Weekly Roundup: “Yes, Ma’am,” the Return of “Scrubs,” and Parents Oversharing

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Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout Podcast.

I'm Terry Moro, and I'm Catherine Haleco.

Every Thursday, we're bringing you a library find,

a pick from our archives,

and a parenting or pop culture tidbit or two.

Let's start with Catherine's library find of the week.

So I am going to talk this week about a book called Yes, Ma'am,

The Secret Life of Royal Servants.

And it's, the thing about this is,

you know, I was, of course, taken by that title right away.

But what I thought it was going to be was,

you know, what it's like to be a servant in a royal household.

Like, what do you do?

What do you wear?

What kind of hours do you work?

Like, you know, sort of the logistics of it is kind of what I thought

it was going to be about and what I wanted it to be about.

And it is not about that.

It is purely, you know, spilling the secrets of,

I just got to a second paragraph of the description here.

It says, we see how today's royals live,

including how the relationship between Megan and Harry

and William and Kate started with high hopes

and descended into bitterness and anger.

Yeah, that ain't about the help.

No.

So I was little, I was a little disappointed because,

I mean, I just think it would be fascinating to read about

what it is they actually do.

Like, you know, when you watch, you know,

Downton Abbey or something and you see downstairs

and you see, you know, the maids have to get up at five o'clock

in the morning so that they can go set, you know,

lay the fires in every room and, you know,

the cook is making breakfast for 10.

And if you're, if you're a married lady,

you eat breakfast in bed.

But if you're a man or an unmarried person,

then you eat breakfast at the table,

like all that kind of stuff, I think would,

it would be interesting to hear about.

It would be interesting, yes.

Don't care so much about the gossipy stuff

because you don't know how true it is.

You don't, you know, you don't know who's grinding and acts.

Like it's just, I'm just not that interested.

I don't care about it.

And there's also 100 million other places to get that.

Give me something I haven't heard before.

Yeah. So that was, that was my find.

And it was, it was a little disappointing

because I felt that the title was kind of a bait and switch

because the secret life of royal servants, it's, yes.

Then it tells me it's supposed to be about the servants.

It's not about the servants.

It's about the people they're serving.

Yeah, also the publishing company is called,

the publishing company is called Bite Back Public.

Oh gosh, well done.

That kind of tells the tale, doesn't it?

It sure does.

It's not about the help and what they do.

It's about the help biting back.

Yeah, so, you to me, this is the thing,

I'm not telling you to see.

That was my find.

I'm not, it's not a recommendation.

It's just a find that I had.

Yeah.

I guess my random recommendation is less a recommendation

than a, I watched it.

Let's, I'll mention it, since I'm

on a Bill Lawrence kick with shrinking and Ted Lasso,

I saw scrubs was coming back with the same cast.

Older and so, I never, for some reason,

I never watched scrubs the first time through,

although it sounds like the kind of thing I would a dog.

And I think I got,

It says a Bill Lawrence.

I got into Bill Lawrence in Cougartown.

And there was a lot of scrubs adjacency there.

Various scrubs, cast members popped in.

And Christomiller was on Cougartown

and was also had, was sort of had a recurring role on scrubs.

So there's a lot of overlap and I would watch videos

on YouTube that had some scrubs stuff.

And maybe I watched it now, but it was never my thing.

So I've been trying to watch it now on streaming

the old episodes.

I think I mentioned here that I was watching the old episodes.

And then this new version came about.

And I thought, well, maybe I should check that out.

Maybe I could watch those first time through.

And so I've started.

I've watched maybe three episodes of it.

And it's fine.

I mean, it's a hospital show.

And I maybe the reason I wasn't into it before is

because I've kind of had it with hospital shows by that time.

Right.

And a hospital sitcom.

But I mean, I've definitely watched full episodes

of the old one that I really liked that were very good.

So, and this one is fine.

It's very formula sitcom.

It's, and now it's like,

it's always been sort of the older professionals

and then the new interns coming in.

In the old version, the main characters

were the young doctors.

Now the main characters are the old doctors.

They've become the old doctors.

And they're the chief of surgery and the chief of medicine.

And they're still goofballs.

So that's kind of a problem.

And it's just, I mean, these people are younger than me.

So I should not be noticing how old they look

and going, ugh, because, yeah, me too.

Me too, guys.

I'm so sorry.

Me too.

And there's a whole pasola youngins.

No actors I recognize amongst them.

But they're fine.

They're fine.

They're like, if you've watched a medical show either a drama

or a sitcom, you know where they're going with the young

characters.

They're interchangeable.

But they're fine.

I enjoy watching it.

