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 September ninth,
Speaker 2: we're discussing season four, episode three of Only Murders in
Speaker 2: the Building. It was called two for the Road, and
Speaker 2: so we had the three actors on site, so everybody
Speaker 2: was paired off with their with their actor who's portraying them.
Speaker 2: And did you notice the pants that Eva Longoria was wearing.
Speaker 1: Were they sort of checkered?
Speaker 2: Yes, but they had like zippers right under her butt
Speaker 2: cheeks and they were open.
Speaker 3: Like that's not something Mabel.
Speaker 1: No, Well, clearly she doesn't really care about what Mabel
Speaker 1: would ever wear or mobil. But at some point in
Speaker 1: this episode, Ohma showed up. Yes, I recommend. Last week
Speaker 1: she said something like, whatever you're doing, I hate it,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yes, high five through the screen, Oma,
Speaker 1: even though you would never high five. Speaking for me,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this Hollywood stuff is just so so
Speaker 1: in love with itself that I can't stand it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just so cute. We're going to parody ourselves. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're having a good time. I'm not, but
Speaker 1: they are. It's real, Claire. I mean, Eugene Levy is
Speaker 1: coming off about the best I think. But you know,
Speaker 1: God bless if you want to do the self parody. Okay, but.
Speaker 2: Do I have to watch?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's every other episode is not going to involve
Speaker 1: the actors. He knows I can enjoy, and.
Speaker 2: So next week will be a better week for you.
Speaker 1: Golly, where is jan when we need her? Can you
Speaker 1: dispatch some of these people?
Speaker 3: Miss?
Speaker 1: If I was Eugene Levy, though, I'd be a little
Speaker 1: worried that the last person who is copying Charles got shot.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: Maybe he wants to, you know, dress extremely differently and
Speaker 1: color his hair or do something to make it clear
Speaker 1: he's not that guy, at least until they're on a set.
Speaker 1: But if the sniper wants to take out Longoria Galafanakis,
Speaker 1: go for it. You have my blessings.
Speaker 2: Right. Oh gosh, we were right about Mabel taking possession
Speaker 2: of the apartment.
Speaker 1: Yes, Watters, right, you go right.
Speaker 2: But she also is like she thingured, you know, she
Speaker 2: has a twofold approach, right, because she's trying to lure
Speaker 2: the person back that was living there.
Speaker 1: Is it safe for her to be standing there all
Speaker 1: by herself?
Speaker 2: Right? This is this is the parent angle on this episode.
Speaker 2: Like no, no, no, no, no no no no no no right,
Speaker 2: do not squat.
Speaker 1: Even just the squatting, no, no, no, but being alone
Speaker 1: in a place where there's a high likelihood a murderer
Speaker 1: will come back and wish to dispatch you. No, not
Speaker 1: even about Eva Longoria's days.
Speaker 2: Because she's not going to be of any us, that
Speaker 2: is no.
Speaker 1: Nor will she be caught dead in that apartment. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well dead maybe so.
Speaker 2: But dead upward term yes, yeah, that.
Speaker 1: Just seems unreasonably risky. Would the guys let her do that?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess they can see her through
Speaker 1: their window. If this is going to make any difference whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, Charles, she's just going to clean that place up
Speaker 1: a little bit, isn't she.
Speaker 3: It does look quite disgusting.
Speaker 2: Maybe she thinks that the pig is going to serve
Speaker 2: as a guard animal of some kind. Yeah, that pig
Speaker 2: seems to be living with her again. But skipping around
Speaker 2: to the to the end of this episode, Yes, what
Speaker 2: they do is they determined that they should listen to
Speaker 2: the c the Ham radio. Yes, they have a frequency,
Speaker 2: they have a time, So instead of just turning it
Speaker 2: on and listening to see what is said, uh huh,
Speaker 2: they talk to this person like.
Speaker 3: You just I don't know, right.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, why are you giving yourself away to say
Speaker 2: who you are? That doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1: Yes, one of many very bad ideas in this episode. Right,
Speaker 1: also real lost vibes there with an accent talking through
Speaker 1: the radio. Right and Perfect Strangers. Yay, I remember the
Speaker 1: Perfect Stranger's theme song, But there was a whole thing
Speaker 1: I think in the Leftovers involving very randomly perfect strangers.
