Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine hileco. 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 February third,
Speaker 2: we're continuing with A Man on the Inside, Season one,
Speaker 2: episode two. This one's called The Man Who Knew Too
Speaker 2: Much about Bridges. So and this also, I mean, well,
Speaker 2: we'll talk more about the main plot, but there was
Speaker 2: definitely a whole parenting.
Speaker 1: Plot, Oh my gosh, I mean as cute as all
Speaker 1: the spying part was. I was watching this for that
Speaker 1: his daughter and her husband dealing with the fact that
Speaker 1: all three of their sons broke bones by doing something
Speaker 1: stupid stunt with a trampoline in a basketball net. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and she was feeling the baseline of our job is
Speaker 1: keeping them alive.
Speaker 2: Hey, they're alive. And the one doesn't know how to
Speaker 2: make a peanut butter. Where do we keep the bread?
Speaker 2: Where do we keep the panaf?
Speaker 1: Yes, that was so wonderful, she says. I pretty much
Speaker 1: locked up that mother of the Year award. But yes,
Speaker 1: for inspiration's sake, I do really like the thing that
Speaker 1: her father tells her at the end, which is that,
Speaker 1: you know, what are the chances that you're both smart
Speaker 1: people and you care a lot? Is it more likely
Speaker 1: that she was screwed up or that they did something stupid?
Speaker 1: Because teenagers are stupid, right, And that is a good
Speaker 1: thing to remind yourself as a parent. It doesn't work,
Speaker 1: but it's good to remind yourself anywhere. I take responsibility
Speaker 1: for everything when in fact, you know what, sometimes kids
Speaker 1: are just dumb. Sometimes they just do the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't care the way you care. And as
Speaker 1: he said, the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm gonna make a sampler of that
Speaker 1: speech and put it up over my desk.
Speaker 2: Be sure to peers are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have teenagers anymore.
Speaker 2: But you know, do you think that she had half
Speaker 2: a second of like at least they weren't on their phones.
Speaker 1: That's true, but they are.
Speaker 2: Probably filming it for TikTok.
Speaker 1: I would absolutely, absolutely, but that just seemed like, I mean, exaggerated,
Speaker 1: but still such a oh, such a situation we can
Speaker 1: all see ourselves in. And do you feel terrible that
Speaker 1: you weren't able to stop it or protect them or
Speaker 1: teach them in advance how to feed themselves. That's one
Speaker 1: thing I got to say. My kids know how to
Speaker 1: feed themselves. They can make sandwiches from even a young age. Yes,
Speaker 1: we were able to get the lunchibles out of the fridge.
Speaker 1: So whenever somebody is going to tell me, you know,
Speaker 1: they could never live independently, and we're like, they know
Speaker 1: how to cook, they know how to heat things up
Speaker 1: in the microwave. Yep, they know how to you know,
Speaker 1: spread butter on bread. Such skills exactly.
Speaker 2: And remember when we talked in when we were talking
Speaker 2: about shrinking, and we talked about nannies, and I said
Speaker 2: I never wanted a nanny because I didn't want to
Speaker 2: have to manage them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also never wanted to trampoline because oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, no way. We had a trampoline because it was good,
Speaker 1: I think, physical therapy for my son. It was like
Speaker 1: a small pumpy and it has a had a handle
Speaker 1: on it so we could hold on to it, like
Speaker 1: an indoor one kind of yeah, like an indoor one.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the huge outdoor one. It was a little one.
Speaker 1: But it is still in our garage with boxes and
Speaker 1: junk piled on top of it. I don't know why
Speaker 1: it's still there. It's dead for sure, after just sitting there.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I paid money for it. I
Speaker 1: want to get rid of it. I'm not sure he
Speaker 1: ever used it particularly.
Speaker 2: Oh really.
Speaker 1: He's the other thing about parenting, right, you say, I know,
Speaker 1: let's do this, this.
Speaker 2: Is what we need in this situation.
Speaker 1: Reason, we bought them something great for them to do,
Speaker 1: and instead they're out breaking their bones on the trampoline.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, so we did have that for
Speaker 1: a while. We also made a ballpit.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1: Indoor ball pit. Yeah, that was really good. Except when
Speaker 1: you have a kid who's still in diapers. A ballpit
Speaker 1: can be treacherous. Problem, that is true, spring a leak
Speaker 1: in the moment. Anyway, So we finally saw Susan Rutton
Speaker 1: this time. Rutten Is that always say her name Rutin?
Speaker 1: I can't remember from La law days pronounced her name
Speaker 1: back then, But anyway, I recognized her, you know, with
Speaker 1: gray hair. Either, nice to see you, yep, and uh,
Speaker 1: she was the drama the actor, I think.
