that Saz wanted to set
Speaker 1: up this trampoline park right in New Jersey. I noticed
Speaker 1: on the sign. And so there they turn up there,
Speaker 1: and who should they find in the dark room with
Speaker 1: creaking noises of people in it?
Speaker 2: They just walk into Yeah.
Speaker 1: You guys, you've been doing this for four seasons, now,
Speaker 1: have you learned nothing?
Speaker 2: Clearly not.
Speaker 1: I guess they've learned that they someone did say, because
Speaker 1: they have contracts.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Well Mabel was going in there first, and
Speaker 2: someone's like, be careful, like it's probably not going to
Speaker 2: cut it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and hey, I think all of us is
Speaker 1: thank god, thank god someone from show business.
Speaker 2: When it turns out to be Molly Shannon. But she
Speaker 2: looked like, uh, she did not look happy to see them.
Speaker 1: She did not Molly Shannon doing the acting. Look at her,
Speaker 1: she's acting.
Speaker 2: But was she acting before or is she acting now?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Question she's curing Hams back there or something.
Speaker 1: Making Christmas decorations could be target practice, all sorts of possibilities,
Speaker 1: but I guess I would think that it's going to
Speaker 1: turn out to be something silly.
Speaker 2: Well, see, she looked pretty menacing there.
Speaker 1: He did, so did the so did the people in
Speaker 1: the apartment. But they're now just just illegal sub letters.
Speaker 1: That's all right, just weirdo. Yep, the right kind of weirdom.
Speaker 1: I may be the wrong kind of weirdo.
Speaker 2: For the show.
Speaker 1: I am just this happens sometimes with shows, and it's
Speaker 1: been creeping up on this one. And I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: they had Sting as a suspect in the first season,
Speaker 1: so not necessarily creeping, but just everybody wants to be
Speaker 1: in it. Everybody wants to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: You can get higher and higher profile file people. You
Speaker 1: can get bleep in Meryl Streep and keep her like
Speaker 1: off screen for episodes and episodes, and and then you
Speaker 1: have to like make you make a product that can
Speaker 1: accommodate these things, which is maybe not as good as
Speaker 1: the product you would have produced if you had just
Speaker 1: been concentrating on, Hey, let's do a mystery, right, So again,
Speaker 1: I say, I'm gonna have to go back and watch
Speaker 1: season one again and see if it's as twisty and
Speaker 1: interesting as I remember it being when it was still
Speaker 1: a thing that had you know, three very well known
Speaker 1: stars in it, so not exactly a gritty cable nothing.
Speaker 2: But still, but in that first season being over critical
Speaker 2: or do you feel like it's just a little much, Well,
Speaker 2: I think you know what you're saying about the first
Speaker 2: season makes a lot of sense. I mean, remember we
Speaker 2: didn't know anything about Mabel in that season either, so
Speaker 2: that was a whole, big piece of it. That yeah,
Speaker 2: has you know, all happily and there was a.
Speaker 1: Lot of stuff going on, and a lot of There
Speaker 1: was a whole thing with the Nathan Lane and his
Speaker 1: deaf son and that there was you know, didn't know
Speaker 1: what the deal was with.
Speaker 2: Him, and.
Speaker 1: It seems less glossy and more interesting. But this is fun,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not I'm not made of stone. It's fun.
Speaker 2: But a little fun goes a long way. Maybe good week.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it is what it is, and I'm
Speaker 1: still watching it, so yes, but.
Speaker 2: We'll still we're still watching it.
Speaker 1: So next week, when when Oliver kept yelling for everybody
Speaker 1: who's yelling, turn your brightness down, turn your brightness down,
Speaker 1: I was thinking it's the motto for this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So next week we'll discuss the next episode of
Speaker 2: Only Murders in the building. Season four, it is called
Speaker 2: adaptation continuing this movie title themes. And I have a
Speaker 2: feeling we are going back to Hollywood. I just have
Speaker 2: this feeling. Yeah, it's gonna happen sooner later.
Speaker 1: Yes, it does. And uh so do we think that
Speaker 1: Meryl Streep is going to figure out who Ronnie is?
Speaker 2: Finsta.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was just so Martin Short could have some
Speaker 1: like midwestern mom shtick.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, which he did a good He did a
Speaker 2: good job with the accents, like I mean, we've seen
Speaker 2: her online, Yes we get it, ha ha.
Speaker 1: But maybe it will have some significance eventually. But Loretta
Speaker 1: is going to be ticked if she oh maybe she knows.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe she figured it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that could be. We'll see. We'll see. So that's
Speaker 2: next Wednesday. We will see you back here tomorrow for
Speaker 2: our weekly Roundabout roundup, which will include a chat about
Speaker 2: the premiere of Dancing with the Stars.
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