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Sister Wives S4 E2 - Polygamist Date Nights · My Sister Wives Podcast

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  What does the nanny do? OK, so we're done.
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  Goodbye. You shut it off.
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  Do not twist my words. Do not.
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  Make me a victim, sweetie. Just look at the mountain.
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  That's what you saw that day. Just the knife in the kidneys
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  over all these years and the sacrifices that I made to love
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  you. Welcome back, Amber.
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  Hi. You decided to join me again.
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  I didn't scare you too much in our first episode, not too.
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  Bad. No.
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  Are you ready for season 4 Episode 2 Polygamous Date Night?
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  Beyond ready. Oh, it's gonna, you know, 'cause
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  there's so many wild highs and lows that I hope that you were
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  buckled in while watching the episode.
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  Oh definitely. Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.
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  Had my little headset on and everything.
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  I was right along for that flight.
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  Oh oh wow. Headset.
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  Wow. Little foreshadowing.
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  Yeah, right, Right. So the episode opens with Kody
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  at Robbins giving everyone an update about how he got a
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  convertible, a Nissan convertible as a bonus at work
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  because they're working for a marketing company.
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  Yeah, due to his marketing job. Right, I was curious what Kody
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  does and how he makes money. They don't really address it in
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  much detail. No.
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  At one point in time I feel like he sold guns and gun accessories
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  like at conventions or gun shows.
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  Like he was probably like the loophole king or something.
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  Oh. My gosh.
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  But as far as marketing, I don't really know what that means
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  other than maybe Hawking some mid level marketing scheme or
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  something. I have no idea what it would be.
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  I feel like at this point in the show, they're making good money
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  or he is making good money of the show.
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  And I think that's very apparent during this episode.
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  There's a huge shift in the way that they are living their lives
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  and I would assume that most of his income is now coming from
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  the show. Yeah, agreed.
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  So I think even their references to other yeah, the references to
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  other jobs and their things. Kind of phony, a kind of a cover
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  because they don't want really want them breaking that like 3rd
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  wall like, oh, now we don't have normal lives because of the
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  show. They don't really want people to
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  know that. Yeah, that car though, what in
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  the hell color is it? What color is it?
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  Rose gold, Copper. Yeah.
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  Never in my life have I seen a car this color.
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  No, it is literally between rose gold and copper.
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  It's hideous. It's not an attractive color.
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  No. And you hear rose gold and you
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  think it'd be pretty. No, No, no, no, no, my friends.
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  No, we're not talking about like a Bentley.
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  That's like a beautiful color. We're talking about a Nissan.
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  So it looks a little bit like a pregnant Skittle, too.
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  It's one of those cars that's like, you know, a little too
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  short. Yeah, so it's like bulbous
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  looking. It's odd.
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  And it's like, oh, it's supposed to be a convertible.
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  It's supposed to be like a sports car.
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  It's like it looks like a squished normal car that has a
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  convertible top. Yeah.
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  And of course, that's another convertible, right.
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  Well. Kody does need his convertible.
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  He's got to have his hair wafting in the wind when he
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  drives. Makes him feel like a real man.
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  Yeah, when Meri cracks a joke about that, like the top can be
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  down dependent on the weather and dependent on the wife, and
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  then she's like, yeah, that's for Meri.
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  Chuckle where it's like, oh honey, she thinks she's so funny
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  and I think she's so cute when she laughs like that.
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  She's just so pretty. So after we get this
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  introduction to the new convertible, Kody shows up at
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  Meri's house and he says it's important that he has a date
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  night with each of his wives because they have independent
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  relationships, you know? Well, and he makes a comment
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  too, saying that he feels like with this distance between the
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  houses that he is in four monogamous relationships but has
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  one big family. He makes some weird comment and
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  it kind of just calls attention to the separation that is going
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  on between the families and the wives.
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  Right now, yeah, they're definitely living in four
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  separate houses. Kody says he's going to take
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  Meri skiing, all for their date. So OK, the title of the episode,
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  I know I got a little bit ahead of myself with making sure that
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  Kimber was here of her own volition and her own free will.
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  The title of the episode is Polygamous Date Night.
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  Now, also, we had to search on like, Roku, not Roku, but on the
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  TV for the episode and purchase it.
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  So it was not on Discovery Plus if you're not able to see it on
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  your streaming service, that was our same experience, but we
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  could purchase it individually. My assumption is that that means
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  something in the rights. Maybe it was some music they
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  used. Some licensing.
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  Some licensing issue, and so if you pay to rent it, then they'll
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  pass along the 15 cents or whatever the residual, yes, but
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  they're not going to put it on streaming, which I was a little
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  disappointed with because I thought that meant that
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  something dramatic must happen in the episode.
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  I thought so too. I was like, maybe they're trying
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  to put this one under wraps for some reason, make it harder to
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  be accessible for people. But.
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  Yeah, but if that was the case, then it would just be like, why?
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  Because of Meri and Christine's conversation?
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  Who knows? Yeah, there's no point.
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  Yeah. After Kody talks about taking
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  Meri skiing, he kind of goes into this background where he
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  reviews how they got married very young.
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  This is like the millionth time and we're only in Season 4 where
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  there's this oh, we got married very young, 19.
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  And 22 we were very. Young and we didn't know
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  anything. We were very young and we didn't
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  know anything and we were very young and we didn't know
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  anything and we were very young and we didn't know anything.
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  Like, got it, We got it. You were young.
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  Yeah, and he keeps bringing up about how this was a promise he
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  made to her 22 years ago. 22 years.
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  Ago that they would go skiing one day.
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  Which is funny because they've always lived out West too, so
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  they've they had 22 years of opportunities to go skiing.
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  One of the easiest promises to realize, yes.
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  They probably only had like small drives to go to get to any
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  ski resort or option anywhere they've lived.
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  Yeah, very weird. Very strange, but you know,
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  Kody, he's got to keep his promises even after 22 years.
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  They fight, they arrive at the ski, so they ride ski slopes.
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  They arrive at the ski club. Did you catch the name of it?
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  No. Yeah, I didn't think about.
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  Right now, no, I don't think it mattered.
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  It was by a hill and they had snow, so there was a ski slope
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  where they were able to go skiing.
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  Kody trying to get Meri into now.
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  This is just so great. So if you haven't seen the show,
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  I'm hoping you've seen a photo of Meri.
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  Meri does remind me of the kind of person where, yeah, it's
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  going to be a struggle to get those ski boots on.
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  It's going to be a struggle to get those skis on.
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  It's going to be a struggle to just stand up.
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  I can't say that with too much hate in my heart, because I'm
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  similar. I've only been skiing once in my
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  life and I had a hard time going down the Bunny hill.
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  I was in high school and I had a hard time going down the Bunny
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  hill because there wasn't enough momentum.
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  And so I was like, Oh my God, this is going to be terrible.
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  And then when I went down the first like green hill or
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  whatever the levels are, I was like, oh, I can do this.
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  Like once you have some momentum behind you, it's a little easier
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  for someone uncoordinated like myself.
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  And I feel like Meri's similar, but except for no, she's not any
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  better with any momentum, but she's just, you know, was
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  struggling to, it looked like a skier.
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  It was painful to watch. At one point she just goes right
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  into a random large rock pile that's on the side of the hills.
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  Yes, just this like random quarry on the side of the hill
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  and she just goes right into it. She does start going down these
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  slopes. It's very apparent that she
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  doesn't know how to stop or steer or do anything.
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  And as you said, what ran through my mind was like, why
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  she found a patch of rocks. One patch of rocks just out of
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  nowhere. Election of rocks and Meri's
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  like, like right into them. And in my mind, I'm screaming
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  pie, pie, pie. Anyone who has ever skied or not
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  even skied knows about pie, where you put the tips of your
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  skis together in a pie shape. I'm fairly certain that anyone
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  who even knows about skiing in general has heard the term pie.
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  Do you think it's mentioned once at all?
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  Before this point, no. No, no, no.
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  We don't hear that at all until the handsome ski patrol man
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  comes to give her assistance. Yes, he stops to give her some
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  pointers on how to stop. And tells her about π Pi, the
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  first rule of skiing. Sign, sign cosine sign 3.14159
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  That is π to me. 3.14159 I understand that it is a skiing
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  term. And yeah, I guess I do know
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  that. And I'm not a skier, so you
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  know. Yeah, Kody just kept saying dig
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  it in. Yeah, dig it in.
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  You got saying that over and over again.
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  It's like she doesn't know what you mean.
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  And then also he wouldn't let go of her.
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  Right, she should. Let go she was.
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  Like let go of me. He was a hanging on to her as
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  they were going down the hill, and they're catching up speed.
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  Yeah. And he's like holding on to her
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  coat. That would make it hard for
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  anybody. It's not helpful.
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  You're not teaching her at that. Point I know I was just
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  imagining the feeling of that like being like I'm I'm just
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  trying to get this down and being on me is not helping.
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  Oh, I'd be so freaked out because the way he was holding
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  her too, you could tell he was pulling like pressure downwards,
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  like kind of on her, almost like in a skating rink when someone
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  tries to grab you when they're going to fall.
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  That's like the feeling I got watching it.
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  It was hard. Yeah, she's having a hard time
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  keeping her body in a position of which you even would when
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  you're skiing at all, because she's Meri.
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  Meri, quite contrary. And he's pulling her forward and
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  down. Yes, so uncomfortable.
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  So uncomfortable. As this is happening, I'm also
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  noticing, I'm like, Meri doesn't do a single slalom.
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  She doesn't do. She doesn't know how to turn.
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  She doesn't know anything. She's just trying to stay
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  upright. And Kody's like, let's go.
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  And it's like, Oh my God, Kody, right?
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  If you got James from ski patrol checking in on you regularly,
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  there might be a problem. Yeah, James.
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  Oh, good old James. And of course, Meri does take a
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  tumble. Meri's got to take a tumble.
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  And as she well, of course, they have to do the production edit
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  where it's like they break her fall into multiple takes and
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  like show other things like as if it was like, you know, the
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  biggest tumble you've ever seen. Make it look really bad.
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  You know, she did fall over. It looked like her skis flew.
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  And she says I felt something popping my knee.
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  She says she heard a pop. Yeah, heard a pop.
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  Heard a pop. The witch I have had knee
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  surgery before. I have heard plenty of pop from
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  these old knees. From the old rickety knees.
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  Oh, so like, as soon as she said she heard a pop, I was like,
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  like meniscus, like something. Yeah, this is going to be
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  wonderful, you know. I thought, oh, Meri, she's so
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  fucking dramatic. But you know, I've also, I've
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  never heard a pop in my knees. Thank God.
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  Yeah, I'm such a young man, very spry, very athletic.
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  So I'm just so glad that hasn't happened because my dad had some
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  knee issue in his like late 20s, I think he was knee boarding
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  behind a boat, you know, and then like let go and flipped
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  over and fucked up his knee. And it's been fucked up his
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  whole. It never is the same.
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  It's. Never the same.
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  I unfortunately was born with crooked kneecaps so they
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  dislocate on their own all the time, which is really fun.
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  Oh. I'm going to make you listen to
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  my knees one day. I'm going to make you listen to
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  what they just sound like on a regular basis, and you're going
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  to be disgusted by me. Well, maybe that's what we'll
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  put on our Patreon is some knee sounds.
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  Some ASMR knee sounds, grinding and popping.
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  You can hear Kimber's knees popping and rattling.
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  It might be some people's thing. You never know all.
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  Those rattling knees. Very sexy, very sexy.
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  After Meri takes her tumble, Kody tries to offer her medical
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  assistance, but because he's not competent, it makes no sense.
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  Of course, you know, he's like, does it hurt here?
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  Does this do whatever? And he's totally doing that
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  thing where he's, like, squeezing her legs and doing
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  whatever. And it's like, what are you
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  going to determine over her pants and her snow pants and
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  snow pants? He is so ridiculous.
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  Well, and the one thing that I was thinking too, if you really
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  fucked up your knee and you're wearing those big ski boots that
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  clip into the skis, you're not walking straight.
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  You kind of walk like an ostrich or something, like you can't
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  really straighten your legs. It's very odd in general.
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  So I was like, get her ski boot off.
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  Yeah. And I'm, I'm wondering, I don't
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  know that we see any footage of them getting to the table at the
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  lodge. No, I I don't think so.
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  Pick her up and carry her across that threshold.
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  Kody, what is wrong with you? Maybe he did.
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  If he did that, we would have seen it.
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  It would have been like. They would have.
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  Made a thing Kody go. It would have been a whole
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  production they would have had to use like special effects Oh
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  yeah the whole 9 yards So let's see that happen let's say Kody
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  gracefully carried his wife. Who?
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  In our version of this. Yes, he carries her.
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  Our big strongman Kody carries her to a table by the lodge.
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  This is where James shows up, our EMT friend.
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  He comes back to the rescue because Kody can't do anything.
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  So we have to have a rely on. This is the kindness of
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  strangers. Yes, James from Ski Patrol.
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  So James pulls up and asks her, what is your pain?
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  Out of one to 10? And she says a six.
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  Yeah. And I don't know what a six
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  means. It's kind of who knows?
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  It's very. Subjective.
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  I hate when they ask that question.
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  Well, because unless you're going to say like an 8 or A9 or
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  A1 or A2, it's kind of like, what does A6 mean?
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  Yeah, like what is a six? Oh, it's just a little bit above
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  a five. Well, what would a 5 be?
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  Like what are you even talking about?
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  And it's different for women. I feel like 2 who have kids and
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  I have a very high pain tolerance.
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  So what could be like a 910 for somebody, it could be like a
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  four or five for me. I'm not even kidding.
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  So when they asked me that when I'm in the at the doctor's
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  office, I'm like, yeah, that does.
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  That's not going to mean anything.
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  So. Well, and if you said a six, I
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  would be like, well, Kimber, what is a six like?
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  What's a six like? I would just be like, what is a
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  six? But.
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  I digress. Yes, because James is a perfect
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  gentleman. He suggests that they take a
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  visit to the emergency room. He said if this was my wife and
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  this happened to her, I would take her to the emergency room.
