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Sister Wives S6 E16 - Browns in Crisis · 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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  Browns in Crisis Season 6 episode 16 we've got the Browns
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  in crisis. And it's actually a crisis this
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  time. It's not some fake drama, it's
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  real drama. This family does seem to
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  manufacture crises out of nothing and can't manage the
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  most simple of things, so this
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  As you may remember, on the last
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  the coming up bonds for this episode and how we were both
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  emotional and we were both feeling our feelings when it
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  came to a little preview that they were showing us about Aspyn
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  leading us in a prayer that we'll get to on this episode.
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  What are you thinking about a transition from our last episode
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  into this one? Honey, how are you feeling
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  starting this episode? I definitely was sad again
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  watching this and teared up and I was right in my prediction
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  that I was going to cry during
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  I did cry and then soon the tears dried up and quickly
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  turned to anger so I was all over the place.
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  I guess you could say I was emotional during this episode.
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  I felt. Did you have some fillings?
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  I have some fillings. Yes.
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  I can't wait to get into it because I did get pretty angry
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  actually right after crying. So it was a little shocking that
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  I went from one to the other, but I'll explain myself.
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  OK, Previously on yes, sister wives.
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  Oh, they gave us a good previously on This time, they
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  showed us a clip of Mystic Mona telling the Browns at the
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  graduation party where she was
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  some of the kids were going to
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  So they bring that clip up again
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  this prediction. So what other ones will she be
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  correct in? And for our listeners on
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  Spotify, we did add a survey to our last episode asking who we
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  need more of in our life, Nipple
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  So please give us your votes because this is really important
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  information that's going to change the trajectory of human
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  history. And then opening this episode,
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  Christine tells us about how the
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  Francisco and how Truely started feeling unwell after
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  returning. She claims they brought Truely
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  to the doctor and the doctor said she had the flu.
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  And I'm I'm using the word claims for a reason.
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  Did that stick out to you at all or am I making a mountain out of
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  I think that they took her in and that the doctor said it was
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  the flu. I think I believe it.
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  I don't know. OK, I have a random thing to
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  point out from the previously on that I was a little taken aback
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  by that They showed again and I didn't know if it was going to
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  Because they show the clip of Kody asking Christine to put the
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  and asking him, saying to him that he needs to be there more
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  and be a part of their lives more.
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  And she had laid out these conditions.
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  And they show Brett's wife, Ava,
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  judging the fuck out of all of them.
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  And so I was wondering if they were showing that clip of her
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  being in Kody's face about, you know, her conditions because
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  that obviously would rear its head during this with a sick
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  child. Right.
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  So I don't know, but Christine saying that she took her to the
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  doctor and that she had the flu, I think that I believe it
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  kids have the flu or colds in general, they don't drink enough
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  that are supposed to taste good to get them to drink and not be
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  dehydrated. So I think I believe it.
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  I think they took her in. And I had flashbacks to being a
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  kid when my mom being like, you know, drink your fluids, Drink
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  people tell you that as well. But when you're a kid, it's
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  almost just beating into you for good reason.
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  Yeah. After Christine brings us up to
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  speed on taking Truely to the doctor's office, which I totally
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  Truely with Aspyn as she heads out with her sister wives and
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  Kody to select some flowers for their upcoming non vow
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  renewal, not recommitment ceremony.
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  I want to make sure to fit as many vowels in there as I can
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  when it comes to this non vow renewal not recommitment
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  ceremony that's in their future.
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  I've been trying to pay very close attention to what each of
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  them call it because it changes so frequently they don't even
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  know what to call it. And she said commitment
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  celebration at one point during this.
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  And I have been making a note each time that I have to write
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  what they're talking about. You're being much more diligent
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  than me. I'm literally calling it
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  whatever the fuck I feel like and basically putting it down
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  because I'm like what are you even saying?
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  Well, because they're acting so offended that people are calling
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  thing? Because you're on video at the
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  They get offended and weird and defensive over things that
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  haven't even happened yet all the time.
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  So I'm going to quote them when they call it a commitment
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  celebration or whatever they decide to call it that day.
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  We could play good cop, bad cop, and I'll just call it whatever
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  Words. The wives and Kody arrive at a
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  ahead of them planning for their commitment ceremony.
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  As they're looking around at flowers at this flower shop,
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  Janelle points out how she likes the fall and the autumn flowers
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  because they can incorporate gourds.
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  Gourds, gourds. Yes, gourds Janelle.
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  And you know, as a man, I can say nothing wrong with a nice
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  bulbous full round gourd. That's my preference.
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  I don't know. Oh my goodness.
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  Yeah, the pretty fall colors. And gourds, of course.
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  Gourds. Goals.
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  Kody of course has to have a 2 camera where he's telling us
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  about their upcoming commitment ceremony, yada yada yada.
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  It's like we've heard so much about this thing that we don't
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  We don't have to talk about what he said, right?
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  Like he's just saying what we already know.
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  He's reminding us that they are having trouble agreeing on
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  anything, so prefacing the picking out the flowers.
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  Oop, this might be tumultuous. We're having trouble agreeing on
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  She is very excited looking at all these flowers.
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  And we get a couch moment with her where she is letting
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  everyone know that she is surprised by her excitement.
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  And everyone is agreeing. They can't believe she's excited
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  You know, it's kind of odd.
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  And Janelle says I must have left my body temporarily or
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  something. I thought that was funny.
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  I love how whenever Janelle shows enthusiasm about
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  something, they're all taken aback.
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  Yes. How out of character for you?
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  She cares about blocks and making them not even and being
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  artsy fartsy with the letter blocks and now she's being artsy
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  fartsy with gourds and fall colors and flowers.
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  And don't you call this non vow renewing commitment, whatever
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  it is, a party? Because she will correct you if
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  you call it a party. We know that.
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  How dare I see I already messed up.
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  I called it the wrong thing already.
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  Well, luckily we only had to watch her doing it to Robyn, not
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  to you. So it was a it was a benefit for
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  us all. And Speaking of the wives not
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  agreeing, they do happen to agree that they all like calla
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  lilies. Oh, and so they all joke about
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  agreeing on two things, Calla lilies and Kody.
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  Oh, Kody. OK, I'm not Even so sure that
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  they all agree on Kody at this
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  I was cackling during this because I was thinking to
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  myself, calla lilies. You got to be kidding me.
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  They are the beige of flowers,
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  They are the tofu or the rice cake of the garden.
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  OK, you agree on calla lilies.
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  things and making fun of it in
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  my wedding bouquet was just calla lilies.
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  You're a basic Calla Lily bitch.
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  Girl yes and the reason I picked them is because I wanted
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  something simple as fuck because I was getting married on a beach
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  because I'm like of course they picked the most boring flower to
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  flowers I picked for my own wedding so.
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  Oops. Yeah, oopsies.
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  Well, and I'd love that you use the word tofu because there's
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  the whole reference to tofu girlfriends and whatever.
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  And I feel as though these women, Janelle, probably to a
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  lesser extent, but they all play tofu wives to Kody.
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  And Janelle has a moment where she has an opinion and they're
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  They're all tofu. They're very, very fucking tofu.
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  moment that they give him. I don't know why we're we keep
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  interrupting this flower shop experience with bits of couch
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  and mostly of Kody on the couch and Kody has to tell us that
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  this commitment ceremony is also
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  statement and validating their
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  their friends. Validation of their relationship
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  from their friends. An interesting way to put it, I
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  thought of the mission statement
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  big part of the commitment ceremony.
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  Isn't this the mission statement
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  fucks about and that nobody has taken seriously and worked on
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  in months and it's going to be the focus of this commitment
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  ceremony? He's bringing it up again.
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  They don't know what they're doing.
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  But honey, the calla lilies, the
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  Right. Yeah, you're right.
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  What do you even say? Why do they do this to us?
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  Yeah, it makes no sense. No, then give us these clips of
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  Kody talking about what this is about as we're just looking at
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  flowers and trying to agree on
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  I don't get it. While brainstorming, they land
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  on a tree of life concept. Oh, because they all like sticks
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  and twigs and branches in their flower bouquets.
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  So, you know, the potential of
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  table sounds just wonderful. Robyn is very enthusiastic.
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  Because that means we're putting
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  Oh my God, Robyn. She took a long time to get to
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  this conclusion that everyone else had already gotten to.
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  The lady asked them if they want
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  and Christine says, oh, like a
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  comes up with this idea. And everyone else catches on
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  very quickly to the meaning of
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  But Robyn, it dawns on her 5 minutes after it dawns on
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  everyone else. And she goes, oh, I love it
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  because we're putting our roots down in that spot.
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  Like she's whoa, Oh my gosh. Now she's acting like it's her
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  idea all of a sudden. And if looks could kill Meri is
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  looking at her like the dumb bitch that she is.
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  Oh. Yes, love a dirty look going
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  Robyn's way. Of course, of course.
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  Big fan. Everyone is so happy because
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  they found their theme and they agreed on some flowers.
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  So naturally the cake is next for this party that we are not
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  calling a party. But it's not a celebration, it's
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  the celebration. So let's talk about the cake
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  first. Course, I got to point something
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  out. Oh yeah, they show us a cart
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  with all of the flowers on it that have been chosen by the
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  Brown family. And the flowers on the cart do
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  not drive right, They do not match.
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  They picked fall colors and then
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  looking bright blue flowers that
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  That were unique and interesting
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  don't fit the theme. And so it's totally like one of
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  those people that when shopping for a space are like, I'm just
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  going to pick a bunch of things I like and then put it in a
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  room. And it's like, none of this
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  jives. None of this matches.
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  And so while they agreed on a theme, their execution is
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  lacking. What a shock for the Brown
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  family. We're all stunned.
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  I know they showed us the cart
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  and I had to do a double take that they actually put those
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  blue flowers in with everything so.
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  Color us surprise. Color us blue.
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  Surprised to transition into their cake planning.
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  They're meeting up with Ashley
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  Sugar. And I was like, give me some
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  sugar, girl. Yes, I had flashbacks to Britney
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  Spears at the VMAs. Gimme, Gimme some sugar, Gimme,
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  Gimme some sugar. And I kind of felt like that
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  could be Janelle walking up there, you know, kind of
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  stumbling around catching her balance while all the backup
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  dancers are propping her up. I was just having a whole little
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  world happening in my mind while
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  And thank you for joining me on that unhinged journey to this
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  non commitment, non bow renewal,
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  Of course, they try out different flavors of cake, you
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  know, fill in the blanks. Kody makes a nearly impossible
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  ask. He starts doodling a cake that
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  looks like a tree on a piece of paper.
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  And I thought, you know, OK, we're sticking with the theme.
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  This is good. But my insides, something wasn't
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  feeling right and I thought, why
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  cake? Our designer of the family, the
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  family. I just didn't really get it.
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  I thought we're not using Robyn to her full potential in this
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  situation. She's just sitting there looking
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  But why isn't she designing the
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  cake? It just, it didn't sit right
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  with me. I felt it was unjust and unfair
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  to our Robyn. It was.
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  She's the one that has the sketchbooks after all, that she
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  writes their figures and numbers
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  Doesn't even use the graph paper
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  know. How could she go to a cake shop
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  without her graph paper notepad?
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  It just doesn't make any sense. What an idiot.
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  She missed out on her chance to show off yet again with her
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  amazing design skills. This is it and she didn't really
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  the star moment that we all crave and yearn for.
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  I was wondering why do they have to be so literal with this
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  theme? Why does it have to be a cake
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  that's a tree. Now that you've finally decided
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  on this tree of life theme. They're so literal with
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  everything because they lack creativity all around.
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  I don't mean to burst any bubbles, but Ashley and her
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  staff do take liberties with their concept and we are not
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  delivered a vertical standing tree cake.
