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Sister Wives S5 E7 - Polygamist Pilgrimage Into the Past - Part 1 · My Sister Wives Podcast

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What does the nanny do? OK, so we're done.
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Goodbye. You.
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Shut it off. Do not twist my words.
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Do not make me a victim. Sweetie, Just look at the
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mountain. That's what you.
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Saw that day just the knife in
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and the sacrifices that I made
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Buckle your seatbelts everybody.
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We are going on an adventure like you haven't seen or heard
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Score in several years ago on the dysentery.
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Trail. Yeah, it is almost like we're
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going back in time. I mean.
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And it's just as made-up as that computer game.
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Yeah, it's a journey and it is definitely made-up.
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Come with us now as we take a journey into Season 5, Episode 7
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We'll see how long that lasts. We opened this wonderful episode
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opening at Janelle's house because we actually see Logan
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and Christine in the opening shot.
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So I was like, what's going on here?
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I was a little confused. But Logan is eating mock tapioca
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What are these and? Christine's making this for
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Logan's birthday, says You know this is your birthday gift.
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OK, whatever. Another birthday about to be
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overshadowed by big announcements.
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Of course, of course. We don't talk about the recaps
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Kody's couch conversation about the baby decision again.
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And when she says I don't think you do in response to him saying
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face that looks like he is just so fucking over it and he
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looks disgusted and the look is hateful.
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Yeah, when you see the footage
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episode or whatever episode it
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different, the shot was different and I didn't catch it.
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They didn't show his facial reaction to her quote there.
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Yeah, what did she say again? Well, he says first.
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I know this is a tough decision.
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And then she says, I don't think you do.
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That's right in his face. Doesn't he like shoot his head
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Believe he puts his head up and he does this thing where he kind
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his eyes are buggin and he has this hateful look in his eyes.
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need to know about where their relationship is truly at.
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And you know, Chris and I, we each watched the episode solo
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and then kind of chit chatted before watching it together.
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And I was like, did you? And I didn't even have to say
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what I was going to say. And you were like, yes.
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It was intense and it stood out as a moment where we even talked
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some of the nonverbals and their reactions to each other.
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Because it looks like he is like shut the fuck up, I don't want
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I can't believe I'm doing this captured in a second.
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It's everything that you need to know about where the
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relationship was truly at during that interview around season 5,
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episode 5 to 7, you know, or after when they recorded the
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couch conversations. But I was telling Chris, I'm
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like, This is why doing the rewatch is so interesting,
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because I don't think when I was hearing about this or when
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people were watching it in real time that they maybe caught
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these little tells. And now rewatching it, it's just
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Absolutely. Honestly, I don't.
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If I ever saw my husband look at me like that or do a look like
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Right. Yeah, I would know.
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Our marriage was in a horrible. Spot hate filled disgust, blah
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It was not cute. It.
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Was not cute and he was not keeping sweet.
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He was not keeping sweet, that is for sure.
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Oh, do you bastard. And thank you for bringing that
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up because it is totally worth mentioning.
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It was a high impact moment that was in a previously on SO.
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Yeah, recaps are usually like we gloss over, we don't notice
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much, but you guys are going to hear us talk about this episode.
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mentions here and there about how Meri, if she had a baby,
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then this, but nothing that warranted that in the recap.
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Right. Other than maybe if the
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producers were being smart trying to show something
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sinister. Or maybe just to keep viewers
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remembering, like remember that this is a thing and you know,
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and it's one of those things, it's like we cannot forget.
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We literally you will not allow us to.
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Forget beat us with it. Seriously.
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Oh my gosh. So when we're coming back to the
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start of the episode, Kody says that he has an announcement.
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So like you said, another birthday that gets overshadowed
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by an announcement, which is so ridiculous.
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They're all like gathered for Logan's birthday AKA an
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announcement where everyone's gathered in the living room and
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sitting around anxiously waiting
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he says how would everyone like to take a vacation to Nauvoo
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IL in? Two RV's.
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Oh my God, the younger kids are excited.
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They all have the like young kid enthusiasm gay.
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We're going to go on a trip and. We're in an.
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RV spinning around in circles and spreading our germs
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everywhere and it's like, cool. But our favorite child, Mckelty.
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Yeah, the older kids are not excited and they do a close up
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of Mckelty, OH. My God, she does the gun to head
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and pulling the trigger gesture.
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That was huge back then. I'm sure I did it many a time at
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Right, yeah, Kody does in some of the details says, you know,
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blah, blah, blah. I think, Mckelty says it's
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boring. We get to learn about our
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culture in Illinois. Illinois.
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It's so annoying. I love.
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It it's so totally teenage vibes.
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Like, yeah, who would want to be with their family in an RV for
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Which it turns out, they actually do need to learn some
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Yeah, Yeah, they do. Which is funny.
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It's like an unintended part of the episode.
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I feel like by the end you were making comments about how, wow,
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they're really learning a lot about what they're so
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passionate. What they should already fucking
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Oh yeah. Then Kody says it's got a lot of
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just tripped me up. It's really like going to
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Jerusalem. Right.
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Well, Christine says it's a family vacation, but some of the
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And it's like, yes, OK, you're stressed.
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And that's when Kody says it's like a pilgrimage.
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Polygamy didn't start there, but it's significant in LDS culture.
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Yeah, Joseph Smith introduced the idea of polygamy in Nauvoo,
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IL. Yes, ultimately leading to his
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death. Yeah, we're going to be talking
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a lot about Nauvoo, which is an interesting word.
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It reminds me of the planet of
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And once again, it's all made-up.
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It is. It is just like Star Wars and
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Kody even mentions at one point that this history dates back to
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100 or so years ago and he doesn't even know exactly when
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while making that comment. And I'm like, if you can trace
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your religion to 100 or so years
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call. Right right right.
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The LDS church has struggled for
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itself from polygamy. Therefore Kody and his family
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are like outsiders. They're like a problem to the
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LDS church, which interesting to
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established religion that your
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that broke away. So it makes sense.
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But it's also like, yeah, you're
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and not really catching the irony in that.
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Problem to society, problem to
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But I digress. Just a problem.
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A problem to our eyes and ears
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So then we get a shot of the adults sitting around a table
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doing their planning for this trip.
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And OK, so Janelle, you know, sometimes we get reminded of why
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Janelle's our queen and why we
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And she says it'll be nice to get away from the chaos of
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building the houses for a week.
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She's also looking forward to not thinking about anything for
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a week. And I'm like not thinking about
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anything. While you white knuckle the
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steering wheel of an RV for days on end.
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OK, Janelle. This theme keeps coming up for
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sidetracked right now, but I kind of scratched my head and my
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the time? These people make it sound like,
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OK, Yeah. You know, planning the build of
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a home is somewhat stressful, but my God, Janelle, stop going
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to the gym at the ass crack of dawn and, you know, ignoring
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your children all day. I guess I I don't really know.
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kind of chaos for another. Yeah, well.
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Yeah, well, yeah, the Brown family chaos.
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Meri says that this is giving me stress.
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Yeah. And it's all over her face.