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  And I'm sure the entire time Kody's going like, are you
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  fucking kidding? I can't.
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  We don't even have health insurance.
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  What am I going to do? Oh my.
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  Gosh, I was wondering if you thought that that was staged,
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  like the ski patrol guy coming back over to the table to like,
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  assess her and make it seem super dramatic.
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  I wonder in instances like that what the production is doing and
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  like pulling him in. And maybe they even pulled him
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  in the first time too, for the attention in the little lesson.
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  Little lessons with James. Little lessons with James.
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  I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was complete bullshit and
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  just for the camera. And this is the other thing like
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  Meri, Meri, Meri. OK, so Meri's the kind of girl
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  who like had a note to get out of everything.
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  I feel like Meri maybe Malcolm, maybe that's maybe that's not
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  true. We'll talk a little bit more
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  about Meri and her injury. And it goes through the episode.
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  So I don't want to. I don't want to blow my load too
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  early about. Yeah, this continues on
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  throughout the episode. They get inside and they're
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  sitting by the fire. Now they're sitting.
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  They're sitting by the fire and Meri asks if you'd like to go
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  back down the hill again, slowly.
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  And I'm going like, girl, you're going to offer this after you
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  couldn't even walk, right? Like, yeah, this is what I'm
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  saying. Like, I don't believe her.
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  I don't believe that it's a six. I don't even believe that she
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  hurt her knee pop, to be honest. I think she's just like, I
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  really need attention. And Kody was whipping me down
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  the hill, so I had to do something.
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  Or maybe she was just was done. Maybe she didn't want to do it
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  anymore so she pretended like she was hurt.
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  Because skiing is, it takes a lot of really weird muscles in
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  your legs that if you haven't used those muscles in a long
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  time, even for people who do ski regularly, the first time you go
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  out of the season, your legs are sore.
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  Like so sore. So maybe she just was tired and
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  wanted to be done. I could totally see that, yeah.
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  There's just something about Meri's injuries here.
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  Yeah, that I'm not buying with 100% certainty.
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  Now, we would never suggest that Meri would fake it.
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  Never. But she probably is faking it.
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  They have some spotlight moments, some interview moments,
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  and Meri's giving Kody a hard time because he wasn't very
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  romantic with his engagement. She lets us know that they were
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  engaged on Christmas Eve and they had their first kiss on New
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  Year's Eve. And both were not great.
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  And no, both were not romantic. And he says I was a novice.
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  Oh God. Like, oh Yep, now you've had so
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  much practice proposing with your 4 wives.
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  Yep. So you were a novice with the
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  first one. Yeah.
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  Robyn gets all the good stuff. He says that he goes, Robyn got
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  spoiled because of all of his practice with other wives.
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  And Meri goes, oh, Robyn, Robyn all about Robyn.
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  That was an icky moment. It was like Kody put his foot in
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  his mouth, like shut up please. And I'm guessing because Kody's
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  only sexual experiences before Meri were with men, he probably
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  didn't have to worry about these things.
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  It was like, you know, I'm never going to have to propose to
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  Billy here after you suck my Dick.
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  We're doing something sinful and we're never going to discuss it
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  again. Allegedly.
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  Allegedly. Allegedly.
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  So then we do get a little discussion about their wedding
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  because we always have to go back and talk about their
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  fucking wedding. Show the footage like the same.
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  Same footage we've seen a million times.
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  Them in like a gym. Meri says it was a private
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  ceremony, but they had many guests for the reception in this
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  gym where you can throw a big party.
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  Yeah, it looks like a high school.
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  We at all like, Oh my God, I would have an audio breakdown.
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  I would not be able to deal. I would be like everyone needs
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  to shut up. Well, I wouldn't have my
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  weddings perception in a gym. So no, I don't know what that
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  means. They talk about feeding each
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  other the cake and how Meri bit his fingers and she makes a
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  comment about, Oh yes, there's always a little bit of finger
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  biting with the cake sharing at a wedding.
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  And I'm like, in what world? What world are you living in?
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  That's like, yeah, that's weird. Definitely some polygamous magic
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  there. We don't know what to do right
• 20:05
  now. This is what we think is sexy,
• 20:09
  Yeah. He's like, I'm going to shove
• 20:10
  this cake in your face. And she literally bit his finger
• 20:13
  because he shoved like more than one finger in her mouth.
• 20:15
  And it was like, none of this is cute.
• 20:18
  Like, yeah, I don't know. Did your husband shove cake in
• 20:21
  your face on your wedding night? No, we didn't even feed each
• 20:23
  other a bite of our cake. I I hate that tradition.
• 20:28
  And the men that shove the cake in the wife's face, there's a
• 20:32
  special spot in hell for them. It really is like your partner
• 20:39
  spent all that time doing their hair, their makeup, and you're
• 20:42
  going to shove cake in their face.
• 20:45
  You can fuck right off. That is the start to a bad
• 20:48
  marriage. If you do that to your wife
• 20:52
  after she explicitly tells you not to.
• 20:54
  Or you're a smart man and you just know that she wouldn't like
• 20:59
  it, but you still do it. Rotten Hell, that's all I got to
• 21:02
  say. And he was wearing a white.
• 21:07
  Tuxedo. Yep, they were both wearing
• 21:09
  white. Virginal white.
• 21:10
  Now, how do you feel about men wearing white in a heterosexual?
• 21:14
  Oh, I mean, I feel like because it's Kody Brown, it's just very
• 21:18
  showboaty. Like, you know, is like Elvis
• 21:22
  and Vegas vibes. Like he just wants to be the
• 21:24
  center of attention. It feels like a red flag to me
• 21:28
  and a sign that he's self involved and needs to share the
• 21:33
  spotlight. And I'm not saying I I'll
• 21:35
  probably get flak for that. The wedding day is about the man
• 21:39
  and the woman in a heterosexual relationship there.
• 21:42
  It's not just about the woman. I get that.
• 21:45
  But if you're trying to like outshine your partner on that
• 21:50
  day or like be on the same level when you should have hard eyes
• 21:55
  and be like, Oh my God, I've never seen you look so beautiful
• 21:58
  in your life. And now we match.
• 22:01
  And I just feel like there's a weird narcissism with a lot of
• 22:08
  men that wear white to their weddings.
• 22:10
  And from what I've seen, whenever a man wears white to
• 22:13
  his wedding, it ends in divorce. 99.9% for sure don't now I.
• 22:22
  Don't quote me on that either. I agree with you because like
• 22:25
  particularly in heterosexual weddings, I mean, there is an
• 22:29
  element of like it's kind of the bride's day.
• 22:32
  It's not just the bride's day. And I think it's important that
• 22:35
  you said that. I mean, it is about a union of
• 22:37
  two people. But really, like, if you're if
• 22:40
  you think you need to be at the same shine level as your new
• 22:44
  wife, that's just weird. But it's weird.
• 22:49
  And Kody, there's so much about the narcissism bit as we know.
• 22:53
  Another thing that I think we learn about later in the series
• 22:56
  is about how he's saying at their wedding, he's saying a
• 23:00
  song by bread, I will give everything I own or something.
• 23:05
  And it's funny, I put it on the My Sister Wives podcast playlist
• 23:09
  on Spotify. But it's weird to get up and
• 23:12
  sing in a gymnasium at your own wedding.
• 23:13
  Like, what does that even mean? I mean, it's not like he's a
• 23:16
  singer. He's just a showboat.
• 23:17
  I'm a singer and I did think about recording a version of me
• 23:24
  singing my song down the aisle. And then I was like, Nah, girl,
• 23:27
  that's too much. That's like icky.
• 23:28
  I mean, I would have to pick on you for that.
• 23:30
  I, I didn't do it because I, I know better and I checked myself
• 23:34
  before I wrecked myself. OK, OK.
• 23:37
  And I did get really drunk at my reception and end up singing a
• 23:41
  song and using the microphone. But by that point, everyone was
• 23:45
  just having a good time. And then my brother-in-law also
• 23:48
  sang a song and we just were having fun with it actually
• 23:52
  being dead serious. Yeah.
• 23:54
  And. Singing.
• 23:55
  A song standing there with the mic.
• 23:57
  Yeah. Like.
• 23:58
  Dinner's coming. I'm going to sing us a song.
• 24:00
  And there's no alcohol involved. No, these people are sober,
• 24:03
  sober, sober, biting each other's hands, shoving food in
• 24:07
  each other's faces, wearing white tuxedos and singing at
• 24:10
  one's own wedding. It's all just like giving me
• 24:13
  very like high school, Oh, very first kiss like, oh, you bite
• 24:18
  their lip because you think it's sexy and you bite it too hard
• 24:21
  and you're like, what the fuck was that?
• 24:23
  And you're both confused the whole.
• 24:26
  Is there a story you wanted to share around that, Kimber?
• 24:30
  Oh God. I mean, I was a natural of
• 24:31
  course, but I did need to slow my roll a bit.
• 24:35
  You get a little too eager. They do go into, you know, the
• 24:38
  different levels of like severity with the Mormon like
• 24:42
  traditions. And yeah.
• 24:45
  The fundamentalist like no kissing, no touching, nothing.
• 24:50
  You have a chaperone for your dates, so it does make a lot of
• 24:54
  sense that it would be like that at their wedding.
• 24:57
  And it's painful to watch. It will just.
• 24:59
  Yeah. It doesn't make it any less
• 25:00
  awkward and we are forced to see this footage time after time
• 25:05
  after time with this show. And again.
• 25:08
  One thing that Kody says that I feel like is worth pointing out
• 25:12
  is we were high on life and young in love.
• 25:15
  And I'm like, OK, Kody, you were high on life and young and in
• 25:19
  love. You said that about Meri right
• 25:21
  here in this episode. So in the future when he's like,
• 25:25
  I never loved these women, it's like, no, no, no, no, no.
• 25:29
  You spent years talking about being in love with them.
• 25:31
  And if you were lying then, then you're lying then or you're
• 25:33
  lying now. You're lying both times,
• 25:34
  probably. So you're just a liar,
• 25:37
  narcissist and a liar. So now it's early morning and
• 25:41
  we're at Janelle's home. Birds are chirping.
• 25:46
  She said something like, well the kids have to be to school at
• 25:48
  like 6:30 so I have at 5:45 or some shit and it's like Oh my
• 25:52
  God, I'm not jealous of you people with children that get
• 25:55
  them ready before school or daycare because it sounds like a
• 25:58
  nightmare. So fun.
• 26:00
  Yeah, terrible, terrible. I remember it as a kid.
• 26:02
  It was bad enough as a kid. I can't imagine doing it as an
• 26:04
  adult. And we do have Gabriel and
• 26:06
  Garrison who are arguing about a video game.
• 26:09
  Yeah, something about, oh, well, you are on your video game all
• 26:12
  the time. Well, you play your video game
• 26:14
  more than me. And it's like, OK, no one cares.
• 26:16
  Little boys, young boys. Yelling at each other and
• 26:20
  Janelle tells them not to communicate at all.
• 26:23
  There is no reason for you guys to even be communicating at all
• 26:26
  right now. She said the word communicating
• 26:28
  like 10 times within a minute. Like, don't even communicate
• 26:32
  with each other. Like they're so at each other's
• 26:35
  throats all the time that she would rather have them pretend
• 26:37
  that the other one is dead and not talk to each other.
• 26:40
  That's kind of where they're at, yeah.
• 26:41
  I'm sure there were times in my home as a child, my childhood
• 26:45
  home, where my mother was like, just don't communicate.
• 26:48
  Like just stop. And you, I know you will get
• 26:50
  there. Like just stop.
• 26:52
  Just leave each other. Literally just stop.
• 26:54
  I've already been at that point and one of my kids can't even
• 26:56
  talk yet so barely can talk. Please stop talking.
• 27:00
  Yeah. Oh my God, so good.
• 27:02
  Janelle tells Gabriel to go wake up Savannah nicely.
• 27:06
  She's like nicely and I'm like oh this is so good because
• 27:09
  obviously it's foreshadowing to how it's not going to be very
• 27:11
  nice. So he goes to Savannahs room and
• 27:14
  tries to get her out of bed by at first just kind of shaking
• 27:18
  her a little and then it's, you know, pull off the blankets and
• 27:21
  then it's jump on her body and then it's shove her to the side
• 27:24
  of the bed. So we're escalating and we're
• 27:26
  escalating. He says he's going to give her
• 27:29
  Dolly a swirly if she doesn't get out of bed.
• 27:34
  So he takes the doll into the bathroom and is, like, holding
• 27:37
  it over the toilet. Like, what is that called?
• 27:40
  Like threatening, Like, it's going to happen, Savannah, it's
• 27:43
  going to happen. You see his arm, like, going
• 27:45
  down slowly, like, he's like, it's going to happen.
• 27:47
  And of course, he's being filmed.
• 27:48
  So this is only egging on this little boy.
• 27:51
  And eventually, the doll's head does end up in the toilet.
• 27:54
  Yeah, he straight up dunked that doll's head in the toilet and
• 27:58
  gave it what, His version of a swirly?
• 28:01
  Swirly. Yes, I don't know, did he flush
• 28:04
  the toilet with the dolls head and I?
• 28:05
  Don't think that he did. I think he just physically
• 28:08
  swirled her head in the toilet like he didn't know what a
• 28:10
  swirly actually meant. Maybe.
• 28:13
  So good. Yeah, but he's a little shit.
• 28:15
  I mean, he is a little shit. I don't know.
• 28:18
  Yeah, Gabes a little troublemaker.
• 28:20
  And he even as an adult, he still has that thing about him.
• 28:23
  Like it never really goes away. Really.
• 28:25
  Gabe's probably that adult where his siblings recognized after
• 28:29
  like 3 drinks or something. It's like, oh, he's starting
• 28:32
  here. It comes like, oh God, here it
• 28:34
  comes. Yeah, because that's how it is
• 28:36
  with my brother. I know when it's like, oh God,
• 28:38
  here we go. And everyone kind of looks at
• 28:39
  each other like, all right, Tony's here, Tony's here.
• 28:44
  Oh, that's funny. This is where Kody gives us a
• 28:47
  medical update on Meri. What does he say about her?