I don't necessarily feel compelled to continue.

I do wonder about this idea of bringing back a show

with the original cast, not rebooting it

with a different cast, not saying we're

going to do this show except we're

going to do their younger days or with young actors.

Or we're going to do, you know, it's a little weird.

It makes you feel sorry for these people.

The post scrubs career didn't work out.

And now you've got to get back up.

OK, well, good for you guys that it's here.

And I don't think that's necessarily the case.

Maybe it is.

I don't know.

They've been doing commercials a couple of them.

Yes, they sure are.

So I don't know.

I will continue watching it.

It's a little unnerving.

And it makes me think, are there other shows

that I would like to see come back that were maybe to,

I mean, bring back Kugertown.

What are they doing now?

Are they at like at a senior living?

No, they're not that old.

Are they that old?

I could be at a senior living place.

So maybe they're all in Miami now.

And were they in Miami before?

They were possibly in Florida.

They were in Florida before.

I don't know.

Where are they?

I'd like to meet them again.

I'd like to hang.

They've continued drinking as much as they drank during the show.

They're probably a convalescent facility.

But I mean, there's series that I liked.

They got cut short.

That would be nice to have back, except the fact

that they got cut short probably means that nobody thinks

they would get any ratings.

I saw some place that there was supposed

to be a 30-something reunion show.

But it was during, it was right before COVID,

and COVID stopped it.

And then there's like no further.

I would like to see those people again.

Bring back all those actors and let

us see where they are now.

But that's never going to happen.

I would just be happy to get the old 30-something episodes

on streaming somewhere.

Why has this never happened?

Oh my gosh.

I saw a video from 30-something on offer on YouTube the other day.

I got so excited.

But it's pretty clearly like something somebody

like held up their phone in front of a TV screen.

And it's like not anything official.

There's something with music rights or I don't know.

But I'm not sure that this is a trend.

I want to see continue.

It's an appealing idea to bring back these shows.

But maybe New Art would be a good idea.

Well, and we've talked about before how this drive

to keep adding seasons.

Sometimes a story is finished like you

don't need to keep going.

So even the things that I've enjoyed

and that I was sad when they ended,

there's a series I watched called Once Again that

again, did too soon.

And the fans made a big effort to get it going.

I think I chipped in to pay for a billboard yelling at ADC.

But all these years later, do I really

want to see them hook up the thing?

And it back to life and maybe not.

People have largely moved on who are on it perhaps.

We just need to give our blessings and say it was a thing

that happened and we're glad we were there for it.

We can make jokes about lost spin-offs series,

but really no, no, no, no, no, no, don't make us go back.

We have to go back.

So yeah, it's interesting.

It's an interesting experiment.

And Bill Lawrence clearly has a lot of capital

in Hollywood right now.

But there's an on Twitter, I think it is.

You know, Justine Bateman was on Family Ties.

Well, she's on Twitter and I follow her.

And one of the things she does is whenever

somebody announces a movie remake of some sort or a remake

or a sequel, she tweets it and she says,

make new art, stop this.

I kind of feel that way about Scrubs too.

Also, don't you guys have enough shows?

Calm down.

Spend some time with your fans.

You're busy.

Stop it.

I would much rather see Shrieking and Ted Lasso

than more Scrubs, but if more Scrubs is there,

I'll probably watch it.

So what do we have from the archives this week?

Speaking of going back, just a few years to 2023,

when we talked about what they're oversharing,

it's bad parenting.

This was based on a survey.

That's the question of our time, isn't it?

Yes, it was a survey that accused parents,

especially Gen X, which is me,

oversharing about their kids on social media.

And I don't know.

I mean, we talked about this then too,

but the millennials are right in there too.

So I don't know if this is.

I'm a boomer, so my job here is to judge.

You're out of it.

You couldn't have shared your kids, but I'm still one of them.

59.

You couldn't have shared your kids even if you wanted to.

I couldn't.

No, you had to like take pictures and then go someplace

and have them made into pieces of paper.

Yes, Tramada.

It took so long.

And you would first you would like finish the role.

You had to wait till you finished the role.

And then you would put the role somewhere

and say I have to take that to be developed.

And then you would forget where you put it.

And then by the time you got it developed,

it would be what the heck is this a picture of?

Where were we when we took this?

I don't know.

And then you would put it in an album and stick it somewhere

and nobody would ever see it again.

So I think today is better.

But it does, I mean, yeah.

It gets to be too much.

Yeah, I mean, it's the question I was like watching

people share their kids.

I like seeing the picture.

So what you're doing is bad.

You're a bad parent.

Could you post some more?

Right.

How are you kids growing up?

