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'd bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property. And for this week of April seventh,
Speaker 2: we are continuing with Running Point on Netflix with episode three,
Speaker 2: The Travis Bug Affair. And you had to feel for
Speaker 2: poor Jackie.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like you.
Speaker 2: Know, well, first last week he's suddenly a member of
Speaker 2: the family. Now he's suddenly working as Ila's assistant.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: You know, has no idea what he's doing because he's
Speaker 2: never learned.
Speaker 1: Like, yes, I just all those who have been in
Speaker 1: a job that is way over your head, and people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, you'll learn on your you'll learn on
Speaker 1: your feet. It's not fine. It's never fine. It's like,
Speaker 1: please sit me down and explain to me what to
Speaker 1: do right, And finally, fortunately Ali does do this.
Speaker 2: Yes, but it did. It did make me think of like,
Speaker 2: you know, when your kids are little, and oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you just you know, sometimes you forget like, oh, I
Speaker 2: have to actually show them how to do this or
Speaker 2: that thing. You know, they can't just pick it up
Speaker 2: by osmosis, I mean something. Some things obviously they can,
Speaker 2: but you know, it's not fair to expect them to
Speaker 2: do things without any any help, you.
Speaker 1: Know, or to be mad when they screw up if
Speaker 1: you have not provided that right help. But it's also
Speaker 1: true that parents sort of are thrusted to this job
Speaker 1: without sure's. I guess there are manuals now to teach you,
Speaker 1: but since every child is different, it done works. You
Speaker 1: just have to sort of hope that you don't screw
Speaker 1: things up in such a way that people are yelling
Speaker 1: about you on x X. Yes, now that that that
Speaker 1: dude can insist on calling it Twitter, we're all going
Speaker 1: to call it X, right, Yeah, that was like parenting wise.
Speaker 1: The point of that whole storyline was old people are
Speaker 1: bad at tech. Don't don't let him he's not even
Speaker 1: that old, but don't let him near your your devices. Well,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't know how to do the burner, I can't.
Speaker 2: Maybe you don't pick up the phone if you're busy.
Speaker 1: Get that is exactly now.
Speaker 2: If he had just waited right a few minutes, I
Speaker 2: think you would have to handle it without messing it
Speaker 2: up in the way that he did.
Speaker 1: So ye, mutch out. Yeah, she's she's trying to deal
Speaker 1: with this annoying player. First, this is the sponsor she
Speaker 1: just got, and then she takes him to dinner at
Speaker 1: the coach's suggestion, and then he kisses her, and then
Speaker 1: it becomes a big thing and he doesn't deny it,
Speaker 1: and it's just one thing after another, right, and nobody
Speaker 1: sort of seems to know how to handle him, except
Speaker 1: his fellow player sort of the I guess, an elder
Speaker 1: statesman on the team, even though he still looks very
Speaker 1: young but old old in basketball years, I guess, just
Speaker 1: does sort of sits him down and does something that's good.
Speaker 1: But if you can do it from a parenting point
Speaker 1: of view of you know, praising the things that they're
Speaker 1: doing good, right, recognizing that they have a rule, taking
Speaker 1: them seriously, and kind of inviting them to step up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you can. You can keep on being a
Speaker 1: doing the things you're doing, but you have a responsibility
Speaker 1: and you have value and you know you are needed
Speaker 1: and straighten him right up. Isn't that nice? Couln't that
Speaker 1: be great if that works? Just exactly like that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Where is that guy? Could you license him? So now
Speaker 1: for parenting situations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's very much like he you know,
Speaker 2: he acknowledges like I can see. He can see, yes,
Speaker 2: why Travis is behaving the way that he's behaving, and
Speaker 2: he can actually find the right words to Travis to
Speaker 2: see that too.
Speaker 1: Right, which works better than punishment or sweet talking, both
Speaker 1: of which were just sleep unsuccessful.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But it's hard when you're in the emotion of the
Speaker 1: moment to think of a way to handle this that
Speaker 1: does not involve one of those things. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's something to think about if you're in that situation. Right.
Speaker 1: Doesn't necessarily work in real life like it does on
Speaker 1: TV alas, but wor worth adding to your arsenal at
Speaker 1: any rate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's it's like you said, you know there, Yes,
Speaker 2: there's a manual. There are many manuals, and the problem
Speaker 2: is figuring out what to take from which one, and
Speaker 2: which one's going to work on your kid. But this
Speaker 2: I think his name is his name Marcus, the other player, Yes,
Speaker 2: yes it is. You know, he's very he's very savvy,
Speaker 2: has figured out he's a student of the game and
Speaker 2: the players.
