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 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,
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Speaker 2: our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property. And for this week of June thirtieth,
Speaker 2: we are continuing with Duster episode six.
Speaker 3: Meet by the Clothes.
Speaker 4: Whatever that is in Russian, I can't say it in Russian.
Speaker 3: I'm not as fluent as Nina.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, So here we have the moment where Nina
Speaker 4: and Jim are face to face with or they're not
Speaker 4: face to face, they're with Sacks as he does some
Speaker 4: kind of a deal with these Russians. We still don't
Speaker 4: know what's in the case that was exchanged. I know
Speaker 4: a lot of dollars were turned over, yes, but we
Speaker 4: don't know what for.
Speaker 3: Jim does save the day by.
Speaker 4: Using Royce's heart transplant scar to make him look like
Speaker 4: a real tough guy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he is the least tough guy, exactly imaginable.
Speaker 1: But boy, in that scene at the beginning when he
Speaker 1: is told not to drink anything, and then you're like, pills.
Speaker 5: Boy, that's like, okay, set your.
Speaker 1: Clock, let's see how long is the episode? And then
Speaker 1: sure enough he has to drink vodka with the Russians
Speaker 1: seal the deal and saying, hey, I'd love to, but
Speaker 1: I just had a heart transplant. These pain medications you
Speaker 1: can't do that.
Speaker 5: You got to be the tough guy. You gotta drink.
Speaker 1: But then your body's going to do what your body's
Speaker 1: gonna do. So what are the many disasters unfolding there
Speaker 1: at that? Right? They just kept piling on the problems,
Speaker 1: didn't they?
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness did Yes?
Speaker 4: He evolves into a shootout with the guys from I
Speaker 4: believe it was Greek, soal that's who.
Speaker 3: They belong to, right, yeah?
Speaker 5: Rough, And then once that was all done?
Speaker 1: Is it Billy the other driver, Yes, is doubting Nina's
Speaker 1: cover story and is going to make trouble and they
Speaker 1: wind up sort of blackmailing him with stupid things he's done.
Speaker 1: So it's just a free for all of missed opportunities
Speaker 1: to kill people. And well they do. They do kill
Speaker 1: the two Greek syl guys, I guess. But lots of
Speaker 1: lack of trust, Yes, lots of trouble And.
Speaker 3: Is he is.
Speaker 1: Just setting herself up, yes, to be the next never
Speaker 1: ending source of trouble, right, because she is number one
Speaker 1: protesting against the union that Sex is involved with, and
Speaker 1: number two bringing her daughter to the protests, and number
Speaker 1: three talking to the news cameras at the protests and
Speaker 1: to the union guy. Yeah, bring it on, We'll take
Speaker 1: all of your trouble that you're going to give us.
Speaker 1: Come on, at least don't bring your kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you know, at the same time, of course, Sex
Speaker 4: is like, oh, Jim, you want more responsibility, you want
Speaker 4: you want to be more involved.
Speaker 1: Did he ever say that he wanted more responsibility, you
Speaker 1: want to be more involved? I think he sort of
Speaker 1: enjoys his present level of responsibility. I would like to
Speaker 1: just hold on to it. Yeah, so yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3: So that's going to be certain to take care of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there was like just a little drive by
Speaker 1: truth drop. Didn't he say something to Nina like if
Speaker 1: I you know, if I die, tell is he not
Speaker 1: to tell Luna that I'm her father or something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did say something like.
Speaker 5: That, So that just went by there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you, by the way, if you hadn't been
Speaker 4: paying attention before, guess what, we.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to make sure you know this before we
Speaker 1: proceed with this whole plot where he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: kill her. So uh, that just seemed like an awkward
Speaker 1: little reveal reveal or we reveal or I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like we knew it already, but.
Speaker 3: Well, I think they strongly hinted, so.
Speaker 1: They just wanted to make sure, Hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: did you when we were saying that before, did you
Speaker 1: know what that meant?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 5: Let's just run it by again.
Speaker 3: But they didn't exactly. I mean, they just slipped it
Speaker 3: in there like it wasn't a real no.
Speaker 4: If you weren't paying attention, you might miss it.
