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341: Sister Wives Rewind - Just Trying to Stay Afloat (S9 E6) · Reality TV Cringe

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  Speaker 1: and this is the episode of the Flotilla, the Cardboard Ships,
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  Speaker 1: the huge waste of time. But there were a few
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  Speaker 1: little things that happened that shine the light on what's
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  Speaker 1: So before we get into this episode, Beatrice, I have
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  Speaker 1: to ask you if you had any takeaways.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of enjoyed Robin and Christine going after Cody
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  Speaker 2: in this episode. It felt to me kind of genuine.
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  Speaker 2: It felt to me like Robin was actually getting annoyed
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  Speaker 2: with Cody for once, and I kind of loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my takeaway is that Robin's annoyance was purely performative.
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  Speaker 1: You think so, yes, and that she does this as
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  Speaker 1: a tactic to sidle up to her other sister Wives
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  Speaker 1: so she can give the impression that she's one of them.
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  Speaker 2: That's dubious, But.
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  Speaker 1: She's not one of them. She's the head, bitch and
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  Speaker 1: charge and we all know it. So, without any further ado,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into our recap of Sister Wives Season nine,
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  Speaker 1: episode six.
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  Speaker 2: Just trying to stay afloat okay in more ways than one, indeed,
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  Speaker 2: So this episode really had two major things. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: the Browns decided to enter some stupid booty ass cardboard
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  Speaker 2: boat contest in some greasy lake in Las Vegas, and
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna build these cardboard boats. The family's gonna split
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  Speaker 2: up into two teams. They're realist, surius about it, really
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  Speaker 2: competitive about it. And then the other thing of this
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  Speaker 2: episode is surrounding Dayton, Aurora and Brianna's adoption legal bs.
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  Speaker 2: So the beginning of the episode, we have the Browns
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  Speaker 2: taking a literal class with a guy telling them how
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  Speaker 2: to build a cardboard boat and how to make.
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  Speaker 4: Sure it's engineered properly so it'll float. You got to
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  Speaker 4: make sure you paint it so it seals up so
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  Speaker 4: there's no leaks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, this is cringe. You have Christine taking notes
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  Speaker 2: about it. Oh, it's embarrassing. And then the adults say
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  Speaker 2: that they're gonna split up into two teams. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have Cody, Christine, and Robin on one team, and then
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  Speaker 2: Janelle and all of the kids on another team. Mary meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: is too busy talking to her catfish.
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  Speaker 1: And I know, I know because I'm always looking at
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  Speaker 1: her body. Yeah, like where she is on the spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've got the thinner Mary, We've got the
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  Speaker 1: banana in the mouth Mary. I do want to say though,
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  Speaker 1: that I think that it was very smart of Janelle
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  Speaker 1: just to say, like, I don't want any part of
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  Speaker 1: Cody and him building something. They certainly don't want a
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  Speaker 1: part of that trio, because that would be me, or
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  Speaker 1: actually Mary would be me. I was gonna say, you'd
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  Speaker 1: be Harry to be like, I am not doing any
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  Speaker 1: of that.
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  Speaker 2: I have no interest in doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Where's my glass?
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  Speaker 2: Bye bye?
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 2: I did kind of like that, and I I was
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  Speaker 2: totally side eyeing Mary because Mary really is not in
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  Speaker 2: this episode, like at all. She's there a little bit
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  Speaker 2: when we talk about the adoption, but that's it. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you're totally talking to Sam on the HH.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, she is in.
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  Speaker 2: Your home alone. It's crazy. And so then we bought
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  Speaker 2: back and forth between Cody, Christine and Robin building their
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  Speaker 2: bum ass boat and then Janelle and the kids building
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  Speaker 2: her boat. And really Janelle and the kids are kind
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  Speaker 2: of whatever because the kids are like preteens. They're arguing
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  Speaker 2: with each other. Janelle's arguing with Gabe mainly.
