September 2, 2025 • 44 mins
It's Meri and Janelle's anniversaries to Kody, and he shows his love for them by...styling his hair? Later, Meri ruins Robyn's dreams by going back to College. Who will do all the work for My Sisterwife's Closet now? It sure won't be Robyn! She's too busy doing nothing!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello, and welcome to Reality TV Cringe. I am one
of your hosts, Delia, and I'm here with my real
Tight Homegirl and my daughter in law Bead. We are
here to talk sister wives. Honey. We are about to
start season seven, which is the season of the Shark
(00:27):
Tank venture capitalist and investment company. I love it and
Mary returning to college or does she? Does she or
doesn't she? So it's about to get exciting. Now, before
we get into our recap, we do want to issue
you a disclaimer. Please hide your wife and hide your kids.
This is a politically incorrect podcast. We say stupid things,
(00:51):
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But if you're ready to let Robin down easily, welcome
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Speaker 1 (01:27):
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we're going to be doing an after show after this
episode because there have been a lot of leaks from
Christine Brown Woolli's book, which is released September two. I
pre ordered it, so I have it and there's a
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(01:47):
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everything you're doing to help us Records. Okay, before we
(02:29):
get into this episode, Beatrice, did you have any takeaways
from this shit show?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean, just the fact that the Browns thought that
they could meet with their friends, the venture capitalists, these
randos from whoever wherever, with nothing prepared, no presentation, no
actual idea of how a business works, how much money
they want to make, what they're selling their products for nothing? Nope, nothing,
(03:00):
And they thought they could just get some like free
advice from these successful business people. I just love to
see you wild. It's just so ridiculous, just wild.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I love it and so delicious. Yeah. Well, my takeaway
is that Machelte has always liked dorks, Like she's married
currently to a dork. And we meet her boyfriend in
this episode, some dude named John such a door, also
a turbo dork, but it was kind of cute. Yeah.
The whole conversation with Cody and Christine was so weird
(03:32):
and we'll get into it. So great, but I thought
that that was interesting. Okay, So without any further ado,
let's get into Season seven of Sister Wives, Episode one entitled.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Mary Drops a Dookie, Mary drops a bomb.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
She drops a bomb. She sure does, Oliver Robin and
I love it. Yeah, me too, so good.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But we begin the episode with like a typical brown
chaotic family moment where I guess, like the beginning of
January or the month of January is like super busy
because you have a bunch of birthdays and anniversaries and
all the like. We have Mary and Dayton, I guess
sharing a birthday, which I didn't know. This is the
first time hearing of it, but they share a birthday.
(04:17):
And then we have the adults like meeting to discuss
My sister Wife's closet, their stupid business and how they're
going to meet up with their They keep calling them
their friends, the venture capitalists.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, but somehow I don't think that those are your friends.
I think their producer plants. We've agreed to be on
a show, and in exchange for their appearance and then
being able to market their company, they're going to sit
down with the dumb Browns and have a very awkward conversation.
But yes, the Browns are using Mary in Dayton's birthday
(04:52):
party to kind of meet and just talk a little
bit about what they need to be ready for this
big meeting next week with Staniny. Such a big meeting,
and none of the Browns have any idea what they're doing.
They're looking for some guidance. Yeah, they definitely want to
pitch My Sister wives closet to some rich people and
hopefully get those people to give them a lot of
(05:15):
money because they think they're creative and that they deserve it,
but they absolutely have nothing. They've got no business plan,
they have no presentation, They've got zilch.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's crazy to me. It's like, you guys have been
working on this business so hard for the last like
two years, but you have nothing. They give no data
to show for it, you don't have anything typed out,
you don't have a presentation.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Like y'all are crazy. Yeah, But when you think about it,
it's kind of fitting because they've really just chanced themselves
into everything since we've met them. They've chanced themselves into
the rentals, they chance themselves into the cul de sac,
and they chance themselves into all these different opportunities. And
(05:57):
it's not because they intelligently dic It's because I think
TLC in Production is helping them and they're just availing
themselves of all these stupid opportunities. But my sense of
it really was that Robin is huffing her own farts.
I mean, I don't think Christine cares no. My Sister
Wives closet, we established in season six that Janelle has
(06:20):
peaced out, and now we've got Mary like she's going
to start making noises about not wanting to commit to it,
but like Robin really thinks that she's doing something, and
they really believe Beatrice that they can have like a
brick and mortar store, a series of stores across the nation,
which is wild, crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Like how out of touch are you? I mean obviously
so out of touch if you're huffing your own farts,
like your brain is losing oxygen. Yes, you don't understand
real life and what consumers actually want. I mean, like
on paper, I could see something like this working out,
like if you sold clothing, if you sold posters and
stickers and coffee mugs and like shitty like live, laugh love,
(07:05):
you know wallpaper, like you know wall signs and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Selling shitty jewelry for hundreds of dollars a bop. It's wild,
and then you have nothing to show for it. I
think it's because, well, I think they thought they would
be successful with this, because they were successful with the
TLC show, and like they could work their way into
a really sick deal with TLC at this time, you know,
in the twenty tens and everything, and they thought, you
(07:33):
know what, we could totally leverage this and make a
bunch of money on a jewelry store. Sucks to suck.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It does suck to suck. I just can't believe that
they thought they would ever be successful, especially since in
season six we have them going to these expos and
at the expos with their boots on the ground, people
are telling them like it's too expensive. People aren't buying
your merchandise, and I can't imagine even with the website
in season seven, are actually going up on My sister
(08:02):
wife closet and buying a lot of things. So like,
that's the universe telling you that this is a bad idea, Robin.
But she's working so hard. Oh pah, my god, I
can't have a baby because I have so much to do.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We'll get up, I literally can't. But after their little
discussion of My Sister wives closet, then we have like
this segment where Cody is of course at Robin's house
and he's like tucking in all of Robin's kids to bed,
which I just thought weird a little bit. I mean,
I know that these are his kids or whatever, and
(08:39):
he loves them and whatnot, but I'm just like, do
you do that? To all your other kids.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That's what I was wondering. And I also was thinking
about the kids watching these seasons back, because I think
it's about now where he really starts separating himselves from
all of the other homes, and certainly the other wives
and those kids. I'm sure saw and felt that. Oh
And so then to watch this back where he's tucking
(09:03):
in all of Robin's kids and Dayton, I'm just like, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Just think, like the audacity, but you don't do that
to any of your other children, Like it's just wild
fucking truly was a kidney failure and you didn't even
notice her care But okay, let's go ahead and tuck
in sweet Aurora and Brianna and King Solomon and Dayton
to bed every night and talk about how much you
love them. And then, speaking of Dayton, we have this
(09:28):
weird segment where Cody's like, well, I don't think Dayton
has aspergers.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, which was controversial probably at the time, right, I
don't know, controversial, and it's definitely now it's controversial in
twenty twenty five. But like I was like, what are
you talking about. You're not a doctor. And Robin's sitting
there saying I've done all the tests. I mean, I've
put him in front of doctors. No, he's got aspergers,
but they're trying to establish that he's a great kid.
(09:56):
He's not like the other kids. And at some point
Cody even says, I actually feel closer to Dayton than
I do do a lot of my other kids. Yikes, Like,
oh so it's already happening.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's already happening. I just don't understand how you like
can do this with good conscience, Like as a parent,
you have all of these other children like that didn't
ask to be born. You know, I can understand falling
out of love with the wives and stuff, I guess,
but like the children though, Okay, Dayton's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Basically, maybe he's telling himself that he needs to make
up for a lost time with her three kids because
the other kids, his bio kids with the other three wives,
you know, had all that time with him, but these
kids didn't. I don't know, like, is he maybe not
noticing that he's favoring Robin and his kids? Is he
not thinking about it at this time? But I think
(10:43):
that he's got to be because I think at least
Christine is mentioning it, and I think Mary is probably
mentioning it too. Mary and Cody's relationship is falling apart. Oh,
Like we get into this scene with them in a
little bit, and I'm just like, what has happened just
since the last season, season six, because there's some problems
here in this relationship.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Hardcore problems and like speaking of like Cody's favoritism with
Dayton already starting, like for his birthday, he takes him
out go karting, and that's another thing where it's like,
how like are you doing that with your other children? Though,
like I thought money was tight and you couldn't afford
to do all of these things, Like I doubt. I
think you're probably just giving all of your other kids
(11:24):
like a birthday card, maybe like a birthday dinner or something,
but nothing cool like go kart raising. It's just wild.
And then we get to Cody's celebration with Mary for
her birthday, and like, I feel like his birthday gift
is just him straightening his hair so he looks like
Keith Urpen and it's a gift of his presence. I'm
(11:46):
gonna spend this time with you when I actually hardly
ever spend any time with you because Leon's gone, it's
just you in this haunted house, and I guess we'll
spend two hours together with the cameras there. Yeah, that's
exactly what it is. And his ridiculous hair, and Mary's like,
oh my god, it's so sweet because I'm such a
Keith Urban Mega fan. And I'm like, are your priority
(12:07):
or like, are your uh what's the set the word standards? Yeah,
for your standards? This fucking low that you would accept.
