August 26, 2025 • 37 mins
The Browns hold a commitment ceremony in a desperate attempt to convince the audience that they love each other. At least Kody got his tree cake!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, and welcome to Reality TV Cringe. I am one
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We are here to talk sister wives. Yes, we are
(00:24):
still in the rewind air rack. We are finishing up
season six and I'm thankful. Finally let's get this dumb
commitment ceremony over with. I am so bored. But before
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Speaker 2 (01:59):
Right halfway there.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Half way is six. I'm so thrilled, though, keep hope alive. Okay, so,
before we get into our recap, which I just cannot
imagine is going to be more than five minutes, honestly serious,
everything that happened in this episode happened in the last episode. Yeah,
but before we get into it, did you have any
(02:21):
like overarching the takeaways?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That cake that Cody wanted so badly, that tree cake?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, the eighty five hundred dollars cake.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Was looking awfully phallic to me.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh yeah, I didn't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It was very It looked like, you know, kind of
Jeff Bezos is a spaceship, very phallic.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yes, Oh gosh, we're being interrupted live on raccoon TV.
Our waiter is bringing me a cocktail. It's the best
interruption possible. Hi three D, Thank.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You, babe.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I do appreciate it. Thank you. You know I need
to drink to talk about these brows.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Bye. So your takeaway is that the tree is phallic? Yes, okay,
the tree cake.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I'm not gonna argue the point. I don't really know
that I have a takeaway other than, like I said,
I'm glad to be exiting season.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Six over it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Season seven seems to have some good juicy things from
the lore from the Cannon, So we're going to be
getting into for example.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh God, my sister Wives closet and Robin. Yes, they
go and pitch it to investors because Robin is so
tired and overwork.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It works so hard for this family.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
She literally goes on a whole pity party and she's like, Cody,
I want to have another baby, but like I can't
right now because I'm so busy with my sister wives closet,
Like we need investors. So then they go and pitch
it to investors and it's an absolute fucking fail and
they don't get the money obviously, and then Robin has
a full on meltdown. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And also, isn't this the season where Mary wants to
go back to university?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, which Robin also freaks out about.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I can't wait. So this is all going to be good.
We're going to conte Are we going to continue? Because
as we have all heard by now, I'm sure Sister
Wives Season twenty is coming back on September twenty eighth,
twenty twenty five, in just like a month, bet.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Literally a month a month be I feel like we
just finished season nineteen.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh by the way, if you are going to join
our Patreon, please know that we are going to be
looking at the trailer for Sister Wives and also the
mid season trailer for Plaithville, which is also crazy. But
that's on Patreon, so if you want to see her reaction,
check it out there. But like it's already coming back.
I feel like I feel like we were covering season
nineteen through June, right, yeah, it was June.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
We definitely were, like for almost an entire year we
were covering that season. So if season twenty is that
long again, I'm gonna, oh God, pass away. But I
mean we're still gonna cover it. Obviously and enjoy it
because it's probably I don't know, I'm just fake psychic
predicting it's probably gonna be the final season.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh yeah, I mean after watching the trailer, which again
we'll discuss on Patreon, but it kind of like looks
up there sewing up the last of the issues, i e.
Coyote Pass.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, I would be shocked if we did another season
after this.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah. I don't know, but I just can't it's so much.
So but we are gonna go right back into season
seven of our rewinds, and then when Sister Wives come
back for season twenty, we're going to pause. Oh my god,
oh my god, never ending, never entering Sister Wives. Okay,
so we're just gonna go right into it starting next
week because there was a tell all after this episode.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, and I'm just kind of like, we know that
they're lying. We know it's Tameron Hall, which is she's great,
but like we know that we're not gonna get her
for very many tailaws after this, and it's just like, eh, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So this is our last episod season six, and then
next week we're gonna get right into season seven.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But we also have Seeking Sister Wives coming up, girl,
I know, and of September, we also have Special Forces.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
All at the end of September.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You've seen any of the little clips that they're releasing
for Special Forces, A little bit looks like Cody's in
some sort of a face mask or a helmet, which
I only know it's him because I can see his
curly girl to tendrils. Yes, so it's coming and we
are going to cover that at least until he eliminates himself,
which I hear is after one episode I really hope.
(06:32):
So yeah, and then what else plaithfill still platfhil Yeah,
that's four shows, girl, We're gonna have to figure it out.
We will let you know what the schedule is going
to look like, but that's what we're planning on diving
into all of that, right.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah. I mean I got to watch Seeking Sister Wife
because Garrick and also mister Unemployed with the three slash
four wives or whatever you remember where he had all
of them and they sleep in the same bed together.
Oh the Denver Daddy, Yeah, all the thick white ladies.
Lay Danielle is gone, the last the most bros. Yes, Okay, no, eyelashes, eyelashes, eyelashes. Yes,
(07:11):
so she's gone, she's got them, and there's a new one.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh god, there's a lot going on in Seeking Sister Weibes.
I think we have to.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I mean, it's going to be a trade.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Wrede and thloth feel is really lit on and pop
in too. So anyway, again, we'll keep you posted and
I'll let you know what's going on with that. But
without further too, let's get into season six, episode nineteen
of Sister Wives and Idol, the commitment celebration. Let's roll
right through this.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm bored, and it's just like in true brown fashion,
it's gonna be chaotic or doing everything last minute.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I didn't running around scrambling.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, and I didn't realize that, like with the
dresses that they were getting custom made by that poor
dress designer who's just like wanting to pull her hair out.
They asked her like three weeks in advance, which is
absolutely insane, to four dresses before this freaking commitment ceremony.
And lo and behold, Mary's dress is not gonna work out.
So she's got to go to some booty ass boutique
(08:10):
and buy a freaking lime green girl dress.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know it was twenty fourteen. I know it was
another moment in time in terms of fashion, But I
don't know how Mary steps out and is in that
drab lime green dress with like a little white bolero
or whatever and a sash which accentuates her torso, her torso,
(08:40):
all of her torso. But like she comes out, she
looks in the mirror and her she's like, oh, a look,
stunning girl.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was the most unflattering thing beautiful.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was horrible, so bad, but still better than the
dress that Sam the designer was constructing. Poor beleaguered Sam
just trying to try to turn something out for these ladies.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And she had to bring her freaking mom to help Alfia,
who was such a saint, and she was just trying
to make something work. And Janelle's dress ended up looking
pretty great. She looked really pretty.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Janelle looked lovely.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I think the dress kind of nipped in her waist,
which is really looking good because she's been working out
with that guy at the gym for like a year now,
and I thought, like with the little fall extension she
had with her eyes, I'm like, holy, she's pretty. You're ravishing. Yeah,
and the collar on her was so gorgeous as well.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I thought so too. I'm like, you like it. She's
like a jewel towne is.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That a jewel town? It is a jewel toe like,
it's pretty. And remember like the hot pink dress that
she wore to Christine's one of Christine's many engagement shindy
egs like also kind of a beautiful jewel tone. She
looked gorgeous then, and she looked gorgeous for the celebration.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Honestly, Janelle's the only one that looked good here because
Mary's dress is horrible. God, and then we have Christine's dress,
the Renaissance Fair Empire waste, totally freaking burnt orange.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
A terrible color, a truly awful What are we doing here?
