Sister Wives S1 E7 - Four Wives and Counting... - My Sister Wives Podcast

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Hello world, welcome to My Sister Wives Podcast.
I'm Chris. And I'm Allie, we're long time
friends who had no idea we were both watching the TLC trainwreck
reality show Sister Wives. Join us as we rewatch Sister
Wives, maybe have a drink or two, and share what useless
information and insights we can provide.
Listen to us two deadbeat losersjudge the Brown family.

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That's us all right. See you on the.
Flip side. What does the nanny do?
OK, so we're done. Goodbye.
You. Shut it off.

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Do not twist my words. Do not make me a victim.
Sweetie. Just look at the mountain.
That's what you saw that day. Just the knife in the kidneys
over all these years and the sacrifices that I made to love
you. All right, well, we are so

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excited about this episode because Robyn is finally joining
the Brown family officially. It's a big day, big day.
It is a big day. It is a big day.
Big deal. It is a very big deal.
Ali, is there anything that you wanted to point out about the
episode holistically or big picture before we jump into the

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day before the wedding and theirlittle activities?
I don't think there's anything we'll get into the nitty gritty
of it for sure. All I can say is that, you know,
common to most weddings, there'san element of chaos involved,
right? Yes, there's definitely some
chaos, definitely some planning that could have been done

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better, as it turns out. And yeah, just some things like
that, but we'll have to touch onthose 1 by 1.
They jump in with the day beforethe wedding and Kody talking
about their guys night out whichis not a bachelor party.
He made sure to clarify which I mean because he's not a bachelor
so it makes sense. I guess I didn't even tie

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together the bachelor. Not a bachelor of it, but I
think I took it just more. Well, they were sure to point
out that there weren't any girlsor beer.
Yeah. Dancing girls.
Dancing girls. Castles.
That's right. They didn't even get that far
because they've never seen it, you know, so they don't know how

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good it can be. But.
Strippers. It can be a good time, OK?
Now listen, I get that a lot of women about to be married maybe
don't want their significant others, you know, going to a
strip joint. However, if you're worried about

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that, then maybe that's a biggerconversation for before the
wedding, you know? Yeah, agreed.
So maybe some other things in play, but.
I would hope I could trust my potential spouse, like my future
husband, to go out with his friends and not actually be
debaucherous. Like to just enjoy the views and
take in what he feels like. Right.
I mean, as most people would assume that that's how it could

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go, right? But as we know, no, that's not
how it does for a lot of folks. And so I appreciated the
clarification. Not that I was worried about
Kody Brown and his debaucherous behavior.
I also thought it was funny thatthey shared about 30 seconds of
that evening because I'm sure the rest of it was just so
disgustingly boring. I don't think any.

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Well, he was having fun 'cause he's ridiculous, but I was just
rolling my eyes. There is no way that there was
too much fun had because they didn't even really show them
doing anything. Janelle made a comment about how
Logan is only 16 and he's participating and so she was
hoping that there wouldn't be any actual adult activities

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happening. And that makes sense.
I guess if you're bringing your 16 year old, it's probably like
what's that place where they play games and have meals?
Dave and Buster's. Dave and Buster's.
It's probably like Dave and Buster's vibes.
I maybe not even that cool, you know?
Fair enough. They also show Robyn and what
she got from the bridal shower. Yeah, OK, yeah, let's talk about

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what Robyn got from the bridal shower, because what are the
things that they told us about what she got from the bridal
shower? There was celery because Kody.
Well, it was all Kody. 'S it was a Kody Survival kit.
Oh. Yeah, Kody Survival kit.
And the two things that they described within the Kody
Survival kit was celery and saltand salt.

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That's it. Yes, that's all you need to
survive Kody Brown, as it turns out.
Or that's all they decided to show us.
Thanks, production. There might have been some
better things in that box, we donot know.
We don't know. And that whole story that Robyn
shared of how she made eggs withPepper and Kody was like, I take
my eggs of salt. But don't worry, like Christine
will show you how I like my eggs.

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And she was all like, I was like, girl, you fucking suck.
Like she was. So I mean, I get it.
Like, Oh no, you're going to be a bride.
That's wonderful. But like your future husband's
wife is telling you how he likeshis eggs and you think it's
cute. Like, I don't know.
I wouldn't think it's cute, but whatever.
Well, let's clarify that it wasn't his future husband's wife

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telling her how how she wants orshe he wants the eggs cooked.
It was him telling her that his other wife will be sure to
inform her of how his eggs should be cooked.
Yes, yes, yes, that Christine will tell.
Oh gosh. But like a Kody Survival kit, I
mean, I hope that there there was more included in that than
what they showed, because I actually think that could be a

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cute like wife bonding moment. Celery and salt is not it.
But they are great for Bloody Meri, you know, accoutrement.
But other than that, right, Get the fuck out of here, you know,
like stop it. So I hope there was better stuff
in that box, but we'll never know.
You'd hope there is, but there probably isn't because this

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family, like seriously. And I was surprised to, I
shouldn't say surprise. Once again, I know little tardy
to the party, but these episodesare only 22 minutes because
they're half hour episodes for this first season, other than
the pilot, which we've talked about before.
So it seems like bam, all of a sudden we're into the day of the
wedding. Like they have these like little
clips and then all of a sudden it's wedding day and they start

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with the this kind of, I guess the address was wrong on the
invites that they sent. Am I surprised by this?
No, I don't even know what to say about printing the wrong
address on a wedding invite. Like I, I just feel like that's
a bit clown shoes, but I don't know, is that normal?
No, right. That is simply not normal.
Do some people make that mistake?

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Yes, they do. Do most people catch it in the
proof that they're reviewing that, you know, they've put
together before they print everything and then what?
Send it out to people? Like at no time throughout this
until the actual wedding day could you have rectified the
situation. Like send and I, I definitely
had couples that screwed up things, but they were able to

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mail something else out. Yeah.
In time yes, there's a dollar amount factor to that, but it
just seemed so silly that they were really that concerned the
day of the wedding that people were going to go to the wrong
place. Like, yeah, she, I just.
Robyn made, she said, like we'vebeen calling and we've been
texting and we've been emailing.So like you said, I mean, they

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clearly did not have enough timeto send out a second invite.
So that means they didn't catch it till who knows when, like too
late. And it's like, didn't anyone?
I mean, maybe because it was at the outdoor space, you know,
like maybe anyone that received it wouldn't really verify the
address for them because it's not like their home.
Incorrect. Somebody should be doing that.

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Yeah. You are sending people to an
address for an event. You make sure the fucking
address is correct. That's like sending it with the
wrong date. You know you don't invite
somebody to your wedding on the wrong day like.
Into the wrong place. So, and that comes up later
because it's absolutely asinine.Robyn made a jar.

