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 June
Speaker 2: twenty third, we're continuing with Duster. It's episode five, Ravishing
Speaker 2: Light and Glory, which turns out to be lifted from
Speaker 2: a Nixon speech and we actually get to see the
Speaker 2: man himself.
Speaker 1: It's the seventies man. We got the cool clothes, we
Speaker 1: got the lingo, we got the hairstyles, and what else
Speaker 1: do we need here? I know, Ai Nixon, bring it on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked like one of us, like rubber.
Speaker 4: Masks, you know how those Yes, I really did like
Speaker 4: kind of a thing for a while of yeah, those
Speaker 4: mass I guess he had a very rubbery face.
Speaker 1: He did, he did. And this has given me flashbacks,
Speaker 1: what year are we supposed to be in doing well?
Speaker 5: It's they said something about the Watergate break in on
Speaker 5: the news. Yeah, so I guess it's like, what was
Speaker 5: that seventy four?
Speaker 1: No, the seventy to seventy three, So must have been earlier,
Speaker 1: because it's given me flashbacks to nineteen seventy three freshman
Speaker 1: government class and mister Rakhelos, our teacher, forced us to
Speaker 1: reenact the Watergate hearings as part of our class, and
Speaker 1: I was assigned the role of Rosemary Woods, his secretary,
Speaker 1: and I was was peppered with questions about whether I
Speaker 1: was having an affair with my boss, Richard Nixon. Like
Speaker 1: this high school government class in Thousand Oaks, California, a
Speaker 1: largely conservative town in which this teacher probably was saying, yes,
Speaker 1: all these little Republican kids. So anyway that that was.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to feel like this show is going to
Speaker 1: have about that level of yeah, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: please don't make this all part of Watergate. Please, don't
Speaker 1: make this all part of water Date. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know you you enjoy revisiting that, but nobody wants that.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants that, especially if you're going to do it
Speaker 1: with some sort of deep fake Nixon performance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was kind of creepy?
Speaker 5: Yeah up.
Speaker 1: Oh well, but aside of.
Speaker 5: Hermes and there was a little caper where Jim and Genesis,
Speaker 5: who is Saxton's.
Speaker 3: Daughter, Yes, go to this wedding to spring this her
Speaker 3: ex girlfriend or.
Speaker 4: But okay, so Jam has to distract like this whole
Speaker 4: thing where he has to distract the stepmother of the
Speaker 4: bride so that she doesn't go pick her up from
Speaker 4: the suite where she's getting ready entirely alone. Yes, and
Speaker 4: then when they they grab her and or Genesis is
Speaker 4: like okay, I'm here to I'm here to get you,
Speaker 4: and the girl's like great, let's go, and they just
Speaker 4: run through the entire party Like this hotel does not
Speaker 4: have any backdoors.
Speaker 1: Come on, come, I know you're not gonna to sneak
Speaker 1: out in some way.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, she changes her clothes, but she's quite
Speaker 5: well known to all.
Speaker 1: To Kate, she'll tell you how to show me out
Speaker 1: a window.
Speaker 3: You're just running through the party.
Speaker 1: With like all these guards and everything. Yeah, that the
Speaker 1: plan sort of fell apart at that point, I think.
Speaker 5: Right, But we had to have our weekly our weekly
Speaker 5: fight scene, and our weekly car.
Speaker 1: Chase, which was absolutely it was a pretty good one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ended with fireworks literally, Yes, but Jim is somebody whose
Speaker 1: responsibilities driving people's places, so you should have a sense
Speaker 1: of timing. Yes, you said you would come to a
Speaker 1: party with fireworks that was in the evening, and then
Speaker 1: you went to a wedding that was also apparently in
Speaker 1: the evening.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh, yeah, I'll be there. Oh.
Speaker 1: You know, we knew you were going to let the
Speaker 1: kid down pretty much from the time you made the promise.
Speaker 1: But how did you think you were going to manage
Speaker 1: that exactly? I mean, I could see if it was
Speaker 1: an afternoon wedding, you would think and then maybe it
Speaker 1: just took more time than you thought to get out
Speaker 1: of there. But it's at night. It's fully dark when
Speaker 1: he's at this wedding, And how are you going to
Speaker 1: get to this party? Don't I promises to children?
Speaker 5: Yes, I also feel like, you know, they probably weren't
Speaker 5: setting off the fireworks till like nine or ten at night, right,
Speaker 5: and the wedding had to like it couldn't have been
Speaker 5: just starting at like eight pm, right, I mean, uh
Speaker 5: huh it had I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it seemed like it was fully dark when
Speaker 1: they walked in there. If it had been like kind
Speaker 1: of dusky, I would have thought, oh, yeah, I can
Speaker 1: see how he thinks he'll be able to make this right.
