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Sister Wives S6 E14 - Polygamist Flash Mob · 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.
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  Just look at the 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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  Are you ready for me to expose
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  What? Season 6 episode 14 polygamist
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  flash mob. So I was thinking maybe that I
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  would see somebody parts or maybe I would expose myself
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  right here on this very podcast so you all could hear it.
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  You could hear the slapping of
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  Don't mind me, that's just my balls hitting my thighs.
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  Welcome back to the show, everyone.
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  Polygamous flash mob is the theme of this episode and yes,
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  we are going to get into it. There will be a flash mob by
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  some polygamists. Some flashers up in this house.
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  Right. And flash mob, in case you've
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  been living under a rock. And no, we this isn't exactly a
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  contemporary. Yeah, you know it.
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  Used to be a big. Thing but flash mobs are when
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  everyone gets together and does a little hokey routine.
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  Easy dance moves together out of
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  Used to happen a lot at malls,
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  Yeah. School functions.
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  Proposals. Oh God.
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  Inappropriate times. It reminds me a little bit of
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  gender reveal parties where it's
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  go, this is against the laws of nature and God and all that is
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  good and pure in the universe.
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  We're starting out hot today. We're starting out hot.
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  I feel like a lot of gays would disagree because there's a lot
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  of theater nerd gays out there
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  of plenty of flash mob. Well, maybe back in the good old
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  days, whenever this was recorded.
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  But today, I would hope not. I would hope not.
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  We opened this episode at Christine's house where they're
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  doing a graduation meeting for
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  graduation party. There's a voiceover from
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  Christine kind of introducing us, and she tells us that it's
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  her and Meri there and that they're actually going to
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  include Leon and Aspyn as if it's a joke.
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  She did forget to include that
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  if Robyn joined later or if that
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  Maybe she forgot Robyn was there.
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  She. Probably wasn't invited, but
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  Meri probably drug her along or invited her after the fact and
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  surprised Christine with her presence.
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  No. What a gift.
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  What a gift. What a gift indeed.
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  Yes, there's a couch moment where Janelle says she likes to
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  go to parties, but she's not so into the planning.
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  And you know, I was just shocked
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  It was so surprising from our dear Janelle.
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  When we're back at Christine's
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  plans for this graduation party.
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  And I didn't know if it was Meri or Christine, but they were
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  talking about wanting to do a block party.
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  Now who was talking about this? Meri calls it a block party,
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  which Leon does not like. Leon doesn't like the suggestion
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  from the youngins on the plans. In fact, Leon has an interview
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  Quite a quote. Yeah, Leon says Meri and
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  Christine are living vicariously through them because Christine
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  What of the mothers do you think or?
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  But they show Christine later on at her graduation with both of
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  Yes. And she just went and met up
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  with her parents after her graduation and then went home
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  because she didn't have friends. And Robyn talks about her
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  graduation as well. So yeah, this quote was jarring
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  because one, it was distracting going.
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  What do you mean Meri's the only one that graduated because then
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  I'm doing the math in my head going.
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  But how is it actually possible that none of the other adults
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  graduated? So Leon is lying.
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  Lying Leon. Why would you say the way that
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  Yeah, they say things in a very mean way a lot of the time.
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  Very snarky and intentionally rude and mean.
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  There was a few moments in this episode that definitely reminded
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  The kind words, the joshing, the
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  from Leon. It sounds like this is actually
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  just an asshole statement. And then when we're sitting here
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  thinking about what happens later in the episode, it's not
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  even true. So thanks for that, Leon.
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  Yeah, Christine was weird in high school, and my mom's the
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  only one who graduated. Maybe graduated from a public
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  school, but that still doesn't
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  No, no, no, it doesn't make sense.
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  It makes me wonder what Meri tells Leon behind the scenes and
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  what Leon believes. Because Leon and Meri are very
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  close. I feel like Leon believes that
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  they know more than the other children know so.
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  Because of that, close the close.
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  Bond that Meri and Leon have. Meri shares things with Leon the
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  other moms potentially don't share with their children.
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  Leon acts like a know it all frequently.
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  So methinks Meri lies to Leon and feeds Leon little tidbits
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  that aren't true. I don't know.
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  While they're at the table, Christina's drawing a setup in
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  the cul-de-sac. So there's like an outline of
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  the, you know, dead end with the
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  coming off of this sketch. 2 not
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  sketch of like the cul-de-sac.
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  tents in the cul-de-sac. She's drawing some music notes
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  on one of the driveway indicating there will be music
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  and dancing. They talk about dancing and
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  Aspyn and Leon are immediately
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  No. And Robyn says, so you don't
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  want dancing. And Aspyn says, I'm not going to
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  be like, no dancing, yo. Which we get some moments from
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  Aspyn in this episode, which is kind of fun because a while
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  Aspyn may not be the most high
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  exciting or scandalous like Mckelty is, you know, the
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  problem child, the rebel. It's just nice to hear from her
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  because she's overall likable,
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  giving her an unwarranted shit
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  her a mustard see the very next episode or something like that.
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  It's hard to remember, you know,
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  Still stand by that one. Aspyn said that Logan was
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  leaving the family and being a
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  extricate himself too much from the family and it was untrue.
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  Untrue. I do think that Aspyn is the
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  antithesis of Mckelty. They're very, very different and
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  it's so interesting that they come from the same mother.
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  Very, very juxtaposed when you
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  And Aspyn is very regimented, has her shit together, always
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  helping Christine and Mckelty is
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  Yeah, yeah. We get into some of that later
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  in the episode. And Aspyn does have that kind of
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  cliche stereotype thing of the
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  parentified, very much. We'll get into it.
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  We'll get into it. Robyn, the forgotten sister wife
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  at this table, says, oh, and I
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  And Aspyn says, that actually sounds cool.
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  And I was like, OK, good. So the young ones are kind of
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  getting into some of the ideas
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  come from Robyn. And Robyn makes sure to tell us
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  that there's nothing dark or creepy.
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  You know, just for fun. Yeah, a poem reader, perhaps
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  because they're going off to school and help predict their
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  futures. It would just be fun He.
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  He, he, you know, I'm not mad at
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  It just happens to be Robyn. So that's, you know, take it for
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  what it is. It just feels very, very out of
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  the blue and off the cuff for a family that's super religious.
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  Yeah, I've never been to a graduation party that included a
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  future teller. Fortune teller.
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  A fortune teller. Teller.
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  Or a palm reader. Or a card reader.
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  Or a tarot. You know, like the crystal ball.
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  I've never been to any graduation party where this was
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  a thing, so I I don't really know what triggered it, but
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  let's call it Robyn's creativity.
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  We're gonna just say that, and I
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  suggestion by the crew behind the scene.
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  Yeah, yeah. And they gave it to Robyn
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  because she's a cute unique. Ohh, I've got the good idea.
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  Look at me. And as we've seen before, she
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  has literally had to be fed lines told what's going on
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  before they asked her what's going on.
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  So they probably gave it to her.
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  Without this fortune teller, the episode would probably have been
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  strings were pulled behind the scenes to get this to happen.
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  Christine does say that she's living vicariously through with
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  their children. She volunteers that she had no
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  At least Christine can, you know, be a little self
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  deprecating about something and do it with humor.
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  And she's not in denial. Robyn would probably fabricate
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  mislead everyone. What Robyn would do is fabricate
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  for some reason. And it was probably because she
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  just had the best ideas all the time and was unique.
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  And but I was friends with all the boys, but I had no
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  girlfriends and I don't know why pick me a girl.
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  Well, she didn't go to quite that extent with her lies in
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  this episode. As far as her past, she well,
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  her past regarding her high school graduation.
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  She does lie in the future, but later in the episode.
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  She sure does. But she tells us that she only
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  because she was in the polygamist family and she only
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  So you know, once again, Leon, your other mothers are talking
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  Yeah. When reviewing some of the
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  collateral for this party, they're being shown photos that
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  could be used for different things and Leon is talking about
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  Oh and they show this great shot of Isabel in the kitchen doing
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  hearing hell no by their older sibling at the kitchen table.
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  Christine says you can't say HE double hockey sticks in front of
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  So good. There's this moment.
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  Back to the table, and Aspyn goes.
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  Oh. Shit and they.
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  Blur out the shit, they beep out the shit and it is so good.
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  I was like, oh, thank you. We're finally getting some sort
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  of real humor. It's been AI, don't know.
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  It's been a minute since I've laughed with this family.
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  I've laughed at them, but with them.
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  They do all crack up. Everybody's laughing.
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  Aspyn and Leon are laughing along after having a weird
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  conversation about what they want versus what the moms want.
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  And the moms are admitting
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  they're going to live vicariously and we're going to
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  do what we want anyway kind of
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  So it's funny to see them all connect and laugh over something
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  silly. And then we turn the page in
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  this novel of an episode to Kody
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  Leon's school aspirations are.
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  looked at you and I said, can we
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  this episode? Because I'm so over talking
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  about it. I'm so over talking about it.
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  But unfortunately we do have to talk about it because we get
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  the return of Doctor Guido and we do have some significant
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  changes to the narrative. So we can't just say this
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  happened and moved on. This is a pivotal moment in
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  Kody's thinking about student loans.
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  Based on a crucial conversation.
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  Crucial. Conversation QQ.
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  Christine on the drums and Kimber on the microphone.
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  Crucial conversations with Doctor Guido.
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  The band. We all need the band.
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  No one needs that you. And you're all waiting for.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  That's. What you meant to?
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  Say thank you, Thank you. As we said, Doctor Guido's
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  coming over to discuss how financing with college works.
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  And Kody's kind of teeing this up as he's a reliable source.
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  We have trust in him. Obviously, the kids liked him.
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  And, you know, maybe where Janelle was struggling to get
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  out of a desk, you know, it's hard for me to remember.
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  These Yeah, Doctor Guido is the kids favorite teacher, their
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  favorite high school teacher, and the family has turned to
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  Doctor Guido in the past for advice when it has come to
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  signing up for college or putting in college application.
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  Applications.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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  So this is the return of Doctor Guido.
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  And Kody makes sure to tell Doctor Guido about his
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  reservations regarding student
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  ad nauseam. So I don't think we need to go
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  into any detail about that. But Doctor Guido says that you
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  don't want to stress your child out while they're in school.
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  He talks about how medical school, specifically when it
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  comes to Leon, could cost 150 two, $100,000 at.
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  Least. Yeah.
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  And I was thinking that sounded pretty conservative.
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  Yeah. And Leon shouldn't be worried
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  about financing while in school,
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  talked about repeatedly. We don't need to beat you over
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  the head about it, but this is
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  know, especially if you've tried
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  are stressed about money. It adds a whole layer of
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  complication that you really probably, well, you would just
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  be so benefited by not having.
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  talk to Kody the Wise. I don't know who else was there
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  other than Meri and Leon. Maybe it was just them.
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  I didn't really pay attention to
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  Guido is giving the talking points that I would respect.
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  Yeah, Doctor Guido says to fill out the applications and you
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  don't have to take the money, but just go ahead and fill out
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  the applications, see what you
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  from there. And he provides a wonderful
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  example that I, we do actually
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  little light bulb moment happening.
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  And I thought this was super smart.
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  So shout out to maybe the first personal shout out to Doctor
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  Guido here. A round of applause.
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  Thank you, fucking Doctor Guido.
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  Because Doctor Guido points out that they have 4 beautiful homes
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  And Doctor Guido was drawing the parallel about their children's
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  dreams with their education. And they want to build a future
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  with this education. And so we have a couple of couch
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  Yeah, Kody has a light bulb go
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  off. And Kody says, you know, I've
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  looked at college as a way to make money, but my kids are
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  looking at college as a way to
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  Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding. OK, dreams, yes, but also to
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  make money for several people,
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  A motivation for college is to
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  It's not just to chase a dream, it's a practical practice that
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  they're going to go through. The number of jobs you can't
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  even apply to, they will just throw it in the trash if you
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  don't have a college degree. So this whole rationale that,
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  well, you're not even going to
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  your college programs. OK, But I still need a
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  bachelor's or a master's to get into the roles that I want to
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  do. And that is a fundamental for
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  many people. Right.
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  It's an unfortunate fact of the society that we live in because
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  he is right. A lot of people don't use their
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  degree. They're not in the field that
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  they set out to be in, but it's a requirement.
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  A lot of the job applications just get thrown away.
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  And now with AI and tech, that's
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  from the get go. If you don't have the
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  qualifications listed, if you don't have the credentials to
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  back things up, your applications getting tossed
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  before a person even looks at it.
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  Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Yeah. I mean, my first real job in air
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  quotes, like literally my first real job I wouldn't have had
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  without my education, regardless
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  education or not. And that's a reality for a lot
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  of people. I think Kody is still of the era
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  where if you worked hard enough,
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  paying position because experience and staying in a
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  company for an extremely long time was common to work your way
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  up to a position that you might have had to go to school for to
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  get, you know, without working
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  Does that make sense? So I think Kody has this weird
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  idea based on maybe his parents and the area he grew up in and
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  the time. It's not like he's old, but it
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  is definitely a different time
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  Yeah, there's also an element of
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  multiple people where, you know,
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  if Kody wasn't making a lot of
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  I mean, they lived poor. They lived in a trailer at one
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  point, like all. Well, at least two of the
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  mothers, sometimes at one point maybe 3 in a small house with
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  kids. And those struggles are
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  universal in so many ways. But I just think that Kody might
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  have not had to really deal with
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  way as a monogamous family where
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  always picking up some slack. Christine, while they get made
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  her the homeschool mom for the
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  She always worked, Meri always
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  He had multiple people working
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  bringing in all the money. So I think he's a little, he
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  maybe hit some rose colored glasses about that as well.
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  Yeah, not the best judge of. Right, Right.
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  Like Kody. Oh, God.
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  Also in their narrative as a family now he's on ATV show.
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  How many people are going to be plucked from their obscure life
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  to be in a reality show and now have this thing where they can
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  be on a platform talking about
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  necessary? That's not most people.
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  That's a very select number of
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  boasting about how they don't have a college education.
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  That's not most people. Yeah.
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  So Kody says and admits student loans are not something that he
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  would be happy about. But if a student loan keeps his
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  kids from worrying about money
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  keeps them focused on their grades, I guess that's fine.
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  Learning and experiencing college.
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  And as TLC does and as the show does, we have a seamless
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  transition to graduation day for
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  So basically through this episode, we're going to have
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  this planning for the graduation
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  We're going to have the graduation itself happen.
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  Well, with this conversation with Doctor Guido in the middle,
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  then we will have the graduation
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  the graduation party itself. So we're not going to go over a
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  lot of time, but just so you know, that's how it's going to
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  kind of breakdown. And we're at Christine's house
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  the morning of the graduation.
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  Aspyn here, speaking directly to
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  that she is ready to leave. She is ready to get out, and if
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  she wasn't leaving for college, she'd be getting out anyways.
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  And Christine, like, walks up behind her as she's saying this.
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  Aspyn kind of backtracks and is like oh shit, Mama heard me.
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  It was so good and I want to say
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  the words. They hit me.
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  If I wasn't leaving, I'd already
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  And I loved it was like poetic
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  I felt at the end of my teenage years, it's like if I wasn't
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  already planning what I was doing, if I didn't have a plan
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  and things in line, I'd already be out of here.
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  Some people make that choice, some people run away, some
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  people pull triggers too early.
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  They devastate their lives in certain ways.
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  Luckily I didn't do that, but I had a plan and I had the same
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  sentiment. If I wasn't leaving, I'd already
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  that house and it will be a big adjustment once she is gone and
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  they proceed to show us utter fucking chaos.