• 28:50
  Her popped knee, honey. She sprained her MCL, partially
• 28:56
  tore it. ACL.
• 28:58
  MCL. Oh, OK.
• 29:00
  Did I say ACL? No, I thought it was ACL but is
• 29:03
  it MCL? You know what?
• 29:04
  You're probably. I think it's ACL, which I love
• 29:09
  because you were going to give Kody shit about his like blah
• 29:12
  blah blah. But yes, partially torn or
• 29:15
  sprained ACL which? Isn't that a huge difference?
• 29:19
  They don't know what they're talking about.
• 29:20
  I feel like once again, she probably didn't even go
• 29:22
  anywhere. They probably went to the
• 29:24
  medical supply store and bought her a crutch and a brace, a knee
• 29:27
  brace. And she's like it's going to be
• 29:29
  6 to 8 weeks and it's like way to self diagnose you're torn and
• 29:33
  or sprained ACL like. Yeah.
• 29:36
  They probably read it in one of those like Family Home Journal,
• 29:38
  but like the family medicine book that everybody has, right,
• 29:41
  like the world Medicine book. They open it up and say Oh well
• 29:44
  her knee popped so it must be a sprained or partially torn ACL.
• 29:49
  That's hysterical. That's like the older version of
• 29:53
  WebMD. Yes, it's like, yes, the analog
• 29:56
  version, the hardcore old school version of WebMD, Meri is
• 30:00
  immobilized. Immobilized.
• 30:03
  Which I love the word immobilized.
• 30:04
  Kody goes, which is not good. Not good.
• 30:08
  Oh, it's. Not good.
• 30:09
  Because he's probably like, fuck, now I got to take care of
• 30:12
  her and she's going to be needy and not, or she's not going to
• 30:15
  be able to help out and do the things that I need her to do.
• 30:18
  Oh. God, you can't have a lazy wife.
• 30:21
  We all know this. A lazy wife is a terrible thing.
• 30:25
  Yeah, so she's immobilized. Meri's bedridden and she says it
• 30:30
  was a blast. And I'm like God, Meri, like I
• 30:33
  just don't even believe anything she says.
• 30:36
  I would go again. Yeah, and, and she's telling us
• 30:39
  this story about how she would love to go skiing again because
• 30:41
  it was such a blast. I was so distracted because her
• 30:44
  eyebrows are only one hair thick and eat the whole thing.
• 30:49
  It's like the skinniest eyebrow I've ever seen on a white
• 30:52
  person. Oh boy.
• 30:53
  Yeah, I, I think hers were a little skinnier than what I
• 30:57
  usually call the Nike check eyebrows of that era where they
• 31:01
  literally look like a Nike check and I.
• 31:03
  Robyn rocks that a little bit. Hers have more of like a box at
• 31:06
  the end. I don't know what that would be
• 31:07
  called. Yeah, I still know people that
• 31:09
  have Nike check eyebrows and it. It's like something they've held
• 31:14
  onto from their youth, like, 'cause it's a woman of a certain
• 31:17
  age usually who's like, I had these eyebrows when I was 15 and
• 31:21
  I'm never getting rid of them. And it's like you never should
• 31:23
  have had them, honey. Yeah, it's not a good look.
• 31:25
  It makes me cringe. And I am the type of person so I
• 31:30
  have my cosmetology license. I did hair actively for 10
• 31:35
  years, so when I see something like that, I can't look away.
• 31:39
  Like that's the thing that I will focus on the whole time
• 31:42
  that I'm like talking to somebody.
• 31:45
  Looks like the last time that we trimmed my Bush down by my
• 31:48
  pelvic region and you were like, Chris, you need help, you have
• 31:51
  to trim this. It's out of control.
• 31:53
  Right. And then we made it into a
• 31:55
  beautiful like handlebar mustache and now it looks
• 31:59
  wonderful. And it does look wonderful.
• 32:01
  I have a lot of bumps, though, whatever that's called, from the
• 32:03
  ingrown hairs around my mustache above my crotch.
• 32:09
  And now I'll always think of Meri with my bumps on my crotch.
• 32:14
  OK, we do get a moment with all of the adults on the couch.
• 32:18
  And I had to laugh because right next to Meri, she's got those
• 32:22
  crutches and I'm like L0L, 0L. Like Meri in the show episode is
• 32:26
  like, I've got a knee brace and I've got the crutches.
• 32:30
  This is my story. I pop the knee.
• 32:32
  It's a torn and or dislocated ACL.
• 32:36
  Like a bit. She just can't let go of she.
• 32:38
  Can't let go. And that's why she's got to ride
• 32:40
  that. She's got to sit in that bed and
• 32:43
  watch that daytime TV. She also during the interviews
• 32:46
  has her leg up like on the coffee table during the
• 32:49
  interview and it's just like, OK, do you really need to have
• 32:53
  it elevated all the time like right now on the coffee table
• 32:58
  during the sit down interview? Totally, totally.
• 33:01
  I thought. She's milking it for all it's
• 33:03
  worth, which is nothing. It's literally worth nothing.
• 33:06
  It's just me. All it's worth is us making fun
• 33:08
  of her. That's all it's worth.
• 33:11
  Meri does talk about how they can struggle with watching Kody
• 33:14
  do nice things for the other wives.
• 33:16
  Now I think she's speaking for everyone in that sense.
• 33:19
  Maybe she's only talking about herself.
• 33:20
  But the implication that I got was yes, we do.
• 33:25
  Maybe she's only speaking for herself.
• 33:27
  Meri does get jealous when seeing nice things being done
• 33:31
  for other wives in a understandable way, is what
• 33:35
  she's trying to convey. So she, yeah, she kind of at the
• 33:39
  beginning she's talking about her own jealousy, but then she
• 33:43
  mentions that there are sometimes things that she
• 33:48
  doesn't tell the other wives that Kody does for her because
• 33:51
  she doesn't want them to feel that way towards her.
• 33:55
  So she kind of is projecting and.
• 33:59
  Like I mean I would assume that her intentions are not bad by
• 34:03
  sparing these stories or details if her real intent is to not
• 34:08
  make anyone feel a certain kind of way about.
• 34:11
  It yeah, if she doesn't want him to feel jealous or feels like
• 34:13
  it'd be rubbing it in someone's face that maybe it's something
• 34:16
  they had wanted to do as well that they didn't get to do.
• 34:19
  But. What a complication with your
• 34:21
  spouse. OK, so like, you and I are
• 34:23
  married to the same person and then they're doing something for
• 34:27
  me that I don't want to share with you because I'm assuming
• 34:31
  you'll be jealous because of our history of probably my own
• 34:34
  jealousies of what he's done for you.
• 34:36
  I think it's such an odd dynamic.
• 34:38
  It's messy. It goes into the whole, like the
• 34:43
  whole religion is just about lying and covering stuff up and
• 34:49
  having the kids lie and having the wives like lies of a
• 34:54
  mission. And there's a lot of secrecy and
• 34:58
  a lot of stuff where it's, it's just unhealthy.
• 35:03
  It just feels weird and unhealthy.
• 35:06
  Love should be multiplied, not divided.
• 35:07
  Honey, not their favorite line. Even though you're dividing it
• 35:11
  by 4. Right.
• 35:14
  Literally dividing. Literally dividing yourself,
• 35:16
  yeah. So we get to date #2 where
• 35:22
  Janelle and Kody go to Red Rock Canyon to go hiking, and she
• 35:29
  talks about how she's been very consistent with her workouts for
• 35:33
  the past six months, and she is happy that she's physically
• 35:38
  capable now to actually go on a successful hike.
• 35:42
  On a hike, yes the hiking area is very pretty.
• 35:46
  I love, you know the red rock? What not nests like the desert
• 35:50
  Southwest is so beautiful. So I'm happy that they have
• 35:53
  those. I should say I'm happy.
• 35:54
  I'm jealous that they have those outdoor activities to do because
• 35:57
  it's actually really, really pretty there.
• 36:00
  Janelle does reference another hike slash camping trip thing
• 36:04
  that they did in season 2 where they had a similar episode where
• 36:07
  they had date nights and her and Kody went camping where you
• 36:12
  wanted to buy sleeping bags and whatever.
• 36:15
  And she's like, we've got blankets and pillows and.
• 36:17
  We've got comforters. Kody was where they discussed
• 36:20
  being more comfortable with their PDA and blah blah blah.
• 36:23
  And it's interesting to hear Janelle referencing this because
• 36:26
  she makes it sound like they barely made it to the campsite.
• 36:29
  Like she could barely make it up a hill.
• 36:31
  She was really out of shape. And they show her when they
• 36:33
  first go to the gym and she's really is out of shape.
• 36:37
  So, you know, her workouts, she says, seem to be paying off.
• 36:41
  But Kody makes a comment as they're on the hike.
• 36:45
  Like he says, you're fun to go on hikes with now, right?
• 36:50
  Like, oh, you're actually fun to do this with now.
• 36:54
  It's like, shut up. I know he has to take every
• 36:57
  opportunity to be an asshole that he can.
• 36:59
  It was like, yeah, just an unnecessary dig.
• 37:02
  We get that they're calling attention to this and it's like
• 37:06
  the shtick for their part here, but I don't know but.
• 37:10
  It's classic Kody because you could give a compliment like, Oh
• 37:12
  my God, I just love going on hikes with you.
• 37:14
  You don't have to say it like that.
• 37:15
  We're like, hikes have always been fun with you, but now we
• 37:18
  can just go a little farther and it's fun.
• 37:21
  Like, come on. I don't know what his well, he's
• 37:24
  got many problems. I think that he does this a lot
• 37:26
  where he does some what they call nagging where they make a
• 37:33
  compliment, but it's backhanded. So it's like, oh, I'm giving you
• 37:37
  a compliment, but I'm also taking you down a peg at the
• 37:40
  same time, like push, pull. And I think that's atrocious.
• 37:46
  I hate, I hate that. Yeah, he does do that a lot.
• 37:49
  Yeah. I got a chuckle.
• 37:51
  Oh, God. So now I'm going to be nigging.
• 37:53
  No, I'm just kidding. I'm not going to even pretend
• 37:55
  there's a compliment in there. She's not being like, I could
• 37:58
  get off the couch without pushing and I could do a squat
• 38:02
  with weight on my shoulders. And I was like, oh, God.
• 38:04
  And I hate to say it, but it is a reminder of just how out of
• 38:08
  shape Janelle was. And like, if she's in a better
• 38:11
  place now, that's great. It's not like she looks like,
• 38:14
  you know, stop the insanity, woman.
• 38:15
  She's. She's not exactly, you know,
• 38:16
  like rocking the Jane Fonda look, but at least she can get
• 38:20
  off the couch without hoisting herself and can put some weights
• 38:24
  on her shoulders and do squats, so that's good.
• 38:27
  I think of like the pregnancy rock where you're like so big in
• 38:31
  front that you, you put your hands behind your back and you
• 38:34
  like kind of rock yourself a couple of times to get that
• 38:37
  momentum to get like up out of the couch or whatever.
• 38:41
  And I'm. I kind of looked over at you
• 38:43
  during that point because I was going to laugh because I was
• 38:46
  thinking, oh, yeah, I know, I know how that feels.
• 38:48
  To have to rock up out of something and to have that just
• 38:51
  be your everyday would be. Yeah, a lot.
• 38:56
  It would be a lot. Yeah.
• 38:57
  And. Remember when they were at the
• 38:58
  gym and Bill was talking to her about, you know, what the
• 39:04
  outcomes were likely going to be because of her health?
• 39:06
  And she was very much like, I know, I know, I get it.
• 39:08
  And it's a weird place to be in when you're I've been out of
• 39:12
  shape. I have been overweight and been
• 39:13
  like, this is what it is. Like, I get it.
• 39:16
  Like I rationally understand it. I'm not in denial about the
• 39:19
  situation. I'm I'm just not motivated yet
• 39:21
  to change this or something. And they do talk a lot like
• 39:24
  during weight loss, you know, programs, non scale victories.
• 39:28
  And I like that she's focusing on that because I think she says
• 39:32
  she's only lost like 10 pounds, 10 lbs, but she's lost 16
• 39:36
  inches. 18 inches I think. 18 That's huge, huge.
• 39:39
  That really is huge because you're gaining muscle weight and
• 39:43
  so you're gaining muscle mass, but losing those inches, that is
• 39:49
  huge and it makes you feel more comfortable and you are able to
• 39:53
  do it more. And I don't even like to weigh
• 39:56
  myself because I always am like, it's how I feel.
• 40:00
  And it's like I can wear these jeans that I love to wear still
• 40:03
  and that feels good to me. I don't really need to know how
• 40:06
  much I weigh, you know? So I really do like that she's
• 40:09
  focusing on that part of it. I think that's healthy.
• 40:12
  Like that's a very healthy mindset to have.
• 40:14
  Agreed, particularly with the baseline of muscle weighing more
• 40:20
  than fat. And so that's such a like, it
• 40:24
  can be such a deterrent to people that are doing both,
• 40:26
  doing weight loss and muscle building.
• 40:28
  And it's like, you know, if you're not, I think it's great
• 40:31
  that Janelle's losing the inches.
• 40:33
  That's wonderful. Kody and Janelle are on the
• 40:36
  couch having a little bit of a spotlight moment and Kody starts
• 40:40
  talking about how Logan was his first born child and Kody and
• 40:44
  Chanel both talked about how the kids brought their young
• 40:47
  relationships closer together. Yeah.
• 40:50
  And so, you know, once again, kind of a discussion of the,
• 40:53
  like, struggles at the beginning, Janelle joining the
• 40:57
  marriage with Meri and Kody. They were very young.
• 41:00
  They didn't know what they were doing.
• 41:02
  There was a whole bunch of shit from the book about Janelle
• 41:05
  feeling like they were a couple and she was like a guest in
• 41:09
  their house, Like, just weird shit, you know?
• 41:11
  And then she got pregnant with Logan and had Logan, and Kody
• 41:16
  was very happy about that, his first child.
• 41:18
  And he says something like, they're going to be together
• 41:20
  forever. I was like, Oh my God.