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  Speaker 1: Gabe is being a little dictator. Well he's kind of cute,
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  Speaker 1: it is, yeah, because he's like thirteen, he's a boy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks he knows everything and he's kind of rolling
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  Speaker 1: all over or steamrolling Gwen. And also little Savannah. Little
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  Speaker 1: Savannah is adorable. She's like, you are bossy. You were
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: telling me to get snacks and you didn't see things. God,
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  Speaker 1: she's so freaking she is. I can't.
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  Speaker 2: She reminds me of my little sister at that age.
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  Speaker 1: May non exist in overa for aching for a baby.
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  Speaker 3: She's so cute.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, Janelle's just dealing with these preteens and
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  Speaker 2: she's making this boat. Basically by herself with these kids.
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  Speaker 2: And it's kind of funny because they named their boat
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  Speaker 2: SS just enough to participate, which maybe, And it's the
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  Speaker 2: ugliest looking boat painted white. It's not designed in like
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  Speaker 2: any particular way.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I know I'm telegraphing ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Oh good. Meanwhile, we have Cody, Christine, and Robin arguing
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  Speaker 2: literally stop nonst.
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  Speaker 1: The entire episode.
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  Speaker 2: It's really funny. So they're gonna make a Viking ship,
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  Speaker 2: but they're gonna paint it purple and name it after
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  Speaker 2: my sister wife's clause, which is the most ridiculous thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: But like while they're building this boat, they're literally going
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  Speaker 2: at it, and you have Robin, you know, making these
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  Speaker 2: comments to Cody about how he's being annoying and he's
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  Speaker 2: being mean and he's just being bossy, and I just
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  Speaker 2: have to let him do what he wants to do
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  Speaker 2: because he's just gonna call the shots. And Christine and
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  Speaker 2: Robin have this little like buddy buddy camaraderie going on,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought was kind of interesting. And if your
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  Speaker 2: theory is right that Robin was doing this in a
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  Speaker 2: performative way, I could see that.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: I think Robin hates Christine Oh, I think Cody hates
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: Christine as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think Cody for sure hates Christine, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: My vibe in this was like, is this real? Like
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  Speaker 2: does Robin actually get annoyed with Cody?
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  Speaker 1: Probably, but I don't think this is an instance of
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  Speaker 1: that personally.
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  Speaker 2: And I was also thinking, like, if Robin does actually
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  Speaker 2: get annoyed with Cody, he probably receives it a lot
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  Speaker 2: better than he does with any of the other wives. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: because he loves Robin and he doesn't really care, And
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: they probably get annoyed with each other in a flirtatious
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  Speaker 2: way and then do sixty nine later.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently that's their thing.
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  Speaker 2: So at one point, when they're building this freaking dumb boat,
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  Speaker 2: Cody says something like it's got to be sixty nine
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  Speaker 2: inches or something.
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  Speaker 1: He's yelling at Christine, yeah, and he's showing her like
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  Speaker 1: some sort of paper diagram of what she's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be building, and he's like, look, it looks like a
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine. Do you get it, dummy? And then you
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  Speaker 1: look across at Robin at the words sixty nine. She
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  Speaker 1: looks at Cody and she kind of smiles a little yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And then he catches her gaze and he looks away
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  Speaker 1: really fast, as if this is something that's special to them.
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  Speaker 2: He probably got a little chubby going because she smiled
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  Speaker 2: at him when you're talking about sixty night.
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  Speaker 1: So that made me think of them sixty niney Ow,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't a really good image for me.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: It made me think about them sixty ninety two because
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: I'm like, how does that work with a Mayan? Because
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: the man's not getting on top.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't Now the man is on the bottom and you're
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: on the top, you know. I mean, I'm sure you've
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  Speaker 1: sat on a face or two oh in your lesbian repertoire,
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  Speaker 1: your lesbian history. You sit out face and you turn
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  Speaker 1: around and you lie down on the man, and then
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  Speaker 1: you do the thing you do with the sixty nine.
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  Speaker 1: That's so, it's easy peasy. It's great.
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  Speaker 2: You're so close to their butthole, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like a man's butthole.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what do you think is happening when you're you know, women.