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  The chaos of her house. They did back it up with some
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  good footage of Christine trying to and tell her children to do
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  There was a little clip of truly taking a bath while Aspyn was
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  doing her hair in the back. Truly was covered in chalk.
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  Sidewalk. Sidewalk.
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  Jog, yes. So Aspyn and Christine had gone
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  to the store and they left Mckelty in charge.
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  And when they came back, it was utter chaos in the house.
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  Pandemonium. Pandemonium and they wash little
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  gets her dressed and ready to go and she says to one of the other
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  But she has to remind them I just gave her a bath.
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  Please don't do that again. Oh boy.
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  And just a little side note, when they show Christine in the
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  hallway going probably going into her bedroom because Aspyn's
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  just like the other homes, the bathroom is kind of huge.
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  So it's kind of films strange. It's almost like cavernous and
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  And when they show Christine in the hallway, I was so distracted
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  niche ledge where there could be some artwork and just stuff
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  little they actually have in the houses.
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  The furniture, very minimal. Stuff hanging on the walls, very
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  and doesn't fit the massive wall that it's hanging on.
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  So Christine's house, barely a thing in it except for junk
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  everywhere. So it almost looks, it almost
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  looks as if they're renting a house or as if you're in a hotel
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  And all their houses are like this, even Meri's very bizarre
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  certain ways, so hers to me seems the most put together at
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  the last episode or the one before, they've been in these
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  homes for at least five months. I mean, we're going from
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  Christmas now to high school graduation, so there's been some
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  moved in a week ago and their children have been Tasmanian
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  devils without parental supervision because there's just
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  cluttery looking things. There was a shot at one point
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  later in the episode where you pointed out the word art on the
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  wall and it was a some slogan about family or something.
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  It was like a stencil one. It was like directly on the wall
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  tiny cursive decal. Decal, yeah.
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  Put randomly in the middle. Yeah very strange with like 2
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  dining room chairs along the wall and then clutter crap on
• 25:48
  the floor. Like what?
• 25:50
  I'm going to be honest, I don't like these houses.
• 25:54
  You said it when you talked about the bathroom.
• 25:57
  They're cavernous. They haven't filled them
• 26:01
  correctly. It looks like you spent all this
• 26:09
  You saved no money to furnish the place or put a window
• 26:13
  treatment up or an actual painting or piece of art.
• 26:17
  It's weird. Especially because they were
• 26:19
  coming from rentals where they were there for a hot minute.
• 26:22
  Like what did you have all around your rentals?
• 26:25
  Because they didn't seem so sparse.
• 26:26
  We haven't spent much time in Robyn's rental.
• 26:29
  It's like we see the My Sister Wife's Closet world headquarters
• 26:37
  Hawking jewelry crap. But I suspect that once we spend
• 26:53
  and charcuterie. They haven't shown us any other
• 26:58
  areas of her house really. They really haven't.
• 27:01
  You're right. Right.
• 27:02
  Which is odd because isn't Kody there all the time, but I think
• 27:08
  it's because Meri's house is the cleanest.
• 27:10
  We tend to be at Meri's house a lot.
• 27:13
  And of the four, Meri's going to be the one that they should go
• 27:19
  She won't have all this shit everywhere and whatever.
• 27:22
  So after the chaos of Christine's, we get to the
• 27:27
  opposite end of the spectrum. We go to the serene and tranquil
• 27:40
  through too loud. Keep it down.
• 27:42
  Don't you slam that back French door that I paid extra money
• 27:47
  for. I will not have sliding doors
• 27:50
  County never. Oh boy.
• 27:54
  And Meri is of course flat ironing her hair, drying the
• 27:59
  shit out of that hair even more, and I can hear it screaming as
• 28:11
  hair. What a beautiful scene, Mother
• 28:17
  And of course, Meri has to start talking about her emptiness
• 28:21
  syndrome, blah, blah, blah. Leon talks about being worried
• 28:29
  Sounds like some codependency stuff there.
• 28:31
  And you know, it is what it is. Meri references the 18 years
• 28:35
  they've had together and that the change will be hard for her.
• 28:41
  We've heard it all before. Then we get them in Meri's
• 28:44
  bedroom, where Meri's going to
• 28:47
  Meri gives Leon a delicate looking small Pearl necklace and
• 28:54
  Leon says is that your necklace?
• 28:59
  And Meri goes, well it used to be mine, and gives it to them.
• 29:13
  And then when Meri starts putting it on Leon, I was like,
• 29:18
  oh, it is a necklace, OK, Because it I couldn't even tell
• 29:21
  what it was at first. I could just tell it was pearls.
• 29:24
  size old. Do you think it was Meri's mom's
• 29:28
  grandma? Something like that.
• 29:29
  I have a feeling it was Meri's
• 29:37
  It did look like something I would have gotten at my first
• 29:41
  communion or something. Regardless, it does seem like
• 29:47
  it's something Leon has looked
• 29:51
  I had jewelry of my mom's that I
• 29:55
  mom's given me now as an older
• 30:00
  They are both crying during this, so it must mean something
• 30:05
  that Meri is finally giving this
• 30:08
  Yeah, it was an emotional moment.
• 30:09
  I nearly shed a tear. Just kidding, I did not.
• 30:13
  But. It did fit Leon's neck, so that
• 30:16
  was good. Oh, that is good.
• 30:17
  Yes, yes. And then we move outside of
• 30:21
  Meri's home to the cul-de-sac,
• 30:25
  and Aspyn are taking photos in
• 30:28
  And I thought it was pretty cute
• 30:32
  like, Oh my gosh, we look so fat in these.
• 30:33
  And I was struggling because that's exactly what I would
• 30:36
  think. The winds kind of blowing.
• 30:37
  They're a little billowy even I think at one point Meri says,
• 30:40
  you know, you can't tell me not to take photos today.
• 30:43
  And then they jump to do like an
• 30:46
  was horrific because they barely
• 30:50
  they are in these parachutes of outfits.
• 30:53
  So I did feel bad because it's
• 30:56
  where if my mom gave me that photo, I'd be like, this is
• 30:58
  going in the trash. Like I never want to see this
• 31:00
  photo of me ever again. Graduation gowns are so ugly.
• 31:04
  They're so uncomfortable and plasticky and depending on the
• 31:08
  color, you have to wear a certain color underneath it, we
• 31:13
  were told. US ladies were told in my
• 31:17
  graduating class that we had to wear a white dress under our
• 31:21
  gown because the girls were wearing the white ones and the
• 31:25
  boys were wearing maroon. Gross.
• 31:28
  Yeah, so we had to wear a white dress.
• 31:31
  We were told that they wouldn't let us walk and stuff if we
• 31:34
  weren't wearing the proper attire underneath because it
• 31:38
  would show through. I hate the whole gendered thing
• 31:40
  of the graduation bit. Even with Logan's graduation
• 31:43
  they paired the man and woman to
• 31:45
  getting their diploma and it's
• 31:49
  whatever it was and I'm going.
• 31:51
  disgusting like it's gross. It's pretty ridiculous.
• 31:54
  I graduated in 2009 and and. It was still happening.
• 31:58
  It was still happening and Logan's graduation was what year
• 32:03
  would that have been? 20. 132014.
• 32:06
  Yeah, that's gross. Yeah.
• 32:08
  And these poor, unfortunate children, their graduation gowns
• 32:13
  are a blue and an unforgiving blue between sky and.
• 32:19
  I don't know Cobalt. What a very.
• 32:21
  Bright, very bright, very bright.
• 32:23
  The chartreuse of the Blues, let's say.
• 32:28
  I'm lucky because I went to an
• 32:30
  so I walked across to get my diploma in jeans and a Jean
• 32:34
  jacket and a baby pink T-shirt.
• 32:36
  And I was so in my Madonna 1987 era, I had short blonde hair.
• 32:40
  And I put my hands in my pocket and strutted across the stage
• 32:43
  and picked up my diploma and went like, it gave a little
• 32:46
  moment and walked off. And I was like, fuck yeah, I'm
• 32:51
  And the same is true today. I am so cool.
• 32:54
  Totally. And you still wear that baby
• 32:56
  pink shirt sometimes. Boy, you certainly don't have
• 32:59
  that one. I don't think I would fit in it
• 33:01
  anymore. It was totally like one of those
• 33:06
  There's holes in the nipple area for some reason, I don't know
• 33:09
  why, but he still wears it. Wore those holes out.
• 33:13
  Oh my God. Regina.
• 33:15
  George style. Ridiculous.
• 33:17
  So we arrive at UNLV for this graduation ceremony and everyone
• 33:35
  And then we see Kody staring off and he says I need to know what
• 33:43
  to do with my car. Yeah, you know, at least
• 33:50
  Christine had the foresight to say, you know, should we go in
• 33:59
  Yeah, it was pretty cringe. You know, there is a certain
• 34:04
  thing in, OK, it might be a little gendered as we were
• 34:07
  talking about earlier. Maybe it's a little old
• 34:10
  fashioned, but I think maybe you and your husband would have some
• 34:15
  like this. My husband would be driving the
• 34:18
  car because it's driving Miss Daisy up in this bitch.
• 34:21
  I don't like to. Drive Passenger Princess.
• 34:24
  Amen. And he would drop me off at the
• 34:28
  door and anyone else who was a passenger and go park the
• 34:32
  fucking car as I went in with my ticket to save seats for the
• 34:38
  family. And he would come in later with
• 34:41
  his ticket and find us. Yeah, when you have a family
• 34:47
  this large, how is this still a fucking problem?
• 34:52
  How has he not gone and parked the car and just met y'all in
• 34:57
  there? I don't get what is so difficult
• 35:03
  Yeah, his search for the fuse box in the recent episode has
• 35:08
  really highlighted to me now how going through these episodes,
• 35:12
  how the basics just seem to be such a struggle for this guy
• 35:16
  literally parking the car at a high school graduation.
• 35:19
  I mean, how many times do you drop your passengers off and
• 35:22
  then go park the car and come up?
• 35:24
  I mean, this is a very standard thing and there's other examples
• 35:29
  How have you made it this far? It's really because he has four
• 35:32
  women, Well, three women for a while and two before that and
• 35:35
  one before that, supporting him and taking care of him.
• 35:37
  He clearly can't just take care of anything.
• 35:39
  He is, as you say, a bumbling idiot.
• 35:42
  If the wives weren't doing most of the work, he wouldn't have
• 35:48
  made it very far. No natural selection would have
• 35:51
  occurred with this one. He's the epitome of a man that
• 35:59
  It probably went from Mother to Mission to Meri.
• 36:02
  It was. MMM, it was really.
• 36:04
  That's what it was. It really was.
• 36:07
  And he's standing there off to the side of the family, looking
• 36:13
  around, not even really speaking to anybody in
• 36:17
  particular. Maybe the cameraman?
• 36:20
  Hard to tell. I don't know what to do with my
• 36:23
  car man. Well, they're standing in the
• 36:27
  parking lot. Yeah, like, what are you talking
• 36:29
  about? And he's not even in his car.
• 36:31
  It's like, isn't the car somewhere?
• 36:33
  What, did you pull it up next to
• 36:35
  and stood around? I think so.
• 36:37
  That's just insane. I think they all reconvened
• 36:39
  outside of their cars and had to
• 36:45
  still and we're trying to discuss what to do next.
• 36:48
  Right. What the actual fuck?
• 36:51
  So strange. Meet at the front of the
• 36:52
  building. Everybody take your own ticket.
• 36:56
  So and so. We're going to go and find the
• 36:58
  seats. Christine and Janelle, I'll go
• 36:59
  find the seats, take the little kids with you, and the rest of
• 37:02
  us will meet up with you. I don't understand.
• 37:07
  Things are just way too hard for
• 37:09
  And I get curious about that with the show.
• 37:11
  How much of the struggle of things is production based for
• 37:15
  them to have content for the show?
• 37:17
  Some of these examples, though, don't fit like that.
• 37:20
  And there are somewhere it's, you know, obviously we have to
• 37:23
  have a conflict. We have to have a thing to
• 37:24
  resolve, We have to have something to bring along with
• 37:26
  the storyline, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:28
  But some of these examples just seem like organically idiotic
• 37:32
  moments. I obviously the fuse box is 1
• 37:34
  and this seems like another one. I mean, I mean, it's obviously
• 37:41
  moment from our fearless leader, Kody.
• 37:44
  Yeah. OK, Kody.
• 37:46
  So they get inside finally, after struggling to even get
• 37:52
  through the door, and hand everyone the tickets as they're
• 37:55
  heading in the door. Three hours later.
• 37:58
  Oh. My gosh.
• 37:59
  Well, at least they made it on time this time.
• 38:01
  Yeah, can't blame. Can't blame Robyn for that.
• 38:04
  Yep, she wasn't off getting her nails done with baby Saul,
• 38:08
  breathing in the fumes at the nail salon, dragging him there
• 38:14
  I was asking strangers where to go.
• 38:16
  What an idiot. Oh my God.
• 38:21
  So they get to the spot that was chosen.
• 38:25
  Meri has a conniption fit, Meri says.
• 38:30
  Who chose this spot? Oh no, shit's about to hit the
• 38:40
  stage and Meri is pissed. Meri says I need to see them
• 38:48
  walking in and I won't see them at all here.
• 38:52
  And the tears are coming. The tears are coming.
• 38:57
  Oh my goodness. And to provide a little bit of
• 39:11
  They call it stadium, but it's not outdoors.
• 39:14
  It's just a big space where you would have something like a
• 39:18
  graduation. And so we're talking about like
• 39:20
  that tiered seating, like the stadium.
• 39:23
  It is stadium seating. So, you know, I guess that makes
• 39:31
  They didn't have to. There was plenty of seating
• 39:34
  open. They're showing us on the
• 39:36
  cameras. Go pick another fucking spot.
• 39:39
  This doesn't need to be a fight.
• 39:41
  A lot of other open seats. Oh my Lanta.
• 39:43
  Yeah, so after Meri starts crying and the world starts
• 39:47
  shaking and everyone's on edge, she's huffing and puffing up
• 39:51
  those stadium stairs. Oh, God, I'm not going to be
• 39:55
  able to see Leon. It's like, oh, God, where's she
• 39:58
  going? What's going on?
• 39:59
  What's happening, Huh. Then I think we have a
• 40:02
  commercial break. I'm not quite sure.
• 40:03
  I kind of trauma blocked it. But when we return, we see
• 40:07
  Christine and Meri are scanning the stadium seating to see if
• 40:10
  there are other options available.
• 40:12
  And as we see with the camera pan, there are plenty of other
• 40:18
  planted is open enough where it's clear that it's not going
• 40:23
  And why does everybody have to move?
• 40:25
  Meri could go. A small group of them could go,
• 40:28
  the parents could go, the older kids could stay with the
• 40:31
  children. If there's not enough seats,
• 40:33
  Meri, go sit where you want to fucking sit, right?
• 40:36
  Why does this have to be the end of the world?
• 40:39
  It is Aspyn and Leon's graduation, so we're talking
• 40:43
  about Kody, Meri and Christine. You know, if Robyn, she probably
• 40:49
  Janelle would probably be like, I'm cool here.
• 40:51
  I mean, Janelle could be like, I could watch the video
• 40:53
  afterwards, You know, Janelle, she would have been like, I'm
• 40:56
  just here because I kind of have to be.
