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. Then 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 ninth,
Speaker 2: we're continuing with Duster. Episode three, You're No Good or
Speaker 2: You're No Good? You're no good? Yes, in which what's
Speaker 2: his name? Jim? I can't it's hard for me to remember,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Brian Grubb wrote about this and mentioned that while Duster
Speaker 1: refers to his car, it's really hard not to think
Speaker 1: it's the nickname for him, and I do think him
Speaker 1: is Duster yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, so in this one, he's his feelings about his
Speaker 2: employer are swinging wildly from the from a point A
Speaker 2: to point B, you know, from good guy to bad
Speaker 2: guy to I don't know to I hope not, but
Speaker 2: now I kind of have to believe this.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it makes me wonder whether Sex was doing
Speaker 1: that on purpose, like he knows that there's something going
Speaker 1: on and so he's just messing with him. Yeah, probably not,
Speaker 1: but if he was, that would be a real clever
Speaker 1: way to twist my knife.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, being all sweet about his brother and.
Speaker 1: Him and yeah, yeah, just conveniently dropping the name of
Speaker 1: the C four person out of the blue for no
Speaker 1: real reason.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know, there's this whole thing where they
Speaker 2: pull up to this you know, divy bar, and I
Speaker 2: feel like it was Saxon's idea, like, oh, let's stop here,
Speaker 2: and he was very much not welcome there, and they
Speaker 2: have to like basically beat up everyone in the entire place.
Speaker 1: The two of them, which of course they do it efficiently.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you know, was that like a test of
Speaker 2: let me see if Jim's gonna, yeah, take care of
Speaker 2: me in this situation? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's It's hard to tell at this point to
Speaker 1: what degree he is an omniscient bad guy, yeah, or
Speaker 1: if he's just a guy who's bad and you know,
Speaker 1: it would be sort of satisfying if he really didn't
Speaker 1: know and he was just just messing with him. But
Speaker 1: probably not.
Speaker 2: I mean, he didn't he didn't know that Jim tampered
Speaker 2: with his usual car so that he would be forced
Speaker 2: to get a ride from Jim.
Speaker 1: Right, he didn't know it. Although didn't Jim just do
Speaker 1: it out in plain daylight on the street? Yes? So
Speaker 1: are we sure he didn't know? I'm like a lot
Speaker 1: of people do things in this show that I feel
Speaker 1: should be done in dark corners and you know, out
Speaker 1: of the way places, and they're just walking down the
Speaker 1: street saying, so what about this guy? Do we think
Speaker 1: he killed somebody? Look at this evidence I found. Let
Speaker 1: me spread it out here on the middle of the table.
Speaker 1: This is true. I just come on, you guys, sneak
Speaker 1: around a little bit so well, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it would be plausible if we're supposed to think that
Speaker 1: this Sas is just a super brilliant villain, that he
Speaker 1: would be able to pick up on the stupid way
Speaker 1: Ye if it's going going about this but possibly not, well,
Speaker 1: it seems like a stretch.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then when you had Nina and Awan basically
Speaker 2: you know, breaking into the institution where the former agent
Speaker 2: was being held, and yeah, she puts on a nurse's uniform,
Speaker 2: but she still got her like black knee high boots on.
Speaker 2: And also like they ran out of there because they
Speaker 2: basically got busted, like well all their clothes, yes, are
Speaker 2: still back in that dressing room. Did are they going
Speaker 2: to go back to the janitor guy and be like, hey,
Speaker 2: can you just please go in there and get her stuff?
Speaker 1: Also, did they like does she have a purse? I know,
Speaker 1: do they have like personal effects? And what happened to
Speaker 1: the Superman wallet?
Speaker 2: I was worried about the Superman wallet?
Speaker 1: Really they were. I don't know what the deal is about.
Speaker 1: Why that guy only had three mentions in IMDb three episodes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it sure seemed all through this episode that they
Speaker 1: were gonna kill him off. They were just I was
Speaker 1: just rod cat, I mean, flashing lights all over the place.
Speaker 1: Every time they separated. I thought, no, no, stay with her,
Speaker 1: she's the lead. She's gonna be safe. And you know,
Speaker 1: his whole Superman speech and all this stuff. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be just and then nothing happened. It was fine. So
Speaker 1: he gets hit by a car in between episodes or what.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they write him off in some nice way. I
Speaker 2: don't know. Yes, he's getting a big promotion to some
Speaker 2: other office.