Speaker 1: But it didn't seem like that was the case. Oh well,
Speaker 1: maybe it was just a lighting. Whoever was supposed to
Speaker 1: do the lighting on that scene screwed up well.
Speaker 3: As someone wise once told me, you have to let
Speaker 3: art wash over you.
Speaker 1: That is true, you have to. But another truth of
Speaker 1: TV is don't make promises to children. Yes, because once
Speaker 1: you make a promise to children, the audience knows you're
Speaker 1: not going to keep that promise, so right there, you've
Speaker 1: given away the game. And also, I guess as a
Speaker 1: parenting tip, don't make promises to children unless you're super sure,
Speaker 1: because even if you are not a criminal adjacent individual,
Speaker 1: you will something will happen, something will come up.
Speaker 3: It's called under promise and over deliver.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yes, you say, you say, you won't be able
Speaker 1: to be there, and then you come with the fireworks,
Speaker 1: and then you're a hero. Don't let don't let mom's
Speaker 1: skeevy boyfriend win that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got in there, sim you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Is he supposed to seem untrustworthy?
Speaker 3: Do you think he seems okay to me?
Speaker 1: But also I'm kind of squirrely about him. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but maybe it's just because he is the antagonist of
Speaker 1: our beloved lead. But yeah, you see, you let him
Speaker 1: pick up that point for free. You left it right
Speaker 1: there while you were driving and throwing fireworks at pursuing soons. Right,
Speaker 1: So by the end we have this setup that is
Speaker 1: just brimming with anxiety. Nina is now planted herself in
Speaker 1: SAXIS operation. She's a recognizable FBI agent that lots of
Speaker 1: different people have seen already, so that should be fine.
Speaker 1: And Jim has gotten his dad mixed up in this, ye,
Speaker 1: so if there's a falling out between him and sex,
Speaker 1: that'll be fine. You know what, old friends, sometimes you
Speaker 1: lose touch. It's just how Corbyn Burnson's wife did not
Speaker 1: say a big absolutely not to this. I do not
Speaker 1: understand they've been setting her up as an antagonist for
Speaker 1: Jim and she's like, oh, you're going to infiltrate his operation.
Speaker 3: Excellent.
Speaker 1: Let mean, why would she not be saying this is
Speaker 1: a stupid thing to do. Don't go near this, because
Speaker 1: they've played to her vanity as well. That's true. Actress
Speaker 1: can't go wrong. Yes, and it worked because Nina was
Speaker 1: crossing her fingers and lying convincingly.
Speaker 3: Just like that. And also, did you know Nina speaks
Speaker 3: fluent Russian.
Speaker 1: Of course she does.
Speaker 3: Because her mom was a professor. I don't think that's
Speaker 3: how that was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that's how it works. Oh well,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you just have to pull something out
Speaker 1: of your butt. But yeah, it's.
Speaker 5: It's she didn't, like you said, she didn't disguise herself
Speaker 5: in any way.
Speaker 3: No, you know, she just people.
Speaker 1: It's not like she's been working in a back room.
Speaker 1: Tons of people have seen her. If she comes across
Speaker 1: any other FBI agent, I mean that person will be
Speaker 1: exposed too, But they're going to know, right h It
Speaker 1: seems like not textbook field work going on here that
Speaker 1: she's not going to tell anybody.
Speaker 3: Did you know that she just left the she just
Speaker 3: finished at Quantico. So yeah, so it's new and try
Speaker 3: new things.
Speaker 1: But I mean, not only is she taking on this
Speaker 1: kingpin bad guy, but clearly there's a massive operation going
Speaker 1: on against this at her place of business. Yes, and
Speaker 1: she keeps just bucking it over and over again. This
Speaker 1: is not gonna come back. So she's not exactly working
Speaker 1: quietly where nobody can figure out what she's doing. She's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: gonna go over here and do this thing that you
Speaker 1: told me not to do. But I see, Uh, that
Speaker 1: seems to me to be unwise on her part. I
Speaker 1: guess that's the newbie thing. But you know, you've got
Speaker 1: this one thing that you're focused on, if taking this
Speaker 1: guy down who killed your father, but you're also obviously
Speaker 1: tripping a lot of wires on your way.
Speaker 3: Yes, and.