• 40:58
  Yeah, she could have stayed with the little kids if there weren't
• 41:04
  Whatever. Well, Speaking of Robyn, we cut
• 41:07
  to a scene with her and Kody in the hallway, having a little
• 41:11
  discussion about the trauma that Meri's currently going through
• 41:20
  really upset and Kody says Meri is always playing this game and
• 41:27
  turns around and goes and actually gets you involved.
• 41:33
  Oh, oh snap. Snap.
• 41:36
  And Robyn says I understand, I just know you're better than
• 41:42
  this. It's her one child, OK?
• 41:47
  Yes, so she's diverting Kody's attention from while you're
• 41:52
  saying, yes, Mario's does this, and then she plays the game and
• 41:56
  she gets you upset and then she comes and gets me and whatever.
• 41:58
  Like, all right.
• 41:59
  So she's kind of acknowledging
• 42:02
  really engage with him on it and
• 42:05
  you're better than this and today's about the kids.
• 42:07
  And that's what you're here for.
• 42:10
  Kody is the kids. And so, you know, it's odd to
• 42:15
  witness so many things happening in such a short amount of time.
• 42:19
  Kody's volunteering that Mario's
• 42:20
  does this. She's fucked up.
• 42:21
  She's manipulative. She always gets Robyn involved.
• 42:23
  Robyn acknowledges it, moves on to you should be concerned
• 42:27
  about your children. Let's make it about the kids.
• 42:30
  So I don't want to. I can't even be upset with Robyn
• 42:33
  about this situation. I feel like she's trying to help
• 42:36
  him, but I wonder if they ever
• 42:41
  about this in any reasonable, helpful way, Right?
• 42:44
  It seems like maybe Kody brings this up when he's mad or when
• 42:47
  they're in the situation with Meri where they're not going to
• 42:50
  actually address it. So it's like this known thing,
• 42:52
  and I don't know that they ever really get to any healthy place
• 42:55
  with it, you know? Yeah, he literally says she's
• 42:58
  always playing this game and actually come in and getting you
• 43:01
  involved, playing a game and you're telling one of your wives
• 43:06
  this about another wife and using this.
• 43:10
  He did playing a game kind of language that I would find
• 43:15
  offensive if somebody said that about me behind my back.
• 43:18
  She's always playing this game
• 43:22
  because, OK, she is playing a game.
• 43:25
  She does this a lot. She does get Robyn involved.
• 43:28
  But my point being, let's give
• 43:32
  She's just an emotional person.
• 43:34
  She needs support every now and then.
• 43:36
  And if my partner was saying that to anybody else, I'd be
• 43:41
  freaking offended. I would be hurt.
• 43:44
  And I do applaud Robyn here because she is trying to bring
• 43:52
  situation. Let's make it about what we're
• 43:55
  But also, Kody, this is Meri's one child.
• 43:59
  If she wants to move seats because she wants to see Leon a
• 44:04
  certain way as Leon's walking down, this is her one chance.
• 44:09
  It's her one child. So I do appreciate that she
• 44:13
  pointed that out in Meri's defense, because while Meri is
• 44:20
  Totally is, yeah. Very extra.
• 44:22
  It's got to be super emotional that this is your one child
• 44:28
  walking down the graduation aisle.
• 44:30
  Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I would assume so.
• 44:33
  It's just classic mare that it has to be, you know, she's
• 44:37
  crying and almost in borderline hysterics where let's solve the
• 44:41
  problem and not just be upset. She made a scene I.
• 44:44
  Don't know. Yes, she did make a scene.
• 44:46
  It was really awkward too because there's people just lay
• 44:50
  people around that are also there to see their kids.
• 44:54
  They're in the background during this filming and Meri's storming
• 45:03
  Leon, there are just people sitting there in the stands
• 45:07
  watching all this happen. Yeah, it's.
• 45:11
  Embarrassing. And it's someone who has a
• 45:14
  mother who has turned more than one event that was about me into
• 45:21
  If I could offer any advice to any mother out there, it would
• 45:30
  significant way. The only thing I can say right
• 45:35
  That is a blessing because when you're standing right there and
• 45:39
  your parent is making your event, your performance, your
• 45:43
  literal thing that everyone's there for about them, it
• 45:48
  changes. For me, it changed my
• 45:51
  relationship with my mother significantly.
• 45:52
  Like, bitch, this is not about you and this is a high impact
• 45:56
  moment and you're making it about you enough.
• 45:58
  So I'm just glad Leon wasn't actually there to witness it.
• 46:01
  I think Kody's frustration is understandable.
• 46:03
  To me, it feels like something you would bitch about to like
• 46:06
  one of his boys on Testosterone Tuesday.
• 46:08
  Not to his other wife, but you know.
• 46:11
  That's how you create rifts between the wives and we're
• 46:16
  seeing it happen. We're seeing it play out.
• 46:19
  That's why I'm saying this playing this game, that comment
• 46:23
  it's a heated. It takes it's a lot of weight.
• 46:28
  If somebody were to tell me that I'm playing a game, I don't even
• 46:56
  Usually when they come out, it's because I kind of can't control
• 47:01
  it. And I am really truly feeling
• 47:03
  those feelings. Now, his experience with Meri is
• 47:08
  her emotions as a weapon and, and to manipulate.
• 47:11
  But you don't need to be saying that to your other wife.
• 47:15
  This is where you're going to start pitting them against each
• 47:18
  other, saying things like that. We're seeing it.
• 47:22
  We're hearing it. And to be fair, in this moment,
• 47:25
  I didn't feel like Meri was playing a game.
• 47:28
  It did seem like she was just genuinely upset and was having a
• 47:33
  And it didn't seem like she had some sort of premeditated thing
• 47:37
  where she was going to use this against Kody.
• 47:39
  Like, that was not the vibe. So it didn't really align in
• 47:42
  that way either. Yeah, it had nothing to do with
• 47:45
  Kody. In another instance where it has
• 47:52
  see it. This isn't that type of
• 47:54
  situation. So for him to be quick to anger
• 47:57
  about it instead of trying to fix the problem and being
• 48:02
  supportive. Yeah, Robyn, actually good on
• 48:05
  you for doing something of saying something.
• 48:08
  We reluctantly give her her flowers every once in a while.
• 48:13
  Don't worry, we get to hate Robyn for the rest of the
• 48:16
  episode. Oh my gosh.
• 48:19
  So after this exchange between Kody and Robyn, Kody goes over
• 48:27
  Everybody up. Let's go.
• 48:29
  So Robyn talked him into doing the right thing.
• 48:33
  So they all get up and they move to seats that are more ideal to
• 48:38
  view the ceremony. And in classic, you know,
• 48:42
  television storytelling, we have all this build up of all this
• 48:44
  shit and then all of a sudden, Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am,
• 48:46
  we're in these other seats and everything is fine.
• 48:49
  Like, Oh my God, we get these moments with Meri where she
• 48:53
  talks about how it's weird that graduation.
• 48:55
  Oh, sorry. Weird.
• 48:56
  Weird that the graduation is finally here, that, you know,
• 49:00
  she's been anticipating it, and now she doesn't have to
• 49:02
  anticipate it anymore because it's finally here and it's weird
• 49:13
  and she feels old. She has a daughter graduating
• 49:19
  and it's making her feel old. Yeah, so after the high school
• 49:28
  I was going to say forget, but maybe remember we're going back
• 49:31
  to Meri's house and we get Kody laying on Meri's couch and her
• 49:38
  forgotten, looks like one from a receptionist front lobby that he
• 49:45
  Oh, what was that place called? Colleen's Classic Consignment
• 49:50
  where that salesman really talked them into this couch that
• 49:57
  Kody's lounging on the couch and he's saying that he wants to
• 50:04
  should be able to rest on Saturday, don't you think so?
• 50:08
  And she agrees while laughing while doing dishes.
• 50:11
  Men deserve to lounge on. Saturday, Christopher.
• 50:13
  Well, and then he cracks a joke about how Moses said to rest on
• 50:19
  Saturday. Because the first thing I
• 50:20
  thought was I thought Sunday was the day of rest.
• 50:23
  But apparently it's universally known that men should be able to
• 50:30
  parking spot and attending a graduation.
• 50:33
  Well, our Lord Jesus says that on Sunday we worship him, and
• 50:38
  Moses says that on Saturday the men rest.
• 50:42
  Oh, didn't you know this? I know what a fool I've been.
• 50:47
  I always thought that God created the world in six days
• 50:49
  and then on the 7th day he rested and that's why we rest on
• 50:55
  worldly or as sophisticated as Kody Brown.
• 50:57
  I don't have that biblical knowledge like he does.
• 51:00
  No, something Joseph Smith would be ashamed.
• 51:03
  Of I was going to say I should take a trip to Nauvoo so I can
• 51:08
  Meri tells Kody that they should really have a conversation with
• 51:13
  Leon about Meri's baby decision.
• 51:16
  As we've talked about before on this show, I said we're not
• 51:19
  going to give this any more time.
• 51:20
  We are only going to give it the
• 51:22
  You guys, we're going to rush through it because fuck this
• 51:24
  whole scenario. I'm over it.
• 51:26
  I hate it. They just keep beating it into
• 51:30
  us that this is going on in the family.
• 51:32
  They. Will not stop.
• 51:33
  Yeah, Kody says. We made a decision about having
• 51:36
  a baby and we're going to talk
• 51:40
  It's a big deal. It's a big deal.
• 51:45
  They go into Meri's bedroom, the
• 51:50
  For some reason, the parents need to be sitting on the bed
• 51:54
  for this conversation. Right.
• 51:55
  They couldn't have it in the family room or wherever they
• 51:57
  already were. Kody couldn't just lay on the
• 51:59
  couch like Cleopatra as he was
• 52:02
  They're laying. There odd choice either way.
• 52:07
  To give this breaking news, this
• 52:10
  they're sitting on Meri's bed with her back against the
• 52:13
  headboard and Meri starts telling Leon they're going to,
• 52:15
  they're not going to force the issue any longer.
• 52:18
  They're they've made their decision.
• 52:20
  Meri can barely even start the conversation and it's just
• 52:24
  disjointed, awkward looks at Kody and says you can feel free
• 52:28
  to chime in here. And they both kind of come out
• 52:34
  We don't want to go to extreme measures, blah blah blah, all
• 52:37
  the shit that we already know. And Leon says.
• 52:40
  I don't really understand why, I guess.
• 52:42
  And then Meri continues. Meri says I didn't want to do it
• 52:49
  I hope you can understand. And Leon, ever the sensitive
• 52:54
  child, says. I really don't, but I guess I
• 52:58
  already knew. Leon's two responses are I don't
• 53:06
  already knew. Very supportive.
• 53:08
  And it ends with all of them going OK, OK, OK, yeah, OK.
• 53:16
  Yeah, well, OK. Series of case.
• 53:19
  OK then. All right, wrap it up.
• 53:22
  We're good. Never fucking talking about that
• 53:26
  Please, please, Kody thinks Leon took the news really well and
• 53:31
  then gives rationale about how he wishes they had tried 10 to
• 53:40
  baby decision to rest? Please my God.
• 53:44
  Burying this in the backyard with the dogs with the time
• 53:50
  capsule, we're fucking done. Another thing that I wish Kody
• 53:59
  They be burning what? Is with these long sideburns
• 54:04
  that come down to his cheekbone an angle like a triangle along
• 54:12
  Yeah. Mid cheekbone.
• 54:14
  It is weird because I have to say when I was so I graduated in
• 54:25
  sideburns but they didn't come to a dramatic point following my
• 54:31
  that's all about. I remember sideburns used to be
• 54:35
  a statement. People used to make them pointed
• 54:51
  manscaping. I don't know.
• 54:54
  I noticed it in this scene because they're sitting on this
• 54:58
  bed. They're doing close-ups.
• 55:00
  You don't notice it often because his facial hair is very
• 55:06
  light colored, but it was just so apparent to me in this scene
• 55:11
  and I just, I don't know, it's bothering me.
• 55:14
  The facial hair thing that stood up to me in this episode is how
• 55:18
  later on the couch or something they're talking and I didn't
• 55:21
  quite notice the sideburns as much, but he has that goatee
• 55:26
  situation without the mustache. Like what do they like a chin?
• 55:32
  It doesn't go all the way. Oh, a flavor saver.
• 55:35
  He has a flavor saver and it's weird because it's a little, I
• 55:45
  I think he's overemphasizing it to make his jaw more dynamic,
• 55:48
  right? Like he's got a real chin and it
• 55:54
  that's going on. So I wouldn't notice the
• 55:56
  sideburns, but I did notice the flavor saver.
• 56:00
  I'm getting an idea for myself here.
• 56:05
  Flavor Saver. Maybe he's experimenting with
• 56:07
  the facial hair and that's why we both noted something about
• 56:10
  it. He's definitely experimenting.
• 56:15
  where it's out now, and we're noticing it more with the
• 56:17
  tendrils in the front. And so now he's playing with the
• 56:29
  middle. In the front he's got the pointy
• 56:36
  Yeah, Hey, you know, I like experimenting.
• 56:39
  I've tried a few different looks.
• 56:41
  Sure. Call me Kody Brown.
• 56:44
  All right, well, we always know who we can blame for this.
• 56:49
  What was her name? Kennedy.
• 56:53
  Kennedy Dale. It's on the tip of my tongue.
• 56:59
  Kennedy, we're going to blame you yet again.
• 57:01
  Yeah, Robyn's like you let him cut his beard, you let him get
• 57:08
  I want to savor that flavour.
• 57:10
  Oh no no no. If there's any woman that I can
• 57:18
  imagine being constantly, constantly dry and flavourless,
• 57:24
  it is 1 Robyn Brown. OK, like.
• 57:28
  Oh Lord. That is some unseasoned chicken
• 57:30
  breast burnt all right. Like no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
• 57:34
  no, no. No, Oh my God.
• 57:38
  Well, it's that time of episode where we go off the deep end,
• 57:41
  so. Buckle up kids, we're going to
• 57:45
  finally go off the deep end. We're not there yet.
• 57:49
  Now, it's still not the day of
• 57:51
  So I'm assuming this is still the day of the graduation.
• 57:54
  They're not quite clear about that.
• 57:56
  But, you know, let's make some, you know, we'll operate under
• 58:00
  some assumptions. So we're at Christine's house
• 58:02
  and Meri has an idea to do a polygamist flash mob where all
• 58:07
  of the adults do a dance during Leon and Aspyn's graduation
• 58:10
  party. Well, they're just going to
• 58:13
  honor their children's wishes because Aspyn and Leon said no
• 58:17
  dancing at the party. They're going to make it all
• 58:19
  about themselves and do a flash mob at the party.
• 58:23
  Full on dance. Choreographed dance.
• 58:26
  Yes, as a reaction to Christine saying we're actually going to
• 58:30
  invite them to the conversation,
• 58:33
  this with them, right? And then they're like, please,
• 58:35
  no dancing. And they're like, so we're going
• 58:36
  to dance on steroids. Oh my God.
• 58:39
  One wife that will not partake
• 58:43
  Janelle has recused herself from
• 58:47
  Love the use of the word recused.
• 58:49
  Very good, very good, and actually very special for this
• 58:53
  family, right? They talk about how Janelle will
• 58:55
  serve as a distraction to the kids while the other parents are
• 58:59
  getting ready for this flash mob.
• 59:00
  And as they're talking about it on the couch, it almost felt
• 59:03
  like they were making it up on
• 59:06
  But what's funny about the couch
• 59:09
  after the event has happened. So it's like, why are you
• 59:13
  talking about it as if you're making it up right now when it's
• 59:15
  already happened? It seemed a little weird to me.