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  OK, now we don't actually end up getting it.
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  And thank God. I also suspect it's because of
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  That OK, Kody suggests this vertical tree as if it is up on
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  a trunk like a standard tree standing in the ground.
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  And of course, as he's drawing it, it's like, OK, this doesn't
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  seem like what you would do with a cake.
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  And leave it to Janelle. She reminds him that they do not
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  remind Kody of those finite resources, those finite
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  resources. Janelle is going, we don't have
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  this much money to spend on a cake.
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  And then Ashleys colleague starts determining how to
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  engineer this cake, and it turns out it's not going to be as easy
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  No, that's a balancing act. They have to figure out how they
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  They don't just use cake. Duh.
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  They seemed to think that that was what was going to happen,
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  was full on cake. Leave it to them.
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  But she starts designing this, and as Janelle's talking about
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  And my mind blew up. I'm having a flashback in my
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  mind to a giant vacant wall in Christine's house with the
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  tiniest little word art off center in the middle and going.
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  There's no budget for anything
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  to put on the walls, but let's
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  500 people and needs to be structured with wood and metal.
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  Yeah, that's. Clearly not going to be what
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  happens, but it's just funny that these are the things that
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  we see with this family. Like what are you even talking
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  about? They just let this play out for
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  the sake of the show. It was never a possibility, and
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  I'm sure that the owner of Give Me Some Sugar Ashley was
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  willing to go along and spend her time on this because
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  people would see the show and oh, that's a really cool cake
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  shop and they can do really neat things.
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  Let's go there and get business from this.
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  Didn't look up if they're closed or not.
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  I should have done that. I didn't even think about it
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  till just now, but $8500 that could get 3 beater cars for your
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  Yeah. It could, dare I say, send a kid
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  No. Honey, don't you dare connect
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  those dots. Don't you dare.
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  How dare I? Well, this leads them into the
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  they could reduce the height if it helped to reduce the cost.
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  Like OK, so instead of a three foot cake, you're going to do a
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  2 foot cake. How about we just abandoned this
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  more time on this subject. Thank God, because good Lord,
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  Mylanta, I can't even. And 500 people.
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  How many people are they inviting to this shindig?
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  Can I call it a shindig? How many people are they
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  inviting to this horror show? Kimber, you know this is not a
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  This backyard gathering. Right.
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  But on the couch, Christine is telling Kody that he doesn't
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  need to worry. His cake dreams will come true.
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  She also points out how she's
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  being the supportive wife while playfully tapping at her smile
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  on her face, pointing at how she's just being so supportive
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  Kody and how the other wives aren't supporting his dream like
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  she is. And Robyn says, well, Christine
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  wins the favorite wife award and
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  Shut your whore mouth. They act like Kody's so sad and
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  they're all pretending to console him and he's pretending
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  he's a sad little boy not getting his special cake.
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  Did you think he really was disappointed?
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  No, it felt like a bit to me. It just felt like they were talk
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  and that's why Christine, I think, was being so playful.
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  It was not serious, I guess. They were just playing it up.
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  I kind of feel like he was disappointed because it would
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  have been a thing to show off and it would have been his idea
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  and he would have looked cool to
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  But yeah, they were definitely
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  I could see him being disappointed, but the collective
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  them, you know, with the help of
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  like, let me help you people out.
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  Like we are not spending $8500 on a cake for God's sake, right?
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  education, Leon is going to be
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  day or two. So at Meri's house, they are
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  going to be throwing Leon a birthday and going away party.
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  And Meri tells us that Kody is
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  surprise them. And Meri and Kody are planning
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  on taking Leon to Westminster in
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  The schedule's a bit hairy here because apparently there's a
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  party and they're going the next
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  I guess maybe we're hearing this
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  So there's a lot to do that day.
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  You know, whatever, it's the Browns.
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  They're going to be taking Leon to school, throwing a party, and
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  We do know that Leon needs a vehicle.
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  Apparently, even though several listeners have commented on our
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  episodes about how their kids didn't get cars, they didn't
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  have cars, Their blah blah blah doesn't have cars.
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  So totally driving with what you
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  Thank you for the validation from the listeners by the way,
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  because those comments we were
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  Some colleges won't allow you to
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  freshman. I wonder if they even looked
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  into that at all. Who knows?
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  I'm pretty sure Westminster being a private school and a lot
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  I don't I that wasn't on my list of schools to even apply to, so
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  I don't know. You're probably right and Leon
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  to be able to have it, so who knows.
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  Meri's like I rented you a spot at a private garage.
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  Like, OK, great. I wouldn't doubt it.
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  I really wouldn't doubt it. Kody arrives at Meri's house and
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  Shipping officer for My Sister Wife's Closet, taping and
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  shipping up boxes on the island, and Kody yells for Leon to come
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  downstairs. Leon, come downstairs.
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  Bring your shoes with you. Come quick, come quick.
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  You need to come down here trying to surprise and do
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  something nice for Leon, and Leon reacts how we would expect.
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  was going to be almost like, we're going to go get the car,
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  bring it to the driveway, surprise Leon.
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  And that's not what unfolds. As Leon is entering the family
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  room, Kody straight up asks, do you want to get a car?
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  And Leon's like, yeah. And it's like, wow, this was
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  very anticlimactic, considering when you're going to surprise a
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  child with a car, you would usually.
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  Oh, I would assume you would take a different approach rather
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  than just asking them. And then they would say, yeah,
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  as if. Well, it's kind of expected.
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  My name's Leon. I'm a little spoiled brat.
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  He was trying to surprise Leon
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  not meant for Meri, probably, but I felt like he was trying
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  here and said do you want to go get a car?
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  Come on down, you could get a car.
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  But Leon literally looks at Kody
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  it was expected. You were correct.
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  It was as if Leon knew it was going to happen at some point.
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  And thank God. Finally, Dad.
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  Kody's been researching cars and
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  Great. Now we're going to transition
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  over to Christine's house on the
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  compound property, where Christine is giving us an update
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  on Truely. Yeah, Christine lets us know
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  that Truely is still sick and it's been 5 days since their
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  trip and Christine says that she
• 26:48
  weird. So Mckelty told Christine that
• 26:53
  she noticed Truely going cross
• 26:57
  Christine freaks out, she goes
• 26:59
  weird. I think I need to take Truely
• 27:01
  into her doctor, not the emergency room, the doctor.
• 27:07
  So she is planning on going to
• 27:13
  must have gotten in that day. But now when Christine is
• 27:16
  talking about Truely going cross
• 27:21
  help but think to myself, am I
• 27:24
  Christine is talking about this happening in the morning as if
• 27:27
  it happened earlier in the day?
• 27:29
  And you know, is there a lack of urgency happening here or is it
• 27:35
  just me? Like did you pick up on that?
• 27:38
  I think Christine saw it shortly before deciding, OK, we need to
• 27:42
  go to the doctor and what really pushed her is that she
• 27:46
  was talking to Mckelty about how she just saw her go cross
• 27:49
  eyed and Mckelty goes, well she did that this morning too.
• 28:00
  the morning. There is something that didn't
• 28:10
  weird happened. Now this is more serious, so I
• 28:15
  That does make more sense. And you're giving her more grace
• 28:20
  You saw her go cross eyed this morning and you're just now
• 28:23
  getting to bringing her to the doctor?
• 28:24
  Like, are you fucking kidding? I don't need any more reasons to
• 28:35
  I never. You know.
• 28:37
  I never had to babysit siblings. I don't know if you ever babysat
• 28:48
  happened or went wrong while I was watching them, you best
• 28:52
  believe I let the parents know as soon as they walked in the
• 28:55
  door because it's someone else's kids and I'm telling them
• 28:58
  literally everything that happened.
• 29:00
  But when you're watching a sibling, I imagine these things
• 29:06
  go a little more unnoticed or they're not as alarming to you
• 29:14
  I don't know. Mckelty obviously didn't feel a
• 29:17
  sense of urgency either. So.
• 29:18
  All I know is if I was watching my brothers and I was looking at
• 29:27
  So I don't know. This is unclear to me.
• 29:31
  I didn't take it the same way as you.
• 29:33
  I actually thought that Christine knew about this and
• 29:35
  she was just reiterating that Mckelty saw it in the morning
• 29:38
  and so put a bad taste in my mouth.
• 29:40
  But let's default to that. Christine is a caring and
• 29:43
  concerned parent and we are not to judge.
• 29:46
  We're not to judge parents. That's we're not to judge
• 29:49
  parents. I'm hoping that I'm correct.
• 29:51
  We'll leave it there. Right, yes.
• 29:54
  So Christine puts Julie in the car and brings her to the
• 29:57
  doctor. Kody tells us that after getting
• 30:10
  leader in the manosphere, I understand when people are
• 30:12
  asking so much of you for at least a week.
• 30:15
  It's just how could any woman or mother understand that?
• 30:19
  I shouldn't say that. I mean, he wasn't saying that he
• 30:25
  It wasn't even a Saturday or a Sunday.
• 30:28
  One of our lovely listeners pointed out that Saturday is the
• 30:49
  This is it, honey. If you're going to advertise
• 30:51
  yourself as the great Catholic on this podcast, you better not
• 30:54
  be fucking up Moses in the Jewish traditions or whatever.
• 31:02
  interview moment with Marlin, who is the pediatrician.
• 31:05
  He says that when they told him Truely had gone cross eyed, he
• 31:14
  Dramatic music starts playing and then we transition to Meri's
• 31:22
  party. And she says she got a text from
• 31:25
  Christine that says that she's
• 31:28
  room at Summerlin Hospital and
• 31:31
  her prep for Leon's party. The real drama begins when Robyn
• 31:35
  rushes to the bedroom to wake Kody up to let him know about
• 31:39
  the text messages. She asks have you checked your
• 31:42
  phone? Have you seen that Christine is
• 31:45
  taking Truely to the emergency
• 31:49
  checked his phone. He sits up really quickly and
• 31:53
  he's got to get out of there. He's got to go and join
• 31:55
  Christine and Truely in the emergency room, rolling down the
• 32:00
  highway in his pink car, rushing
• 32:04
  To the emergency, which I love
• 32:07
  moment, Christine says that the pediatrician told her it's
• 32:10
  serious. We're looking at possible kidney
• 32:13
  failure or potentially meningitis.
• 32:15
  This is serious. When eyes go crossed, that's
• 32:19
  emergency. This starts off a pattern of
• 32:22
  them referring to things as emergency.
• 32:25
  The situation is not an emergency, it's emergency.
• 32:28
  The location they're going to is
• 32:31
  emergency. They just keep saying the word
• 32:33
  emergency without any preface and I'm going, is this a
• 32:37
  regional thing? Is this a cult thing?
• 32:39
  Like does this just how people
• 32:42
  as emergency? I totally didn't catch that.
• 32:46
  That is hysterical. I can't believe I didn't catch
• 32:48
  that. But I have a feeling it's some
• 32:51
  sort of because they don't go to
• 32:55
  Who knows? I don't know, that is weird.
• 32:59
  Yeah, they throughout the episode refer to the ER as
• 33:02
  emergency and as the situation
• 33:06
  emergency or the emergency room.
• 33:07
  And I just was going, I wonder if this is a Utah thing or a
• 33:12
  polygamous cult thing or a chronically uninsured thing.
• 33:16
  I'm not quite sure. Yeah, because Kody does look at
• 33:20
  Robyn and say emergency. Yeah, he says to the emergency.
• 33:25
  Like, right to the emergency.
• 33:27
  It's just very strange way of phrasing things.
• 33:30
  Yeah, I didn't think about it in
• 33:33
  probably more to that than meets
• 33:37
  I thought it was funny that they
• 33:40
  highway in his pink car. That had to be a shot.