Speaker 1: Or or being on that little caper with her and
Speaker 1: made him realize he didn't want to do this for
Speaker 1: a living. The stuff is stupid, right, So yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just I know, I've noticed sometimes
Speaker 1: with these streaming shows that drop episodes on a schedule,
Speaker 1: sometimes IMDb doesn't care catch up with who ye, So
Speaker 1: it may just be that, although I noticed there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that have more than three episodes listed,
Speaker 1: so they just wanted to play with us. Do you
Speaker 1: think you can learn things from Miamdb? Do you? Hah?
Speaker 1: I enjoy this. You're gonna be worried about him every minute, right,
Speaker 1: but because he's so sweet, he really is, he's too
Speaker 1: he's too sweet too?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really should uh you know, find something safer? Yes, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole hospital thing was annoying in so many ways
Speaker 1: and unlikely, but uh, okay, get your little plot in there,
Speaker 1: and what did we learn in that really nothing? He
Speaker 1: is super super nuts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're to assume that not even usefully nuts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and we're supposed to think that it was Sacks who
Speaker 2: caused this, right.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: But why is his wife seemingly kind of cool, like
Speaker 2: she's just like she's already in someone's pocket. Right, but
Speaker 2: she's like, yes, oh you don't, you don't need to
Speaker 2: ask that question or whatever. I mean, she's not just like,
Speaker 2: oh my husband, he's very silly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, she was all but twisting her mustache
Speaker 1: and she had on. Yes, yes, this had had more
Speaker 1: suspense than I enjoy in a TV show. I don't
Speaker 1: want to think characters I like Arian Now, I know
Speaker 1: lost there's danger all over the place, but it's it's
Speaker 1: weird danger.
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's somewhat it's absurd.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is just if you go into this place
Speaker 1: and you get caught, you're gonna be in big trouble
Speaker 1: and possibly since there's I don't know, Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: bad guys stuff I don't like. But anyway, it was fine.
Speaker 1: It all turned out okay, everybody was fine and they
Speaker 1: got you're no good and there at the end.
Speaker 2: Right, we got another little scene of Jim's father and
Speaker 2: horrible stepmother.
Speaker 1: Speaking of scenes I didn't need to see. Yeah, children,
Speaker 1: this is why you call before you visit your parents, Okay,
Speaker 1: which nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants to even
Speaker 1: think about it.
Speaker 2: They have established this on a previous episode. Jim, you
Speaker 2: need to call before you stop over. Get your father's
Speaker 2: burglary tools or whatever, maybe something else.
Speaker 1: After he cleans his eyes off with bleach, he'll know
Speaker 1: not to do that anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, he wasn't looking for burglary tools. He was looking
Speaker 2: for the name of the Sea Fours this time.
Speaker 1: Yes, apparently only one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well has a corner on the market. Apparently, I guess.
Speaker 2: And remember remembers the name of the person that her
Speaker 2: explosives were used to kill.
Speaker 1: That was so bogus, I mean that that worked. It
Speaker 1: was so stupid. Yes, how many years ago was this
Speaker 1: supposed to have been?
Speaker 2: Maybe it's not that many, I guess.
Speaker 1: Maybe, I guess, but she didn't need to have to
Speaker 1: like look it up on the database or anything, so
Speaker 1: I guess. Not a lot of C four moving in
Speaker 1: the area, so she remembers all the hits it's just stupid.
Speaker 1: It just unless it's all a setup, right and Sax
Speaker 1: is pulling all the strings of this as well, right
Speaker 1: and possible. Yeah, I don't know, we'll find out. They
Speaker 1: just better not. They better not kill that kid, that
Speaker 1: little cute little left the eye agent. They just better
Speaker 1: not kill him. Yeah, he needs to, he needs to
Speaker 1: survive this. I don't care. He can leave the bureau.
Speaker 1: Maybe he and uh Greg Grunberg's wife can run away someplace.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that was pretty silly. Like my wife says,
Speaker 2: I have to keep you around, is his reasoning for
Speaker 2: allowing Nina to keep doing what she's doing. Well, my
Speaker 2: wife's loud about you. Now I'm stuck with you really well.
Speaker 1: You know parenting tips, Sometimes your kid asks you to
Speaker 1: do something and you do it for them. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just have to listen to what they're saying
Speaker 1: and do it out of respect and out of love.