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: Are you know, well what kind of cured and clean
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: and stuff. Then's got hairy buttholes and stuff.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: That's true too, So I'm just saying, but there's pheromones,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: and you like the pheromone.
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to no.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: I don't want a dirty butthole. I don't need a
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  Speaker 1: guy who's like so dirty down there he's making dough
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: loaf is fermenting. Absolutely not. You want to clean the
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: pagenic man. But once you got a real man, that
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  Speaker 1: dick right in my mouth. Girl, put that dick in
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: my mind.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I just adore it personally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I support you and your lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: Choice, my heterosexicality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, Cody and Robin like to sixty nine,
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  Speaker 2: and so do I.
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  Speaker 3: So Delia, oh my god, already out of pocket.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: And then Christine and Cody just keep going at it,
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  Speaker 2: and like Christine's getting annoyed because Cody's being a bossy
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  Speaker 2: ass bitch and he really is, like he wants to
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  Speaker 2: do everything his way. He doesn't think that Christine or
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: Robin really have good ideas of how to build this
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  Speaker 2: boat because they're women, and he's a miam right, and
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  Speaker 2: he knows what will be structurally sound with this cardboard.
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  Speaker 2: And like every little chance he can, he has to
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: argue about something, and you know, Christine keeps making comments
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  Speaker 2: about how we just got to do it his way
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: and we just got to kind of shut up, and
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: you know, Cody's getting annoyed. And it's hot as fuck
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: outside too. They're building this out in the Las Vegas heat,
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: so everybody's cranky. Meanwhile, Janelle's with the kids and she's
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: just yelling at game constantly.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Why are you guys doing this? Nobody's actually having any fun.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I was watching this whole episode and it reminded
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: me of of my own childhood because my parents used
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: to argue all the time, and I just I thought
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: it was funny because you're seeing like a real family
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: dynamic happen in real time, like even though it's edited
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  Speaker 2: and everything, like this is how they are. And some
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: of the older kids are talking about how Cody and
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Christine like always bicker all the time and that's just
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: how they are, and I'm like, damn, dude, this is crazy.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: Well, so how are you and your wife when you
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: have to build something?
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: She builds it okay, and I hold the instructions and
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: I give her the nuts and bolts.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Are you the project manager? I'm the project.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: Manaday because I get frustrated. I call it old man angry,
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: Like I get get takerous when I have to build
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: something and I like, fuck it up. I just get mad.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: So we have this agreement that I'm like, anything needs
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: to be built, she does it because she does it
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  Speaker 2: so calmly. She'll like plug in her podcast and she's
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: just chilling, and I'm just there for moral support.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: That's interesting because like, you're the one who installed the garbage.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: Just I can do something like this septic, yeah, cut
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: the tree branches down, yeah. But she's building an Ikea
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: bookcase exactly can't do it.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: I'm the handyman. She's the Ikea lesbian. Okay, so she'll
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: build all the stuff, but I do all the nasty shit, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's like fine by me. I'm like I'll do that.
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: I don't care.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: Leave me alone, you know. But in this situation, like
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: with the cardboard boat, I probably would have been cranky too,
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: been hot, and I'm like, I don't want to fucking
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: build a cardboard boat that everybody has to sit in
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  Speaker 2: and float across this nasty lake.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. It sounds like the worst day possible.
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  Speaker 2: Terrible, And so everybody's arguing. Everybody is annoyed, and then
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: we change gears a little bit, and we go to
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Robin and Cody's house at some point and we start
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: talking about the adoption, and I guess they got a
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: text from their lawyer, Sasha in Montana, who said that
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: Preston agreed to sign the adoption papers, and obviously Cody
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: and Robin are super happy about it. They were really
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: stressing about this adoption and stressinged about whether or not
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: Preston would do this, but he ultimately agrees to sign
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: his rights away, and now it's time for Cody and
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: Robin to tell the family. And so they start with
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Mary first, because she made the sacrifice to give up
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: her legal marriage and it was her idea apparently, sure
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: to do this for Cody and Robin. So they bring
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: Mary over and she begrudgingly walks over because she was
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: in the middle of sexting.