• 33:45
  Some cameraman was hanging out
• 33:49
  big car, rushing to the emergency.
• 33:54
  Honey, you said the it's emergency rushing to emergency.
• 34:00
  Christine has A2 camera moment
• 34:04
  serious this is. Why didn't I know that this was
• 34:07
  a serious thing? What if her eyes are going cross
• 34:10
  eyed? Do you have to take her to
• 34:12
  emergency? I didn't get that.
• 34:15
  I'm going what? I just don't understand how your
• 34:19
  child could go cross eyed in front of you and you wouldn't
• 34:21
  know that it's emergency like it
• 34:25
  Clearly I just. I don't know.
• 34:27
  I've never experienced this. I've been in front of someone
• 34:29
  where their eyes rollback in their head and it looks like
• 34:31
  they're going to faint or they
• 34:33
  When someone's eyes get fucked
• 34:36
  emergency. Not an emergency to the Browns.
• 34:39
  It's emergency. These people, I just, I don't
• 34:44
  know what to say. I wonder what it looked like.
• 34:46
  Not that I want to see a child's
• 34:50
  what it looked like. And that's why I asked you if
• 34:52
  you'd babysat for your brothers and what you would do.
• 34:54
  Because when I was younger and
• 35:00
  this was a big deal, But as an
• 35:03
  or something, you know? So is Christine that naive that
• 35:08
  she just is thinking like a teenager babysitting and didn't
• 35:13
  realize it was that big of a deal?
• 35:15
  I don't know. Because I probably when I was
• 35:17
  younger wouldn't have. I would have been like, that's
• 35:20
  weird. But maybe I wouldn't have
• 35:23
  thought it was that bad. I don't know.
• 35:26
  As someone who's not a parent, I
• 35:29
  sees their child go cross eyed and not think it's worth going
• 35:32
  to the emergency room. So yeah, I don't know.
• 35:35
  I've thought of going to the emergency room for less.
• 35:37
  You know, a kid hits their head and you instantly think, Oh my
• 35:40
  God, could they have a concussion?
• 35:41
  So at this point in my life, hell yeah, I'd be going to the
• 35:44
  emergency room right away if I
• 35:47
  On the screen we get some text.
• 35:49
  It says cameras were not permitted inside the emergency
• 35:57
  How lovely. Kody says that Christine looks
• 36:03
  like she's resting. You mean borderline passing out?
• 36:08
  Her body is failing? Yeah, that's what she looks
• 36:11
  like. Do you think that they would
• 36:12
  have let the cameras in if they were allowed, or do you think
• 36:16
  that Christine drew a line and
• 36:18
  here? I'm unclear because they also
• 36:20
  included in that text that because of Truely's condition,
• 36:24
  because of how severe things were, they weren't allowed.
• 36:26
  And and I'm going I've never actually seen that disclaimer
• 36:29
  before. I don't know what that means.
• 36:31
  And then later we do see them in
• 36:34
  So I'm not sure if the go ahead was given by Christine or if it
• 36:38
  was a hospital thing because also there's a difference
• 36:43
  between the emergency room and
• 36:46
  So, you know, they leave it unclear, just like we talked
• 36:49
  about in the last episode. If they actually told us these
• 36:51
  things, what would we be talking
• 36:53
  You know, like they do not help us out as viewers to know
• 36:56
  what's really happening. Definitely curious because
• 36:59
  exploiting a child when they're this I'll would be messed up.
• 37:03
  So I hope that Christine made the decision as well not to have
• 37:09
  Truely on camera in this condition.
• 37:11
  That totally makes sense and would be respectable.
• 37:14
  Yeah, there is something that pisses me off so much about when
• 37:19
  parents post pictures of their
• 37:24
  bed or injured or crying. It feels so voyeuristic and
• 37:31
  gross to me. And that you should be more
• 37:33
  worried about your child than taking a photo of your child
• 37:36
  that's crying or in pain. I find it to be very bizarre
• 37:40
  behavior and I don't like it. When I see that on my Facebook
• 37:44
  feed, I cringe. Has a ick factor for.
• 37:48
  Sure, it definitely does. Well, back at Meri's house,
• 37:51
  they're still preparing for Leon's party.
• 37:54
  Well, you know, and not to make it sound, you know, life has to
• 37:58
  go on. So people are doing their
• 37:59
  things. And really we don't know the
• 38:01
  severity of Truely's cross eyed things.
• 38:03
  It's just emergency at this point.
• 38:07
  Meri gets a call on her cell phone.
• 38:08
  And I love it because the ringer
• 38:11
  I have a cell phone and the call
• 38:13
  yeah, it's 2013 or whatever year this is.
• 38:17
  It's Kody giving Meri an update on Truely's circumstance.
• 38:22
  Kody shares that the specialist is concerned about potential
• 38:25
  kidney failure. He thinks it will be another
• 38:27
  hour, perhaps an hour and a half
• 38:31
  and Meri asks him to keep them
• 38:34
  Now this is an interesting moment though.
• 38:36
  This was my first emotional moment of the whole episode
• 38:39
  because the camera pans over and
• 38:42
  family room couch, did he just
• 38:46
  And I got like, I don't know why.
• 38:49
  I don't know. I'm a little surprised that my
• 38:52
  first emotional moment of the episode was from Leon, but Leon
• 38:55
  was asking a concerned question and it really hit as a severity
• 38:59
  moment for me. I don't know.
• 39:01
  Did it hit you? This is the first moment where I
• 39:03
  got angry because the non reaction from Meri was
• 39:10
  appalling. So she's giving absolutely no
• 39:13
  reaction if she is just wiping
• 39:19
  looking pissed off that she's having to do this, looking
• 39:22
  pissed off that how dare this happened during Leon's day and
• 39:27
  now she's oh, I'll answer my phone.
• 39:31
  Kody is giving her the update and she just goes, OK, keep us
• 39:35
  posted. OK, thanks.
• 39:38
  Bye. And Leon realizes the severity.
• 39:45
  So Meri is acting like it's no
• 39:51
  that countertop in anger, about to put her fist through the
• 39:56
  countertop. And Leon is the one that notices
• 40:00
  how severe this is. Leon says.
• 40:03
  Did he say kidney failure? Wow.
• 40:08
  And if Leon realizes how serious
• 40:12
  Besides the fact that Leanne's
• 40:15
  Oh yeah, Why wouldn't Meri realize how serious this is?
• 40:19
  Totally. That was completely lost on me.
• 40:22
  I thought Meri was just going about her business.
• 40:24
  Maybe it's because Meri always
• 40:28
  and she looks so pleasant and cheerful in this scene that I
• 40:30
  just thought everything was normal.
• 40:32
  Once again, that was me being sarcastic.
• 40:35
  She did look like, oh God, I'm
• 40:39
  taking a phone call and whatever.
• 40:40
  That was completely lost on me
• 40:43
  Leon asking did he just say kidney failure?
• 40:46
  And it was the first time where I took a very deep breath and
• 40:50
  started to feel the feels, 'cause it was like, holy shit,
• 40:52
  this is happening. And I just was putting myself in
• 40:56
  the shoes of being someone hearing that news and going holy
• 40:59
  fuck. But you're right.
• 41:01
  Meanwhile Meri's like I'm just
• 41:04
  and actually looking a little not happy about things.
• 41:08
  She looked pissed. Like God damn it, why is this
• 41:10
  happening today of all days? And you're allowed to feel that
• 41:13
  way. You're allowed to be
• 41:14
  disappointed that Leon's party
• 41:18
  inconvenience, but to be showing
• 41:23
  Because she really does look pissed.
• 41:25
  And she's actually the one that goes wow when she gets off the
• 41:29
  phone with Kody. Oh, OK.
• 41:32
  Wow. It's almost like she thinks it's
• 41:34
  made-up or something. She doesn't.
• 41:36
  She's not buying it. I don't know.
• 41:39
  This is where I'm quick for Manger to.
• 41:41
  Oh, that was nice of Leon to notice and to actually care
• 41:45
  because Leon's mom doesn't care.
• 41:47
  We get a couch moment with Christine and Kody where they
• 41:51
  tell us that Truely has basically no fluids in her, that
• 41:54
  her kidneys have all but stopped working.
• 41:57
  They're told by the kidney specialist that they shouldn't
• 42:06
  Back at Meri's house, the other family members have formed a
• 42:10
  circle in the family room. So this was a weird transition
• 42:15
  we get this update from Christine and Kody, and then all
• 42:20
  of other family members. They're obviously, they're
• 42:21
  arriving for this goodbye party for Leon, Happy birthday, get
• 42:24
  the fuck out of here party. And they're all gathered in the
• 42:28
  family room. And Logan is giving an
• 42:30
  optimistic update to the younger kids, you know, saying that
• 42:33
  Truely sick, but hopefully it's not too bad.
• 42:36
  And yes, she's dehydrated and she might have a kidney
• 42:40
  infection. They're going to pump a lot of
• 42:46
  that kidney full of some medicines at the emergency or at
• 43:00
  And then Logan asks if one of the moms wants to head them up
• 43:10
  And this is another point when I got pissed.
• 43:14
  Oh see, I was distracted by Janelle calling it, offering up
• 43:18
  the prayer because while I am familiar with this terminology,
• 43:22
  it's not something that I've heard all the time.
• 43:25
  Usually it would be in my family and where I grew up is like, you
• 43:30
  So to offer up a prayer, I was like, wow, this is totally cult
• 43:34
  vibes and very religious indoctrination whatnot.
• 43:36
  So I was distracted by Janelle's terminology, not necessarily
• 43:40
  what you were distracted by. Number one, I got pissed that
• 43:46
  Logan is the one explaining to the little children what is
• 43:49
  happening with their sick sibling parentification.
• 43:52
  Having your older child explain to the littles what's going on
• 44:08
  well, it was your idea. So Aspyn's the one that gathered
• 44:16
  Worried sick about Truely, instead of the parents, instead
• 44:21
  of these religious parents deciding to lead by a good
• 44:26
  example and gather everyone to do a prayer.
• 44:29
  And we're going to be the leaders.
• 44:31
  We've got three moms here and we are going to lead the prayer and
• 44:40
  Christine's little kids here and Aspyn, who is worried sick about
• 44:48
  those kids feel secure right now.
• 44:50
  That is fucked up. There are three mothers there
• 44:53
  and Logan's giving the update and Aspyn's expected to lead the
• 44:55
  prayer. So then I go quickly from this
• 44:58
  anger to tears of my own because
• 45:03
  prayer and basically immediately
• 45:09
  into sobs like body racking sobs
• 45:15
  fear for Truely. Just speaking to her character
• 45:20
  and who she is. She starts out this prayer by
• 45:23
  saying, dear gracious Heavenly
• 45:26
  your blessings and everything that you have given us.
• 45:29
  And it's like this 18 year old
• 45:34
  for help for her sibling by demonstrating gratitude.
• 45:37
  I mean, my God, what a better person than I will ever be like.
• 45:43
  Oh my gosh. And then immediately, like he
• 45:45
  said, starts breaking down into tears and sobbing and it just
• 45:49
  speaks to who Aspyn is. I mean, what an incredible
• 45:52
  person. I just, I don't even know what
• 45:55
  to say. It made me cry, obviously, but
• 45:58
  then I was like back and forth
• 46:02
  because I just couldn't stop thinking.
• 46:05
  Christine is in the hospital and
• 46:12
  You can't comfort Aspyn, who is really worried and wanted to
• 46:16
  pray. Immediately after she starts
• 46:20
  breaking down into tears and is crying, Isabel breaks hands
• 46:25
  with her and gives her a hug. And I just thought another
• 46:28
  wonderful example of a supportive sibling just doesn't
• 46:32
  care that we're holding hands in
• 46:33
  Like, I'm going to stop that. I'm going to hug and console my
• 46:37
  sister and Aspyn's like, I'm sorry you guys.