This is like a birthday get Oh my god, my
husband straightened his hair and he looks absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, the answer is yes, wow, Yeah, her standards are low.
And by this time, I don't think that they're copulating.
They're not intimate. She's trying to find a way where
she can reconnect with him. It's not working. So now
she's looking for other interests that she can sink herself
into because she's being rejected and neglected by Cody.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
God, I just can't believe it. Like no wonder she's
on her campaign of like worrying up because you can
see it now. It's like you have no self worth
or love for yourself or like respect for yourself and
your marriage that you would accept this, it's like literally mediocre.
I mean, I guess you go dancing afterwards, yeah, okay,
but nothing else.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But if she gets nothing normally than it probably is
a big deal to do those things. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It's just sad justice for Mary, I mean for real.
But at their dinner, at her birthday dinner, she decides
to talk business and talk about her life, and She's like,
I got something really important to tell you, Cody. I
really want to go back to school because you know
what my sister wrives, closet is not my dream. And
Cody's like, yeah, cool, bet, go back to school. I
don't care. Some way, I don't have to talk to
(13:24):
you again. Probably will be saying. But he knows that
Robin is going to be super unhappy about it. And
when we get to the end of the episode, she
is very unhappy and.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Bad, very unhappy. But my question watching this was like,
how come this is all of a sudden Mary's dream,
Like I don't recall her ever mentioning even once that
she wanted to go back to school. She never talked
about her schooling, Like she kind of starts to talk
about it in this episode where she says that she
started college and then she kind of segues into and
(13:57):
I was also working with at risk youth and I
really loved that job. But then I was let go
because of my lifestyle and I never got to go
back to school. I'm not sure how those two things connected. Yeah,
because I thought that she was let go from her job.
Like around season one, I thought, so was she in college?
(14:19):
And season it doesn't make it. They're always lying, yeah,
they're literally always lying. But now she's trying to present
to the viewing audience us that this has been her
lifelong dream to go to university and to help at
risk youth. And I'm like, Okay, is this just a
convenient excuse for you to bow out of my sister
(14:39):
wife's closet, Because that's fair. For sure, I totally support that,
because it's a losing game and it's never gonna make
any money and you're gonna be wasting your time. But like,
just say it, though, yeah, I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That's the problem with Mary. It's like it's always the
subtext of shit, and it's like, maybe it's because you
wanted to get out of my sister wives closet. Maybe
it's because you're lost in your marriage and in your life.
You're an empty nester and you're alone forever because Cody
doesn't want nothing to do with you. Like maybe that's
what it is, and that sucks, but like, just try
to be real with yourself. But she can't.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
She's not an authentic person at all. She's also not
a brave person at least in these seasons. Like she
can't just sit down across from Robin and to say,
I don't want to do it, it's not my thing,
it's not working, this suck.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, she can't do it because she doesn't have the
courage to do it right. It's so frustrating.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But then we shift gears and we have a kind
of Birds and the Bees talk with Michelt and.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Her door fringe cringe, cringe.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Door goo boyfriend John. We have Christine and Cody talking
to them about fourign a caton kissing and apparently, according
to Cody, you shouldn't kiss because if you kiss, your
hormones will transfer to the other person and then you'll
want to fuck, and.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Then all of a sudden, your pussy's gonna activate and
his is gonna activate, You're gonna start putting it in,
You're gonna start having babies. Yeah, it's like And then
there was the weird comment that he made about God,
like I don't know why God has us go through
puy puberty at fourteen years old, but like not able
to do anything about it until twenty four years old.
(16:18):
I'm like, ew the fuck does that me? Please say less?
What are you talking about? Why are we talking about
kids and puberty and sex?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I'm like, please stop. Yeah, and we don't need to
have this conversation on national TV. But I guess you
guys are so desperate for content that we're going to
embarrass your teenage daughter and her new boyfriend on TV. Like,
you know, if I was John, I would have broke
up with McKelty after this and be like, dude, your
family's weird.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I'm sure she he probably does. Do we ever see
John again? But there's something about this Beatrice that really
bothers me because I hate putting Cody in the position
of being some sort of moral authority about sex and
relationships when the reality is is that you have three
mistresses and you have one preferred mistress that you bang
(17:07):
all the time, and you are actively neglecting your children
and your wives, even in season seven, exactly like you're
gonna sit down with these two youth with like these
brains that are not formed yet, You're gonna try and
tell them how to best live their lives when you're
a cheating ass ho in a cult straight up.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And when he's going on his tangent about why kissing
is bad and it leads to nothing but badness and sin,
you have the older kids on the couch and you
have Leon being like, so you can't kiss, but you
can have sex though, like that's what that means, And
everyone starts laughing because it's like, this is why your
logic makes so fucking sense.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They're making fun of their fathers, yes rightly, so, Yes,
it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And you make a great point about him with his
polygamous lifestyle. You know him and Robin were doing it
in the butt. At least.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I wasn't thinking about that was the particular moment, but
I guess I wouldn't doubt. But then we also have
him with Janelle in this episode, and you could feel
the sexual vibes. Maybe so he has whatever woman he
wants whenever he wants them, and he's just not the
arbiter of how to conduct yourself in a relationship. That's
(18:15):
just all I'm going to say.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I agree with you one hundred percent. And then we
go to Mary and Cody at Mary's house where they
discuss the Lehigh House because they still own it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, so this came out of left field. What did
you think about this? This was weird?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, because their dynamic was really not good, like all.
So the whole issue is that they still own the
Lee High House and they're trying to sell it, but
they're having a difficult time doing that because it's built
for polygamous families, which is a big no no in
Utah because it's still illegal at the time. And now
they're trying to figure out a way to remodel the
(18:54):
house while they still own it, so that way they
can hopefully sell it for a profit because right now
it's just kind of hemorrhaging money apparently, and Cody says
it's an albatross around their necks. So Cody, from what
I gathered from this conversation with Mary, is he put
the task on Mary to figure out the contractor to
figure out how to remodel shit to take care of everything.
(19:18):
Mary brings him some designs that the contractor drew up
really quick, and she tries to discuss it with Cody,
and Cody's like, these designs suck ass, They're not to scale.
We need to have a better contractor because this is
bullshit and basically everything that you did is trash. And
Mary gets really defensive here, and this is where we
(19:38):
have this like weird.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Argument between them.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I don't know, this was odd to me.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, so I didn't really understand how we got into
the tension because I saw Mary present the plans and
she kind of explained what the contractor was talking about.
Then I saw Cody kind of rebut and say, well,
those plans are kind of jinky. I don't really under
stand where they want to put this wall and it's
not really drawn in the right place. And so if
(20:05):
I don't understand this, am I gonna have to drive
up to Utah? Like this doesn't work? And that's fair,
Like that's valid. But immediately Mary gets very upset and
she starts to get super emotional, and she's like, well,
I guess I just guess I don't know what I'm doing.
Then I guess I shouldn't be the one in charge
of this, And I'm like, pump your brakes a little bit.
(20:26):
I think Cody is giving a valid critique not even
of view but of the contractor, but she's taking it
turbo personally, and it's because there's just a world of
subtext happening here. Like I think Mary wanted Cody to
be proud of her for taking the initiative and actually
talking to contractors and having a plan, which was jankie though, Yeah,
(20:48):
And he didn't come with the energy of like honoring
the work that she had done immediately, and so she
just got really emotional, Like she starts to cry. They
start to like throw barbs at each other and be
passive aggressive, and I'm like, guys, I know, so what's
really happening like and what has really happened in the
last few months. So Leon has gone off to Westminster, Mary,
(21:11):
You've been rambling around in your five bedroom home with
the wet bar. Cody's not coming over. You're trying to
prove yourself to him. Is that what you're doing in
this moment? And he's just blowing you off. But like
I didn't understand where her feelings were coming from personally.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I feel like there's something going on that we
don't know, like maybe it was edited out or they
just didn't express it or anything. But like, I'm wondering
if Cody tasked her with taking care of the Lee
High House, because we know Cody doesn't want to do
Jack Diddley squat about anything. He doesn't want to manage
a business, he doesn't even want to manage his family.
He doesn't want to do anything that doesn't involve him
(21:49):
banging Robin's back out. So I feel like he told Mary, like, hey,
take care of this shit at the Lee High House,
and so then she tries. But maybe she doesn't have
the knowledge. She's never dealt with contractors. She doesn't know
what the fuck she's doing, because she says that multiple
times in this conversation, like I don't know what I'm doing,
And she.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Was saying that like earnestly, she was saying that passive aggressively,
like oh, I guess I don't know what the f
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, and I think that might be because Cody's telling
her to do all this shit, she doesn't know what
to do. So she tries to do what she can
and then Cody's shitting all over it. And it's like
Cody makes his passive aggressive comment, We'll like, well, do
I have to go to Utah to get some shit
done around this fucking Leehigh House? Like he says that yeah,
and Mary's like, well, I think that's why she gets defensive.