• 59:18
  It was, but I think it was probably just because they maybe
• 59:21
  never really came up with what
• 59:24
  was going to do and why she wasn't participating in the
• 59:26
  dance. Maybe she came up with the whole
• 59:29
  distraction idea on her own and then they were trying to come
• 59:31
  up with their story later. It just seemed weird to me.
• 59:34
  I think Christine came up with
• 59:39
  we will see, the distraction later is a gift and it's wrapped
• 59:45
  in Disney Princess wrapping paper and that is very Christine
• 59:49
  coated. It is very Christine, so I.
• 59:51
  Feel like in the confessional couch area, they had to have a
• 59:57
  reason that Janelle wasn't participating in the flash mob.
• 1:00:01
  So they just said because she'd given the gift at the time.
• 1:00:05
  Oh, well, it was on purpose. We are planning it this way
• 1:00:08
  because she's the distraction.
• 1:00:11
  It felt like, of course she's they're coming up with this
• 1:00:14
  thing, that she's the distraction because Janelle
• 1:00:16
  doesn't want to be a part of it.
• 1:00:17
  She's like, I don't want to fucking dance with these people.
• 1:00:20
  I have no cares. I do not want to do this.
• 1:00:22
  Understandable, but it just felt
• 1:00:26
  are you figuring this out in the
• 1:00:29
  done it? Whatever.
• 1:00:31
  A mystery. And I don't want to be mean, but
• 1:00:33
  I can't picture Janelle doing this at all anyway.
• 1:00:38
  Not being mean whatsoever. It's just not her type of thing
• 1:00:43
  at all. No, no, I don't want to say hold
• 1:00:46
  your breath because if you did, you wouldn't be here for our
• 1:00:49
  next episode. But I think Janelle might be
• 1:00:52
  forced into a Brown family dance
• 1:00:57
  as delightful as you would anticipate.
• 1:01:00
  The poor dear. So we go to Christine's house
• 1:01:04
  again after this couch moment.
• 1:01:08
  They are working on the choreography.
• 1:01:11
  And Kody says I can't go from doing this stuff that feels very
• 1:01:16
  effeminate to masculine. He doesn't like the dance moves
• 1:01:22
  they're planning out for him. They're too effeminate for him.
• 1:01:26
  And this is where I noticed the word art on the wall, the
• 1:01:29
  teensy tiny little word art on the gigantic wall.
• 1:01:34
  And it says a family is God's masterpiece.
• 1:01:40
  A tiny little saying, a tiny little word art for a large
• 1:01:44
  wall. For a large family, it's so
• 1:01:48
  weird how it's funny that God's masterpiece is this family.
• 1:01:52
  You'd think you'd make it a little bigger for your giant
• 1:01:54
  wall, especially since you have a giant family, but it's like
• 1:01:57
  teeny tiny. And don't you think Meri made
• 1:02:00
  that decal with her cricket? Perhaps.
• 1:02:03
  And she could have made it larger if she knew how to
• 1:02:05
  measure. Yeah, she could have made each
• 1:02:07
  letter with her cricket and had done it that way.
• 1:02:10
  Right. I'm sure that this is something
• 1:02:13
  Meri probably handed out one to each wife.
• 1:02:17
  Some stupid because I've seen this in pretty much every wife's
• 1:02:22
  house at this point. Some word art decal and it's all
• 1:02:27
  that same black cursive. So I'm just imagining that Meri
• 1:02:31
  made these for everybody and just made them too tiny.
• 1:02:36
  And see, this is the thing about
• 1:02:40
  Oh God. You find a little spot in the
• 1:02:44
  hallway. You find a place between a door
• 1:02:46
  and a window. You know, You find a little
• 1:02:48
  corner. You find a.
• 1:02:49
  Tile bar in the bathroom. Thank you.
• 1:02:53
  You don't put it smack dab in the middle of the biggest wall
• 1:02:55
  in your family room. It's just insane.
• 1:02:58
  I shouldn't say insane. It's bad taste.
• 1:03:01
  Thank you, Christine, for having
• 1:03:04
  Thanks Meri for making it. All these women.
• 1:03:10
  So Meri tells Kody, do it more
• 1:03:16
  more masculine and. Then Christine tries to
• 1:03:20
  demonstrate to him how to snap
• 1:03:26
  manner. And as she's doing it because
• 1:03:29
  how, like, what does that really
• 1:03:32
  You guys are on the same journey
• 1:03:33
  What does this really mean? I mean, how do you go from like
• 1:03:36
  snapping like this to snapping
• 1:03:38
  So Christine's trying to demonstrate this.
• 1:03:40
  And as she's doing it, she has
• 1:03:44
  she's possessed by a demon once again.
• 1:03:47
  Like in a recent episode where
• 1:03:49
  and you know, all those things.
• 1:03:51
  And while she's doing it, I had a moment in my head where I went
• 1:03:58
  Christine, you're being possessed.
• 1:03:59
  And it was not lost on me that when a woman's trying to
• 1:04:04
  describe how to be masculine while dancing with snapping, she
• 1:04:10
  Just saying. You get that manosphere
• 1:04:13
  attitude. Well, listen, it's always the
• 1:04:15
  man's. Yeah, you're going to be a man.
• 1:04:16
  You're going to look like the
• 1:04:17
  devil. No, it was funny though, because
• 1:04:20
  it is also like, yeah, I mean,
• 1:04:22
  And so with the flash mob bit,
• 1:04:27
  I mean, they're not even doing 8
• 1:04:28
  So it is what it is. And it's very snap, snap, turn
• 1:04:30
  left, turn right when they're doing these introductory steps
• 1:04:34
  and all they're doing is literally like snapping to the
• 1:04:36
  left, snapping to the right. And Kody's saying it looks too
• 1:04:38
  feminine. So when Christine's trying to
• 1:04:40
  demonstrate what it means to do masculine, it literally what
• 1:04:44
  are you supposed to do other than look like you're
• 1:04:46
  possessed by the devil? I don't know.
• 1:04:48
  It doesn't make sense. Yeah, a lot of this stuff, it's
• 1:04:54
  these people I don't even know.
• 1:04:56
  No, I know, I know, I know. It's ridiculous.
• 1:04:59
  So while all of this hell of a hullabaloo is happening, Leon
• 1:05:04
  enters through the front door and it's like, oh, OK.
• 1:05:08
  Oh, Leon's here. Oh, can't know about the dance,
• 1:05:10
  Can't know about the dance. I think we see Peyton running
• 1:05:12
  over and being like, no, the diss are here.
• 1:05:14
  I don't even know what. Yeah, get out.
• 1:05:16
  It was some sort of loud crazy distraction that was like, this
• 1:05:20
  is completely not. You're making it worse.
• 1:05:22
  You're making it obvious something hidden is.
• 1:05:24
  Happening. Yes, it was so good.
• 1:05:27
  And so of course they're trying to white lie about what's going
• 1:05:32
  on. What a shock.
• 1:05:33
  Yeah, they tried telling Leon they're trying to see if
• 1:05:38
  Christine's space would better fit the group than Meri's space.
• 1:05:45
  her space looks in comparison to
• 1:05:49
  And they're all spreading out and trying to trying to cover
• 1:05:56
  their asses here. So then we go to the couch and
• 1:06:01
  the parents are talking about how well, we just, you know, we
• 1:06:06
  had to hide it. We had to.
• 1:06:07
  We just didn't even know. We didn't know what to do.
• 1:06:10
  And Christine's like, well, you guys were just also ready to
• 1:06:13
  give up and give up on our little secret.
• 1:06:17
  Oh. No.
• 1:06:18
  And something about she uses her
• 1:06:21
  truth is like this. And it's like all her arms are
• 1:06:24
  widespread and she's like, we're
• 1:06:26
  this little bit here, which is
• 1:06:29
  it's part of the big equation.
• 1:06:33
  everything that you know is right in pure and good in the
• 1:06:35
  world. Well, and everyone knows that a
• 1:06:37
  good lie is a lie with a little bit of the.
• 1:06:40
  Truth. Yes.
• 1:06:42
  Because you can keep your story straight if you keep a little
• 1:06:45
  bit of the truth in there. And then we get a real gem from
• 1:06:49
  Kody. Oh, Kody.
• 1:06:51
  A real gem, he says. Come on, we're polygamists.
• 1:06:56
  We're always hiding the truth.
• 1:07:03
  while watching, and they're all cracking up as if it's so
• 1:07:08
  funny. And it's like, OK, so let's do
• 1:07:18
  we're polygamous. We're always hiding the truth.
• 1:07:27
  We could go on for an hour about all the times we've discovered
• 1:07:35
  each other, from their children, from Drake as they
• 1:07:39
  drove him to his death. I mean this family.
• 1:07:43
  Not from. Drake, it's got no end, The
• 1:07:48
  lies. They just do not cease, ever.
• 1:07:52
  Yeah, as they're crafting their mission statement, I think one
• 1:08:03
  of truth so that you can make sure to remember that while
• 1:08:05
  you're telling the lie. My God.
• 1:08:08
  And it's funny because it is over a light hearted moment and
• 1:08:12
  you know, we're kind of making a mountain out of a molehill,
• 1:08:16
  but really it's a mountain. You're laughing about it because
• 1:08:26
  Get to the day of the party, now it's here.
• 1:08:32
  I'm putting on my big boy panties for this party.
• 1:08:36
  Aspyn is talking about how she's been nervous all morning.
• 1:08:40
  She's finally starting to feel calm and Aspyn and Christine are
• 1:08:53
  they're both wearing. Aprons.
• 1:08:55
  It was adorable. It was really cute.
• 1:08:58
  Christine's apron is some sort of Minnie Mouse apron shock and
• 1:09:04
  Aspyn's was some frilly yellow apron, probably from the Silver
• 1:09:10
  Hideout, Silverton's Hideout store or something.
• 1:09:14
  Guilt on Silverton. Silverton.
• 1:09:18
  Excuse. Me.
• 1:09:20
  It was an adorable moment and it showed me how put together Aspyn
• 1:09:32
  They're being cute in the kitchen together.
• 1:09:35
  Being able to have an on camera to camera moment the morning of
• 1:09:38
  your graduation party being all,
• 1:09:42
  earlier. I was a little worked up, but
• 1:09:44
  now I'm OK. I'm easing into the day.
• 1:09:45
  I've, I, you know, I've chilled out.
• 1:09:47
  It's like, Oh my gosh, it feels like she's more mature than me
• 1:09:56
  together. We learned that they have so
• 1:09:59
  much to do. Of course, they still have to
• 1:10:01
  put up decorations. They have to prep this food.
• 1:10:03
  They have to blow up balloons, which transitions into a lovely
• 1:10:07
  joke from Christine when she's talking to Kody.
• 1:10:10
  Kody says something about how he can help blow up the balloons.
• 1:10:15
  balloons. You're full of hot air.
• 1:10:16
  You should be helping to blow up the balloons.
• 1:10:19
  And I was like, yes, bust his balls, bust his balls.
• 1:10:22
  Except for no one's really blowing up balloons, because
• 1:10:25
  Meri's thought of it all and she has a helium tank in the fucking
• 1:10:31
  Yes. Meri.
• 1:10:32
  Excuse me? A full blown helium tank?
• 1:10:35
  Hello. Not even one of those little
• 1:10:37
  chintzy oh it blows up 20. Or $20 one from Target.
• 1:10:41
  It's a big 10. God, I missed that.
• 1:10:45
  See, Meri's so good. See this is it.
• 1:10:47
  Meri's good. When she's good, she's good, and
• 1:10:53
  We have a couch moment where the
• 1:10:55
  about the neighbors that are going to be attending the party
• 1:10:59
  and how as long as they don't find out that they're
• 1:11:01
  polygamists, everything will be fine.
• 1:11:05
  And they all laugh. And I mean, it is pretty funny
• 1:11:08
  that, you know, obviously they
• 1:11:10
  they're having a party for a polygamist families children's
• 1:11:13
  graduation. So it was lol, you know,
• 1:11:15
  whatever. After the party prep has reached
• 1:11:19
  a certain point, we go to Meri's
• 1:11:22
  actually going to be happening and we are told that they
• 1:11:25
  actually started the party at 4:00 on time.
• 1:11:28
  This is one of the few times the Brown family has actually done
• 1:11:35
  So they're all kind of patting themselves on the back for
• 1:11:38
  actually starting their party on time.
• 1:11:40
  I also thought 4:00. OK, so you've had all day to do
• 1:11:44
  all this setup and whatever, you know, I usually just throw
• 1:11:50
  single gay man and I'm fabulous. And there are times where I'm
• 1:11:53
  going, well, you've got till 7:00 before anyone shows up.
• 1:11:55
  You're fine. And then you're at 6:30 going
• 1:11:57
  like pulling your hair out and going crazy.
• 1:12:00
  But there is something about like, yeah, you've had all day
• 1:12:04
  yourself, I guess. But you probably should be able
• 1:12:06
  to have a party together by 4:00 if you're working on it
• 1:12:08
  throughout the day. Yeah, most graduation parties
• 1:12:11
  are. Earlier than that.
• 1:12:13
  Earlier than that afternoon, yeah, they usually are like a
• 1:12:17
  visitation at a funeral where it goes for an extended amount of
• 1:12:24
  Please. Yeah.
• 1:12:25
  So I don't know, 4:00 is a little bit of a different time
• 1:12:32
  Did it? Yeah.
• 1:12:32
  They had a late start time and they met that start time.
• 1:12:36
  Leon is surprised that everybody actually came.
• 1:12:39
  I don't know why you wouldn't know which of your friends are
• 1:12:46
  showed up to your party. But.
• 1:12:48
  You know what 1 pro I'm thinking of of having a 4:00 PM
• 1:12:52
  graduation party is? There's conflicting graduation
• 1:12:57
  there's two kids as well that they're hosting it for.
• 1:13:00
  Usually. Like I said, it's almost an open
• 1:13:06
  And since you all went to the same high school, you literally
• 1:13:08
  live in the same town so people can drive from graduation party
• 1:13:12
  to graduation. Party.
• 1:13:13
  It's it's almost like a parade of homes type of situation.
• 1:13:17
  And being from the Midwest, oftentimes it's in the garage,
• 1:13:23
  garage. Easy.
• 1:13:24
  In and out. Totally.
• 1:13:25
  Totally. So it could be different in Las
• 1:13:28
  Vegas, could be more spread out.
• 1:13:30
  It's probably a larger school district.
• 1:13:32
  So yeah, we'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
• 1:13:35
  OK, fine. You're 4:00 PM start time.
• 1:13:39
  Fine. As the party's happening, we
• 1:13:42
  quickly transition to the fortune teller.
• 1:13:47
  You know, we get a few labels for this person.
• 1:13:49
  I think at the beginning it was referred to as a fortune
• 1:13:52
  teller. And this fortune teller is
• 1:13:54
  sitting at a folding table inside the home.
• 1:13:57
  And this fortune teller is named Mystic Mona.
• 1:14:01
  They put the fortune teller upstairs, which I find very
• 1:14:08
  weird. They put the fortune teller in a
• 1:14:13
  OK, OK, OK. I don't know why, I just found
• 1:14:18
  give people privacy when they're getting their readings upstairs.
• 1:14:26
  Yeah, I guess I kind of get it.
• 1:14:28
  Maybe you wouldn't want to go and get your fortune right in
• 1:14:30
  front of everybody, but. Right.
• 1:14:32
  And if they're doing it inside, you know, there's the family
• 1:14:35
  room, kitchen, the wet bar, it's all, it's all very open and
• 1:14:39
  whatnot. So it might be kind of loud and
• 1:14:40
  whatever. So it offers some privacy.