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She had this big glass jar and inside of it she put updated
addresses like on little slips of paper or something to leave
that at the incorrect address. And so she was talking about
that at her half home and I was noticing that her half home
still looks like they just movedin yesterday.
There is nothing on the walls. There are boxes, there are

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totes. And so still this timeline like
she makes reference to like, oh,it's just taken so long and
we've seemed to have gone through so much.
And I'm like, what you didn't gothrough was unpacking or putting
anything anywhere. Like you couldn't even put your
boxes in a closet. You couldn't even move the totes
out of the living room. Like everything that's out looks
like they just moved in 2 days ago and there's nothing on the
walls and I'm like I don't even know bitch how you live like

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this? Like how do you even go?
Like once again, what's your job?
What are you doing all day? You can't spend an hour making
your place look like oh we live here?
Like I just don't get it. Well, because at this point in
the timeline, if we assume that the timeline that we've been
shown is actually accurate for what they're going through, we
would assume that she's been there at least two or three

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months. Yeah.
Yeah, like at least a couple months, I would say.
So it is kind of, you know, you and I, we are, we are unpackers.
We are like for myself personally, if I move into a
place, at least a certain section of that place is going
to look like I've been there fora hot minute after about 24 to

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48 hours at the most, right. Like it is not so.
So yes, that is unique. There's a lot of things unique
about what happened you. Are the friend where when we're
moving in, people are still moving in boxes and you're
placing shit in on the wall and doing all of that like you are
unpacking during the move. Yes, now I am not that I'm not

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like that, but I definitely can't sit in a bunch of boxes
and totes for. You're fairly quick about it.
The only thing that you do differently than I do, I think
is actually take more time to think about what you're putting
where and when and why and how. Like I think I'm just like, this
looks good here. Boom.
And you're like, no, let me really feel it out for a second

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and just make sure that I'm putting things really where I
want them. Like, you settle in with it for
a little bit, but it's still, yeah, doesn't look like you
moved in yesterday. That place still looks decent.
You know what I mean? Like.
Like, if we moved in on a Friday, that means on Monday
it's gonna look like someone here knows what they're doing
and they're unpacking and they're living their life.
It's not like they just moved inon Friday.
We wouldn't even look like we just moved in on a Friday,

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Correct? So gross.
Correct. It's just, there's so many
reasons to hate Robyn. And as I'm watching this,
there's just more and more and more like I'm like, bitch, open
a tote, put something on a wall,take out a nail.
Like what are you doing? Do you know one of my favorite?
This is a little side note from before they got to kind of the
part where she was talking aboutthe addresses and everything.

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But they had all four of them, all four of the wives and Kody
sitting on the couch as they were kind of talking about
leading up to this. And apparently there had been
some discussion on the wedding day.
Like other wives have been trying to say, it's going to
rain, It's going to rain. And they were, you know, la, la,
la, la, la. We don't hear that it's going to

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rain. And they're still moving on with
everything. But I think it was Meri that
said, you know, the clouds were just rolling in and rolling in.
And Christine stops and she goes, and that's not a metaphor.
Yeah. It's literally what was
happening. It was not a metaphor, you know?
And I was like, Oh my God, how funny.
Because the the clouds are rolling in with the new
marriage. And it was like, no, no, no.

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But it was kind of. I just like that they had to
clarify that that was not a metaphor.
Right. No, absolutely not.
But yeah, so they invited peopleto the wrong place and that was
super special. Kody was bouncing around like an
idiot. Yeah, he's always bouncing
around like an idiot. It was just like, I'm 12 today,
like. You know, like if the.

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Oh yeah, he said. He feels like it's, yeah, 12.
Yeah, I'm like, you're a grown man getting married.
You can just say that. Well, and I wonder if he is like
that all the time, like he's putting on for the camera a
little bit for sure, but how much?
Because my God, putting up with that energy on a regular basis,
I would be like, listen, I know you have main character

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syndrome, but like we're like, if there's no cameras around, we
aren't being filmed. You don't have to do this.
Like, Oh my God, I would be like, you need to take it down.
You're at a nine and they need you at like a four.
Like, Oh my God. And I think his energy is like
that, whether it's happy, excited, fun energy or it's
stressed, angry, whatever energy.

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Like I think it's still like that heightened sense of
experience, like not experiences, but that heightened
sense of energy, just energy, whether it's positive or not,
you know, and he's definitely God makes it a thing.
Main character syndrome is accurate for sure.
Fucking Kody. So then they cut to the girls

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getting ready. I guess.
I don't know if I should say girls, but yeah, it's the girls
getting ready for the wedding, getting their hair done, their
makeup. I think Maddie says like some of
them, it was their first time ever doing anything like that.
And that makes sense. I mean, you, the girls are all
all, all ages. They so truly a little baby
getting her nails painted. And I was like, is that safe?

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That I'm like, there's probably nail Polish that's actually OK
for kids. That's, you know, it's like it's
a newborn. Isn't she just going to like
suck on it? But I don't know.
We ain't let us babies and we'reOK, you know, like it's fine.
I don't know. I, you know, it's totally one of
those moments where I'm like, amI being a Karen about the nail
Polish on the little baby? But then I'm like, well, I don't
know. I'd never thought about it, but
it's a valid thought. Yeah, well.

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I'm impressed. I'll give you props.
I mean, that was pretty good. I mean, it is truly.
So let's. Oh, stop.
That's so terrible. I'm so terrible.
So it was interesting because they started the morning with
Robyn at her house doing all of these things and whatever else,
right? And she's going crazy and all

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this stuff. And that continues to progress
throughout the episode. But then yes, it's the the other
three wives and the daughters are at the salon and they're
getting their hair and they're getting their makeup and they're
getting pedicures and manicures and they are having a lovely
morning. Their morning is relaxing.
It is wonderful. They're excited, 0 stress, 0

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pressure. And then I think we get to a
point in a little bit later where Robyn starts losing her
shit and is like, why am I aloneon my wedding day?
And she was. And so that was very
interesting. So.
But they did, they had a good old time.
It was very funny. And yeah, I the salon was
lovely. They really liked the people at
the salon. They thought they were so nice.

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That's great. That's beautiful.
So then Kody is driving around looking for this wrong address
to leave the glass jar that Robyn has put the correct
address in. And it has like and then like a
metal stake thing because he picked up some balloons, like a
bunch of balloons to put at the wrong address to get everyone's
attention to go to the right address.

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And as he's driving around, theyare playing this like clown
music, this like circus music for the first bullet.
And I was like, are you effing kidding?
Because like, this is the thing about production and editing is
like, it does put a spin on whatyou're absorbing.
And so there's this extra level of like slapstick Kody driving
around to find the wrong address.

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Meanwhile, I'm like, it is your wedding day.
Is there no one else that could be doing this?
And is this just for production?Like, oh, we got a film, Kody
driving around doing whatever. Like what, one of your 12 boys
or however many people like you have to know someone.
APA could go put it somewhere. I guess they thought they needed
the footage. As far as a storyline, I think
it kind of sucks. So Boo.

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So my take on that scenario, which you'll just love, is that
the man was given 1 task. OK, the man was given 1 task and
his task was to get balloons. Maybe he could consider it 2
tasks. One task was to get the balloons
and the second task was to placethe jar and the balloons at said

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location. And of course this becomes an
entire shit show and he can barely even complete the task.
Oh which because also was hysterical.
The wrong address that was on the invites didn't actually even
exist. So what they did was find

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another address that was close enough to the wrong address that
he could leave it there, but he drove around in circles for I
don't know how long trying to find the wrong address that
doesn't exist now. What a fucking shit show.
But it's just like that true manthing that they say they want to

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help and you say this is one thing you could do.
And that one thing that they cando ends up barely getting
accomplished but being the most dramatic thing possible of the
entire day, right? And like, Jesus fucking Christ.
And that's why women do it all themselves.
Okay, so like, it was just primeexample.
I'm like, of course he can't even fucking do the one thing

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she told him to do. Of course he can't even
accomplish that. And of course he's going to
drive around for an hour and a half looking for the wrong
address that doesn't exist on your wedding day.
So that now he's late to get ready and then makes it sound
like he's been working so hard all morning.
Yeah, driving around his gold Honda van like.