Speaker 1: Really like, isn't there another kind of quirky sitcom from
Speaker 1: that time that you could pick up and stay Is
Speaker 1: it just going to be perfect strangers? It's going to
Speaker 1: be the cool thing to reference in your entertainment product.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it seemed odd to me. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was the whole thing. There was a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about things being awkward in this episode, and I'm like, yep,
Speaker 1: it sure is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a little bit like our Like
Speaker 2: we enjoyed the after party a lot, but it was
Speaker 2: always like, well, this week, we're focusing on this person,
Speaker 2: so we know that they're not the killer because it's
Speaker 2: too early, so we have to like set them up
Speaker 2: and knock them down every week.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Although, see, I really need to go back
Speaker 1: and watch the first season of Only Murders in the
Speaker 1: Building because I seem to remember it as not necessarily
Speaker 1: being quite that way, and that jam was sort of
Speaker 1: maybe a little suspicious, and then fine, and then the
Speaker 1: killer and then the killer. So I thought it was
Speaker 1: a little twistier. Yeah, maybe this will wind up being twisty,
Speaker 1: but so far it's just Oh, I'm so sorry to
Speaker 1: say annoying parenting wise, though, I did enjoy the little
Speaker 1: pep talk thing Howard tried to give mm hmm about Oliver,
Speaker 1: and it's like I have been in the middle of
Speaker 1: that speech before and then thought, oh, this and so good, Like, honey, yeah,
Speaker 1: you didn't get it, but you tried, you know what.
Speaker 1: They knock you down and you try again, and you
Speaker 1: never really succeed, but you keep trying, and then you
Speaker 1: suddenly realize, I'm saying my kid's a loser. Stop parents,
Speaker 1: think it through before you give the pep talk. Find
Speaker 1: something positive other than yeah, you're always a loser, but
Speaker 1: we still love you. Well, yeah you will never be
Speaker 1: the star, honey, but that they need participants, and look
Speaker 1: at you up there participating. This is not helpful. This
Speaker 1: is not making the kid feel good. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: my mom thinks that, even my mom thinks I'm not
Speaker 1: as a star, right right, Oh gosh, but that was
Speaker 1: hilarious in context. But yes, yeah, yeah, I have a
Speaker 1: little more self awareness with that than Howard that at
Speaker 1: some point you probably should stop talking, right your your
Speaker 1: peptop game needs work. Yes, yes, there's gotta be something.
Speaker 1: And also the whole thing with the Christmas Christmas guy.
Speaker 1: It was not really so much into Christmas, but just
Speaker 1: had some success with Christmas and then was stuck with it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think we've all had that with our kids. You know,
Speaker 1: you do something and the kid loves it, so you
Speaker 1: do it again, and then you have to do it
Speaker 1: five million times, right, and you know, think about it
Speaker 1: first to get through. It's that's second time you need
Speaker 1: to say, and that was fun, Let's do something else now.
Speaker 1: But once you get into a pad, you have to
Speaker 1: do it. Every Christis or every summer or every vacation,
Speaker 1: you have to do it, and then you just cannot
Speaker 1: ever ever escape, right because their in your stomach.
Speaker 3: Their memory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they may not be able to remember, you know,
Speaker 2: the times tables, but they will remember the one time
Speaker 2: you said something. You know, you made some promise, or
Speaker 2: you did something one way and you know.
Speaker 3: But last time you did it this way?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and that ever that's it.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: You are doomed to wear Christmas sweaters, you know, all
Speaker 1: year year around.
Speaker 2: Yep. Yep.
Speaker 1: Oh man, so many, so many unfortunate ideas.
Speaker 3: I do like Camille Montiani, though I do too.
Speaker 1: He was very I was glad he turned out to
Speaker 1: not be apparently not be murderous. We never really know,
Speaker 1: but right, apparently not right and a nice neighbor, but
Speaker 1: apparently not a fan of Tinsel. So what is knowledge
Speaker 1: that Tinsel burns?
Speaker 2: Yes? And also what could that other thing be then?
Speaker 2: If not Tinsel?
Speaker 1: Yes, what could it be?
Speaker 2: It looked also to me like, you know, some people
Speaker 2: cover their windows.
Speaker 1: With like, yeah, that's filmy kind of.
Speaker 2: Foiley stuff, so maybe it's not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, So what is the thing with the pig?
Speaker 1: The pig with the person on the radio was calling
Speaker 1: out the pig's name or something. I couldn't quite get
Speaker 1: what was going on there.
Speaker 2: It did seem like that, yes, but I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't quite catch.
Speaker 1: He loves you or something like that, right, but I couldn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't quite understand what was happening there. Yes, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's like that that Ham radio and
Speaker 2: then the thing with.
Speaker 1: The Ham radio yak yah yuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well and the thing with the code for the
Speaker 2: door to that apartment yeah, also spelling oh hell, like.
Speaker 1: Right, what huh?
Speaker 2: It's just I guess I guess red herring is the
Speaker 2: term so many clues.
Speaker 1: You want to just be like Eva Longoria going this
Speaker 1: is it. My view is decisive, right, but not the
Speaker 1: way it works. We got ten weeks to fill, lady.
Speaker 3: I know you're just a lot more time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my, But I think that we have a
Speaker 1: recurring joke going with the names of the pig, because
Speaker 1: I think Howard went through three or four and then
Speaker 1: there were some other suggestions coming in. So every week
Speaker 1: it's going to be a different one or two, or
Speaker 1: five or ten, which is is uh? I approve of that.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, and maybe that will have something. It will
Speaker 2: be a clue as well.