• 1:14:42
  So she's sitting up in a mystical bedroom on her own,
• 1:14:46
  waiting for people to come and see her.
• 1:14:50
  Mystic Mona. Now I think we get Mystic Mona.
• 1:14:54
  Not to be confused with nipple
• 1:14:56
  Tassel, Mona, no. You know it's not our favorite,
• 1:14:59
  Mona. This is that we already know a
• 1:15:00
  Mona that can see people's futures and is in touch with
• 1:15:04
  other realms. So you know this Mona's Mystic?
• 1:15:08
  Moment Imagine my disappointment
• 1:15:11
  not our Mona wearing a short dark wig, but it was in fact a
• 1:15:17
  different Mona. Yeah, that short jet black hair
• 1:15:21
  and that flowy spiritual blouse,
• 1:15:27
  and the crystal balls on the plastic folding table.
• 1:15:30
  Now, there was a, you know, there was a tabletop.
• 1:15:34
  What do they call that? What do you put on a table?
• 1:15:36
  Tablecloth. So there was a tablecloth on
• 1:15:40
  this plastic folding table. But also, you know, she's
• 1:15:44
  working with some cards. We haven't really been well
• 1:15:47
  introduced. This is the thing about this
• 1:15:49
  scene that kind of sucks. They don't really introduce us
• 1:15:51
  to her. It's like all of a sudden she's
• 1:15:53
  there. She's at a folding table in a
• 1:15:54
  bedroom upstairs with a tablecloth on a folding table
• 1:15:57
  with crystal balls, some cards, this jet black hair, hoops and
• 1:16:01
  a spiritual blouse and. We just start going person to
• 1:16:04
  person. They don't tell us anything
• 1:16:06
  about Mystic Mona. She is going to read tarot
• 1:16:10
  cards. It's also interesting to me that
• 1:16:14
  this is a very religious family.
• 1:16:16
  A lot of religions, shall I say, frown upon tarot cards.
• 1:16:21
  That's a very light way of saying it.
• 1:16:25
  And they find it witchcraft adjacent and shun it.
• 1:16:29
  There were a lot of churches that when Harry Potter was
• 1:16:32
  released, you weren't allowed to read Harry Potter if you were a
• 1:16:35
  church going child. I may or may not have gone to
• 1:16:40
  church where Harry Potter was frowned upon, but read it
• 1:16:44
  anyway. So for them to be having this
• 1:16:48
  fortune teller, she probably would prefer to be called a
• 1:16:52
  tarot card reader. Fortune teller is kind of a way
• 1:16:57
  of putting it lightly, making a a joke out of it almost when
• 1:17:03
  someone's career is being a tarot card reader or they're
• 1:17:06
  really into it. So the fact that they don't come
• 1:17:14
  to me, this. Whole thing it aligns with that
• 1:17:17
  set up with at the beginning with Robyn saying, you know,
• 1:17:21
  nothing dark, nothing bad, just something light and fun for the
• 1:17:24
  kids. Like, OK, I mean, Amen.
• 1:17:25
  That's that's got to be the perspective in order for her to
• 1:17:28
  be in the home doing this thing.
• 1:17:29
  Right. So they're going to avoid even
• 1:17:33
  saying tarot cards. They don't even mention it at
• 1:17:36
  all, but that's what she's doing.
• 1:17:38
  There's literally cards laid out
• 1:17:40
  they're going to pick. So first up is Aspyn, our
• 1:17:45
  Mystic, Mona tells Aspyn. There are some friendships you
• 1:17:49
  need to let go of. The other card is a past life
• 1:17:54
  card. You aren't supposed to have a
• 1:17:57
  big love until you have a career.
• 1:18:01
  You need to contribute to the real world before reproducing.
• 1:18:06
  Oh, before you procreate. Procreate, which Christine
• 1:18:10
  applauds because, you know, Christine wants her young
• 1:18:13
  daughter, her girl going into the, excuse me, woman, going
• 1:18:16
  into the world to find some success for herself before she,
• 1:18:21
  you know, just defaults to this,
• 1:18:24
  story, I guess. We get to the couch with the
• 1:18:27
  adults and Christine lets us know that Aspyn totally believes
• 1:18:32
  in this and that she does too.
• 1:18:38
  fortune teller and so Aspyn's going to believe what she is
• 1:18:42
  told. Maybe like some other things
• 1:18:45
  that they have been told that are Mystic beings that they
• 1:18:48
  believe in. I don't know.
• 1:18:50
  Fairy tales. Fairy tales.
• 1:18:51
  Well, Christine definitely believes in some fairy tales.
• 1:18:54
  Our little fairy Princess. This is where Christine tells
• 1:18:59
  all of us that a man is not a financial plan.
• 1:19:03
  That's what some people have been telling Aspyn all along,
• 1:19:08
  because Aspyn's always talking
• 1:19:12
  living in a valley and having her clothes on a clothing line
• 1:19:16
  and canning Peaches and having a
• 1:19:20
  So, you know, Christine is familiar with what Aspyn is
• 1:19:22
  talking about with her future.
• 1:19:25
  from the fortune teller because it's like, yeah, no, get some
• 1:19:27
  shit in line before you go after
• 1:19:31
  She's definitely hoping that Aspyn will believe this.
• 1:19:35
  So I find it very weird that Aspyns goal is to marry a rich
• 1:19:42
  man and live in a valley. I don't know, I feel like Aspyn
• 1:19:46
  seems that she would have more
• 1:19:49
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 1:19:50
  We don't really get a lot of stuff about Aspyn, so we haven't
• 1:19:54
  heard a lot from her about her
• 1:19:57
  and whatever. So it was kind of nice to have
• 1:20:00
  so much Aspyn in this episode.
• 1:20:02
  I would be embarrassed if my mom
• 1:20:05
  life on national television. But that's just me.
• 1:20:09
  Even if it was my goal, I'd be
• 1:20:12
  please. I don't know.
• 1:20:16
  So we move on to our second reading, and Leon is about to be
• 1:20:20
  read by Mystic Mona. And Mystic Mona says stop second
• 1:20:27
  guessing yourself. Stop getting everyone else's
• 1:20:31
  opinion. This is a card showing the man
• 1:20:37
  you will marry. You won't meet him until about
• 1:20:40
  24. This man is kind of a jerk when
• 1:20:43
  you meet him, and he's kind of
• 1:20:48
  dad. I don't think they give us the
• 1:20:52
  entire reading because they cut from how Leon needs to stop
• 1:20:56
  second guessing themself to now this is about the man you're
• 1:21:01
  going to marry, silly. We're back on the couch with the
• 1:21:07
  adults where Janelle volunteers.
• 1:21:08
  She doesn't know how to distract everyone while the other adults
• 1:21:12
  are getting ready for the flash mob dance that's going to be
• 1:21:16
  happening soon. We cut to a random bedroom where
• 1:21:28
  Oh yeah, they're all putting on crazy outfits.
• 1:21:32
  They're putting blue extension pieces in their hair.
• 1:21:35
  They make Kody put a blue extension piece in his hair.
• 1:21:38
  The wives are putting on bright blue glitter eyeshadow.
• 1:21:43
  They're going all out with their costuming.
• 1:21:47
  Yeah, like blue eyelashes. Yeah.
• 1:21:50
  And yeah, just blue gloves, wrist things, all sorts of Boas,
• 1:21:55
  Feathered Boas glasses, yeah. The whole shebang, they're doing
• 1:22:04
  And she calls everybody over in the living room.
• 1:22:08
  Everybody over. I've got a gift to give.
• 1:22:11
  Leon and Aspyn. I have a combined gift to give
• 1:22:15
  All right. Yeah.
• 1:22:17
  Calls it out. Really.
• 1:22:18
  Weirdly, Yeah, literally. Husband and Leon are approaching
• 1:22:26
  graduation gift? That's pretty silly.
• 1:22:28
  We get a voiceover from Kody saying that he doesn't know how
• 1:22:33
  they're going to be In Sync. We're just hoping for some magic
• 1:22:42
  Their magical life, they don't
• 1:22:45
  that magic, but they always seem
• 1:22:48
  live in. We'll end up In Sync somehow.
• 1:22:51
  We always do. We always do with a little bit
• 1:22:53
  of magic. But two, it's his wife's doing
• 1:22:57
  all the shit and he shows up. That's pretty much.
• 1:23:00
  What I guess an extension put in
• 1:23:03
  the back and do his dumb jerky
• 1:23:07
  that he does. Oh my goodness.
• 1:23:11
  So we get back to Leon and Aspyn
• 1:23:16
  voice over, and they're opening the gift that's in this
• 1:23:19
  beautiful hot pink wrapping paper with Disney princesses,
• 1:23:24
  which is why I'm pretty sure that this is Christine's idea.
• 1:23:28
  They're opening the gift and they pull out a piece of wood
• 1:23:33
  and they're very perturbed by this piece of wood, confused.
• 1:23:39
  And Janelle says the real gift
• 1:23:44
  Yeah, as I'm looking at this piece of wood, it's totally a
• 1:23:47
  WTF moment because it does look like a piece of wood that has.
• 1:23:52
  Something is written on it. Written with like black sharpie,
• 1:23:55
  like a word or something. It was hard to make out.
• 1:23:58
  It was very kind of like a piece
• 1:24:01
  I'd be confused if I opened that
• 1:24:04
  distraction. Janelle, AKA Christine, the real
• 1:24:10
  gift is behind you. And so they turn around and
• 1:24:15
  Aspyn and the Leon immediately
• 1:24:18
  on them and they start busting
• 1:24:22
  And who do we see but Kody, Christine, Meri and Robyn in
• 1:24:26
  their blue accessories and accoutrement doing bad, bad,
• 1:24:32
  bad, terrible choreography in the kitchen.
• 1:24:36
  Literally 12341234 to a dubbed
• 1:24:45
  about like girls on fire. But it's not girls on fire.
• 1:24:47
  Like girls doing something, girls here, girls, whatever.
• 1:24:50
  And it's like oh God, I don't even think that was the original
• 1:24:52
  song from the episode. They probably had to replace it
• 1:24:54
  for royalty reason. It can't be the song that they
• 1:24:56
  actually picked. There's no way it never is in
• 1:24:59
  these cases. No, no.
• 1:25:02
  The dance does turn into a real flash mob because the little
• 1:25:06
  kids start to join in exactly how a flash mob should work.
• 1:25:10
  And Aspyn says to Leon, I'm going to go, I'm going to do it.
• 1:25:15
  And Aspyn goes and joins in and reluctantly are your Leon
• 1:25:20
  decides to Mosey on in there as well.
• 1:25:24
  So everybody joins the flash mob.
• 1:25:29
  If I was there, I would look at Leon and say every party needs
• 1:25:32
  a pooper. That's why we invited you.
• 1:25:35
  Party pooper. Party Pooper.
• 1:25:38
  Yeah. After the kids join, the teens
• 1:25:41
  join, and there's like, the whole groups dancing in the
• 1:25:43
  kitchen. We have a couch moment from Kody
• 1:25:45
  where he says that he thinks any
• 1:25:49
  that their family is a cool family because of this
• 1:25:53
  experience. And it just reminded me of
• 1:25:56
  parents that are just out of touch enough like, you know.
• 1:26:00
  Yeah, it was cool. Everyone was smiling.
• 1:26:02
  Everyone was having a good time. I'm not sure that any of Aspyn
• 1:26:12
  graduate, go wherever they're going and be like, dude, I met
• 1:26:19
  kitchen, like, but, you know, Kody's got to have his showboat
• 1:26:23
  moment, you know? So there you go.
• 1:26:25
  It goes to show that Kody really cares what other people think.
• 1:26:34
  teenagers think that your family is cool and that what you did is
• 1:26:41
  He has to have everybody like him all the time.
• 1:26:45
  He's always just thinking about what other people think about
• 1:26:48
  him. Very strange.
• 1:26:50
  Aspyn tells us that she thinks putting their parents through
• 1:26:54
  hell about the dance made them do it even better.
• 1:26:58
  OK, sounds good. Aspyn's surprised that they
• 1:27:01
  actually did choreography and says it was fabulous.
• 1:27:06
  Fabulous. Aspyn's very sweet for saying
• 1:27:09
  that. I was going to say speaks to
• 1:27:11
  Aspyn's character for sure, because let's go with that.
• 1:27:14
  I would be, I would have been embarrassed.
• 1:27:16
  And I know if I was one of those teenagers that was at the party,
• 1:27:23
  I'd be like, thank fucking God my family didn't do that at my
• 1:27:29
  thinking. Yeah.
• 1:27:30
  Yeah. Because again, you're making
• 1:27:32
  something about yourselves. Yeah.
• 1:27:34
  This is your kids graduation party.
• 1:27:36
  Is this supposed to be some silly gift to them like you're
• 1:27:46
  want dancing at their party, so you did this to embarrass them
• 1:27:50
  and be silly. I think there are some moments
• 1:27:53
  in life where you just got to step back and if your kid says
• 1:27:56
  they don't want something, you
• 1:27:59
  and try to do it anyway to make a funny moment out of it.
• 1:28:03
  It was cringe to me. The whole thing was really
• 1:28:06
  cringy to me. Yeah, well, the footage was
• 1:28:07
  definitely cringe as well. Yeah, and it, I didn't really
• 1:28:12
  put too much weight into it because I was also thinking
• 1:28:14
  about camera crew lights, the the whole thing.
• 1:28:17
  Like, it's for production, it's a bit for the show.
• 1:28:22
  It's still their graduation party.
• 1:28:23
  I know. That's where I have a hard time
• 1:28:25
  with this stuff because, yeah, I
• 1:28:29
  you're acting a little differently and you're doing
• 1:28:31
  these things to try to liven it up and keep the show around.
• 1:28:35
  But this is still your children's graduation party.
• 1:28:38
  Yeah. So I I have a really hard time
• 1:28:41
  with them because they're trying
• 1:28:45
  They're trying to keep the show around, so they're doing these
• 1:28:48
  weird things at the expense of
• 1:28:53
  I'm reading too much into it, This isn't that the expense of
• 1:28:56
  their children? I get it.
• 1:28:57
  It was a hokey dance. They're trying to be funny.
• 1:28:59
  But at the same time, you're still not honoring your kids
• 1:29:04
  wishes. And when you're a child, that
• 1:29:06
  stuff starts to add up. And this could be something
• 1:29:09
  they're talking about in therapy
• 1:29:12
  never fucking listened to them, right?
• 1:29:14
  And it was all about the show all the time and not them.
• 1:29:17
  Well, after we watched the show,
• 1:29:20
  our high school graduations that
• 1:29:24
  where we're going. Well, that was disappointing
• 1:29:26
  that my parents fill in the blank.
• 1:29:28
  Yeah. And it wasn't having a camera
• 1:29:31
  crew and a dance and all this shit.
• 1:29:33
  It was something different, but it's still in our memories.
• 1:29:36
  So yeah, after this wonderful opportunity to see the Browns
• 1:29:41
  doing a flash mob once in a lifetime, it feels like, but
• 1:29:45
  it's not actually going to be.
• 1:29:50
  with Mystic Mona upstairs in this bedroom that she's been put
• 1:29:55
  in upstairs to prevent everyone from, you know, having to see
• 1:29:58
  it or hear it or, you know, really, I think it is just the
• 1:30:01
  sound of the party. I really do think that it was,
• 1:30:04
  you know, it needs to be a little separate.
• 1:30:06
  We're going to have an opportunity to hear each one of
• 1:30:09
  the adults have their future ridden through tarot cards by
• 1:30:14
  this Mystic Mona. And we start with Christine.