I don't know, but she's being a good sport and
at least it's a dress that Sam and Althea can
complete before the celebration, even though it looks like dog
shit horrible. It's really bad, but they're doing some last
minute alterations and Christina is being really nice about it,
(10:37):
and she does end up wearing it, which I'm personally shocked.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
She should have got a different dress. At the Booty
Ass Boutique with Mary.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But she did she did not.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She thought she looked fine, I guess. And then we
have Robin's dress that was also a train wreck that
wasn't going to work out because it didn't fit her
properly or whatever. And then luckily Robin has dress that'll
work because it's like the day of the event or
something like their day before. And Sam's like, this dress
is not gonna work. You need to find an alternative.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Or do you have anything in your my sister wife's
closet that would suit this occasion, And Robin's like, as
it turns out, actually do have a dress in the
exact same color. Yeah, And then she goes and gets
it and she puts it on, and I think it's matronly.
I think she looks like a witch. But at least
it works for the event.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But it does like fit her properly. Yeah, It's like,
did you go shopping.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
For that before? Of course she did.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So It's just like, you make these other women look
like fools getting these dresses designed that are just train wrecks, Like, really,
Janelle's is the only one that's decent, And I feel
bad for Sam. Because I feel like she tried really
hard and she didn't have enough time.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, And I think she was working off the designs
that were presented to her by the women, and they
were terrible designs, and so she's doing the best she
can with a shit sandwich. Did you note the scene
where Janelle was getting her dress altered and Robin was
in the kitchen and she's like, oh my god, Janelle,
(12:08):
that makes you look really really thin. Yes, I did
know that, which I felt was interesting. I think I
want to give Robin the benefit of the doubt. I
think in her own way, and circa twenty fourteen, she
was trying to give a compliment while at the same
time continuing to highlight the fact that Janelle has been
(12:28):
struggling with her weight. But it was just also like
a needless comment. You could have just said, wow, you
look really beautiful. That looks lovely on you, but instead
the thinnest wife is telling the biggest wife that she's
looking really thin.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, it felt like a mean girl comment.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Like the popular girl at high school is like.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh, yeah, it makes you look so skinny.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, it felt really rude to me.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, I was hoping that it wasn't okay.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I feel it, Robin the Witch, is we her whatever?
Because even Janelle was just like oh okay, thanks, you know,
because of just a couple episodes ago. Robin's like, oh,
I only got an Excel T shirt for you.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know if about it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I don't know if it's gonna figure. That's basically what
she's saying. Yeah, so yeah, I did note that. And
did you note the scene when Mary was going shopping
for addresses and Mary on the couch was talking about
how she needed her best friend Andrea to come help her,
and Christine's like, but we're supposed to be your best
(13:31):
friends and then Mary like awkwardly laughs about like, well
but you're not though, like I have Andrea. Yes, just
highlighting how they're not liking each other right now.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, And essentially Mary tells Christine because it's Christine who's
kind of making a joke about not being invited or
not being considered a best friend to Mary, like she's
making a joke about it, but like Mary's like, but yeah,
but like you don't want to shop and you don't
want to go with me, so oh that's why I'm
taking an actual friend, and I think it's great that
I have friends, yea, because none of you bitches actually
(14:06):
like me, nor do you Cody.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But it's like, I'm kind of watching these older seasons
and I'm like, Mary, you're kind of mean, though a
little bit like you kind of oust everybody else except
for Robin in these earlier seasons, Like I don't know,
I feel like Christine was also making a little bit
of a job being like, but where's supposed to be
your friends? I don't know. It just shows that even
at this time, the wives are not really liking each other.
(14:31):
I think the sole reason is because Robin's stealing Cody
from everybody, so they're all bitter and coming after each other.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But except for Janelle, she seems just fine.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Janelle's in her Renaissance era.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, but I do think that Mary, you really notice
starting season five and season six that her walls really
are up, Like she's talking a lot about where she
fits in the family and now that Leon's out of
the house, like where does that leave me? But at
the same time, you don't really see that contrasted with
attempts by Mary to be friends with this women. Yes,
(15:06):
they went to San Francisco, and yes it was a contrived,
produced event, but like we don't really see them hanging out.
We see Mary in like the periphery of Robin's life,
but not necessarily Robin in the periphery of Mary's life,
so like she's not trying, she's not doing anything. And
even at the end of this episode, not to jump ahead,
although this episode sucked, but I mean, they end the
(15:29):
episode saying this was great and all, we have the celebration,
but that doesn't mean the work is done. That doesn't
mean we're all fixed and we're in the Call to
Sac and everything's going to be great, And they seem
to acknowledge like there's a lot that they still have
to do. You can see it in Mary, and you
can see it in Christine's joke about not being her
best friend.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Definitely eloquently put. And then we I mean, the whole
episode is like just preparing for the commitment ceremony, and
it's just kind of like chaotic because the Browns do
everything last minute. He is trying to hang up lights
in the cul de sac and he's failing because he's
not a Roman.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, but he's also getting angry about it and it's
like he wants to have these big events and he
wants to show himself as like the patriarch who's coordinating everything,
and he's moving things around and he's taking care of
all of it. But at the same time he can't
handle it. And so just stringing the lights from each
of the four houses in the call de sac to
(16:25):
like this center point is stressing him out to such
a degree that he's snapping at his wives. Ye by
the time we even get to the celebration, he's like
over the top. He's having a terrible time during their pictures,
which we'll get to. And it ends up like his
younger brother Michael comes and finishes the lights for him.
I'm like, say, why why have we been doing this
(16:46):
for all of these days? Why did we need the
lights in the first place, in the middle of the
cul de sac when there were so many other things.
You've got Grandma's here, bonnies here, You've got Mary, You've
got her sister. They're making all this food, there's all
of the tables and decorations, but like you are setting
yourself apart from all of that to do this other
project so you don't have to help exact you're still
(17:06):
getting pissed off at everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, and it's like this whole celebration is just too much.
Like you have seven hundred servings of food that you
have to make, that the wives have to make and
the grandmas have to make, and then all this furniture
being delivered, and then the lights, and then the photos,
and then the phallic cake and then the stupid dresses
and the sad ceremony. It's just like way too much.
(17:28):
And it's all for an image. It's all for the season.
It's it's a season finale of just like, look, we're
committing each committing to each other and to our family,
but we're hating each other at the same time. It's
just like it's all a narcissistic display. I think on
Cody's part to be like, yeah, I'm keeping it together,
(17:49):
but we know that he's not. Like behind the scenes,
shit's crumbling. And even in his mood him getting all
angry about the fucking lights, it's like, chill out.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's not a big deal, and it didn't even need
to do it in the first place. But it's like
when they would take their big road trips, like when
they went to that Nauvoo or whatever in Illinois, Like
he was just getting progressively more and more upset. Although
wasn't this your idea. Wasn't it Mary who organized the
road trip in the first place, And wasn't it you
that blew the timeline? But like you're getting mad, You're
(18:20):
snapping at people. It's like, why do you do this
all the time? And this just kind of illustrates to
me as we close out this particular season that he
loves to tell us how much he loves his family,
But when it comes down to actually babysitting that babysitting,
but watching your child truly who's got a kidney infection
while your wives are in San Francisco, When it comes
down to just being present while you're having this celebration
(18:43):
that you've been talking about for the entire season, Like
you're not actually there, You don't actually love these kids
who are showing up and doing the best that they can,
Like you're telling them that they're going to be exiled
from the family if they act out on celebration day.