Speaker 1: Slipped it in there. Any moment of extreme peril when
Speaker 1: they're deciding who's Redford and who's Newman.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, at least our our guy Awan seems to
Speaker 4: be safe for the moment. Yeah, he's back at the
Speaker 4: bureau holding onto Nina's locket, So he's good, that's right.
Speaker 1: But they need to teach their assistant, Yes, a little
Speaker 1: bit of spycraft, you know, if somebody's somebody's She fell
Speaker 1: right for the decoy and getting information that you shouldn't have,
Speaker 1: which caused weasel Man to almost blow her cover. Yes,
Speaker 1: fortunately Nina has watched a lot of soap operas and
Speaker 1: so could immediately flip into vulnerability mode and you know,
Speaker 1: claim that that was her ex husband. But still, that guy,
Speaker 1: that guy couldn't that guy had just been walking through
Speaker 1: that warehouse and caught a straight maybe he followed them
Speaker 1: and then he got shot because he's just could not
Speaker 1: be any weaseler, or if they branded weasel across this
Speaker 1: for him as they have met a forically done. But
Speaker 1: you know, blowing an agent's cover is not cool. Although
Speaker 1: he didn't necessarily know he was doing that, but still
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have cared if he did.
Speaker 3: Oh no, definitely.
Speaker 1: And what does this all have to do with Watergate,
Speaker 1: because I think we're still on that track. Yes' going
Speaker 1: to tie everything in somewhere, and I'm going to be displeased.
Speaker 1: Look back over the list of writers and see if
Speaker 1: mister Rakkelos is on there somewhere.
Speaker 5: Your teacher, my old teacher. He was young. He was
Speaker 5: very young.
Speaker 1: He was just out of school, so he was cool.
Speaker 1: I think he had bill bottoms, yeah, and mustache and
Speaker 1: long hair in the whole bit.
Speaker 3: Time to make a career change.
Speaker 1: Even though he was young at the time, he would
Speaker 1: be too old to be screenwriting now, I think never know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they needed somebody to make sure they were getting their.
Speaker 5: Seventies accuracy for the era.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember mss being a cool dude, but
Speaker 1: cool in looks and attire, not so much in assignments
Speaker 1: given to children, right, But.
Speaker 5: That was uncool anyway.
Speaker 1: So I mean, my first, my first parenting tip on
Speaker 1: this thing is, do not bring your child to the picketing. Yes,
Speaker 1: but there's violence and you suffer from it. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I like you, but at least you asked for it.
Speaker 1: Do not bring your child to the picketing. Yeah, get
Speaker 1: her little face on TV.
Speaker 5: Don't do that.
Speaker 3: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: People are doing that now though bad idea. Also, bringing
Speaker 1: somebody who's still recovering from heart surgery to a big
Speaker 1: deal with violent criminals is a bad idea, even though
Speaker 1: he is an adult man and you want to bring
Speaker 1: him into the business. Maybe wait a little longer. Do
Speaker 1: people know what heart transplants.
Speaker 4: Involved, especially when it's just, like you know, done in
Speaker 4: your living room, like.
Speaker 1: Exactly does the at home heart circuits not.
Speaker 5: Have a packet of information? Yes, and advice for.
Speaker 1: Timetables of returning to work and drinking vodka and confronting armed.
Speaker 5: Russians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they need to. I think there needs
Speaker 1: to be some I mean I started taking a a
Speaker 1: new heart medication that has certain restrictions to it, and
Speaker 1: I got in the mail a huge packet of information
Speaker 1: about it, enough to make me think, if it needs
Speaker 1: this much information, do I want to be taking it?
Speaker 1: But that was just for a pill for a transplant.
Speaker 1: I would think there would be a box that would
Speaker 1: come to your home read all of this, mister Sachs,
Speaker 1: so that you make sure your son is well cared for.
Speaker 1: I think that somewhere in there on page five sixty
Speaker 1: two would be Xnay on the dangerous violent situations. Nay, yeah,
Speaker 1: in what you're doing what number one? I had this
Speaker 1: feeling that Royce was never even in his heartiest, healthiest days.
Speaker 5: Somebody you want.
Speaker 3: To bring into this business.
