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 April fourteenth,
Speaker 2: we are continuing with Running Point on Netflix. So with
Speaker 2: episode four, do janchi, which is the name of a
Speaker 2: Korean ceremony that.
Speaker 3: Families do with their one year old babies.
Speaker 2: And they've actually I've read about this before. They showed
Speaker 2: it on the thing. But they give the baby some
Speaker 2: options of things like some money or there was a ball,
Speaker 2: and I don't know.
Speaker 3: What the other things were.
Speaker 2: But basically it's like sort of trying to tell your
Speaker 2: baby's fortune or what their future will be based on
Speaker 2: what they pick from this array of goodies.
Speaker 1: So, yes, you would think that Isla would maybe be
Speaker 1: pushing the kid towards the ball. I know, but as
Speaker 1: we know, as we learned from the poor underpaid basketball player,
Speaker 1: the ball does not necessarily cut.
Speaker 3: With money, right, the poor kid.
Speaker 1: I have heard of that. You've heard of the Korean tradition.
Speaker 1: I have heard of the basketball tradition of having the
Speaker 1: rookie by everybody very expensive. I don't know where what
Speaker 1: I was reading that had that situation in it, right,
Speaker 1: I guess it's a thing that happens, which which is
Speaker 1: fine if everybody is getting paid a huge amount, but
Speaker 1: when the dinner is pretty much what that kid is
Speaker 1: making the entire year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like the rookie is always going to be
Speaker 2: making the least, you know. Yeah, Like, I guess unless
Speaker 2: there were some they got some kind of incredible signing
Speaker 2: bonus or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well Marcus stepping up again and being the adult. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's the parent figure for this team. Sure it is
Speaker 1: finding a way to.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It, woul didn't necessarily do it without embarrassing to guy,
Speaker 1: but still did it. And yeah, that's good because otherwise
Speaker 1: the guy would have been a debtorous president and unable
Speaker 1: to come.
Speaker 3: Right to actually play.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why that that's why Marcus did it because he.
Speaker 1: Needs he needs everybody on the courts so he doesn't have.
Speaker 3: To have to be playing all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, God to just get slipped the guy an envelope
Speaker 1: before they went to dinner in a little morech screet
Speaker 1: but that's okay.
Speaker 2: Well it seemed like he didn't even go to the dinner,
Speaker 2: like he didn't. Yeah, because he's kind of above all that,
Speaker 2: right right, so.
Speaker 1: Yikes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be definitely the parental figure coming into
Speaker 2: bail failed out the kid.
Speaker 3: So thank you Marcus for being a stand up guy.
Speaker 3: Yes he is apprecia. Yeah, but.
Speaker 1: From a parenting point of view. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of this about how obligations to friends and family can
Speaker 1: sometimes mess things up for you, whether it's having to
Speaker 1: have your disgusting brother staying in your very nice and
Speaker 1: extremely clean, extremely clean dwelling, or having to leave a
Speaker 1: meeting very quickly to go help your friend with the
Speaker 1: ceremony or you know, having to pay for all your
Speaker 1: friends for a very expensive meal when you do not
Speaker 1: have money.
Speaker 2: And was the implication that Isla left without really closing
Speaker 2: the deal.
Speaker 1: I don't know, because it seems like she had, but
Speaker 1: that did. But maybe these guys then went behind her
Speaker 1: back and did something else.
Speaker 3: Yeah after she left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, or just did what they wanted to do
Speaker 1: anyway and brought the Boston guy in on it. It
Speaker 1: was I imagine, we're going to see that dude again,
Speaker 1: and I hope we see Jerry. Yes, Jerry, it was Jerry.
Speaker 2: Jerry come up, Yes, parks and rec friends return.
Speaker 1: Yay, it's that guy. I remember that guy. He was
Speaker 1: a little more sharky than.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jerry would never.
Speaker 2: Cherry would just be like, you know, let me get
Speaker 2: you a towel, sweetie when she got out of the pot.