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Well, we find out that it's going to be a 1600 mile
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pilgrimage from Vegas to Nauvoo and it's going to take 3 days of
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Three days to get there and three days to get back.
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Seven days total they said the trip.
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So one day in Nauvoo, after all this mess express of planning
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and I want to know what the fuck is the hurry?
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What is the rush? Why I don't, I don't know.
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And in classic television storytelling, do we get any
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footage of them coming back home?
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No. So I wonder if they really took
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the RV back home or not. Maybe they just were like, we've
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that they didn't want to torture us.
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I don't know. Yeah, I, I just, I I just
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questioned whether they took the
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But. Well, maybe they got dysentery
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on the way home and they couldn't.
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Show us they couldn't. Maybe they had somewhere loose
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rolls and loose stools on the way home, you know, and.
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Maddie rolling up loose stools
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Rolling up their loose stools and inside the camper.
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In the RV, hitting the bumps and
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loose rolls. No.
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Oh man, You know, once a chef, I
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about if something fun comes up, how could they fit it into
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their trip? And I love it, Meri says.
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If it's not in the plan, it's not happening.
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And she has these wide, aggressive eyes.
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Like don't you even test me or
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Do not fuck with a planner when it comes to a road trip where
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you have no time for silly business.
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Nope, no time whatsoever. We've just constructed this
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timeline of our own volition. That literally doesn't matter,
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right? OK, because they're all getting
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back to their busy lives. Of what?
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Which nobody knows, Christine says.
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The more we talk about it, the
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I'm just saying forget about me because this sounds like a lot
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of stress. Yeah, just have fun without me.
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This sounds like a lot of stress.
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And then she makes a face. She made a lot of faces in this
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episode. It's very expressive.
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Christine, This entire episode
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to come out and say it again. I've said it the last few
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episodes. I love Christine now.
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I love her. I am a stand for Christine.
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Christine. I'm just I'm wondering if you're
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running a fever. No, she is just being so fucking
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honest and it's so refreshing and she's the only one that's
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like calling out the shit and just being blatantly honest and
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she's making her faces and she's
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being silly. And maybe it's the cider flowing
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through veins. Maybe it's the potential.
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I I'm not going to say it, but
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she mentions she perhaps was on something that she decided not
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to take any more after taking it
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But she is hilarious this entire
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speaking truths. She was definitely the comedic
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relief in this episode. I did chuckle more than I've
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ever laughed with Christine collectively over the entire
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series at this point, so that's a good thing.
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When she was kind of like sidebar the last few episodes
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quiet here and there other than her huge exam that she took the
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last episode and. Talking about how their families
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breaking up and disintegrating.
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Yeah. And that nothing works and
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nothing makes sense. Yeah.
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This episode, she was definitely slapstick, which is, Yeah.
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It was fun. It's like the last episode she
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I am who I am. I do suspect she's on drugs.
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I'm just. Saying she's You mean like
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Maddie? She's definitely roll.
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She's on a different drug than Maddie.
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That's. Allegedly.
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Allegedly. Allegedly.
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Maddie that episode was like, I'm chill, I'm cool.
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She's also like that in this episode.
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I'll get, I'll get through a sentence eventually and
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Christine's like, I'm going to tell you what's going on.
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Oh my God. We get to Meri's and she's
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packing the camper and cleaning her house and she's acting like
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it's so early in the morning and they show her clock on her
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Shut up. I know well you're a mom with
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young kids, but to the average person?
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To someone. Now she's been up for five hours
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Yeah. I mean, to be up at 728 packing
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up the RV, frantically cleaning, you know, it's is what
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it is. She's trying to get ready to go
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and she says that she can't stand leaving her house a mess,
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so she's going nuts. And I identify with that there.
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You know, I don't like leaving a
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that when you get home you're not like, Oh my God, this is
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what I got home to. I agree, I don't like leaving
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the place in a state of despair because I don't want to come
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back and feel that despair again
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Are you the type of person that when you get back from a trip
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you unpack the first day? Or do you slowly unpack
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overtime? Oh, good question.
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I usually, oh gosh, it's, it kind of depends on when you get
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in, you know, but usually I because I try to leave things in
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a state of I don't have to do anything.
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I might throw all my laundry into the wash and then sit on
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the couch for the rest of the day.
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I try not to have any activities
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I usually don't have to do a lot
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know, putting my carry on into the washing machine.
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I like to unpack right when I get home if possible, depending
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on the circumstances, and then I
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sitting out for public view for days on end for my husband to
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take back downstairs. That's what I was assuming was
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for the hubby to put it away. Yes, if I just leave this object
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here for long enough, surely it will be put away.
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Surely it will disappear magically.
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That's amazing. This is followed by a mini
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collage of them putting their things into the RV's getting
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settled. You know that this is an early
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morning mild version of Brown family chaos.
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Just guess what? We're getting ready to go,
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everybody. We find out who's coming and who
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is not coming. We find out that Robyn's sister
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Tara is coming along. Yes, remember her from a
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previous episode? We couldn't remember her name.
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I wrote it down. This time it's Tara.
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We have 21 people total coming
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Hunter is staying back for football camp and Logan is
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staying back for I don't remember why.
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Prior obligations. Prior obligations.
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Getting ready for college, let's
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Maddie is jealous of the boys that get to stay behind.
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Of course she is. Luckily, unlike her sister, she
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didn't make any. I'm killing myself with a gun.
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Oh. Gestures, Yeah.
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She did have a bun on the top of
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cotton candy, like fuzz, like she has literally bleached the
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absolute living tar out of that hair.
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And there's just a lot of cotton candy now that's leftover.
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I thought it was beautiful. Maddie does predict that things
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will be calm for the first day of their travels.
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And then she says, quote, things are going to get bad.
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And I was like, yes, things are going to get bad.
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They totally are. They have to drive through 7
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states. They let us know that Robyn and
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Christine are going to stay in hotels and that Meri and Janelle
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the RV's and Robyn and Christine staying in hotels?
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Well. Do they tell us?
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There's a joke made about how having babies is driving this
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decision and I don't remember what the back and forth is right
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Princess which. You know, Christine, she might
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Come on.
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She's a plague Princess. Polygamist royalty, yes.
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And that's when Kody cracks a joke to Meri that if she had a
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baby, she wouldn't have to stay in the RV.
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Meri says she was easygoing with
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She didn't really care whether
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And I don't really know. Was there details about this
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baby thing that stood out to you?
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I mean. They just call attention to the
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fact that the two with the youngest children are the ones
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that are staying in a hotel and that they use their babies as
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an excuse for being the ones that need to stay in the
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hotel. And it doesn't really track
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because honestly if I had a baby I'd probably prefer being in the
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But packing up all of your like baby stuff every morning from a
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hotel room to get back to the family seems like more work than
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spot. But I'm also curious how the
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kids get divvied up right? Because just because Robyn and
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Christine are staying in hotel
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their own hotel room? Because if your if your baby's
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young enough to wake up and be
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RV would be a better place to stay.
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You're at least by yourself and not waking up the children, but
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maybe the kids are staying in the RV's.