• 41:23
  So here is an instance where you see a Band-Aid, an unhealthy
• 41:29
  Band-Aid being put on a shitty relationship situation of having
• 41:35
  a child to fix. Saying that it's fixing a
• 41:40
  problem. Yeah, yeah.
• 41:41
  Yeah. And then all of them had kids,
• 41:43
  so it was even more. It's like band aids on band aids
• 41:45
  on band aids. Like we all started having kids
• 41:47
  and then all of a sudden we're all like, busy.
• 41:49
  Now we've got this, you know, blended family, and it's
• 41:51
  important to keep the family together.
• 41:53
  Yeah, yeah. It's like, OK, the dam's about
• 41:56
  to break and you just keep trying to add more shit to block
• 42:00
  the holes because the water is about to go plummeting through.
• 42:04
  She does say, too, that she sees them staying together and very
• 42:09
  involved until they die, even when the kids move on.
• 42:14
  So she talks about how a lot of people, like, after the kids
• 42:17
  leave, they don't have anything in common anymore.
• 42:20
  And people, you know, can separate and relationships
• 42:23
  change at that point. And she says that she thinks
• 42:27
  they're going to stay very strong and involved and be there
• 42:31
  for their grandkids. Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 42:34
  Which is funny because they don't even make it till all the
• 42:36
  kids are out of the house. So thanks, Janelle.
• 42:38
  Right now, we're going to cut to Christine's house.
• 42:42
  Early morning she wakes up and everyone's getting ready for
• 42:47
  school and Christine tells us there's going to be a daddy
• 42:51
  daughter dance, Daddy daughter dance for Valentine's Day.
• 42:56
  Yeah. So apparently this is in
• 42:58
  February, there's going to be this daddy daughter dance at
• 43:01
  school. She says that Gwendolyn asked
• 43:04
  Logan to be her date because Kody has several daughters that
• 43:08
  he needs to be an escort to. Five daughters 5.
• 43:11
  Girls 1 Kody. 5 Girls 1. Sorry, I should not be.
• 43:16
  I didn't mean it to be that kind of reference.
• 43:20
  Oh God. Oh, I mean, you know, if you're
• 43:22
  not talking about his children, you're talking about his wives.
• 43:24
  And it's 4 girls in one Kody, so it's not that much of a
• 43:26
  difference. Oh my God.
• 43:28
  Insert the porn video cover that you want if that's what you were
• 43:31
  thinking. I'm not saying you were, not
• 43:33
  saying you were. Yeah, Gwendolyn makes a comment
• 43:36
  that kind of is like a little heartbreaking where she asked
• 43:41
  Logan to be her date because she wants someone all to herself for
• 43:45
  the dance. Like she doesn't want to share
• 43:48
  for the dance. And it's very sweet.
• 43:50
  It's like touching, like you asked your brother to be part of
• 43:53
  this situation. But it's also a little
• 43:56
  heartbreaking because she doesn't get to have that special
• 44:00
  connection with her dad during that.
• 44:02
  Yeah, I'm curious what it would be like to have been whatever on
• 44:08
  the wall watching this daddy daughter dance where Gwendolyn's
• 44:12
  there with her brother and like, are people asking about that?
• 44:16
  And she's like, yeah, I know my dad's here, but like I'm with my
• 44:20
  brother. Like I just wonder how that what
• 44:23
  their comfortability level is, you know, like what is she?
• 44:26
  She felt comfortable enough saying that she was just hoping
• 44:28
  to have someone all to herself. Yeah, and that's understandable.
• 44:32
  Yeah, I don't know. It was cute and also a little
• 44:36
  heartbreaking at the same time. Yeah, it was both things.
• 44:39
  So yeah. Christine is gonna stop by
• 44:41
  Meri's to see if she needs any help because of, you know, her
• 44:45
  broken leg. Yep, she needs some help.
• 44:49
  Meri's got that peg leg. She's in in bed with a, with a
• 44:53
  parrot on her shoulder patch on her eye.
• 44:58
  Oh God. So Christine says she's going
• 45:00
  to, you know, swing on over to Meri's.
• 45:02
  There was some sort of reference when she was walking the kids
• 45:04
  maybe to the bus stop or something.
• 45:05
  And she's like, we're going to get exercise.
• 45:07
  So we're going for a walk. And I just love these, like,
• 45:10
  throwaway comments that they keep in where it's like, yeah,
• 45:13
  you're walking down the street, like, OK.
• 45:16
  Yeah, she said something about how they said they were going to
• 45:18
  start going on a walk every day. Oh, sure, the big walk, the big
• 45:23
  W over to Meri's. So Christine does make her way
• 45:26
  to Meri's. I believe Meri's in bed with
• 45:29
  her. Well, yes, she's got her leg
• 45:31
  brace on and it's up on a pillow on her bed.
• 45:34
  Like it's like got to keep it elevated.
• 45:36
  She's like got it up next to her ear.
• 45:39
  Yes, it's high. It is high, like it's like Carl.
• 45:43
  She's like the camera crews coming.
• 45:44
  It's almost like when people have put on the fake neck brace
• 45:46
  like when they've been in a car accident.
• 45:48
  And then they turn their neck in.
• 45:50
  Yes, yes. But it's just Meri with her leg
• 45:53
  up super high. Like, girl, you're fine.
• 45:55
  It's a fake injury. So Christine, at one point, you
• 45:59
  know, they're starting to chat and she points to a photo of
• 46:02
  Kody, Meri and Leon. And it's like, oh, that's a cute
• 46:05
  family photo. We don't have any cute family
• 46:08
  photos. Maybe, I don't know, Maybe it's
• 46:10
  cuz like my husband's never happy with me.
• 46:12
  And it's like, Oh my God, Christine.
• 46:14
  Yeah. Oh my God, probably true, but
• 46:17
  now you're just opening up the floodgates for Meri to give you
• 46:21
  bad advice. Horrible advice, which is what
• 46:23
  Meri does. Meri and this we just talked
• 46:25
  about this last episode. Meri loves to give some advice,
• 46:29
  solicit it or not, and she's very much like, well, everyone
• 46:32
  should have my experience, everyone should understand what
• 46:34
  I'm talking about, everyone should blah blah, blah, blah.
• 46:36
  And it's like Christine, she's an idiot for listening and
• 46:41
  Meri's an idiot for speaking. Yeah, she's like shame, Shame.
• 46:45
  That's your name. Meri wants to shame Christine.
• 46:49
  She does. She goes like hard at her too.
• 46:54
  She says like Christine needs to change and it's hard for guys to
• 46:58
  say that they're wrong, so she shouldn't expect it.
• 47:01
  Yeah, ridiculous. Yeah, ridiculous.
• 47:04
  Yeah. No matter how hard it is to say
• 47:06
  that you were wrong, that is bullshit.
• 47:08
  And also, it's not like Christine was teeing this up
• 47:11
  with like, well, Kody's always wrong and I'm always telling him
• 47:13
  he's wrong. It's like Meri's just like,
• 47:14
  well, I know your patterns. I know everything.
• 47:17
  Kody is never going to say that he's wrong, so you're just
• 47:21
  supposed to adapt everything about yourself to fit this
• 47:24
  narcissist who will never acknowledge that he's wrong.
• 47:27
  Yeah, she literally says you just have to work through your
• 47:30
  own issues. Yeah.
• 47:32
  All right. So weird, so weird.
• 47:37
  And it's also, it's always weird to see Meri and Christine having
• 47:40
  these conversations because at some point, Christine lost her
• 47:43
  cool on Meri about the kids with, like, the punishments and
• 47:46
  being like, you're too strict on the kids.
• 47:49
  And so for the entire time that they're filming the show,
• 47:51
  whenever they're together alone, it's like, so uncomfortable
• 47:55
  because Christine doesn't seem to have much patience for Meri.
• 47:58
  She's she's not into it. She's not a fan.
• 48:00
  Yeah. And then Meri's, like, I'm going
• 48:02
  to give you this advice. And it's bad advice and
• 48:05
  Christine just wants her point validated.
• 48:08
  She just wants her perspective validated from what it seems
• 48:10
  like. Yeah, she definitely was fishing
• 48:13
  for someone to give her validation at that moment.
• 48:18
  And yeah, Meri was just not giving it.
• 48:21
  And Christine even points out like Meri's fakeness basically
• 48:26
  with being happy all the time and going along with everything
• 48:29
  all of the time. She points that out and even
• 48:33
  says it to her. Before she gets into this about
• 48:35
  Meri, there's something where she says something like do I
• 48:38
  have to do everything one sided? Because when Meri's talking
• 48:41
  about how Christine needs to take onus for everything and she
• 48:45
  needs to change herself because she can't change anyone else.
• 48:47
  And Christine does have a very valid question about being like
• 48:51
  but how is it all one sided? It just is not and that's what
• 48:55
  she's fishing for, is for someone to acknowledge that it's
• 48:57
  not just one sided, which Meri will not do.
• 49:00
  Did you think it was odd that Christine?
• 49:02
  So she asked Meri, has Kody ever admitted he's been wrong to you
• 49:06
  before? And then she goes, I'm sorry, is
• 49:08
  that too much? You don't have to answer that.
• 49:11
  Right. And backtracks and I'm like,
• 49:13
  that's a calm. Like that would be a question I
• 49:15
  would ask a girlfriend. Like you should be able to ask
• 49:19
  that, right, Without feeling like you're overstepping.
• 49:24
  But I don't know. Of your husband's wife.
• 49:26
  This is what's so weird, right? Like, you're supposed to be
• 49:28
  friends. You're supposed to have this
• 49:30
  eternal bond in this relationship, but yet like,
• 49:34
  yeah, is it appropriate to ask your husband's other wife if he
• 49:38
  ever acknowledges that he's wrong?
• 49:40
  I feel like that's such a simple.
• 49:41
  Question, I think like yes, it's totally appropriate, but this is
• 49:43
  their, their dynamic does not work.
• 49:45
  They do not communicate well. No, it's very weird.
• 49:48
  Christine says that she thinks Kody stopped making the first
• 49:53
  three wives feel special. Yeah.
• 49:55
  And that he, you know, with the first three of them was very
• 50:00
  good at, you know, individually making them feel special for,
• 50:04
  like, what they each meant to him and, like, they're things
• 50:10
  that they were good at. And when Robyn came along, he
• 50:13
  stopped making the first three feel special.
• 50:17
  Yes. Yeah.
• 50:18
  And that was a comment that was very like telling.
• 50:21
  Well, and when Meri's telling her, you know, like, get over it
• 50:25
  or whatever, Christine points out to Meri that Meri didn't get
• 50:29
  an anniversary gift this last year.
• 50:32
  She didn't get an anniversary date.
• 50:34
  And that goes along with that lines of like, well, he seems to
• 50:37
  be ignoring you. I mean, like, he's not really.
• 50:39
  You're pretending. Yep.
• 50:40
  Everything. She's got a rose colored glasses
• 50:42
  on. Everything's fine because I have
• 50:44
  to do the work for me. And it's like, girl, you're
• 50:46
  going to be doing that work alone for the next two decades.
• 50:50
  She is for sure trying to call out Meri during this
• 50:56
  interaction. Right, without being too.
• 50:59
  Direct when she's just like, yeah, she's looking for someone
• 51:04
  to validate her feelings. And so she's pointing out to
• 51:07
  Meri, look like you're in the same boat that I'm in.
• 51:10
  Why are you yet so in denial? Christine asks Meri.
• 51:14
  So am I supposed to just act like everything's OK?
• 51:16
  And Meri, at this point, because she has been a little browbeat
• 51:20
  by the questions, is like, well, no.
• 51:22
  And it's like, OK, So what then? And Meri has no good advice for
• 51:27
  her, of course, because she doesn't.
• 51:29
  She just says, Meri says, because she needs to just have
• 51:32
  fun and be happy with Kody. Yes, have fun, be happy with
• 51:35
  Kody. You know, that's great advice
• 51:38
  for every wife out there. What I would say, grin it and
• 51:41
  bear it. Yep, just drink booze, pop pills
• 51:45
  and pretend everything's fine. That's the American way.
• 51:48
  Happy now? Yeah.
• 51:51
  Like it's a black and white TV show.
• 51:52
  Yeah, you're June Cleaver and everything's fine.
• 51:54
  Everything's great. I'm only here for the good
• 51:56
  times. Christine says she's still
• 51:59
  having issues with jealousy with Robyn and the courting situation
• 52:04
  about how that's a whole deal, that she thinks that this is the
• 52:08
  root of their issues. But to me, it doesn't ring true
• 52:12
  that Robyn joining the family is the root of their issues.
• 52:16
  I think this is where Chris, it's like the latest thing.
• 52:19
  It might have pushed her over the edge.
• 52:21
  I think it's the fly that broke the camel's back.
• 52:23
  OK, OK. I think that the.
• 52:25
  Fly that broke the camel's back. Isn't that what they say I.
• 52:28
  Think it's the needle? No, the straw that broke the
• 52:32
  camel's back. That fly, oh, that fly landed on
• 52:35
  the camel. My back.
• 52:39
  My hump. Mom not not Meri's me and then
• 52:42
  your hump. Oh my God, the fly.
• 52:46
  The fly that broke the camels. Why?
• 52:48
  Did I say the? Fly that broke Meri's meniscus.
• 52:51
  I don't even think I've. Never said that before or
• 52:54
  thought that it was. It was an interesting mix up but
• 52:57
  it's OK. Oh God, Robyn being courted was
• 53:00
  the fly that broke Meri's meniscus, and we all know that
• 53:04
  it's true. Oof, I well they do make a
• 53:07
  comment too about how it's been 16 years since the last wife,
• 53:11
  which was. Christine Yeah, yeah.
• 53:13
  So after 16 years, yeah, you'd be comfortable and you would be
• 53:19
  so comfortable. So then to bring this other
• 53:21
  person in, it would definitely be the fly that broke my back.
• 53:25
  Yes, 100 damn sure. 100%, yeah. The idea that Kody did balance
• 53:30
  things well with three of them. Now, Christina's very much
• 53:35
  trying to highlight that things are not balanced with the four
• 53:37
  of them. And this has been a thing since
• 53:39
  the beginning, and we all know that that's true.