This is who you are.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
It's crazy making dude, I just I couldn't deal with it. Honestly,
the whole episode kind of stressed me out. It was boring,
but it stressed me out just with all of the
planning of everything. It kind of reminded me of how
my family does things, because growing up, my mom would
always want to do these like big, grandiose like celebrations
and stuff. And for my mom, it kind of came
(19:19):
from a good place, just like wanting to give us
like a good experience and everything, but it always stressed
her out and she would get agitated and she would
snap at us. She wouldn't tell us we were exiled
from the family, but like she would get fucking annoyed
with us when she's trying to prepare everything, and she
would take on so much pressure to be like perfect
(19:40):
and to appear perfect and to put on this display
for everybody else. And I'm like, why it cares Like
we're just a family, we don't need to do this.
It's like I kind of felt how the older kids
were feeling, like what was it last episode when they're like,
this whole celebration is just for our parents, Like we
don't really care.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're fad for the parents, it's for the people who
are showing up, and it's for us the audience. So
that they can try to convince us that they are
one working, functioning, happy family, which they are not. Right
and also it's because they have to create contents that
they continue to have this show. And it was actually
having me wonder as I was watching this, because I
(20:17):
did peak at season seven there's only eight episodes versus
this is the nineteenth episode of season six, and I'm
wondering when Cody heard from TLC and production that they
may be canceling the show, and then the lore is
that Cody negotiated to take a huge pay cut and
get a lot less in order to continue with the show.
(20:39):
When was that, Like what year was that was it
around this time? I'm just I'm kind of wondering.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That would be kind of an interesting theory because maybe
that's why they plan to do this big thing because
he thought it would be like really good content and
it would keep him on the show, Like just film
me doing a bunch of random bullshit in my cul
de sac and like keep me on the show DLC.
Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I'm wondering, like what the audience was thinking at
this time. And I know that there are some people
who listen and who watch who absolutely were watching from
season one, Like, what was the consensus in the audience.
Were people already onto them? Were people still thinking like, wow, polygamy,
they're just like us? Or could they they could they
(21:23):
feel the undertones? Could they sense that there was a
lot more going on? And was that why they continued
to watch. I'm just curious. I don't know, but I
just feel like this was so boring, so contrived, and
like the endless ceremonial, the sand thing, the tree thing,
the kids with their gratitude roses, the jewelry that Robin made.
(21:44):
I'm like, why are we why are we doing thing?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And like doing it for a bunch of guests and
stuff that we never end up seeing ever again.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, it doesn't matter at all, Like, let's just get
to the whole commitment ceremony, because everybody's getting everybody's rest
in their Sunday best. We have all of the well
I mean in their version of the Browns, Yes, yes,
we have furniture being delivered.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
We have the cake.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We have all the food that the wives made and
prepared for everybody everyone shows up, all the guests. We
have Robin's beautiful, big backyard that was Redone for this
whole ceremony, and I'm looking at it and I'm like, damn.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Multiple thousands of dollars damn went into whatever they did
in that backyard. So are we sure that that was
her backyard? Because again they keep referring it to our backyard.
So is it like the shared space between Robin and
Mary or was that all just in Robin's backyard for
her home and for the value of her home.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I feel like I was watching this and I'm like,
I couldn't tell whose house it was, so I don't
know if like the fans snooped it out and found
out that it was Robin's backyard. And that's maybe why
they didn't say whose house it was, because they didn't
want people to know, Like they didn't want the fans
to know at the time that it was Robin's backyard
that got to be Redone. But I'm just like, looking
(23:10):
at it the aerial view of how big it was
and all the fake grass and everything, I'm like, dang, dude,
that was a lot of money and landscaping. And I
was thinking about the whole ceremony, right because remember when
they were going cake shopping and Cody was talking about
his big phallic cake dream, and Janelle was like worried
about how expensive it was going to because it was
(23:30):
gonna be eighty five hundred dollars. But then I'm looking
at all of the money that they spent on this
stupid party, and I'm like, you spent way more than that,
and you weren't worried about that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Right, And you just know that if it did go
into Robin's backyard, or even if it was Janelle's or
Mary's or Christine's, the other wives would have had an
issue with that. Yeah, they would have said, well, this
is bettering that home. It's going to add to the
value and the ultimate equity of that home. How Robin
gets the full benefit of that, but I don't. So
(24:03):
you just know that that's a conversation that they would
have had. But like TLC is already on the fuck
shit with not like divulging what those conversations are. And
when we compare that with what is currently happening on
Platfill and all the conversations that are taking place, for
better or for worse, it's just like, I just wish
that they would have had the foresight to film some
(24:26):
of that and be honest, because that would have been
really great information to hear instead of focusing on the
sun ceremony and how Robin designed these booty ass trees
of life for the cuffs and the bracelets, like nobody
actually cares you, basic, bit Sorry, that's so bad. I'm sorry. Serious,
it's the truth, basic, and.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's it's all about the appearances. It's all about like, no,
we're a happy family. No, we have no problems. No,
we love each other. We're imperfect like every other family,
but we're doing great. We have the family focus, like
we're we're working on it, we're in therapy. And it's like,
but you're not. Though there's obviously like a huge disparity
right from the get go, right from the beginning, and
(25:09):
it's because of Robin. It's just like crazy making to
watch this and Robin's booty ass jewelry, those cuffs that
she made, so everybody, I'm like, what is this? Who
would actually wear that? I thought she made like cuff
links or something. No, it was a giant faux leather
bracelet with a little tree of life on it. And
then I'm like how much money did that cost?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And did they end up marketing that on the website
from my sister wife's closet. Did they try and sell
that as a product? How much were they selling it for?
Like I just wasn't tuned in back then, yeah, to
kind of ask those questions. But yeah, like it was
all it was all cringe worthy, super much opinion.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And then when they have the family photos yea, and
Cody has his whole fucking meltdown because they do like
individual family photos and I don't know if they were
doing photos of like each kid, no, no, just just
just family.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, him with his wife, a specific wife and their kids.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah. And then when they get to the actual group photo,
Cody is like like on his wits end freaking out
because he's tired of smiling for the camera, and so
they're trying to gather all of the people together for
this one giant photo. And this is where we have
Cody like yelling for everybody to look down the lens
and then he has that weird, creepy like like demon
(26:27):
shake or something, and.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Then right and the smile.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
My god, what a freak.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah. I guess that's to communicate that he's really stressed out.
But I'm like, your kids are hip, Your kids are behaving.
I mean, they're just kids. They're doing what kids do.
Pid they're actually being well behaved in this moment, it's
you that's stressed out. It's you that seems to be
annoyed and bothered by your very normal family.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, I'm just like, how old are you at this point?
You're in your forties, Like learn to emotionally regulate, Like,
why are you freaking out like this over just some photos?
Maybe it was hot, I don't know, but I'm just like,
you're a freak.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, you're weird.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And it just to me, like I said last week,
is just a window into how Cody actually is off camera.
He's probably not that nice of a dad. I know
I've probably said this on the pod before that. Oh,
it looked like Cody might have been a good dad
to the kids in the earlier seasons, and now I'm
kind of like, I don't know, he might have been
a little angry. You might have yelled at them too much.