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  Speaker 1: Sands, so she had a banana in her mouth.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. And they tell her Preston agreed
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  Speaker 2: to sign, and Mary is like.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, sounds good. Cool, I'll go back to my house,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: though I kind of got something going on.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: I was in the middle of using my batter operated boyfriend,
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: and I go, yeah, Mary seems not excited about it
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  Speaker 2: at all. And so after they tell Mary, then they
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: call Janelle up because they were going to have her
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: come over, but Janelle's at the supermarket, and so they
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: tell her while she's at the supermarket. Janelle's like cool, great,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: sounds good, awesome. Then they bring Christine over and Christine
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: is the only one with like an actual good reaction,
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: and she actually hugs Mary. No, she hugs Robin first, yes,
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: which was interesting. She's happy, she tears up. Then she
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: hugs Mary and says, hey, your divorce was worth it.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: That's kind of funny. But in this moment, it felt
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: like to me that Christine was really being so congratulatory
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: to demonstrate to Cody that he can trust her. Remember,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: because in last week's episode that was like the big
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: deal and it's the doorway to intimacy with Cody, and
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: so she wants to be as supportive as possible, especially
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: to Robin, because if she's not, then she ain't gonna
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: get to the OU. That makes sense. So yeah, she's
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: the only one who has like a big reaction.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: That makes sense actually, And so after they tell the wives,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: then they tell Aurora, Dayton and Brianna that their dad
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: gave them up, and Aurora bursts into tears.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile Brianna's just sitting there, blank stare on her face. Okay, great,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Dayton is quote baffled and surprised.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, so let's not just gloss over these reactions. Yes,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: So with Aurora, she proceeds to cry for the rest
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: of the episode, like for the entire day, not the
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, when they go to the little flotilla thing,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: she's not crying, but like she cries all day. She's
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: sobbing mm hmm. And initially I thought, oh my gosh,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: she's really happy. Good for her, you know, this is
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: means a lot to her. But then when she kept
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: crying and seemed so devastated, I was like, is this
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: about your father saying yeah to giving you up a
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: little bit too? Yeah? Or like the idea that maybe
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you won't be seeing him. You already haven't seen him
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: for two years according to Robin, and so does this
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  Speaker 1: maybe solidify in your child's heart like maybe I'm never
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: gonna say my dad again. And then you switch on
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: over to Dayton, who doesn't really have a filter about
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: what he's thinking. And he's like, yeah, I'm a little
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: bit confused. I'm a little bit baffled. I wish somebody
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: would have said, well, why Yeah. I think Robin said
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: something like but it's good, right, and Dayton says, yeah, no, no,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: it's it's good. Yeah, But he's baffled. He's confused, And
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if he's baffled, because like, why did my
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: dad give me up?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Why did my dad sign away his rights? Why did
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: that happen? And there was no space in that moment
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: for a conversation, like for the kids that get it,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: like what actually happened. I don't think Brianna got it.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Brianna's just a little baby, but I think those two
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: kids did totally.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're old enough to understand. But they're like
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: at this age where they they're feeling a lot, but
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: they don't know how to articulate it or express any
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: of it because they're teenagers and like they're going through
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  Speaker 2: a lot, and it's been a bit a big transition
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: for them in multiple ways. Like not only did they
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: have to make multiple moves in the last couple of years,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: but then they had to go from their parents together,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: then their mom is a single mom, then she's now
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: with Cody. Then they get married into this plural family,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: then they moved to Vegas, and then their dad gives
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: them up. It's like it's a lot for these kids, Yes,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: And I was actually thinking that with Aurora too. I
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: was thinking, the reason why she was crying so much
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: is because deep down she's sad. But I think Robin
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: tells her kids how to feel. Yes, And you can
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: tell when she's telling Dayton like, no, but it's a
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: good thing, you're happy, right, And Dayton's like, yeah, no,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I'm happy. And then Aurora every time she's crying in
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the episode, is like, no, no, no, I'm just crying
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: because I'm happy because that's what Robin is telling her,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: that that's what she's feeling. But deep down, I think
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: these kids are sad and I.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Would Yes, I do as well. I think that or
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Or It seems like a very empathetic and feeling young lady.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: She might not have the you know, maturity and intelligence
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to understand the scope of what she's feeling, but there's
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: more that's going on there. And I felt like they
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: were kind of put on the spot because the cameras