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Oh God. I mean, yeah, Paulies.
I suppose he couldn't fit the balloons in the Lexus.
I really loved that he had to drive the van.
It was pretty fantastic to me. I'm like, yeah, you drive
around. It does also fit with the
narrative more more micro ratherthan all men but like Kody

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specifically, his thing is turning mountains into mole
hills and like being unable to like accomplish basic things.
You're saying that's micro? Well, I don't know, I guess
maybe I was using it wrong. I meant, well, no, I meant it
more like, yeah, specifically Kody.
Like that is definitely his. Thing that is definitely his
thing, but more straight men do that then don't OK I mean.

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I mean, I, I hear you. I yes, I I just I straight.
Men can RIP me apart in the comments, I don't care.
Like, I know I like, I definitely don't know what to
say about that other than it just does align for sure with
Kody's thing. Like he's always like pointing
out these things and making thiswhatever and blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. And it's like, OK, you had one

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thing to do. And yeah, they do.
Then cut to Robyn getting ready in her home.
She or her, yeah, her half home.She's in a but she's there with
the kids alone, like you said, like she's alone.
And the camera crew is, of course, filming footage that
makes it look like it's a littlebit chaotic.
She's trying to get 3 kids readyon her wedding day.

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They're, you know, Dayton's likepushing and punching one of the
sisters. She's like trying to get him in
the car. But she is in this brown dress.
So as we all talked about in theepisode or how it goes, is that
she has a wedding dress that I'massuming she wore to the
ceremony. I don't know.
But so this footage, she's wearing the brown dress.

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So I'm assuming this footage is actually from after the ceremony
and she's getting the kids readyto go to the reception.
Because when she shows up at thereception, all of the wives are
wearing brown dresses for familyphotos.
So while they're showing this, Ifeel like it seems like in the
episode that it's. Still while everything's
happening, but it's definitely after the ceremony.

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I don't think she's doing this before the ceremony.
Now I can't say that with 100% certainty, but I don't think she
wore a brown dress to her ceremony with Kody because when
they took wedding photos she's in a white dress.
I think you're right. I think it was after the
ceremony and it was before the reception.
One of the things that I loved was when she was trying to

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wrangle all of the kids in to toget them out of the house.
First of all, she was trying to get Aurora to help her with
something. And it just I will say there's
not a ton of parenting moments that I see in this show that
maybe I I think we probably I parent probably very differently

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than this family parents, right?But there was just a moment that
I was like, Oh my God, every momthat would see that is like, Oh
God, I know how she feels because she was saying to
Aurora, I need your help Aurora.And Aurora was and batshit crazy
and she just kept repeating herself.
I counted at least three, but itcould have gotten up to five.

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I need your help, Aurora. Aurora, I need your help,
Aurora. I need your help.
I need your help, Aurora. Aurora like she was like, I am
going to blow my fucking lid unless you do exactly what I
need you to do right fucking now.
And it was just one of the few moments of stress and parenting
because even as a big group, like sometimes I feel like they
just let everybody go and do andbe unless like injuries are

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happening or something. And this was her trying to,
right? They were trying to like she was
raining them in and Aurora was like, fuck you.
And she's like. Well, this is what's, I mean if
it's after, I guess regardless if it's after the ceremony or
before that this is shot. She is there alone.
Like I was thinking, OK, if the other wives and everyone are

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getting ready, but they showed her getting ready with them at
one point too in the salon. So I'm kind of I'm kind of just
wondering why it is that she's alone period.
You know, why there isn't another wife there helping?
Why there isn't another daughterthere helping?
I think it's because they don't know how to plan things.
I mean, they don't think about the full picture.
Do you know what I mean? So let's say she did leave after

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the ceremony to go back home to change.
First of all, that seems like aninteresting thing, but I guess
they weren't like at a venue venue.
They were at an outdoor park or whatever.
So maybe it made sense to go home and change, but she should
never have her fucking kids withher if she's just on a mission
to go home and change like that.Seems odd that somebody else

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wasn't like they should stay with us or that another wife or
even one of the older daughters wasn't like, oh, let me come
with you and I can help you. Like I I just don't think they
were thinking through this wholeday and kind of some of that.
And I think the other wives really were kind of having a
good old time and enjoying what was happening and not thinking

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about Robyn in that sense. Like they were just waiting for
the festivities. They weren't thinking about what
happened before that. And I will give them all a
little bit of credit, specifically Christine and
Janelle credit, because they didn't have that wedding
experience. Meri did, but Meri didn't have
that experience with children running amok.
So I think it's really different.

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But like, I can think back to when my sister got married and
one of the things that we didn'tplan for.
So we spent the whole morning, you know, getting ready, the
hair, the makeup, all the stuff.We go to the church, there's
photos. PS By the way, we'll talk about
the photos. That is the worst part of a
fucking wedding day is the photos and a family that big,
like, I would jump off a bridge.But anyway, we were sitting

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there in the middle of the afternoon and it was still like
another hour before the ceremonystarted maybe.
And other people were off doing photos and everybody was like,
Oh my God, we haven't eaten. Like we were starving.
So like, went up to the gas station, you know, Pizza Hut to
get like chicken fingers and fries.
Spent like $200 on chicken fingers and fries for 10 people
to eat because it was like, Oh my God, nobody has food.

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We didn't think about this. So then as I was planning
weddings for many years in the future, I was like, don't forget
to feed yourself during the day when you're getting ready.
And you're doing this, right? Like, you don't think about some
of that stuff. They weren't thinking about the
support that Robyn would need getting ready throughout that
whole day. Like she was just spending for
herself. And in hindsight, no, apparently

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she had encouraged them to go off and do these things to get
the pedicures and to do all of that.
But I don't think she was picturing what was coming her
way either. Like they just should have
thought through that better for sure.
And I'm, you know, a point of I don't know WTF miss or something
with this family is the faining of like not knowing how weddings

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go because they don't have weddings like that in their
culture. And I'm like, OK, well, I know
things about other cultures thatI don't participate in.
I know things about heterosexualmarriages and mainstream
America, even though that's not my life.
And I'm kind of like, so nobody thought that.
Like, I, I mean, maybe as a gay man, I am more sensitive to it,
but there's usually a maid of honor, there's a matron of

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something, there's a person thatdoes your right hand help on the
day of their something. And it's like, so no one thought
of that. And really particularly Chris is
going to scold Meri because Merishould have known better.
And Robyn and Meri at this pointhave something going on as far
as their relationship, where they're close, they are friends,
They obviously have an emotionalbond.
And why Meri didn't think to lean in on that or wasn't, it

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does seem weird. Now, Christine and Janelle,
sure. I mean, particularly well, both
of them, because we'll talk about what they say about their
wedding days. As we know they were basically
clown shoes. But it just overall is strange
that Robyn doesn't have anyone else helping her in these
scenes. It just, I don't know, it's just
weird. This family's so dumb sometimes.