Like I don't know what he was like.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But well, I think that we can see multiple aspects
of Cody, Like I can see in these earlier seasons
that he was present sometimes with his kids, that he
did love his kids, Like when he was walking around
to each of the children before they made their entrance
into the party, He's telling the littles that they look gorgeous.
(27:45):
He's calling out each of his children and saying, you
look really fly in that suit, like he's trying to
give them a pep talk. And I just I thought
that was a nice aspect of Cody. But from where
we're sitting in twenty twenty five, like these negative aspects
and atropy that are showing themselves in these earlier seasons,
especially as we progress, you can really see how they
(28:06):
have crystallized into this person that he is currently, Like
this angry, small, little narcissistic man. You can see like
twinges of that here in this episode. And then just
to know that he indulges that from that point on,
he allows himself to feel that more and more and
(28:27):
more and to place himself in that position of authority
and importance so that he then feels entitled to mistreat
his other wives and ultimately his children. Like how that
progress actually happens. You can see glimpses here, little glimpses,
but like the man he has become, what a shame.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Honestly a disgrace. And even in the moments when he
was telling his kids that they were beautiful, I just
felt was like just a response to how he was
appeared on the camera or how he appeared on the camera,
like it was just him love bombing his kids, like no, no, no,
I actually love you, and I don't want to exile
you from the family. Sorry for yelling at you on
national television like a fucking crazy person. You're beautiful though,
(29:09):
Yeah you're gorgeous, nice dress, yeah, handsome, Just crazy. And
then the whole stand ceremony thing, like again, I talked
about that last week. It's cursed because I did my
my family did that, and now we don't talk to
each other.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And they did it, and now they don't die to
each other. And then the signing of the mission statement
was just so cringe.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I don't care. I don't care either, And furthermore, I
don't think they care.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know Janelle doesn't care, I know Mary is uninterested.
I know those kids don't care. Like nobody cares. And
in four or five years time, you're all gonna be
exploding as a family.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Just crazy making. And then we have the kids though
that was kind of sweet where they had this little
surprise for the family to basically show the parents that
they actually did care about the ceremony a little bit.
And so they have each one of the kids say
what they're grateful for for their family.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Which was nice. And I liked watching Hunter on the
couch with the rest of the older kids, and he's
talking about how it is really wonderful that they're all
in proximity to one another, they're in this cul de sac,
they're back together again, and that this celebration for him
really does symbolize like we're getting it back on track,
like we're a family again. And I feel sad, yeah,
(30:33):
because it doesn't actually end up coming to fruition, but
you can see that the kids actually are hopeful and
they're glad and they're playing with each other, and it's sad.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It's really sad, and it's like crazy to see how
much the separation really did affect the entire family. Like
they don't talk about it too too much, but every
once in a while they'll make a comment about like
how when they were in their rentals, like their family
really suffered and really struggled and really broke and now
(31:03):
they're in the cul de Sac and so they're really
working on things, like it did a lot of damage
to be separated just for two years for such a
cohesive family unit and everything. And then now that they're
in the coulda Sag things will be okay for a
little and then they go back to flag stuff again separated,
and then that's ultimately what breaks up the entire family.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Just crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You know, when they're talking about getting back together, what
they're trying to recapture is Lehigh, yes, because the last
time these kids were together, that's what it was, yep,
you know. And then the cameras came, and then fame
came and they moved to Vegas and they had the
rentals and so in their little childlike spirits, they're hoping
(31:44):
that this is them coming back to what they had
in Lehigh. And that's what makes it really tragic to me,
is because the cameras changed Cody, yep, and the money
changed Cody and Rob and everything has been changed as
soon as those cameras went up, as soon as they
relocated and left their way of life like it was
(32:06):
never ever going to be the same. And you know,
like as a child as you get older and then
you leave, maybe go to university or you get your
first apartment or whatever. But it kind of strikes you
that first Christmas or whatever, or that first year that
you're away, like it's never going to be what it
was before, right, And there's something so lonesome about that. Yeah,
(32:29):
and yet in this snapshot, this moment with Hunter on
the couch, he's like, we're back together and it's awesome,
it's going to be great, and he really is grateful. Yeah,
but twenty twenty five, I think he hates his dad.
Oh I would, and I don't blame him at all.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh yeah, if I was one of these older kids,
I would be so fucking resentful.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You sold me a dream, Dad. You told me that
we were a certain kind of family.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
You told me that you loved us.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
What happened, and you raised us all as we were siblings.
And like all of the siblings do keep their relationships.
It seems like for the most part, you know, there's
some that don't talk to each other or whatever, but like,
for the most part, they're all still a family. But
to have their dad and to watch their dad just
like slowly walk away from them all and like slowly
(33:14):
abandon them all for Robin and her kids.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
After subjecting them to this endless parade of things like
the commitment ceremony. Yes, these symbols of what a family
should be, while underneath all of those symbols there's nothing.
There's you spending all your time with Robin. There's you
neglecting them and hurting their mothers. You know, it's like, exactly,
it's a mind fuck. It would have had to been
such a mind.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Fuck, definitely. So it's just really weird and sad to
watch this commitment ceremony because we know that it's all bullshit.
You know that it turns to shit in just a
few years.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And it feels in this moment like they're performing. It
feels this moment like is any of this real?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Though?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, of course you have Robin. As she's reading her
portion of the mission statement, she can hardly get through,
Oh my god, I get emotional when I talk, like
it's just I'm like, you're performing. Yes, It's like I
don't buy.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
It, no, and I don't think anybody does. I don't
think the viewers bought it even back then, because I
don't know if I was watching this I would never
have believed Robin from the get go. Okay, she's been
a snake in my opinion. But like, I don't know,
if you wanted to like commit to the family again
and you wanted to do something to like celebrate all
of your love and like be together, you could have
(34:33):
taken like a big family trip and could have like
camped out on the beach or something and like made
it a really cool, like family centered trip, or I
don't know, just get together and it didn't have to
be produced with all the furniture and the dresses and
the phallic cake and the decoration.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
The witnesses, yes, the people showing up to celebrate you.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Right, it didn't need to be that. It could have
just been a giant family get together or like a
big barbecue in the middle of the cul de sac
where everybody's just like playing around and we all hang
out together. You could have rented a big family house
where you all stayed together, kind of like the Christmas
that they.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I was just thinking about that first Christmas.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, like you could have done something like that and
it would have been so much more meaningful and authentic.
But instead you put on this stupid display with the
mission statement and the sand ceremony to try and convince
the audience that you love each other when we know
you don't or.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
They're starting not to. Yeah, it's all falling apart, it is. Yeah,
and so thus concludes season six. There was a lot
going on. I mean here again, this was like the
nineteenth episode. I think in season six we went to Sadonah. Yes,
like we've had therapy with Nancy, the baby talk. We've
had a lot that we've had to go through. So
(35:49):
I'm excited to get to season seven. I'm really excited
to get to Leon being awful to marry. I'm not
sure what season that is. That's the Catfish and or after.