(22:34):
And they're not like hearing each other obviously, because Cody's
a piece of shit. Mary's also very defensive and passive.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Aggressive, emotional cripple. Well, it's like she cannot say she
can't actually express herself and say, can you just like
calm down a little bit, because if I need to
contact the contractors, I can, but like, can we discuss
the design, like the next steps that I can take?
Like she could also communicate effectively, But she's just such
an emotionally volatile person. And that's the conversation I want
(23:03):
to have, like why are we so tense right now?
What has been going on for the last few months?
What are you feeling? Mary? And that's the problem with
Mary is she never actually shares what's happening in her
life because they're always lying and she's never honest about
her feelings. And so fast forward in the timeline to
twenty twenty five, when she's conducting seminars for hashtag Worthy
(23:24):
Up and I'm like, how do we trust you because
you don't seem emotionally intelligent. Even now, you're still defending Cody. Yeah,
you're still putting down your other wives who had traumatic experiences.
You're still emotionally repressed.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And it's not that she doesn't have valid things to say, Beatrice,
it's just that she cannot be trusted to say anything truthful.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Honestly, I agree with you because that's the problem. Like
when you live a life where you're not expressing how
you actually feel, like you're just gonna bury all that
down and then what do you spew out? Passive, aggressive, bullshit, defensiveness,
inauthentic express essions of how you feel like and you're
not being truthful, like yeah, why would anybody trust you?
And like not to give Cody any grace or anything,
(24:08):
But it's like, how can you have a conversation with
somebody who is reacting.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Exactly like I think he was trying to actually talk
to her, and yeah, he was being a piece of
shit about it and a bit of a no at all.
I don't know if he's being mean in my life.
I just feel like he was being a no at
all and he wasn't giving her like the props for
doing the work that she had done, but like his
points were valid and she was completely unable to take
(24:33):
any criticism. And he's just like, what's happening? Why are
you getting like this? And so then they start to
fight well, and.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It's like on the couch. When he says that too,
he's like, I don't understand what the problem is here.
Mary's response is, well, we're missing each other. I don't
know how to make you understand, no, the way you
make somebody understand work, talk, use your word, express it.
Like if anybody needs a couple's therapy in this family,
it's these people because they don't know how to talk
to each other. And I don't think they ever really did.
(25:01):
Maybe that's what Cody means when he talks about it
in their later seasons, where he's like, I don't know
what to do with Mary because she's it's like walking
on eggshells with her. It's like one minute she's fine,
the next minute she's mad. I can kind of see it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I can see it as well, but.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
She doesn't know how to talk. Right. So this whole
situation was really interesting to see on camera because I
know it's like, it's not something you see very often
with this family because they try to keep everything like
behind closed doors and under this like weird facade. But
like just having this come out, I'm like, damn, y'all
are suffering.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Things are bad in the cul de sac.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Things are really bad. But you know what's not bad
Cody and Janelle's relationship.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I guess this is the renaissance that we've been talking
about this entire time. There's some sexual vibrations that are
happening here.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yes, it's crazy. So it's their twenty first anniversary, and
so they're going out to celebrate, and of course Cody's
gift to Janelle is wearing his hair and a ponytail, right,
that's right, Just like, okay, this is what they wives
get is just your presence and you styling their hair,
your hair differently for them.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But they go out to dinner and they agree to
not talk about business. They just want to keep it romantic.
Cody expresses, I think in his talking head that they've
actually come to a more romantic place in their marriage
because apparently up until this point, they had just been
friends and fuck buddies.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I guess, well, Janelle's like we were just kind of existing.
I think that previous to the show, they were just
trying to manage a family with very little money. And
so she's working, he's working, and they're two ships that
are missing themselves in the night. But now that they're
in the cul de sac, they're having this space to reconnect.
And he mentions that she's looking real good working with
(26:44):
that personal trainer. Your body Addioddi is looking pretty flag.
I mean she is, though, she looks wonderful.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She looks great, her hair's on fleak.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
They go to the restaurant, it's like a nice, dimly lit,
yeah restaurant, and he like makes this declaration of love
to her, and I was just like, damn, I've never
heard him speak about any of the wives except Robin
this way. And he's like, I love you, I am
in love with you, I love this time in our life.
We are romantic, and he was like really feeling her,
(27:16):
you know. I was like, oh my god, these people
are into each other.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It's kind of crazy to see because we've been hearing
this in season nineteen and eighteen and everything Renaissance in
Las Vegas, and now we're starting to see in the
beginning of it. And then they come home and it's
late and they put the kids to bed, and Cody's like, hege, no,
let's go to.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Our kind of tired. Don't you want to go to.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Bed A little sucky sucky?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yea. I know. It's like, damn, they're gonna go and
have sex. They're going to have sex allegedly, good for
you to know, I mean, if it was any good,
but I mean, based on Christine's book Girl, he's not
a great lover. We'll get to that in the app
We get to that in the app show.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And then we have Robin at her house. She's pretending
that she is so disheveled and overwhelmed. She's like, I
gotta have a talk with col.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Like Cody just walks into the house from banging Janelle's backup.
He walks over to Robin's house, opens the door, and
she's like, Cody, I have to talk to you. It's
really important, and then takes him away into the bathroom
or whatever and starts to have this very serious conversation
about how she's working really hard. I don't think you
(28:26):
got it. I don't think anybody understands what I am
doing for my sister wife's closet. And so she tries
to tell him that there's just no way I'm going
to be able to have another child if I'm working
this hard, which felt to me like this is a
conversation they have been having, and Cody has probably let
(28:48):
her know that he'd love to have another kid, and
she's like, absolutely, Papa, But now she's holding this over
his head, like I'm not going to be able to
give you a kid unless we get an injection of
money from some venture capitalist, or I get an assistant
or whatever Markan do art.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It's just so crazy to me because we know it
this time. She's got I think, like her sister watching
her kids all the time, or maybe she's got a
nanny at this point, but like, you're not doing jack shit.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
She's designing Beatrice.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh my god, I just can't. I Like, I screamed,
because I'm just like, you really think we're gonna buy
this story that you've been working so hard.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So she thinks that she's been working so hardly, sitting
down with her sketch book, working out infinite hearts and trees,
and she's like, look at the work product. I'm the talent.
I'm the creative. Everybody else needs to be setting up
the expos and doing all the admin stuff because I'm working.
That's exactly hard.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's exactly And of course Cody is like one hundred
percent attentive to Robin and her knees and he's like,
oh my god, I was shocked by this conversation. But
I know exactly what she needs. I know exactly what
she means, and yeah, we do need this, dick, continue this, dick,
this investers. We need to get this ship going to
the way. My sweet Robin is less overwhelmed. God forbid
(30:11):
though that, like Christine and Janelle and Mary all have
their own problem.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Fuck then, yeah, Robin, right.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
She is stressed and we got to help her out.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
With a problem that she created and then started demanding
that everybody feed into. Yeah, and they've done as much
as they're willing to do. And now you're mad about it.
And you're about to get even more mad about it
because here comes Mary wanting to go back to college,
and she comes very with her dreams. She's got her
own dreams. Robin is that okay, No, it is not,
(30:43):
it's not okay.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
But before we even get to that, we have the
freaking venture capitalist meeting. And this was so hard to watch.
It was so so delicious, well because it's like so
cringey to watch them like completely crash and burn in
front of these like business people that are probably moderately successful.
(31:04):
They're acting like they're like Wall Street professionals. They act
like they're so like big business, rolling in the dough
and everything, but they're just probably like mortgage brokers or something.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Can I ask you a question, what do you think
that Cody and his wives were thinking before they went
into that meeting. Were they thinking that they were going
to be taken very seriously? What were they expecting from
this meeting? Because Janelle comes out of it embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Oh yeah, for sure. I think they were all thinking
that they were just going to get advice. I don't
think they understood what a meeting like this would entail,
what would have been expected of them. I think they
thought that they had like good ideas and stuff, but
I don't think they know how to run a business obviously,
because they don't know. Like it's like the people on
Shark of the actual show Shark Tank that come on
(31:52):
with like a poster board like presentation, and the Shark
Tank people laugh in their face, like what are you
doing here? If you want our money, you have to
show us that you have a successful, ish business. But
they just think that they're going to get free business advice,
which I'm just like, you could literally google it right
like at this time, you could totally google it. YouTube
(32:13):
was existing back then well and.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
As just a sidebar, Like I owned a successful business,
I would say I don't have it anymore. But at
the time, I remember like a lot of my friends
and peers would want to just like buy me a
coffee and pick my brain, like, well, can you tell
me how you run your program step by step by step,
(32:37):
like wanted to take an hour out of my day
and like learn all of my trade secrets that it
could then steal it and start their own program or
do whatever they were going to be doing. And I'm
just like, my time is valuable, not just to my
work and the people that I work with, but like
it's worth something and it's like for me to sit
down with you at a table and share like the
(32:59):
secrets of my success. That's like a big ask. Yeah,
So I'm sure that Stan and Amy weren't coming in
just expecting to divulge all of their trade secrets and
what they can do to succeed. Like why are you
paying them?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Like what are you giving in exchange for that kind
of information? Like that's worth something. But the Browns are
so stupid that they don't understand that that's what they're
asking for and they don't deserve it.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
No, they don't. And it's like a fine line because obviously,
like I'm sure Stan was told by TLC like just
pretend to help them whatever, And it's like, you know,
you don't want to like gatekeep information, but at the
same time, it's like you don't want to just give
it away to people for free who are just going
to take advantage.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
They're not going to be good stewards of it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And like the thing is is like with your business
as an example, you wanted it so badly that you
did all the research, you put in, all of the
hard work, you grinded hardcore to make it successful because
you wanted it so All these other people want the
business so badly they could do the work themselves too.
