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 July seventh,
Speaker 2: we're continuing with Duster episode seven, K one twenty nine,
Speaker 2: which includes a child stowing away in the trunk of
Speaker 2: a car. Oh my god, it includes Scalo Gray are
Speaker 2: you putting on at just Chef's kiss performance? For uh?
Speaker 2: That weasel Billy not the same weasel as we've been
Speaker 2: talking about. He's he's part of it too.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but yeah, oh that scene when weasels on
Speaker 1: both sides of the last.
Speaker 2: That's right. But when Billy shows up at Jim's dad's
Speaker 2: house to kind of keep trying to get to the
Speaker 2: bottom of what's happening, Uh, you know why the translator,
Speaker 2: you know, he's he's and h Yeah, it's just delightful
Speaker 2: to watch Gaelo Grady get to work.
Speaker 1: And she just steps in like with no question and
Speaker 1: just goes with it. Yeah, so possibly we start to
Speaker 1: see what he likes having. But get that fur off
Speaker 1: my bleep and toilet seat I hate the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's it. Yes, so we have we have Jim,
Speaker 2: we have Jim Sacks and Luna going on a little
Speaker 2: day trip to Las Vegas. That was exciting. Got to
Speaker 2: meet Howard Hughes. I mean, they're really just bringing out
Speaker 2: all of the seventies characters that they can come up with.
Speaker 1: Oh and we find that this old thing, the whole
Speaker 1: thing they got from the Russians wore water Gate Tams Terry.
Speaker 2: Terry knew that Watergate was somehow and she was not happy.
Speaker 1: Frag didn't mister Friquellis write this. I'm looking over the list. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are other things were happening in the seventies, you guys, right,
Speaker 1: But uh.
Speaker 2: I guess they're like, if we're going to all the
Speaker 2: trouble of making this a period piece, we're gonna lean in. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: You're not buying it. But I feel like that was
Speaker 2: another uh TV trope, the UH child stow away. Well,
Speaker 2: I gotta take her with me now, I mean.
Speaker 1: They're in a pretty hot place, I know. Was she
Speaker 1: in the trunk?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said a couple hours, didn't he.
Speaker 1: How is that possible? They're driving through the desert. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. She had like a little little one
Speaker 1: of those little battery operated fames in there with her.
Speaker 1: What that seems seems unwise on so many levels. But
Speaker 1: she didn't even look sweaty.
Speaker 2: No, Nope, she's just grown up in the desert. That's
Speaker 2: how to handle.
Speaker 1: She can take it hot weather, oh man. So she
Speaker 1: goes along, gets to meet Howard Hughes, eat canceled ice cream,
Speaker 1: and watch.
Speaker 2: Movies, charms both Howard Hughes and Sacks in the process.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, Jim, maybe you need to bring
Speaker 2: her along all the time, because yes, she couldn't.
Speaker 1: Be an asset she is. Yeah, yeah, possibly, uh A
Speaker 1: little little more useful in one who immediately gets himself
Speaker 1: cankeed down.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that whole thing of like we let's just
Speaker 2: roll up to this house in the middle of the
Speaker 2: desert that we think holds a bad guy and split.
Speaker 1: Up his house. Yeah, and go down into the basement.
Speaker 2: What could Yeah, there's no escape from that.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I just was you know, maybe I'm not
Speaker 1: at the point and I was yelling at the at
Speaker 1: the screen. Don't go down there, are you nuts?
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Although I guess the trouble was upstairs, but still don't
Speaker 1: go in the house. Just I don't know. They can't.
Speaker 1: They can't trust the people with the bureau, so it's
Speaker 1: not like they can make a bigger thing out of it,
Speaker 1: I guess. But yeah, all sorts of trucks, many great
Speaker 1: Greg Grunberg, all upset at the danger they.
Speaker 2: Were, right. He seems like a nice man.
Speaker 1: He does. He's probably getting yelled at over the phone
Speaker 1: quite a quietly. Yes, yes, only some smoke monster could
Speaker 1: reach in and just pull me out here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, things are coming to a head. Since next
Speaker 1: week is then last episodes, right, the Weasley FBI Asian
Speaker 1: is on the job of getting Nina and Billy beats
Speaker 1: him to it there at the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it might actually be good for her that
Speaker 2: Billy came after her. I think that's how that's going
Speaker 2: to play out.
Speaker 1: The nutso cop who has been apparently in the hospital
Speaker 1: unconscious for all this time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's awake now gifts us.
