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. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property, and for this week of April
Speaker 2: twenty eighth, we're continuing with Running Point on Netflix with
Speaker 2: episode six The Yips. So I guess this is common
Speaker 2: to any sport, the yips when you just like suddenly
Speaker 2: can't do something you've done a million times before with ease.
Speaker 2: And in this case it is the young rookie Dyson
Speaker 2: who can't who cannot get a free throw to save
Speaker 2: his life. And we did learn some of his backstory
Speaker 2: that he played for the Long Beach Recks I believe
Speaker 2: was the team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot of fun as it's expensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was very It was a cute storyline
Speaker 2: because it was they brought in Isla, brought in this
Speaker 2: older Indian woman who is the coach of the national
Speaker 2: women's team in India or something. I think that's what
Speaker 2: they said, to teach him how to shoot free throws.
Speaker 3: Can't.
Speaker 2: Her solution is, you have to do it granny style,
Speaker 2: since she's she he's obviously a granny underhand and you know,
Speaker 2: of course this works, but you know he's embarrassed to
Speaker 2: do it. So once again Marcus has to save the day,
Speaker 2: which this is.
Speaker 3: What the third or fourth time he's done that.
Speaker 2: He comes in and shoots some granny baskets to to
Speaker 2: show dyce in that it's okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Yes, very nice. Meanwhile, there is much to do about
Speaker 1: whether they're going to trade Marcus right and her brothers.
Speaker 1: Ila's brothers want her to. She does not, but the
Speaker 1: word gets out that they are, and all sorts of
Speaker 1: craziness ensues. Because of that, his bodyguard had to leave
Speaker 1: this dog behind.
Speaker 2: Again, Yes, the bodyguards reminds me a little bit of
Speaker 2: did you watch thirty Rock?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Okay, So the Tracy Morgan character on thirty Rock, he
Speaker 2: had these two like bodyguard slash companions named Griz and
Speaker 2: dot Com. They were they were great characters, you know,
Speaker 2: just like yeah, they had you know, full backstories, and
Speaker 2: they had range and everything. You know, they weren't just
Speaker 2: like these two goons. So that reminded me a little
Speaker 2: bit of this moment.
Speaker 1: So and also Ala goes to confront this guy on
Speaker 1: the Sports show played by John Glazer who was jam
Speaker 1: in parts of reck right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I knew he looked familiar.
Speaker 1: Were primed to find him kind of weasily. Yes, And anyway,
Speaker 1: of course her you know, she turned off the visual.
Speaker 1: But this audio of rants.
Speaker 2: You knew you know that, I mean, that was another
Speaker 2: classic sitcom moment, like, of course this is going to
Speaker 2: be recorded and released out into the world.
Speaker 1: Like and there was a few times I kind of wondered,
Speaker 1: did she mean for it to be Yeah, this proves
Speaker 1: to Marcus that she it was not her right And
Speaker 1: a bunch of times she was smiling in such a
Speaker 1: way that made me think was she the leak? Did
Speaker 1: she put it out there so that she could refute
Speaker 1: it or was the At one point it seemed like
Speaker 1: maybe the coach was the leak, and is it even
Speaker 1: a leak if it's not true. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that word is even really the right word.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we.
Speaker 1: Did fine, and we find that it was the oldest
Speaker 1: brother who's right in rehab, Dylan rehab, you know what
Speaker 1: is his game? So that seemed weird to me because
Speaker 1: it seemed like it was in one way and that
Speaker 1: she was in control again not and also speaking of
Speaker 1: not in control.
Speaker 3: Jackie, oh, jackiey.
Speaker 1: Jackie, Jackie Jackie. He definitely didn't know the trap he
Speaker 1: was walking into. But these were the Gordon Jeans exercising
Speaker 1: themselves like, hey, here's a girl I really like and
Speaker 1: I had a great date with her. Let me just
Speaker 1: go off with these floozies and you know, who have
Speaker 1: shown themselves to be completely irresponsible. Right Oh golly h me?
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, once again saw that coming.
Speaker 1: If super hot girls are just coming on to you
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and you know, make sure that they
Speaker 1: put their phones someplace.
Speaker 3: Far away before you go, or just don't be it.
Speaker 1: Or just don't go with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Try that.
Speaker 1: If it seems too good to be true, it's too good. Yes,
Speaker 1: cut that out, cut that out? Oh man, dummy, yep,
Speaker 1: not once, but twice. I know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: guess if you've never been in a position to have
Speaker 1: women just inviting you for sex randomly in your day,
Speaker 1: it would be appealing if you were a dude. But
Speaker 1: uh still, come on, man, I don't think your mother
Speaker 1: would approve of that. No, stop it. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was that was unfortunate. I was fine with the main plot,
Speaker 1: even though I was confused in the end because they
Speaker 1: seemed to be changing their minds about what was going on.