I am dying to get to the Cabish Bitch. So like,
we're just gonna keep going. Yeah, we're gonna keep covering
these rewinds, and we thank you guys for joining us. Now, Beatrice,
(36:12):
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We are here to talk sister wives. Yes, we are
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Speaker 2 (01:59):
Right halfway there.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Half way is six. I'm so thrilled, though, keep hope alive. Okay, so,
before we get into our recap, which I just cannot
imagine is going to be more than five minutes, honestly serious,
everything that happened in this episode happened in the last episode. Yeah,
but before we get into it, did you have any
(02:21):
like overarching the takeaways?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
That cake that Cody wanted so badly, that tree cake?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, the eighty five hundred dollars cake.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Was looking awfully phallic to me.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh yeah, I didn't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It was very It looked like, you know, kind of
Jeff Bezos is a spaceship, very phallic.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yes, Oh gosh, we're being interrupted live on raccoon TV.
Our waiter is bringing me a cocktail. It's the best
interruption possible. Hi three D, Thank.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
You, babe.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I do appreciate it. Thank you. You know I need
to drink to talk about these brows.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Bye. So your takeaway is that the tree is phallic? Yes, okay,
the tree cake.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I'm not gonna argue the point. I don't really know
that I have a takeaway other than, like I said,
I'm glad to be exiting season.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Six over it.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Season seven seems to have some good juicy things from
the lore from the Cannon, So we're going to be
getting into for example.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh God, my sister Wives closet and Robin. Yes, they
go and pitch it to investors because Robin is so
tired and overwork.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It works so hard for this family.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
She literally goes on a whole pity party and she's like, Cody,
I want to have another baby, but like I can't
right now because I'm so busy with my sister wives closet,
Like we need investors. So then they go and pitch
it to investors and it's an absolute fucking fail and
they don't get the money obviously, and then Robin has
a full on meltdown. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And also, isn't this the season where Mary wants to
go back to university?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yes, which Robin also freaks out about.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I can't wait. So this is all going to be good.
We're going to conte Are we going to continue? Because
as we have all heard by now, I'm sure Sister
Wives Season twenty is coming back on September twenty eighth,
twenty twenty five, in just like a month, bet.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Literally a month a month be I feel like we
just finished season nineteen.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh by the way, if you are going to join
our Patreon, please know that we are going to be
looking at the trailer for Sister Wives and also the
mid season trailer for Plaithville, which is also crazy. But
that's on Patreon, so if you want to see her reaction,
check it out there. But like it's already coming back.
I feel like I feel like we were covering season
nineteen through June, right, yeah, it was June.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
We definitely were, like for almost an entire year we
were covering that season. So if season twenty is that
long again, I'm gonna, oh God, pass away. But I
mean we're still gonna cover it. Obviously and enjoy it
because it's probably I don't know, I'm just fake psychic
predicting it's probably gonna be the final season.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh yeah, I mean after watching the trailer, which again
we'll discuss on Patreon, but it kind of like looks
up there sewing up the last of the issues, i e.
Coyote Pass.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, I would be shocked if we did another season
after this.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah. I don't know, but I just can't it's so much.
So but we are gonna go right back into season
seven of our rewinds, and then when Sister Wives come
back for season twenty, we're going to pause. Oh my god,
oh my god, never ending, never entering Sister Wives. Okay,
so we're just gonna go right into it starting next
week because there was a tell all after this episode.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, and I'm just kind of like, we know that
they're lying. We know it's Tameron Hall, which is she's great,
but like we know that we're not gonna get her
for very many tailaws after this, and it's just like, eh, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So this is our last episod season six, and then
next week we're gonna get right into season seven.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But we also have Seeking Sister Wives coming up, girl,
I know, and of September, we also have Special Forces.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
All at the end of September.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You've seen any of the little clips that they're releasing
for Special Forces, A little bit looks like Cody's in
some sort of a face mask or a helmet, which
I only know it's him because I can see his
curly girl to tendrils. Yes, so it's coming and we
are going to cover that at least until he eliminates himself,
which I hear is after one episode I really hope.
(06:32):
So yeah, and then what else plaithfill still platfhil Yeah,
that's four shows, girl, We're gonna have to figure it out.
We will let you know what the schedule is going
to look like, but that's what we're planning on diving
into all of that, right.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah. I mean I got to watch Seeking Sister Wife
because Garrick and also mister Unemployed with the three slash
four wives or whatever you remember where he had all
of them and they sleep in the same bed together.
Oh the Denver Daddy, Yeah, all the thick white ladies.
Lay Danielle is gone, the last the most bros. Yes, Okay, no, eyelashes, eyelashes, eyelashes. Yes,
(07:11):
so she's gone, she's got them, and there's a new one.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh god, there's a lot going on in Seeking Sister Weibes.
I think we have to.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I mean, it's going to be a trade.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Wrede and thloth feel is really lit on and pop
in too. So anyway, again, we'll keep you posted and
I'll let you know what's going on with that. But
without further too, let's get into season six, episode nineteen
of Sister Wives and Idol, the commitment celebration. Let's roll
right through this.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I'm bored, and it's just like in true brown fashion,
it's gonna be chaotic or doing everything last minute.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I didn't running around scrambling.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I mean, and I didn't realize that, like with the
dresses that they were getting custom made by that poor
dress designer who's just like wanting to pull her hair out.
They asked her like three weeks in advance, which is
absolutely insane, to four dresses before this freaking commitment ceremony.
And lo and behold, Mary's dress is not gonna work out.
So she's got to go to some booty ass boutique
(08:10):
and buy a freaking lime green girl dress.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
I know it was twenty fourteen. I know it was
another moment in time in terms of fashion, But I
don't know how Mary steps out and is in that
drab lime green dress with like a little white bolero
or whatever and a sash which accentuates her torso, her torso,
(08:40):
all of her torso. But like she comes out, she
looks in the mirror and her she's like, oh, a look,
stunning girl.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It was the most unflattering thing beautiful.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It was horrible, so bad, but still better than the
dress that Sam the designer was constructing. Poor beleaguered Sam
just trying to try to turn something out for these ladies.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And she had to bring her freaking mom to help Alfia,
who was such a saint, and she was just trying
to make something work. And Janelle's dress ended up looking
pretty great. She looked really pretty.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Janelle looked lovely.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I think the dress kind of nipped in her waist,
which is really looking good because she's been working out
with that guy at the gym for like a year now,
and I thought, like with the little fall extension she
had with her eyes, I'm like, holy, she's pretty. You're ravishing. Yeah,
and the collar on her was so gorgeous as well.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I thought so too. I'm like, you like it. She's
like a jewel towne is.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That a jewel town? It is a jewel toe like,
it's pretty. And remember like the hot pink dress that
she wore to Christine's one of Christine's many engagement shindy
egs like also kind of a beautiful jewel tone. She
looked gorgeous then, and she looked gorgeous for the celebration.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Honestly, Janelle's the only one that looked good here because
Mary's dress is horrible. God, and then we have Christine's dress,
the Renaissance Fair Empire waste, totally freaking burnt orange.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
A terrible color, a truly awful What are we doing here?
I don't know, but she's being a good sport and
at least it's a dress that Sam and Althea can
complete before the celebration, even though it looks like dog
shit horrible. It's really bad, but they're doing some last
minute alterations and Christina is being really nice about it,
(10:37):
and she does end up wearing it, which I'm personally shocked.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
She should have got a different dress. At the Booty
Ass Boutique with Mary.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
But she did she did not.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
She thought she looked fine, I guess. And then we
have Robin's dress that was also a train wreck that
wasn't going to work out because it didn't fit her
properly or whatever. And then luckily Robin has dress that'll
work because it's like the day of the event or
something like their day before. And Sam's like, this dress
is not gonna work. You need to find an alternative.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Or do you have anything in your my sister wife's
closet that would suit this occasion, And Robin's like, as
it turns out, actually do have a dress in the
exact same color. Yeah, And then she goes and gets
it and she puts it on, and I think it's matronly.
