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 bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property, and for this week of February tenth,
Speaker 2: we're continuing with A Man on the Inside, Season one,
Speaker 2: Episode three, The Emily Always Rings twice, so the predicted
Speaker 2: collision to borrow from loss of Julie and Julie aka
Speaker 2: Emily and Emily Always ka Emily. So Emily has to
Speaker 2: the real Emily has to pretend that she's Julie and
Speaker 2: that she's Charles's niece, and they get up to some highjinks,
Speaker 2: but also some like.
Speaker 3: Cute bonding between the two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I was thinking that it was going
Speaker 1: to be more of a slapsticky sort of thing, where
Speaker 1: the real Emily was going to go to the office
Speaker 1: and say she was Emily, and then there would be
Speaker 1: confusion and the staff would know that there was some
Speaker 1: weird you know. I was expecting it to be a
Speaker 1: whole thing, when in fact it wasn't. And she just
Speaker 1: came into his room without anybody asking who she was.
Speaker 1: Which don't they help people sign in? Or yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what is the security in this place? Oh you'd like
Speaker 1: to see him? Sure, let me just take you right
Speaker 1: to him. Why I don't care who you are? Why
Speaker 1: would I care.
Speaker 3: Who you are?
Speaker 1: But any four purposes? Yes, I'm fine with it. And
Speaker 1: then Emily turns out to be an extremely proficient liar.
Speaker 1: I should possibly concern Charles a little bit. Never stumbled
Speaker 1: she had my name is Julie. I am his niece.
Speaker 1: Every single time she was called on, she never even
Speaker 1: had to think about it.
Speaker 2: Even with the memory care unit. She was like, my
Speaker 2: aunt had it, you.
Speaker 4: Know, she.
Speaker 3: Got that right?
Speaker 1: My goodness, she was. That was an impressive performance for
Speaker 1: that character to just not trip up once. So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe they should have gotten her the detector should be
Speaker 1: what do I need a mom for infiltrate a PTA?
Speaker 2: Although she didn't really witness it as yeah, she doesn't
Speaker 2: necessarily know as much, but still on.
Speaker 1: The way. And she also didn't get as kerfuffled about
Speaker 1: it as I would expect. I mean, I guess she
Speaker 1: eventually did was when they were talking about him drinking
Speaker 1: and falling around.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I also thought that was a little like,
Speaker 2: he's he's fine, you know. I mean she was like
Speaker 2: before any before she knew about the drinking and before
Speaker 2: he got you know, punched in the face, she was
Speaker 2: just like, but it's not safe, you know, like I
Speaker 2: don't know, like it's fine. Yeah, I mean, he's probably
Speaker 2: safer there than he is alone in his own home
Speaker 2: where you know, you can call him obviously, but no
Speaker 2: one has eyes on him like they do it.
Speaker 1: But there is that thing where at a certain age,
Speaker 1: if you have a certain level of contact with the
Speaker 1: roles do start to reverse. Yes, you feel parental towards
Speaker 1: your parent right and especially when your actual children have
Speaker 1: just had catastrophic accents under your watch.
Speaker 2: You're like, maybe I can protect someone.
Speaker 1: Can I just wrap you in bubble wrap?
Speaker 3: Please?
Speaker 1: And set you at your apartment, send me things in
Speaker 1: the mail. Just just don't go out and do anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so clip those clippings to your own mailbox.
Speaker 3: Don't be walking to the corner. That's right, you might slip.
Speaker 1: You feel like you got to take care of everybody,
Speaker 1: So that would be to find the person who you
Speaker 1: think you're taking care of is off doing things on
Speaker 1: his own right and lying to you about them could
Speaker 1: be disconcerting.
Speaker 3: Yes, so this is skipping around a little bit.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's this whole thing where Elliott the
Speaker 2: the sexual rival as they kept calling him of Charles.
Speaker 2: They get into this altercation and uh so, so then
Speaker 2: Elliott has to come to Deity's office and did you
Speaker 2: get the sense that like there's something else going on here,
Speaker 2: like he was related to.
Speaker 1: Her or I don't know. She did say I've always
Speaker 1: liked you, but I don't.
Speaker 2: And just the way that she was talking to him,
Speaker 2: like yeah, cut the crap kind of stuff like would
Speaker 2: she talk would she speak that way to like a
Speaker 2: paying customer?