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They don't really give us these details.
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They don't explain Kody calls it
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makes me wonder if they actually set up tents for some of the
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kids. They probably did.
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So if they actually did that, then maybe it does make more
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sense for the babies and the moms to be at the hotel.
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So they're not helping with all of that because the babies have
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an actual bedtime. But either way, they don't.
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Make any night anyway so. No, either way it's just weird.
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I'm not I.
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It's messy and it's just another
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to the fact that Meri doesn't have a baby.
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And it's like, my God, just stop.
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Of course, yeah. I think another thing that makes
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sense to me is that Meri talks
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either way. And I think it's funny because
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Meri is particular about certain
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makes sure to point out when she's like, I'm cool with it,
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I'm flexible. And sometimes I feel like
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there's an element of people not
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looking at it going, why wouldn't you just believe her?
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In this instance? Meri's literally like I can
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sleep in in the RV, it's cool.
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don't care. And I feel like there's a vibe
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of well, really Mare and it's like, I don't know, it seems
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like she would be fine with it.
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And Janelle tried to live in a teepee and she didn't make it
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overnight. She likes camping.
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She like. Literally tried to live in a
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teepee. Of course she's going to pick
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the RV because she's like, I want to stay in an RV.
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Like that's her vibe. Also though, this entire episode
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We definitely see that as a pattern.
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Our first stop on this family voyage, this pilgrimage, excuse
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me, it's not a voyage, it's a pilgrimage, Is St.
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George, UT to visit their friend Chris who owns family Pond.
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Now luckily Chris say luckily Chris does come up as a
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reoccurring character in the show.
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We get to interact with him in future episodes.
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So we're just getting a little taste of Chris, which is what I
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like to call going on a first date with Chris, a little taste
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of Chris. Chris also owns the home in
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Nauvoo that the family will be staying in the Hiram Smith farm,
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detail to get out of nowhere. And then you're wondering, why
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finding out things about their past.
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Well, not their past, their fake religions past which includes
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Joseph Smith and his brother Hiram Smith blah blah blah yadda
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shit in the store that's like a picture of Joseph Smith, Brigham
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out and I trauma blocked because I'm like I don't know
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what to even say or care about.
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They are looking at a photo and a letter, and the letter is
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important. It adds value and it's a Brigham
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Young and it is worth about $6000 in this Utah pawn shop.
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Oh yes. 6K6. K.
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And if it was outside of Utah or
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worth 6K? Probably not.
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You'd be in a dumpster. Yeah, they joke that Kody looks
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like him, that Kody looks like
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that Brigham Young is handsome, so she doesn't mind the
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comparison. And it's like you fucking kiss
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ass. They also called Brigham Young
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Uncle Brigham Young, which I thought was creepy.
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I'm like, is this some sort of, you know, like, familiar term
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for the religious fanatics? And I puked a little in my
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mouth, and I swallowed it, and
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But the photo of him, like, he's
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cleft beard or I don't know what
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It's not attractive. And then, of course, when
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they're drawing this comparison,
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turn his head and try to do whatever.
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And it's like, you know, you guys are just putting out how
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you all look the same because you're all inbred.
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Like it's so weird. They also call Brigham Young the
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Illinois. Right, right.
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Modern Moses. He didn't part any seas, but he
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didn't help the criminals and freaks get over some hills.
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Well, I would like to dispute that because he parted a lot of
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red seas. Oh my God, Oh my God.
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In fact, Brigham Young had two dozen wives at least, so there
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I cannot believe you just did that.
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I cannot believe it. I mean, it's a beautiful thing.
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A goal for their first day of
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travel leaving Vegas is to get
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on the West side of the state.
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which is 525 miles now, if you're from the West or you've
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driven through the West, it's funny because I was like, Grand
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Junction Co has been a destination for me.
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Like when you're going that way,
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Coast or anywhere over there, Grand Junction is such a staple
26:32
to stop in because you're like, we're getting across the
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border, We're getting to a place.
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Like it just is so funny to see. And I'm like, how many people
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have been like, we just have to get to Grand Junction, Co.
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Meri is doing a lot of Rd. math. Oh yes, she is.
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She's got the hours down and when she said something like,
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oh, I think it's going to take 8 hours or 12 hours, I don't
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remember what she said. 8 or 9 hours for 500 miles.
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Right. She said 8 or 9 hours and I'm
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going For me as a single man doing the trip by myself, I
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would plan for 10 hours. And that's to like stop to get
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like a mile a minute. Yeah, 525 miles divided by 60 is
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Put 16 hours of driving each day, but that they could do 8 or
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this Mile Rd. math for you. Yeah, no, she did not do well at
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miles, I'm like that's mile a minute I think, right.
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Well, yes, 525 miles divided by 60, which is how many minutes
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are in an hour, is 8.75. So even if you didn't stop and
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If you plan on a mile a minute like you're talking about,
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that's 8.75 hours, which is why I would think it would take 10
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they're never going to stop. They're just going to float
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through everything like it's weird math.
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Well, they're in RV's. They shouldn't have to stop.
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They should have potty time in their RV's, but then they've got
28:12
I don't know how many vans. I didn't even note that there
28:15
was a van, so I don't know. I guess if they could all fit in
28:22
Well, they show the van being driven by Christine at one
28:26
point, or by Robyn, so. They do have to stop.
28:30
Yeah, they do have to stop, and they tell us that their potty
28:33
stops take about an hour each. Oh yeah, they can't just do a
28:37
tinkle. It's got to be an hour ordeal,
28:43
There would be whippersnap you've got.
28:45
Hell no. You've got 2 minutes to pee and
28:47
then I'm leaving you in this state we don't live in.
28:49
The women you don't get a toilet.
28:51
We stop on the side of the road and you use one of those little
28:55
Dingle hoppers that you put up to the.
28:57
Oh God. You know what I'm talking about?
29:01
for women to stand and pee. Pee.
29:03
Yes, and you got to sanitize your own dinglehopper.
29:08
Sanitize. Who said anything about that
29:10
happening? You just throw it in the back.
29:13
Well, of course, because Meri sucks at math.
29:15
I was going to, I was going to
29:17
And then I realized, Chris, that's sexist.
29:20
Quit talking about girl math, Girl math about food.
29:24
I want to be respectful. So because she did women math,
29:27
it took them 16 hours to get word.
29:30
Should have taken them ten. OK, you know it is what it is.
29:34
Meri never told us she was a mathematician.
29:37
Me girl math about food, that's in my mind when I'm doing like
29:41
this thing's this many calories and this and this, and it's
29:44
like girl math girl fun time. I just heard about it on the
29:49
Internet. I don't, I don't know anything.
29:50
Well, that's probably not even
29:53
situation, but that's just, you know, my own.
29:57
No one said you were normal, honey.
29:59
Now they acknowledge they're slow travelers and that their
30:01
potty breaks take an hour. Like you said.
30:04
They arrive at the campsite after dark, which is such great
30:07
footage. They're rolling into the
30:08
campsite and Kody says they can't arrive at their evening
30:12
destinations 4 hours late every night when you didn't even
30:16
double check your wife's terrible math.