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Didn't there have to be a momentwhen Robyn was leaving?
We're just going to go with the fact that Robyn went home to
change from her one dress to theother one before they went to
the reception because I think that does make the most sense.
Yeah. So there then had to be a moment
that they are leaving the ceremony where people are
watching Robyn and her children pack up a van, go to her house

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and like, not even like, like a little.
And what are they all doing? Not even a thought like oh,
we'll. Just go to the park and sit and
look at each other. Yeah.
I mean, I just what? It doesn't make sense.
I don't know. It is strange, but also this
family is strange. Then we cue the Latin lover
music. OK, cue the like.
Don't, don't, don't. Like there could be a rose in

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someone's mouth, like the whole ballroom scene and Meri's
putting a bow tie on Kody. OK.
And the camera is pan tight, like it's their faces.
And it's a little like behind Meri, kind of more focused on
Kody as he's getting the tie puton him.
And there's, I don't remember exactly what they say to each
other, but there's a little backand forth.
And because of the music, there seems like there's some sexual

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tension or a little bit of like a, oh, like, are you excited for
me and blah, blah, blah, which is so weird because he's
marrying somebody else. She seems a little like, oh God,
I just like, oh God, I can't believe I'm get to do this to
Kody, which is just kind of sad.It's like he is your husband and
you're, it just feels like by this point, I feel like their
intimacy levels are already verylow.
It seemed like she was a little like, oh God, I just like,

(27:41):
honey, it's your husband and you're putting a bow tie on him.
You've been married to him for 20 years or something?
If Leon hadn't been there, do you think they would have
fucked? Well, this is OK, but this is
the oh God, no, my God, why did you ask me that question?
It's a valid question. Totally is what this is.
The thing is, like, the camera is where it is, and then it
backs up and pans out and steps to the right, and Leon is right

(28:03):
between them. And I was like, this is so
uncomfortable. Like, your child is right there.
And I have to say that the musicplayed a part in it.
But even if the music wasn't there, like, do I want to see my
mom putting on a bow tie on my dad?
And he's like, Oh yeah, I could get it to you, baby.
Like, no, you don't want to see that.
And it was just so like, holy fucking shit, there is your kid

(28:27):
right there like 2 feet away. And then she go, well, some of
the the mumbling that you were talking about at the beginning
was that Meri was like, I reallywant to say something right now,
but I'm not going to. I don't think Leon would like
it, right? Like that would be embarrassing
for them. And then she keeps looking over

(28:47):
to the camera like giddy schoolgirl, like, like.
And then she goes, I wish it wasmy wedding night.
Yeah, yeah. Like that's fucking weird and
she's coveting Robyns husband. Which is.
Literally on the wedding day. Which is her husband, who's been
married to her for like 20 years.

(29:08):
And I don't know that she's everhad an orgasm from him as we've
discussed. But like, you know, she's still,
so she's still like 15, like heavy petting.
Like, is this going to happen? Like, girl, you are middle-aged
with a child who is right there.Like, Oh my God.
It was just very strange. They do show a Robyn spotlight
moment. Maybe it was actually just a

(29:28):
voiceover. I don't know where she talks
about how the cameras were not welcome at the ceremony.
It was a Robyn and Kody spotlight.
It was the two of them together.Right now they're.
Talking about their magical moment.
Yes, he's got his arm around her.
She's in that. Very little jacket tight to her
like again, no space in between bodies.
But there weren't other people on the couch this time.

(29:48):
No space. And he looks at her like I'm so
in love with you and it makes mewant to puke.
She really just seems so. We said this in one of the last
couple of episodes. She just seems very not smart.
No. Like simpleton.
Yeah, there were a few sentencesthat I picked up on over this

(30:11):
episode where her, the way she phrased the sentences, the way
she put them together was very like, oh, girl learned how to
talk pretty one day. Like it's just not.
Exactly. It's not there exactly.
And that's. Coming from someone who fucks up
his words a lot like that is messy.
I want to see her on camera talking like the person she
really is with, like her dumb school girlfriends, you know?

(30:33):
Like, I feel like there has to be an environment of people in
which she doesn't. She's not still trying to put on
a show. And God would I kill to see what
that looks like. And I feel like this might be, I
don't know, but it's interestinghow years later when we see
Robyn talking now, she's almost like there's a gas leak, like

(30:55):
she's very lethargic and she's very slow.
I. Think she's trained herself.
Sorry if I spoke over you. No, it's all.
It's all. Good.
I I but I think she's trained herself.
That's what I because I think she yeah, she watched herself
look like a buffoon, like an idiot.
And she's like, I know I only have the brain that I have, but

(31:16):
I can probably make them not think I'm as dumb as I.
Am yeah. Like if I literally think of
every phrase intentionally as I'm saying it, which slows her
down to the point of like brain damage, like what is going on?
And you know, some of those people that do that, the slow
talking, they're doing it intentionally so that they can
really place and peace what they're saying and how so that

(31:42):
you don't recognize it. And she's probably eliminated
certain words out of her vocabulary to not, you know what
I mean? Like, I think this is an
intentional thing that she's been trying to perfect over the
year. Yeah, I mean, it took her 15
years to figure it out, but eventually she does talk slow
and intentional, and she sounds like I don't even know.

(32:07):
Gross. So I know.
So then when we're actually at the reception, is there anything
you have before we talk about family photos?
No, you had touched on just thisceremony piece, like they had
that private ceremony now where I have that note written.
I am doubting the timing of the dress thing because it was after
that. But again, we don't really know

(32:28):
how they put this shit together anyway, so it's fine.
But yeah, that that was just like a super small intimate
moment. They weren't going to have
cameras there for it. I kind of, I'm curious about
what that actually looks like. You know, like, what is so
sacred about this that cameras can't be allowed?
Because really they seem like they're pretty fine about

(32:50):
exploiting their religion for this television show.
So like, interesting, right? But I feel like it's probably
more so that somebody else put aboundary up.
The cameras couldn't be there for it, as opposed to them
saying we don't want cameras here for our ceremony.
I think Kody who knows this is still their first season.

(33:11):
I don't know what's out yet whenthey're filming this because he
definitely is a pusher for cameras like he many many years
later. There are several situations
that happened with this family where there probably should not
be cameras, including things like funerals where Kody pushes

(33:31):
and it's considered inappropriate by several family
members. And even like as a viewer, it's
a little weird. So I'm not sure why that is.
Or I I don't know if it actuallywas like an institutional thing
because this AUB group, who eveneffing knows, like I do suspect
that it was just majorly frownedupon and they couldn't have any
cameras. And finally, it's sacred as
Robyn causes very sacred and Amen.

(33:53):
OK, sounds good. I wonder what hers was like in
comparison to the other wives. Like the ceremony itself, if the
other wives were there and if theirs was particularly
different, because if it was just an intimate thing where
they were doing some sort of exchange of whatever, then it
might not have been much of anything.
I feel like the actual wedding ceremonies themself, like the

(34:15):
words that were said, the peoplethat were there, things like
that probably were very similar for all the wives.
I think it's more the type, the floral, the reception, the cake,
the food, all the stuff like I think those are the things where
are different. But I would, I would feel like

(34:36):
the ceremony has to kind of justbe with the ceremony is, don't
you think? Well, and also the People
magazine spread that Robyn got, so there was also that.
Oh well. The the, the wedding photos of
Robyn and Kody in front of like a flower garden and in front of
this and all that in front of her in her wedding dress and
he's the the groom and everyone's just so happy for
her. I'm sure I saw it at the time

(34:57):
but unfortunately it's left my brain.
Yeah, now it's just on the interwebs if you Google it and
you know. I don't know that we're
encouraging people to Google that and give them more
attention at this. Point I just it's just funny
that it's like Robyn's wedding day.
Like if you look at the photos of like Christine and Janelle

(35:18):
and then Robyn is literally in People magazine with like
looking great and poor Christineor.
Christine or Christine like trash?
Satin trash bag is what Christine wore to her wedding.
Yes, satin trash bag. Absolutely.
That's amazing. Get the fuck out of here.
Yeah, and not only did Robyn getone dress, but she got 2 and

(35:43):
everything else she wanted. Yes, well, this is it.
So when we get to the reception,Robyn shows up in her brown
dress because Meri has pointed out that they were hoping to do
family photos and that if they were all wearing a brown dress,
then they would be the four wives, signifying that they're,
you know, the four wives. And it's an opportunity for
family photos, which is always fun.

