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
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Speaker 2: So, since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
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Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property, and for this week of April
Speaker 2: twenty first, we are continuing with Running Point on Netflix
Speaker 2: with episode five be shared. How did I do they
Speaker 2: sure they did say it? In the show?
Speaker 1: It means I'm like ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 1: We have our time.
Speaker 3: It means like soulmate, basically in yeah, I guess it's
Speaker 3: in Yiddish because part of the conflict of this episode
Speaker 3: was Isla apparently didn't remember but told her fiance love that.
Speaker 2: She would convert to Judaism because it was important to.
Speaker 1: His parents, because they needed a topic for this episode
Speaker 1: exactly because yeah, we've never we've barely even seen this
Speaker 1: guy before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was on like one or two episodes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like this is an interesting set him up,
Speaker 1: knock him down topic for an episode. But okay, whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all are cute, right, but okay, And.
Speaker 2: It turned out that her there was some kind of
Speaker 2: a what do you call it, a.
Speaker 4: Provision in her father's will that if any of the
Speaker 4: children convert to a long list of religions that is
Speaker 4: not Christianity, then they don't get any of their money.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, really really that's in there. I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is all just this is a particularly contrived situation.
Speaker 2: Contrive.
Speaker 1: I mean everything about it was contrived. The Hey, I've
Speaker 1: read about this Chinese acrobat who does halftime shows. Why
Speaker 1: don't we see if we can get her onto this
Speaker 1: and do this, and yeah, why doesn't everybody fall in
Speaker 1: a pool. Let's figure out a way them do all
Speaker 1: fall in the pool, and let's orchestrate it in such
Speaker 1: a way that everybody will know it's going to happen
Speaker 1: like ten seconds before it does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she should have known it happened from the moment
Speaker 4: there was a pool in the frame, you.
Speaker 1: Know, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4: Extremely clear, you know what the like you said, extremely contrived.
Speaker 4: What the will thing did was allow Aila to not
Speaker 4: have to convert, but show Lev that she she was,
Speaker 4: you know, willing to even if it cost her her
Speaker 4: all for money, which of course they would be fine
Speaker 4: because he has plenty of money.
Speaker 1: That's all right. He seemed entirely unconcerned about her not
Speaker 1: doing it right. It's like, never mind. At the end,
Speaker 1: it's no tension over it whatsoever. So it was all
Speaker 1: just a eh, we need something for this episode to
Speaker 1: be about. What could it be? Okay?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 1: By the way, I have to mention that Max Greenfield
Speaker 1: plays her fiance Lev. And last week I mentioned the
Speaker 1: Amy Poehlar Good Hand podcast, right, and the one for
Speaker 1: I believe it was the one about Rashida Jones. At
Speaker 1: the beginning, they had a little she had a little
Speaker 1: discussion with three other people to see what sort of
Speaker 1: things she should talk about, and it was Redda and
Speaker 1: Darcy Cardon and somebody else.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was. I think it was just
Speaker 2: those two.
Speaker 1: Just those two. Nay, there was Okay, there was some
Speaker 1: talk of white boys who can move, and the name
Speaker 1: of Max Greenfield came up, so good on. You man
Speaker 1: been publicly proclaimed as being good at moving, although we
Speaker 1: didn't see it in this episode where there could clearly
Speaker 1: have been dancing. And then the following episode of Good
Speaker 1: Hand that I listened to is Ike Baronholtz, who is
Speaker 1: one of the creators of this show, who confirmed that
Speaker 1: indeed Max Greenfield can move, So I guess it's a thing. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: when are we going to have some dancing, sir? We
Speaker 1: would like to check this out. You could join the
Speaker 1: ladies out on the court. Yes, yeah, they have to think.
Speaker 1: That's as completely random as hey, let's do an episode
Speaker 1: about converting to Judaism. Not because do any of these
Speaker 1: people seem to have any faith at all other than
Speaker 1: the basketball coach. No, I'm like, you know, she's not
Speaker 1: giving up her faith. She's just going through motions to
Speaker 1: please her fiance's family. Right, is pretty much what it is.