• 53:42
  Obviously, he's in love with his soulmate Robyn.
• 53:45
  Meri gives this terrible example of an ungrateful child and how
• 53:50
  that's how Christine is behaving.
• 53:51
  Like, you know, when you do something for Gwendolyn or what
• 53:54
  she names a child and then they're unhappy with whatever
• 53:57
  you did for them and it's like, well, and why am I even doing
• 54:00
  this for you? It's like they don't appreciate
• 54:02
  it. It's like, God, Meri, why?
• 54:04
  Why I'm? Giving this man too much grace,
• 54:06
  this is he's allowed to act like an ungrateful child.
• 54:09
  Meri is so delulu I cannot. But that is part of her
• 54:16
  upbringing right? Like you better make the man
• 54:19
  happy and he can act however the hell he wants to you.
• 54:23
  It's your job to make him happy. You're the only one that you can
• 54:27
  fix. Who said that to her?
• 54:29
  How many times in her life? Her mom, Bonnie, her mom
• 54:33
  Bonnie's like, the only one that you can fix is yourself.
• 54:35
  Like, Oh my God. And she probably hated that when
• 54:38
  she was younger she was like, fuck mom, stop saying that to
• 54:41
  me. And now she's saying it to all
• 54:44
  of. Her, she's saying it to
• 54:44
  Christine. We do get a brief break where we
• 54:49
  cut to Robyn changing Solomon on this baby table thing.
• 54:53
  Random little. And she said she can't visit
• 54:56
  Meri because she has four sick kids.
• 54:59
  As she's like as the baby's like, hacking in her face.
• 55:02
  As Saul like literally burps and coughs at the same time and
• 55:05
  makes like an ungodly little baby noise.
• 55:08
  Was this the point where the pacifier popped out or was that
• 55:11
  later? I know, I don't know, there's a
• 55:14
  few times in this episode where it's like that baby is
• 55:18
  struggling. And I I do want to say but.
• 55:21
  We're at the beginning when Kody was holding him.
• 55:23
  Yeah. Why was he holding the baby like
• 55:26
  that? That's not a great.
• 55:27
  He was holding it like in AC shape.
• 55:29
  Yeah, like constricting it. And the baby is like sick and
• 55:32
  coughing. And imagine being in the C shape
• 55:35
  when you're coughing. Like get it together.
• 55:37
  Kody, get it together. But the baby is struggling and I
• 55:41
  do want to say for everybody that they did take the baby to
• 55:46
  the doctor, so she's not just like a letting the kids suffer,
• 55:50
  but it sounds pretty awful. It sounded awful.
• 55:52
  There's there's the two things that stuck out to me is lol
• 55:56
  moments, even though it's like, thank God.
• 55:59
  So Kody holding Solomon in this weird position and then
• 56:02
  Solomon's head is to the side while he's in the C shape and
• 56:05
  his eyes are like all red and bulbous and his skin is pasty
• 56:10
  and he's a little chub and he's like, Kody's just like bouncing
• 56:14
  him in his heart. And it's like, what are you
• 56:16
  doing? Like put him over your shoulder
• 56:18
  and give him some Pats on the back.
• 56:19
  Get that cough out like. So unnatural and as you said,
• 56:23
  for Kody's like 720 third child, you think he would know how to
• 56:27
  hold a kid? That's why I was like, this is
• 56:29
  this is the shit that pisses me off to see like you try to be
• 56:33
  like dad of the year every year to all these kids, but you don't
• 56:37
  even know how to hold a fucking baby.
• 56:39
  Get it together. And so the first one is this
• 56:42
  terrible footage of Solomon looking sick as fuck.
• 56:46
  And then the second one was, I don't know if it was this moment
• 56:49
  with Robyn talking to camera about Meri or if it was when we
• 56:52
  get reintroduced to her later in the episode.
• 56:54
  But Saul is laying on the changing table or on the
• 56:58
  whatever and coughs and the pacifier pops up, shoots over
• 57:03
  the side of his head. And I was like, Oh my God, this
• 57:06
  footage. Yeah, I think they use the same
• 57:09
  take for two separate days, like 2 separate times.
• 57:13
  I think they're trying to give her more airtime because both of
• 57:17
  those clips that you're referencing have nothing to do
• 57:21
  with what's like before or after in a way that's like meaningful
• 57:25
  at all. And there's more filler when
• 57:27
  we're getting when we get to Robyn's segment where Kody's
• 57:30
  talking about the children and there's shots with like the
• 57:33
  whole family where he's holding the kids.
• 57:35
  So it's like they're using even more footage in places to make
• 57:39
  his daddy vibes even better. And it's like, this wasn't even
• 57:43
  the same day or the same house. Like Oh my God.
• 57:46
  But they do have lazy editing on this show and we are lazy
• 57:50
  watchers. So a lot of times people are
• 57:51
  probably just like Berber, Derber Der.
• 57:53
  And it's like, OK, this is completely fake.
• 57:55
  It was obvious in this episode. I think probably because they
• 57:58
  were sick, they maybe didn't get as much footage of the family
• 58:01
  like at Robyns. So they're having to kind of
• 58:05
  piece it together like a Frankenstein and.
• 58:07
  We'll see more of that for sure, whether they're sick or not.
• 58:11
  So we see Kody and Christine. Kody's picking her up in the new
• 58:17
  convertible. Oh, the sexy new convertible.
• 58:20
  The gorgeous, the gorgeous copper convertible, it's just so
• 58:25
  gorgeous. Gorgeous.
• 58:27
  Date #3 Paintballing. They're going to go
• 58:30
  paintballing. It's very romantic.
• 58:33
  Takes her to go paintballing and she says that it's cheap
• 58:37
  therapy. Oh.
• 58:39
  It's a good way to get their anger out.
• 58:41
  Shooting each other cheap. Therapy.
• 58:43
  Hey, shooting at your husband? At the shooting range or the
• 58:46
  course or whatever that's called.
• 58:47
  I don't know what those things are called where there's like
• 58:50
  all the crap outside, you know, like fish houses and big tires
• 58:53
  and whatever. I.
• 58:56
  Think it would be like a course. Of course.
• 58:58
  Yeah, I did do that. I did it one time, same like in
• 59:02
  a group activity thing and it was very fun.
• 59:05
  I agree with a group, yeah, mind you.
• 59:08
  I had a good time when I did it. I don't think I would have fun
• 59:13
  just doing it with my husband. I love my husband dearly, love
• 59:17
  him to death, but. You wouldn't want to shoot him
• 59:19
  with a paintball gun. I mean.
• 59:20
  Well, that would be fun. If he held up his shirt and was
• 59:23
  like, shoot me with the paintball.
• 59:25
  Point range like whatever. Yeah, at close range.
• 59:30
  I also had a Taser when I lived downtown and I tried to get him
• 59:34
  to let me. Tase him.
• 59:36
  Oh, God. Did he let you?
• 59:38
  No. Yeah, I don't blame him.
• 59:39
  He would not. I would not.
• 59:41
  I mean in the thigh or something like come on.
• 59:43
  You're like a larger Guinea pig, like, OK, let me tase you and
• 59:47
  then you can tase me and let's see if you want to do it, you
• 59:49
  know? I would do it.
• 59:50
  Oh God, that was the wrong. All right, how many people want
• 59:53
  to see me, Chris Tase Chris on camera?
• 59:56
  No, no, no. No, no, that we actually
• 59:57
  recorded it's. The other way around, I'm going
• 59:59
  to tase you. You're not tasing me it.
• 1:00:01
  Would have to go both ways, Sir. Well, I'm not signing up for
• 1:00:04
  that. Cheap therapy.
• 1:00:05
  Oh God, do we need it? I don't think.
• 1:00:06
  I don't think we need it yet. I.
• 1:00:08
  Think we're still in love? Let's.
• 1:00:09
  Wait till season 5. We'll see.
• 1:00:12
  We'll either paintball each other at close range or shoot
• 1:00:15
  each other with a Taser. It's only episode 2 together.
• 1:00:17
  I don't know why we're talking this way.
• 1:00:19
  I think they're in love. I'm like, I'm not married to
• 1:00:23
  you. You're not tasing me.
• 1:00:24
  You're. Not tasing me.
• 1:00:28
  Oh God. It's been a while since I've
• 1:00:30
  even brought that puppy out. Bad boy, anyway.
• 1:00:34
  Kody lets us know that when we talk too much, we bring up our
• 1:00:38
  problems, so this is a good activity because we don't need
• 1:00:42
  to talk. He says they can't start talking
• 1:00:44
  or the problems come out and they don't want to address them.
• 1:00:47
  He literally is like, we don't want to talk about our problems.
• 1:00:50
  Oh. My God.
• 1:00:51
  And he's trying to explain to her, like mansplain to her how
• 1:00:55
  it works, like to hide behind the stuff and shoot between this
• 1:00:58
  stuff. And he's like, I feel so guilty.
• 1:01:00
  You're covering so much paint like he one or shot her so many
• 1:01:06
  times. It's like gross.
• 1:01:09
  Luckily I blocked out most of that experience because I was
• 1:01:11
  like I don't even care like this is terrible.
• 1:01:13
  It's like I'm gonna take out all of my anger from all of my wives
• 1:01:18
  on you with this big. No.
• 1:01:22
  She's got like triple the shots on her.
• 1:01:25
  She's a trooper and she gets shot with some paintball
• 1:01:29
  bullets, some paintball things, balls, and then Kody's going to
• 1:01:34
  surprise her with the second part of their date.
• 1:01:38
  And you know, it just makes me want to puke.
• 1:01:41
  He's all like, we're I'm going to surprise you, I'm going to
• 1:01:43
  surprise you. And then they do a commercial
• 1:01:44
  break and they come back and she's like, oh, God, Kody, Oh
• 1:01:47
  God, Kody, oh Kody. And it's just like, Oh my God.
• 1:01:52
  And there's a helicopter. So they've left the shooting
• 1:01:56
  range to go to the parking lot where there's a helicopter
• 1:01:59
  waiting for them. Cliche.
• 1:02:01
  And she is completely shocked doing her fake Christine
• 1:02:06
  happiness, which is just whatever that is.
• 1:02:09
  Apparently Kody says that Christine suggested it a long
• 1:02:12
  time ago that they go on a helicopter rhyme.
• 1:02:17
  In their right mind suggests to their husband, OK, I can't say
• 1:02:21
  that because there's a lot of women that watch the bachelor
• 1:02:24
  and this is a cliche ass date from like the bachelor.
• 1:02:29
  So there's probably a lot of basic bees.
• 1:02:32
  Yeah, sorry. That would be like, oh, that's
• 1:02:35
  so romantic. A helicopter date.
• 1:02:38
  Why? Oh my God, Oh my.
• 1:02:40
  God. I know I was thinking like if I
• 1:02:42
  walked out and there was some, my man was like, I got us a
• 1:02:45
  helicopter ride. The first thing I would think
• 1:02:47
  was no, no, no, no. Please don't tell me this is how
• 1:02:50
  you're going to propose. Like, please don't tell me
• 1:02:51
  you're going to take me somewhere and then be like, now
• 1:02:54
  I'm going to be now I'm going to get out on my knee and I'd be
• 1:02:56
  like, why did you do this with a helicopter?
• 1:02:58
  Like, why are we these people? We're not these people.
• 1:03:00
  We're not these people. We are not Gretchen Rossi.
• 1:03:02
  We are not on the Real Housewives.
• 1:03:04
  We are not on The Bachelor. Please don't do this.
• 1:03:06
  We're not landing in Hawaii. The grass isn't flowing in the
• 1:03:10
  waves caused by the Helix. Jurassic Park, there's like
• 1:03:13
  dinosaurs behind. I'd be like, well, this might be
• 1:03:15
  worth it, but you know, just to like go up and look around and
• 1:03:19
  be like, well, because there isn't a proposal.
• 1:03:21
  They've been married for however many years at this point.
• 1:03:24
  Yeah, I'm not interested. So oh God.
• 1:03:27
  And then you have to wear the little headphones to talk to
• 1:03:29
  each other or you're like, what? Yeah, what?
• 1:03:32
  That's what I was saying at the beginning, like, oh, Yep, I had
• 1:03:35
  my headphones on this entire episode.
• 1:03:36
  I was tuned on in. Oh, that's like a nightmare to
• 1:03:40
  me. And maybe it's just because I
• 1:03:42
  have like a gabber. I like to gab.
• 1:03:44
  Oh God. Imagine me on a helicopter, just
• 1:03:49
  like talking to to my husband. Like the entire time you're just
• 1:03:52
  looking. Out trying to enjoy the view and
• 1:03:54
  you're like blah blah blah blah, right?
• 1:03:56
  Into his ear, just right in there.
• 1:03:59
  Voice to ear, Voice to ear. I'd feel bad for him, I would.
• 1:04:03
  Well, Kody and Christine land on some sort of bluff or something.
• 1:04:06
  They, you know, they whisk into the sky and then they whisk on
• 1:04:10
  down. I guess whisk is the word I'm
• 1:04:11
  using for the helicopter. Right.
• 1:04:13
  Whisk like Wheaton. And they they.
• 1:04:15
  Yeah, like some whole wheat pancakes that nobody wants and
• 1:04:19
  they land on a bluff or some sort of rock formation and that
• 1:04:24
  was that. Maybe they did get their grass
• 1:04:26
  wafting in the wind moment when they landed and it was like he
• 1:04:30
  grabbed her hand like Cinderella and she stepped out of the
• 1:04:34
  helicopter. You think if they had that
• 1:04:35
  footage they wouldn't have showed us?
• 1:04:37
  I think that that would have been.
• 1:04:38
  Shown This is just another one of my made-up moments that let
• 1:04:42
  me have it OK, let me have it let you.
• 1:04:45
  Have it for Christine. All right.
• 1:04:48
  Kody takes the opportunity to tell us about how he asked
• 1:04:52
  Christine's father for her hand in marriage and they were
• 1:04:56
  married two months later. So Christine's father was an
• 1:05:00
  elder in the church. The.