30:19
There you go. I mean, it's like leaving
30:20
Janelle in charge of the finances.
30:22
We left Meri in charge of the road math.
30:24
I don't know what you expected, Lee.
30:28
It's all, it's all women math to
30:32
It's late and Kody still wants
30:36
And she rolls her eyes in this
30:40
And it was funny. So we had to have a family
30:42
meeting at 11:00. 11:00 PM to talk about the schedule in about
30:47
the 7:00 AM call time. He calls it a call time.
30:51
Call time, Meri, Meri, Meri. Quite contrary, she says.
30:56
We left at 8:00 this morning and
30:59
We have a schedule and Christine
31:02
doing the teacher voice. Charlie Brown, The Peanuts.
31:09
She's like the all I'm hearing
31:13
too at that time after hearing
31:17
ride for over 8 hours and Janelle is playing with her hair
31:24
and staring off and she looks exactly like Maddie.
31:28
Maddie does this exact same thing and Oh my gosh they look
31:35
like twins. When I saw that I was like, Oh
31:38
no, this is crazy. I pointed out at this point that
31:44
for the first time I've noticed Kody's ring and there is some
31:47
lore around Kody's ring and going from the Clada to perhaps
31:55
a ring that Christine picked out
31:58
approved that he wouldn't wear.
31:59
Then he goes to like this big signet weird ring from the
32:03
collection that Robyn designs and this is the first time that
32:08
I've noticed his rings. I do believe that it has a
32:12
changed and that's all I can say about it 'cause we couldn't
32:16
really tell. There was 1 clear shot of it and
32:21
around the time that he changed his ring Season 5 Episode 7,
32:26
it's noticeable. And it parallels with Christine
32:29
talking about how it's great that there's a schedule, but
32:32
that she's probably going to be cranky every night.
32:34
Maybe she noticed that ring. It was like glistening in the
32:38
light. And she was like, oh, that
32:39
bastard. Bastard, I didn't know men could
32:48
Oh my God. Well, luckily the Browns did get
32:58
now we're at day 2. Woo Hoo.
33:01
We've got Meri standing outside of her RV saying I'm hoping
33:04
we'll stay more on top of our schedule today.
33:06
It was really late when we got in last night.
33:09
It was kind of stressful and I was L0L 0L ING.
33:14
I was like, yes, Meri, Meri, Meri.
33:17
I hate to say it, but I'm totally Meri on a road trip.
33:21
I'm like, if you want to get somewhere by a certain time,
33:23
then you got to get there. Like I don't know what you want.
33:28
on Day 2, and Meri is a hoping
33:32
schedule. Yes, they've got to get through
33:38
Colorado and get to Goodland, KS
33:43
miles away. So they hit the road, Jack.
33:47
And they are driving campers called Freedom Elite.
33:52
Oh, Freedom Elite. Yeah, how very exclusive.
33:55
This is a joke between my husband and I when we're on a
33:58
road trip. I, I did this to him one time,
34:01
like inadvertently we were driving and it was quiet and we
34:05
were not speaking and I saw a camper pass us and I just like
34:10
screamed out of nowhere the name
34:12
Cougar. And Dave like jumped out of his
34:15
skin and he was like, what the fuck was that?
34:17
And I was like the name of the camper that just drove by
34:20
Cougar. And I said it again.
34:22
So now it's a joke. Whenever we're on a road trip
34:25
together, we will just randomly yell out the name of like the
34:29
campers that drive by. And so as soon as I saw the
34:33
name, I'm like the Freedom Elite, Elite fleet, we got the 2
34:41
I was a little surprised also to not see them like tape over that
34:47
Yeah, they had the name of the rental company across the top of
34:57
Promotional. Nowadays camper company.
34:58
Shows they're like, block out every word.
35:01
Yeah. But you know, there's this
35:03
footage of them in the RV while they're driving of the older
35:07
kids snacking around a table. And I was thinking, it looks
35:11
kind of fun. Like I was like, oh, I'd love to
35:15
let's talk about whatever. And then I was like, well, maybe
35:24
about how it's chaotic and loud and they don't like it and I can
35:29
about the lack of space and how loud it is.
35:31
And then they show a clip of Saul passed out in his car seat
35:35
while the kids sitting next to him are like all screaming and
35:40
And there's another shot of a kid like knocking into Aspen and
35:46
And I'm like, Oh my gosh. So because I never did go on
35:50
road trips in an RVI think, you know, I know I've been in one
35:53
while I was driving, but not like across States and stuff.
35:57
So when I see that, I'm like, oh, I could totally do that, but
36:06
I cannot even imagine 21 people on a road trip. 21 people.
36:12
And yet it's like, OK, seven days, 21 people, seven days.
36:18
Why? Why?
36:20
They've got all these important my sister wife's closet meetings
36:25
Apparently. They arrive in Goodland, KS in
36:29
the late PM and Kody talks about
36:33
his wives while traveling while they're on the couch having a
36:36
little spotlight moment and Robyn says that she hates the
36:41
word rotate. I hate that word I.
36:43
Hate that word. And then he's like, what word?
36:45
What? Because what was the other word
36:46
that he said it was like? Schedule.
36:48
Schedule. That's right.
36:49
I schedule rotations with my wives during travel and he's
36:54
like. Yeah, and she goes, I hate that
36:55
word. And he goes, what schedule?
36:57
Like, Oh yeah, no, she hates the
37:00
So obviously it's rotate. And then they're all, you know,
37:02
being like, yes, we hate rotate.
37:04
We hate rotate. Janelle's like Kody gets grumpy
37:06
when we travel and she just looks so resigned to life like.
37:12
He gets overwhelmed and he often
37:16
grumpy and Christine says sometimes she just succumbs to
37:23
it, like Kody's grumpiness, and other times she tries to turn
37:26
that attitude around. Honestly, it's like, OK, let's
37:30
all make excuses for this man's shitty behavior when he
37:34
travels. Like I don't get it.
37:36
It's bizarre, bizarro. Yeah, I feel like it seems
37:39
magnetized because of the number of wives and the women.
37:42
I mean, I think we've all been on road trips where you can tell
37:49
there for a little while, hoping that the next time you
37:52
talk it's a different tone and a different thing.
37:55
And it would be weird because I do get a sense that Kody feels I
38:02
later that he feels obligated to have to like, succumb to all
38:07
these women's things. And it's like, oh, my God, needs
38:17
I'm, I'm not trying to make excuses for him.
38:19
I'm just saying everyone gets like that, like on a road trip
38:26
can I just get a fucking corner by myself for a few minutes?
38:30
Well, and men are just like a little clueless sometimes as to
38:33
like the needs of like others around them, especially in
38:36
situations like that, because if they're the ones driving,
38:39
they're stressed and they don't understand that other people
38:41
might be stressed even though they're not driving.
38:44
I like the first time that we ever took a road trip with a
38:50
baby, Dave like didn't understand why we couldn't take
38:54
the baby out to feed him like while driving.