• 1:30:19
  When this scene starts, there's Kody and Meri sitting behind
• 1:30:22
  Christine. And I was thinking, OK, so why
• 1:30:25
  are Kody and Christine sitting
• 1:30:29
  Well, turns out the other wives are just off camera.
• 1:30:31
  So they are in the room 'cause
• 1:30:33
  disjointed going through these
• 1:30:36
  because we, as the show sometimes does, we don't
• 1:30:39
  necessarily get the best transitions between their
• 1:30:42
  stories. So all of a sudden or their
• 1:30:44
  scenes. So all of a sudden it's just
• 1:30:45
  like this person and this person
• 1:30:48
  go. Christine says.
• 1:30:49
  I was real careful picking up the cards.
• 1:30:53
  I'm not a tarot idiot, which I loved because as you said
• 1:30:57
  earlier, we didn't really hear anything about tarot.
• 1:31:00
  But we do actually hear Christine say tarot idiot.
• 1:31:03
  So she was real careful about picking her cards.
• 1:31:06
  Mona told her to pick her cards with her left hand because that
• 1:31:10
  is the hand that is closest to your heart.
• 1:31:14
  So little tarot insight there for.
• 1:31:18
  The Tarot Insight. For the tarot idiots out there.
• 1:31:20
  Now, when Christine said I was
• 1:31:22
  real careful and that she's not a tarot idiot, it stood out to
• 1:31:26
  me. I was like, you know, Christine
• 1:31:28
  was actually funny in this episode.
• 1:31:30
  And not just that might sound a bit condescending and
• 1:31:33
  dismissive, but I laughed at her
• 1:31:36
  She was actually really funny.
• 1:31:40
  Christine has had her tarot cards read before, especially
• 1:31:44
  because she says that Aspyn believes the in this stuff and
• 1:31:49
  that so does she. So we're finding out a little
• 1:31:52
  bit more about her and maybe some off the cuff weird stuff
• 1:31:58
  that she does that's outside of the religion.
• 1:32:01
  Dark Sided. Which is so weird to me because
• 1:32:06
  with a religion like this, you
• 1:32:09
  so far out of your scope that you would have nothing to do
• 1:32:13
  with it. So again, I don't know.
• 1:32:17
  When reviewing Christine's pulled cards, Mystic Mona says,
• 1:32:22
  You know these cards. They're saying to me that you're
• 1:32:25
  surrounded by people, but there's a loneliness there.
• 1:32:30
  I want you to find a way to erase the loneliness, because
• 1:32:34
  you're not supposed to let go of
• 1:32:37
  You're supposed to embrace something new that actually
• 1:32:40
  makes this more meaningful. That part of it was very true to
• 1:32:46
  Christine. The last part was a bunch of
• 1:32:50
  bullshit that could apply to anybody.
• 1:32:52
  Yeah, that's happens. It's what's happening around
• 1:32:55
  you. Like, OK, yeah, whatever,
• 1:32:57
  whatever. We go to the couch with the
• 1:32:59
  adults here and Christine says
• 1:33:05
  She really did. She saw my inner soul and Kody
• 1:33:09
  says, well, you have looked a little bit like a victim for
• 1:33:14
  this past year, so I'm sorry That and Christine cuts him off
• 1:33:19
  and goes Oh my God, you cut me
• 1:33:24
  And Robyn looks shocked that he said this.
• 1:33:28
  Like cannot believe that he said
• 1:33:31
  And Kody says the tarot reading could just be about how things
• 1:33:34
  are right now and that things can change.
• 1:33:39
  That's one thing that's great about this life.
• 1:33:42
  You can change your cards. You can change your stars.
• 1:33:46
  And the wives are all chuckling.
• 1:33:48
  And I'm going, OK, like that's quite a spin on whatever that
• 1:33:51
  was. And Christine is mimicking being
• 1:34:04
  good advice for Mystic Mona. So maybe she also had her rose
• 1:34:12
  of that or the first half. I don't know.
• 1:34:14
  Whichever way she's looking at it, you know, 'cause I think if
• 1:34:17
  you really heard what she said, it was that you're lonely while
• 1:34:21
  around a bunch of people. That was my take away.
• 1:34:24
  Now you know, I'm just a viewer of a TLC show in the future, so
• 1:34:28
  I don't know. I think Christine was trying to
• 1:34:30
  call out to everybody by saying she saw me in her soul.
• 1:34:33
  She got me there. Hello everybody, I am feeling a
• 1:34:37
  lot and hello. Hello.
• 1:34:38
  Yeah. And instead Kody took it and
• 1:34:43
  said something really negative to her.
• 1:34:46
  Yeah, like a victim this whole last.
• 1:34:48
  Year, You've been looking like a victim this whole past year.
• 1:34:50
  And she does cut him off. He doesn't finish, but he starts
• 1:35:00
  have put his foot even further in his fucking mouth if he was
• 1:35:04
  I can't believe he said that to her.
• 1:35:08
  And Robyn's face looked exactly how mine would have looked if I
• 1:35:13
  was in that room. Yeah, he seems to always find a
• 1:35:16
  way to put her down. He dismisses her.
• 1:35:19
  Yeah. Yep.
• 1:35:20
  You looked like the victim. OK.
• 1:35:23
  That's so supportive of everything that she's been
• 1:35:26
  through and how she's been feeling, you fucker.
• 1:35:28
  Yeah, about the gym mats, how he's going to have to be.
• 1:35:31
  A better husband, and he's going to have to be a better provider
• 1:35:33
  and he's going to spend time with her kids.
• 1:35:36
  It's like if your take away from that was feeling comfortable
• 1:35:40
  enough to say those things on camera, demonstrating how you're
• 1:35:51
  What? It makes me wonder what type of
• 1:35:54
  feedback they were getting from the show.
• 1:35:56
  That was out during this time of filming that he might have been
• 1:36:01
  angry with her for. Oh yeah, there is also that
• 1:36:05
  element, the public perception that.
• 1:36:07
  The audience, what they're saying like you're, you've made
• 1:36:10
  yourself look like a victim this past year, so.
• 1:36:13
  Or he's getting bad feedback saying you need to treat
• 1:36:17
  Christine better from the public or from his other wives, which I
• 1:36:23
  Maybe he's reading boards somewhere on the TLC website
• 1:36:28
  that used to be around, you know, they used to have the
• 1:36:31
  comment boards and even just production talking about what
• 1:36:33
  the show looks like and the. Direction.
• 1:36:36
  They want to take things because
• 1:36:38
  right? Yeah.
• 1:36:41
  And then their own interpersonal
• 1:36:43
  So there's multiple. Dynamics happening here.
• 1:36:46
  His mask has slipped a couple times during this.
• 1:36:48
  You know he talks about. Meri playing a game and he's
• 1:36:51
  talking about Christine playing a victim.
• 1:36:55
  All right, dude, tell us what you really think about these
• 1:36:58
  women that you're with and I don't know, loves of your life
• 1:37:03
  or whatever. God so after Christine.
• 1:37:07
  Mimics being stabbed. We move on to Meri getting her
• 1:37:12
  cards read. Well, you know what?
• 1:37:15
  Meri chose this life. It's a little on the nose
• 1:37:22
  because she does say you've. Actually chosen this life and
• 1:37:25
  are all in and you inspire the
• 1:37:31
  And I think back to Meri pulling
• 1:37:36
  trying to tell her to keep sweet, trying to behind the
• 1:37:42
  scenes control things a little
• 1:37:48
  So she kind of hit it on the nose here by saying, well, you
• 1:37:52
  chose this life and you're all
• 1:37:55
  Like she's, oh, like I read into
• 1:37:59
  OK. I totally read into it.
• 1:38:01
  Like, oh, yeah, Meri is the one that's kind of before Robyn
• 1:38:06
  came into the family was probably the one inspiring
• 1:38:10
  things, you know? And then she goes like you said.
• 1:38:16
  Couple of health things that you
• 1:38:20
  and you need to take them seriously and prioritize them.
• 1:38:24
  Interesting read considering that Meri only has one.
• 1:38:28
  Biochild in the family? That was my first thought was
• 1:38:32
  Meri only has one kid. Not that it doesn't, you know.
• 1:38:36
  Not saying that Meri shouldn't
• 1:38:39
  but interesting read. Wondering what Mystic Mona knows
• 1:38:43
  about the family, if anything really 'cause it's interesting
• 1:38:48
  that Meri would get that told to
• 1:38:51
  Kody mentions this after Janelle's reading, but Kody says
• 1:38:54
  I think that she. Was reading all my wives and
• 1:38:56
  getting them confused. Yeah, mixing them up and I think
• 1:39:01
  there's. Something of that going on.
• 1:39:02
  And whether you believe in tarot
• 1:39:06
  read people's auras or sense things about people, if you
• 1:39:10
  are in a room with that much energy, if you'd believe in
• 1:39:15
  this, I could picture that happening because there's a
• 1:39:18
  lot of strong personalities and there's a lot of tension and
• 1:39:24
  feelings that you'd be picking up on.
• 1:39:27
  If she does know things about the family, technically the kids
• 1:39:33
  So yeah, that would be my general assumption if she didn't
• 1:39:38
  children and whatever is that? There's going to be a couple
• 1:39:41
  children that have health issues and that should really be your
• 1:39:45
  Well, that would freak me the fuck out.
• 1:39:47
  I'd be like. Yeah, tell me more, please.
• 1:39:50
  And Meri is skeptical and. Her skepticism is, you know, on
• 1:39:55
  a rational level, well founded because this is a little bit of
• 1:40:00
  a, OK, whatever. And it's not surprising to me
• 1:40:02
  that Meri's sitting on the couch being like, I'm just skeptical
• 1:40:09
  Not buying it at all. We move on to Janelle next, and
• 1:40:15
  hers is short and sweet, Mona says.
• 1:40:18
  Kody, you keep coming up in her cards reversed.
• 1:40:23
  Did you 2 have a fight recently? She was like, no, no.
• 1:40:31
  No. And that's what Kody says, the
• 1:40:38
  some other fight that he's probably referencing in his back
• 1:40:43
  Yeah. At least one of you has had a
• 1:40:46
  fight recently. That would be.
• 1:40:47
  An easy thing to call out, right?
• 1:40:49
  This is, if you do believe in this, where she could have been
• 1:40:56
  reading energy and reading, you know, other stuff going on.
• 1:41:00
  I'll tell you, when Meri was sitting behind Christine during
• 1:41:04
  Christine's reading, she was sitting there, arms crossed,
• 1:41:07
  looking off, pissed to be there. Probably pissed that she wasn't
• 1:41:12
  down at Leon's party with Leon. Had to be up there for this
• 1:41:16
  moment with everybody else or the other wives.
• 1:41:18
  Why do I have to be up there for theirs, You know?
• 1:41:22
  So there was probably some bad juju floating around in that
• 1:41:26
  room. Yeah, that was totally part of
• 1:41:31
  And Kody behind Christine when she was getting her cards read
• 1:41:37
  unpleasant and it was literally distracting as a viewer.
• 1:41:40
  They obviously had everybody in the room, the production team.
• 1:41:51
  So she was probably forced to be sitting there and mad about it.
• 1:41:56
  Yeah, totally, definitely.
• 1:41:57
  Well then, our favorite sister
• 1:41:59
  Is up next Robyn? Is sitting at the plastic.
• 1:42:01
  Folding table with Mystic Mona.
• 1:42:03
  And oh, Mystic Mona gives her a doozy.
• 1:42:06
  Well, I shouldn't say a doozy her.
• 1:42:08
  Her cards are telling Mona a story that we all believe
• 1:42:13
  completely, that Robyn has always had the blessings of the
• 1:42:18
  universe falling upon her. It's like you've always been
• 1:42:22
  able to make things happen and you always will.
• 1:42:25
  There's no worry about money. When you worry about money, you
• 1:42:30
  cut the flow of money off and you know that you're just giving
• 1:42:37
  about it. Her favorite thing to do?
• 1:42:40
  Of all the things that could be talked about with Robyn, it's
• 1:42:43
  money. And, you know, it just so
• 1:42:46
  happens that Robyn agrees about two of the cards, the ones she's
• 1:42:52
  She points it to the cards and says, I know I have these, and I
• 1:42:58
  All of a sudden, Robyn knows things.
• 1:43:00
  Yes. She knows about the tarot, and
• 1:43:01
  she knows these cards are hers.
• 1:43:03
  Yeah. Of course, all of these wives
• 1:43:06
  seem to be. Very well not.
• 1:43:08
  All of them. Robyn and Christine are very
• 1:43:10
  weirdly knowledgeable. Robyn's the one that suggested
• 1:43:14
  Heretics maybe? I don't know.
• 1:43:16
  Interesting. Joseph, come and Smite.
• 1:43:19
  Them. From beyond the grave, oh Lord,
• 1:43:25
  Oh my God. I didn't die next to a well so
• 1:43:32
  your tarot cards, you heretics. Dark Sided Robyn in an interview
• 1:43:40
  Was a single mom while I was alone, I was very careful.
• 1:43:46
  I had little money. I had to make sure all the bills
• 1:43:54
  They show a picture of her and a teeny tiny baby, like she was a
• 1:43:58
  single mom with the baby. And then Robyn says I always had
• 1:44:09
  the biggest WTF moments of all. The WTF moments in this episode.
• 1:44:15
  tucked away somewhere. Interesting narrative given that
• 1:44:22
  you were the one who had the biggest financial issues when
• 1:44:26
  you were looking at buying a home.
• 1:44:27
  Your biggest sob story is about how, well of course you know
• 1:44:30
  the flash of the photo as you referenced Was Robyn, a single
• 1:44:34
  mother with a newborn baby. I don't think we are of the
• 1:44:38
  impression that that was the case, no.
• 1:44:39
  What the fuck was that And her
• 1:44:43
  Have always been such a thing and.
• 1:44:45
  She's had so many last names and
• 1:44:49
  issues and blah blah blah blah
• 1:44:51
  Debt, debt, debt, bad credit, bad credit, all these things.
• 1:44:54
  Yet her take away based on this tarot card readers, I don't
• 1:44:58
  know what is it called reading of the cards is that she's
• 1:45:03
  good at something with money and she's always got money.
• 1:45:05
  Money will be fine as long as she doesn't stress about money.
• 1:45:07
  And Robyn is basically agreeing.
• 1:45:10
  This whole thing is such a joke and.
• 1:45:13
  This is where this tarot card reader completely lost me and
• 1:45:17
  lost all credibility with me because this is the woman that
• 1:45:28
  creditors. She had to pay somebody to help
• 1:45:31
  her consolidate her credit and call creditors and beg them to
• 1:45:52
  single mom. She wasn't a single mom with a
• 1:45:55
  tiny baby ever, right? She was married at that point.
• 1:46:01
  They're trying to paint her like
• 1:46:06
  Whoever was on the editing team,
• 1:46:13
  You tried, you tried and you failed.
• 1:46:15
  Yeah, now we all know the fucking truth.
• 1:46:17
  So. For her to say I had.
• 1:46:18
  To make sure all the bills were paid.
• 1:46:22
  How is your credit ruined if all
• 1:46:24
  Her narrative is clearly never
• 1:46:28
  I learned how to save money. Doesn't she say in the previous
• 1:46:31
  episodes that she. Was like paycheck to paycheck
• 1:46:33
  and had no money. Yeah.
• 1:46:35
  You learned how to save money,
• 1:46:38
  Yeah. She probably had $100 in a sock
• 1:46:40
  drawer. Like honey.