If you want it so badly, then put in the
fucking effort. And that's what the thing with the Browns.
(34:03):
It's like I think they were just wanting free advice
and free help and free secrets and stuff because they
don't want to actually put in any of the effort,
especially Robin. And at this point we know it's just
Robin putting in the effort because everybody else doesn't give
a shit, right, So it just this whole meeting was
just embarrassing. And I know that they end up having
(34:24):
another like shark Tank meeting later in this season, I think,
or the next where they pitch it and it's horrible,
and that's where they like value their business at like
five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can't wait to get there, but I just can't.
I cringe so deeply into my body. It's so crazy
that it becomes a ke girl, which we call a cracle.
But I mean even at the meeting, and I respected
Stan in the moment because he didn't let them off
the hook. He's like the investors that I know who
work in kind of the business that you're talking about
(34:56):
would eat you alive. Like I expected you to show
up to this this preliminary meeting where we're just meeting
each other with a business plan, with a presentation, with
knowing your profitability, like what is your overhead? Like I
expected all of this analysis from you and you've got nothing.
You're just here to find out what I can give you.
And he put them on blast, and that's why Janelle
(35:18):
was embarrassed and saying on the couch that they look
like fools.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Dude, I would have literally crawled back into a hole
and never been seen ever again. If I was in
a presentation like that on TV too, being embarrassed like.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
The men of the guy just like disappearance, that.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Would be me. I'd be so embarrassed. That's why it
was so hard for me to watch because I'm just like,
I cannot imagine being that stupid and like going to
sit with this lay mass investor and have him just
like call you out on your bullshit, you know, and
then they go.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I was gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Another thing that the investor told them was that they
can expect to give I think thirty percent, yeah yeah,
thirty percent of their profits to whoever invests in their business.
And what they think they're worried about is sharing the money,
but also losing control. And Cody says in the meeting,
so I know that, you know, you stay in your lane,
which is you're the investor. We stay in our lane.
(36:14):
But if at some point we're not running the business
in the right way, you will get into our lane.
And this is where Stand says, well, yeah, we'll take
over the business. Yeah, because we're funding the business and
that's how business works.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
And I'm just like, Cody, how do you not understand this?
Like that's basic one oh one? Wasn't Shark Tank premiering
at this point? I think that's why they're doing Yes,
you think it's that. Yeah, I think it's a trend
that's currently in the zeitgeist, which is probably got Robin
thinking to herself.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Oh my god, we should go on Shark Tank. And
so this is a version of that.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Oh my god, I love to see it. I'd love
to see them crash and burn, especially Cody and Robin,
because they're dumb and they don't deserve anybody's money.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well, I kind of thought that Cody was airing a
concern that he actually has because he knows his wives,
even Robin, and he's like, we're gonna fuck this up.
Our expos suck nobody's buying as it is currently on
our website. So, like, what happens if the investors think
we're mismanaging this thing and he's asking the questions that
the women can hear, Well, it's gonna get taken over, Robin,
(37:20):
It's gonna get taken over.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Do you think Cody at this time thinks that this
is a stupid idea.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I think he knows this is a vanity project for Robin,
and he's doing it because he loves that sweet, sweet
breakdance and pussy. Oh, come on, correct me, I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I think you're probably right, honestly. And then the last
part of the episode is when we have Cody's birthday
because God, so many Capricorn in this family bought the caps.
Just kill me, I would know too much. But anyway,
we have Cody's birthday, and this is where Mary takes
Robin aside, brings her back to her lonely ass house
(38:02):
to sit her down and gently tell her, Hey, your
dreams stupid and I'm going back to school, and Robin freaks.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Out inwardly, Yes, she tells the camera like I had
to fight my urge to just get up and walk
out of her house because she was that upset. But
here again, this is a great demonstration of how Mary
at her big fucking age does not know how to
communicate simple ideas, Because there was a way to have
(38:33):
said this to Robin where you didn't have to alarm her.
Because from what I'm getting from Mary, like, she's still
going to work in the business. She's still going to
be a partner to Robin. It's just that her availability
is not going to be what it once was, but
her crabmin is still there. Yeah, So she could have
framed it in a way that wasn't so worrying to Robin.
(38:54):
But no, she's dumb. Yeah, and so she's like, I
just wanted to tell you that my dream is different.
My dream is to go back to college, which I'm
just discovering my dream for the first time in my
life at forty five years of age. Yeah, and my
dream is not my sister wife's closet. Yikes. But I'm
still here. I mean, don't be worried about it.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
But at the same time, it's like, why do you
even have to have a conversation like this with Robin?
Why does Robin even care so much Robin has power. Well, yeah,
and Robin also is putting all of the work on
all of the wives. I eat Mary, mainly because Jane
and Christina do give a book and they've already made
it known that they don't give a buck about my
(39:36):
sister's closet. And so Mary was really Robin's minion. And
so now Robin's minion is telling her, you know what,
I'm gonna pave my own way. Dobby's free, and I'm
gonna do what I want. And Robin freaks the fuck out,
and like Mary knew she was going to freak the
fuck out, And I just think, what an unhealthy, toxic dynamic.
(39:58):
And you're right, Robin does have all the power with
Cody and in the family in general. And so now
to have Mary shit all over Robin's dream and ruin
it for her because Robin's acting like her dream is dead.
What do you mean I can't be the favorite wife
and have all the wives make money for me while
(40:19):
I bang their husband day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And take all of the money, get all of the
money and all of the resources. Well, she does say
Robin in this conversation something like I just feel like
I'm trying to invite my friends into a party, but
none of my friends want to come to the party,
And like, so you're taking this business thing personally as
a rejection, and then we know you're going to use
(40:45):
that in the future against Mary. And as I was
watching this, I'm just forecasting into the future, like a
couple of years when Mary, I guess doesn't go to school. Yeah,
but she starts Luluo and Mary becomes a star in life,
and we know she starts breaking in the books. Honey,
She's making hundreds of thousands of dollars, having gotten in
(41:07):
at the very beginning with Lularo, and so you can
just imagine it's not the same business. But in this
episode we hear Robin and Christine talking about maybe expanding
the business into homewares and clothing and things of that nature.
So Lularow isn't exactly the same thing, but it's adjacent
to some degree. So to then have Mary start her
(41:29):
own business selling clothes, which she could have been doing
for my sister wife closet, she could have used all
that energy for that, but she chose not to and
then is wildly successful. I can see how then when
the Catfish begins and Robin hears of this from Kendra,
who we met in San Francisco in season six, and
(41:50):
Kendras feeding Robin and Cody all this information about Mary.
I can see why Robin, being the poisonous person, would
do that because she's jealous list of Mary making all
that money, because that's what motivates Robin and Cody. It's
the money, and they want that money, yep. And they
also want to punish.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Mary, definitely. They want to punish her for not following
suit and their control and in their stupid business. And
it's like, Robin, you could have done the same fucking thing.
Why didn't you sell like some avon or something. Why
didn't you do anything else other than my sister Wide's closet.
I don't know why you held on to that. I
wonder if she used that as like a manipulation to
(42:29):
keep the family together too, like not even just about money,
but just like, well, I was a good sister wife
because I wanted to do a business where I included
all of you, and you guys did your own separate
things and abandoned me. And that's how Cody, you know,
turned all of it against the wives. And everything. I
don't know, just whole situation. I'm just like Robin, you're
(42:50):
fucking psycho.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, And I go back to the fact that she's
sniffing her own farts. She believes her own hype. She
believes that this is actually a business that has legs
that could become something great. She has no idea that
her designs suck, that her ideas are derivative and stolen
from another online shop apparently, But like everything you're doing sucks, yep,
(43:14):
but you think everything you're doing is great. Narc Yeah, narc.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Total nark behavior and then taking it personally. Yes, when
Mary wants to do her own thing, go to college,
go to college, like who cares? Right, I mean I
can understand, like if you and Mary maybe had a
conversation and Mary was like, I'm in this one hundred percent.
I'm not going to do anything other than that, and
then Mary drops a bomb on you. But you know what,
(43:38):
maybe you shouldn't have stolen her man. Yeah, up, maybe
you have. You shouldn't have been such a.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Bitch, period period period.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Anyway, that's it.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
And that was the end episode. What like there was
a lot going on, was it was much better than
the whole commitment. Sarah Coney, arc of like five episodes.