Speaker 1: And I don't think she doesn't seem like love is
Speaker 1: extraordinarily religious either.
Speaker 4: No, And it didn't seem like she she was trying
Speaker 4: to say that she had, you know, faith that she
Speaker 4: was giving up. So, yeah, the storyline with the Chinese
Speaker 4: acrobat halftime show, I did enjoy that jack.
Speaker 1: Is an actual thing, right, that's a thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I heard that.
Speaker 4: I believe it was on Extra Hut great that this
Speaker 4: person really does perform at halftime shows.
Speaker 1: Right, that's where I heard it. I knew I'd heard
Speaker 1: it someplace.
Speaker 2: But you know, Jackie, despite being an only child who
Speaker 2: I think was raised by a single parent, he is
Speaker 2: familiar with the tactic of if mom says no, go
Speaker 2: ask dad r and it worked. It worked for him.
Speaker 1: He's watched a lot of.
Speaker 2: It worked quite well for him, except for the dance
Speaker 2: Lady is mad at him now, but he seemed to
Speaker 2: like that about her, that she was paying attention to him.
Speaker 1: So we not believe more in TV labor to come.
Speaker 1: If a woman is mad at you, there will surely
Speaker 1: soon be romance.
Speaker 2: And he knows that too from watching TV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where you learned the mom says no, go
Speaker 1: ass dad. He's learned that hot chick is mad at you,
Speaker 1: there will soon be action. So you know, he's just
Speaker 1: got to wait it out.
Speaker 4: Right, And Sandy finally, you know, his boyfriend has had enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: In the beginning of the show, when the boyfriend like
Speaker 2: calls him and says, oh, he's gotten them tickets to wait, wait,
Speaker 2: don't tell me, just hilarious, I was like, Oh, so
Speaker 2: they're just gonna like ignore the fact that Sandy was
Speaker 2: awful to him in the previous episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that they were fighting. Yeah, but but I.
Speaker 4: Mean, I guess the guy like gave him another chance,
Speaker 4: but he blew that one as well. So yeah, and
Speaker 4: of course all the siblings are like, what.
Speaker 2: Do you mean. Of course we wouldn't have.
Speaker 1: Cared, you know, like right right, I have a feeling
Speaker 1: that things are gonna come around. Yeah, since, but still
Speaker 1: you should he should make him pay because that bad behavior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was you know, the boyfriend should make it pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah for sure, but still dogs for everybody. So he
Speaker 1: could give all his siblings dogs. It is his friend
Speaker 1: some business, and then everybody would be happier. Everybody would
Speaker 1: be happier with a dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we could. We could entertain ourselves by
Speaker 2: determining what kind of dog each person. Each person should have.
Speaker 1: Jackie needs one of those dogs that's constantly jumping on you, going.
Speaker 3: Hi, I feel that ness, and Batuan would have like
Speaker 3: a very small, very princess.
Speaker 2: E dog, a purse dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Eila needs one of those dogs with sort of
Speaker 1: the long long hair, and they could they could exchange
Speaker 1: hair extensions and you know, I could see that. Just
Speaker 1: spent two hours at a dog park the other day,
Speaker 1: so I have dogs on my My kids were had
Speaker 1: a practice at the same park where the dog park is,
Speaker 1: and I thought, you guys, go to your practice, dropped
Speaker 1: me off at the dog park. I'll sit there with
Speaker 1: the dog while it was like two hours and he
Speaker 1: was started to get dark, Like you guys.
Speaker 2: Done dogs getting tired?
Speaker 1: Did you leave without me? There's dog groups and like
Speaker 1: three different groups of dogs came and went while we
Speaker 1: were there.
Speaker 2: It was just like, what's what's happening?
Speaker 1: They were all beautiful and wonderful anyway, So dogs, that's
Speaker 1: what this show needs is more dogs. So from a
Speaker 1: parenting point of view, what else do we have? Dad
Speaker 1: trying to manipulate you from beyond the ground was kind
Speaker 1: of unfortunate and uh and not in the way that like,
Speaker 1: I mean, there could he could have added provisions that
Speaker 1: you know, improved their relationship or there. Yes, no, yes,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have thought of that, oh dear. And the
Speaker 1: coach who seems to have it together pretty well described
Speaker 1: himself as just having had a child hand off in
Speaker 1: a Chipotle park sparely. Family is difficult, but.