Speaker 2: But she's the owner of the necklace.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that was not her. She was the one
Speaker 1: that she was down the down the hallway from him
Speaker 1: when he was asking he put this note on, oh
Speaker 1: right right now. And then before that she had talked
Speaker 1: to him that she was involved in some drama thing
Speaker 1: I think theater acting. Yeah, theater. So yeah, the other person,
Speaker 1: the one who lost the necklace. Boy, you can sure
Speaker 1: see why her son wants to solve this crime so
Speaker 1: she can stay there and not live in his house.
Speaker 1: Holy cow, is she unpleasant? Yes, please allow me to
Speaker 1: pay to have you live anywhere other than anywhere but here.
Speaker 1: It sounded very insensitive when he said it the first time,
Speaker 1: But yeah, really, this isn't a thing like Gabby wanted
Speaker 1: to wanting to have her independence and not have her
Speaker 1: mother living with her. This is my mother is a
Speaker 1: miserable piece of work, and keep her away from me.
Speaker 2: Yes, But other there were lots of you know, there
Speaker 2: was a lot of meeting other people. Yes, feeling wistful
Speaker 2: about his wife.
Speaker 1: I love that line where he said he should be,
Speaker 1: you know, with his wife doing things, taking her to
Speaker 1: the dog park so she can look at dogs. I
Speaker 1: would go to the dog park to look at dogs. Honestly,
Speaker 1: my dog gets to go to the dog park more
Speaker 1: than she would otherwise because I so enjoyed looking at
Speaker 1: the dog. I want to go look at the dogs.
Speaker 1: I want to go look at the dogs. Well, talk
Speaker 1: to the dog people, who are all very nice, go
Speaker 1: up and asking them what breathe is? That dog's a
Speaker 1: very scruffy golden doodle the other day that I would
Speaker 1: never guess was that breed. This dog looked like it
Speaker 1: had been places and seen things. It just relatively recently
Speaker 1: sprung from the shelter. And it's like if his that
Speaker 1: dog could talk, Yeah, it would be a whole Quentin
Speaker 1: Tarantino movie in it.
Speaker 2: I don't think those usually end up in shelters. So yeah,
Speaker 2: probably does have a story.
Speaker 1: Definitely just looked just just scraggly, but but with a
Speaker 1: little bit of an attitude, you know, like, I don't
Speaker 1: care what you think. Went up to the husky. There
Speaker 1: was a husky there, and the huskies are like people
Speaker 1: are always complaining the huskies are too aggressive. This dog
Speaker 1: just went right up to the husky and was messing
Speaker 1: with him. You think you're so tough. Yeah, let me
Speaker 1: tell you about the main streets. You all combed and
Speaker 1: groomed and pretty looking. Aw anyway, but it's like, I
Speaker 1: recommend going to the dog park to watch the dogs.
Speaker 1: People will look at you funny if you don't have
Speaker 1: a dog there, but you can watch from the other
Speaker 1: side of the fence if you wanted to or get
Speaker 1: a dog just for that purpose.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also was amused that you got sent down memory
Speaker 1: lane a little bit by the fact that he was
Speaker 1: talking about going to a Jackson Brown concert in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five. Yes, and I was in college in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven. That was when I started Gduate High School
Speaker 1: in seventy seven, and there was one girl on our
Speaker 1: dorm who was obsessed with Jackson Brown and would just
Speaker 1: play all the music all the time. That was just
Speaker 1: in our dorm area. That's all you ever heard. I
Speaker 1: think she painted one of the album covers on her door.
Speaker 1: It was like around the time of Running on Empty
Speaker 1: and The Pretender, and it's like just such a yeah,
Speaker 1: seventy five, that's not so far from when I was
Speaker 1: Jackson Brown all the time vicariously, so no choice, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: those were good times. So he did not do a
Speaker 1: very good job at lying low.
Speaker 2: No he didn't. But I mean the reason why she
Speaker 2: hired him she wanted a man because, yeah, people would
Speaker 2: be interested in him because there's so many women. So
Speaker 2: she did this to herself.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is true. That is true. I am generally
Speaker 1: a fan of eating cold pizza the next morning, but
Speaker 1: not if it's stuck to my back. That seems a
Speaker 1: little How many drinks, It's a sort of fascinating thing
Speaker 1: to me, is people who know how to make mixed drinks?
Speaker 1: Do you know people in your age bracket who know
Speaker 1: how to make mixed drinks? Because you just stepped up
Speaker 1: right there at the bar and started making stuff. And
Speaker 1: I think that's something like my dad's generation, my dad's
Speaker 1: generation knew how to make mixed drinks. They would have
Speaker 1: their little bars and they would how to do stuff.
Speaker 1: People in my generation, I don't know if they do.
Speaker 2: I think a very certain subset of people, yeah, still
Speaker 2: know how to do it, you know, of varying ages.
Speaker 1: But right, but do you have friends? Do you know anybody?
Speaker 1: Do you have like a bartender in your circle?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I can think of a couple people
Speaker 2: who probably know how to make a Manhattan yeah, and
Speaker 2: or here in Wisconsin it would be an old fashioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to make an old fashion.