I think she looks like a witch. But at least
it works for the event.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But it does like fit her properly. Yeah, It's like,
did you go shopping.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
For that before? Of course she did.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So It's just like, you make these other women look
like fools getting these dresses designed that are just train wrecks, Like, really,
Janelle's is the only one that's decent, And I feel
bad for Sam. Because I feel like she tried really
hard and she didn't have enough time.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, And I think she was working off the designs
that were presented to her by the women, and they
were terrible designs, and so she's doing the best she
can with a shit sandwich. Did you note the scene
where Janelle was getting her dress altered and Robin was
in the kitchen and she's like, oh my god, Janelle,
(12:08):
that makes you look really really thin. Yes, I did
know that, which I felt was interesting. I think I
want to give Robin the benefit of the doubt. I
think in her own way, and circa twenty fourteen, she
was trying to give a compliment while at the same
time continuing to highlight the fact that Janelle has been
(12:28):
struggling with her weight. But it was just also like
a needless comment. You could have just said, wow, you
look really beautiful. That looks lovely on you, but instead
the thinnest wife is telling the biggest wife that she's
looking really thin.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, it felt like a mean girl comment.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Like the popular girl at high school is like.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh, yeah, it makes you look so skinny.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, it felt really rude to me.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, I was hoping that it wasn't okay.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I feel it, Robin the Witch, is we her whatever?
Because even Janelle was just like oh okay, thanks, you know,
because of just a couple episodes ago. Robin's like, oh,
I only got an Excel T shirt for you.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I don't know if about it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I don't know if it's gonna figure. That's basically what
she's saying. Yeah, so yeah, I did note that. And
did you note the scene when Mary was going shopping
for addresses and Mary on the couch was talking about
how she needed her best friend Andrea to come help her,
and Christine's like, but we're supposed to be your best
(13:31):
friends and then Mary like awkwardly laughs about like, well
but you're not though, like I have Andrea. Yes, just
highlighting how they're not liking each other right now.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, And essentially Mary tells Christine because it's Christine who's
kind of making a joke about not being invited or
not being considered a best friend to Mary, like she's
making a joke about it, but like Mary's like, but yeah,
but like you don't want to shop and you don't
want to go with me, so oh that's why I'm
taking an actual friend, and I think it's great that
I have friends, yea, because none of you bitches actually
(14:06):
like me, nor do you Cody.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But it's like, I'm kind of watching these older seasons
and I'm like, Mary, you're kind of mean, though a
little bit like you kind of oust everybody else except
for Robin in these earlier seasons, Like I don't know,
I feel like Christine was also making a little bit
of a job being like, but where's supposed to be
your friends? I don't know. It just shows that even
at this time, the wives are not really liking each other.
(14:31):
I think the sole reason is because Robin's stealing Cody
from everybody, so they're all bitter and coming after each other.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
But except for Janelle, she seems just fine.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Janelle's in her Renaissance era.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yes, but I do think that Mary, you really notice
starting season five and season six that her walls really
are up, Like she's talking a lot about where she
fits in the family and now that Leon's out of
the house, like where does that leave me? But at
the same time, you don't really see that contrasted with
attempts by Mary to be friends with this women. Yes,
(15:06):
they went to San Francisco, and yes it was a contrived,
produced event, but like we don't really see them hanging out.
We see Mary in like the periphery of Robin's life,
but not necessarily Robin in the periphery of Mary's life,
so like she's not trying, she's not doing anything. And
even at the end of this episode, not to jump ahead,
although this episode sucked, but I mean, they end the
(15:29):
episode saying this was great and all, we have the celebration,
but that doesn't mean the work is done. That doesn't
mean we're all fixed and we're in the Call to
Sac and everything's going to be great, And they seem
to acknowledge like there's a lot that they still have
to do. You can see it in Mary, and you
can see it in Christine's joke about not being her
best friend.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Definitely eloquently put. And then we I mean, the whole
episode is like just preparing for the commitment ceremony, and
it's just kind of like chaotic because the Browns do
everything last minute. He is trying to hang up lights
in the cul de sac and he's failing because he's
not a Roman.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well, but he's also getting angry about it and it's
like he wants to have these big events and he
wants to show himself as like the patriarch who's coordinating everything,
and he's moving things around and he's taking care of
all of it. But at the same time he can't
handle it. And so just stringing the lights from each
of the four houses in the call de sac to
(16:25):
like this center point is stressing him out to such
a degree that he's snapping at his wives. Ye by
the time we even get to the celebration, he's like
over the top. He's having a terrible time during their pictures,
which we'll get to. And it ends up like his
younger brother Michael comes and finishes the lights for him.
I'm like, say, why why have we been doing this
(16:46):
for all of these days? Why did we need the
lights in the first place, in the middle of the
cul de sac when there were so many other things.
You've got Grandma's here, bonnies here, You've got Mary, You've
got her sister. They're making all this food, there's all
of the tables and decorations, but like you are setting
yourself apart from all of that to do this other
project so you don't have to help exact you're still
(17:06):
getting pissed off at everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Well, and it's like this whole celebration is just too much.
Like you have seven hundred servings of food that you
have to make, that the wives have to make and
the grandmas have to make, and then all this furniture
being delivered, and then the lights, and then the photos,
and then the phallic cake and then the stupid dresses
and the sad ceremony. It's just like way too much.
(17:28):
And it's all for an image. It's all for the season.
It's it's a season finale of just like, look, we're
committing each committing to each other and to our family,
but we're hating each other at the same time. It's
just like it's all a narcissistic display. I think on
Cody's part to be like, yeah, I'm keeping it together,
(17:49):
but we know that he's not. Like behind the scenes,
shit's crumbling. And even in his mood him getting all
angry about the fucking lights, it's like, chill out.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's not a big deal, and it didn't even need
to do it in the first place. But it's like
when they would take their big road trips, like when
they went to that Nauvoo or whatever in Illinois, Like
he was just getting progressively more and more upset. Although
wasn't this your idea. Wasn't it Mary who organized the
road trip in the first place, And wasn't it you
that blew the timeline? But like you're getting mad, You're
(18:20):
snapping at people. It's like, why do you do this
all the time? And this just kind of illustrates to
me as we close out this particular season that he
loves to tell us how much he loves his family,
But when it comes down to actually babysitting that babysitting,
but watching your child truly who's got a kidney infection
while your wives are in San Francisco, When it comes
down to just being present while you're having this celebration
(18:43):
that you've been talking about for the entire season, Like
you're not actually there, You don't actually love these kids
who are showing up and doing the best that they can,
Like you're telling them that they're going to be exiled
from the family if they act out on celebration day.