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: are there, and they all know, and you can see
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: that Dayton knows exactly how Robin wants him to answer
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and what Robin wants him to say on camera, and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: so he does in this moment, I felt really sad
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: for all those kids, but particularly Dayton, because I think
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Dayton feels a need to protect Robin. That's his mom,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and just as you said, there has been so much uncertainty,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and now his mom is getting everything that she wants.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: She's got this lit house, she's got money, she's got
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a man that obviously adores her. So I don't want
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to fuck it up for my mom by loving and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: missing my dad exactly, which is sad.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: It's so sad, and it's a really hard place for
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: a kid to be put in. And when Robin tells
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: her kids this, she also tells them but you can
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: still call him and you can still see him, which
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: is really weird because after this, then they have a
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: phone call with Sasha, the lawyer, who is talking to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: them and saying like, hey, when Preston was here signing
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: the papers, he had a lot of questions about if
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: he could see the kids still, if he could talk
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to them, And I wasn't sure how to answer those questions,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: So what do you guys want to do? And Robin
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: tells the lawyer, well, we're building up to that. So
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: she doesn't outright say he can still talk to them,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: he can still visit. She tells the lawyer, we're building
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: up to that. So Robin is already telling two different
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: stories here. I think she's totally restricting access from the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: kids in Preston. And then you have a little segment
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: with Aurora at one point where she's telling Janelle everybody
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: in the family was told that they're getting adopted. Aurora says, yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I called Preston and made sure to thank him for
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: what he did, and he told me that it was
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: the right thing to do, even though it wasn't what
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: he wanted to do, but he loves them very much.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: And the fact that Aurora called him Preston and she's
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: like already calling Cody dad, I'm just like this whole
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: thing is like orchestrated.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And then panned to Robin on the couch saying, yeah,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I heard the conversation. Yes, oh, as I was walking
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: into a different room when the kids were talking to Preston,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and it was really great. Hearing them all have this
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: discussion and them understanding what's happening. I'm like, okay, so
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you're sitting by. What this means is you're sitting by
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: sitting right there, probably listening to absolutely everything that is
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: being said between your children and Preston.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And that guy got royally screwed because, in my opinion,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: they never intended for him to have continuing visitation. Of course,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether he did. I don't know whether
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: there was any kind of a connection from this point on,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: but I don't remember it. This is when I started watching.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. So they just completely fucked him
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: because they knew that he was in a financially disadvantaged place.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: And that was what I was thinking during this episode,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: because we've been theorizing up until this point, like you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: how is this benefit to Preston, and like how did
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: they manipulate him into giving up his parental rights money?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: And it had to have been because I don't think
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: he wanted to do this. It sounded like his hand
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: was forced.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Well, the lawyer even said it took him a long
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: time to sign the papers.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: So he was in that office, he did not want
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to do it, yep.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: But then he ultimately did, and then Robin makes her
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: kids call him and thank him for doing what he did,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: because that's what it sounded like too. Like it wasn't
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: like Aurora wanted to call Preston. I feel like Robin
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: was like, you should call him and thank him and
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: then talk about it on camera so we could pretend
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: like we were doing the right thing, right and we're
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: good people. Yes, the whole situation just felt super icky.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: And then when they ultimately announce it to the rest
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of the family and all of the kids, like nobody
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: has a reaction to it, and Cody is a bit
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: disappointed by that, and he wants everybody to like cheer
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: and be happy, but you know, they kind of gloss
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: over it, saying like, well, maybe the kids just don't
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: think it's that big of a deal because you know, Dayton, Aurora,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Brianna are already part of the family, and like they
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: don't see it as a big a deal as the
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: adults do. But I'm like, I feel like the kids
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: pick up on m hmm, this is a weird situation.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Well, if you listen to Maddie these days, she's talking
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: about how they were all very sensitive at this point
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and before probably since Lehi, when Robin entered the family,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the kids were noticing that things got disproportionate and he
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: began to favor Robin, but not just Robin her kids.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: So the reason also that they might not have been