• 46:40
  I'm just so stressed out as she's crying into Isabel's
• 46:43
  shoulder. I mean, my heart just breaks for
• 46:47
  her. It is heartbreaking.
• 46:49
  It's Oh my gosh, it makes me feel like they are home alone
• 46:54
  and got bad news. They're trying to comfort each
• 46:58
  other and they're all children
• 47:02
  because regardless of Aspyn's age, she is a child here.
• 47:07
  She's 17. I think she's a child.
• 47:09
  This is so scary for her. She treats Truely like her own
• 47:12
  kid so this is traumatic for her
• 47:19
  support from anyone other than
• 47:23
  she plays mom to as well. Well, Speaking of trauma, I'm
• 47:27
  traumatized because we do witness Robyn going over and
• 47:31
  hugging Aspyn and telling her that it's going to be OK and
• 47:35
  consoling her. So the only parent that we see
• 47:38
  in this footage, which to be fair, is edited and
• 47:41
  consolidated, we don't know everything that happened in this
• 47:43
  space, but the editors did leave
• 47:47
  consoling Aspyn. And then we transitioned to a
• 47:50
  couch moment where Janelle says that she's proud of Aspyn and
• 47:53
  Mckelty for stepping up. And she tells us that they
• 47:57
  raised their kids to shoulder responsibility if they have to.
• 48:03
  Janelle like I'm going Janelle, Janelle like what the fuck?
• 48:07
  Another moment where I got angry.
• 48:10
  And then Robyn follows up Janelle's statement by saying
• 48:14
  although we want to let our kids
• 48:18
  raise them with responsibility too.
• 48:20
  So they're helping as well. So between all of us, the bases
• 48:25
  are covered. That's what's important.
• 48:29
  OK. Are the bases covered?
• 48:31
  Because to me it looks like you guys are stepping back when you
• 48:35
  should be stepping up and you're giving props to make
• 48:39
  Healthy and Aspyn for stepping up when Where the fuck are you?
• 48:43
  Definitely more Janelle in the
• 48:44
  scene than Robyn to me and that,
• 48:50
  a host or listener of my Sister wives podcast for us to have to
• 48:54
  give Robyn any credit. Like at least Robyn goes over
• 48:57
  and consoles Aspyn. However, in this couch moment,
• 49:01
  she really does kind of just aligns with Janelle about we
• 49:05
  have to have these kids step up because we have to raise them
• 49:08
  with responsibility and. I just had a realization that
• 49:13
  Janelle is so uncomfortable with
• 49:19
  comfort a child from what we're seeing.
• 49:23
  Yeah, she's the working mom, emotionless, doesn't get excited
• 49:28
  about things. And like you said, we don't know
• 49:32
  what happened behind the scenes.
• 49:34
  We don't know if she was comforting if she went over to
• 49:44
  there alone running the household while Christine is in
• 49:48
  the hospital literally playing mom.
• 49:50
  Janelle is that uncomfortable with emotion and it's sad.
• 49:55
  Janelle has suppressed her own emotions for so long and been
• 50:01
  stoic for so long and had that blank stare off at the
• 50:07
  charcuterie board on set instead of showing emotion that she is
• 50:15
  point. It's painful to watch.
• 50:18
  And like I said, I kept getting angry and I want to give them
• 50:22
  the benefit of the doubt and I want to be like, we don't know
• 50:26
  But over and over again, this entire episode, the parents just
• 50:33
  They missed opportunities to connect with the children and to
• 50:41
  While all of these things are being said by Janelle and Robyn,
• 50:47
  hugs and consoling each other in Meri's home.
• 50:50
  And we get a moment from Robyn where she tells us that the only
• 50:57
  faithful. I've seen a lot of amazing
• 50:59
  things in our lives. We've seen a lot of faith move
• 51:05
  I was like, OK, this is a bit Hallmark card bit stating the
• 51:10
  obvious a little. Thanks Robyn.
• 51:12
  And how do you disagree with that?
• 51:14
  I guess I don't. Know another one of her practice
• 51:21
  Later that evening, Kody arrives at Meri's house and the birthday
• 51:30
  You know whatever. Happy birthday, Leon.
• 51:32
  He updates them. That Truely wouldn't drink
• 51:35
  anything. She had the flu and she got
• 51:38
  dehydrated, so her kidneys started to shut down.
• 51:41
  She has acute kidney failure and they're going to keep Truely in
• 51:45
  the hospital for a few days to get her kidneys working again.
• 51:52
  they may have to do dialysis if the other treatments don't start
• 52:00
  that in a couch moment. Now, I'm going to point out
• 52:04
  things start to get a little messy with the episode because
• 52:16
  with video, so there's a lot of cutting back and forth.
• 52:20
  And we get an interview moment with Aspyn.
• 52:24
  And Aspyn says that she feels like nobody is taking this
• 52:29
  seriously. She says our little baby is in
• 52:39
  She's freaking out. She says our little baby.
• 52:44
  And my heart broke for her again, that she feels like the
• 52:52
  it is. And she's the only one freaking
• 52:55
  out. It's it's like she's sitting in
• 52:57
  a burning room screaming fire and everyone else is just
• 53:02
  playing puzzles and ignoring her or something.
• 53:05
  Yeah, when Christine was also giving that update about
• 53:08
  dialysis maybe being an option, she says that they're going to
• 53:15
  because it's really important that Truely start urinating.
• 53:17
  So this is the first time we hear that Truely is not peeing
• 53:22
  or pooping like she's gotten nothing going on with her body
• 53:29
  supposed to help with. And so that was the first time
• 53:35
  functioning like kind of period. I mean in the kidney sense or
• 53:39
  whatever. Yeah, literally giving up the
• 53:42
  bodily functions that are daily and hourly for some of us after
• 53:48
  having children. I was going to say daily.
• 53:51
  That'd be nice. I would love if I only had a few
• 53:56
  How dehydrated you'd have to be. Oh God, this poor thing.
• 54:02
  Meri sits down with Kody and Leon on a couch at her place
• 54:06
  while this party's going on for Leon, and she points out how
• 54:09
  there has been so much happening and that Kody doesn't need to
• 54:12
  worry about going with her and Leon to Westminster in the
• 54:14
  morning. And it seems to be a pretty
• 54:17
  reasonable conversation from my perspective.
• 54:19
  I mean, obviously everyone's kind of disappointed because,
• 54:22
  you know, when you're bringing your kid to college, there's
• 54:25
  plans to do these things. It's disappointing that they're
• 54:28
  not happening. But Leon says that they
• 54:31
  understand. And Kody tells Leon to say their
• 54:34
  early in the morning. And I feel as though Leon took
• 54:44
  unrealistic rebuttals or expressing themselves as like a,
• 54:51
  happen, even though there was a vibe of this is, you know,
• 54:54
  unfortunate and we're disappointed.
• 54:56
  Leon seemed genuine and seemed to understand Leon was a brat
• 55:01
  about the car, but when it came to their sibling being sick,
• 55:07
  they definitely reigned in the selfishness.
• 55:11
  So yeah, I was proud of Leon for that because Meri had that
• 55:18
  attitude while finding out the news and was being bitchy.
• 55:23
  Leon stepped up here and not being the selfish one.
• 55:27
  This is also where we learned that Christine is staying in the
• 55:34
  dialysis or death and I don't know where else to go with it
• 55:37
  from here. Christine tells us it was a long
• 55:44
  because Truely would ask for her, but she needed to return to
• 55:47
  her own bed to be safe because of all the tubes and machines
• 55:51
  hooked up to Truely. Oh, it's kind of a stark visual.
• 55:58
  throughout this since we can't
• 56:02
  part. And they show a picture of
• 56:04
  Truely laying on her side with
• 56:07
  And I was just imagining Christine being the big spoon
• 56:11
  behind her in the bed and trying
• 56:14
  And how heartbreaking for your
• 56:19
  wanting comfort and touch and you're kind of scared too
• 56:23
  because they're so sick. It's heartbreaking.
• 56:28
  We get to Meri's house and Leon is finishing packing.
• 56:33
  Leon gives us this little tidbit
• 56:37
  not taking any of their decor because Meri wants their room to
• 56:43
  stay the same. Oh.
• 56:48
  And I thought that was creepy.
• 56:52
  creepy. Wow.
• 56:54
  Like a shrine. Meri would rather buy Leon all
• 56:57
  new decor then let their room change.
• 57:03
  It was an offhanded comment that
• 57:07
  be anything, but it was funny to
• 57:11
  Yeah, that totally reminds me of
• 57:14
  from other people and seen on other shows where the moms are
• 57:17
  all about, I can't let the room change.
• 57:19
  And this is what, when you come home, you need to have your
• 57:21
  room so it can be whatever. And I'm like, this is so foreign
• 57:24
  to me because when I left, my parents are probably like, take
• 57:26
  as much as you can because this is no longer your room.
• 57:29
  So figure it out. It reminds me of Hallmark movies
• 57:32
  where the girl always shows up
• 57:36
  and their room is exactly the same with their varsity letters
• 57:40
  and their track trophies and just a snapshot in time that's
• 57:45
  never changing. There's something about that I
• 57:48
  find odd. But also because I had parents
• 57:53
  that divorced right when I turned 18 and so my room was no
• 57:59
  longer in existence. So I mean, what else can I say?
• 58:03
  I didn't have a parent that had a shrine to me after I left, so
• 58:08
  maybe I'm just bitter. I don't know, maybe.
• 58:10
  Let's say we're both bitter. Absolutely.
• 58:13
  That is funny in those movies when they show those scenes and
• 58:16
  the room looks like it's a 12 year old's room, be it boy or
• 58:19
  girl. Like the girls room is always
• 58:21
  pink with like the ballerina, whatnot.
• 58:23
  In the boys room has like the basketball, the baseball, the
• 58:26
  whatever. And it's like when they left,
• 58:28
  they weren't 12, right? Because this is just strange.
• 58:33
  So Aspyn shows up to Meri's house and it's Aspyn, Meri,
• 58:39
  Leon, and Kody is there to say
• 58:44
  Yeah, it's like early morning before they're going to hit the
• 58:47
  road. Meri and Leon are going to hit
• 58:49
  the road. And so they must have made a
• 58:50
  plan for Aspyn to come over to
• 58:53
  because Kody calls. Christine Yeah.
• 58:55
  So they were taking into consideration that they needed
• 58:59
  to do the update, but also that this is a big day for Leon and
• 59:03
  saying goodbye to Leon. So they're they're making the
• 59:07
  best of a shitty situation here.
• 59:10
  And Christine let's everybody know that they gave Truely this
• 59:15
  specific medication twice now that is supposed to help her
• 59:20
  pee. And it did not work either time.
• 59:25
  medication doesn't work at all.
• 59:27
  Yeah, and that usually the medication starts working for
• 59:30
  most recipients of this Med in 20 minutes.
• 59:34
  So for them to have administered it more than once over the
• 59:39
  course of several hours, not a good sign.
• 59:42
  So they all say goodbye to Leon at this point, and Meri and Leon
• 59:54
  hospital and the doctor has recommended abdominal dialysis
• 59:59
  rather than blood dialysis as their next step.
• 1:00:02
  I don't know if that's something
• 1:00:07
  Truely or why that really is. I don't know much about
• 1:00:11
  dialysis. I what I know about dialysis.
• 1:00:14
  OK, this is going to make me sound roll, roll smart.
• 1:00:17
  Not real smart. Roll smart.