I was so bored, so like, I'm excited to get
into the things that are going to be coming in
this season. Now. Is there anything else that we should
say to these beautiful raccoons before we get all up
(44:08):
into our after party?
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Speaker 1 (44:22):
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(00:27):
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(02:29):
get into this episode, Beatrice, did you have any takeaways
from this shit show?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I mean, just the fact that the Browns thought that
they could meet with their friends, the venture capitalists, these
randos from whoever wherever, with nothing prepared, no presentation, no
actual idea of how a business works, how much money
they want to make, what they're selling their products for nothing? Nope, nothing,
(03:00):
And they thought they could just get some like free
advice from these successful business people. I just love to
see you wild. It's just so ridiculous, just wild.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I love it and so delicious. Yeah. Well, my takeaway
is that Machelte has always liked dorks, Like she's married
currently to a dork. And we meet her boyfriend in
this episode, some dude named John such a door, also
a turbo dork, but it was kind of cute. Yeah.
The whole conversation with Cody and Christine was so weird
(03:32):
and we'll get into it. So great, but I thought
that that was interesting. Okay, So without any further ado,
let's get into Season seven of Sister Wives, Episode one entitled.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Mary Drops a Dookie, Mary drops a bomb.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
She drops a bomb. She sure does, Oliver Robin and
I love it. Yeah, me too, so good.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But we begin the episode with like a typical brown
chaotic family moment where I guess, like the beginning of
January or the month of January is like super busy
because you have a bunch of birthdays and anniversaries and
all the like. We have Mary and Dayton, I guess
sharing a birthday, which I didn't know. This is the
first time hearing of it, but they share a birthday.
(04:17):
And then we have the adults like meeting to discuss
My sister Wife's closet, their stupid business and how they're
going to meet up with their They keep calling them
their friends, the venture capitalists.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah, but somehow I don't think that those are your friends.
I think their producer plants. We've agreed to be on
a show, and in exchange for their appearance and then
being able to market their company, they're going to sit
down with the dumb Browns and have a very awkward conversation.
But yes, the Browns are using Mary in Dayton's birthday
(04:52):
party to kind of meet and just talk a little
bit about what they need to be ready for this
big meeting next week with Staniny. Such a big meeting,
and none of the Browns have any idea what they're doing.
They're looking for some guidance. Yeah, they definitely want to
pitch My Sister wives closet to some rich people and
hopefully get those people to give them a lot of
(05:15):
money because they think they're creative and that they deserve it,
but they absolutely have nothing. They've got no business plan,
they have no presentation, They've got zilch.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It's crazy to me. It's like, you guys have been
working on this business so hard for the last like
two years, but you have nothing. They give no data
to show for it, you don't have anything typed out,
you don't have a presentation.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Like y'all are crazy. Yeah, But when you think about it,
it's kind of fitting because they've really just chanced themselves
into everything since we've met them. They've chanced themselves into
the rentals, they chance themselves into the cul de sac,
and they chance themselves into all these different opportunities. And
(05:57):
it's not because they intelligently dic It's because I think
TLC in Production is helping them and they're just availing
themselves of all these stupid opportunities. But my sense of
it really was that Robin is huffing her own farts.
I mean, I don't think Christine cares no. My Sister
Wives closet, we established in season six that Janelle has
(06:20):
peaced out, and now we've got Mary like she's going
to start making noises about not wanting to commit to it,
but like Robin really thinks that she's doing something, and
they really believe Beatrice that they can have like a
brick and mortar store, a series of stores across the nation,
which is wild, crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Like how out of touch are you? I mean obviously
so out of touch if you're huffing your own farts,
like your brain is losing oxygen. Yes, you don't understand
real life and what consumers actually want. I mean, like
on paper, I could see something like this working out,
like if you sold clothing, if you sold posters and
stickers and coffee mugs and like shitty like live, laugh love,
(07:05):
you know wallpaper, like you know wall signs and stuff
like that.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Selling shitty jewelry for hundreds of dollars a bop. It's wild,
and then you have nothing to show for it. I
think it's because, well, I think they thought they would
be successful with this, because they were successful with the
TLC show, and like they could work their way into
a really sick deal with TLC at this time, you know,
in the twenty tens and everything, and they thought, you
(07:33):
know what, we could totally leverage this and make a
bunch of money on a jewelry store. Sucks to suck.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
It does suck to suck. I just can't believe that
they thought they would ever be successful, especially since in
season six we have them going to these expos and
at the expos with their boots on the ground, people
are telling them like it's too expensive. People aren't buying
your merchandise, and I can't imagine even with the website
in season seven, are actually going up on My sister
(08:02):
wife closet and buying a lot of things. So like,
that's the universe telling you that this is a bad idea, Robin.
But she's working so hard. Oh pah, my god, I
can't have a baby because I have so much to do.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
We'll get up, I literally can't. But after their little
discussion of My Sister wives closet, then we have like
this segment where Cody is of course at Robin's house
and he's like tucking in all of Robin's kids to bed,
which I just thought weird a little bit. I mean,
I know that these are his kids or whatever, and
(08:39):
he loves them and whatnot, but I'm just like, do
you do that? To all your other kids.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That's what I was wondering. And I also was thinking
about the kids watching these seasons back, because I think
it's about now where he really starts separating himselves from
all of the other homes, and certainly the other wives
and those kids. I'm sure saw and felt that. Oh
And so then to watch this back where he's tucking
(09:03):
in all of Robin's kids and Dayton, I'm just like, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Just think, like the audacity, but you don't do that
to any of your other children, Like it's just wild
fucking truly was a kidney failure and you didn't even
notice her care But okay, let's go ahead and tuck
in sweet Aurora and Brianna and King Solomon and Dayton
to bed every night and talk about how much you
love them. And then, speaking of Dayton, we have this
(09:28):
weird segment where Cody's like, well, I don't think Dayton
has aspergers.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, which was controversial probably at the time, right, I
don't know, controversial, and it's definitely now it's controversial in
twenty twenty five. But like I was like, what are
you talking about. You're not a doctor. And Robin's sitting
there saying I've done all the tests. I mean, I've
put him in front of doctors. No, he's got aspergers,
but they're trying to establish that he's a great kid.
(09:56):
He's not like the other kids. And at some point
Cody even says, I actually feel closer to Dayton than
I do do a lot of my other kids. Yikes, Like,
oh so it's already happening.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
It's already happening. I just don't understand how you like
can do this with good conscience, Like as a parent,
you have all of these other children like that didn't
ask to be born. You know, I can understand falling
out of love with the wives and stuff, I guess,
but like the children though, Okay, Dayton's my favorite.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Basically, maybe he's telling himself that he needs to make
up for a lost time with her three kids because
the other kids, his bio kids with the other three wives,
you know, had all that time with him, but these
kids didn't. I don't know, like, is he maybe not
noticing that he's favoring Robin and his kids? Is he
not thinking about it at this time? But I think
(10:43):
that he's got to be because I think at least
Christine is mentioning it, and I think Mary is probably
mentioning it too. Mary and Cody's relationship is falling apart. Oh,
Like we get into this scene with them in a
little bit, and I'm just like, what has happened just
since the last season, season six, because there's some problems
here in this relationship.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Hardcore problems and like speaking of like Cody's favoritism with
Dayton already starting, like for his birthday, he takes him
out go karting, and that's another thing where it's like,
how like are you doing that with your other children? Though,
like I thought money was tight and you couldn't afford
to do all of these things, Like I doubt. I
think you're probably just giving all of your other kids
(11:24):
like a birthday card, maybe like a birthday dinner or something,
but nothing cool like go kart raising. It's just wild.
And then we get to Cody's celebration with Mary for
her birthday, and like, I feel like his birthday gift
is just him straightening his hair so he looks like
Keith Urpen and it's a gift of his presence. I'm
(11:46):
gonna spend this time with you when I actually hardly
ever spend any time with you because Leon's gone, it's
just you in this haunted house, and I guess we'll
spend two hours together with the cameras there. Yeah, that's
exactly what it is. And his ridiculous hair, and Mary's like,
oh my god, it's so sweet because I'm such a
Keith Urban Mega fan. And I'm like, are your priority
(12:07):
or like, are your uh what's the set the word standards? Yeah,
for your standards? This fucking low that you would accept.
This is like a birthday get Oh my god, my
husband straightened his hair and he looks absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, the answer is yes, wow, Yeah, her standards are low.
And by this time, I don't think that they're copulating.
They're not intimate. She's trying to find a way where
she can reconnect with him. It's not working. So now
she's looking for other interests that she can sink herself
into because she's being rejected and neglected by Cody.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
God, I just can't believe it. Like no wonder she's
on her campaign of like worrying up because you can
see it now. It's like you have no self worth
or love for yourself or like respect for yourself and
your marriage that you would accept this, it's like literally mediocre.
I mean, I guess you go dancing afterwards, yeah, okay,
but nothing else.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
But if she gets nothing normally than it probably is
a big deal to do those things. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
It's just sad justice for Mary, I mean for real.