I like to see them every day, please.

It's creepy.

It is creepy and it's not right.

But it also, I mean, I have way more documentation

of my kids because I just, just from like my camera

roll on my phone, then, you know,

that I would have looked at my parents

when I looked at pictures of me when I was a kid.

I don't know.

Is that good or bad?

Right.

I do think, though, and I think I mentioned this

the last time, and it's still a question.

Is that, if you say, I am not going

to publish pictures of my kid.

I am not going to spread my kid around.

I am not going to over share.

Is your kid then now or at some future time

going to feel neglected?

Because everybody else's mom put pictures of them

all over the internet, and you never

put any pictures of me.

You didn't love me.

You didn't care about me.

You weren't proud of me.

You didn't want people to see me.

I must have been ugly.

You must have hated me.

This is totally what's going to happen, you guys.

I got to tell you, this is the way humans are.

And I will say that my kids who are, you know,

in their 20s now, I have been on Facebook since,

I don't know, since they were like elementary school

age, maybe, like not babies, but fairly young.

And they both have gone back and, you know,

viewed my entire photo album, photo library on Facebook.

They go back and look for stuff.

They go back and just like pull those things

and then send them to each other.

They send them to our digital camera, our digital frame.

Like they, they, they want to see this.

Yes.

So we've created a generation that will

let us see documents itself.

And we were in charge of that for the first, I don't know,

before they got their first phone, so the first four or five

years.

And so, you know, if you don't, if you didn't do your bit,

your kid is not going to have all those pictures to include.

Right.

And you're going to be in trouble.

Yeah.

I mean, it reminds me of, I think I mentioned this the last time,

a boss I had who shared, was generally kind of a miserable

person, but shared that her parents had a ton of pictures

of her brother and no pictures of her.

That's every time people talk about, don't put pictures

of your kids on the internet, I think of that.

I think of that.

Why did you put all of my brother's photos on the internet

and then you never put any of mine on the internet?

Well, I was protecting you, honey.

It's like, well, no, clearly you liked him better

and you didn't want people to see me.

So it's fraught.

I don't know what you do.

I mean, I think you have to put the birthday picture up

every year, put the first day of school picture up

every year, put the recital pictures, the play pictures.

I mean, you don't have to document every second of their

lives and share them, but you have to put some stuff.

You have to create a timeline.

Yeah, and also, you know, you can certainly limit it

to who can see it.

You know, I'm not.

That you can do also, yes.

Although are they at some point going to want to share it

with their friends and not be able to?

Well, then they can just download it.

That's true.

There's ways around.

They can get you if you have them still on your phone

somewhere, right?

But I, you know, isn't, isn't oversharing been a thing

with parents forever?

Exactly.

You don't need photos and social media to overshare.

Right.

You could be oversharing in a, in a PTA meeting

or in a holiday letter or a long-consum,

oh my gosh, holiday letters.

I have one friend who still does the holiday letters

where she says has a section,

her self and her husband and each of her kids.

And it makes me feel inferior.

Every time I think she does not mean that way.

I love her dearly.

I've known her since we were in, like, first grade.

But, um, man, they get stuff done.

Yes, but you're not, you're only,

it's very, as it's been a long time ago,

because it's pretty much, well, we worked and we went home

and we watched TV and then the next day we did it again.

So, right.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It's an edited version of, of life.

So, you just make something up and just send it only to her.

No, I mean, I'm just spreading misinformation to others.

It's interesting what's going on with her family,

but it does, yeah.

Anyway, so yeah, oversharing has been a,

I mean, mothers bragging about their kids or not even,

I mean, when you have a kid with disabilities or differences,

I'm always talking to people about this and that

and this therapy and that therapy

and this thing that they did, no, they were late with this.

And, oh, did I mention when he, how old he was when he got body

trend, you know, you're just talking and then I go home

and I think, why did I say all those things?

Those things are nobody's business,

but you just, they're kind of your currency as a parent.

Right.

It's talking about your kids.

Everybody's gonna talk about their kids.

You hope it's good things that you're talking about.

Sometimes it's not good things or if somebody's having a problem

and you say, oh, this is how I handle it when my kid had that problem.

Then you're oversharing about your kid,

but do not want to help this person.

So I think those rules are understandable and probably correct,

but unrealistic and doomed to failure.

So get yourself a podcast and talk about your kids

all the day on time.

It's fine.

Yeah, they will survive.

They will survive.

No one really listens to that.

That's right.

Yeah, make sure nobody actually listens to this podcast.

Whoa, but especially your kids.

Make sure they don't listen to this podcast.

Possibly your spouse, very a school person ill.

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