(36:03):
Now, a thing like a wedding, Yeah, you probably will get a
family photo out of it. It is annoying as a photographer
who has never worked a wedding, but who has worked events where
people are then like, this is anopportunity for us to take
family photos. And it's like, well, that's
actually an entire effort. Like on both sides, like as you,
the people being photographed and as the photographer.

(36:24):
So like, I love that you're trying to get this, but this is
probably not the right time to be doing that.
And you know, when you have thatmany kids and as we see the
kids, you know, Aurora or Brianna has a, Brianna has a
breakdown. You know, she's like, oh, crying
and blah blah blah. But they do start off with all
of the wives in the brown dress,which is why I'm don't know if
Robyn got married in that dress.I doubt it.

(36:44):
So that's why I'm thinking she went home and then went to the
park or whatever. Janelle gives the hats off to
Meri for being the picture Nazi.Oh, oh, oh, but then they
correct themselves. She's not the picture Nazi,
she's the picture goddess. Kody calls her the picture.
Goddess. So wait, let's just backtrack
really quick here. Marries things that she brings

(37:05):
to the family. OK, yes.
Number one. Tooth puller.
Tooth puller, yeah #2. Packing Nazi.
Packing Nazi. See, that's why they said we've
called her a Nazi one too many times.
Let's revisit this. So now she's the picture.
Goddess. I hope I'm not too much of A

(37:26):
perfectionist and I hope I wasn't really starting to annoy
the photographer. I was like, bitch, she.
Didn't give a fuck. You were definitely doing all of
those things and yet you couldn't stop yourself.
And that's fine, but. That's amazing.
You know, yes, family photos arechallenging at any time.
Wedding photos in general. Yeah, Thank the Lord Jesus, you

(37:47):
never tried to have that be a market you dove into because
it's horrible. It's the worst.
So first of all, you have to have the right photographer to,
like, help you get through all of the and.
And I can just imagine this poorman.
What if they didn't tell him that they want a full family

(38:08):
photo of this 30 people or whatever it is at this point,
right? Like what if they didn't say
this? You need to a lot like an hour's
worth of time for that shit. Because first of all, nobody is
where they need to be when they need to be.
You can give them a schedule allday long of who should be where
and how they should. Nobody does.
And then the second you don't have them in a photo, they
wander and then you're dragging their asses back because they're
in the next 1. And it's all this like it's

(38:31):
atrocious. So you have to have a
photographer. The A has that timing planned on
appropriately, but then B can wrangle all these idiots and are
you kidding? And then the screaming children
and this and that all. It's just, it's the freaking
worst. I used to tell couples that you,

(38:51):
what's the best way to explain? Everybody wants to go for the
cheap person, right? Everybody wants to save the
dollars, OK. And that's great.
And you can find very reasonablypriced people.
I always said to go for the happy medium to the higher end
because you really want somebodythat's going to a plan out in
advance with you. These are the photos that you
want, right? You can't just show up on the
wedding day and be like, what doyou want me to do?

(39:13):
Who do you want these photos? What?
No, we need to lock step all of this.
Like this has to be lined up. And then really have them be
forceful. Like they have to kind of be
assholes at times, you know? And you have to say like, this
is like, right now, this is whatwe're doing.
Get in this place. I could not imagine that large
group of people with that many young children.

(39:35):
We only saw a brief moment. Yeah.
They didn't show us life. They should not drag that out.
And thank you. Thank you, Thank you.
But if I'm thinking about how long that actually took, Yeah.
Oh, my God. And they probably barely got one
decent one. Do you know what I mean?
Like there's probably one with only one person's eyes half
closed like it was the. Worst.

(39:58):
Amen. Robyn also says that she was
concerned that people were not going to show up to the
reception, especially because they put the wrong address on
the invite. You know, sometimes I think
Robyn's concerns aren't valid, but this is one that I'm going
to give her credit for being concerned about that because I

(40:22):
do see how that's problematic, right?
Isn't that interesting? Right.
We have to give it to Robyn. That was a common sense thought.
She did state it as if it was like a big dull that she was
aware, but you know. I think we're all pretty certain
too, right? That it was Robyn that fucked up
the address on the invite, right?

(40:43):
Because nobody else threw her under the bus.
But she also didn't fess up to it.
It was something like, well, ourinvitations accidentally had the
wrong address printed on them. Bitch please, I fucked up the
address on my invitation. Yes.
But she leaves that part out, you know?
You're so right, she totally fucked that shit.
Up. She probably tried to blame the

(41:04):
printer like oh they transpose the number.
Yes, I approved something and itsaid something different and
then it's like prove it and she's like.
You sent them the file with all the fucking information, dummy.
Oh, Robyn, she's bright. She's a bright star.
She really is. After they transitioned away
from the family photos bit though, Robyn is back in her

(41:26):
wedding dress. So this is what's the thing.
Like once again, I'm not saying that I know how the day went,
but she's now back in her dress for the reception because it's
her wedding. It did cross my mind that like,
you're joining the family and a way to assimilate with the wives
would maybe be to not wear your wedding dress.

(41:46):
I don't know if that's fair to say because I would want to wear
a wedding dress if it was my wedding day and I was getting
married. So maybe that's a bit much to
ask. But it is a little bit like
interesting that she is so mindful of how everyone feels
and she just wants to make sure it all goes well.
And then she's in a brown dress like everyone else.
And then it's like, fuck it, I'mturning back into my wedding

(42:07):
dress for the ceremony. But is that selfish?
Maybe it's not. Maybe I'm overthinking it?
You're not overthinking it because I'm thinking it in
several different ways. But so number one, I guess I
don't know that we can assume that the actual wedding dress
that she wore at the reception is the one she wore at the

(42:28):
ceremony. There maybe was a more tasteful,
less form fitting garment that she rocked for their religious
cult ceremony. Maybe Christine's mom made it
for her, just like Christine's dress.
Maybe, no, we know that Robyn was in something better than
Christine was. Let's not kid ourselves.

(42:49):
But so who knows, maybe that wasthe case.
Maybe it was the same dress she wore later on at the reception.
I don't know. I'm going to actually give Robyn
some credit here because I can think of of very few brides now
granted their circumstances different, but I can think of
very few brides that would be open to the suggestion of

(43:12):
changing into the brown dress for the family photo on the
wedding day because they didn't want her to look any different
than the other wives for that photo.
Now Robyn was seeing the greatergoal, which was whole family
together dressed up nice. Perfect time for family photo.