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: jumping for joy is because they're like, Okay, great, you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: now even more time with his favorite children.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: That's probably what it is. I was just kind of
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the vibe with it. Christine really was the only one
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: that was excited about it, and it is probably it's
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: probably because you're right, like she is trying to suck
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: up to Robins that way she can get Cody's view
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: or just like.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Have a relationship and the marriage with Cody totally with
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: some intimacy totally.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: But you know, when they're building the boat, it doesn't seem.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Like absolutely not anything they learned in Galveston, which we
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: know they learned nothing like did not come with them
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: back to Vegas while they're building this boat. Oh, there's
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: no collaboration, there's no partnership, there's no.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Respect, not at all, and like on you know, both ends,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Like I can see Christine being too hot headed at
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: some points because she's an aries and she's wanting to
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: do things her way and whatever, and she's wanting to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: be a little bit of a boss. But Cody is
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: just downright mean. At one point, Christine makes a comment
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: about how she's and yelled at for four days or whatever,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: and Cody's like, no, you haven't you cry baby?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I know, and I'm like, oh my god. That's when
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Robin steps in and says, hey, stop it, and he does,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: but only because Robin told him.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: To, Yeah, which is interesting to me. And I was wondering,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: like if Robin was genuine with that comment, Like did
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: she not like that Cody was mean to these other wives?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know, because obviously now we know Robin is
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: this evil puppet master. She's living in her two point
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: one million dollar mcmanch and she doesn't give a shit
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: that Cody doesn't talk to anybody. But I was just
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: like thinking back then, I'm like Robin, like, how can
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: you be okay being married to somebody who talks to
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: other people like that, who talk to the mother women, yeah, women,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: and the mother of his child, his children, Like, I
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: don't know, It's just crazy. And I do think that
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: this is also the season where Robin gives Cody that
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: picture right of all of the kids.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I don't know.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I think it's this season. I think it's after the option,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: because I think that's gonna be in the next episode
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: or two, and she gives him that that photo.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a drawing, right, the drawing based on
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: the photo of Cody and Christine and their family. So
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: she lifts the entire thing and just swaps in her
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and her kids.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I don't.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Know if it's happening this season, but I can't wait
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: to get to it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I think it is because I'm recalling it now and
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: all of the events happening to this. But yeah, So
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: after they build the boats, they paint everything. I guess
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Cody had a disagreement with Christine while she's painting up
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the boat at the last minute about the paint that
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: she was using. She paints half of this fifteen foot.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Long painted the whole boat.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I thought it was half, No, the whole thing, and.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: He's painted about it. Then he's like, I don't know
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: if that's the right paint. You couldn't have told me
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that before I painted the whole damn boat. They even
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: had the blue stuff, yeah on it. They were already
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: decorating the boat.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I would have beat his ass.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that felt kind of intentional, Actually.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Beat his ass. You're gonna make me pay this whole thing,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: fifteen foot long fucking boat. It gets wild to me.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: And so ultimately they get it all done, and then
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Christine stupidly ordered a fifteen foot long U haul, thinking
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: that that would help fit their boat, and it didn't,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: so they have to like jury rig this whole thing
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: to fit it in there to transport it to this
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: dingy lake that they're gonna be competing, right, meanwow, Janelle
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: has her bare minimum boat, right, and she's gonna have,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: of course, a Hunter and Logan and Gabe and Gwen
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: row it. She's not gonna be in it way soever.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: No, not at all, which is really funny.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: So we're at the little competition and Janelle is starting
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: to feel that Taurus competitive spirit. She's like, I don't
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: want to win though, And they go first, and of
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: course they sail across the lake.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: As Logan and Hunter are ballers, they're like boom boom, Yeah,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: they're rowing for their lives.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Actually really loved that. I thought that was great and
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I loved that third design was the bare minimum. It
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: made me laugh.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I loved it. That's something I would.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Do for sure, totally. I think it's great. And then
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: we get to Cody Christine's.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: So funny.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Boat. This was so funny too.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: So it's like all design.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: They have all this horrible coloring on this boat. It's
