Issue with Pods and Using BB Themer-Assigning Themer Layouts

I am having an issue where i am trying to set up a CPT southern-paddler and i have children post under it . in wordpress it looks right the post urls are right, looks right in yoast breadcrumb, but the issue is assigning Beavebuilder template to southern-paddler. I can assign it to (southern-paddler – all southern-paddler) and it shows correct on all the new post. I have created another themer template for southern-paddler so i can show all the post listed under it with a post content module, but i can Not assign it to southern-paddler.

The question, do i not have this set up right to do this?
I just want to be able to assign templates for southern-paddler
and then one for all the children under southern-paddler
and one for the categories of southern-paddler
seems like it should be strait forward but i just cant make it work.

southern-paddler
parent
ancester
category
is what i see themer
when i select southern-paddler parent i have to select one of the children
when i select ancestor i have to select one of the children
when i select southern-paddler all southern-paddler it displays only on the children.

It is almost like it is acting backwards from how i need it to work.

I haven’t ye been able to see anything on the categories, just says nothing found when i click and go to them com/category/lake-kayaking/

Could you possibly point me in the right direction? I appreciate your time and love PODS
thanks Johnny