• 1:00:20
  Is that they put a needle in you, they take things out, they
• 1:00:23
  clean out what they can. That is basically what the
• 1:00:26
  kidney function would be and then put the blood back into
• 1:00:29
  you. So for that to not be happening
• 1:00:32
  through this out and in, but directly into the abdominal
• 1:00:37
  area, I feel like it would still
• 1:00:39
  So I don't know if it's just a
• 1:00:42
  I think that they would rather
• 1:00:47
  before kidney dialysis because
• 1:00:51
  Probably they think maybe they
• 1:00:56
  easier way. Let's try the easier solution
• 1:00:58
  before going the difficult route
• 1:01:02
  they really try to avoid doing kidney dialysis on children as
• 1:01:08
  young as Truely unless it's necessary.
• 1:01:11
  So there must be something about the invasiveness.
• 1:01:14
  And as a mom who had a baby in the NICU, it is not easy to get
• 1:01:22
  a vein and to see a baby hooked up to that.
• 1:01:27
  They don't do well with it. Obviously there is a lot of
• 1:01:31
  adults that don't even do well with something like that.
• 1:01:34
  I hate needles. I've had my blood drawn many
• 1:01:38
  times and I hate it. So it's really difficult to get
• 1:01:42
  a child to stay still and have a procedure like this done.
• 1:01:47
  It takes a long time to it's, I think it's like hours because
• 1:01:52
  you're right. They are pumping the blood out
• 1:02:05
  And I'm sure there's something about getting a child to sit
• 1:02:08
  still that long and you probably can't give them a Xanax like you
• 1:02:16
  lot that goes into it. And I, I.
• 1:02:20
  Was just going to crack a joke about the zanny with the baby
• 1:02:23
  and then I realized that's like a whole murder thing and we're
• 1:02:29
  Gosh, I feel so bad for Christine.
• 1:02:32
  Throughout this episode, I kept thinking back to when my
• 1:02:36
  youngest was in the NICU and how difficult it was to see that and
• 1:02:45
  experience that you have. You feel like you're watching
• 1:02:48
  your child through somebody else's eyes.
• 1:02:51
  It's I like dissociated. So I can only imagine
• 1:02:56
  Christina's doing something similar.
• 1:02:57
  My child was in a situation where he he had his bilirubin
• 1:03:02
  levels were so high, moms will know this that it was to the
• 1:03:06
  point of toxicity where he could have had brain damage if they
• 1:03:10
  didn't correct it. And it was so traumatic and I
• 1:03:14
  didn't even realize it until months later when I had
• 1:03:18
  postpartum depression. So for Christine to have gone
• 1:03:21
  through postpartum depression with Truely and Truely to only
• 1:03:24
  be 3 years old and have a life threatening scare like this, I
• 1:03:33
  Christine has this false sense that her kids are being looked
• 1:03:43
  case and it was hard for me to see that.
• 1:03:45
  It really pissed me off. That's why I kept getting so
• 1:03:48
  heated during this. So getting back into that, this
• 1:03:52
  is another instance where I got pissed because we get to
• 1:03:56
  Christine's house and we're having a one-on-one with Aspyn
• 1:04:05
  Aspyn says that all of the kids are cooperating and doing their
• 1:04:09
  jobs, AKA their chores. But it's kind of depressing
• 1:04:13
  there. Right now.
• 1:04:14
  She's just waiting on updates from her mom and she starts
• 1:04:18
  tearing up and crying again. My heart broke for her because
• 1:04:33
  being comforted and people should be stepping up to help
• 1:04:37
  you guys? Aspyn, during this conversation
• 1:04:39
  with camera, is doing laundry.
• 1:04:48
  I don't even know what word to
• 1:04:50
  It. Yeah, it was just, it was
• 1:04:54
  definitely something because she's putting clothes from the
• 1:04:57
  washer to the dryer and talking about how everyone's doing the
• 1:05:00
  best they can and the kids are
• 1:05:03
  And it sounded like she was a mom giving an update about a
• 1:05:06
  situation that is not the case
• 1:05:11
  It's an overwhelming situation
• 1:05:14
  a 17 year old child. So I just cannot, yeah, I can't
• 1:05:20
  stress that enough. And yeah, she was doing laundry
• 1:05:22
  while she was doing the interview and starting to cry
• 1:05:26
  and then trying to hide the fact
• 1:05:31
  I just wanted to hug her through
• 1:05:35
  Christine tells us that she doesn't know how to provide
• 1:05:37
  updates to the kids and to Aspyn
• 1:05:42
  She does recognize that Aspyn is
• 1:05:45
  how to approach it because she
• 1:05:48
  she's telling us. And I, you know, I can
• 1:05:51
  understand that. I mean, what are you supposed to
• 1:05:54
  call and say? There's no good news?
• 1:05:56
  I think to your point, where the
• 1:05:59
  Where the fuck is Janelle? Where the fuck is Robyn?
• 1:06:02
  You know, come on ladies, Seriously.
• 1:06:04
  Yeah, they should have been stepping up and coming over
• 1:06:08
  asking, you know, what she needed.
• 1:06:09
  And maybe they did. Maybe they did behind the
• 1:06:12
  scenes, but I think that production would have shown it.
• 1:06:15
  I think that that would have been made to be a point to show
• 1:06:18
  off on the show. So I really don't think that
• 1:06:22
  they stepped up at all. Yeah.
• 1:06:24
  Don't you think production would
• 1:06:26
  cute moment of robbing over here
• 1:06:30
  I could see that, you know, there's only so many things they
• 1:06:32
  can fit into the 42 minutes or
• 1:06:34
  But I do think they would have
• 1:06:37
  And because while Aspyn's talking, they show her doing the
• 1:06:41
  laundry and whatever and she is speaking to camera in the
• 1:06:45
  laundry room, but there's also
• 1:06:47
  showing her doing the laundry.
• 1:06:50
  moment to show her doing anything with a sister wife,
• 1:06:52
  which they didn't show us any footage.
• 1:06:55
  So that was either a choice or
• 1:06:58
  Yeah. Christine does get an
• 1:07:01
  opportunity to return home briefly to gather things before
• 1:07:04
  returning to the hospital, and
• 1:07:07
  motions of trying to pretend everything will be OK.
• 1:07:10
  You know Truely's numbers are still bad, so they're going to
• 1:07:14
  begin dialysis that evening. Kody stayed the night at the
• 1:07:19
  hospital one night so that she
• 1:07:22
  to her house and be with her kids for a night before Truely
• 1:07:26
  started kidney dialysis the next
• 1:07:29
  And Christine says that it's been really hard to see her
• 1:07:32
  little baby on this big giant hospital bed and hooked up to
• 1:07:36
  all of these machines. And they show us more pictures
• 1:07:39
  of it and it is very hard to see.
• 1:07:42
  She's just this tiny little thing in this massive hospital
• 1:07:45
  bed. And to add drama to a three-year
• 1:07:48
  old going through this is that
• 1:07:52
  So if you've ever seen the show,
• 1:07:54
  about. And if you haven't seen the
• 1:07:55
  show, Truely scrumptious is little.
• 1:07:58
  We talked about her blonde little florals of hair.
• 1:08:01
  She's just so cute and tiny and she's got the little squeaky
• 1:08:05
  voice, which they literally in
• 1:08:08
  Truely squeaks as the subtitle when she's excited because she
• 1:08:13
  squeaks when she speaks. She's I've know I've said it
• 1:08:15
  before, but it reminds me of the
• 1:08:18
  the. Cindy Lou Who.
• 1:08:20
  Yes, she has that vibe. She's just so tiny and little
• 1:08:23
  and little. A little, Truely.
• 1:08:25
  So the photos are very stark when she's in that big adult
• 1:08:30
  hospital bed. And in traditional Sister Wives
• 1:08:34
  fashion, we get a seamless transition to Meri and Leon
• 1:08:36
  arriving at the school near Salt
• 1:08:40
  to Leon's dorm room. Of course, it's a tiny space,
• 1:08:43
  and they show Leon and Meri's faces as they're in the room and
• 1:08:47
  the dorm coordinate, the Dr. the
• 1:08:51
  The D resident something I don't
• 1:08:57
  The RM? The RN?
• 1:09:00
  No, that's a nurse. RN I know whatever it is
• 1:09:03
  something. Like that?
• 1:09:04
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the, the, the person
• 1:09:06
  who's been in the dorm before and is go showing them the thing
• 1:09:09
  and, you know, here's the keys, fill out the paperwork, blah,
• 1:09:11
  blah, blah. And it's funny because the dorm
• 1:09:13
  person is like the nice thing about being on the 3rd floor is
• 1:09:15
  you get bunk beds. So you have a little more
• 1:09:18
  whatever. And they're in this tiny space,
• 1:09:20
  and both Meri and Leon are looking around like that's a
• 1:09:23
  prison cell, because that's what
• 1:09:26
  love. Oh my gosh, I think I'd rather
• 1:09:29
  have a floor bed than a bunk bed
• 1:09:37
  don't know. Oh.
• 1:09:39
  They show Meri and Leon bringing
• 1:09:42
  And then, so, you know, cue the humorous montage of clips of
• 1:09:45
  things falling off the carts as they're bringing in stuff from
• 1:09:47
  the car. I didn't really put the pieces
• 1:09:50
  together that most of it was probably new stuff because they
• 1:09:54
  would not allow Leon on to take that night stand or the light
• 1:09:57
  on the night stand. She had to get a new light that
• 1:10:00
  could fall out of the cart onto the sidewalk.
• 1:10:02
  And it was great because there
• 1:10:05
  falling onto people on the sidewalk and then like grabbing
• 1:10:09
  it to help them. It was ridiculous.
• 1:10:12
  On to the cement. It was like watching a clown
• 1:10:15
  show. Classic Meri.
• 1:10:17
  Classic Meri? Meri asks.
• 1:10:20
  Leon, what are you going to do
• 1:10:23
  And Leon says I don't know, go
• 1:10:26
  And this is where I completely
• 1:10:30
  about Leon's story for the rest of the episode.
• 1:10:32
  I was like, chapter done, I am
• 1:10:34
  Your mom just asked you what are
• 1:10:36
  And Leon says, I don't know, go to school.
• 1:10:38
  Meri thinks that it'll take her two weeks for it to really hit
• 1:10:41
  her, that Leon's gone and not there.
• 1:10:44
  That is a lie. That is a lie.
• 1:10:46
  We all know it's going to hit Meri as soon as she gets back in
• 1:10:49
  the car and starts driving away from Westminster.
• 1:10:51
  She's going to be crying, steering that car, singing
• 1:10:56
  church hymns on the way back, just driving back.
• 1:11:02
  Lord, I lift your name on high.
• 1:11:07
  Back in Vegas, Christine updates us that after 14 hours, the
• 1:11:11
  dialysis is not working on poor little.
• 1:11:14
  Truely scrumptious. Janelle has a talking head
• 1:11:17
  moment where she tells us about how she's impressed that
• 1:11:19
  Christine is holding it all together and holding it all
• 1:11:21
  together very well. Now, you had some feels about
• 1:11:24
  the sister wives here. So does this give you the feels
• 1:11:28
  of like, well, yeah, I guess you're impressed because you're
• 1:11:32
  not fucking doing anything for her fucking children.
• 1:11:34
  I mean, I'm putting words into your mouth, honey.
• 1:11:36
  How do you feel? Janelle says it's almost
• 1:11:40
  textbook the way she's holding it together.
• 1:11:43
  I didn't know because she's so sensitive.
• 1:11:46
  You know what I mean? Yeah.
• 1:11:49
  I didn't know that she had this backbone.
• 1:11:51
  It's kind of a mean thing to say.