Speaker 1: I don't know, right, Yeah, there was something where in
Speaker 1: the ending she.
Speaker 2: Was like she was he she said, I don't, I
Speaker 2: don't want to listen to you man's plain anymore, and
Speaker 2: he was like, yeah, I don't want to tell them.
Speaker 1: But at the very end, it seemed like she was
Speaker 1: maybe on to Charles or suspicious or something that made
Speaker 1: it seem like she was in cahoots with Elliott or
Speaker 1: there was like a really weird note to her performance
Speaker 1: at the end that I just completely did not get.
Speaker 2: Or was it just supposed to be like throwing suspicion
Speaker 2: toward her, like from our point of view as the.
Speaker 1: Audience, to think that maybe she's the one stealing, She's.
Speaker 2: The one stealing, which which they already tried to do
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it's just emphasizing that.
Speaker 2: A little more.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's ending with a huh yeah.
Speaker 1: But it was amusing when I think it was she
Speaker 1: who called Virginia and Elliott the geriatric version of Ross
Speaker 1: and Rachel. Yes, they were married and then they had divorced.
Speaker 2: Married right, they're engaged and they got an old Yeah.
Speaker 3: She's like, are they married right now? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't think they know.
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my well, Hiji hijinks are ensuing all over the.
Speaker 2: Place, all over.
Speaker 3: Yes, and we.
Speaker 1: Met the geriatric hijinks.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: They showed us the like residents Council meeting with a
Speaker 2: very power hungry president of the the I don't know
Speaker 2: what you call the the council or whatever. She loved
Speaker 2: being in charge.
Speaker 3: Very very much.
Speaker 1: Yes, that that had a very pta vibe to it.
Speaker 1: I've been to that meeting.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and then there was a part where they're sort
Speaker 2: of suspecting this this driver kid, which we know it's
Speaker 2: not him because it's way too early for it to
Speaker 2: be him. And Emily says, oh, it's not him because
Speaker 2: you know, somebody tried to give him a tip, like
Speaker 2: give him money, and he wouldn't take it. So he's
Speaker 2: on the up and up like, no, that's what he
Speaker 2: would do if he was stealing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't need your little tip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's not proof of anything. Even though yes,
Speaker 2: you were a very good spy family, I don't I
Speaker 2: don't think you got that one right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if she will be continuing to be in
Speaker 1: on the spying now that she's said the taste of
Speaker 1: it and maybe like get all the way through a
Speaker 1: facial next time. She just fit in very comfortably there.
Speaker 2: Yes, they liked her, she liked the yeah yeah, and
Speaker 2: we had her her husband being the voice of reason,
Speaker 2: you know, like, why are you so upset about your
Speaker 2: dad like doing what you told him to do, which
Speaker 2: was basically get a life.
Speaker 1: I met yoga, not espionage. I laughed when these are
Speaker 1: all easy jokes, the family jokes with the kids. They're
Speaker 1: very easy jokes, but they're so real. Yeah, obviously, like
Speaker 1: where the kid wants a box and so he just
Speaker 1: like dumps everything in and on the table and walks right,
Speaker 1: and the dad says.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's where that goes. Good job, buddy.
Speaker 1: They are very nice, those parents. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Although do kids still use shoe boxes to make dioramas anyway?
Speaker 1: They I don't know.
Speaker 3: This is a question that I have.
Speaker 1: Now, what would they usual? They just would do them
Speaker 1: a virtual diorama on their computers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they make like power points and stuff.
Speaker 1: Now, I would be even as much as a pain
Speaker 1: in the butt is when your kid tells you the
Speaker 1: night before it's toue oh, by the way, I have
Speaker 1: to make a diorama, and then you have to find
Speaker 1: a box, and you have to find construction paper, and
Speaker 1: you have to find all of this stuff and you
Speaker 1: have to help them make it because who knows how
Speaker 1: to make a diorama? Nobody, And even with all of that,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of sad if those went away. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like a write of passage of a diorama and a
Speaker 1: shoe box or a triptych.
Speaker 3: Or oh yeah, the three the poster board.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, us these are I mean I was since
Speaker 1: my kids were in special ed some of those things
Speaker 1: they don't do, and I was always like, once my
Speaker 1: daughter was an inclusion, it was like a diaryrect direct
Speaker 1: science rap. I gotta do it.