38:57
And I had to be like, well, that's just never going to
39:03
happen. And this is like literally
39:05
illegal. And then when I said it, he's
39:07
like, oh, well, duh. Like, duh.
39:08
Why did I think that we could do that?
39:11
But it's just like sometimes I think men in particular when it
39:16
comes to travelling, they just get in this other mode.
39:20
Like I don't even know how to explain it.
39:22
Like the women that are listening will get it.
39:24
Like if men, I get it, get in this mode when they're
39:27
travelling and I'm more like, what's the hurry?
39:31
Like let's chill out. Let's if people need to stop and
39:41
would be like pulling the van over and trying to make me like
39:44
hang my ass over outside of the sliding van door and pee.
39:47
And I had pee fright. And then it would be like I'm
39:51
hanging my ass out of the siding door for 30 minutes instead of
39:57
Like what the fuck? Like, let's just chill out, you
40:00
know, like why are we rushing this road trip into seven days?
40:04
I don't know.
40:05
These people drive me fucking insane.
40:08
One thing the editors do in this
40:11
like, that's the end of the day,
40:12
So now it's day three. It's like, OK, sounds good.
40:15
We know there was more to that
40:18
episode and we've got to get through it.
40:19
So just like this episode is based like their trip, it's like
40:23
for some reason we have to only show half of it.
40:27
God. Instead of doing these weird Q
40:30
and as that they've done before,
40:33
split some of these episodes? Up right, like a two-part travel
40:38
episode. But I don't know that they drove
40:41
back. Just well.
40:42
I don't know that they drove back.
40:43
You think they flew back? I find it a little hard to
40:46
believe that they paid for everyone to fly back.
40:48
So I could see why they would drive back, but I also don't get
40:51
why you wouldn't have. Maybe they didn't want
40:53
production to go back. Maybe it was a cost saver.
40:56
Like you get back however you get back, you know what I mean?
40:59
Like we don't want to have the
41:01
time. That might make sense now for
41:04
day three. Their goal is to get to
41:06
Maysville, MO. Maysville, MO.
41:10
Maysville, MO. 470 miles to go
41:16
Most of which is Kansas. And that makes me go yawn,
41:20
boring OMG. Because if you've driven West to
41:25
east or east to West through Kansas, Oklahoma, the Dakotas,
41:29
Nebraska, it's just, you know,
41:32
these states. Not trying to put you down if
41:33
you live there. You know, please don't leave us
41:35
a negative review about how I'm talking about driving through
41:38
the state, but there's a lot of nothing.
41:40
Rolling grasslands it's. Literally, like I remember one
41:43
time driving through Nebraska and there was road construction
41:45
and I was so glad because it made you have to pay attention
41:48
to like switching left to right and stuff.
41:50
It was like at least something
41:52
And so, you know, those, those, those stretches tend to be a
41:55
bit long. Robyn, Robyn, our hero, she
42:00
says. Originally we talked about
42:01
making the trip to Nabu in three
42:04
Here we are on our third day and
42:07
There's no way. It's like, yes girl, way to
42:13
state the obvious. Kody shares his concern about
42:17
their lack of sleep every evening and the wind.
42:21
We're in a wind, so we're. The wind is our new character in
42:24
this episode. So it happens when there's no
42:26
landscaping. Rolling hills and lots of wind.
42:30
And Kody, they show a clip of him running from RV to RV as
42:34
they're hitting the road. Getting started and I was lol
42:37
ING because as he's running the hair is like blowing in the
42:40
wind. He looks like a soccer mom
42:43
running to like their child on
42:46
Gatorade bottle or something. It was quite the sight.
42:50
It was really something as they're describing this kind of
42:54
wind happening. They show footage of the RV's
42:57
being blown while driving down
43:00
RV's are being pulled out by the
43:04
to pull over to figure out what to do.
43:06
They're catching like sails in
43:09
Like Christopher crost on OH. Boy, and then we find out about
43:14
Kody's lack of sleep and that he's only been getting 4 hours
43:18
of sleep each night so far. And I've been fighting the wind
43:22
all day. Yep.
43:24
And I'm just done. It's like, OK, now this is one
43:29
of my favorite scenes of this episode.
43:30
Kody goes into the RV to talk to
43:34
Kody says, can we take a break
43:37
Now mind you this also, I have
43:39
really give us enough context clues to how long this has been
43:42
or anything. Like they hit the road, it's
43:43
windy, they pulled over. I don't know how long it's been
43:46
on this day, but Kody says, can we take a break now?
43:50
And Meri says, no, I'm fine. Kody goes so you just want to
43:57
constantly drive and Meri said I
44:02
and I was like Oh my God, Oh my God, I'm so deep.
44:05
Meri right now Kody's like I have 4 hours of sleep. 4 hours
44:10
of sleep is not enough. I stopped because I was falling
44:13
asleep and Meri's like, I'm fine, Kody says.
44:20
We just have to get a rotation
44:23
same page at all. And he uses the word rotation
44:26
again. Rotation and it's funny because
44:28
he's really just trying to tell her like I'm falling asleep
44:32
I've been driving too much blah blah blah and she's like I'm
44:36
cool I'm fine I'm Meri they call me mayor.
44:39
I'm cool to keep driving forever
44:43
totally be Meri in this situation.
44:45
And I'm just like, listen baby boy, have someone else drive,
44:48
take a catnap, close your eyes, sit in the passenger seat.
44:50
Like do you have to drive? Well Robyn's dumbass is sitting
44:53
there like she is a 15 year old without a license like looking
45:00
over for you Kody. Yeah.
45:02
No, no, that's not going to. Happen.
45:03
That's not going to happen, yeah.
45:05
So Meri wraps up their exchange for the moment by saying So
45:08
whenever you say the word, I'm good to go.
45:11
And Kody is so pissed because he's there to say I don't want
45:17
She is not having any of it. She's just like, whenever you
45:20
say the word, I'm good to go. And I'm like, Oh my God.
45:23
So now we get a little couch break from the scene where we're
45:30
I was too exhausted to delegate. I just wanted to bark orders and
45:40
And the way he says it is so aggressive and Christine says
45:45
that's offensive. The word obey and saying that we
45:50
It's like. She says it's in fact a four
45:53
letter word, which it actually
45:56
Obey. So good on her.
45:58
Pretty clever for Christine. I feel her so hard in this
46:03
moment and I can't believe she's
46:05
here, or at least the only one that they show speaking up.
46:08
And This is why I'm standing her
46:12
because she is like, that's offensive, OK?
46:16
Robyn said offensive about rotate.
46:19
Like, OK, but basically, yeah.
46:22
He is rotating waves, him telling his wives to obey.
46:27
It's literally like keep sweet
46:30
That's like part of what they say all the time.
46:33
And this is his true colors coming out.
46:35
This is his true colors. And her saying, I think in her
46:40
family, like we don't use things
46:42
We don't say things like that.
46:45
And the other women are just like keeping quiet.
46:48
There's also an element to this is what I struggle with with
46:50
Kody. One of the things I struggle
46:52
with with Kody is that we're having a couch moment.