Speaker 1: Yes he is. Woh yeah, yes, so that was impressive.
Speaker 1: Convenient but impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite convenient.
Speaker 1: It's almost were almost to a half an hour here.
Speaker 2: We got to wrap this up.
Speaker 1: Okay, one good talk.
Speaker 2: Bunny, figure this out. Yeah, and it was. It was
Speaker 2: helpful for Aila that this guy came to her. You know,
Speaker 2: she didn't even have to ask him to go do it,
Speaker 2: which I don't know if he would have done.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she just sat back and he showed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They had a conversation before the didn't they.
Speaker 2: But she well, she tried, but he sent his representative,
Speaker 2: didn't he Maybe he sent like a different guy, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, because see he wasn't interested in talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think she I think she did try.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, no, he came to her to complain that
Speaker 1: he had had to play the whole half of the game.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but that yeah, yeah, in this I thought
Speaker 2: you meant did they talk before this episode? In this episode?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, yes, it starts. That's right. You're right
Speaker 1: that he sent the representative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in this episode, it started with him upset because
Speaker 2: he had to play the.
Speaker 1: Whole It's like, you need him in the game, get
Speaker 1: him in the game, and it worked.
Speaker 2: So he had he had a self interest that he was.
Speaker 1: That he was right. That helps also if you have
Speaker 1: a self interest. So so again we have the formula
Speaker 1: of ilis screws up and whether it's surfauld or not,
Speaker 1: a scrope occurs and then it is by the end
Speaker 1: of the episode heartwarmingly rectified.
Speaker 2: That's right, and same with Jackie.
Speaker 1: Jackie. You know it starts to learn what to do.
Speaker 1: Not perfect, but he's learning what to do. He gets
Speaker 1: rid of the cocaine drawer. It's great.
Speaker 2: So he has very good coaching from Yes, from.
Speaker 1: Ali, Yes, and he will get there. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he's an appealing addition to this crazy group because the
Speaker 1: other brothers are so annoying. One sympathetic brother out of
Speaker 1: three four four, one sympathetic brother out of four.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and you you know, what's the common what's
Speaker 2: the differentiator. He did not grow up with.
Speaker 1: Them, that's right. He's actually more sympathetic than she is,
Speaker 1: so a sympathetic Gordon. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then we had an extremely understanding fiance as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean he had nothing to worry about because.
Speaker 2: It was, you know, nothing was really going on. Nothing
Speaker 2: was her her fault or anything. But still it had
Speaker 2: to be hard to listen to all that.
Speaker 1: But okay, yeah, yeah, good luck to them. He just
Speaker 1: seems to be there to set up a future story.
Speaker 1: You got to check in with him once everybody.
Speaker 2: Remembers, Oh yeah this guy, this guy, yeah, part of
Speaker 2: that guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We shall see where, if anywhere, that goes.
Speaker 2: But that's just Mindy Haling having a role for her.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's fine, he's good. I did see that this
Speaker 1: has been renewed for a second season.
Speaker 2: Are we surprised? I mean, when your season is eight episodes,
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, it's basically a mini series, like yeah,
Speaker 2: you can, yeah, have another one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. It's not the same as in the olden
Speaker 1: days of our youth, where seasons were long and you
Speaker 1: bitch your nails for months as to whether your favorite
Speaker 1: show is going to come back. Now, it's like there
Speaker 1: is handed these things out like popcorn, which is fine.
Speaker 1: I guess as long as it's not my money. Okay,
Speaker 1: sure I can watch it or not as I choose.
Speaker 1: But this is pretty watchable. Yeah, yeah, I think it's short.
Speaker 1: If nothing else, and you know, it's fine. Doesn't require
Speaker 1: you to pay like one hundred percent attention. You can
Speaker 1: do other things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and you'll till dogs, you'll laugh here
Speaker 2: and there.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it laughs and there are cringes and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine, right, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Everything endorsement, It is fine.
Speaker 1: But we're going to keep going or worse ways to
Speaker 1: spend a half Yes.
Speaker 2: So next Wednesday we'll spend another half hour. It is
Speaker 2: season one episode for dul Jaunchie. I don't know how.
Speaker 1: We're so glad.
Speaker 2: I don't know how we're saying. So we'll check that
Speaker 2: out and we'll see you back here tomorrow for our
Speaker 2: weekly roundabout round up.
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