Speaker 1: With a dream sequence and then in the end, let's
Speaker 1: Billy know what's going on. So for that reason, Billy
Speaker 1: shows up at Nina's residence, right, and chloroforms are just
Speaker 1: before the Weasley FBI guy can get to her. Yes,
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff going on. Which side would you
Speaker 1: want to get to you first?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, either way, it's going to be a pleasant.
Speaker 2: It's going to but somehow I think Nina will get
Speaker 2: through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's all coming together. So unfortunately it's coming
Speaker 1: together to have to do with Watergate. Checked. Don't use
Speaker 1: actual history, you guys, right, make up stories. We just
Speaker 1: want stories exactly. You can have your fun clothes and
Speaker 1: music and hair styles, but we don't care actual right,
Speaker 1: real life stuff. Yeah, but Nina and Royce are a
Speaker 1: cute couple. Yeah, immediately goes and like starts working him
Speaker 1: as an ass. Yeah, and also kind of kind of
Speaker 1: wins over his sister, Yeah, who is a good deal sharper,
Speaker 1: but still subject to flattering.
Speaker 2: Exactly, still able to be flattered into.
Speaker 1: See, if people don't get enough love from their father,
Speaker 1: they wind up just fallen for any CEP tip, don't
Speaker 1: leave your children susceptible to FBI agents. Let them know
Speaker 1: how you feel about it, what you value them.
Speaker 2: Although you know, Luna does seem to be loved and
Speaker 2: cared for, and still he's still crawling, still crawling into
Speaker 2: the trunk of a car that's going to be speeding
Speaker 2: through the desert.
Speaker 1: So that's true.
Speaker 2: But she may have solved the union problem.
Speaker 1: Sounds like she was the most effective spokespan if if
Speaker 1: they can get back and they can put this plan
Speaker 1: into action before something else happens to her mother. But
Speaker 1: by the direction to that union bos guy must just
Speaker 1: be be loathsome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just be that guy. Very creepy. I mean, I
Speaker 2: guess there's multiple people who get that directive.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of loadsomeness.
Speaker 2: I mean, with with Billy, it's quite a bit of
Speaker 2: a sibling rivalry vibes with him and.
Speaker 1: Jim, but he's also not wrong.
Speaker 2: No, he's not.
Speaker 1: He's protecting his boss, and he is correct. It's not
Speaker 1: like he's trying to sink a perfectly innocent guy by
Speaker 1: saying that he's in with the feds. Jim is indeed
Speaker 1: in with the feds. Right, So this is true and
Speaker 1: we care because he's our main character.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Josh Holloway.
Speaker 1: There could be a whole another version of this show
Speaker 1: in which Billy is the hero.
Speaker 2: That's right. I'm sure that's the way Billy feels.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's that's the one plane in Billy's.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, I feel like the stepmother's situation. She
Speaker 2: really can't stand Jim, but she does she will protect
Speaker 2: his dad, and by extension, she kind of protects him.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. Fortunately those two things are sort of connected. Yes,
Speaker 1: we had a return of the cleaning Lady having Nina
Speaker 1: a tip. So see, this is a kid's being kind
Speaker 1: to the invisible helpers. Yeah, often pays you dividends.
Speaker 2: I mean, Nina did kind of already know that, so
Speaker 2: I'm not sure why they felt like they had to
Speaker 2: really spell it out just.
Speaker 1: To remind us, just in case you forgot. People are important,
Speaker 1: whether they're striking or not. You still should some respect
Speaker 1: and pay attention to them. See that guy going through
Speaker 1: her desk didn't even think about the fact there was
Speaker 1: a cleaning link's right, No, nope, invisible to him. But
Speaker 1: get into trouble. I guess a parenting tip from this is,
Speaker 1: you know, be careful when when speaking metaphorically to children,
Speaker 1: you know, fight fire with fire. Don't say that unless
Speaker 1: you actually intend for them to set a fire, which
Speaker 1: you probably don't.
Speaker 2: Yeh.
Speaker 1: Kids often, you know.
Speaker 2: They take things literally.
Speaker 1: They take things literally. They do not understand the nuances
Speaker 1: of language that you, as an adult do.
Speaker 2: Even even very smarty pants like Luna.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I don't know if I really buy she
Speaker 1: would set fire the kids comic book. So we're good. Yes,
Speaker 1: And so when you send kids to their room and
Speaker 1: they're super angry, make sure the window is locked, maybe
Speaker 1: from the outside, and certainly check on them frequently. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, don't just go to your room or the
Speaker 1: windows open and the road is like a very short
Speaker 1: distance away and I'm sure you'll stay there.