46:55
This is post filming all of this.
46:57
He once again opens his big fucking stupid mouth and says
47:00
something like my wife should obey me.
47:02
It's like, why are you even doing this?
47:04
And he's getting heated again,
47:06
Right. It's like, you know, you could
47:08
explain why you were frustrated in a way that doesn't use
47:11
language that obviously is going
47:14
you going this is offensive in a
47:17
It's literally rude. Well linked to the culture and
47:19
linked to the religion in an offensive way as well.
47:22
Like This is why people have a
47:28
with the sect that you belong to
47:32
that when it comes to women. And it is offensive.
47:35
And it's like marriage vows. I'm so happy that women have
47:41
started saying like, oh, or we're not going to say this,
47:44
that and the other thing in our marriage vows, like obey, to
47:47
have and hold whatever. It's like these things that
47:52
women have been taught for so long and specifically in
47:55
religion like this. It is fucking offensive and you
47:58
wonder why people fight back against your beliefs in your
48:02
religion. Right, right.
48:04
Kody continues to pontificate or
48:08
about when he gets grumpy. It's hard for him to be patient
48:12
and to speak to everyone in a delicate manner.
48:17
Now we got back to the RV to one
48:20
And Kody leaves the RV by slamming the door shut.
48:23
And what does Robyn say, honey?
48:26
What's wrong and? Meri says I have no idea.
48:30
And Robyn goes. I'm confused.
48:34
And I'm going no, you're not. She's just pretending to not
48:41
know, right? She's pretending to not know so
48:44
that she's not the one that gets in trouble.
48:46
And Meri's taking the heat. Yet again, Meri takes the heat
48:52
At least three times he blows up and blames Meri.
48:56
And it's mostly he's trying to say it's because she planned the
49:07
do this. And now he's just blaming her
49:09
every chance that he gets. And it makes me wonder what's
49:12
going on behind the scenes and if this is the timing, like
49:15
where he found out some nefarious things that she was
49:19
supposedly doing online. I don't know the timeline of
49:23
that, but he is taking his anger out on her specifically.
49:27
And then Robyn's just pretending to be all innocent and so
49:31
confused and. There's totally some connect,
49:34
not to restate what you said, but with her to be like by not
49:44
doesn't even know, it's like she doesn't have to hold Kody.
49:49
She doesn't have to hold Kody accountable.
49:53
I don't know why that sentence was so hard for me.
49:56
And even really, like she doesn't have to say to Meri like
50:08
sorry he spoke to you like that, Meri, or I'm going to go
50:12
talk to him, or maybe I should go and drive for him.
50:16
She offers no solutions. She just plays dumb.
50:19
Yeah, she's doesn't even have to play it most of the time.
50:22
If I may point out is what Kody does too.
50:24
Like with the dog situation, he was going to just play dumb and
50:29
pretend that the dog disappeared and then Meri would
50:31
have taken the fucking blame for that.
50:33
We all know that because it's her dog in quotations and if it
50:37
disappeared it would have been
50:40
He won't take accountability for
50:43
the good guy. Robyn won't take accountability
50:47
for things because she'd rather play stupid and keep sweet and
50:50
be The Good Wife. There are two peas in a dirty
50:55
Peapod. Yes, and that was a really good
50:57
parallel right there. Like putting those out because
51:00
it's very true. It's yucky.
51:02
Meri wonders. What's he mad about?
51:05
Is he mad that I can drive? I'm not tired, I can drive, It's
51:09
not a big deal. But don't you know, Meri, that
51:12
women can't drive? Like, come on, of course he's
51:16
angry. So Kody returns to the RV and
51:20
says, OK, we're leaving right now.
51:23
And Meri's like, OK. And I just love it because Meri
51:26
is not, she's not giving him an inch with this.
51:30
She is just like, OK, sounds good.
51:32
Thanks sweetie. All right, PT fucking keen,
51:35
please choke on a jawbreaker. So good, so good.
51:39
I was so team married during this whole exchange.
51:42
I was just like, don't let him
51:45
let him run everything with his anger.
51:48
I was just over it. But you've also got your like,
51:50
best little bitch Robyn sitting next to you, sitting bitch and
51:54
pretending that she's kind of on
51:57
Yeah, there was just something
52:00
way that she was sitting and the
52:03
like, meet him in the level that
52:06
The way her wrinkles were like
52:10
taking any of it. Not a wrinkle.
52:15
It's the spray tan. The spray tan has set into those
52:18
little wrinkly rings. Continues to do that.
52:21
So now we're going to be approaching Topeka, KS.
52:24
Darling, this is going to be so exciting.
52:27
Topeka just outside of Topeka,
52:30
Oh, but you just glossed over this whole thing like they did.
52:34
They go back to the couch and Kody just reiterates that he was
52:39
just so exhausted. So let's stop talking about my
52:43
lack of brain function. And then it's like a bad sitcom
52:51
where they hit the little tit,
52:55
You're right, I didn't do that.
52:56
You just glossed over it like they did.
52:58
They just literally were like, that's the end of that fight,
53:02
right? Totally.
53:02
Like Kody just looked like a crazy person who's insane and
53:06
bad. And it's like, chalk it up to
53:08
Kody, me and Kody. Yeah, it's totally even like
53:12
cartoons and sitcoms, right? Like the absent husband, absent
53:15
minded husband, the idiot. Yeah, wife eats the shit pie and
53:22
Typical man for me to just skip over that God.
53:24
Damn it, Christopher. Please forgive me I had some
53:28
women math with that Meri found a place when going online to
53:32
research their trip called Truck Henge Truck.
53:35
Henge like Stonehenge but better one might say.
53:39
Far more inspiring, Truck Henge is basically a bunch of trucks
53:47
Now to give you an idea of the setting before we're introduced
53:51
to the person who owns and runs Truck Henge, which I'm really
53:56
struggling with saying, they show us a few shots of these
54:01
trucks and other vehicles vertical into the ground,
54:06
surrounded by fields and trees and dumpy looking property.
54:12
Not manicured, not anything, just kind of like rural vibes
54:19
with. You mean like rural Topeka, KS?
54:23
With vehicles sticking out of
54:25
the ground vertically. It's almost like a tornado went
54:29
through there and a bunch of vehicles landed in vertical
54:33
positions, but we meet a national treasure.
54:39
Yes, we do. One Ron Lessman looking like
54:43
he's been kicked in a tooth or
54:46
Kicked in a tooth or two. Ron is wearing AT shirt that
54:51
says you say psycho like it's a bad thing, written in a fun
54:56
font. And I was like, oh, Ron, you're
54:59
just, you're right. He's a treasure.
55:01
He really is. He tells the story about how
55:05
Truck Henge came to be and essentially what it boils down
55:10
to is that the county was sick
55:13
trash and they told him that he needed to pick up the trucks.
55:19
Well, the county came with a search warrant and told him he
55:23
had to pick up his trucks. Now, honey, before we get into
55:26
some of his storytelling with this incident, how do we
55:30
describe Ron? Like he's got a crazy beard.