Speaker 5: Yes, I think you.
Speaker 1: Send him off to school somewhere, you pat him on
Speaker 1: the head, and you've assigned somebody to protect him.
Speaker 5: Twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4: And yeah, his sister is way more yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: savvy than lotly he's just when you're handing down the
Speaker 4: family business, you need to choose the rights the right
Speaker 4: offspring for that.
Speaker 1: The one who looks like a little teddy bear, not
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 4: Even if she's a girl, she might be better at it.
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know that's hard for you to take. That's your Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, you're gonna have to set that aside if
Speaker 3: you want this to work out.
Speaker 5: Yikes. You know it's hard when you have plants and
Speaker 5: your kid is sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's a problem you have to decide. Do you do
Speaker 1: you put all the family's plans on hold or do
Speaker 1: you try to accommodate the young person's needs in your
Speaker 1: in your plants?
Speaker 4: Do you fly to San Francisco when your child's appendix
Speaker 4: is bursting exactly. Maybe you do if you don't know.
Speaker 5: That it's true.
Speaker 3: You didn't know, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: You didn't think, well, you know the amount of time
Speaker 1: before it's going to burst and the length of the flight.
Speaker 5: I think we could just make it.
Speaker 3: I think, no, that's not what happened.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, ask the stewardess. Could you just kind of check around?
Speaker 1: Is there a circ.
Speaker 3: Oh dear?
Speaker 5: Yikes?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think most parents have had
Speaker 1: to make that call, like we really don't want to
Speaker 1: cancel this thing we've done, and we really want everybody
Speaker 1: to go. But is this Are we going to be
Speaker 1: able to do this? Is this gonna? Is this wise?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: In what ways? Could this go horribly wrong? Oh dear?
Speaker 4: And then to have to be the one to say
Speaker 4: that to the kid, you know, like, yes, everybody wanted
Speaker 4: to go along on this big vodka drinking mission, but.
Speaker 5: Yes, you can't go right right, Like.
Speaker 3: That's that's a hard position to be in.
Speaker 5: I have once.
Speaker 1: Done something and taken the kid along because I don't
Speaker 1: want everybody to look back at this is the time
Speaker 1: we didn't do this thing because of this kid. And
Speaker 1: in the end, we shouldn't have done it, and nobody
Speaker 1: would have cared, right me, I was the one you cared.
Speaker 5: Nobody nobody else would remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see again previous discussions about mom planning trips and
Speaker 1: not being appreciated.
Speaker 5: So nobody cares cares about you. Just stay home.
Speaker 4: Just stay home with your nice housekeeper for you see
Speaker 4: your pills. Yes, she seems like a nice lady.
Speaker 3: She did.
Speaker 1: She's me very disappointed when she finds out he'd drank
Speaker 1: vaka didn't.
Speaker 5: I tell you, no booze.
Speaker 1: At least his uh A scar came in handy, so
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, quick thinking, bye, Jim.
Speaker 5: Not that often whipping your shirt open and showing.
Speaker 1: Your car is going to be the thing that convinces
Speaker 1: somebody you're a tough guy. But you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I buy how that all went down, But okay,
Speaker 1: I needed to get out of this situation, so I'm good.
Speaker 1: But why his dad didn't just take him home afterwards
Speaker 1: but left him with the D crew, I don't know.
Speaker 4: But with the crew and the and the all important
Speaker 4: case that exactly contained whatever it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 1: Was I think somebody needs to send that man a
Speaker 1: parenting book.
Speaker 3: Do you think you will read it.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, not.
Speaker 1: A million years, but all sorts of bad stuff getting
Speaker 1: set up here.
Speaker 5: Only two Milly more episodes two more.
Speaker 4: So next Wednesday we will continue with episode seven, which
Speaker 4: possibly is called kin. I don't know why this show
Speaker 4: couldn't have like standardized, you know, a method for titling.
Speaker 4: It's kind anyway that that might be what it's called.
Speaker 4: If it's not, I'll correct it in the show notes.
Speaker 4: And that's number seven, and then there's only one more
Speaker 4: after that. A so, well, see what happens. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: we'll see you back here tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout roundup.
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