• 1:11:55
  And she's not even sure what she's saying while she's saying
• 1:11:59
  it. And it's just very awkward.
• 1:12:02
  And then I thought to myself, this is a trauma response that
• 1:12:16
  together. You know, What are you going to
• 1:12:18
  do? You've got a child in the
• 1:12:21
  hospital that you're trying to be strong for.
• 1:12:23
  You don't want your little child to know how scared you really
• 1:12:27
  are and what are you going to do?
• 1:12:29
  What choice do you have then to step up and have a backbone I
• 1:12:34
  guess? Yeah, didn't have the vibes of
• 1:12:41
  manages certain things, so. I don't think that being strong
• 1:12:45
  or keeping it together when your child's in the hospital
• 1:12:49
  means that you got a backbone. That's not what I think of.
• 1:12:53
  I think I would say she's being really strong right now and I
• 1:12:58
  feel like there's so many other things you could say then what
• 1:13:08
  handling of the situation, but the actual words are a bit, you
• 1:13:12
  know, condescending or whatever you were saying backhanded Where
• 1:13:20
  dismissive, don't you think? Yeah, she's a mom.
• 1:13:23
  This is what moms do. You step it up.
• 1:13:26
  You know you have to. You don't have a choice.
• 1:13:29
  It just it left a bad taste in my mouth.
• 1:13:32
  Kody says that Truely is only three and does not understand
• 1:13:38
  what's happening. That reminder kind of knocked my
• 1:13:50
  referencing the fact that she's three kind of this whole time.
• 1:13:57
  It dawned on me that Truely is
• 1:14:00
  only three because Kody is just flat out says it.
• 1:14:03
  Yeah, this is the first time in the episode they actually say
• 1:14:05
  her age, or at least that I noted it as well.
• 1:14:08
  I've been in the same boat, referencing her as three simply
• 1:14:11
  because Kody tells us at this point she's three years old.
• 1:14:14
  And it's like, oh shit, three years old.
• 1:14:18
  And when he continues on with this, telling her, you know,
• 1:14:21
  let's have a pee and poop party,
• 1:14:24
  diaper. And we're, you know, trying to
• 1:14:26
  motivate her to try, which, you know, what does that even mean
• 1:14:30
  'cause as an adult she. Can't help it.
• 1:14:32
  But yeah, like it's tough 'cause
• 1:14:36
  know, it's been multiple days.
• 1:14:39
  grasping for straws and trying
• 1:14:41
  He said that she looked like she
• 1:14:45
  He felt like she was exhausted
• 1:14:49
  she was giving up on everything.
• 1:14:51
  So he was trying to get her spirits up and trying to be
• 1:14:54
  silly and saying if you do this, if you pee and poop in your
• 1:14:57
  diaper, we're going to have a party.
• 1:14:59
  We're going to have a Princess pee poop party and being silly.
• 1:15:02
  And that she did kind of start
• 1:15:05
  to laugh and she came to life a little bit again.
• 1:15:08
  And that it was good to see her get a little energized about
• 1:15:12
  something. And I gave props to Kody.
• 1:15:16
  He knew how to get her spirits
• 1:15:19
  Granted, she can't help the fact
• 1:15:22
  pooping. It's literally that her kidneys
• 1:15:24
  aren't working, dude. It's not that she's just sitting
• 1:15:26
  there holding her peeing, but whatever.
• 1:15:29
  I get the sentiment of it. And Kody was really trying here.
• 1:15:34
  Well, Speaking of giving, I don't know any feels to Kody
• 1:15:38
  other than hate, anger, and disappointment.
• 1:15:41
  He does take a brief exodus from
• 1:15:44
  Janelle's house for a little bit, where he tells everybody
• 1:15:46
  at Janelle's house that he listened to Truely scream for
• 1:15:51
  two hours. And he tells Janelle that the
• 1:15:54
  doctor said she may be there for up to 10 days.
• 1:15:57
  And Janelle is shocked to hear this.
• 1:15:59
  But this was a moment where I had that.
• 1:16:02
  Listening to your kids scream for two hours, It doesn't matter
• 1:16:11
  point. There is a couch moment where
• 1:16:13
  Kody and Christine are sharing an update and Kody says the
• 1:16:16
  nurse told them that in cases like this, they don't expect the
• 1:16:24
  camera, Christine is next to him and she is sobbing.
• 1:16:27
  She's just like crying into her hands and holding her head.
• 1:16:32
  And it was a tough moment. I think that the nurse that told
• 1:16:40
  discharged. I don't think a nurse would ever
• 1:16:52
  like this, we just don't expect them to leave.
• 1:16:54
  So this is a amazing, you know that?
• 1:16:57
  Totally makes sense. Yes and yeah.
• 1:16:59
  And and takes the sharp corners off of my emotional response
• 1:17:02
  because I was like, Oh my God, like what?
• 1:17:05
  The nurses when we were in the NICU were all kept coming over
• 1:17:15
  So he was for them, for a NICU nurse, a big baby.
• 1:17:19
  So they were all coming over and talking about, oh, we all had to
• 1:17:27
  really small. So it was hysterical to me.
• 1:17:30
  And so nurses, they get excited in cases like this and I'm sure
• 1:17:34
  this nurse is used to seeing devastating things happen.
• 1:17:37
  And so for a nurse to see a child with such a severe case of
• 1:17:48
  my job matters. So I think they probably said it
• 1:17:55
  made me feel good about humanity.
• 1:17:56
  What's going on? This is a strange feeling for
• 1:17:59
  me. I don't really know.
• 1:18:00
  You know, I always say that nurses are either complete
• 1:18:03
  sadists and they hate people, or they are the sweetest people in
• 1:18:08
  the entire world and amazing. And there are some.
• 1:18:11
  Most nurses I would say are amazing, amazing people.
• 1:18:15
  And thank God for nurses. Seriously.
• 1:18:18
  I think everyone listening would probably agree that most nurses
• 1:18:21
  are salt of the earth. And then you always got to have
• 1:18:25
  that one. No, I'm just kidding.
• 1:18:26
  I'm just kidding. Yes, love Nurse.
• 1:18:29
  Ratchet One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
• 1:18:32
  Cuckoo. Cuckoo Cuckoo.
• 1:18:34
  After this emotional update, there's a bunch of clips, Sun
• 1:18:39
  coming up, sun going down, the family doing miscellaneous
• 1:18:42
  activities and chores, basically demonstrating to us as viewers
• 1:18:54
  And then we get to the hospital and it is day 9.
• 1:18:57
  Truely has been in the hospital for 9 days at this point and we
• 1:19:02
  find out that the dialysis worked the night before.
• 1:19:05
  Her numbers just started getting better and better and they just
• 1:19:09
  keep getting better. And they show Aspyn coming to
• 1:19:13
  the hospital to see Truely. And Aspyn is so relieved and so
• 1:19:19
  excited to see her and Truely could kind of care less.
• 1:19:24
  Yes. Oh, you know, children are just
• 1:19:29
  so honest. And I'm sure she actually was
• 1:19:32
  really excited to see her but just wasn't showing it because
• 1:19:38
  They really are.
• 1:19:39
  They know how to humble you real
• 1:19:43
  Oh. Yeah, they tell us that Truely's
• 1:19:45
  been improving rather quickly and that things are looking
• 1:19:48
  great, which is wonderful. Kody calls Robyn's phone and
• 1:19:51
  she's on speaker. Christine tells everyone
• 1:19:54
  Truely's coming home tomorrow, and all the kids start yelling
• 1:19:57
  with Glee. And Christine is joyous on the
• 1:20:00
  phone and my eyes are filled with tears.
• 1:20:05
  Oh, I was so happy. I was so excited.
• 1:20:09
  Truely is improved enough where they won't even have to do
• 1:20:11
  dialysis at home. She's recovering that quickly.
• 1:20:13
  Which, you know, I don't know the details and all this stuff.
• 1:20:16
  I'm certainly no medical professional.
• 1:20:17
  But there's been a few things mentioned through this episode
• 1:20:19
  where I'm going. Oh, OK, I guess it is
• 1:20:24
  television, so it doesn't all have to be real.
• 1:20:26
  So that's that, I guess. She's just so much better.
• 1:20:29
  She doesn't even have to do at
• 1:20:31
  And we're all happy now. I was genuinely happy because
• 1:20:34
  the family's reaction was so excited and just reminded me of
• 1:20:37
  getting good news about family
• 1:20:40
  that. Yeah, I didn't know you could do
• 1:20:41
  dialysis at home. So you're right, there seems to
• 1:20:44
  be something there and maybe I
• 1:20:47
  was an option, but. It is an option, yes.
• 1:20:51
  And even though I don't know anything about dialysis, I, I
• 1:20:54
  knew that that was an option. But you know that must be.
• 1:20:57
  I take it all back. A new medical miracle.
• 1:20:59
  It's probably for people with money, like, let's be real.
• 1:21:02
  Seriously, to have a machine like that at home?
• 1:21:04
  Small fortune. So it's the next day and we're
• 1:21:08
  back at the hospital now and they show Kody carrying Truely
• 1:21:13
  out to the car and she's all bundled up in a big fluffy
• 1:21:18
  purple blanket being carried out
• 1:21:22
  She looks so cute in Kody's arms.
• 1:21:25
  She looks so teeny tiny and it
• 1:21:30
  so genuinely happy and he is glowing looking at her and
• 1:21:35
  Christina's glowing and Gwendolyn came along.
• 1:21:39
  Yes, little Gwen. Yes, and she is so excited as
• 1:21:44
  well. And they get in the car and
• 1:21:45
  Gwendolyn has to let Truely know
• 1:21:49
  her while she was gone. And this was very, very adorable
• 1:21:54
  to me because it just reminds me
• 1:21:56
  you're feeling helpless and all you can do are those small
• 1:22:01
  things. And it's very loving that they
• 1:22:08
  And you know, I don't know if that would have been something
• 1:22:24
  So minuscule, but it means a lot.
• 1:22:27
  Those are the things that you can do when you're a little kid.
• 1:22:32
  are raising them with compassion
• 1:22:38
  compassionate and loving to others, you know?
• 1:22:40
  Yeah, very cute in that way where, like you're saying it's
• 1:22:46
  it's so adorable that that's what they could do and that's
• 1:22:49
  what they did. And she was genuinely excited to
• 1:22:55
  cleaned. Your room again, Truely could
• 1:23:00
  care less. Yeah.
• 1:23:02
  When they arrive back at Christine's home and walk in,
• 1:23:05
  several family members are there to greet Truely.
• 1:23:07
  And she's so excited and they're all excited.
• 1:23:10
  And this is where I was saying earlier.
• 1:23:12
  The closed captioning says Truely squeaks.
• 1:23:14
  Because she walked in and she made this like high pitched
• 1:23:17
  noise and it was so adorable. And everyone is so excited that
• 1:23:21
  she's back. One of the other kids remarks on
• 1:23:26
  Yeah, they were skinny. She was so tiny.
• 1:23:30
  She was teeny tiny. She hadn't eaten for at least
• 1:23:32
  nine days, it seems like, you know?
• 1:23:35
  And as she's walking in from the
• 1:23:38
  the place, and Kody's trying to tell her to slow down, and
• 1:23:41
  they wanted to help her walk in because she can barely stand
• 1:23:45
  up. My God.
• 1:23:46
  But she goes inside and she's so excited.
• 1:23:50
  That totally stood out to me because he's carrying her to the
• 1:24:00
  she gets out of the car and starts walking in this unstable
• 1:24:04
  manner. And it's like, OK, girl, like,
• 1:24:07
  It totally reminds me of one of those moments as an adult or as
• 1:24:09
  a parent. You would be like, oh, God, OK,
• 1:24:12
  OK, OK, just let it happen, I guess.