• 1:46:41
  That's not exactly. Like I just, I doubt that even I
• 1:46:45
  doubt that she cannot help. Herself.
• 1:46:47
  This woman cannot help herself.
• 1:46:48
  She just gets to have this be part of her story now and it
• 1:46:52
  works for whatever narrative. She's trying to spend.
• 1:46:54
  She changes it constantly. Yeah, well now the.
• 1:46:57
  Patriarch of the family gets. To sit with Mystic Mona at the
• 1:47:04
  Mystic Mona reads. That there's a card saying that.
• 1:47:10
  wife. We have to have the dramatic
• 1:47:13
  sound effect come in after the
• 1:47:17
  Literally, it's a plastic table,
• 1:47:22
  And Mystic Mona continues that
• 1:47:25
  you're interested in, another soul mate, a partnership,
• 1:47:31
  somebody in your crosshairs. Oh.
• 1:47:33
  Yeah, the crosshairs hunting, he's totally.
• 1:47:37
  Yes. That language.
• 1:47:39
  Definitely invokes the hunting
• 1:47:41
  Yeah, and another moment where
• 1:47:44
  Well, right. And of course, he's Kody, so
• 1:47:48
  he's got a. Look on his face like I'm
• 1:47:50
  neither going to confirm nor deny.
• 1:47:51
  I'm just going to sit here with this little smirk on my face
• 1:47:54
  like, hey, you know, if it makes
• 1:47:56
  woman, if it makes it look like there's another woman that's
• 1:47:59
  potentially around the corner,
• 1:48:03
  I'm just going to sit here looking like this if it causes
• 1:48:05
  chaos for the show and keeps you
• 1:48:08
  Longer, sure, I'm going to sit
• 1:48:11
  it pisses my wives or not. And if it pisses them off, even
• 1:48:14
  better. Kody, you are disgusting.
• 1:48:17
  Yeah, we go to the couch and Robyn is talking about how.
• 1:48:21
  Women are coming up to him all
• 1:48:24
  looking for another wife. Like they're offering themselves
• 1:48:27
  because she knows they're not thinking about friends.
• 1:48:31
  They're not going to suggest a
• 1:48:33
  They're talking about themselves.
• 1:48:36
  And I loved Janelle during this because Janelle's playing with
• 1:48:41
  her foot on the table, on the coffee table and kind of
• 1:48:45
  nonchalantly says under her breath, It doesn't mean that
• 1:48:50
  every woman that says that is really after him.
• 1:48:54
  Yeah. I mean, most people would be
• 1:48:55
  joking, right? I mean, how many people are
• 1:48:57
  seriously. Being like, no, I'm offering
• 1:49:00
  myself to you, Kody. Sacrificial lamb.
• 1:49:02
  No, he's so full of himself. I think he really, truly does
• 1:49:06
  think. That they mean it.
• 1:49:07
  Yeah. And Janelle's trying to put him
• 1:49:09
  down a peg here and be like, hello.
• 1:49:12
  Delusional much? They don't all really think
• 1:49:14
  that. And for Robyn to be backing it
• 1:49:16
  up. Oh, those two, They're peas.
• 1:49:18
  In a pod. It's disgusting.
• 1:49:21
  We have to return to Leon and Aspyn's graduation party,
• 1:49:24
  obviously. Duh.
• 1:49:26
  That's what this episode's about.
• 1:49:28
  The flash mob and the party and Kody announces that they're
• 1:49:32
  going to be opening presents. So cool.
• 1:49:38
  I'm imagining being at this party.
• 1:49:39
  And of. Course, this could be out of
• 1:49:41
  sequence, but what if they literally went up and filmed
• 1:49:45
  that scene while everyone was down there, just Hemming and
• 1:49:48
  hawing and waiting for whatever,
• 1:49:50
  downstairs to open gifts after
• 1:49:52
  I'm hoping that actually wasn't the case.
• 1:49:53
  I'm hoping they filmed with Mona
• 1:49:57
  wouldn't surprise me if they didn't.
• 1:49:59
  It was before the flash mob because the wives didn't have
• 1:50:02
  the makeup on. Their faces and I don't think
• 1:50:05
  they would have gotten all that off their faces and redone
• 1:50:07
  their makeup for that segment,
• 1:50:11
  So I think that it was way earlier.
• 1:50:13
  Yeah, I wonder if. She was there before the party.
• 1:50:16
  She wasn't there before the. Party holistically because there
• 1:50:19
  were other people while the kids
• 1:50:23
  read. So there were party guests in
• 1:50:25
  the room while Aspyn and Leon were getting their cards read,
• 1:50:29
  but not with the adults. I mean, I'm going to guess that
• 1:50:32
  there was some sort of delay at some point while they're
• 1:50:34
  filming this shit. And imagine being at that party,
• 1:50:36
  being like, yeah, and production
• 1:50:39
  because they all need to be there for the.
• 1:50:41
  Flash mob part of the show? Yeah, very weird.
• 1:50:44
  Another filming day. That's their graduation party.
• 1:50:48
  Gross. Yeah.
• 1:50:49
  And Kody has to get up. And call everybody's attention
• 1:50:54
  that they're going to be opening
• 1:50:56
  So Kody has to stand up and announce this to everybody.
• 1:50:59
  So yeah, leave it up to him to
• 1:51:03
  attention for a second. Again, another thing I noted
• 1:51:06
  here is. That it is very.
• 1:51:08
  Odd at a graduation party to make everyone watch you open
• 1:51:11
  gifts. Yeah, I was just.
• 1:51:12
  I don't think I've ever seen that.
• 1:51:14
  No. Usually.
• 1:51:15
  It would be a table of gifts, yeah.
• 1:51:18
  So you probably could have let
• 1:51:21
  gifts as a family afterwards. Well, Leon gets a photo album.
• 1:51:26
  Very touching, very touching. Meri.
• 1:51:28
  Gives Leon a photo album and Leon's like oh it's so cute and
• 1:51:31
  blah blah blah and who cares? A scrapbook, Chris.
• 1:51:34
  Oh, a scrapbook. Meri made that.
• 1:51:36
  With her blood, sweat and tears.
• 1:51:38
  How dare you call it a photo album.
• 1:51:40
  I know you're right. I'm such an insensitive man, she
• 1:51:46
  and she. Put that together, I do feel
• 1:51:49
  like on one of the pages I even saw the.
• 1:51:53
  Word something like rebel or you know, some word that was like,
• 1:51:59
  And it was like, this person is absolutely not that, but OK.
• 1:52:04
  Flipped through the magazine and found a heading that was like,
• 1:52:09
  OK, here we are. Imagine Meri in her craft room
• 1:52:16
  Just making this yeah I'm so
• 1:52:19
  sorry. I called it a photo album.
• 1:52:20
  All of you crafters and including.
• 1:52:22
  My Co host Kimber, I do apologize.
• 1:52:24
  That was insensitive. Thank you, very insensitive.
• 1:52:27
  I accept your apology this time on behalf of everyone.
• 1:52:31
  Yes. Spin gets a blanket.
• 1:52:36
  That Mckelty made, Yes. And it's cute.
• 1:52:40
  OK, It's red with big. White polka dots and what?
• 1:52:46
  Looked like gene material on the
• 1:52:50
  All I saw was the gene material and I was.
• 1:52:54
  It was interesting. At a loss for words, it was.
• 1:52:56
  Interesting. It looked heavy.
• 1:52:59
  It did well it. Looked really heavy.
• 1:53:01
  It definitely looked like. It weighed a.
• 1:53:04
  Lot, yeah. While this is happening, though,
• 1:53:06
  Kody has a voiceover where he was talking about how cute Leon
• 1:53:10
  and Aspyn were when they were little and that they were the
• 1:53:13
  same age. You know, they're both one of
• 1:53:15
  the oldest ones. There's Logan and then Aspyn and
• 1:53:18
  Leon and how they were just so
• 1:53:22
  And I thought that was, I did like that they kept that in.
• 1:53:27
  It was a little humanizing, but he said they were kind of like
• 1:53:30
  twins and they played together
• 1:53:33
  When? They were little and did
• 1:53:34
  everything together and I could see that sweet alignment with
• 1:53:39
  them having their graduation party.
• 1:53:41
  Together. Now if it was me, I would have
• 1:53:43
  been a little pissed that I had to share a graduation party
• 1:53:45
  with. Somebody.
• 1:53:46
  But I bet that Leon was like, what the fuck?
• 1:53:49
  But Aspyn seems like a very kind
• 1:53:52
  Probably wasn't. Aspyn Probably didn't give it a
• 1:53:54
  second thought. Yeah.
• 1:53:56
  After Kody's voice over, we also
• 1:53:58
  Over from Christine. Where she talks about how she is
• 1:54:02
  a better parent to her younger
• 1:54:05
  that she recognizes that kids need to learn more lessons on
• 1:54:08
  their own as she's gotten older and had more experience as the
• 1:54:14
  parent on this podcast, What did
• 1:54:19
  Yeah, she says that she's gotten
• 1:54:23
  And that these milestones, these
• 1:54:27
  kids need to be doing at certain
• 1:54:30
  anymore like she did at 1st. And I have to say that is the
• 1:54:36
  mindset of a mom with multiple, multiple children.
• 1:54:39
  Oh, yeah. Because even I have two kids
• 1:54:42
  with the second. There have definitely been
• 1:54:44
  things that I have let go, haven't cared about, but it was,
• 1:54:50
  yeah, from experience and growing and realizing, OK, if
• 1:54:53
  they do that, XY and Z is not going to happen.
• 1:54:56
  Their world's not going to end.
• 1:54:58
  It's fine. But the vibe I was getting from
• 1:55:02
  it was a little more hands off with the younger ones.
• 1:55:05
  And I don't think that's necessarily a good thing and
• 1:55:09
  that you're learning and doing better.
• 1:55:12
  There was a disconnect for me hot off the heels of hearing
• 1:55:16
  about. How Aspyn basically runs
• 1:55:19
  Christine's household is how they were really teeing up that
• 1:55:23
  earlier footage and they demonstrated it and we've heard
• 1:55:26
  about it and it does not go away in the sense of their
• 1:55:31
  story. It's told long into the future
• 1:55:33
  that Aspyn was really doing a lot of shit for Christine.
• 1:55:36
  So for her to have this perspective, yeah, it's like
• 1:55:40
  there's good and bad with it or something.
• 1:55:42
  Like you got to be more laid back because you had built in
• 1:55:44
  help with. Your older children, but Mckelty
• 1:55:48
  is essentially no help at all.
• 1:55:53
  episode of Mckelty causing more chaos or allowing chaos to
• 1:55:58
  happen when she's supposed to be
• 1:56:01
  This is another thing I struggle
• 1:56:03
  I just think the more and more
• 1:56:06
  you're able to give to each child and it's kind of unfair.
• 1:56:10
  I don't mean to shame large families.
• 1:56:13
  Everybody is different and every
• 1:56:17
  Personally, two kids I feel stretched thin at times and I
• 1:56:23
  feel bad if one is crying and needs my attention for something
• 1:56:26
  and I can't get to the other one
• 1:56:29
  as much at the same time. But I, I don't know, everybody's
• 1:56:34
  so different. So I don't want to judge people
• 1:56:37
  with large families in general, but I think that there is some
• 1:56:42
  sort of selfishness and people
• 1:56:45
  to continue to have kids because
• 1:56:51
  not going to have the time for
• 1:56:52
  Well, and as someone who is not a parent, I think about myself
• 1:56:55
  having 2. Younger brothers and my middle
• 1:56:58
  brother and I always commiserate
• 1:57:02
  rib our youngest brother because
• 1:57:06
  so much like and, and, and it goes down.
• 1:57:08
  It's like trickle down. I say it to my middle brother,
• 1:57:11
  you got away with so much shit.
• 1:57:12
  And we both say it to my youngest brother.
• 1:57:14
  You got away with so much shit. And that's from the perspective
• 1:57:18
  of, you know, being punished for things and whatever is
• 1:57:21
  usually our default and our bro conversations.
• 1:57:23
  But it's more than that. It's my youngest brother had
• 1:57:29
  less oversight and less direction and less yadda, yadda,
• 1:57:40
  And like I've said before, when it got time for me to go to
• 1:57:43
  college, it was like, well, we've been there, done that.
• 1:57:46
  Like, what do you want to do? We already got one off good
• 1:57:49
  here. Like, what's up with you?
• 1:57:50
  What's up with you? Yeah.
• 1:57:52
  And that is with two kids. And that is.
• 1:57:55
  Just the reality. Of it, there's this guy whose
• 1:57:58
  books I've listened to, his name is Gabbar Matte and he has this
• 1:58:04
  segment on a podcast that he was on that I've listened to and
• 1:58:10
  he talks about how every child has different parents.
• 1:58:14
  You have the same parents, but they are different because like
• 1:58:19
  a job, you do learn more with each child.
• 1:58:23
  So you are going to parent different with each child and
• 1:58:27
  every sibling has a different set of parents.
• 1:58:31
  Every child has a different perspective on how they were
• 1:58:35
  raised. The parents are at a different
• 1:58:48
  and Kody are AT when they have Solomon Solomon and they're
• 1:58:55
  completely, Kody's a completely different parent with every
• 1:58:59
  single one of his kids. You know, it's, it's mind
• 1:59:02
  blowing to me when I think of that.
• 1:59:04
  And I have had to have discussions with my sister about
• 1:59:11
  to understand the other one's childhood experience.
• 1:59:14
  You just can't. There's no way.
• 1:59:16
  And we were three years apart. I don't know.
• 1:59:20
  I don't like that Christine says this because.
• 1:59:24
  To me it just. Kind of feels like a throwaway,
• 1:59:28
  but it does mean something more and paralleled with my ask about
• 1:59:38
  feel is my head. Scratch my chin, scratch my
• 1:59:43
  flavor saver, scratch about why this is even in here at all.
• 1:59:48
  Why is this even in this episode?
• 1:59:49
  I mean, OK, you're at your oldest child's graduation party.
• 1:59:56
  why production even kept us in.
• 1:59:58
  It just seems misplaced. It seems almost.
• 2:00:00
  When I was observing it as a viewer, it felt almost a bit
• 2:00:04
  insensitive and I don't even know what that means.
• 2:00:06
  It just felt like why is this here and why are we going down
• 2:00:12
  mom with the graduating kid. To say something at the end to
• 2:00:20
  clip they pulled for her wrap up because it is the doesn't sit
• 2:00:28
  right. Absolutely, they should have
• 2:00:30
  used something from Christine where it was talking about her.
• 2:00:33
  Experience with Aspyn
• 2:00:34
  specifically, it's Aspyn's graduation party.
• 2:00:37
  It's Leon's graduation party. So now we're going to get Leon
• 2:00:41
  opening a gift from Meri that we've already talked about in a
• 2:00:44
  previous episode. And then we get Meri talking
• 2:00:47
  about Leon. And it's like that connection
• 2:00:50
  did not happen here with this bit from Christine.
• 2:00:52
  So production really fucked her with this in my opinion,
• 2:00:54
  because this is completely misplaced and seems a bit
• 2:00:58
  insensitive and. Weird.
• 2:00:59
  Because Aspyn opens a gift. That's a blanket made by Mckel
• 2:01:05
  from Meri, which is the blanket that Meri made.
• 2:01:08
  The quilt, honey, the quilt, the quilt.
• 2:01:11
  Remember, they went. To that store with all the
• 2:01:13
  quilts. On the walls.
• 2:01:14
  Oh my God. And it is a quilt.
• 2:01:17
  It is a quilt. There are pictures.