55:35
Like he looks like the like a a mountain man, but there's no
55:38
mountains. Like a mountain man slash
55:40
hippie. Yes, yes.
55:42
He's a degenerate. He's a degenerate.
55:47
I know right, like fresh forward
55:49
That's what a little bit to when
55:51
like he doesn't trust the government and he's a weirdo and
55:54
just all of those kind of stereotypes put onto a person.
55:57
Like he has been kicked to the
55:59
He's got this crazy mangy beard thing going on.
56:03
He's wearing this insane shirt
56:05
it's a bad thing and he looks like he hasn't talked to another
56:08
human in like 5 years. He looks like a conspiracy
56:12
theorist. Like he perhaps has a tinfoil or
56:15
two that fit him very well. Yes, and maybe him or his
56:19
sister. Wife or his sister.
56:21
Wife, His sister you wish. Wife he.
56:23
Fucking wishes he even says so
56:26
Makes meth in their bathroom or something like it's, it's a
56:29
look, it's a whole thing. So he tells us the county came
56:32
with a search warrant and told
56:35
trucks. Pick them up.
56:38
So he says. So I picked him up.
56:42
When he does this, he gestures.
56:44
How do we describe this honey? He flips the bird with both
56:48
hands and as he's telling the story about what he does and
56:52
that he did what the county said and he put them up and he flips
56:57
off everybody, all of the children, the adults.
57:00
When he's describing this, like picking them up or putting them
57:04
up, putting up the trucks, he does that gesture that you do
57:07
when you're flicking someone off.
57:09
More than just putting up like flipping the bird, he's like
57:12
taking his hand and putting it into his elbow and shoving his
57:18
I'm pretty sure that's like a British thing like that.
57:21
Super offensive like over in the UK.
57:24
Too If it's British but it's like a it's more than just
57:28
flipping the bird with your hand.
57:30
It's like middle finger up in the air, hand in elbow, blah
57:34
blah blah. It's this big dramatic gesture.
57:37
Hand in your ditch.
57:38
Hand in the ditch. Of your elbow, that's what they
57:41
call it when you get tattooed there.
57:43
The ditch. The ditch, the ditch, and then
57:46
there's the truck in the ditch
57:48
And they blur out his middle finger in his hand because of
57:52
course it's obscene. And so he does this gesture when
57:55
telling this story to the whole family.
57:57
Like it's a little out of nowhere.
58:00
It's unexpected, and it looks crazy.
58:02
It looks insane. But the children don't react as
58:05
horribly as I would have expected because they they go on
58:09
and on about Logan swearing in
58:14
you've got this guy like flipping the bird, but not even
58:17
just like flipping the bird. He's doing like the arm and hand
58:20
movement with it. That's like super meant to be
58:23
more aggressive and more offensive than just solo birds
58:28
and the children have a little
58:31
Yeah, it's like they're just telling the story.
58:34
Of course, TLC, what they're blurring does make it even more
58:37
dramatic, I think. But, you know, Ron continues
58:41
with his story. They tried to bring public
58:43
nuisance charges in court and I said, your honor, they told me
58:48
to put him up, so I picked him
58:50
So I put him up. It's like, oh God.
58:55
And then he does the arm gestures again as if he was in
58:58
court, giving the middle finger and gesturing to the judge.
59:02
Literally every time that he says put him up, he flips the
59:05
bird and flips off the children and the dogs and the parents
59:10
and every other bug and bird and
59:16
It's like, Oh no, so offensive, as Christine points out.
59:21
Yes, very offensive. So then there's a photo
59:24
opportunity for Aspen to stand
59:28
other side is Maddie and Tara,
59:32
They're standing in a row and they're all flipping off the
59:35
camera, laughing. And Christine goes, are darling
59:39
teenagers. Darling teenagers.
59:43
Kody takes this moment to look
59:46
idea I was raising a bunch of hippies while giving a peace
59:50
sign. And it's like, yeah, that's.
59:53
What the hippies do. I guess the hippies just flip
59:56
off cameras. I don't know, just Kody.
1:00:00
He's just an idiot. The best part of this scene for
1:00:04
me is that Truly on like the side of the camera, like on the
1:00:10
left side is like chasing the dog and trying to grab the dog's
1:00:15
tail repeatedly. And you got like bald truly and
1:00:18
she's tall at this point. Like you got tall little bald
1:00:21
truly and she's like trying to
1:00:26
And it's one of the cutest, like
1:00:29
And I just couldn't not look at it.
1:00:32
It was fucking adorable but also
1:00:35
That is funny. She's just so cute.
1:00:38
And so we go back to the couch
1:00:44
and he found him super entertaining and he just loves
1:00:48
farmer style hoarding. And Christine is offended,
1:00:56
Offended she didn't like him. She's like, is this real?
1:01:00
Really? No, no, no.
1:01:03
Yeah, Well, this is going on. The families, like, exploring
1:01:05
the truck are like, they're going around and taking photos
1:01:08
in front of the, like, various
1:01:10
of the ground and kind of like
1:01:14
pit stop, blah, blah, blah. And Christine is talking about
1:01:16
how he lives in the middle of nowhere and he hates the
1:01:20
government. Kody just thinks that this is so
1:01:22
funny. And Kody goes, well, they told
1:01:25
him to put him up. So he put him up.
1:01:27
And then Kody flips the camera
1:01:30
Christine goes, Oh my God, you
1:01:34
You just flipped people off. Yes, yes.
1:01:36
So. Funny, she's like offended on
1:01:39
the behalf of the audience of all the TLC fans that are
1:01:42
watching. Like you flipped them off.
1:01:45
And it's like we're on a soundstage.
1:01:47
Oh no. Yeah, and we get some more, you
1:01:50
know, details about Ron's feelings and Ron's beliefs.
1:01:54
And he says something along the lines, if you want to have five
1:01:57
wives, it's the American way. Like OK, do what you.
1:02:04
Want. Nobody should care.
1:02:05
You should be able to do what you want.
1:02:07
That's the American way. That's the American way.
1:02:10
It's like, all right. But he is telling the kids this,
1:02:12
like as he's saying this in the clip that they show, he's kind
1:02:15
of walking with a few of the boys, like not the young, young
1:02:19
boys, but like the medium age boys.
1:02:23
And he's like telling them, I just think that you should be
1:02:26
able to do what you want. That's America.
1:02:28
And so in a way, I do think that
1:02:33
the family. Like, yes, he's doing this crazy
1:02:36
thing and Christine's like, is
1:02:39
He's really acting this way with
1:02:42
and the that. But it's like you are too, lady.
1:02:45
Like you are flipping off the government in your own way
1:02:48
because they don't believe that plural marriage is recognized
1:02:52
in the law of the United States.
1:02:54
So like you're giving a bird. This guy's giving a bird kind of
1:03:01
I do. The thing that stood out to me
1:03:03
about his example is like, if you want to have five wives,
1:03:05
it's the American way. And it's like Kody has four
1:03:08
wives. Yeah, like this guy is like high
1:03:11
off the grass growing underneath
1:03:13
Seriously, he's his message. Yes, the root of it might be
1:03:17
good, but Oh my gosh, it's a little Cray Cray.