Speaker 1: Pretty soon, you know, deep fake version of Nixon is
Speaker 1: gonna be shaking his finger in your face, lady. Right,
Speaker 1: this goes up so high. Yeah, there's a guy and
Speaker 1: a cowboy hat has come down, so you know it's mad.
Speaker 3: He's already got his ticket to Phoenix.
Speaker 1: And he's picked up at the airport by the Weasley guy.
Speaker 3: From the THEISS. Yes that was they they.
Speaker 1: All but brand weasel across that guy's face. The direction
Speaker 1: to him was you look as weasily as you possibly
Speaker 1: can at all times. We don't want anybody to doubt
Speaker 1: whether you're a good guy. Right, A lot's going on,
Speaker 1: lot's going on here. Parenting tip, Please don't ever do
Speaker 1: anything that's going to cause your daughter to want to
Speaker 1: put herself in mortal danger to solve the problem the case.
Speaker 3: Of avenge here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't get in with crooks. Just live your life quietly,
Speaker 1: possibly find an island to go live on. Yes, and yikes,
Speaker 1: because she is endangering herself and others in order to
Speaker 1: do this, And it's funny. There's the girl who plays
Speaker 1: the She a secretary? Is she at the FBI offball girl? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think she's secretary.
Speaker 1: She's been in it since the beginning, and she has
Speaker 1: a cute little scene or two every time, but need
Speaker 1: no impression in me. I kept seeing her picture on
Speaker 1: IMDb as having been there in every episode, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: who the heck is this And I finally figured out
Speaker 1: it's her, and she does She just has like a
Speaker 1: cute little scene every time, right, and she's getting to
Speaker 1: actually do stuff now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was psyched too, Yes.
Speaker 1: And sufficiently psyched that rays of light came off her
Speaker 1: body and attracted the attention of every agent there, going,
Speaker 1: what the heck is going on over here?
Speaker 3: She tuk it to yeh, keep it a little.
Speaker 1: Bit on the down low there, lady. But she's Nina's
Speaker 1: got her little band of misfits. They're going up against
Speaker 1: the highest levels of skullduggery. Yes, so what could possibly
Speaker 1: go wrong?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And what can we learn from this?
Speaker 1: If Jim ends up in a cage, he's going to
Speaker 1: be I hope they don't. Hope they don't put any
Speaker 1: like a Pacemain girl. He's just gonna explode because those
Speaker 1: car chases. I'm guessing his heart rates.
Speaker 3: Have some adrenaline involved there.
Speaker 1: My notes are full of the phrase this seems so unwise.
Speaker 1: But shout out to using the Simon and garfunkl song
Speaker 1: America on that kind of wistful scene where he's watching
Speaker 1: is the young girl do fireworks?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: The mom's new boyfriend.
Speaker 3: Now. My husband was like, wow, they paid for Simon
Speaker 3: and garfl impressed.
Speaker 1: Yep. It was a very nice cue for there because
Speaker 1: it's so melancholy. Yes, and they look like a family.
Speaker 3: Right, that is a classic TV you know.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is so classic that we like kind of
Speaker 1: set our watch by it. In the In the opening
Speaker 1: scene where he promises to come to the party, we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: about three quarters the way through, he's going to show
Speaker 1: up the dead. The boyfriend is going to be giving
Speaker 1: out fireworks. Yes, his heart is going to break. So,
Speaker 1: oh well.
Speaker 5: We only have three more episodes of this, a lot
Speaker 5: of stuff to happen. Next Wednesday will continue with Duster's
Speaker 5: episode six, the title of which I am led to
Speaker 5: believe is in Russian but translated to meet by the Clothes.
Speaker 5: So all right, I don't speak Russian. I'm not able
Speaker 5: to say it in Russian because I don't read cyrillic either,
Speaker 5: so I can't even try to fake it.
Speaker 1: But cute of them to put a title in Russia.
Speaker 3: Yes, Russian.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, we're not going to tell you
Speaker 1: the titles ahead of time, now we are, but it's
Speaker 1: in Russia anyway, and I are too clever for your
Speaker 1: own good yep.
Speaker 5: And I just also wanted to mention that our old
Speaker 5: ells in the Gilded Age have returned as of by
Speaker 5: a couple days ago. When you're hearing this, so we
Speaker 5: will watch it, but we're going to finish.
Speaker 1: Up Duster first. Not a lot of gunfire and car
Speaker 1: chases in matt but they're still quite lethal.
Speaker 5: Yes, there's definitely a lot of skullduggery to use the
Speaker 5: term that you use, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, and looks that could kill and social death.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So we'll get to that in a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks and we'll see you back here tomorrow for our
Speaker 3: weekly Roundabout round up.
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