But at their dinner, at her birthday dinner, she decides
to talk business and talk about her life, and She's like,
I got something really important to tell you, Cody. I
really want to go back to school because you know
what my sister wrives, closet is not my dream. And
Cody's like, yeah, cool, bet, go back to school. I
don't care. Some way, I don't have to talk to
(13:24):
you again. Probably will be saying. But he knows that
Robin is going to be super unhappy about it. And
when we get to the end of the episode, she
is very unhappy and.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Bad, very unhappy. But my question watching this was like,
how come this is all of a sudden Mary's dream,
Like I don't recall her ever mentioning even once that
she wanted to go back to school. She never talked
about her schooling, Like she kind of starts to talk
about it in this episode where she says that she
started college and then she kind of segues into and
(13:57):
I was also working with at risk youth and I
really loved that job. But then I was let go
because of my lifestyle and I never got to go
back to school. I'm not sure how those two things connected. Yeah,
because I thought that she was let go from her job.
Like around season one, I thought, so was she in college?
(14:19):
And season it doesn't make it. They're always lying, yeah,
they're literally always lying. But now she's trying to present
to the viewing audience us that this has been her
lifelong dream to go to university and to help at
risk youth. And I'm like, Okay, is this just a
convenient excuse for you to bow out of my sister
(14:39):
wife's closet, Because that's fair. For sure, I totally support that,
because it's a losing game and it's never gonna make
any money and you're gonna be wasting your time. But like,
just say it, though, yeah, I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
That's the problem with Mary. It's like it's always the
subtext of shit, and it's like, maybe it's because you
wanted to get out of my sister wives closet. Maybe
it's because you're lost in your marriage and in your life.
You're an empty nester and you're alone forever because Cody
doesn't want nothing to do with you. Like maybe that's
what it is, and that sucks, but like, just try
to be real with yourself. But she can't.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
She's not an authentic person at all. She's also not
a brave person at least in these seasons. Like she
can't just sit down across from Robin and to say,
I don't want to do it, it's not my thing,
it's not working, this suck.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, she can't do it because she doesn't have the
courage to do it right. It's so frustrating.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But then we shift gears and we have a kind
of Birds and the Bees talk with Michelt and.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Her door fringe cringe, cringe.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Door goo boyfriend John. We have Christine and Cody talking
to them about fourign a caton kissing and apparently, according
to Cody, you shouldn't kiss because if you kiss, your
hormones will transfer to the other person and then you'll
want to fuck, and.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Then all of a sudden, your pussy's gonna activate and
his is gonna activate, You're gonna start putting it in,
You're gonna start having babies. Yeah, it's like And then
there was the weird comment that he made about God,
like I don't know why God has us go through
puy puberty at fourteen years old, but like not able
to do anything about it until twenty four years old.
(16:18):
I'm like, ew the fuck does that me? Please say less?
What are you talking about? Why are we talking about
kids and puberty and sex?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I'm like, please stop. Yeah, and we don't need to
have this conversation on national TV. But I guess you
guys are so desperate for content that we're going to
embarrass your teenage daughter and her new boyfriend on TV. Like,
you know, if I was John, I would have broke
up with McKelty after this and be like, dude, your
family's weird.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I'm sure she he probably does. Do we ever see
John again? But there's something about this Beatrice that really
bothers me because I hate putting Cody in the position
of being some sort of moral authority about sex and
relationships when the reality is is that you have three
mistresses and you have one preferred mistress that you bang
(17:07):
all the time, and you are actively neglecting your children
and your wives, even in season seven, exactly like you're
gonna sit down with these two youth with like these
brains that are not formed yet, You're gonna try and
tell them how to best live their lives when you're
a cheating ass ho in a cult straight up.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And when he's going on his tangent about why kissing
is bad and it leads to nothing but badness and sin,
you have the older kids on the couch and you
have Leon being like, so you can't kiss, but you
can have sex though, like that's what that means, And
everyone starts laughing because it's like, this is why your
logic makes so fucking sense.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
They're making fun of their fathers, yes rightly, so, Yes,
it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And you make a great point about him with his
polygamous lifestyle. You know him and Robin were doing it
in the butt. At least.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I wasn't thinking about that was the particular moment, but
I guess I wouldn't doubt. But then we also have
him with Janelle in this episode, and you could feel
the sexual vibes. Maybe so he has whatever woman he
wants whenever he wants them, and he's just not the
arbiter of how to conduct yourself in a relationship. That's
(18:15):
just all I'm going to say.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I agree with you one hundred percent. And then we
go to Mary and Cody at Mary's house where they
discuss the Lehigh House because they still own it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, so this came out of left field. What did
you think about this? This was weird?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, because their dynamic was really not good, like all.
So the whole issue is that they still own the
Lee High House and they're trying to sell it, but
they're having a difficult time doing that because it's built
for polygamous families, which is a big no no in
Utah because it's still illegal at the time. And now
they're trying to figure out a way to remodel the
(18:54):
house while they still own it, so that way they
can hopefully sell it for a profit because right now
it's just kind of hemorrhaging money apparently, and Cody says
it's an albatross around their necks. So Cody, from what
I gathered from this conversation with Mary, is he put
the task on Mary to figure out the contractor to
figure out how to remodel shit to take care of everything.
(19:18):
Mary brings him some designs that the contractor drew up
really quick, and she tries to discuss it with Cody,
and Cody's like, these designs suck ass, They're not to scale.
We need to have a better contractor because this is
bullshit and basically everything that you did is trash. And
Mary gets really defensive here, and this is where we
(19:38):
have this like weird.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Argument between them.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I don't know, this was odd to me.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, so I didn't really understand how we got into
the tension because I saw Mary present the plans and
she kind of explained what the contractor was talking about.
Then I saw Cody kind of rebut and say, well,
those plans are kind of jinky. I don't really under
stand where they want to put this wall and it's
not really drawn in the right place. And so if
(20:05):
I don't understand this, am I gonna have to drive
up to Utah? Like this doesn't work? And that's fair,
Like that's valid. But immediately Mary gets very upset and
she starts to get super emotional, and she's like, well,
I guess I just guess I don't know what I'm doing.
Then I guess I shouldn't be the one in charge
of this, And I'm like, pump your brakes a little bit.
(20:26):
I think Cody is giving a valid critique not even
of view but of the contractor, but she's taking it
turbo personally, and it's because there's just a world of
subtext happening here. Like I think Mary wanted Cody to
be proud of her for taking the initiative and actually
talking to contractors and having a plan, which was jankie though, Yeah,
(20:48):
And he didn't come with the energy of like honoring
the work that she had done immediately, and so she
just got really emotional, Like she starts to cry. They
start to like throw barbs at each other and be
passive aggressive, and I'm like, guys, I know, so what's
really happening like and what has really happened in the
last few months. So Leon has gone off to Westminster, Mary,
(21:11):
You've been rambling around in your five bedroom home with
the wet bar. Cody's not coming over. You're trying to
prove yourself to him. Is that what you're doing in
this moment? And he's just blowing you off. But like
I didn't understand where her feelings were coming from personally.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Yeah, I feel like there's something going on that we
don't know, like maybe it was edited out or they
just didn't express it or anything. But like, I'm wondering
if Cody tasked her with taking care of the Lee
High House, because we know Cody doesn't want to do
Jack Diddley squat about anything. He doesn't want to manage
a business, he doesn't even want to manage his family.
He doesn't want to do anything that doesn't involve him
(21:49):
banging Robin's back out. So I feel like he told Mary, like, hey,
take care of this shit at the Lee High House,
and so then she tries. But maybe she doesn't have
the knowledge. She's never dealt with contractors. She doesn't know
what the fuck she's doing, because she says that multiple
times in this conversation, like I don't know what I'm doing,
And she.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Was saying that like earnestly, she was saying that passive aggressively,
like oh, I guess I don't know what the f
I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Well, and I think that might be because Cody's telling
her to do all this shit, she doesn't know what
to do. So she tries to do what she can
and then Cody's shitting all over it. And it's like
Cody makes his passive aggressive comment, We'll like, well, do
I have to go to Utah to get some shit
done around this fucking Leehigh House? Like he says that yeah,
and Mary's like, well, I think that's why she gets defensive.
(22:34):
And they're not like hearing each other obviously, because Cody's
a piece of shit. Mary's also very defensive and passive.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Aggressive, emotional cripple. Well, it's like she cannot say she
can't actually express herself and say, can you just like
calm down a little bit, because if I need to
contact the contractors, I can, but like, can we discuss
the design, like the next steps that I can take?
Like she could also communicate effectively, But she's just such
an emotionally volatile person. And that's the conversation I want
(23:03):
to have, like why are we so tense right now?
What has been going on for the last few months?