Speaker 4: He does seem to be at him and that other player,
Speaker 4: Marcus are the source of wisdom.
Speaker 1: Right right, Definitely, when they were thinking of words to
Speaker 1: describe Sandy and said homeowner and he was upset that
Speaker 1: was it. I'm thinking, man, I have seen your house.
Speaker 1: I think you should take some pride. I think that
Speaker 1: is actually that is a word that would sell you right, space,
Speaker 1: that would sell you.
Speaker 2: Know.
Speaker 1: And describing the siblings as violent, dysfunctional heathens who can't
Speaker 1: help but make a mess in public. A lot of
Speaker 1: families that would fly under that bandit, yes, exactly. But yeah,
Speaker 1: religion in families is in some cases just for show,
Speaker 1: which is seems to be the case with the Gordon's.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, you got to have the Santa, but
Speaker 1: there's no particular belief attached to it, right, and they
Speaker 1: certainly seem to be putting down the pedal on cultural
Speaker 1: Jewishness rather than actual you know faith. There either.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, when the only argument that the family has
Speaker 2: is like what about Santa, that's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And it makes me think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think my kids would identify that we
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in church and that going
Speaker 1: to church was a thing, and we say prayers every
Speaker 1: night before bed, and you know that it was I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's as important to them as it
Speaker 1: is to me, but that mom made sure we we
Speaker 1: did things, and you know that other people did things too,
Speaker 1: So but I don't know how much that is anymore
Speaker 1: either way, really, either the going through the motions or
Speaker 1: the actual doing things become less and less of a
Speaker 1: family defining quality I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I guess it's just another thing that
Speaker 4: depends a lot on the family. Well and and you know,
Speaker 4: NASA's big argument was about Santa.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and then at the end of the show,
Speaker 2: Ila agreed to raise any children Jewish. Yeah, so like, okay, are.
Speaker 1: You gonna which was important to him because his mother
Speaker 1: would give him a hard time other worse. Right, So
Speaker 1: it's like he's the one asking for this theoretically, but
Speaker 1: but it doesn't really matter to him either, yeah, because
Speaker 1: of it, So yeah, it's just kind of a It
Speaker 1: sounds like she just kind of said she would and
Speaker 1: it's not like something that he said, Hey, we need
Speaker 1: to discuss this is to me, how are we going
Speaker 1: to handle this? It's just eh, yeah, which is I mean?
Speaker 1: Which is good because I really did not want to
Speaker 1: see this show get weighed down in them breaking up
Speaker 1: because she wouldn't converge. But on the other hand, why
Speaker 1: bring it up at all? Then? Yeah, surely there could
Speaker 1: have been some other dispute for a humorous, possible bump
Speaker 1: in their relationship, right, that's not something that to some
Speaker 1: people is still meaningful. Yeah, yeah, you guys, it's not
Speaker 1: just a sitcom silliness. But clearly it does not seem
Speaker 1: like they want to be in the business of breaking
Speaker 1: her and leve up, which I'm happy, yes, exactly. Can't
Speaker 1: we just be having a fun? In fact, I would
Speaker 1: like Sandy to get back together with his guy and
Speaker 1: just let's everybody just be happy and.
Speaker 2: Then Jackie can get with it.
Speaker 1: Silly gets his answer and everybody will have the fact
Speaker 1: that they picked one dancer out to go confront him
Speaker 1: means she's going to be in it more. Her agent
Speaker 1: is very happy, but oh well, well, at least they're
Speaker 1: not stranded on an islands, right, so there's hope.
Speaker 2: Well, next Wednesday we will continue with season one, episode six.
Speaker 2: It's called the Yips. Thank you dear, something I can pronounce,
Speaker 2: we will.
Speaker 1: And we know what that is.
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