Speaker 1: And I just hope that things were out for the best. Yes,
Speaker 1: we also learn for a parenting tip is to befriend
Speaker 1: people like cleaning people and others who can sneak you
Speaker 1: in and out of places. Yes, you know, be nice
Speaker 1: to the waitress so that when your kids starts crying.
Speaker 1: They will help you. They will get you the bill
Speaker 1: super fast and get you out of there. You know,
Speaker 1: be nice to the pair of professionals at your school
Speaker 1: if your child has a pair professional, because they will
Speaker 1: tell you things. You know. The people, the people deeply
Speaker 1: in rooted in the system will not. But the people
Speaker 1: who are just there, you know, yeah, and will.
Speaker 2: It's about, you know, seeing the people who are otherwise invisible.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yes, bus driver of your kid's special ed bus
Speaker 1: chatter up. Yes, that was good, you know, the sort
Speaker 1: of insight that an outsider. Yes, the little thing with
Speaker 1: a wan and his wallet made me think. Respect your
Speaker 1: kids' obsessions. Yes, you know you may think, well this
Speaker 1: is silly, but if it means something to them, it's
Speaker 1: going to motivate them. Right. And also, everybody's got something
Speaker 1: they dig. You don't want people laughing at yours, so
Speaker 1: don't laugh at theirs. Yeah, you know, let them unless
Speaker 1: it's something like you know, dangerous or toxic, right, who cares?
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, teacher telling me that keys were
Speaker 1: poisoned to my son and I had to take them away.
Speaker 1: And it's like no, no, no, that's ridiculous. He talked
Speaker 1: because of them. He didn't he can be bribed because
Speaker 1: of them. It's like stop. So Also the freebie car magazines.
Speaker 1: I keep trying to tell the teachers at school, pick
Speaker 1: up a bunch of them when you go to the supermarket,
Speaker 1: and then anytime you need to bribe them, give them one.
Speaker 1: They would not do it. But this is the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that we do if you're smart. So the
Speaker 1: Superman wallet makes him feel strong, go with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Also a parenting tip learned through the way that various
Speaker 1: authorities were trying to talk Nina out of pursuing the cases.
Speaker 1: She's pursuing it, and it just made her want to
Speaker 1: do it more. Same thing with kids, you know, and
Speaker 1: you tell them you certainly you must not do that,
Speaker 1: it's just going to make them want to do it more. So. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe some reverse psychology. Oh yeah, that that case is
Speaker 1: really pretty much nothing. But sweetie, if you want to
Speaker 1: go for it, you just go for it. We'll uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll just be waiting.
Speaker 2: We'll find something.
Speaker 1: Had her on the head, you know, sure, that'll be
Speaker 1: a good little thing to occupy you. It wouldn't matter
Speaker 1: because she's you know, yeah, she has she has you know,
Speaker 1: you have to be careful because sometimes the more vehemently
Speaker 1: you forbid something, the more interesting you make it. Oh
Speaker 1: absolutely yeah, that's that is absolutely the case here. Every
Speaker 1: time somebody tells her she better not, she realizes that
Speaker 1: the schedule one's deeper than I need.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, absolutely bad.
Speaker 1: Bad strategy, you guys, the old white man strategy.
Speaker 2: And also I can't remember if it was in this episode.
Speaker 2: I think so that she was talking to her mom again, like,
Speaker 2: is her mom just gonna be a voice on the phone.
Speaker 1: Are we ever gonna do we even hear the voice
Speaker 1: or what? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you would think she would say, what you're
Speaker 1: doing sounds really dangerous. Why don't you just come home.
Speaker 1: We'll find you a nice job here.
Speaker 2: No, I think she's mom wants her Yeah, that she was.
Speaker 1: She was saying, yeah, everybody was shutting me down to
Speaker 1: when I was trying to look into it. So, so
Speaker 1: mom is all for it. You go get yourself killed, honey,
Speaker 1: just to find out who did this to your daddy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as long as you prove that, it'll be fine. So yeah, yikes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So next Wednesday, we'll continue with Duster's episode four
Speaker 2: to consult the show notes for the title of this episode,
Speaker 2: because for some reason, h Max is very stingy with
Speaker 2: this information. Yeah, it's only going to be discovered if
Speaker 2: you break into a mental institution.
Speaker 1: I has asked them to conceal us. Yes, you're on
Speaker 1: a need to know basis exactly.
Speaker 2: So Yeah, that'll be next Wednesday, and we'll see you
Speaker 2: back here tomorrow for our weekly Roundabout roundup.
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