Speaker 1: But don't mess with Jackie, guys. Come on, I want
Speaker 1: to like him. That date with the girl was so cute.
Speaker 3: Come on, so cute.
Speaker 1: Stop it. They'll be back. They'll be bad, they'll get back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's mad right now.
Speaker 1: But that girl's agent is pushing hard. All right. She's
Speaker 1: gonna be mad at him for a while, but she's coming.
Speaker 2: Back together, right right right.
Speaker 3: He'll prove himself.
Speaker 1: Like contract that says that please sign on this line.
Speaker 1: Don't give somebody your phone. Kids, don't give somebody your phone.
Speaker 1: They say they want to put something in your phone,
Speaker 1: ask them to tell you what it is, and put
Speaker 1: it in yourself. Who gave only sweet innocence? We just
Speaker 1: hand their phone over. Yes, what do we do usually
Speaker 1: for that sort of thing? We just have them call
Speaker 1: us and then it's recorded on their phone.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, or text us or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yes, text me and then I'll have your number and
Speaker 1: then I'll text you back and you'll have no I haven't. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the way you do it. You don't ever hand
Speaker 1: your phone to anybody for any reason. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: especially if you don't have a password on it. Come on, honey,
Speaker 1: somebody take this boy aside ali his duties, to help
Speaker 1: help him be a good assistant, teach him how not
Speaker 1: to be taken advantage of by groupies, right, okay.
Speaker 2: Come on, poor little Jackie.
Speaker 1: There were lots of sibling dynamics in this one. Yes,
Speaker 1: h the two brothers theoretically being the leak and Isla
Speaker 1: having to deal with them right by first in a
Speaker 1: paint by by paintball attacking them, which was hilarious, but
Speaker 1: then later on when they did the same to her.
Speaker 1: One on two is not the same as two on.
Speaker 3: One, sat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they right, she had safety glasses on, but no,
Speaker 2: but no opportunity to take off her probably very expensive
Speaker 2: suit she was wearing.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, she's still paying off the dress they got
Speaker 1: ruined in the pool. Yeah, they got money. We don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that.
Speaker 2: Which, by the way, that the stylist that they showed
Speaker 2: is a real person, like who is famous for styling
Speaker 2: famous people in Zendeia? Is his big yes, his big client,
Speaker 2: which they mentioned they dropped her name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she won't know who you are.
Speaker 2: And he like famously, like a day or two after
Speaker 2: the Oscars a couple of years ago, He's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm done. Now, I've done. I've done it.
Speaker 2: I'm taking a break or I'm retiring or whatever. I'm
Speaker 2: just going to go on TV shows now he's ready.
Speaker 1: Now he's going to go on TV I guess and
Speaker 1: drop names of my former CLIENTSH it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I enjoyed from a parenting point of view,
Speaker 1: the when Ailah went to uh, what's her fiance's name,
Speaker 1: lev Lev's place of work and started cursing. Right, old
Speaker 1: kid behind the curtains started saying, that's a bad word.
Speaker 1: You want to be the mom of bad kid, don't
Speaker 1: you who just walks around going that's a bad word.
Speaker 1: It's very good if you've instilled good moral grounds in
Speaker 1: your childhroom, But when you need to use that word.
Speaker 4: Yeah, leaving aside the whole children, the whole fact that
Speaker 4: there's no way Ila barges in to yes.
Speaker 3: A doctor's exam room when.
Speaker 1: He's with a page right details. Yeah, we're not going
Speaker 1: to worry about that. You got that little child after
Speaker 1: a gig.
Speaker 3: Come on, ye for him?
Speaker 1: Good and uh child after playing young Isla who didn't
Speaker 1: get yelled at by her father the way her brothers did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: seems like a nice guy, doesn't he? Oh? USh back
Speaker 1: to their dad and the current like things in the will. Yeahlly,
Speaker 1: we can have flashbacks with him sometime where we actually
Speaker 1: get to see him. I wonder what actor is going
Speaker 1: to get that job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they seemed determined not to show him.
Speaker 1: All things considered, the kids turned out really pretty okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even though one in rehab way worse. But and then
Speaker 1: the uh there was a little kid at her parents
Speaker 1: office for bring your daughter to work day.
Speaker 3: Oh it was her the agent.
Speaker 1: Not able to curse back I guess, but then he
Speaker 1: just gave up. Did you ever take a kid to
Speaker 1: a bring your child to work day?
Speaker 2: No, because by the time I was my kids were
Speaker 2: that age.
Speaker 3: I was just working at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I was too.
Speaker 2: I think I think my husband maybe took my daughter
Speaker 2: once when he had, you know, a corporate job, and
Speaker 2: they love to they love to, you know, show off
Speaker 2: that they'll.