(43:32):
Like that makes sense, right? Like it really does make sense
to do it that way. So she was fine with that.
Whether she changed out of the other dress or not unclear.
Now if she wore the other dress simply for the ceremony, Oh boy.
See, we're going down the rabbithole.
I mean, this is how this goes. If she wore the other dress for

(43:53):
the ceremony, number one, I could see them thinking, we're
not paying this much money for awedding dress for you to only
wear it for 30 minutes to an hour.
Like obviously you should changeback into it in the evening,
right? Like part of me thinks that if
that was the dress you wore, that was the case.
But if she had worn her regular dress for the ceremony and the

(44:17):
money aspect of it wasn't a concern, what she should have
done it was get a cuter little cocktail dress for the
reception. But if?
It showed off her calves. She.
I'm not saying a traditional cuter cocktail dress, I'm saying
a Mormon. What?
A Mormon cocktail dress? But you don't want the

(44:37):
mentalist. Mormon cocktail dress.
I I Google that real fast and show me what comes up.
Yes, let's get a designer. Get it up, please.
I just feel like she could have done the regular dress for the
ceremony, then the dress for thepictures, and then turned it
into something cuter for the evening.
And maybe it wasn't a white dress for that.
Maybe it was a brown dress but acuter more sparkly.

(45:00):
Like whatever it was. I, I guess I just don't know.
It is kind of wonky. That's a lot of changes for it
not to be a different dress happening.
But also then I'm still giving her the credit of being willing
to change out of whatever her preferred wedding dress was, to
have this brown dress to blend in in the family photos.
Like I think that actually, I mean with what we come to find

(45:23):
out about her as we go down the road, that's pretty decent.
You have changed my mind becauseI well, because I was thinking,
you know, aren't you being a selfish bitch by going back into
your wedding dress when in all reality getting out of the
wedding dress for that does demonstrate the assimilation
that I was talking about. So God damn it, I hate what we

(45:44):
have to Robyn. Some fucking kudos, you know.
But you love that, you know? Fuck, you made me be nice to her
for a second. OK, fine.
Hey, you know what? Amen.
There's plenty of opportunity toRIP her apart, so let's give
her. Some, well, we will never hold
back in those moments either. Yes.
This is it. This is it.
I love, like, scrutinizing everything about her life and

(46:05):
I'm like, well, I guess I'll give her half a point for that
one. Oh God.
There was just one stupid moment, like as they were
getting ready, as she had just changed out of her dress and she
was doing all of her stuff or whatever, and she goes, now it's
time for the reception baby. And I was like.
Oh. What are you doing?
Go, bro. It's just awkward.

(46:28):
Yeah, super awkward. So I thought I should make sure
you were aware. Oh, Robyn.
She's a linguist, Rob. OK, Robyn, on the brain now.
Good God, help me, Help me, Lord.
Eat demons out. Demons out.
Then there's this tight up closeshot of Meri, Robyn Kody.

(46:50):
Maybe they're around the cake. They are.
Around the cake. So it must be just before the
cake cutting that Meri kind of takes a moment and gives Robyn
this collada ring that we referenced in the other episode.
Hopefully they took the price take off.
Right. This is all I can think of.
Oh, Sabin Was Sabin OK? She was very touched, right?

(47:15):
Sabin was Sabin. Uh huh.
But she was so touched and all Ithink, hold on, let me see, let
me see what I wrote down. She cried at the $50 ring.
Now, we do not know the actual price of the ring, but we do
know 150 was too expensive, right?
So we're just. So I mean, there's some sort of

(47:38):
prices right bit here we're likeclosest price without going over
like we know it's not over 150, right?
And also to clarify, for any person who is listening to this
who is not part of the Sister Wives universe and has never
heard Sabin before, that is a nickname that Robyn has because
she cries. Slash pretends to cry all the

(48:00):
time. I have a question for you.
Yes. Do you think if anybody hadn't
seen this show, they would stillbe listening right now?
No. Just look, I'm hoping deep down
inside, deep down in my originalorgans that.
As opposed to the ones that havebeen inserted.
I know, but I know I don't have anybody else's organs in me.
But, you know, like, it's just, well, not at the moment, like,

(48:25):
but you know, it's just, yes, I hope someone is listening to
this that hasn't watched the show.
And it's like, what are these people talking about?
Maybe they're watching the show with us in parallel and they're
experiencing Browns for the veryfirst time.
If you are, we will put you in adrawing.
Oh, don't. You can't promise us doing a
drawing. Yes, I can.

(48:45):
We don't do anything. Like that I can do a drawing.
If anybody has never seen SisterWives and you are still
listening right now at this verysecond, I want to hear about it
and I'll give you something. I'm not going to say you'll like
it, but I can find some funny shit to send you in the mail,
OK? Ali will send you something and
you never know, maybe we'll haveyou on for a special Friday with

(49:08):
friends or something like that to hear about your experience
with Sister Wives and us guidingyou through the journey.
Of with how we've drawn you intothis universe of magic.
Like a light to a flame or a moth to a flame.
Moth to a flame. Moth is definitely more accurate
for sure. They call me Robyn.

(49:29):
Just talking out my mouth hole, God, Kody says.
Kody says God bless them. Kody says weddings are
complicated. You'd think I'd be good at it by
now. And it's like, well, your track
record is actually an F because your first wedding was by all
accounts a traditional normal wedding.

(49:51):
Your second one, the wife had anintervention with her family
because they thought she was going crazy and nobody came to
the wedding because they thoughtshe was literally losing her
mind and joining a cult, which she was maybe not losing her
mind, but she joined a cult. Christine's wedding is a
horrible day for her and a traumatic experience in her
life. So yeah, you don't have a good
track record. No one thinks you should have

(50:13):
that. You should be good at it by now.
You're not good at anything except for fooling some people I
guess. No, it's this vision that he has
of himself and really who he is as the savior of this family and
all of that. You know, those are the things
that are really funny to think back about.
He was stoked, right? Like he was having a blast.

(50:33):
He was loving this. He's got the 4th one sucking his
Dick. Like he is so happy.
And it's like, I mean, fine, great, but like, look what you
did. So like, look what you did to
these women's lives, these womenthat gave you 20-30 years of

(50:54):
their lives. Bore your children.
Oh and you're Oh my God, like. Yeah, he's really out of touch
with reality, and I think he thinks it's funny because he
thinks he's funny. But when you're observing it,
you're like, that's a fucking hot mess.
Yeah, so Janelle goes, my wedding was or my reception was
nothing like Robyn's reception, right.

(51:15):
She's like, it was nothing like that.
And Christine goes, mine was a simple event.
And Meri said, yeah, mine was a large event.
And then like, Janelle chimed inlike you had cream puffs.
And Meri goes we did have cream puffs.
And Janelle goes I was there. It was like this.
Yeah, right. Like, again, that's the thing.

(51:37):
Like, I don't know. What the fuck?
It's funny because Janelle does reference that she says
something along the lines of lost most of her family because
of her wedding in that. Yeah, that is where she brought
it up. And it's interesting how it's
glossed over because of course these are they're only 22 minute
episodes. They're not going to go into
that. Even later in the show, they

(51:58):
address some things, but they don't address the whole thing.
And Janelle, yeah, joining theirfamily was a big deal.
A big deal to their, to her family.
They were like, you're joining acult and you're going to be
crazy. And oh, she did join the cult.
As it turns out, whatever. Kody refers to their reception

(52:19):
as a coming out celebration. I, you know, I understand it
conceptually. I think my, my take on it is
totally kind of humorous becauseI think in my 30s, I can't
remember what birthday it was, but I had a coming out party for
like my 35th birthday or my 33rdbirthday.