• 2:01:19
  On it, yes there are photo covered.
• 2:01:21
  Quilt but thank God there are family photos this.
• 2:01:24
  Time and not head shots. Of each family member, Meri has
• 2:01:28
  done a better job. At crafting a.
• 2:01:31
  Quilt then. Robyn's sister, who apparently
• 2:01:36
  in my humble opinion. This one is purple and yellow,
• 2:01:43
  Westminster colors. But we went to that store with
• 2:01:47
  And, you know, I'm sure Leon put it on the wall just like Logan
• 2:01:55
  does not masturbate while looking at it.
• 2:01:57
  So, you know, I felt it was a beauteous moment and it just
• 2:02:01
  really touched me in places where I hope Leon never touches
• 2:02:04
  themselves. This is a gift that a.
• 2:02:09
  Grandma would love to get with their grandkids photos on it.
• 2:02:13
  This is not a gift for a child graduating from high school.
• 2:02:17
  Thank you. It's not even that.
• 2:02:19
  Yeah, it might be a hideous. Quilt.
• 2:02:21
  I mean a beautiful quilt. It's that.
• 2:02:23
  Who are you giving this to? You're giving this to a 1718
• 2:02:26
  year old going out to college. Like no, no, no, no, no.
• 2:02:28
  You give it to grandma. You are so right.
• 2:02:31
  I've said weird 1000 times this episode because as per usual.
• 2:02:35
  It's weird, it's weird, it's weird shit.
• 2:02:38
  It totally is. I don't know what to say.
• 2:02:41
  Who the? Fuck would think that an. 18
• 2:02:42
  year old kid would want this and to take this off to college with
• 2:02:49
  It's great and whatever and that could be a stock response at a
• 2:02:55
  what they actually thought. It's just not a gift to give an
• 2:02:58
  18 year old is a quilt with a bunch of family photos on it.
• 2:03:01
  If that's what you're thinking of doing for your child, just
• 2:03:04
  reconsider please. So think of other options.
• 2:03:07
  Google it. What should I get my kid when
• 2:03:08
  they're going to college? Look.
• 2:03:09
  At that list and pick something. Don't do this as someone who is
• 2:03:13
  raised in the Catholic religion.
• 2:03:15
  And was taught that God is watching.
• 2:03:18
  God sees all. I would have gone off to
• 2:03:21
  college. I would have taken that quote.
• 2:03:23
  I would put the faces down so that the backside was up because
• 2:03:26
  I wouldn't want to hurt my parents feelings.
• 2:03:29
  And then every time that I was
• 2:03:32
  diddling myself, I would think
• 2:03:35
  watching what was happening under the covers.
• 2:03:37
  And so was Jesus. And oh Lord my God, no Jesus and
• 2:03:44
  Jesus and. Sister.
• 2:03:46
  Your sister. We've been watching, yeah.
• 2:03:49
  I'd be looking down. I'd be lifting the blanket.
• 2:03:52
  Up making eye contact with my family members on the blanket,
• 2:03:55
  putting it back down, looking it
• 2:04:00
  shame. I'm so glad my parents gave me a
• 2:04:06
  all of their faces on it. Because I never masturbated
• 2:04:09
  thinking about my family looking at that night stand.
• 2:04:12
  Absolutely not. Oh my God.
• 2:04:14
  Yep. And I still had some of that
• 2:04:16
  Christian shame. It just.
• 2:04:17
  Was in a night. Stand.
• 2:04:18
  This is why I'll never do well fun a shelf.
• 2:04:22
  I don't want my kids to think that anything is watching them
• 2:04:28
  Don't do that to your children. It's awful.
• 2:04:30
  Oh God. And as we were talking about the
• 2:04:36
  right is had Christine with this unfortunate moment and then Meri
• 2:04:44
  Did you have anything? It was something that every
• 2:04:48
  single. Parent would say cookie cutter
• 2:04:58
  downs for Leon and Aspyn but they'll get through it.
• 2:05:02
  And she ends by saying they're off on a new adventure.
• 2:05:07
  And I'm so proud of them both. Oh, the places you'll go.
• 2:05:13
  Oh, the places you'll go. Yes, that's so heartful.
• 2:05:18
  Oh, you know, right. And then to literally wrap up
• 2:05:22
  the. Episode There's upbeat music
• 2:05:23
  with. Cliche, wrap up, yon yon yon.
• 2:05:25
  I fell asleep, yadda yadda yadda.
• 2:05:27
  It was just, I don't even know, I guess we got a flash mob in
• 2:05:32
  this episode. So that was a thing.
• 2:05:34
  Yeah. Not the kind I was hoping for.
• 2:05:40
  For us, wow, I'd have preferred that kind of flash mob.
• 2:05:47
  Cue the Janelle distraction I'm here to keep.
• 2:05:51
  Sweet honey knocks Robyn. In the face as she's opening her
• 2:06:04
  serious now. Honey, it's the end of our
• 2:06:06
  episode, our wrap up. Now we're not going to be as
• 2:06:09
  cliche as Meri or as awful as what Christine was given from
• 2:06:12
  these producers for our wrap up. We're going to do our keep
• 2:06:15
  sweet. But first, mustard seed and shit
• 2:06:31
  That was a threat, not a promise.
• 2:06:33
  I am going to give my mustard seed to Aspyn.
• 2:06:41
  I think Aspyn seems very well-rounded after this episode.
• 2:06:50
  Yeah, not as wonderful, but adjacent.
• 2:06:54
  Getting there, I appreciated that Aspyn was helping prepare
• 2:07:00
  for their party and having a moment with Christine making
• 2:07:07
  stuff in their cute little aprons.
• 2:07:10
  That was a nice moment and I hope if they watch moments back
• 2:07:16
  in the show, those are the types
• 2:07:20
  towards is memories and the good
• 2:07:24
  the show. Because if I could rewatch a
• 2:07:27
  moment like that from when I was
• 2:07:31
  heartwarming. And it has been just overall
• 2:07:34
  seems very chill, down to earth and has been a rock for her
• 2:07:39
  mom. And Christina's obviously had
• 2:07:41
  some struggles. I think Christina's probably had
• 2:07:52
  of the times we're talking about it a little bit more at
• 2:07:55
  that time. But I think that Christine, and
• 2:07:58
  I don't want to presume too much about her mental health,
• 2:08:03
  but I do believe that Christine has needed Aspyn for
• 2:08:08
  things. And Aspyn is been there for her
• 2:08:13
  mom in more ways than she should
• 2:08:17
  So I don't know, without getting
• 2:08:21
  we know that they've parentified
• 2:08:24
  extent. And Aspyn getting my mustard
• 2:08:29
  seed for carrying on. And while I always struggle with
• 2:08:35
  Christine Brown. She is getting my mustard seed
• 2:08:38
  this episode. Little shocked there.
• 2:08:41
  Well, because Christine made. She.
• 2:08:45
  Just made me chuckle so much this episode.
• 2:08:47
  I thought she was very funny in her couch moments.
• 2:08:49
  She was self deprecating, she was humorous and multiple
• 2:08:54
  facets. And I like the way that she was
• 2:08:59
  kind of picking on people when
• 2:09:02
  itself. And although towards the end I
• 2:09:07
  did feel a little sour about her, I kind of feel like that
• 2:09:11
  was production driven and choices that were made by
• 2:09:14
  editors that I thought were not good.
• 2:09:17
  So I'm giving Christine my mustard seed.
• 2:09:19
  And Christine, you should be very happy about that because
• 2:09:22
  you barely deserve it. But you made me laugh a lot, so
• 2:09:25
  I'm going to give it to you now.
• 2:09:28
  Shit stain, honey, shit stain. My shit stain is definitely
• 2:09:32
  going to Kody. For the comment that he made
• 2:09:36
  about Meri playing games at her one child's graduation, Meri did
• 2:09:45
  But Kody, instead of handling it like the head of the household
• 2:10:07
  He also had to make comments about the feminine dance moves
• 2:10:20
  dance moves. Everything kind of comes back to
• 2:10:29
  I don't understand why, unless you have fragile masculinity,
• 2:10:33
  why that's a theme for you that comes up all the time.
• 2:10:36
  Yeah. Why are you so worried about
• 2:10:38
  that? Concerned.
• 2:10:39
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 2:10:40
  It comes up so often with him like.
• 2:10:43
  He brings up the. Term masculine or misogynistic
• 2:10:56
  obviously on his mind frequently and he's.
• 2:10:59
  Got 4 wives. And he's referenced frequently.
• 2:11:01
  That he prefers the company of
• 2:11:03
  women. So it's like, why are you so
• 2:11:05
  hung up on being masculine? There's something there.
• 2:11:08
  There is some insecurity there.
• 2:11:11
  And on top of it, when the tarot card reader said that he was
• 2:11:18
  going to have a fifth wife, he didn't shoot that down and say
• 2:11:29
  Yeah, he let it lie. Yeah, he let it lie.
• 2:11:32
  Exactly. He let it sit.
• 2:11:33
  There. That dirty?
• 2:11:35
  Doug Kody Brown. Yeah, he's just annoying, as per
• 2:11:39
  I think I'm giving it to Meri. Robyn had a redeeming quality
• 2:11:44
  with the whole. Kody, get it together, get it
• 2:11:46
  together. Come on now.
• 2:11:48
  And that's rare for me to Meri was very upset at the
• 2:11:55
  graduation, and while I can understand why you would be
• 2:11:59
  upset about where you were sitting in a place, it wasn't
• 2:12:04
  going to take a effort similar to moving mountains to move
• 2:12:08
  seats. And her overreaction to
• 2:12:10
  everything is just hard to watch it.
• 2:12:13
  It makes it hard for me to empathize with her because I'm
• 2:12:19
  Yeah, she's just always upset about everything.
• 2:12:22
  And. Then I I feel like I'm just
• 2:12:24
  having also tie insurance to previous episodes with their the
• 2:12:31
  And it's like you are causing a scene in public expressing
• 2:12:35
  yourself quite well. I mean, do I agree with your
• 2:12:38
  expressions? I think they're a bit
• 2:12:40
  outlandish, but you are clearly capable of expressing how you
• 2:12:43
  feel. And so your whole thing of I
• 2:12:45
  don't know, I can't express myself.
• 2:12:46
  You clearly can. You're just doing it loudly with
• 2:12:54
  Leon, with Kody, the baby decision thing.
• 2:12:56
  I'm over it. Why did they have to go to a
• 2:12:59
  bedroom to have this discussion? Why are they sitting on the bed?
• 2:13:05
  Leon, who is going off to college right before their high
• 2:13:09
  school graduation party? Needs to be coddled.
• 2:13:12
  Like a six year old or a 12 year
• 2:13:18
  Meri just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
• 2:13:20
  And also overall, I've said this
• 2:13:24
  I want to be a Meri fan. I want to support Meri.
• 2:13:27
  I like Meri. No, I hate Meri.
• 2:13:30
  See, this is it, Meri. Yeah.
• 2:13:32
  Fucking Meri. Fucking Meri.
• 2:13:35
  Our keep sweet moment this week.
• 2:13:37
  Is from. Tonya Carter who I think we've
• 2:13:44
  This is for a YouTube comment
• 2:13:46
  that Tonya Carter has left on our season 6 episode 11 rewatch
• 2:13:51
  of the sister wives tell all that just came out recently.
• 2:13:55
  Now Tonya. OK, Tonya, I'm reading this.
• 2:13:57
  OK, Tonya, I'm ready. Tanya, if you're listening to
• 2:14:03
  this, you know why I'm going. Brace.
• 2:14:05
  Yourself people, all right. So this one's this one's along,
• 2:14:08
  and it's good. It's good.
• 2:14:10
  Watching the Tell alls now, the lies are so obvious they might
• 2:14:15
  as well have come with a TLC Chiron for entertainment
• 2:14:18
  purposes only. It was painfully clear that they
• 2:14:21
  were pimping themselves out for TLC money, Mormon style.
• 2:14:25
  Don't ask, don't tell, but here's our bank routing number
• 2:14:29
  for direct deposit. So good.
• 2:14:32
  And the fact that all of these
• 2:14:36
  who apparently possessed the rare survival instinct, put up
• 2:14:39
  with his absolute bullshit for
• 2:14:43
  Diabolical. At some point it stops being a
• 2:14:46
  marriage and starts looking like
• 2:14:50
  investment. And Christine living directly
• 2:14:53
  across from Robyn. Oh please.
• 2:14:57
  Christine sitting in that office
• 2:15:00
  day, staring out the window and stewing in her mock tapioca
• 2:15:04
  feelings while Robyn's house is literally right there.
• 2:15:08
  That wasn't a cul-de-sac, that
• 2:15:11
  psychological warfare. Boom.
• 2:15:15
  Wow. Oh my gosh, Tanya.
• 2:15:18
  OK, so you. Gave us this.
• 2:15:20
  You gave us this. This was a gift.
• 2:15:22
  This was literally a keep sweet moment.
• 2:15:25
  Thank you. I recognized when reading this
• 2:15:28
  comment that I have been a fool.
• 2:15:30
  I have been an idiot because in a recent episode I was talking
• 2:15:37
  Why are you all so concerned with Sharon fucking driveways in
• 2:15:47
  house. Christine's was the library.
• 2:15:49
  Remember the happy accident with
• 2:15:51
  So there's a library. Well, Christine's in there on
• 2:15:54
  her computer, quote UN quote, working all day as Tanya has
• 2:15:57
  pointed out. What was she working on?
• 2:16:00
  Who knows what she was working
• 2:16:02
  computer all day glancing out that front window and she gets a
• 2:16:05
  view of all of the other wives
• 2:16:08
  And does she see Kody going from
• 2:16:11
  I don't know if she does. Does she just see Kody at
• 2:16:13
  Robyn's house and that's that?
• 2:16:18
  must say. And very well written.
• 2:16:20
  Yes, very well written. And that is one thing.
• 2:16:24
  That I was noting during this episode is them whoring
• 2:16:28
  themselves out for the show, taking over their kids
• 2:16:31
  graduation party to do some dumb
• 2:16:37
  thing for the show. Did the children want that?
• 2:16:42
  No, and maybe if they didn't care at the time, looking back,
• 2:16:46
  you'd be. Like this was bullshit.
• 2:16:48
  Yeah, total bullshit. One thing I forgot to bring up
• 2:16:51
  earlier. Is that?
• 2:16:52
  At the graduation party, I did
• 2:16:58
  We got a cameo. Well, she was back by the wet
• 2:17:00
  bar. She was standing.
• 2:17:02
  By the wet bar just. Observing the kids getting their
• 2:17:04
  gifts and being a lovely participant in their graduation
• 2:17:08
  party and it just made Mystic Mona feel wrong to me.
• 2:17:14
  I We love our Mona. We love our Mona.
• 2:17:17
  Do you think that our Mona got
• 2:17:21
  By Mystic Mona and that we're living in an alternate reality
• 2:17:24
  because they came together in one room.
• 2:17:28
  What do you think? That the world exploded when
• 2:17:32
  they got in the same room? I think neither you nor I exist
• 2:17:35
  anymore and I think anyone listening to the show.
• 2:17:37
  No longer exists and this is all
• 2:17:40
  imagination because Mona and Mystic Mona collided.
• 2:17:45
  I don't know if we're even in reality anymore.
• 2:17:47
  This is it. I don't know what.
• 2:17:48
  Happened, but we might all be ghosts.
• 2:17:51
  The Browns no longer exist. We no longer exist.
• 2:17:53
  This show doesn't exist. And you don't exist.
• 2:17:57
  Goodbye.