1:03:20
Yeah, he is smoking. What is growing inside of the
1:03:25
perfect, perfect greenhouse, which is one of those trucks
1:03:28
swooped upside down, the devil's
1:03:31
Oh God, under one of those trucks and just this man, I I'm
1:03:35
just, he's probably in heaven out in truck hedge.
1:03:39
And yes, his triage, yes, Kody
1:03:44
entertained like you're saying, and he was entertained and it
1:03:48
sounds like a much needed breather from the driving.
1:03:50
Yeah, and then they cut out to
1:03:54
on one of the trucks, like he's allowing them to all graffiti
1:03:58
the trucks before they leave. It's art, honey.
1:04:00
It's art to him. It sure is.
1:04:03
Then the Browns hit the road again.
1:04:05
And then they get into the Pony Express RV Park.
1:04:08
Very late Pony Express Shout out
1:04:13
Are they still open? Let us know.
1:04:16
Yeah. Are you around?
1:04:17
Can we stop in with? The brown curse after we hitting
1:04:21
the Pony Express RV park. Yes, Kody looks absolutely
1:04:26
exhausted. Robyn tells us that the hotel is
1:04:29
12 miles away. And then Kody's upset because he
1:04:32
didn't know this. We didn't know that he would
1:04:34
have to like drop everyone off
1:04:37
go to the hotel that's 12 miles away.
1:04:40
It seems like not a big deal, but also I guess after the end
1:04:42
of a long day you don't want to drive 12 miles and then
1:04:44
probably drive back so. Well, it looks like he's being
1:04:47
made to set up some stuff with
1:04:50
he's probably on the rotation to
1:04:55
So he's like pissed because he's
1:04:58
campsite and then he goes, I'll be going to bed at one or two.
1:05:01
AM again tonight or Kody? And so Kody approaches the RV
1:05:06
with Meri in the passenger seat and opens the door.
1:05:11
And Kody says, I don't plan on
1:05:14
because I'm done. And Meri goes, I don't think you
1:05:17
need to be barking at me about
1:05:21
You're going at it again. So bad, I'm ready to stop
1:05:27
camping. And we haven't even gotten there
1:05:29
yet. It's like, yeah, OK, You're
1:05:31
referring to it as camping again, which I guess maybe some
1:05:34
people are camping, but everyone's tired and frustrated.
1:05:37
Yeah, like they're all tired and
1:05:39
They're all on the same journey.
1:05:40
Well, Christine even says like Kody, you're the only one
1:05:44
complaining. They have to have another adult
1:05:46
meeting, of course, where Kody says he needs more sleep at
1:05:50
night and Christine goes, good call, we need to fix it from
1:05:53
here on out. And Meri says, we say that every
1:05:59
And I'm like, yes, Meri, I am So
1:06:04
everyone wants to talk about things being different.
1:06:06
No one wants to talk about how
1:06:08
Like fucking shut up. Like if I was Meri, I'd be like,
1:06:11
Yep, everyone says that every night and nothing ever changes.
1:06:15
So true, Meri. And then Kody suggests that they
1:06:19
have planned too much. Oh boy.
1:06:22
And. Christine responds by saying
1:06:23
they've basically planned to do nothing but drive.
1:06:27
Which is totally true. They went to Truck Henge and
1:06:31
they have been driving non-stop and they're pony.
1:06:35
Stop. Pony.
1:06:35
Express pawn shop. Pawn shop in Utah, The Pony
1:06:39
Express. They're going pee every now and
1:06:42
then for an hour at a time. They literally have planned
1:06:45
very, very little and Kody is suggesting they plan too much.
1:06:50
What a shock. And Kody says, well, I can't go
1:06:53
every single night with four hours of sleep.
1:06:56
And Christine's like, well, Kody, you're the only one
1:06:58
complaining. We're all trying to make it
1:07:00
work. And I'm just like, what's the
1:07:02
fucking rush? Why is this the way that it is?
1:07:06
You know, unless it's for like
1:07:10
is like no budget to do this longer.
1:07:13
If this is summer break, which
1:07:17
does this have to be a seven day
1:07:19
Why is there three days of travel one way, one day at your
1:07:24
destination, which is, Oh my God, we're going back to our
1:07:28
homeland? Our Jerusalem.
1:07:31
Our Jerusalem. And you're planning it and like
1:07:36
making this trip so quick and now you're all arguing and
1:07:38
you're fighting. Like what is the rush?
1:07:41
What's the rush? I don't get it.
1:07:43
This is where Kody gathers everyone for a prayer.
1:07:46
Darling, speak to God. Kody.
1:07:49
Kody. Kody calls a prayer circle.
1:07:53
Kody And he points out to us that when he's getting close to
1:07:57
losing his temper, it's a good
1:08:01
don't hurt other people's feelings calling on God.
1:08:05
He's calling on God to help him maintain his peaceful
1:08:09
disposition. Yes, yeah, because Kody has such
1:08:14
a peaceful disposition and he gives us some more, you know,
1:08:17
therapy speak, but whatever. It's like in a family like ours,
1:08:22
it's important to keep things emotionally safe.
1:08:25
And I'm far from good at this,
1:08:30
And Meri is on the couch tearing
1:08:33
Odd. She's like trying not to cry.
1:08:36
Is it, do you think, because she's like aware that everyone
1:08:41
was frustrated and it was terrible, or is she moved that
1:08:43
he's like talking about calling on God?
1:08:46
I think that this is one of those moments where there's more
1:08:50
going on behind the scenes than we know about.
1:08:52
And who knows when they're recording the actual couch
1:08:56
interviews and the fact that he's talking about calling on
1:09:00
God. I don't know what she's
1:09:02
thinking, but she is tearing up.
1:09:04
And they show it probably on purpose to be like, oh, he's
1:09:08
such a good family man. He's calling on God.
1:09:10
He's calling his family around to pray right now to make it
1:09:12
through this. Like, oh God, I just want to
1:09:18
talk about how ridiculous that is.
1:09:21
First of all, we're calling on the Lord baby Jesus to get us
1:09:24
through this road trip that we planned that we're rushing
1:09:28
through. But also like his wife is
1:09:31
tearing up about it. I just, I can't with these
1:09:35
people. I just can't.
1:09:36
It's a little bizarre. I remember noting it or noticing
1:09:42
Because I don't think that there is really technically a reason
1:09:54
Well, he definitely is special, but not for reasons that they
1:09:59
might be trying to make us think.
1:10:01
So, darling, I feel like this is a good time to take a break to
1:10:07
Maybe we could go call on God and ask Him for some favors and
1:10:12
some direction so we can recalibrate and come back next
1:10:17
We're going to start on Day 4 of this road trip.
1:10:20
Remember, they were going to be there in three days.
1:10:23
Tomorrow we're starting Day 4 for Part 2, 2 of this episode.
1:10:34
about to open. Yes.
1:10:35
I'll say a little prayer for you.
1:10:38
See you next week.