Speaker 1: Up right, and then he would trip on the wet
Speaker 1: deck and everybody would laugh at him.
Speaker 2: Yes, but uh.
Speaker 1: And yeah. Another thing parenting wise that you have to
Speaker 1: teach your children is that getting a good job does
Speaker 1: not necessarily mean you're rich. In this guy's case, he's
Speaker 1: got a pretty good job, pretty good paycheck, but yeah,
Speaker 1: for not in comparison to his teammates. It is, you know,
Speaker 1: a temptation of young people, including myself once upon a time,
Speaker 1: that oh well great I get a job, now I
Speaker 1: can buy this, I can buy that. Actually, my daughter
Speaker 1: sort of feels like that about her. Wendy Cellar Definitely,
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, have at some point you have to
Speaker 1: not spend money, right, I know it's it's it's hard, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you gotta look at the paycheck and use that
Speaker 1: as your frame of reference.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: And we uh met Sandy's boyfriend played by Scott Evans.
Speaker 2: Scott Evans, I think we met him before.
Speaker 1: Did we meet him before?
Speaker 2: Yeah, briefly, because they established that, you know, he was
Speaker 2: there and that Sandy, for whatever reason, is hiding him
Speaker 2: from the rest of the family. I guess because he's
Speaker 2: a dog groomer, and that's he feels ashamed.
Speaker 3: I don't it's not super clear.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, he'll never have to pay for dog
Speaker 1: roommate exact rightly family that he groomed the whole family dogs.
Speaker 1: Have we seen any dogs? Do these people own dogs?
Speaker 1: Shady if they don't own dogs. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: we approve of that. Your studio audience a dog.
Speaker 3: Of course they're quiet right now? Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean because if Eila had a dog, you know,
Speaker 2: she would have like tripped over it, or she would
Speaker 2: have you know, it would have yanked her down the
Speaker 2: street in front of somewhat important or something.
Speaker 1: But maybe if she got a dog, she would be happier. Well,
Speaker 1: she's pretty okay, suspicious of people who don't have dogs.
Speaker 3: There we go. Can you hear it? Yes?
Speaker 1: From a distance, weighing.
Speaker 3: In, Yes, always.
Speaker 1: Get a dog, Get a dog.
Speaker 3: Isla, yeah, I get a dog. It's great thinking.
Speaker 1: On these people who aren't nice. Do you get a
Speaker 1: pit bull? You know, strike the appropriate note of fear. Right,
Speaker 1: a German shepherd? Get one of those like real sweety
Speaker 1: pie German shepherds that people are still scared of. I
Speaker 1: have one of those.
Speaker 3: Things? Just happened?
Speaker 1: Is the male here?
Speaker 3: Is that what it is? Oh my gosh? Or it's
Speaker 3: a bike. We we have a thing about bicycles.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they're they're dangerous, you know, yeah
Speaker 1: they can hit a dog, I guess.
Speaker 3: Ah. Anyway, yeah we didn't.
Speaker 2: We didn't get to see Jackie in this episode like
Speaker 2: at all, except for as a text message. They do
Speaker 2: have a siblings group chat. Now that's that's nice. Of course,
Speaker 2: that's nice that they included Jackie in it.
Speaker 1: There was some you know, some good sibling manipulation in
Speaker 1: you know, getting to stay in your brother's house right
Speaker 1: through various Yeah, guilty in guilt and that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: a thing that's our sibling content for this right, for sure,
Speaker 1: they did that that sitcom thing of setting up a
Speaker 1: responsibility at the beginning that you know is going to
Speaker 1: be impossible to make. So is she going to get
Speaker 1: back in time? Is she is? She sets up like
Speaker 1: the stakes for the episode. Is she going to get
Speaker 1: back in time? So she does get back in time,
Speaker 1: but the deal goes weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but also.
