Insights Into Things

On this week's episode we're talking Teens and Entitlement. We'll talk about what is the mentality of entitlement and it's clinical definition. We explore how entitlement mentality affects relationships. Then we'll look at signs of an entitled teenager and methods to fix entitled behavior before we wrap up with three tools for battling entitlement.

Today in our Disney Detective, some details on the reimagining of Splash Mountain, Is Disney losing Mickey Mouse? In our Tales from the Edge of the Galaxy, a Props bonanza at Walt Disney Archives, Star Fans suddenly wish the Luke Skywalker Cameo didn’t happen And for our Entertainment News, The stars of Cobra Kai react to a season 5 announcement, Honoring Chadwick Boseman’s legacy And as always we’ll finish up with our Insightful Picks of the week....and some afterthoughts

This week we go off script a bit to deal with some issues. First we talk about a series of deadly tornados that blew through our area and actually our town in the wake of hurricane Ida. We'll talk a bit about how scary that was and the lingering anxiety of the experience. We'll also talk about the disruption the storms caused to everyone's life in the area last week which prevented us from recording our show during our regularly schedule time last week. Then we'll talk about some of the stress and anxiety of going back to school. We'll address the underlying anxiety and fear for our safety about in person learning during the ongoing pandemic. We'll look at some of the stress issues about having so many advanced courses and so little time to ourselves with Marching Band. Finally we'll talk about concerns and unresolved issues that are causing some stress and anxiety. We'll look at ways to tackle some of the problems, cope with those we can solve and look at what the near future holds for us and hopefully resolve some of the tensions and anxieties from the last two weeks.

Today in our Disney Detective, Walt Disney’s Personal Plane Remains Abandoned at Disney World, Imagineer Rolly Crump on Museum of the Weird, the scariest Disneyland attraction ever envisioned In our Tales from the Edge of the Galaxy, We finally learned how Palpatine survived and returned in ‘Rise of Skywalker’, Andor Star Wars Show Reportedly Wraps Filming And for our Entertainment News, Nirvana sued by the baby from Nevermind's album cover, Drummer Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones backbone, dies at 80 And as always we’ll finish up with our Insightful Picks of the week....and some afterthoughts

It’s about that time for the kids to head back to school. We thought that COVID would just be a bad memory by now, but it seems it’s here to stay for a little while. So how do your kids feel about going back to school in the time of COVID. How do you as a parent feel and how can we make the most of the situation while still trying to keep our families safe and mitigate any anxiety we might have under the current climate?

After 20 years of military operations, over $2 trillion dollars, an estimated 160,000 lives 50,000 of which were civilian, 2,448 American Service members, 3,846 US Contractors, roughly 66,000 Afghan national military and police, 1,144 allied service members, 44 aid workers, 72 journalists and over 50,000 Taliban and other opposition fighters the United States is finally pulling out of Afghanistan. While that is an exceedingly high toll to pay for America’s longest war ever those numbers are just a fraction of what the long term consequences will cost. In today’s episode we’re going to take a look at the long war in Afghanistan, the history surrounding the disputed country, how we got here, what went wrong and what the future holds for the country, the region and the world as a result of what’s happened there.

Today in our Disney Detective, will Disney Genie have guests spend less time in line (I’ll believe it when I see it), then the Beauty and the Beast stage show reopens at the Studios In our Tales from the Edge of the Galaxy, what is Batuuese and where do you need it, plus how Taika Waititi’s Star Wars Movie will differ from Ragnarok And for our Entertainment News, did Disney accidentally solve Hollywood’s biggest problem, and will they really come if you build it? Yes they will, by the bus load in fact. And as always we’ll finish up with our Insightful Picks of the week....and some afterthoughts

Situations, emotions and hormones often combine in our teens to make them feel like a burden on those around them. We’ll explore why this happens, some of the things that can cause this and finally we’ll look at ways to help our teens combat this.

Today in our Disney Detective, a happy birthday wish to my favorite celebrity and news of a new film she’s appearing in and details are released on the new Lightyear movie In our Tales from the Edge of the Galaxy, someone besides me has a cheeky response to Disney’s obscene prices for the Galactic Starcruiser Experience plus Disney is looking for an Actress To Play the Live-Action version of Sabine Wren And for our Entertainment News, a favorite canceled NBC Series is Close to Returning, then Wizard World sells out to Fan Expo And as always we’ll finish up with our Insightful Picks of the week....and some afterthoughts

This week we’re talking about disappointment and how to deal with it. We’ll discuss what disappointment is and what causes us to feel disappointed. We’ll explore signs to look for that indicate our teens are disappointed and some common things that can cause disappointment. We’ll finish up with some tips on how to help teens deal with disappointment.