• 1:24:14
  Even though please don't. Oh God.
• 1:24:17
  Christine tells us that the first seven days that Truely was
• 1:24:25
  that Truely is a little miracle and that it is amazing.
• 1:24:29
  It's a miracle. Seven days of being scared and
• 1:24:34
  I mean, that has to be hugely impactful and no doubt the
• 1:24:38
  scariest days of I mean, I don't know what would rival that.
• 1:24:41
  I, you know, and especially in Christine's story, we haven't
• 1:24:44
  heard a lot of trauma stories. What is it like her mom leaving
• 1:24:47
  the cult obviously like that doesn't tee up.
• 1:24:49
  So God, it must have been frightening.
• 1:24:51
  Yeah, there is nothing scarier than your child being sick and
• 1:24:57
  I'm sure it it was and probably still is, you know, one of the
• 1:25:06
  imagine their child in a situation where they could
• 1:25:10
  possibly die. You literally just go into fight
• 1:25:18
  time. And she is a little miracle, a
• 1:25:24
  And so, you know, from here on till the end of the episode, we
• 1:25:28
  kind of get these what feel good things, these, you know,
• 1:25:31
  retrospects, these yadda, yadda Yadda's.
• 1:25:33
  And I'm not going to hate on them.
• 1:25:36
  I'm not going to hate on them. But I'm just pointing out here
• 1:25:43
  likes to think they're a storyteller, that when people
• 1:25:47
  have these reflective moments and everything's all glossy and
• 1:25:51
  amazing and it's like, right. But we're watching ATV show
• 1:25:54
  about your family being a disaster.
• 1:25:56
  And it's not going to take much time before we're back to
• 1:25:59
  ripping the shit out of it because you're teeing it up on a
• 1:26:04
  So keep that in mind as we talk about the feel good moments
• 1:26:08
  here. Everyone think to my level.
• 1:26:10
  Yeah, the storytelling of this is out of order to They're not
• 1:26:17
  We don't even find out that this is a party, really.
• 1:26:22
  We think, oh, there's a welcome home banner and everyone's there
• 1:26:28
  Then we see Truely going to her room and running straight for
• 1:26:33
  her toys. And then we see everyone around
• 1:26:36
  a table and they show Kody and hailing Helium and singing a
• 1:26:40
  song about Truely Scrumptious to Truely Scrumptious in his Helium
• 1:26:52
  So they are not great at storytelling.
• 1:26:55
  They're just not. I don't know.
• 1:26:58
  Yeah, the producers now, But before we get to the party, we
• 1:27:05
  and Christine. And that's what I was referring
• 1:27:07
  to, is kind of teeing up this narrative of the challenge and
• 1:27:15
  So Kody says that this entire experience has been a challenge.
• 1:27:20
  and we reconnected with each other.
• 1:27:22
  In the busyness of life, sometimes you can take each
• 1:27:25
  other for granted and you can take your children for granted.
• 1:27:28
  And we got pretty close to the
• 1:27:31
  And Christine says you realize
• 1:27:33
  don't matter. Kody follows up with we should
• 1:27:37
  just forget about the unimportant things and just
• 1:27:39
  remember the important things.
• 1:27:42
  good wake up call. This sentiment is short lived,
• 1:27:46
  let's be real. And just in life, it is like,
• 1:27:48
  you know, we can all be reminded
• 1:27:50
  And then the next week you're like, are you fucking kidding?
• 1:27:52
  That bitch at work did this again, You know, like it's just
• 1:27:54
  how life is. The problems are still there.
• 1:27:57
  You might realize that these things are unimportant, but it
• 1:28:01
  doesn't mean that these problems
• 1:28:04
  Doesn't mean they're not going
• 1:28:07
  You can't just forgive and forget when it comes to needing
• 1:28:12
  to fix things that are broken in
• 1:28:15
  They're going to be patterns that keep repeating themselves.
• 1:28:18
  So yeah, you know, this is a wake up call.
• 1:28:21
  It should be a wake up call to
• 1:28:27
  move on. I think that there's a mindset
• 1:28:31
  there that they don't have. They didn't have a mindset shift
• 1:28:35
  to, OK, these are the important things we need to really work
• 1:28:40
  on this. That and the other thing they
• 1:28:42
  just went to their old ways of, Oh my God, life is short.
• 1:28:47
  You know what, that thing that
• 1:28:50
  don't even need to talk about it.
• 1:28:51
  God, that doesn't matter anymore.
• 1:28:53
  Well, it does. And you're looking at this the
• 1:28:56
  wrong way, and you should be using this as an opportunity to
• 1:28:59
  work on yourselves maybe. I don't know.
• 1:29:03
  Which they obviously we've seen time and time again do not do.
• 1:29:06
  And that pattern does not change.
• 1:29:08
  No, this also reminds me a little bit of, and I don't know
• 1:29:11
  if this correlation is correct, so please, please correct me in
• 1:29:15
  the comments if I'm wrong, but
• 1:29:20
  reminding me a bit of when someone leaves rehab.
• 1:29:23
  No, I love it. I love this translation.
• 1:29:25
  It's so good. Someone gets sober, someone
• 1:29:27
  leaves rehab and I think the phrase is like Purple cloud or
• 1:29:31
  something where there's this perspective of the world and
• 1:29:36
  how, oh, now that I know this,
• 1:29:39
  this, everything's going to be
• 1:29:41
  I'm going to approach everything
• 1:29:42
  My relationships are all going
• 1:29:44
  My scenarios, I know how to tackle things.
• 1:29:45
  I have the tools, I have all of this.
• 1:29:48
  When in all reality, you're going back to what your same
• 1:29:51
  family, your same home, your same job, your same
• 1:29:53
  circumstances, and your perspective is purple cloud.
• 1:29:58
  It's like everything is. I have all this whole new
• 1:30:01
  perspective on things and then
• 1:30:05
  your life and your perspectives might be a little different.
• 1:30:09
  Yeah, that's why they say when
• 1:30:13
  family should be involved and you should have the necessary
• 1:30:17
  things set up for when you leave
• 1:30:20
  apartment that's the block from your drug dealer.
• 1:30:22
  Maybe you set up a different place to live or whatever.
• 1:30:26
  Set your circumstances up, set
• 1:30:29
  And this family just never does that things like this happen to
• 1:30:33
  them. And instead of taking it as a
• 1:30:36
  learning moment, they take it as
• 1:30:39
  Let's just push that shit further under the rug and
• 1:30:41
  pretend that we're happy for a
• 1:30:46
  Insanity. It's the definition of insanity.
• 1:30:48
  Well, we have a big non party,
• 1:30:52
  ceremony gathering in the backyard to plan, so we've got
• 1:30:56
  to get back to that eventually.
• 1:30:57
  But let's get back to the shitty storytelling, because we finally
• 1:31:04
  Christine that it is indeed a pee poo party.
• 1:31:07
  Yes, that is why they are there. They are there to celebrate the
• 1:31:11
  pee and the Poohs, and they're getting better.
• 1:31:13
  And literally when they started out, I was going, are they
• 1:31:16
  having a tea party just because Truely's back?
• 1:31:19
  Because there's just set the scene for y'all.
• 1:31:23
  There's balloons, there's teapots, there's tea cups.
• 1:31:25
  They're all around this table, as you're saying.
• 1:31:27
  And you're going, oh, that's a party.
• 1:31:29
  And they're wearing crowns and tiaras.
• 1:31:31
  And they spend a moment showing Aspyn and I'm going, do we miss
• 1:31:35
  something? Is this Aspyn's party?
• 1:31:36
  And then I'm like, no, it's not Aspyn's party, It's Truely
• 1:31:38
  party. She just got home, so what's
• 1:31:39
  going on here? Later it's referenced that it is
• 1:31:42
  a Princess pea and poop tea party or whatever, but not right
• 1:31:46
  away. So you're just kind of left
• 1:31:48
  going. Did I miss something here?
• 1:31:51
  And that's when Kody takes one
• 1:31:54
  it up and does the helium voice of Truely Scrumptious.
• 1:31:57
  I love Truely scrumptious. And it's like, OK, well, this is
• 1:32:00
  cute. But once again, why are we doing
• 1:32:02
  this? What is happening?
• 1:32:03
  And we do eventually get there, but my God.
• 1:32:06
  Why wasn't that the first of the
• 1:32:09
  us up and then show us Truely going to her room and all the
• 1:32:13
  other things that they showed us
• 1:32:16
  Yeah, it's weird. I don't understand this editing
• 1:32:19
  team. I Truely don't get it.
• 1:32:23
  What the fuck? They confuse us endlessly.
• 1:32:27
  We question ourselves frequently
• 1:32:30
  differently. And it's not our fault.
• 1:32:33
  They set us up for failure, these producers.
• 1:32:36
  Yeah, the editing is Yeah, it's definitely lacking.
• 1:32:42
  Kody has a moment where he says everything in life seems
• 1:32:45
  trivial when it's compared to the safety, health and life of
• 1:32:47
  your child. Well, once again, OK, Yeah, OK.
• 1:32:51
  You're in your purple cloud. Like, Yep, your child survived a
• 1:32:53
  near death experience. So it does put everything into
• 1:32:56
  perspective. I'm looking down at my wrist
• 1:32:58
  going, how long does this perspective last?
• 1:33:00
  I don't think it's probably very
• 1:33:04
  Yeah, he says. Everything in life seems
• 1:33:06
  trivial, even trite. Trite, yes.
• 1:33:10
  Even trite when compared to the life of your child and the
• 1:33:14
  health and safety of your children.
• 1:33:16
  Oh God. Trite.
• 1:33:19
  I mean, this is the only statement of that that I do
• 1:33:21
  believe. Because the health and safety of
• 1:33:24
  your children, Yeah, no shit. Everything should seem trivial
• 1:33:28
  and trite compared to that. I think even shitty parents
• 1:33:33
  would prefer their children be
• 1:33:38
  I don't know. Even deadbeat losers that are
• 1:33:43
  not there for their children probably don't want them to go
• 1:33:46
  to the hospital. Right.
• 1:33:49
  I don't know. I just wish in my sick, demented
• 1:33:53
  world, my sick demented brain,
• 1:33:56
  got. I'm just wishing that four
• 1:33:59
  months after this, when Kody's
• 1:34:04
  to receive a gift from his sweet, shy, pretty wife, Robyn,
• 1:34:10
  going to get some of that bland chicken.
• 1:34:13
  But before. No, no, no, no, it's not one of
• 1:34:15
  those nights. It's one of those nights where
• 1:34:17
  just Kody gets serviced. I wish that I could have been
• 1:34:20
  his guardian Angel and gone into
• 1:34:25
  is trite in comparison to the health and safety and security
• 1:34:29
  of your children. Oh my gosh, and baby Saul is
• 1:34:36
  just sleeping in the bed right
• 1:34:41
  Across the king size head, yes.
• 1:34:44
  God. Like oh there's baby Saul next
• 1:34:49
  nothing's in his ear. Oh, what a demented world that
• 1:34:59
  having this sick, perverted moment, we get a clip of Truely.
• 1:35:03
  Little, Truely. Scrumptious.
• 1:35:04
  And she is so cute. I couldn't tell what the hell
• 1:35:06
  was going on with what she was
• 1:35:08
  It was like a knit sweater with arms but gaps between the
• 1:35:12
  limbs. I don't know what was going on.
• 1:35:14
  Do you know what was going on?
• 1:35:16
  She was wearing fingerless glove
• 1:35:21
  her arm that matched her sweater and then a Tutu.
• 1:35:25
  It looked like a little outfit
• 1:35:28
  worn or a Disney star from that day.