Speaker 1: Like scrap that didn't get turned up, well, I guess
Speaker 1: does it get turned around in the next episode.
Speaker 2: Usually, I mean in the past in the first few
Speaker 2: episodes that got turned around by the end of the episode.
Speaker 3: So this was a you know.
Speaker 1: A departure happened at the end of the Yes, a
Speaker 1: little wait, a little cliffhanger, which the cliffhangers are not
Speaker 1: the same. Now that you can just watch the next
Speaker 1: episode to meet right, Remember how you had to wait
Speaker 1: a week yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean just the season of White Load is
Speaker 2: just finished up, and that one was released week by week,
Speaker 2: and it's been a lot of talk about how like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that was the way to do it, because it
Speaker 2: should be the whole The whole show was building too,
Speaker 2: you know who died which all the seasons of WHITELOADUS.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 2: And you know, if you can just watch ahead.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, well see the problem is though, the once
Speaker 1: a week only works if you're watching it in real time.
Speaker 1: If you're watching it later on, you.
Speaker 3: Can just binge it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know in our day, well, I guess
Speaker 1: you could tape once there were VCRs, you could tape
Speaker 1: it and then watch it all on one time right
Speaker 1: by that time the season's over. Everybody's talked about if
Speaker 1: who cares? Right anyway? So did you watch the White LOADUS?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, I've been I do not watch things, but
Speaker 1: I read reviews of them, so then I people have
Speaker 1: not been happy with this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Parker Posey giving what sounds like it was
Speaker 1: a pretty big performance.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, she was great. I think it's been mixed.
Speaker 2: I mean, some people have really liked it and some
Speaker 2: have you know, like, no, this was the worst one,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, they're all about rich people doing
Speaker 2: terrible things and you think they're going to be consequences
Speaker 2: and then actually, no, there really aren't.
Speaker 3: So I mean, in.
Speaker 2: The second one, a rich person did meet their end,
Speaker 2: but it was not one of the more obnoxious rich people.
Speaker 1: Okay, And people enjoy watching this, do they?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh, one hundred percent. They like.
Speaker 1: Sounds like at our particular moment in time, people would
Speaker 1: object to that.
Speaker 2: They like because the conceit is the same for all
Speaker 2: three where in the very first episode, like usually at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the first episode, you see someone has died,
Speaker 2: but you don't know who or how, and so then
Speaker 2: for the next six to eight episodes you're trying to
Speaker 2: find out what happened. So it's Carrie Kuhn was in
Speaker 2: this carry Kuhn was in it.
Speaker 3: Yep, she was great.
Speaker 2: She was She was part of a trio of girlfriends
Speaker 2: that were on a girl's trip. And you know, three
Speaker 2: is not usually the magic number for any for.
Speaker 3: This kind of thing.
Speaker 1: We have discussed, we have discussed.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it did so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, most of the recaps and reviews were calling it
Speaker 2: the Girl's Trip from Hell just because yeah, things didn't
Speaker 2: go But anyway, it's I mean, it's fun to see
Speaker 2: the the incredible, you know locations. The first one was
Speaker 2: on Maui or one of the Hawaiian islands, and then
Speaker 2: the next one was Sicily, and then this one was Thailand,
Speaker 2: and you know, so they're just these incredibly luxurious resorts,
Speaker 2: these places. Yeah, so yeah, there.
Speaker 1: Was we'll have to link to this in the show
Speaker 1: notes now that even though we're talking about a show
Speaker 1: that is not the show we're talking about. But Brian
Speaker 1: Grubb did a like Google reviews of the White Lotus resort.
Speaker 2: Somebody died and I would like my stay comped please.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: He also has extolled the virtue of a screen cap
Speaker 1: with Carrie Koon from that show, and the caption on
Speaker 1: the bottom is something like no no, no, no, no
Speaker 1: bleep that use this in all our group chat.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, that would work for sure.