• 1:05:01
  Head of the church. Yes, yes, because her
• 1:05:04
  grandfather was the head of the church and then he was murdered
• 1:05:06
  by like another family member. So then apparently her dad
• 1:05:09
  became like this, you know, maybe the the new leader or
• 1:05:12
  something. I don't know the details.
• 1:05:15
  Well, this is the thing about Christine.
• 1:05:16
  She joked about how she said, oh, you know, I said something
• 1:05:19
  like Hoffa, maybe of all the boys thought you'd be the one
• 1:05:22
  I'd want to marry. Kody took that as a informal
• 1:05:26
  engagement. She literally was like, Oh yeah,
• 1:05:29
  he thought I'd proposed to him. And so he went and asked my dad
• 1:05:33
  and the head of the church if he could marry me.
• 1:05:36
  And obviously her father was both so.
• 1:05:39
  And this was after Nacho Gate, so he had already decided that
• 1:05:42
  she was chubby and that he was disgusted by her.
• 1:05:45
  But she is polygamist royalty so might as well get that ring.
• 1:05:50
  Put a ring on that chubby finger.
• 1:05:52
  And she says that she thought he was the life of the party before
• 1:05:56
  the marriage. She had a different idea of him
• 1:05:58
  before they got married. This is a theme for her, Yeah,
• 1:06:02
  is she wants to be the third wife.
• 1:06:05
  She always talks about if she wanted to be the third wife
• 1:06:07
  because the first wife, blah, blah, blah, the second wife had
• 1:06:10
  problems. The third wife would come in and
• 1:06:12
  everything would be figured out by this point.
• 1:06:14
  And hey, hey, hey, guess what? We got another Band-Aid.
• 1:06:17
  We got another person acting as a Band-Aid here on the dam
• 1:06:20
  that's going to explode. He thought that Christine helped
• 1:06:24
  with Meri and Janelle's struggling relationship because
• 1:06:28
  they hadn't been communicating well.
• 1:06:30
  And then along comes Christine and she fixes it.
• 1:06:37
  Wives 1 and 2 can't get along, so let's add another.
• 1:06:40
  Yeah, absolutely. And it seemed to work great.
• 1:06:43
  I think earlier in the in the show he references that she
• 1:06:48
  saved their bacon, which is a lovely way to tie in Christine's
• 1:06:52
  appearance. God, I just feel.
• 1:06:55
  Terrible, terrible. They just keep using people as
• 1:06:58
  band aids and like and big. References.
• 1:07:00
  Let's add more babies, Let's add more wise.
• 1:07:04
  We'll fix it. We'll fix it.
• 1:07:05
  We'll fix it. She'll be the frosting on the
• 1:07:07
  cake or the bacon in our pan. He literally said the frost,
• 1:07:10
  like the frosting. She was like the frosting.
• 1:07:13
  Yeah, Oh my God. He really loves the food
• 1:07:15
  metaphor when it comes to Christine.
• 1:07:17
  OK, so if you were let's say, Oh my God, I know.
• 1:07:23
  Let's say that you we're down with all of this.
• 1:07:27
  What wife, what husband would you want to be?
• 1:07:30
  What number? I my knee jerk is the first cuz
• 1:07:34
  I think being a legal spouse makes a little bit of a
• 1:07:38
  difference. And in seeing the Browns and
• 1:07:42
  Sister wives, Meri does kind of rule the roost.
• 1:07:45
  Like up until Robyn comes along, it was kind of Meri's world and
• 1:07:49
  everyone lived in it. Like everyone respected her.
• 1:07:51
  She was the. She got her way.
• 1:07:53
  Probably head of the household in a way.
• 1:07:55
  Yeah, what about you? I would say the first or the
• 1:07:59
  last, of course, like first because you get to be in charge
• 1:08:04
  and everyone kind of looks up to you and looks to you for
• 1:08:07
  answers, or last because like, you're the hot new young thing
• 1:08:11
  and you're the like, my boobs are still perky.
• 1:08:15
  I'm like about to have my babies and I'm, yeah, I'm the hot new
• 1:08:20
  thing. And this is me.
• 1:08:21
  Just like being devil's advocate.
• 1:08:23
  If I was like in this situation, the third, the third.
• 1:08:28
  Christine's, She lives in her own world.
• 1:08:31
  She made this decision when she was a kid.
• 1:08:34
  She saw other polygamous couples and thought the third wife had
• 1:08:37
  it the best. Yeah, but I think she was under
• 1:08:40
  the impression that they were never going to get a fourth
• 1:08:42
  wife. Series of deduction.
• 1:08:43
  She just kind of was like, this is the best situation I've seen
• 1:08:48
  it played out like multiple times.
• 1:08:50
  So I do think she was, you know, honestly thinking it through
• 1:08:54
  because she thought for sure this would be her life because
• 1:08:57
  she was raised in the the part of the church that did, you
• 1:09:02
  know, plague me. So I I do think you know, she
• 1:09:06
  deduced from her experience the best opinion she could on this.
• 1:09:10
  Yeah, the best role. Yeah, and she probably thought
• 1:09:15
  she was going to be the last, cause what was it, 16 years
• 1:09:20
  since her? And then Robyn comes along.
• 1:09:22
  She for sure thought she was the last wife.
• 1:09:25
  Oh yeah. Yeah, that's a long ass time and
• 1:09:28
  she just had a baby. It's not like she's out of her
• 1:09:32
  baby making years and he needs another wife because, you know,
• 1:09:36
  he's got a quiver full. He's got to fill that quiver and
• 1:09:40
  have all them babies. Yeah.
• 1:09:44
  Well, he left her while she was giving birth to truly to go make
• 1:09:48
  out with Robyn. I mean, he will.
• 1:09:50
  Never live that down in my mind or in anyone else's minds, I
• 1:09:53
  don't think. It's a mess, yeah.
• 1:09:55
  And to take further, the which wife would you want to be?
• 1:10:00
  The one I would want to be the least would be the second one.
• 1:10:03
  Like Janelle's position. Like to come in and be like the
• 1:10:05
  awkward third wheel and then have someone else come in and
• 1:10:08
  hopefully that makes it better. Like that would be so weird.
• 1:10:11
  I think the only plus side to being somebody in the middle is
• 1:10:16
  that you're kind of the glue in a sense that you could fly under
• 1:10:20
  the radar if you were. Yeah, if you wanted.
• 1:10:23
  Wanting to. And I think Janelle kind of
• 1:10:26
  operates like that. Like it doesn't.
• 1:10:28
  She probably would want more from her husband, particularly
• 1:10:31
  at the beginning of their relationship, but it probably
• 1:10:34
  did work for her to be like, hey, you know what?
• 1:10:36
  I'm an independent person. I'm an autonomous person.
• 1:10:39
  I get to do my own thing and like it's fine.
• 1:10:41
  And I think I've told you this before, like in private
• 1:10:44
  conversations, but I really think that Janelle is the head
• 1:10:50
  of the household. I think Kody would like to think
• 1:10:53
  he is, but Janelle runs the pocketbook.
• 1:10:57
  She crunches the numbers. She's trying to keep the family
• 1:11:01
  together and is the one that keeps bringing it up over and
• 1:11:04
  over again. The other wives are like, give
• 1:11:08
  or take. We could live separate lives,
• 1:11:10
  separate, whatever, and I really, really do believe that
• 1:11:15
  Janelle had the best intentions with this.
• 1:11:18
  I agree about her intentions. There's examples from the book
• 1:11:22
  Becoming Sister Wives though, where I mean, she left for a
• 1:11:26
  couple years and lived in another state with her kids.
• 1:11:31
  So I think maybe that's just part of her built in like
• 1:11:37
  bullshit radar thing. Like she will only put up with
• 1:11:39
  so much for herself individually.
• 1:11:41
  But I think the reason that that's not even really addressed
• 1:11:44
  or made a big point is because she's like, I didn't leave the
• 1:11:49
  family. I was doing what I needed to do
• 1:11:50
  for me. And then I came back when the
• 1:11:52
  time was right. Like we all came back together
• 1:11:54
  anyway. So it's just there's just that
• 1:11:56
  one example of her packing up her shit and leaving.
• 1:12:00
  But I think it was cuz she'd had enough of Meri.
• 1:12:02
  Like she was done with Meri shit so she left for like a year or
• 1:12:05
  two. But really what that means is.
• 1:12:08
  Kody came to. Earth Well, and Kody would go to
• 1:12:10
  visit her and the kids like, you know, on the weekends or
• 1:12:13
  something. She probably bought.
• 1:12:14
  I think at one point she would even bring her kids to stay with
• 1:12:16
  Christine for minutes, you know, like for a chunk of time.
• 1:12:19
  So it's not like she was gone. She just was like, I'm not going
• 1:12:23
  to live with these other women. Like I'm not going.
• 1:12:25
  To do I know my worth and we have to figure this out or I'm
• 1:12:29
  out. And she's also kind of a woman
• 1:12:30
  of few words, so she doesn't really describe a lot of things
• 1:12:34
  in detail. Often times, you know, but there
• 1:12:36
  is that always fall back when you look at the patterns.
• 1:12:39
  She is the one that's like, we should all be living in one
• 1:12:41
  home. All the kids should be
• 1:12:43
  supported. Like her relationship with Kody
• 1:12:45
  is very much about the children and not in a way that makes it
• 1:12:49
  seem like she's band dating I. Think she's band dating.
• 1:12:53
  I think she truly thinks that her way would work and she's
• 1:12:57
  getting frustrated that it's not playing out that way and that
• 1:13:01
  nobody is like listening to her. She's like shaking people and
• 1:13:05
  trying to get them to do the right thing that would make it
• 1:13:08
  happen, but it's not happening. And she's the one that wasn't
• 1:13:11
  raised in polygamy, so she's the one that had a burning bosom.
• 1:13:15
  She had the voice from God. Tell her you're supposed to let
• 1:13:20
  this. She had her hands perched under
• 1:13:25
  her tits and she had them in AT Rex position and she was
• 1:13:30
  bouncing. Bouncing.
• 1:13:32
  She was here for living this polygamy life.
• 1:13:36
  She chose the polygamy life she chose.
• 1:13:38
  She wasn't bred for the polygamy life.
• 1:13:39
  She chose it and her family tried to have an intervention.
• 1:13:42
  She was disowned by several family members.
• 1:13:44
  It was a whole thing. So she is dedicated to this in a
• 1:13:48
  way that Meri and Christine are not because they were raised in
• 1:13:51
  it. Janelle chose it.
• 1:13:53
  Yeah, how do you admit that? Jesus Christ, literally this was
• 1:13:59
  fucking wrong. When you let your like you let
• 1:14:03
  go of your family and walk away for this.
• 1:14:06
  How do you admit that? And how do you go back?
• 1:14:11
  And I don't know. It must have been like a literal
• 1:14:14
  fundamental part of her. Like even today, season 20 which
• 1:14:18
  is on right now in real time, she references her faith and the
• 1:14:23
  calling. Like she I think she still
• 1:14:25
  probably would be in polygamy if it happened to work for her and
• 1:14:29
  work for her relationships. I think it actually probably
• 1:14:32
  would work for her if she had found the right.
• 1:14:35
  Yeah, I think so. Too family to be a part.
• 1:14:37
  Of I think she's the one that's really dedicated to the
• 1:14:40
  lifestyle. Yeah.
• 1:14:41
  And look, I'm not, I'm not about the religion part of it, but
• 1:14:44
  like, if you want to be Polly, yeah, all the power to you.
• 1:14:48
  But it's not a way to fix relationships.
• 1:14:52
  You cannot be Polly under duress.
• 1:14:54
  You cannot be forced into it. It's not going to fix anything.
• 1:14:56
  It's not a Band-Aid that's going to work and completely heal you
• 1:15:01
  like it's. Like when you and your husband
• 1:15:03
  try to bring in that second wife and it just was it just it?
• 1:15:06
  Just didn't work. Didn't work.
• 1:15:08
  Now we went on a trip to Florida and she didn't come back with
• 1:15:12
  us. Oh.
• 1:15:16
  My God, there's not. There's no ongoing
• 1:15:17
  investigations. Anyway, we went off on a
• 1:15:23
  tangent, but I think rest. In peace, Monica.
• 1:15:25
  I think it's pertinent because we're getting into this, this
• 1:15:28
  second episode together and we haven't had a chance to shoot
• 1:15:31
  the shit about all this. So I like this.
• 1:15:33
  I like it. Even when Kody and Christine are
• 1:15:37
  walking away from the helicopter, they're showing them
• 1:15:39
  like exiting the little scene and they look so uncomfortable,
• 1:15:44
  like they don't even walk well together with each other.
• 1:15:46
  It's very strange. You know what?
• 1:15:48
  Give them the benefit of the doubt.
• 1:15:50
  If the helicopter was still coptering, perhaps they were
• 1:15:55
  like blown and they didn't have their balance or something.
• 1:15:58
  OK. Sure, we'll go with that.
• 1:16:01
  Meanwhile, the helicopter is completely off.
• 1:16:03
  Yeah, meanwhile, like you're giving them a lot the grace.
• 1:16:05
  Yeah, yeah. And Christine does volunteer
• 1:16:07
  something like I'll be more grateful.
• 1:16:10
  So he does. No, she's, well, they go to like
• 1:16:12
  an ice cream shop or something and she's like cuddling in on
• 1:16:15
  him, like hardcore cuddling in on him.
• 1:16:18
  Like, yeah, she kind of looks like she's gonna fall asleep.
• 1:16:20
  Like she's had a really long day and she's tired and she's
• 1:16:24
  cuddling in on him instead. She's like I, I just like, I
• 1:16:28
  know I need to be more grateful. And it's gross because she's
• 1:16:31
  regurgitating this puke from Meri back.
• 1:16:34
  At him word for word, yeah. Which is only going to cement in
• 1:16:39
  his mind, yeah, you're not being very great.
• 1:16:41
  Like this is what I'm. This is my experience.
• 1:16:43
  It's OK, I don't need to change. It's like, yeah, you're she's
• 1:16:46
  only reinforcing that she is the problem to him.
• 1:16:49
  Look at this bread I'm bringing now.