• 1:35:32
  Ashley Tisdale ask or something.
• 1:35:34
  It was cute on her, but it definitely reminded me of a
• 1:35:39
  Disney star layer layering the odd things.
• 1:35:43
  It did look cute. I just, you know, blame it on me
• 1:35:50
  looking at other than Truely in some fabric.
• 1:35:52
  And Truely tells us that she's so happy to be out.
• 1:35:56
  Oh, do you have this quote, honey?
• 1:35:58
  Do you want to do your best? Truely?
• 1:35:59
  It might be a little creepy for me to talk like a child, but
• 1:36:03
  we'll try it. Oh, honey, this would.
• 1:36:05
  This certainly wouldn't be the first time.
• 1:36:06
  You sound creepy on this podcast.
• 1:36:08
  Give it a go, honey. Give us your best, Truely.
• 1:36:11
  Knock him out. She's still alive.
• 1:36:13
  She's here. We can celebrate.
• 1:36:15
  Don't be trite about everything. Give us your best, Truely.
• 1:36:18
  I'm so happy to be out of the hospital.
• 1:36:22
  My pictures brown on my head. I like drinking tea at my tea
• 1:36:32
  party because I lay down and I have so much fun.
• 1:36:38
  She's just saying nonsensical cute little kid things and
• 1:36:43
  rolling around on the couch and it's adorable.
• 1:36:45
  She is literally rolling around like side to side and flick
• 1:36:49
  flailing her body around saying these sentences.
• 1:36:52
  And it was cute. It was cute even though you only
• 1:36:58
  Honey, it's. Giving Stewart look what I can
• 1:37:05
  adorable that they gave her her own moment on the couch.
• 1:37:09
  She earned it. She earned that.
• 1:37:13
  She earned that solo interview. You get it, girl.
• 1:37:17
  After we get the magic of Truely Scrumptious alone on the couch
• 1:37:26
  prioritizing her children more since all of this happened, and
• 1:37:29
  she talks a little bit about being in the hospital and seeing
• 1:37:34
  Yeah, she tells us that she saw other parents that were regulars
• 1:37:41
  These other families, they have to put their lives on hold while
• 1:37:47
  And she says that this has made her very thankful for her sister
• 1:37:59
  She says there's no way I could have done it without you.
• 1:38:04
  And I threw up in my mouth a little bit because she is being
• 1:38:10
  so genuine here. And she thinks that her sister
• 1:38:18
  So she's in the hospital with her sick child.
• 1:38:21
  Like, thank God I've got my sister wives.
• 1:38:23
  They're holding down the Fort, holding down my house.
• 1:38:26
  Meanwhile they're probably getting their nails done in
• 1:38:30
  Robyn's case and Janelle's case. Who the fuck knows?
• 1:38:35
  Meri's packaging up jewelry, pretending to while she's
• 1:38:40
  talking to strangers online. Who knows what they were really
• 1:38:43
  doing, but I hate to break it to you, Christine, they weren't
• 1:38:47
  holding down your Fort Aspyn, fortunately.
• 1:38:49
  Aspyn was holding down that. Fort so who knows what she was
• 1:38:57
  back immediately after saying thank you to them, she'd
• 1:39:01
  probably be backtracking. The shade, the shade of it all.
• 1:39:05
  Aspyn was even going to Meri's
• 1:39:07
  and other Sister Wives houses for updates from Christine.
• 1:39:12
  They weren't going to Christine's house for these
• 1:39:14
  updates. What the fuck?
• 1:39:17
  Oh, I don't know, honey, I don't
• 1:39:19
  They just always know how to leave us on a high note.
• 1:39:23
  And they tried, they really tried to hear with this nice
• 1:39:26
  ending that thank you so much to
• 1:39:29
  I couldn't have done it without you.
• 1:39:30
  And if that was the reality, that would have been a good note
• 1:39:34
  for us to end on. The time has come not for you to
• 1:39:39
  lip sync for your life, but for you to tell us who your mustard
• 1:39:43
  seed is this episode. And I already know who you're
• 1:39:46
  going to pick, and I'm already
• 1:39:47
  I will allow you, I will allow
• 1:39:50
  One what are you going to be because I've.
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  Given it to this person a couple
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  allow you to have. It you were the original person
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  to smear shit all over Aspyn's
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  podcast, you were. The one, well, she deserved it
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  at that moment in time, I'm fairly certain it was well
• 1:40:08
  deserved. I'm going to give my mustard
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  seed to Christine because I know
• 1:40:16
  the hospital with a sick child and to be worrying about your
• 1:40:20
  other children and be doing all the things at once and trying
• 1:40:25
  to keep your own sanity and stay
• 1:40:31
  Because you got to put on a front and be strong for your
• 1:40:34
  child. Because you cannot let that
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  little teeny tiny human know how
• 1:40:40
  That would just everything would
• 1:40:41
  You can't do that. So I give her props for
• 1:40:46
  everything from start to finish in this episode.
• 1:40:50
  Other Well, I take that back. I give her props from going to
• 1:40:55
  the hospital to finish. Oh yes.
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  Because it took us a little while to get there.
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  So a little iffy, a little shaky
• 1:41:06
  she brought it home in the end, yeah.
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  So as I anticipated you were going to leave me being the
• 1:41:12
  bland milquetoast of this podcast while you took the
• 1:41:15
  interesting Rd. I'm going to have to give my
• 1:41:20
  mustard seed to Aspyn, who earned it and deserves it for
• 1:41:23
  stepping into the role of mother
• 1:41:26
  supposed mothers on the same polygamist compound property.
• 1:41:30
  Polygdesac. What, Not doing whatever they
• 1:41:32
  were doing while she was running
• 1:41:35
  Christine was in the hospital.
• 1:41:40
  already talked about earlier in this episode, leading the
• 1:41:42
  prayer, asking for help for her sibling, teeing up the
• 1:41:46
  thankfulness for what they have,
• 1:41:50
  in that. And Aspyn has demonstrated to us
• 1:41:53
  repeatedly over and over again
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  citizen of the United States of America, a respectable
• 1:41:58
  individual. And Aspyn, if you ever hear
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  this, which I kind of hope you
• 1:42:03
  family through the mud over and over again, we love you and we
• 1:42:07
  respect you, and you have earned
• 1:42:10
  You've earned more than one, and
• 1:42:12
  one. Kudos to you, Aspyn.
• 1:42:14
  Hurrah. Now shit stain is going to be a
• 1:42:16
  little more fun. Who do you want to drag through
• 1:42:19
  the toilet bowl? I'm going to have to go with
• 1:42:23
  Janelle for my shit stain this time around.
• 1:42:27
  I didn't like the quote about we raise our children to have to
• 1:42:32
  step up. It felt old school.
• 1:42:36
  I didn't like it. I didn't like that she threw the
• 1:42:46
  I feel like she should have taken over and Aspyn already
• 1:42:51
  initiated the prayer circle. Now you as the mother can step
• 1:43:02
  averse to comforting the children.
• 1:43:05
  It seemed like she just seemed very off and distant this
• 1:43:11
  episode, and I didn't like it. I got a bad vibe from her.
• 1:43:16
  I don't know, I didn't like it this episode for her.
• 1:43:21
  And it's not even really one thing.
• 1:43:23
  It's just kind of a feeling I had during the episode,
• 1:43:27
  specifically about her reactions to emotions and the different
• 1:43:32
  things going on. And such a contrast to recent
• 1:43:35
  episodes where we've been singing her praise about being a
• 1:43:45
  having a good attitude or a good perspective, a good go get
• 1:43:49
  em vibe. And then this episode, I agree
• 1:43:54
  What about you? Who's going to get your schmear?
• 1:43:59
  pickings for shit stains, but I can always rely on good old
• 1:44:03
  trusty Kody. So I'm going to give my shit
• 1:44:06
  stain to Kody, not because of things with Truely really, but
• 1:44:10
  because of the beginning of the episode with the tree of life
• 1:44:13
  vibes, the whole let's have a crazy cake.
• 1:44:15
  I'm willing to forgo having a suit if it even means we have
• 1:44:18
  the budget for a cake. And it's like, right.
• 1:44:20
  So you can't spend money on things like insurance for your
• 1:44:23
  child who is going to be sick and hospitalized in this
• 1:44:26
  episode. But you can spend money on a
• 1:44:27
  cake and or a suit and or whatever that makes you look
• 1:44:30
  good for production and having
• 1:44:35
  praise on the show over and over
• 1:44:39
  Oh God, what am I forgetting? What else did he do?
• 1:44:41
  No, this was, it was a hard one,
• 1:44:46
  spare moms deserved the shit stains, but not for specific
• 1:44:50
  reasons other than just the fact
• 1:44:53
  initiative and step up and play their roles, their God-given
• 1:44:58
  roles as other mothers. Yeah, come on.
• 1:45:02
  This. Is it it's like, who was I
• 1:45:03
  supposed to get my shit stained to Meri just because she looked
• 1:45:05
  like Meri owes looks and acts like Meri owes acts.
• 1:45:08
  I mean, I guess she could get an
• 1:45:11
  got to go to Kody. Yeah.
• 1:45:13
  Our keep sweet moment this week is a comment on our Season 6
• 1:45:17
  Episode 12 rewatch, mother-in-law Invasion, where we
• 1:45:20
  got Kody shopping, shopping, shopping till he's dropping.
• 1:45:25
  Oh, God. And Nikki the vandal says on
• 1:45:27
  Spotify. As someone who has listened to
• 1:45:30
  all of these podcasts, I just want to say I'm so excited to
• 1:45:34
  see this show grow so much. You guys have such great in
• 1:45:37
  depth conversations while also
• 1:45:40
  Kudos. And OK.
• 1:45:43
  I mean, I agree, but I want to
• 1:45:47
  had your head checked recently?
• 1:45:48
  No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
• 1:45:50
  Oh I love it. Thank you so much for the
• 1:45:54
  compliment. I was inspired recently by the
• 1:46:05
  Looks good on everybody. Now I was inspired this episode
• 1:46:10
  by a one Truely brown and I am going to have to go shopping for
• 1:46:21
  appropriate for a woman of my age to wear some fingerless
• 1:46:24
  gloves, a Tutu, and a matching sweater.
• 1:46:26
  I don't know, think I'm going to have to try it.
• 1:46:29
  You know what I was going to say It's the weirdest thing that you
• 1:46:34
  You know, along these same lines, darling, you know what
• 1:46:38
  just arrived at my door today?
• 1:46:43
  sweatshirt slash sweater thing.
• 1:46:45
  I think it's a sweatshirt. I don't know.
• 1:46:47
  It's one of those Inbetweeners and I think we may just have to
• 1:46:51
  give the audience what they've been asking for, which is a
• 1:46:54
  photo on social media of us both wearing fuchsia slash magenta.
• 1:47:04
  outfit otherwise I would totally give the people that as well.
• 1:47:08
  I would be serving looks servant.
• 1:47:11
  Looks, looks. Oh my gosh, we're serving looks
• 1:47:14
  from Sister Wives. That's I know.
• 1:47:17
  This is really. This is not OK.
• 1:47:19
  This is. Not I have a lot of necklaces we
• 1:47:28
  time. I hope they don't hit unfollow
• 1:47:34
  We'll see what happens. Honey, to wrap things up, do you
• 1:47:41
  voice? Anything that you want to share,
• 1:47:45
  the things that aren't trite or all you know, really remembering
• 1:47:54
  Well, thinking about this fuchsia get up that we're going
• 1:47:57
  to be trying on and these a long dangly necklaces and
• 1:48:02
  fingerless gloves, I will impart some wisdom upon thee
• 1:48:07
  from a late great Dolly Parton.
• 1:48:11
  It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.