Speaker 3: Do that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it might have been. I don't know. I'm yeah,
Speaker 1: I must have been working at home, or at least
Speaker 1: the days that it was. I was working at home,
Speaker 1: but and my husband worked in a supermarket. It's not
Speaker 1: really a bring your child to work environment. But that
Speaker 1: seems like is that a thing that people still do?
Speaker 3: I think so, I guess. I mean, at some point
Speaker 3: it got changed.
Speaker 2: It started out as take your daughter, and now it's
Speaker 2: take your child.
Speaker 3: Right, and let's let's just do a Google Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, in fact, it's as we record to day.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what are the odds? Let me get
Speaker 1: my daughter in here, Get in here, kids, watch Mommy podcast.
Speaker 3: People. I like this on Google.
Speaker 2: People also ask is bringing your kids to workday still
Speaker 2: a thing? And according to National Day Calendar, dot com
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: I would think that might have been one of the
Speaker 1: things that died with COVID, but apparently not. Yeah.
Speaker 2: US Department of the Interior says it's going. It's happening,
Speaker 2: so Junior Achievement USA.
Speaker 3: So yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, are our daddy daughter things no longer allowed?
Speaker 3: I think they still happen.
Speaker 1: Are they still? Because I noticed our local parks and
Speaker 1: rec has a a night for a princess.
Speaker 3: Oh that's how they event changed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which, okay, I see why, but still.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sad, I mean just not like kid has a dad.
Speaker 1: I did a daddy daughter thing once with a girl
Speaker 1: when she was in girl Scouts. We have a picture
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah my daughter did it once, my
Speaker 2: husband and my daughter. I remember I paid a lot
Speaker 2: more than I thought for like a hairdoo and an
Speaker 2: updue sort of situation with like a lot of curls
Speaker 2: and pins, and and then it was done and they're like,
Speaker 2: you know, that'll be like forty dollars or something. I
Speaker 2: was like, what, wait a second, it's a kid, it's
Speaker 2: a kid. It's gonna oh yeah, I did not know
Speaker 2: that that was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Wow, these things seem so nice until you start doing
Speaker 1: them and it's like, oh, wait a minute, this is
Speaker 1: a gigantic pain in the bud.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that that opening of this episode, basically that
Speaker 2: showed you know, Ila out in the with the receptionist
Speaker 2: while her dad screamed at each brother in turn was rough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so we know why these people are
Speaker 1: messed up. But somewhere Jackie was off having a normal upbringing.
Speaker 1: So man, don't go back on that. But another thing
Speaker 1: from a parenting point of view on the subject of
Speaker 1: how you get your free throw, it's good to teach
Speaker 1: your kids to do things in the way that it
Speaker 1: works for them, right, even if it's not what works
Speaker 1: for other people. Even if some people think they get stupid.
Speaker 1: It gets a job done. It gets a job done
Speaker 1: exactly you have to and then and then it's your thing,
Speaker 1: it's your way, it's your little bit of flair and
Speaker 1: you know, rocket greed. Yes, even if it looks like
Speaker 1: stupid through the leg throw, it gets the points.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 2: Remind me it's a little bit about when my son
Speaker 2: played hockey and you know, he was he was fine.
Speaker 2: He wasn't the greatest at it, but he you know,
Speaker 2: he enjoyed it, and he was out there with the
Speaker 2: team and one time, there's a thing that you can
Speaker 2: do in hockey where if if one of the players
Speaker 2: gets like a pretty major penalty and they have to
Speaker 2: sit in the box, Yeah, there is a mechanism where
Speaker 2: they can serve part of it and then a teammate
Speaker 2: can serve another.
Speaker 1: Part of So that was his role serving the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was like happy as a claim, like
Speaker 2: just in that in that box, like look at me,
Speaker 2: I'm contributing right now.
Speaker 3: Yeap.
Speaker 1: Why that would have been my That would have been
Speaker 1: my thing, Yes, like I was any game that was
Speaker 1: played at UH in Physit or recess, I would be
Speaker 1: I will just guard the part of the field that
Speaker 1: nobody's on, and when people start coming this way, I
Speaker 1: will guard the other part of the field exactly. Well,
Speaker 1: please don't kick a ball down here, thank you.
Speaker 2: I believe I've mentioned before that in high school softball,
Speaker 2: my plan was stay in the outfield, even for both teams,
Speaker 2: you know, like I would.
Speaker 3: I would be in the outfield.
Speaker 2: Then we would start to walk in to switch and
Speaker 2: I would just slowly, you turn myself.
Speaker 1: Back out into the outfield.
Speaker 3: They are good straight very far out in the.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you know, everybody, everybody can find their way
Speaker 1: to contribute.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see what happens next week. Next Wednesday, it's
Speaker 2: season one, episode seven, a special place in Hell.
Speaker 1: Oh, well that sounds good. Who do we think is
Speaker 1: gonna be set there?
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a lot of candidates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I talk.
Speaker 2: So we'll see and we'll see you back here tomorrow
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