• 1:16:51
  I just got you a helicopter ride.
• 1:16:54
  Yeah. There's this like, unhappy and
• 1:16:57
  ungrateful narrative around Christine that is being placed
• 1:17:01
  upon her and that she is like taking.
• 1:17:05
  She's just taking. Well, that also goes into being
• 1:17:10
  a stay at home mom and like you said.
• 1:17:14
  She just gave birth to Truly. We'd later find out that she has
• 1:17:17
  postpartum depression, which they don't bring up in the show
• 1:17:19
  at this point. It's only that later we find
• 1:17:22
  this out that's a whole other element.
• 1:17:25
  I think a lot of stay at home moms have that guilt too.
• 1:17:27
  I I stayed at home with our first born for 10 months and it
• 1:17:31
  was extremely hard for me as somebody who had worked my
• 1:17:34
  entire life and provided for myself my entire life.
• 1:17:38
  It was hard for me to take on that role and feel like I was
• 1:17:43
  doing all that I could do for my family.
• 1:17:46
  Even though it's like a full time job times 1000 because it's
• 1:17:52
  24/7, not 8 hours a day. Yeah.
• 1:17:54
  So I think that this is put on her in a way that's unfair
• 1:17:59
  because she is the stay at home mom of the group.
• 1:18:04
  I don't know. And with dealing with this
• 1:18:06
  postpartum depression, having a newborn, I'm not sure how old
• 1:18:11
  truly is at this point, but she's still very young.
• 1:18:14
  Yeah. And Christine is navigating
• 1:18:18
  these emotions of feeling like her husband doesn't probably
• 1:18:22
  really love her, isn't supporting her in the way that
• 1:18:26
  she needs, and then she's having her sister wife.
• 1:18:29
  Yeah, tell her that she just needs to suck it up, buttercup.
• 1:18:32
  Yeah, well, she's navigating this depression by herself.
• 1:18:35
  Well, she just had a baby and her husband literally left
• 1:18:38
  during her birth so that he could be with this.
• 1:18:42
  Yeah. Oh my God, I it's so selfish.
• 1:18:45
  It's so selfish to bring in another wife while you have a
• 1:18:50
  wife that is pregnant. I mean that should be all about
• 1:18:55
  her making making a life not easy.
• 1:19:00
  But when you have your brood, I mean, this is that was child
• 1:19:03
  #156I don't even know. I mean, like he, it's like it's
• 1:19:08
  a Thursday. Like it's not really a big deal
• 1:19:10
  to him. He doesn't even care about
• 1:19:12
  holding his children. That's so true, he can't even
• 1:19:14
  hold a baby right? Yeah, it's weird.
• 1:19:17
  Now we're going to move on to Robyn segment.
• 1:19:19
  We all love Robyn, that square jog bitch.
• 1:19:23
  The moment we've been waiting for.
• 1:19:25
  Everyone's been waiting on the edge of their seat to hear about
• 1:19:28
  Robyns date. But before we get to the date,
• 1:19:31
  everyone is sick and coughing at Robyn's house.
• 1:19:35
  Everybody's sick, all the children are sick, everybody's
• 1:19:38
  sick. And it makes me happy that all
• 1:19:40
  of her children are sick. She doesn't seem sick, so
• 1:19:43
  whatever. No, she doesn't like.
• 1:19:45
  Good on her. What's up with that immune
• 1:19:47
  system? Give me some of that.
• 1:19:48
  Give me some of that, Robyn. She's like, I'm not even human.
• 1:19:51
  Like oh, that makes sense. Like do you take echinacea?
• 1:19:53
  What? Robyn says that she and Kody
• 1:19:56
  haven't been out on a date since Solomon was born.
• 1:20:00
  And of course I'm going like, well, when was Sullivan born?
• 1:20:02
  Like 3 weeks ago? Like I mean, I don't know how
• 1:20:04
  old he is. If it's February, he was born in
• 1:20:06
  October. In the last episode, the first
• 1:20:08
  episode wasn't it that he was two months old?
• 1:20:11
  Sure. So if this is only the second
• 1:20:13
  episode, I would assume that he's like.
• 1:20:16
  If we're talking around the time of a daddy daughter dance for
• 1:20:20
  Valentine's Day, like let's just say that week, you're right,
• 1:20:23
  then that would be February and he was born in October, so we
• 1:20:26
  got November, December, January. So maybe he's 3-4 months old.
• 1:20:29
  Why would the first episode be that long before this?
• 1:20:32
  I'm sorry this is getting off. No, I, I, I don't know.
• 1:20:36
  It's very weird their. Production schedule, I mean, the
• 1:20:39
  last episode was about the Christmas rental, right?
• 1:20:42
  So that was back in December. So even October to December,
• 1:20:45
  that would be two months, and now you're adding another month
• 1:20:47
  or two. Who knows what their filming
• 1:20:49
  schedule was all about? Well, yeah, this goes into
• 1:20:51
  production like sometimes episodes were meant to be part
• 1:20:54
  of another season, and then they pull them into another season
• 1:20:57
  and it just doesn't even make sense.
• 1:20:58
  But yeah, they just hope the viewers like.
• 1:21:01
  In the last the lost tell Alls at the end of season 3, they
• 1:21:04
  reference footage that's going to come up, I believe in the
• 1:21:07
  next episode where Robyn and and Christine sit down at a
• 1:21:10
  breakfast and they're talking about something like they go out
• 1:21:12
  to a meal and they reference that in the Lost Tell Alls.
• 1:21:16
  So the tell Alls that this this is there's something with season
• 1:21:20
  3 and 4 where it was all filmed like there's a break in the
• 1:21:25
  season that wasn't supposed to be there or.
• 1:21:26
  Something they did show a clip of that at the beginning of this
• 1:21:29
  episode. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:21:30
  Yeah, which they referenced at the end of Season 3.
• 1:21:34
  So there's footage all over the place here.
• 1:21:36
  Yeah, I feel like the Tell All might have the Tell all happened
• 1:21:40
  that they aired for Season 3, I'm assuming happened after what
• 1:21:45
  we're seeing right now, because they're referencing stuff that
• 1:21:47
  hasn't even happened in the show yet in the Tell All.
• 1:21:50
  So it's weird. It's all over the place.
• 1:21:52
  This is where it's production whatnotness.
• 1:21:55
  Main point being that Robyn claims that they haven't been
• 1:21:58
  out in three or four months on a date.
• 1:22:00
  OK, well, I don't know. Is that does that sound crazy?
• 1:22:04
  I don't know that that sounds crazy.
• 1:22:05
  First date since the baby's been born.
• 1:22:07
  It does not sound crazy. At point, I mean, you know, no,
• 1:22:11
  I don't think people are like, oh, I'm leaving my month old
• 1:22:13
  child at home while going out on a date.
• 1:22:15
  I don't think that's the most common thing.
• 1:22:17
  I mean, I think that my in laws or my mom probably would come
• 1:22:25
  over and let us sleep while she watched the newborn, but we
• 1:22:29
  didn't even want to go anywhere. We were like, please let me get
• 1:22:33
  some sleep. But that was because, hey, you
• 1:22:35
  were both in the house all the time with the newborn, as
• 1:22:38
  opposed to once every four days. Right, right.
• 1:22:41
  Yeah, Yeah. That gift of Kody.
• 1:22:44
  And you know that Kody was spending more time at Robyn's
• 1:22:47
  than anywhere else, so there's no way that Robyn was only
• 1:22:50
  seeing Kody once every four days.
• 1:22:52
  There's just no way he had to stop by that house every day.
• 1:22:55
  And he used the baby as an excuse.
• 1:22:57
  Yeah, of. Course.
• 1:22:58
  She just had a baby. I have to be.
• 1:23:00
  There, she just had a baby. Christine's at home going like
• 1:23:02
  Casey. Ya see ya this weekend with
• 1:23:04
  Hurley. Is still technically a baby.
• 1:23:07
  Like totally totally her little bald baby.
• 1:23:09
  Truly, I love that. Baby's a bald baby I know if she
• 1:23:13
  doesn't have hair for a hot minute, it's so cute.
• 1:23:15
  I love that she does not have hair, like it's one of my
• 1:23:17
  favorite. She's so freaking cute.
• 1:23:19
  She's so cute. Yeah.
• 1:23:22
  Robyn lets us know that Kody is there 100% for her kids from
• 1:23:28
  another sperm donor. Her abusive acts that we don't
• 1:23:31
  know anything about. Can't buy into that story at
• 1:23:33
  all. But it's lovely that Kody shows
• 1:23:37
  up so much for her children and he talks about, you know, being
• 1:23:41
  the father to someone else's children or like, you know what
• 1:23:43
  it what it means. It's like a big deal for him.
• 1:23:46
  He says that he needed to fall in love with her kids too, or he
• 1:23:51
  wouldn't have been able to bear the burden.
• 1:23:53
  Bearing that burden of being 1/4 of a father.
• 1:23:58
  I I just think that it's, it's just saying it all that.
• 1:24:06
  Kody has the savior complex and he's a great guy because he's
• 1:24:10
  taking on the burden of someone else's children.
• 1:24:12
  He only has like 15 of his own, so he's got to take on these
• 1:24:15
  others because he's so in love with Robyn and luckily he's so
• 1:24:19
  in love with her children too. It's funny because I want to
• 1:24:22
  call them bastard children, but they're not bastard children.
• 1:24:25
  They were his. Yeah, the parents were I.
• 1:24:27
  Still might call them the bastard children.
• 1:24:29
  Oh God, let the hate comments come on in, yeah?
• 1:24:31
  It's not the children's fault, Christopher.
• 1:24:34
  It's not their fault. It's not poor Aurora's fault,
• 1:24:36
  Aurora. Brianna fucking freaks.
• 1:24:40
  OK. Kody talks about how when he
• 1:24:44
  sees people out, people that he doesn't know, strangers come up
• 1:24:48
  and ask him. You know, you're out with one
• 1:24:49
  wife. I don't get it.
• 1:24:51
  You have all of these wives. How are you out with one wife?
• 1:24:54
  And while he's talking about this, I kind of, I kind of got
• 1:24:58
  distracted and nodded out and stopped listening because there
• 1:25:01
  was a moment of his cross eyedness where he got a little
• 1:25:04
  cross eyed. And I was like, Oh, Kody does
• 1:25:07
  have the cross eye because, you know, some of the kids have
• 1:25:10
  that, like, oh, mom and dad are cousins.
• 1:25:12
  Look, and we, you know, I haven't, we haven't dove too
• 1:25:16
  much into that, but there's a little bit of a like maybe mom
• 1:25:20
  and dad are related look to some of Christine's children
• 1:25:22
  particularly. And in this episode, Kody was
• 1:25:26
  definitely asked spins dad like, oh, the eyes were not looking in
• 1:25:30
  the same direction at one point. And I was like, Kody, oh, Kody,
• 1:25:34
  what's going on? Oh, Kody.
• 1:25:37
  Kody, Kody, Kody. What are you doing, Kody?
• 1:25:41
  Kody What are you looking at me in the eyes when you lie to me,
• 1:25:47
  Kody? This is why Christine's so
• 1:25:48
  pissed, because she's just like, look at me.
• 1:25:51
  And he's like, I can't, I'm looking at you and Robyn, don't
• 1:25:55
  you see? I'm trying?
• 1:25:56
  I'm trying. Meanwhile, she can't look at him
• 1:25:59
  either because she's looking at 2 directions.
• 1:26:01
  So that's why she's so pissed, because it's miscommunication
• 1:26:04
  but through the eyes. Through the eyes because they're
• 1:26:06
  inbred. Oh God.
• 1:26:08
  We're going to hell. Oh, well, we'll be in good
• 1:26:11
  company. All right.
• 1:26:14
  Robyn lets us know that when she met Kody, she was struck by
• 1:26:16
  lightning, which is not the first reference to the lightning
• 1:26:19
  strike. And it feels like it's a stolen
• 1:26:21
  story because one of the other wives, I think maybe all of the
• 1:26:25
  other wives, talk about seeing Kody being struck by lightning
• 1:26:28
  and then Robyn was struck by lightning.
• 1:26:29
  Because we made eye contact and it was like I was struck by
• 1:26:32
  lightning. She looked at his good eye and
• 1:26:34
  she was like. He needs a monocle to keep that
• 1:26:38
  good eye straight. Oh, I love you, Robyn.
• 1:26:44
  We're just going to tell you that I love you, Robyn.
• 1:26:46
  I love you very much. And of course we need to get
• 1:26:48
  beat over the head again by how Meri really, really wanted Robyn
• 1:26:53
  to be part of their union. And it just makes me want to
• 1:26:57
  puke because it gives Kody all the leeway to be the little
• 1:27:00
  fucking man whore that he was bringing Robyn in.
• 1:27:03
  Because, oh, Meri loved Robyn, and Meri wanted us to be
• 1:27:06
  together. He uses the words Meri was
• 1:27:09
  attracted to Robyn. In a sister wife sense.
• 1:27:14
  And had him ask her to dance. Then he found out she had kids.
• 1:27:21
  Oh yeah. From another Meri.
• 1:27:23
  Dun Dun Dun, the bastards. Yeah, bastard children, which
• 1:27:26
  are not bastards. How would you, how would you
• 1:27:28
  feel now like if you were one of those kids?
• 1:27:30
  And it's like it's referenced so much that like daddy didn't
• 1:27:35
  really want to be with mommy because of you, but he decided
• 1:27:38
  that he loved you. So now he is like, it's icky.
• 1:27:42
  I know, I feel like I don't know.
• 1:27:46
  For me, I'd probably just like water off a duck's back, but I
• 1:27:48
  don't know, Like I don't know what it means to be a child in
• 1:27:51
  this situation at all. Like, I've got to give all of
• 1:27:53
  these kids that have grown up and made it through this shit
• 1:27:56
  some kudos because like, what the fuck?
• 1:27:58
  Well, I mean. Even say.
• 1:28:00
  You're from the perfect family. Like your parents are still
• 1:28:02
  together. You're like.
• 1:28:04
  I'm the perfect child. Yes, you parents did have one
• 1:28:07
  extra kid that you know, they broke the mold from having two
• 1:28:12
  to three. To three.