What are you feeling? Mary? And that's the problem with
Mary is she never actually shares what's happening in her
life because they're always lying and she's never honest about
her feelings. And so fast forward in the timeline to
twenty twenty five, when she's conducting seminars for hashtag Worthy
(23:24):
Up and I'm like, how do we trust you because
you don't seem emotionally intelligent. Even now, you're still defending Cody. Yeah,
you're still putting down your other wives who had traumatic experiences.
You're still emotionally repressed.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
And it's not that she doesn't have valid things to say, Beatrice,
it's just that she cannot be trusted to say anything truthful.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Honestly, I agree with you because that's the problem. Like
when you live a life where you're not expressing how
you actually feel, like you're just gonna bury all that
down and then what do you spew out? Passive, aggressive, bullshit, defensiveness,
inauthentic express essions of how you feel like and you're
not being truthful, like yeah, why would anybody trust you?
And like not to give Cody any grace or anything,
(24:08):
But it's like, how can you have a conversation with
somebody who is reacting.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Exactly like I think he was trying to actually talk
to her, and yeah, he was being a piece of
shit about it and a bit of a no at all.
I don't know if he's being mean in my life.
I just feel like he was being a no at
all and he wasn't giving her like the props for
doing the work that she had done, but like his
points were valid and she was completely unable to take
(24:33):
any criticism. And he's just like, what's happening? Why are
you getting like this? And so then they start to
fight well, and.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It's like on the couch. When he says that too,
he's like, I don't understand what the problem is here.
Mary's response is, well, we're missing each other. I don't
know how to make you understand, no, the way you
make somebody understand work, talk, use your word, express it.
Like if anybody needs a couple's therapy in this family,
it's these people because they don't know how to talk
to each other. And I don't think they ever really did.
(25:01):
Maybe that's what Cody means when he talks about it
in their later seasons, where he's like, I don't know
what to do with Mary because she's it's like walking
on eggshells with her. It's like one minute she's fine,
the next minute she's mad. I can kind of see it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I can see it as well, but.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
She doesn't know how to talk. Right. So this whole
situation was really interesting to see on camera because I
know it's like, it's not something you see very often
with this family because they try to keep everything like
behind closed doors and under this like weird facade. But
like just having this come out, I'm like, damn, y'all
are suffering.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Things are bad in the cul de sac.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Things are really bad. But you know what's not bad
Cody and Janelle's relationship.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I guess this is the renaissance that we've been talking
about this entire time. There's some sexual vibrations that are
happening here.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yes, it's crazy. So it's their twenty first anniversary, and
so they're going out to celebrate, and of course Cody's
gift to Janelle is wearing his hair and a ponytail, right,
that's right, Just like, okay, this is what they wives
get is just your presence and you styling their hair,
your hair differently for them.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But they go out to dinner and they agree to
not talk about business. They just want to keep it romantic.
Cody expresses, I think in his talking head that they've
actually come to a more romantic place in their marriage
because apparently up until this point, they had just been
friends and fuck buddies.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I guess, well, Janelle's like we were just kind of existing.
I think that previous to the show, they were just
trying to manage a family with very little money. And
so she's working, he's working, and they're two ships that
are missing themselves in the night. But now that they're
in the cul de sac, they're having this space to reconnect.
And he mentions that she's looking real good working with
(26:44):
that personal trainer. Your body Addioddi is looking pretty flag.
I mean she is, though, she looks wonderful.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She looks great, her hair's on fleak.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
They go to the restaurant, it's like a nice, dimly lit,
yeah restaurant, and he like makes this declaration of love
to her, and I was just like, damn, I've never
heard him speak about any of the wives except Robin
this way. And he's like, I love you, I am
in love with you, I love this time in our life.
We are romantic, and he was like really feeling her,
(27:16):
you know. I was like, oh my god, these people
are into each other.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It's kind of crazy to see because we've been hearing
this in season nineteen and eighteen and everything Renaissance in
Las Vegas, and now we're starting to see in the
beginning of it. And then they come home and it's
late and they put the kids to bed, and Cody's like, hege, no,
let's go to.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Our kind of tired. Don't you want to go to.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Bed A little sucky sucky?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yea. I know. It's like, damn, they're gonna go and
have sex. They're going to have sex allegedly, good for
you to know, I mean, if it was any good,
but I mean, based on Christine's book Girl, he's not
a great lover. We'll get to that in the app
We get to that in the app show.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
And then we have Robin at her house. She's pretending
that she is so disheveled and overwhelmed. She's like, I
gotta have a talk with col.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Like Cody just walks into the house from banging Janelle's backup.
He walks over to Robin's house, opens the door, and
she's like, Cody, I have to talk to you. It's
really important, and then takes him away into the bathroom
or whatever and starts to have this very serious conversation
about how she's working really hard. I don't think you
(28:26):
got it. I don't think anybody understands what I am
doing for my sister wife's closet. And so she tries
to tell him that there's just no way I'm going
to be able to have another child if I'm working
this hard, which felt to me like this is a
conversation they have been having, and Cody has probably let
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her know that he'd love to have another kid, and
she's like, absolutely, Papa, But now she's holding this over
his head, like I'm not going to be able to
give you a kid unless we get an injection of
money from some venture capitalist, or I get an assistant
or whatever Markan do art.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It's just so crazy to me because we know it
this time. She's got I think, like her sister watching
her kids all the time, or maybe she's got a
nanny at this point, but like, you're not doing jack shit.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
She's designing Beatrice.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh my god, I just can't. I Like, I screamed,
because I'm just like, you really think we're gonna buy
this story that you've been working so hard.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
So she thinks that she's been working so hardly, sitting
down with her sketch book, working out infinite hearts and trees,
and she's like, look at the work product. I'm the talent.
I'm the creative. Everybody else needs to be setting up
the expos and doing all the admin stuff because I'm working.
That's exactly hard.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's exactly And of course Cody is like one hundred
percent attentive to Robin and her knees and he's like,
oh my god, I was shocked by this conversation. But
I know exactly what she needs. I know exactly what
she means, and yeah, we do need this, dick, continue this, dick,
this investers. We need to get this ship going to
the way. My sweet Robin is less overwhelmed. God forbid
(30:11):
though that, like Christine and Janelle and Mary all have
their own problem.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Fuck then, yeah, Robin, right.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
She is stressed and we got to help her out.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
With a problem that she created and then started demanding
that everybody feed into. Yeah, and they've done as much
as they're willing to do. And now you're mad about it.
And you're about to get even more mad about it
because here comes Mary wanting to go back to college,
and she comes very with her dreams. She's got her
own dreams. Robin is that okay, No, it is not,
(30:43):
it's not okay.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
But before we even get to that, we have the
freaking venture capitalist meeting. And this was so hard to watch.
It was so so delicious, well because it's like so
cringey to watch them like completely crash and burn in
front of these like business people that are probably moderately successful.
(31:04):
They're acting like they're like Wall Street professionals. They act
like they're so like big business, rolling in the dough
and everything, but they're just probably like mortgage brokers or something.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Can I ask you a question, what do you think
that Cody and his wives were thinking before they went
into that meeting. Were they thinking that they were going
to be taken very seriously? What were they expecting from
this meeting? Because Janelle comes out of it embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Oh yeah, for sure. I think they were all thinking
that they were just going to get advice. I don't
think they understood what a meeting like this would entail,
what would have been expected of them. I think they
thought that they had like good ideas and stuff, but
I don't think they know how to run a business obviously,
because they don't know. Like it's like the people on
Shark of the actual show Shark Tank that come on
(31:52):
with like a poster board like presentation, and the Shark
Tank people laugh in their face, like what are you
doing here? If you want our money, you have to
show us that you have a successful, ish business. But
they just think that they're going to get free business advice,
which I'm just like, you could literally google it right
like at this time, you could totally google it. YouTube
(32:13):
was existing back then well and.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
As just a sidebar, Like I owned a successful business,
I would say I don't have it anymore. But at
the time, I remember like a lot of my friends
and peers would want to just like buy me a
coffee and pick my brain, like, well, can you tell
me how you run your program step by step by step,
(32:37):
like wanted to take an hour out of my day
and like learn all of my trade secrets that it
could then steal it and start their own program or
do whatever they were going to be doing. And I'm
just like, my time is valuable, not just to my
work and the people that I work with, but like
it's worth something and it's like for me to sit
down with you at a table and share like the
(32:59):
secrets of my success. That's like a big ask. Yeah,
So I'm sure that Stan and Amy weren't coming in
just expecting to divulge all of their trade secrets and
what they can do to succeed. Like why are you
paying them?
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Like what are you giving in exchange for that kind
of information? Like that's worth something. But the Browns are
so stupid that they don't understand that that's what they're
asking for and they don't deserve it.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
No, they don't. And it's like a fine line because obviously,
like I'm sure Stan was told by TLC like just
pretend to help them whatever, And it's like, you know,
you don't want to like gatekeep information, but at the
same time, it's like you don't want to just give
it away to people for free who are just going
to take advantage.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
They're not going to be good stewards of it.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And like the thing is is like with your business
as an example, you wanted it so badly that you
did all the research, you put in, all of the
hard work, you grinded hardcore to make it successful because
you wanted it so All these other people want the
business so badly they could do the work themselves too.