Speaker 1: I just read about that show. I have no desire
Speaker 1: to watch it whatsoever. But as he's often my way
Speaker 1: of consuming entertainy, I listened to people talk about it
Speaker 1: on podcasts and I read Brian Grubb and Ellen exactly,
Speaker 1: but a running Point is fairly painless to watch. It's short,
Speaker 1: it's it's uh glossy. It has people I recognize in it,
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2: And it has a similar, you know, rich people gonna
Speaker 2: rich people situation.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that dwelling that Sandy had. Is it
Speaker 1: a house? It's a house, right. I was quite sure
Speaker 1: if it was a house or an apartment, but it.
Speaker 2: Was no because at the end he walked up to it, okay,
Speaker 2: it was out running and he yeah.
Speaker 1: It's just extremely does not look look like anyhow. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's so neat and clean and nice looking. So
Speaker 1: clearly the man does not have children.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: His brother tried pretty hard to mess it up, but
Speaker 1: he's still it was still looking pretty glam.
Speaker 3: It was pretty much confined to the guests through. I
Speaker 3: would say, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think the next time i'm feeling depressed, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the McDonald's Wendy's.
Speaker 3: In and out Jersey.
Speaker 1: Dang it. Have you ever been somewhere there's an in
Speaker 1: and out?
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been to California, but I don't.
Speaker 3: I never end up getting in and out.
Speaker 1: When I was there, I got into in and out
Speaker 1: late in my life in California, and so I never
Speaker 1: got quite enough of it. But it's the hamburgers are
Speaker 1: very good and they are wrapped in such a way
Speaker 1: that you can eat them in the car. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: the in and out and uh very la yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh good good hamburgers. There was also a place
Speaker 1: called Fatburger that made the exact opposite. Hamburger was just
Speaker 1: something that you cannot possibly eat without getting stuff.
Speaker 3: All over it, right, you basically need.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is the gamut. But so anyway, anything else
Speaker 1: else we have here. From a parenting point of view,
Speaker 1: it's possible to be over confident. Watch out for that. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you have a feeling of I have done the
Speaker 1: great thing and now I'm just going to exit stage
Speaker 1: right and everything will stay the same, probably you won't
Speaker 1: to overthink that, right. Good note for Sawyer, I'm lost.
Speaker 3: Indeed.
Speaker 1: No, boy, that thing where you're texting somebody and you
Speaker 1: see their little bubble pop up and then it goes away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that happened to Sandy because he did a dumb thing.
Speaker 1: He did. He did not tell his family about his I.
Speaker 3: Really get the feeling that they wouldn't care.
Speaker 1: So they would not care, and he should have known
Speaker 1: they wouldn't care.
Speaker 2: But yeah, as you say, is but he's a little
Speaker 2: he's insecure as the as the half sibling before the
Speaker 2: youngest and the half blink from the oldest three until
Speaker 2: Jackie came along.
Speaker 3: So he should be like it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't even really count yet because he didn't grow up.
Speaker 3: With everything exactly.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's he's obviously also that that fella might
Speaker 1: want to like invest in a comb. What is with
Speaker 1: his hair? It's a thing. It's clearly a thing because
Speaker 1: he's here the same no the sandy.
Speaker 2: Oh Sandy, Yeah, it's like the same.
Speaker 1: Peak of up every week. Is there gel involved? Is there?
Speaker 1: Maybe his dog, groom or boyfriend is the one who's
Speaker 1: making sars? Why he's embarrassed to talk about? You? Start asking?
Speaker 1: Is he the reason for that? Can we scritch you
Speaker 1: on the head there?
Speaker 2: Well maybe we'll Maybe we'll find out next week to that.
Speaker 1: Maybe we will.
Speaker 2: So next Wednesday, it's season one, episode five. It's called
Speaker 2: best Shirt And why did they keep doing this to me?
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're the one who has to pronounce them.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see you back here tomorrow for our weekly
Speaker 2: Roundabout roundup of things that we know how to pronounce.
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