Speaker 1: Well, we can only hope. So that will be fun,
Speaker 1: the sort of fun that we've had on this show before.
Speaker 1: I just I mean, is it just me or do
Speaker 1: you find the Hollywood stars making fun of themselves aspect
Speaker 1: of this to just be tiresome in the extreme?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's been done, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure has Yeah, And I mean they're given it,
Speaker 1: they're all. But I want it take it back, go
Speaker 1: back to Hollywood. Let us have a mystery show here.
Speaker 1: Come on. Yeah, we got pigs to deal with and
Speaker 1: serial killers in the passageways and the Feds taking over
Speaker 1: and all sorts of problems. Yeah, at some point, clearly
Speaker 1: they have to go back to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: But all right, I'm sure there's another round trip in
Speaker 2: our future.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just if it's every other episode, I probably can
Speaker 1: handle it. If it's like if we get a good,
Speaker 1: fun New York based building based history week and then
Speaker 1: oh huh, Hollywood celebrities, right, you know, at least they
Speaker 1: could do is throw Meryl Streep into the deal. Come on,
Speaker 1: she couldn't have come out with them.
Speaker 2: I know, well she's busy on her on her show.
Speaker 2: Oh but we did. We can congratulate Passic and Paul
Speaker 2: who wrote yes song.
Speaker 3: For getting an Emmy.
Speaker 1: And actually not just that, but all the songs. There
Speaker 1: were a number of songs from it was it in
Speaker 1: the Light or something and.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah that was a pretty song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there were like I think three songs that
Speaker 1: were performed. Creatures of the Night was another one. So
Speaker 1: I think it was just for music for the show.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was.
Speaker 2: A outstanding original music and lyrics. It says for their
Speaker 2: season three ear worm, which of the Pickwick trips.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, maybe it's just that one. For that one,
Speaker 1: it's totally deserving. Yes, but I thought maybe it included
Speaker 1: the other ones as well, so which also work quite
Speaker 1: quite well done and perfect for the particular need.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and just very much fun too, Yes, watch
Speaker 2: and rewatch Yes, and.
Speaker 1: Just remains delightful and Steve Martin's performance thereof though it
Speaker 1: benefits from having watched it in the show and see
Speaker 1: him screw it up so many times.
Speaker 3: Yes that is true, that is true.
Speaker 1: But still what will be the fun little show piece
Speaker 1: we watch over and over again this time?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: So far? I right, somebody will put together a little
Speaker 1: compendium of all the pig names.
Speaker 2: But yes, sorry, just to just to close the loop
Speaker 2: on this. They did win for the song specifically Girls
Speaker 2: five Abba was also nominated for us the song the
Speaker 2: Medium Time, and then a Saturday Night live song and.
Speaker 3: A couple other things.
Speaker 2: So okay, we didn't watch or don't care about, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Which chiplets did. It is a is one for the.
Speaker 1: Ages, absolutely real achievement.
Speaker 3: Yes, and now passing and Paul haven't egot.
Speaker 2: That they who care about that?
Speaker 1: I noticed that? Good for them? They are very young.
Speaker 3: Yes that is true.
Speaker 1: So what else do we have to say about this
Speaker 1: delightful episode, so long, enjoy your flight back to Hollywood. Yes,
Speaker 1: just trying to think how I mean not to whine,
Speaker 1: but how unlikely is again? I say, has a podcast
Speaker 1: ever been made into a movie?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes they have. Yeah, a documentary maybe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well there's there's.
Speaker 1: In which the podcasters are characters who act as themselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah. That's less less so right.
Speaker 2: It's more like whatever story the podcast was telling, yes,
Speaker 2: turned into a piece of fiction or some.
Speaker 1: Other Okay, so it has happened. I don't know. It
Speaker 1: just seems this whole thing seems so unlikely. But you
Speaker 1: know how popular is their podcast?
Speaker 3: We're still waiting for our phone call.
Speaker 1: We are. Yes, we have a decade or more of backstory.
Speaker 1: You could just comb through it. I'm sure you'd find
Speaker 1: something interesting.
Speaker 3: You find something you wanted, something.
Speaker 1: Put some intern on that.
Speaker 2: They'll just have to walk around for like a month
Speaker 2: with air pods in nothing but our podcast going into
Speaker 2: their ears.
Speaker 3: They will tear their hair.
Speaker 1: Out, yes, yes, but you know it's worth it for art,
Speaker 1: you know, yea and stuff.
Speaker 2: Right. Next week we'll discuss the next episode of Only
Speaker 2: Murders in the Building Season four, The Stuntman. We'll see
Speaker 2: you back here tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout roundup.
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