This is who you are.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
It's crazy making dude, I just I couldn't deal with it. Honestly,
the whole episode kind of stressed me out. It was boring,
but it stressed me out just with all of the
planning of everything. It kind of reminded me of how
my family does things, because growing up, my mom would
always want to do these like big, grandiose like celebrations
and stuff. And for my mom, it kind of came
(19:19):
from a good place, just like wanting to give us
like a good experience and everything, but it always stressed
her out and she would get agitated and she would
snap at us. She wouldn't tell us we were exiled
from the family, but like she would get fucking annoyed
with us when she's trying to prepare everything, and she
would take on so much pressure to be like perfect
(19:40):
and to appear perfect and to put on this display
for everybody else. And I'm like, why it cares Like
we're just a family, we don't need to do this.
It's like I kind of felt how the older kids
were feeling, like what was it last episode when they're like,
this whole celebration is just for our parents, Like we
don't really care.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
We're fad for the parents, it's for the people who
are showing up, and it's for us the audience. So
that they can try to convince us that they are
one working, functioning, happy family, which they are not. Right
and also it's because they have to create contents that
they continue to have this show. And it was actually
having me wonder as I was watching this, because I
(20:17):
did peak at season seven there's only eight episodes versus
this is the nineteenth episode of season six, and I'm
wondering when Cody heard from TLC and production that they
may be canceling the show, and then the lore is
that Cody negotiated to take a huge pay cut and
get a lot less in order to continue with the show.
(20:39):
When was that, Like what year was that was it
around this time? I'm just I'm kind of wondering.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
That would be kind of an interesting theory because maybe
that's why they plan to do this big thing because
he thought it would be like really good content and
it would keep him on the show, Like just film
me doing a bunch of random bullshit in my cul
de sac and like keep me on the show DLC.
Maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And I'm wondering, like what the audience was thinking at
this time. And I know that there are some people
who listen and who watch who absolutely were watching from
season one, Like, what was the consensus in the audience.
Were people already onto them? Were people still thinking like, wow, polygamy,
they're just like us? Or could they they could they
(21:23):
feel the undertones? Could they sense that there was a
lot more going on? And was that why they continued
to watch. I'm just curious. I don't know, but I
just feel like this was so boring, so contrived, and
like the endless ceremonial, the sand thing, the tree thing,
the kids with their gratitude roses, the jewelry that Robin made.
(21:44):
I'm like, why are we why are we doing thing?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
And like doing it for a bunch of guests and
stuff that we never end up seeing ever again.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah, because it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, it doesn't matter at all, Like, let's just get
to the whole commitment ceremony, because everybody's getting everybody's rest
in their Sunday best. We have all of the well
I mean in their version of the Browns, Yes, yes,
we have furniture being delivered.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
We have the cake.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We have all the food that the wives made and
prepared for everybody everyone shows up, all the guests. We
have Robin's beautiful, big backyard that was Redone for this
whole ceremony, and I'm looking at it and I'm like, damn.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Multiple thousands of dollars damn went into whatever they did
in that backyard. So are we sure that that was
her backyard? Because again they keep referring it to our backyard.
So is it like the shared space between Robin and
Mary or was that all just in Robin's backyard for
her home and for the value of her home.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
I feel like I was watching this and I'm like,
I couldn't tell whose house it was, so I don't
know if like the fans snooped it out and found
out that it was Robin's backyard. And that's maybe why
they didn't say whose house it was, because they didn't
want people to know, Like they didn't want the fans
to know at the time that it was Robin's backyard
that got to be Redone. But I'm just like, looking
(23:10):
at it the aerial view of how big it was
and all the fake grass and everything, I'm like, dang, dude,
that was a lot of money and landscaping. And I
was thinking about the whole ceremony, right because remember when
they were going cake shopping and Cody was talking about
his big phallic cake dream, and Janelle was like worried
about how expensive it was going to because it was
(23:30):
gonna be eighty five hundred dollars. But then I'm looking
at all of the money that they spent on this
stupid party, and I'm like, you spent way more than that,
and you weren't worried about that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Right, And you just know that if it did go
into Robin's backyard, or even if it was Janelle's or
Mary's or Christine's, the other wives would have had an
issue with that. Yeah, they would have said, well, this
is bettering that home. It's going to add to the
value and the ultimate equity of that home. How Robin
gets the full benefit of that, but I don't. So
(24:03):
you just know that that's a conversation that they would
have had. But like TLC is already on the fuck
shit with not like divulging what those conversations are. And
when we compare that with what is currently happening on
Platfill and all the conversations that are taking place, for
better or for worse, it's just like, I just wish
that they would have had the foresight to film some
(24:26):
of that and be honest, because that would have been
really great information to hear instead of focusing on the
sun ceremony and how Robin designed these booty ass trees
of life for the cuffs and the bracelets, like nobody
actually cares you, basic, bit Sorry, that's so bad. I'm sorry. Serious,
it's the truth, basic, and.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That's it's all about the appearances. It's all about like, no,
we're a happy family. No, we have no problems. No,
we love each other. We're imperfect like every other family,
but we're doing great. We have the family focus, like
we're we're working on it, we're in therapy. And it's like,
but you're not. Though there's obviously like a huge disparity
right from the get go, right from the beginning, and
(25:09):
it's because of Robin. It's just like crazy making to
watch this and Robin's booty ass jewelry, those cuffs that
she made, so everybody, I'm like, what is this? Who
would actually wear that? I thought she made like cuff
links or something. No, it was a giant faux leather
bracelet with a little tree of life on it. And
then I'm like how much money did that cost?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
And did they end up marketing that on the website
from my sister wife's closet. Did they try and sell
that as a product? How much were they selling it for?
Like I just wasn't tuned in back then, yeah, to
kind of ask those questions. But yeah, like it was
all it was all cringe worthy, super much opinion.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
And then when they have the family photos yea, and
Cody has his whole fucking meltdown because they do like
individual family photos and I don't know if they were
doing photos of like each kid, no, no, just just
just family.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah, him with his wife, a specific wife and their kids.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah. And then when they get to the actual group photo,
Cody is like like on his wits end freaking out
because he's tired of smiling for the camera, and so
they're trying to gather all of the people together for
this one giant photo. And this is where we have
Cody like yelling for everybody to look down the lens
and then he has that weird, creepy like like demon
(26:27):
shake or something, and.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Then right and the smile.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
My god, what a freak.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah. I guess that's to communicate that he's really stressed out.
But I'm like, your kids are hip, Your kids are behaving.
I mean, they're just kids. They're doing what kids do.
Pid they're actually being well behaved in this moment, it's
you that's stressed out. It's you that seems to be
annoyed and bothered by your very normal family.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, I'm just like, how old are you at this point?
You're in your forties, Like learn to emotionally regulate, Like,
why are you freaking out like this over just some photos?
Maybe it was hot, I don't know, but I'm just like,
you're a freak.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, you're weird.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
And it just to me, like I said last week,
is just a window into how Cody actually is off camera.
He's probably not that nice of a dad. I know
I've probably said this on the pod before that. Oh,
it looked like Cody might have been a good dad
to the kids in the earlier seasons, and now I'm
kind of like, I don't know, he might have been
a little angry. You might have yelled at them too much.
Like I don't know what he was like.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But well, I think that we can see multiple aspects
of Cody, Like I can see in these earlier seasons
that he was present sometimes with his kids, that he
did love his kids, Like when he was walking around
to each of the children before they made their entrance
into the party, He's telling the littles that they look gorgeous.