Speaker 2: She didn't even have to like crawl up and climb
Speaker 2: down the window like like we were talking about Kate
Speaker 2: did from her cage like a teen girl.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know when you know that child nearby,
Speaker 1: always check your car trunk before. I never know how
Speaker 1: did she How how does one get into a trunk
Speaker 1: if one does not have the car keys?
Speaker 2: Well, this isn't old, this is the seventies. Like I
Speaker 2: feel like you just pop it open and.
Speaker 1: Get a piece of wire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean you think he had it locked?
Speaker 1: Like, oh, okay, I don't remember that used to just
Speaker 1: used to be just able to open them with that key.
Speaker 2: Well even my car now, like if the car is
Speaker 2: not locked, there's just a button okay, pushed to spring
Speaker 2: it up.
Speaker 1: Clearly, I've not opened a trunk. We have a hatchback.
Speaker 1: I think it has a lock on it. Eh. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so yes, so you want to before you leave the
Speaker 1: house check that either the kid is in their room
Speaker 1: or the kid is not in your trunk because it's
Speaker 1: a long hot way. You know what if he hadn't
Speaker 1: heard her banging. Yeah, it's a long ride through the
Speaker 1: desert to get the Las Vegas. Right where are they?
Speaker 1: They're in Arizona, They're in Phoenix. Yeah, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: the drive to Las Vegas from California, which is through desert.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's.
Speaker 1: Very apropos for this show, because at least I was.
Speaker 1: When I was growing up, there was no speed limit.
Speaker 1: Oh once you got into the desert, and so people
Speaker 1: enjoyed that a great deal. Yeah, it would be just
Speaker 1: perfect for Jim exactly. I could not be breaking any
Speaker 1: speeding loss. Go as fast as he wants.
Speaker 2: He can just break a lot of other laws.
Speaker 1: What other parenting tips do we have here? If you
Speaker 1: are an eccentric billionaire, buy up all your favorite ice cream. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you can always have some for the children
Speaker 1: to come to visite. Wouldn't that be nice if something
Speaker 1: was being discontinued and you had both the money to
Speaker 1: buy it up and a place.
Speaker 2: Of the freezer space for it.
Speaker 1: Exactly, that would be pretty cool. Oh, this company's going
Speaker 1: out of business. I'll just take all of your stock
Speaker 1: put it down in the basement.
Speaker 2: My many, Wait, this is Arizona. There shouldn't be a basement,
Speaker 2: shouldn't That's been your first clue to be more careful.
Speaker 1: Right, let's go down into it, dad. Sure. Remember when
Speaker 1: I was in college, I was in a movie class
Speaker 1: and one of the movies we watched was Psycho, And
Speaker 1: there's of course the dead mother's down in the basement
Speaker 1: because you've seen Psycho spoiler. Yeah, and as the person
Speaker 1: goes down into the basement, like a whole room full
Speaker 1: of college kids screaming.
Speaker 2: What's the exactly?
Speaker 1: Yes, and so I still that's the feeling I had
Speaker 1: when she was going down. Nothing good can go on.
Speaker 1: The dangerous person was upstairs.
Speaker 2: Yes, Well.
Speaker 1: Where do we think this all is going to end?
Speaker 2: We'll find out.
Speaker 1: So there was some things in that when they were
Speaker 1: creeping around that house out in the desert with the basement,
Speaker 1: with the improbable basement where this scene was too dark
Speaker 1: for my computer screen. Do they think everybody has like
Speaker 1: pristine computer screens that they're watching TV screens? My TV
Speaker 1: screen is dusty. My computer screen is full of splashes
Speaker 1: of food I've eaten and stuff. I can't see things
Speaker 1: in the dark. Y'all stop it. But they still keep
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't listen. They don't, just like children. Oh well,
Speaker 2: we got one more week. Have we heard anything about
Speaker 2: there being more of this show beyond?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Well. According to Comingsoon dot Net,
Speaker 1: Duster is neither canceled nor renewed.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's helpful.
Speaker 1: We'll leave them out there in the middle of the desert. Yep,
Speaker 1: we'll be wondering whether anybody will ever come for them. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: next Wednesday, thirteen weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next Wednesday, we'll just finish her up Dustar episode eight,
Speaker 2: and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They don't leave it on a cliffhanger that they can't
Speaker 1: they can't unhanged.
Speaker 2: Right, We'll see you back here tomorrow for our weekly
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