(52:40):
And it was funny because I was like, I'm coming out everybody
and everyone's like, you're coming out in what way?
And I'm like, as a homosexual, they were like, what do you mean
you're coming out? And I'm like, I've never come
out. Like, my coming out story is
kind of just this gradual, like telling of some people and
people asking me and then becoming like, kind of political
conversations. Of course, I did have to have a
first combo with my mom and my dad about actually being gay,

(53:04):
but those things were kind of spliced into other things
happening. I didn't have like a moment.
So in my early 30s, I had a coming out party and all of my
friends were laughing at me because I was wearing like Plaid
shorts and this black T-shirt. And they were like, you look
like you're going to a golf course.
Like this is the worst outfit for a coming out party.
Like I look like a straight man and I'm like, oh shit, I look

(53:25):
straight on my coming out party.And it was like 15 years after I
actually came out. So anyway, I'm.
Feeling a certain way about thisright now and #1 is, was I
invited? Oh, you were definitely invited.
So you think I ditched your party?
Well, OK, this is when I lived on Lagoon.
You definitely were invited. I'm not sure why you were unable

(53:45):
to attend. It was just a birthday party
that I turned into a coming out party.
I was probably there then, but. My neighbor who lives in the
building was there and her partner was like tripping on
acid. It was.
Definitely there. I must have missed out the I
must have not missed, but I musthave just ignored the coming
outness because I thought it wasridiculous.
I have no idea why you. Because I was there when he was

(54:06):
tripping on acid, yeah. So am I coming out party?
Yes. Even though I've been out.
Maybe that overshadowed the coming out.
But I just had to think in my mind, I was just going, you know
what, Kody? I hear you.
Coming outs are important. And while I didn't do mine on
national television, I did do it12 years after I was actually
out and on my birthday. And I look straight.

(54:27):
So yeah, whatever. I think it worked for you.
I think you're rocking it still,you know?
Yeah, I think my coming out's a better story than Kody's, but
whatever. Yep.
So they they have their coming out party, if you will, and you
know, they were kind of reflecting on different pieces
of it and they cut to Christine at some point and she said it
was just such a blessing. And when she said that, number

(54:51):
one, I think she meant it like, I think sometimes we're all
thinking about the beginning of these episodes and did they
really mean it? And was there enough drama and
stuff like that to make them worried about it?
And she said it was such a blessing, the wedding day and
all of the things. I think she really, she seemed
really genuine. That was when she had that

(55:11):
pretty flower in her hair. And then she referred to it as
like the ending of a chapter. And I thought that was kind of
interesting because it is a chapter in their lives.
And this then opens our door to the next chapter, which as we
know, is going to be drasticallydifferent.

(55:31):
So she wasn't saying that in a negative way.
She was saying it as she was kind of excited for this new
start, but as we know. And from a storytelling
perspective, she is a character like doing some foreshadowing to
what is going to happen actually, which is funny like
that. They kept it in because knowing

(55:52):
what we do know, it definitely is the end of a chapter for
them. And the way that she chose to
phrase it in that way as like a happy accident happy.
Surprise again. No, it is happy accident.
I was trying. To call.
Hey hey, fact checkers slash statistics folks that are, as we

(56:14):
know, somewhere tracking all of this behind the scenes.
We have now 2 Bob Ross mentions in the episodes, and we'd like
to know how many we end up with.Two please.
Thank you. Please and thank you.
Kody walks each of his wives outfrom the celebration as they've
indicated to him that they're ready to go.
I believe he starts with Janelleand then Christine, and then

(56:34):
when it comes to Meri, he's walking her out.
And Robyn says like, oh, I saw them and I wanted to scurry, but
then I didn't have a chance or whatever.
And like, they had a little moment.
Robyn and Meri, where did you? Believe she was trying to
scurry. Well, I mean, I don't know, it
was I have no reason to believe anything, but they have like a
welcome and a love you moment like between them, which seemed

(56:57):
really cute. I mean, they both got VE clamped
or Robyn pretended to cry. Who knows what the situation
was, but they both were, you know, like when talking about it
in retrospect in their interviews were both emotional.
Like, it was a cute moment and it was really a welcome to the
family thing. And I think Meri really was
trying to be so optimistic and leaning into this opportunity to

(57:18):
have a sister, wife who is trulya friend and someone to build a
life with. And those moments do come
through. They actually do.
Well, and Meri said. So they kind of at the end of
it, maybe each wife gives like her vision of the future did
that kind of seem like what theywere doing.
And Meri said that she truly believed that these girls are my

(57:43):
best friends and she can't wait to see what's next.
And I, I think you're right. I think that was genuine, right?
Now I don't know if I believe Meri when she says that.
I think in the context of after the wedding, I think they all
had optimism and hope for how this could all go true before

(58:04):
the wedding, I don't know. When Meri does say that there
are, but she's like, these are my best friends.
I made sure to pay attention to Janelle and Janelle's eyes just
kind of moved to the left and stared off like Janelle was not
making a frowny face. She wasn't making a bad face,
but she had a like she was listening to Meri talk.
And then Meri said we are best friends and Janelle just kind

(58:25):
of. And I'm like, OK, well, I'm not
so sure that that feeling is. I don't know that everyone feels
like that. And, you know, maybe Meri's not
the one to actually be saying it, too.
Well, so got to before that, actually, Christine started it
off and she said she was so looking forward to all five of

(58:47):
them. Yeah, in a big house.
One together house. And in this in the one big
house, but with their separate quarters, yeah, that's how she
and I was like, OK, so she did want everybody together in the
same house back. Yes.
OK. She wanted it to stay that way,
which marking that note, by the way.
And then Janelle, I think when she maybe like, gave her vision

(59:10):
of the future, she just said, yeah, I'm just looking forward
to it being all five of us. Or like hers was not as
inspirational or motivational orlike hopeful for the future.
Christine's moment was definitely a highlight though,
because of what that means for the future when the opportunity
for them to all live in a big home in separate quarters.

(59:31):
Is she in that same state of mind?
Based on what we're saying rightnow, you can probably assume no,
she is not. She was not.
She's absolutely adamantly opposed.
So at the end of the day, and and I was trying to listen to
her while she was saying that, like, does she sound like she's
full of shit? Like is she lying?
But I feel like she was just stating that she hopes that
they're all like in the same situation.

(59:51):
They're now just a bigger house.I think that's exactly what she
was saying. And I think what changes like
right now and and I think that this is true.
If that's where they went from this house that they're in and
Robyn in the separate house, right, to a bigger house with
all of them together, I think that their relationships and the
way Kody divided up his time andthe way all of these things

(01:00:14):
happened would have been dramatically different, right?
But because they went into separate homes, that's when
everything changed. And so now she doesn't want to
live with these other people because she hates that, you
know, like she doesn't want to live with these people.
But if they just done it immediately right then I think

(01:00:35):
they could have. I think they could have
potentially kept up even with the interesting Robyn dynamic
coming in. Yeah, if they'd all been living
under the same roof, the same 4 walls with their separate
spaces. But he didn't have to go far to
be separate like. Yeah.
Game changer for that, yeah, youknow, in.
The next season we see circumstances happen where they

(01:00:57):
are, where they elect to move and they find themselves in
separate homes and there's just kind of this like toss up of
their whole life in a sense. So that, you know, that's a
complication that we'll get to in the future and and live
through that journey with them. But or observe that journey.
We're not gonna live through it.I live through it once already.
Now we're choosing to go back and live with the.