(27:45):
He's calling out each of his children and saying, you
look really fly in that suit, like he's trying to
give them a pep talk. And I just I thought
that was a nice aspect of Cody. But from where
we're sitting in twenty twenty five, like these negative aspects
and atropy that are showing themselves in these earlier seasons,
especially as we progress, you can really see how they
(28:06):
have crystallized into this person that he is currently, Like
this angry, small, little narcissistic man. You can see like
twinges of that here in this episode. And then just
to know that he indulges that from that point on,
he allows himself to feel that more and more and
(28:27):
more and to place himself in that position of authority
and importance so that he then feels entitled to mistreat
his other wives and ultimately his children. Like how that
progress actually happens. You can see glimpses here, little glimpses,
but like the man he has become, what a shame.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Honestly a disgrace. And even in the moments when he
was telling his kids that they were beautiful, I just
felt was like just a response to how he was
appeared on the camera or how he appeared on the camera,
like it was just him love bombing his kids, like no, no, no,
I actually love you, and I don't want to exile
you from the family. Sorry for yelling at you on
national television like a fucking crazy person. You're beautiful though,
(29:09):
Yeah you're gorgeous, nice dress, yeah, handsome, Just crazy. And
then the whole stand ceremony thing, like again, I talked
about that last week. It's cursed because I did my
my family did that, and now we don't talk to
each other.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yikes.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And they did it, and now they don't die to
each other. And then the signing of the mission statement
was just so cringe.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I don't care. I don't care either, And furthermore, I
don't think they care.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know Janelle doesn't care, I know Mary is uninterested.
I know those kids don't care. Like nobody cares. And
in four or five years time, you're all gonna be
exploding as a family.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Just crazy making. And then we have the kids though
that was kind of sweet where they had this little
surprise for the family to basically show the parents that
they actually did care about the ceremony a little bit.
And so they have each one of the kids say
what they're grateful for for their family.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Which was nice. And I liked watching Hunter on the
couch with the rest of the older kids, and he's
talking about how it is really wonderful that they're all
in proximity to one another, they're in this cul de sac,
they're back together again, and that this celebration for him
really does symbolize like we're getting it back on track,
like we're a family again. And I feel sad, yeah,
(30:33):
because it doesn't actually end up coming to fruition, but
you can see that the kids actually are hopeful and
they're glad and they're playing with each other, and it's sad.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It's really sad, and it's like crazy to see how
much the separation really did affect the entire family. Like
they don't talk about it too too much, but every
once in a while they'll make a comment about like
how when they were in their rentals, like their family
really suffered and really struggled and really broke and now
(31:03):
they're in the cul de Sac and so they're really
working on things, like it did a lot of damage
to be separated just for two years for such a
cohesive family unit and everything. And then now that they're
in the coulda Sag things will be okay for a
little and then they go back to flag stuff again separated,
and then that's ultimately what breaks up the entire family.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Just crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You know, when they're talking about getting back together, what
they're trying to recapture is Lehigh, yes, because the last
time these kids were together, that's what it was, yep,
you know. And then the cameras came, and then fame
came and they moved to Vegas and they had the
rentals and so in their little childlike spirits, they're hoping
(31:44):
that this is them coming back to what they had
in Lehigh. And that's what makes it really tragic to me,
is because the cameras changed Cody, yep, and the money
changed Cody and Rob and everything has been changed as
soon as those cameras went up, as soon as they
relocated and left their way of life like it was
(32:06):
never ever going to be the same. And you know,
like as a child as you get older and then
you leave, maybe go to university or you get your
first apartment or whatever. But it kind of strikes you
that first Christmas or whatever, or that first year that
you're away, like it's never going to be what it
was before, right, And there's something so lonesome about that. Yeah,
(32:29):
and yet in this snapshot, this moment with Hunter on
the couch, he's like, we're back together and it's awesome,
it's going to be great, and he really is grateful. Yeah,
but twenty twenty five, I think he hates his dad.
Oh I would, and I don't blame him at all.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh yeah, if I was one of these older kids,
I would be so fucking resentful.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
You sold me a dream, Dad. You told me that
we were a certain kind of family.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
You told me that you loved us.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
What happened, and you raised us all as we were siblings.
And like all of the siblings do keep their relationships.
It seems like for the most part, you know, there's
some that don't talk to each other or whatever, but like,
for the most part, they're all still a family. But
to have their dad and to watch their dad just
like slowly walk away from them all and like slowly
(33:14):
abandon them all for Robin and her kids.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
After subjecting them to this endless parade of things like
the commitment ceremony. Yes, these symbols of what a family
should be, while underneath all of those symbols there's nothing.
There's you spending all your time with Robin. There's you
neglecting them and hurting their mothers. You know, it's like, exactly,
it's a mind fuck. It would have had to been
such a mind.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Fuck, definitely. So it's just really weird and sad to
watch this commitment ceremony because we know that it's all bullshit.
You know that it turns to shit in just a
few years.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And it feels in this moment like they're performing. It
feels this moment like is any of this real?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Though?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, of course you have Robin. As she's reading her
portion of the mission statement, she can hardly get through,
Oh my god, I get emotional when I talk, like
it's just I'm like, you're performing. Yes, It's like I
don't buy.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
It, no, and I don't think anybody does. I don't
think the viewers bought it even back then, because I
don't know if I was watching this I would never
have believed Robin from the get go. Okay, she's been
a snake in my opinion. But like, I don't know,
if you wanted to like commit to the family again
and you wanted to do something to like celebrate all
of your love and like be together, you could have
(34:33):
taken like a big family trip and could have like
camped out on the beach or something and like made
it a really cool, like family centered trip, or I
don't know, just get together and it didn't have to
be produced with all the furniture and the dresses and
the phallic cake and the decoration.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
The witnesses, yes, the people showing up to celebrate you.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Right, it didn't need to be that. It could have
just been a giant family get together or like a
big barbecue in the middle of the cul de sac
where everybody's just like playing around and we all hang
out together. You could have rented a big family house
where you all stayed together, kind of like the Christmas
that they.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I was just thinking about that first Christmas.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah, like you could have done something like that and
it would have been so much more meaningful and authentic.
But instead you put on this stupid display with the
mission statement and the sand ceremony to try and convince
the audience that you love each other when we know
you don't or.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
They're starting not to. Yeah, it's all falling apart, it is. Yeah,
and so thus concludes season six. There was a lot
going on. I mean here again, this was like the
nineteenth episode. I think in season six we went to Sadonah. Yes,
like we've had therapy with Nancy, the baby talk. We've
had a lot that we've had to go through. So
(35:49):
I'm excited to get to season seven. I'm really excited
to get to Leon being awful to marry. I'm not
sure what season that is. That's the Catfish and or after.
I am dying to get to the Cabish Bitch. So like,
we're just gonna keep going. Yeah, we're gonna keep covering
these rewinds, and we thank you guys for joining us. Now, Beatrice,
(36:12):
is there anything else that we need to say to
these beautiful raccoons before we get up on out of here.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Well, if you love our podcast, please go to your
favorite podcast platform and leave us a glowing five star review.
Really helps us grow the pod. So maybe one day
we can get to six thousand subscribers.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Can you imagine visualize. We will be back later this
week to continue our conversation about what crazy stuff is
happening on Welcome to Platfill, so make sure you join
us for that. Until then, please do not forget that
we have nothing but love for you, and please out.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Bye bye y
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