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: big purple my sister wives closet. Well, you know, we
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: put our business logo on there, even though nobody's gonna
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: know what it is.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And nobody's ever gonna go to the website historically.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And it's a Viking boat that's painted purple, and so
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: they're gonna wear their Viking hats. And I don't know why,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: but Cody has to be in it, and then Isabelle
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and then one other Brianna I think was there, and
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: then Aurora and who else Dayton. Yeah, so there's five
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: people on this boat, most of them our kids, and
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: they go to they go to row it and they're
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: just rowing in a circle because Aurora it's fucking it
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: up in the front right, and they can't even get
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: across the fucking lake.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: You know, it's pissing Cody off. You know that Cody
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: wanted to beat his boys, yep, and be faster than
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: his boys, and if his boys came in second, which
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: they did, he wants to come in first. But he's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: just going in circles around this man made lake. It
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: is hilarious.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: It's so funny, and they took so much time that
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: ultimately they failed. They had to wave the white flag
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: basically get disqualified from some reason.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Across the lake, which is really funny.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And so of course, Janelle's team gets second, Cody and
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Robin's team and Christine's team didn't even place, but they
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: did get an award for most creative.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Because somebody had to give, like the Sister Wives from
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the Sister Wives Show an award of.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Course, and you know, Cody and Christine and Robin they're
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: like laughing about it now as they're recounting it, but like,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: you know, during the whole process, it was it was.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: It was a terrible experience. And even Janelle was like,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't really have fun buildings, Like why did we.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Even just wrangling her kids out in the heat? Who
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: would want to do that?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Totally and honestly, Janelle the whole time looked totally checked out.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: To me. It was like Janelle's not used to having
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: all of these kids around, and she's getting annoyed.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Christine, where are you exact them take care of my kids?
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Exactly?
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Christine is wrangling Cody.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Exactly yes. And so then the episode ends with Cody
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: being like, you know.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: We had this hurdle of the adoption process and you know,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: getting pressed into send these PaperWorks and paperwork, and then
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: we also had this hurdle of building this cardboard boat.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: And now the last hurdle is going to stand in
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: front of a judge to ask them if they'll let
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: me adopt my kids.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: We're really worried about it, and shocker, it's going to
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: go off without a hitch. Not it's going to be
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a total nothing burger. And so that's the way the
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: episode ends. Preview for next week we have Cody taking
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Isabelle and some of the other younger girls on a
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: California beach trip because that's what isabel wanted for her birthday.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: We have Robin making a comment about that, saying if
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: he doesn't connect with his girls at this age, they
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: are not gonna want to connect with him once they're
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: in high school and older, which is pretty poignant. Then
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: we have Maddie telling the parents that the LDS church
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: rejected her because her family is too public, and Robin says,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: she's so sorry about that, And then we have Mary
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: looking like she's finally ready to agree to go to
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: therapy with Janelle four months later.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: After four months, that's crazy. I'd be like, forget it, no,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: straight up, you made me wait almost half a year.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: That's so bitchy.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, it is extremely bitchy.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: That's so bitchy. And Janelle's worried about it too, because
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: it sounds like Mary's like, I gotta talk to you,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and Janelle's like, okay.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what you're gonna say.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, all I remember, very hazily is that therapy is
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: not very productive. No, because Mary's got our walls up.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of hurt feelings and those two women
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: cannot build a bridge and get over it.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: And I think if I recall like when they started
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: going to therapy, it's probably when the catfish stuff started
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: ranking up, and so it probably gets overshadowed by the
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: fact that, yeah, Mary's catfish got got exposed. Yes, so
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: that'll be juicy.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I can't wait me too, Well, is there anything else
• 31:32
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• 31:34
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• 31:36
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• 31:40
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• 31:43
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• 31:46
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• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to Plathfill. Make sure to come back for that because
• 31:53
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• 31:55
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• 31:58
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• 32:02
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• 32:04
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• 32:08
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