Speaker 3: I have to make a diagram.
Speaker 1: But still I remember these. It's normal.
Speaker 2: There's a commercial for you know, some kind of internet,
Speaker 2: like you know, home internet or something.
Speaker 4: Have you seen this where they they're talking about how
Speaker 4: they have fast, fast internet, And it shows the little
Speaker 4: boy like in bed and says to the dad like,
Speaker 4: how fast is our internet?
Speaker 2: Is it fast enough to learn about dinosaurs? Dad's like, yes,
Speaker 2: is it fast enough to learn.
Speaker 3: How to make a diama?
Speaker 2: And then the the dad's like when is it due?
Speaker 2: And the kid says tomorrow. And the dad's like, all right,
Speaker 2: let's get busy. And the dad is way nicer than
Speaker 2: I yeah, would have been in Sario because it's clearly
Speaker 2: bedtime already. Dad's like ready to put the turn off.
Speaker 3: The light and go watch a show or whatever it
Speaker 3: is he wants to do.
Speaker 2: Nope, he's going to be making a dirama about dinosaurs.
Speaker 1: Yep. Well, but it's a it's a school right of passage.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's got to do this. If you're just
Speaker 1: doing it on your on your laptop, it's not the same.
Speaker 1: And also your dad's not going to be able to
Speaker 1: help you because he's on the right. I was amused
Speaker 1: when somebody described Charles as he's like if a podcast
Speaker 1: wore a suit.
Speaker 2: And he does have a new friend, the backgammon.
Speaker 1: Player, Oh yeah, even though he doesn't I believe, know
Speaker 1: how to play backgammon.
Speaker 2: No, and he talks way too much for that guy's taste.
Speaker 1: Why is it about backgammon? Because this is we're watching
Speaker 1: two Yes, it's a very very different shows, a light
Speaker 1: light comedy mystery and a serious, uh sci fi ish
Speaker 1: almost show, and both of them predominantly feature backgammon.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Is that just the game. Do you know anybody who
Speaker 1: plays backgammon at the present time.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: My boyfriend in high school played backgammon, and so I
Speaker 1: learned to play so I could play with him, and
Speaker 1: then once we no longer were dating, I have not
Speaker 1: played it since.
Speaker 2: So I feel like my kids played in school for
Speaker 2: some reason.
Speaker 1: Huh. I think it's just, you know, it sounds good
Speaker 1: in a sirrup. It could be chess or checkers, but
Speaker 1: that's that's too big.
Speaker 3: It's kind of heavy handed, right.
Speaker 1: Backgammon is like everybody knows what it is, but they
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know how you play it right, so it
Speaker 1: gets less scrutiny and it just sounds more exotic or
Speaker 1: hard or something.
Speaker 2: Similarly, my mom in her retirement in her home, that
Speaker 2: is a lot like this place.
Speaker 3: Is taking Majong lesson.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, that's the other one. And I have been
Speaker 1: hearing a lot about I've played majong on the computer,
Speaker 1: but not an actual.
Speaker 2: It doesn't it sounds like it's very different, Yeah, because
Speaker 2: I've played it. I mean it's been one hundred years,
Speaker 2: but there was one like what back when, basically before laptops. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like in the day of like Tetris, and Solitaire and
Speaker 2: mind Sweeper and stuff.
Speaker 3: There was a lodge on game.
Speaker 1: Yeah I played, well just off the topic, but on
Speaker 1: the topic of games and maybe more particularly games that
Speaker 1: older people will play that kids wouldn't go anywhere near.
Speaker 1: I know you like all the New York Times games,
Speaker 1: all the various games they have. Did you know LinkedIn
Speaker 1: has games?
Speaker 2: I've seen that on LinkedIn, Like they're like advertised, oh
Speaker 2: are they?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You could? They only let you play one a day.
Speaker 1: You can play one round of each game a day.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the same with the New York Times game.
Speaker 1: But they're not incredibly difficult. Yeah, once there was one.
Speaker 1: I didn't get it the first time I played it,
Speaker 1: and then I got it and it's fine. So it's
Speaker 1: just it doesn't take you that long to run through
Speaker 1: all four of them.
Speaker 3: It's a little extra, little.
Speaker 1: Little, uh fun thing to do in the day, all right.