Speaker 1: But that was her drink. I don't know that people
Speaker 1: outside of that general age group is still right, But
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. I just feel like things went
Speaker 1: over to a beer and wine lane at something.
Speaker 2: Unless you were at an establishment.
Speaker 1: Making it exactly when somebody a professional would make it
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Interesting. He certainly ingratiated himself with folks by knowing how
Speaker 1: to do that, except for that one guy.
Speaker 2: Yes, the guy is very joy.
Speaker 1: And now is I suspect going to think that he's
Speaker 1: at he stole his watch?
Speaker 2: Yes, because it is now missing.
Speaker 1: Yep, swiped right under our eyes. Yes, but.
Speaker 2: Now we know that there's been the second incident, right,
Speaker 2: so maybe the first person will be believed now that
Speaker 2: it was so.
Speaker 1: But but now if he's accused, that's going to be awkward. Yes,
Speaker 1: I originally thought when she's when the guy said that
Speaker 1: Virginia gave him this nice watch, I thought, well, maybe
Speaker 1: she stole it from somebody, But apparently not, unless she
Speaker 1: was just taking it back.
Speaker 2: Maybe she wanted to take it back so she could
Speaker 2: give it.
Speaker 1: To Oh, that will look bad if he's wearing it,
Speaker 1: and he would presumably recognize it. He would recognize it anyway.
Speaker 1: That seems fun. It seems like a fun place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I do wonder how much Stephanie Beatrice's character DDI actually
Speaker 2: knows the talking really good, like I know everything that's
Speaker 2: happening here to you.
Speaker 1: But also they were saying that, hey, sometimes the workers
Speaker 1: coming in out of the rooms, and then they showed
Speaker 1: her coming in and out of her room. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I wondered if that was supposed to direct our suspicion
Speaker 1: to her. But I would say that would be false direction.
Speaker 1: That's too easy. Plus which I'd like her to be
Speaker 1: on future seasons of this if they exist, right, so agreed? Yeah, which,
Speaker 1: actually they do exist because this this we're coming to
Speaker 1: this late. So this season is done and there's it's
Speaker 1: been picked up for another season. So presumably he's not
Speaker 1: in jail for her suspected wrongly suspected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well this is only episode two, that's true. Ways
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's coming up next?
Speaker 2: Were you going to talk about Mary Elizabeth Allis or no?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: watching this show and the actress who plays his daughter, Emily,
Speaker 1: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, looks so familiar to me, and I've
Speaker 1: been trying to figure out where I know her from.
Speaker 1: And I looked on her IMDb and she was in
Speaker 1: the Gurge Pizza movie I enjoyed very much. I don't
Speaker 1: remember her in that at all. And then I found
Speaker 1: that she was in the Taylor Swift video for Anti Hero,
Speaker 1: in which she plays the daughter in law who kills
Speaker 1: her for the money.
Speaker 2: Which Taylor is playing herself. Yeah for the whole time.
Speaker 2: But by right, she's supposed to be like an old
Speaker 2: person who has these grown up children, and.
Speaker 1: Well this is her dream she's dreaming.
Speaker 2: It's all very surreal.
Speaker 1: And very campy and stuff, and she looks nothing like
Speaker 1: Emily in that so I was just tickled that that
Speaker 1: that's her that video I remember that character. Okay, well fine,
Speaker 1: but I still I think she must look like somebody
Speaker 1: else because none of the credits I can find do
Speaker 1: I really recognize her from and yet she looks so familiar.
Speaker 1: She does look familiar, So I think she looks like
Speaker 1: somebody else. But anyway, she does a very good job.
Speaker 1: I very much enjoy her character. I want to give
Speaker 1: her a hug. And once she finds out that not
Speaker 1: only are her three boys just completely you know, messing
Speaker 1: up in new and innovative ways, but that her father
Speaker 1: is I think she just she may just stuck jumping
Speaker 1: on that trampoline herself. Honey. It's very relaxing, right, little
Speaker 1: therapy yep.
Speaker 2: Well, And speaking of her character, the next week's episode
Speaker 2: is called The Emily Always Rings Twice. Oh, dear, I
Speaker 2: believe you said last week. Surely there won't be any complications,
Speaker 2: you said sarcastically to the fact that DEDI thinks his
Speaker 2: daughter Emily is actually his boss Julie. So yes, I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe where it comes home to roost I believe.
Speaker 1: So there's going to be trouble, I think, and I
Speaker 1: think she's going to be not only annoyed, but hurt
Speaker 1: to know that this was going on. Really you too.
Speaker 1: At least he didn't break anything yet, right, so you
Speaker 1: know we old people don't take us mind. Well men
Speaker 1: maybe not.
Speaker 2: So that's that's next week, episode three of A Man
Speaker 2: on the Inside. That'll be next Wednesday, and we'll see
Speaker 2: you back here tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout round up.
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