If you want it so badly, then put in the
fucking effort. And that's what the thing with the Browns.
(34:03):
It's like I think they were just wanting free advice
and free help and free secrets and stuff because they
don't want to actually put in any of the effort,
especially Robin. And at this point we know it's just
Robin putting in the effort because everybody else doesn't give
a shit, right, So it just this whole meeting was
just embarrassing. And I know that they end up having
(34:24):
another like shark Tank meeting later in this season, I think,
or the next where they pitch it and it's horrible,
and that's where they like value their business at like
five million dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I can't wait to get there, but I just can't.
I cringe so deeply into my body. It's so crazy
that it becomes a ke girl, which we call a cracle.
But I mean even at the meeting, and I respected
Stan in the moment because he didn't let them off
the hook. He's like the investors that I know who
work in kind of the business that you're talking about
(34:56):
would eat you alive. Like I expected you to show
up to this this preliminary meeting where we're just meeting
each other with a business plan, with a presentation, with
knowing your profitability, like what is your overhead? Like I
expected all of this analysis from you and you've got nothing.
You're just here to find out what I can give you.
And he put them on blast, and that's why Janelle
(35:18):
was embarrassed and saying on the couch that they look
like fools.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Dude, I would have literally crawled back into a hole
and never been seen ever again. If I was in
a presentation like that on TV too, being embarrassed like.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
The men of the guy just like disappearance, that.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Would be me. I'd be so embarrassed. That's why it
was so hard for me to watch because I'm just like,
I cannot imagine being that stupid and like going to
sit with this lay mass investor and have him just
like call you out on your bullshit, you know, and
then they go.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I was gonna say it.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Another thing that the investor told them was that they
can expect to give I think thirty percent, yeah yeah,
thirty percent of their profits to whoever invests in their business.
And what they think they're worried about is sharing the money,
but also losing control. And Cody says in the meeting,
so I know that, you know, you stay in your lane,
which is you're the investor. We stay in our lane.
(36:14):
But if at some point we're not running the business
in the right way, you will get into our lane.
And this is where Stand says, well, yeah, we'll take
over the business. Yeah, because we're funding the business and
that's how business works.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
And I'm just like, Cody, how do you not understand this?
Like that's basic one oh one? Wasn't Shark Tank premiering
at this point? I think that's why they're doing Yes,
you think it's that. Yeah, I think it's a trend
that's currently in the zeitgeist, which is probably got Robin
thinking to herself.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Oh my god, we should go on Shark Tank. And
so this is a version of that.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Oh my god, I love to see it. I'd love
to see them crash and burn, especially Cody and Robin,
because they're dumb and they don't deserve anybody's money.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well, I kind of thought that Cody was airing a
concern that he actually has because he knows his wives,
even Robin, and he's like, we're gonna fuck this up.
Our expos suck nobody's buying as it is currently on
our website. So, like, what happens if the investors think
we're mismanaging this thing and he's asking the questions that
the women can hear, Well, it's gonna get taken over, Robin,
(37:20):
It's gonna get taken over.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Do you think Cody at this time thinks that this
is a stupid idea.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I think he knows this is a vanity project for Robin,
and he's doing it because he loves that sweet, sweet
breakdance and pussy. Oh, come on, correct me, I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I think you're probably right, honestly. And then the last
part of the episode is when we have Cody's birthday
because God, so many Capricorn in this family bought the caps.
Just kill me, I would know too much. But anyway,
we have Cody's birthday, and this is where Mary takes
Robin aside, brings her back to her lonely ass house
(38:02):
to sit her down and gently tell her, Hey, your
dreams stupid and I'm going back to school, and Robin freaks.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Out inwardly, Yes, she tells the camera like I had
to fight my urge to just get up and walk
out of her house because she was that upset. But
here again, this is a great demonstration of how Mary
at her big fucking age does not know how to
communicate simple ideas, Because there was a way to have
(38:33):
said this to Robin where you didn't have to alarm her.
Because from what I'm getting from Mary, like, she's still
going to work in the business. She's still going to
be a partner to Robin. It's just that her availability
is not going to be what it once was, but
her crabmin is still there. Yeah, So she could have
framed it in a way that wasn't so worrying to Robin.
(38:54):
But no, she's dumb. Yeah, and so she's like, I
just wanted to tell you that my dream is different.
My dream is to go back to college, which I'm
just discovering my dream for the first time in my
life at forty five years of age. Yeah, and my
dream is not my sister wife's closet. Yikes. But I'm
still here. I mean, don't be worried about it.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
But at the same time, it's like, why do you
even have to have a conversation like this with Robin?
Why does Robin even care so much Robin has power. Well, yeah,
and Robin also is putting all of the work on
all of the wives. I eat Mary, mainly because Jane
and Christina do give a book and they've already made
it known that they don't give a buck about my
(39:36):
sister's closet. And so Mary was really Robin's minion. And
so now Robin's minion is telling her, you know what,
I'm gonna pave my own way. Dobby's free, and I'm
gonna do what I want. And Robin freaks the fuck out,
and like Mary knew she was going to freak the
fuck out, And I just think, what an unhealthy, toxic dynamic.
(39:58):
And you're right, Robin does have all the power with
Cody and in the family in general. And so now
to have Mary shit all over Robin's dream and ruin
it for her because Robin's acting like her dream is dead.
What do you mean I can't be the favorite wife
and have all the wives make money for me while
(40:19):
I bang their husband day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And take all of the money, get all of the
money and all of the resources. Well, she does say
Robin in this conversation something like I just feel like
I'm trying to invite my friends into a party, but
none of my friends want to come to the party,
And like, so you're taking this business thing personally as
a rejection, and then we know you're going to use
(40:45):
that in the future against Mary. And as I was
watching this, I'm just forecasting into the future, like a
couple of years when Mary, I guess doesn't go to school. Yeah,
but she starts Luluo and Mary becomes a star in life,
and we know she starts breaking in the books. Honey,
She's making hundreds of thousands of dollars, having gotten in
(41:07):
at the very beginning with Lularo, and so you can
just imagine it's not the same business. But in this
episode we hear Robin and Christine talking about maybe expanding
the business into homewares and clothing and things of that nature.
So Lularow isn't exactly the same thing, but it's adjacent
to some degree. So to then have Mary start her
(41:29):
own business selling clothes, which she could have been doing
for my sister wife closet, she could have used all
that energy for that, but she chose not to and
then is wildly successful. I can see how then when
the Catfish begins and Robin hears of this from Kendra,
who we met in San Francisco in season six, and
(41:50):
Kendras feeding Robin and Cody all this information about Mary.
I can see why Robin, being the poisonous person, would
do that because she's jealous list of Mary making all
that money, because that's what motivates Robin and Cody. It's
the money, and they want that money, yep. And they
also want to punish.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Mary, definitely. They want to punish her for not following
suit and their control and in their stupid business. And
it's like, Robin, you could have done the same fucking thing.
Why didn't you sell like some avon or something. Why
didn't you do anything else other than my sister Wide's closet.
I don't know why you held on to that. I
wonder if she used that as like a manipulation to
(42:29):
keep the family together too, like not even just about money,
but just like, well, I was a good sister wife
because I wanted to do a business where I included
all of you, and you guys did your own separate
things and abandoned me. And that's how Cody, you know,
turned all of it against the wives. And everything. I
don't know, just whole situation. I'm just like Robin, you're
(42:50):
fucking psycho.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Yeah, And I go back to the fact that she's
sniffing her own farts. She believes her own hype. She
believes that this is actually a business that has legs
that could become something great. She has no idea that
her designs suck, that her ideas are derivative and stolen
from another online shop apparently, But like everything you're doing sucks, yep,
(43:14):
but you think everything you're doing is great. Narc Yeah, narc.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Total nark behavior and then taking it personally. Yes, when
Mary wants to do her own thing, go to college,
go to college, like who cares? Right, I mean I
can understand, like if you and Mary maybe had a
conversation and Mary was like, I'm in this one hundred percent.
I'm not going to do anything other than that, and
then Mary drops a bomb on you. But you know what,
(43:38):
maybe you shouldn't have stolen her man. Yeah, up, maybe
you have. You shouldn't have been such a.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Bitch, period period period.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Anyway, that's it.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
And that was the end episode. What like there was
a lot going on, was it was much better than
the whole commitment. Sarah Coney, arc of like five episodes.
I was so bored, so like, I'm excited to get
into the things that are going to be coming in
this season. Now. Is there anything else that we should
say to these beautiful raccoons before we get all up
(44:08):
into our after party?
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Beatrice, Well, if you love our podcast, please go to
your favorite podcast platform and leave us a glowey five
star review. It really helps us grow the pod some
more people can join us in the dumpster, and we
really appreciate it, so thank you.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
We will be back later this week to continue our
conversation in the run up to Lydia's wedding on Welcome
to Platfa. You better be watching it is ash good
come back for that recap, and again, if you are
a patron, stay tuned. We're going to have our after
show after party. But until we return, please do not
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