Speaker 1: I doubt the kids are playing them. I think these
Speaker 1: are for the.
Speaker 2: Kids are on LinkedIn though they don't want to be
Speaker 2: on Facebook, they're on LinkedIn.
Speaker 1: LinkedIn is we're just wandering off on this this episode.
Speaker 1: But LinkedIn is getting worse in terms of like finding
Speaker 1: a job. I get more bogus jobs from them than
Speaker 1: I used to jobs that are just obviously bogus, right,
Speaker 1: that just are like, you know, here's a job for
Speaker 1: you in your town, and the address on it is India.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I don't know what else is going
Speaker 2: on over there.
Speaker 1: The search for freelance work is not getting any more rewarding. No,
Speaker 1: maybe somedays somebody will ask me to infiltrate ah an
Speaker 1: old folks place and uh, you know, find out who's
Speaker 1: stealing stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you can go.
Speaker 1: I would be terrible at it. I lie very badly.
Speaker 1: I would stumble all over myself. People would say, well,
Speaker 1: what the heck ish you doing here?
Speaker 2: I mean, you just have to like sit back and
Speaker 2: enjoy the amenities, and you know, just just try try
Speaker 2: to listen exactly.
Speaker 1: I just sit and listen, I will fall asleep. I think, Well,
Speaker 1: that won't be suspicious, that's right. I can just put
Speaker 1: the tape recorder in my pocket and then review it later,
Speaker 1: right there you go. I also, I don't know how
Speaker 1: to make a Manhattan, so I wouldn't be winning friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's lots of things you'd have to study before
Speaker 2: you went.
Speaker 1: I have in this in the not I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's been a while. I have made a hot butter groom.
Speaker 1: I could probably do a hot butter grum.
Speaker 2: Then do you like, like you can't just whip that
Speaker 2: up behind the bar?
Speaker 1: You need like I still have. I saved the I
Speaker 1: used to get GQ magazine even though I am not
Speaker 1: a gentleman, and there was a recipe in there for
Speaker 1: hot buttered drum and so I held onto it. And
Speaker 1: then one time my friends and I all went to
Speaker 1: uh we went to visit the Snow in California. I
Speaker 1: went to Big Bear to visit the Snow, and I
Speaker 1: made hot buttered room while we were there, and everybody
Speaker 1: loved it. So I still kept that magazine issue with
Speaker 1: that recipe. And it's basically Hoganda's ice cream and rum
Speaker 1: and boiling water. Okay, not hard to do.
Speaker 2: That's similar to a I don't know if it's just
Speaker 2: a Wisconsin thing or Midwestern thing. It's called it a
Speaker 2: Tom and Jerry that you that, Okay, So it's like
Speaker 2: you buy this tub of this ice cream type stuff
Speaker 2: and then you need boiling water.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll say basic idea and dump it all together.
Speaker 1: There's probably a different way to make hot buttered rum
Speaker 1: that does not involve ice cream. But I think this
Speaker 1: the magazine said, hey, look here's a super way to
Speaker 1: do it. Nobody will know. Yeah it was delicious. I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's if it was absolutely correct, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that's your warm and drunk and what else exactly?
Speaker 3: What better activity?
Speaker 1: Sounds like a good activity for a man on the inside.
Speaker 1: We'll see, ye seen that happens?
Speaker 2: Well, next week we'll find out. We'll continue with episode four.
Speaker 2: It is called the Curious Incident of the Dog in
Speaker 2: the Painting Class. They really are not thinking of me
Speaker 2: and my need to title these podcast episodes because that
Speaker 2: is extremely long.
Speaker 1: We're gonna We're gonna just do dot dot dot.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's the way we surpassed the number of characters. Twitter
Speaker 1: will allow our promotional stuff just with the title of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, I can't tell you anything else about this, so, uh,
Speaker 2: that's also not a spy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a good book.
Speaker 2: I loved the book, and there was actually adapted into
Speaker 2: a play that was really great.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it doesn't really.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess in the book, the kid is
Speaker 2: trying to solve the mystery of what happened to the
Speaker 2: dog right, so, but it makes me.
Speaker 1: Wonder if there will be in fact a dog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can look forward to that class. Yes, I'm all
Speaker 1: for dogs.
Speaker 3: We can see.
Speaker 2: So we'll see you back here for that next week
Speaker 2: and tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout round up.
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