(01:01:19):
Like, I'll be like, Meri, you'resuch a packing Nazi.
She's putting my stuff in EU Haul.
And a tooth puller. And a.
Tooth puller, yes. God, what would we do without
you? Oh, Meri, we all need Meri.
Yeah, that would have produced such a different outcome if they
had found a living arrangement that was like that.

(01:01:40):
But can't we all and in our own families and in our own lives,
go back and pinpoint moments that were, you know, changing
pieces? Like I can't they are just
humans. I should maybe try to remind
myself like of course we all make choices our.
Show would be so boring if we were just like, let's think
about it from their perspective,no?

(01:02:00):
I mean, you're right. Like I just thought for a second
I should pretend like we cared. And, you know, Amen.
If we'd view them as people, then there's that thing.
Look, we've all fucked up a timeor two, OK?
I'm just, I'm not saying that wehaven't also fucked up and some
other things happen in our Life,OK?
I am just saying that they choseto put it on television, which

(01:02:21):
is why we are sitting here judging them.
I guess that's the more clear way to explain that.
Well, maybe someday my accidentswill be on TV and then everyone
can talk about me. I you know I will do that when
it does and you know, I'm excited for it.
I don't know who will set up a microphone or record it on a
computer for me if you're not here, but I'll figure out a way.
Oh, you'll figure out a way. You'll be there.

(01:02:42):
You'll be there with me. The footage will also contain
your accidents. I love how I'm saying accidents
like will be in Depends or something I think.
Our Oh my God, Can you imagine us from like the old folks home
podcasting about all of our our younger in the day trips?
Hannigans like oops I shit my pants again Oh my God.
We really won't give a fuck by then.
I mean, not like we keep much private now anyway, but we will

(01:03:04):
not give a fall. Not one, not one now.
Fucks to give. OK, fucks to give.
Fucks to give. Mustard seed and shit stain The
place that we are never preparedto be is looking at our own
mustard seed and shit stains from this episode.
Let's start with shit stains this week.
My shit stain this week is goingto be I'm going to go a little

(01:03:27):
creative, I'm going to go a little outside the box and I'm
going to give Meri a shit stain because I think that Meri in
this situation with Robyn getting married, should have
volunteered more to help her on the day off.
I think she should have been like, girl, I got you.
I'll take the kids, I'll do whatever, I'll be there, I'll
drive them. I'll do what?
Not because what? She had to get her hair done and
her nails and well, I guess she did have to be the photo Nazi,

(01:03:50):
but clearly there had to be people to take photos of so she
could have waited and done thesethings.
And so I know it might be unpopular, I might get some hate
mail, but I'm giving Meri the shit stain this week.
Who's your shit stain? Because I don't really think
it's fair to give Robyn a shit stain on her wedding day.
You know, as much as I was really looking for an

(01:04:11):
opportunity to because he's never aware of what the fuck is
going on with anyone. I am going to give Kody Brown
the shit stain because this is the moment where he should know
exactly how to keep all of thesewomen happy and you can just
tell already he's going to fuck it up miserably.

(01:04:32):
Amen. So he hasn't yet fucked up the
move in the wrong houses and allthat stuff.
Like, we do know that's coming, but it's more so about the fact
that he still doesn't understandwhat's going to keep this family
together. Plus he only had one real task
to do other than show up and he.Well, that should have been my
biggest 1, you know? So yeah, he's more than

(01:04:54):
deserving of the shit stain, as usual.
And my mustard seed. I feel like my mustard seed this
week. Who do I give it to?
That's crazy. I can't believe I gave my shit
stain to Meri. I'm sorry, Meri, if you're
listening. Well, I kind of wanted Meri to
be a contender for the colada ring or whatever, like, you
know, moments, but. So you should get.

(01:05:16):
You take that, you take that. Yeah.
I mean, I guess I do believe Meri initiated the purchase of
that ring and understood the tradition.
She did. And I think what I really liked
about it was that it was so known that that's what it was,
right? Because Robyn had an
instantaneous cry about it. So it was just like, this is a

(01:05:37):
known, you know, thing that we. So I do think that was very
thoughtful and definitely made Robyn feel like a part of the
family. So I, you know, interesting that
one. I don't know, ladies and
gentlemen, tell us, has that happened before that one of us
has them as the shit stain and the other one has them as a

(01:05:59):
mustard seed? Because I could see it
happening. Well, I know and I and that, you
know, that is a great reason to give her a mustard seed.
I am being controversial today and I'm going to give my mustard
seed to Robyn because it is her wedding day and but that's only
10 percent, 90% God. There's percentiles being

(01:06:20):
weighed now. Well, we're not gonna oh, yeah,
we can't ask that. We can't ask that yet.
But 90% because she was willing to and didn't even seem to have
a problem with in any of the footage we saw change into this
brown dress and take photos withthe other wives.
I mean, if it was my wedding day, would I want to change into
some brown dress and look like everybody else to take a photo?

(01:06:42):
Probably not. And you gave her some flowers
earlier. And so now I'm giving her my
mustard seed. Wow.
Wow, I really gave Robyn that seed.
Oh yeah. EW, gross.
EW. If you could see what he just
did, EW. It's disgusting.
Yeah. OK, well that's great.
Interesting. You know, we're really throwing
things around with shit stain and mustard seed.

(01:07:05):
Yeah, or shattering insane. Listen, you know people care and
we care. Right.
So our keep sweet moment this week is from a comment on our
Season 1 episode 6. A Fourth Wife to be is the title
of the episode and it just came out this week.
And Andrea left us a comment on the episode that says so good.

(01:07:29):
Love the elaborative discussion and the frankness of it all.
And I think that is great. Now in her, in her comment, she
writes elaborative. And then there's parentheses
with word question mark, like it's elaborative, a real word.
And I'm going to say I understood what you meant.
I'm going to give it to you. We are elaborative and we do
discuss. So it is an elaborative

(01:07:49):
discussion. The two things we do best
elaborate and discuss. That's why we're here, folks.
That's why we're here. Right, like if anyone's going to
take over an hour to tell you about a 22 minute episode, it's
probably us. So appreciate that.
Andrea, thank you so much for the kind words.
We love the five star reviews. We love all of the positive
comments. Thank you for the love.

(01:08:10):
Our next episode is going to be the quasi season finale where
they do a Sister Wives interview, I believe.
And then after that, there's onemore episode where it's Kody and
Robyn going on their honeymoon, which I have not seen.
I've always just skipped over itbecause I was like, why the fuck
would I want to watch that? So this is going to be very
interesting and hopefully next week we'll have some tidbits

(01:08:33):
from these conversations that they're having post wedding,
post whatever. It's kind of like this, like I
said, like the season finale. I feel like next week is going
to be like they're doing these interviews back and forth and
we're like bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
Like that's what I think is going to happen.
Just if I was to predict. Amen, Amen.
There'll be a lot of shit stainsand maybe a few mustard seeds.

(01:08:56):
And special shout out once again, reminder about Janelle's
window in that mini valley. We're just going to give it to
her right now. Random moment.
Janelle's window. We love you and we love you
Janelle. Sorry about the shit talk.
We love you Janelle. Yes.
Yes, yes. All right, signing off.
Have a good day everybody. See you later.
See you.

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