• 1:28:13
  Yes, the oops baby. The what do they call that the?
• 1:28:17
  My mom would literally call family.
• 1:28:19
  Oh yeah, the atomic family. Atomic Family.
• 1:28:21
  Yes, my mom literally says that about the youngest in my family.
• 1:28:24
  She goes my oops baby and it's like, oh God, we should ask him,
• 1:28:27
  we should have him on the show. What was it like to be an oops
• 1:28:29
  baby? How did you feel to know that
• 1:28:32
  you potentially were in love, but now you are?
• 1:28:34
  You were a mistake, but we're happy you're here now.
• 1:28:37
  OK? Is Meri a big old lesbian?
• 1:28:38
  Yes. Does Meri want to dip in the
• 1:28:40
  woman pond? Yes.
• 1:28:42
  Does Meri want to eat Robyn out? She did at one point.
• 1:28:44
  Yeah. But Kody just takes advantage of
• 1:28:48
  it. So gross in this way of like,
• 1:28:50
  oh, Meri just loved Robyn and Meri was all about this.
• 1:28:53
  It's like you're just. It just seems like no matter
• 1:28:57
  what would have been the outcome, the story would have
• 1:29:00
  never changed that Meri wanted Robyn around and it gave Kody
• 1:29:03
  carte blanche to do whatever he wanted.
• 1:29:05
  You are 100% correct, that's exactly what it is.
• 1:29:08
  It's an excuse. And Meri was just like, Kody
• 1:29:11
  wants to give me some attention because I'm OK with this chick.
• 1:29:13
  So she was eating it up. She was eating it up.
• 1:29:16
  She could have even like we don't like really know.
• 1:29:19
  She could have even been like, oh, like she needs a friend
• 1:29:22
  right now. She needs people on her in her
• 1:29:24
  corner like let's befriend her as a family because she needs
• 1:29:29
  that. And maybe not even in like a
• 1:29:31
  sister wife way. Maybe she just honestly was
• 1:29:34
  like. This desperate single mother
• 1:29:36
  needs some help. Struggling.
• 1:29:38
  I have had a few friends in my life that I've made and then
• 1:29:44
  quickly found out that they were the type of person that was like
• 1:29:49
  an emotional vampire. And the reason they didn't have
• 1:29:52
  friends is because they literally sucked the life out of
• 1:29:56
  you. And you're like, sorry, I do not
• 1:30:00
  need this in my life. I'm a grown ass adult.
• 1:30:02
  Like this isn't high school. I don't need an emotional
• 1:30:04
  vampire. And I think that Robyn is an
• 1:30:07
  emotional vampire that glommed onto this family.
• 1:30:10
  And I think that we're hearing about that moment right now.
• 1:30:13
  Yeah, and she sucked them all dry.
• 1:30:14
  I think that she probably looked desperate.
• 1:30:16
  She probably looked like she was going through a hard time and
• 1:30:19
  Meri was reaching out and. Robyn, you know, she worked so
• 1:30:25
  hard supporting her children, doing what?
• 1:30:28
  Driving 5 hours to meet Kody at some dance?
• 1:30:31
  Oh, someone in the cults filming ATV show?
• 1:30:33
  What if I just accidentally meet him and I'm a single mom who
• 1:30:35
  needs all this help? And oh Meri, oh Meri, I can be
• 1:30:39
  all nice to Meri. She's a parasite.
• 1:30:41
  Yeah, totally. She glommed on to Meri and she
• 1:30:45
  got her free ride like a tick on a dog's back out of the shit
• 1:30:50
  hole that she was in. From a family on a camel's back
• 1:30:53
  to a tick on a dog's back. God, I sound really.
• 1:30:56
  Untreated. Yes, you can take Kimber out of
• 1:31:00
  the farm, but you can't take the farm out of Kimber.
• 1:31:02
  I used to be a horse girl when I was a young girl.
• 1:31:04
  Let's blame it on that. Oh God, she's been bareback.
• 1:31:10
  Robyn and Kody do go to a fondue dinner, which I was distracted
• 1:31:14
  by because it made me go, oh, I haven't been to a fondue dinner
• 1:31:17
  in a long time. I'm not even mad at fondue.
• 1:31:20
  You know the reason I'm not mad at fondue.
• 1:31:22
  A boy took me out on a date once to fondue to Melting Pot.
• 1:31:26
  He didn't let me know what our plans were.
• 1:31:28
  He just said we're something like middle of the road, like
• 1:31:31
  something nice, but not don't worry about being too fancy.
• 1:31:34
  We went downtown. We went to Melting Pot, and it
• 1:31:36
  was a late reservation. And we stayed so long that the
• 1:31:39
  whole restaurant was figured out.
• 1:31:40
  And the staff, like, totally knew we were on a date, like,
• 1:31:42
  whoever serving us and was like, don't worry about it, Take your
• 1:31:45
  time. And they were, like, doing their
• 1:31:46
  end of shift, whatever. And he dared me to stand up and
• 1:31:50
  pull my pants down. And I did.
• 1:31:52
  And I was like, oh, my God, this is so scandalous.
• 1:31:55
  And he truly loved me. Yeah.
• 1:31:57
  And. You were like fondue can do,
• 1:32:00
  fondue can do. So I was pantsless in a melting
• 1:32:03
  pot, but it was only for a second.
• 1:32:05
  But it did turn out to be quite a nice little romance in its own
• 1:32:09
  way. So I always view fondue fondly.
• 1:32:12
  I do like making Korean BBQ. Like I like making things at the
• 1:32:15
  table. It's so American.
• 1:32:18
  I just said Korean barbecue and you're like, it's so American.
• 1:32:21
  No, no, no. I mean like, like, let's stick
• 1:32:24
  all of our food in cheese and the cheese butter.
• 1:32:28
  The oil though, the meat in the oils, I like that.
• 1:32:31
  OK. And the dessert in.
• 1:32:33
  The naive about this I've never been like.
• 1:32:35
  Strawberries in the melted chocolate girl.
• 1:32:39
  It's not bad. The only reason I say that is
• 1:32:41
  because it's like a lush thing, like let's dip food in another
• 1:32:45
  food like that's. It's kind of like 70s or
• 1:32:48
  something. Something.
• 1:32:49
  It's like very yeah, American throwback.
• 1:32:51
  I think it's like sixties, 70s. You see at Goodwill a lot the
• 1:32:55
  little pots. But you do you love a goodwill.
• 1:32:59
  Love a good goodwill. Oh my God, I love it.
• 1:33:02
  You're gonna you're gonna show up one of these days at home
• 1:33:05
  with a fondue pot for your. Husband brought it up.
• 1:33:08
  Because what if we're? Gonna pull it out from under my
• 1:33:10
  seat right now and just like elegantly presented it.
• 1:33:13
  Oh God, I'd be like honey, there's no way to elegantly
• 1:33:16
  present a fondue pot. Yeah, I beg to differ and we'll
• 1:33:19
  see. Robyn asks Kody if he's too old
• 1:33:22
  for more children. That that was what she was
• 1:33:25
  wondering. Are you too?
• 1:33:27
  Were you too old? Kody?
• 1:33:29
  I thought, are you too old for more children?
• 1:33:31
  Because it's not that you don't have the capacity for it or.
• 1:33:35
  Not that you don't have the love for it or like, I forget what
• 1:33:40
  she what words she used, but it was basically do you have like
• 1:33:43
  the capacity, like the time for it, Not do you have the love for
• 1:33:48
  it to. Share She knew he had the love.
• 1:33:50
  Because he was offended when she asked that question.
• 1:33:53
  How dare you, How dare you. I could have 74 children and I'd
• 1:33:57
  have enough love for all of them.
• 1:33:58
  But wait, wait, wait, then she said.
• 1:34:01
  But you'll be 63 when Saul is 18 and.
• 1:34:04
  He goes. Oh, like, do I have the
• 1:34:08
  capacity? He was, I think when he heard
• 1:34:10
  the numbers like 63 and 18, because he can't probably do
• 1:34:14
  math on his own. He heard the numbers and was
• 1:34:16
  like, oh shit, yeah, you're right.
• 1:34:18
  Like, oh, I will be 63 one day, scary.
• 1:34:21
  And my child will only be graduating from high school.
• 1:34:24
  Scary. Yeah.
• 1:34:25
  And they just had a baby and she's not done having babies.
• 1:34:30
  No. So he's probably going like, oh,
• 1:34:32
  fuck. I also feel like it's a little
• 1:34:35
  weird because 63, early 60s is an odd age in the sense of is it
• 1:34:40
  too old to have kids graduating from high school?
• 1:34:43
  Like, I don't know. I kind of feel like when I was
• 1:34:46
  young, when friends had older parents, I would be a little
• 1:34:49
  jealous because I felt like they always got to be a little more
• 1:34:51
  spoiled and they got a little, I got better stuff and they had
• 1:34:55
  better lives. I don't know.
• 1:34:56
  I had the opposite feeling. My mom had me when she was 33,
• 1:35:02
  and so I guess my mom was old for my friend group maybe, or my
• 1:35:08
  age group. Now, my mom's on the older side
• 1:35:11
  at the time, and I always felt like my friends with younger
• 1:35:15
  moms got to do more and got to have more fun.
• 1:35:18
  That could have been because of like our economic standing too.
• 1:35:21
  And I was like a kid or a teenager.
• 1:35:24
  I didn't think of it that way, but I always was like, oh, I got
• 1:35:28
  fun young mom like. Fun young mom, yes.
• 1:35:31
  I was thinking more like they got a good car, they got to go
• 1:35:34
  to the school they wanted, like they OK, had a little bit more.
• 1:35:37
  I'm thinking from the lens of privilege.
• 1:35:39
  So that's not. Well, I'll tell you, as someone
• 1:35:42
  that had the older parents in her grade, I definitely didn't
• 1:35:44
  get any of that shit. But that's that's economic.
• 1:35:47
  You didn't have a rust rose gold colored coppered convertible to
• 1:35:52
  get you? No, and at that age I probably
• 1:35:55
  would have loved. I know, right?
• 1:35:58
  I would have been OK with it. While they're at this dinner,
• 1:36:01
  which totally feels fake and staged and stupid.
• 1:36:04
  The whole thing feels just ridiculous.
• 1:36:06
  Yeah. And Robyn suggests that maybe
• 1:36:08
  they call Maddie, who's watching the kids, to see if she can
• 1:36:11
  watch the children for longer so they could potentially hit up a
• 1:36:14
  movie. I was like, this is so fake.
• 1:36:17
  The whole thing was so fake. Did we mention they have the
• 1:36:20
  baby with them this whole time? No tall is with them.
• 1:36:23
  We didn't. Even mention that no, they have
• 1:36:26
  the baby at the restaurant with them and then she suggests a
• 1:36:29
  movie after Kody says oh the night's young.
• 1:36:32
  She goes well maybe we could go to a movie.
• 1:36:35
  Babies in the movie theaters. Fuck right off.
• 1:36:39
  So fake. Yeah, so fake.
• 1:36:41
  The whole scene is fake. I've been to a movie once that
• 1:36:45
  someone had brought a baby into and I was a teenager and it was
• 1:36:51
  a Star Wars movie and I'm a huge Star Wars fan and I was so
• 1:36:54
  pissed. I was like, shut that baby up.
• 1:36:57
  Shut that baby. Up that baby Up.
• 1:37:00
  She's like, we're going to the 930 screening of blah blah,
• 1:37:04
  blah, and we're bringing our newborn in a like travel
• 1:37:07
  bassinet. Like Jesus Christ, woman, this
• 1:37:09
  whole thing was fake. It was so fake.
• 1:37:11
  Even when they're sitting at dinner, it was like God, did
• 1:37:14
  they like rent out part of the restaurant for this?
• 1:37:16
  Like it just didn't even feel real.
• 1:37:18
  The whole thing felt super sage. Of course all of their dates
• 1:37:21
  feel staged, they're all for production, but this one felt
• 1:37:25
  very like Oh my God. But I guess it is just two
• 1:37:28
  people sitting at a table talking about nothing.
• 1:37:32
  But this goes back to like what I was saying at the beginning,
• 1:37:36
  that this is only episode 2 of the season and we're seeing a
• 1:37:40
  huge lifestyle change for them right now.
• 1:37:42
  Right. Yeah.
• 1:37:43
  New car, helicopter rides and what's about to happen in the
• 1:37:48
  next season? Going out to fancy dinner?
• 1:37:51
  Yep, that this is not stuff that they were doing before when they
• 1:37:54
  were living on. Probably on government they
• 1:37:56
  were. Crunching numbers before Janelle
• 1:37:58
  was literally crunching numbers. We can't buy a new sleeping bag.
• 1:38:02
  The car being bonus from his job.
• 1:38:07
  Do you not buy it? I don't buy it for a minute
• 1:38:10
  unless he works for Meri Kay. They give out cars when you
• 1:38:13
  reach a certain amount of sales. Did work for Meri Kay maybe.
• 1:38:17
  I mean it's now I'm putting this together.
• 1:38:19
  It's rose gold. I mean hell.
• 1:38:22
  The only reason I think that there's probably legitimacy in
• 1:38:25
  it being a a work related thing is because he already had the
• 1:38:29
  white Lexus, like he already had a convertible.
• 1:38:33
  So to buy another one, one that's a different color for
• 1:38:37
  seemingly no reason, would be even just oddly excessive.
• 1:38:41
  For him, for a narcissist. That wants.
• 1:38:44
  But why would he pick that car? I don't even know it's only a
• 1:38:47
  Nissan. Either way, it's weird.
• 1:38:50
  It is weird, he. Has no taste, though I think
• 1:38:51
  we've learned that he. Does have no taste.
• 1:38:54
  I mean look at his fourth wife. So yes, another display of money
• 1:38:58
  is going to come up, which is part of the gifts for Meri.
• 1:39:03
  We're going to have a birthday party for Meri and Dayton.
• 1:39:07
  Joint birthday party Everybody's favorite thing to do is share a
• 1:39:10
  birthday. Now they do give a shout out at
• 1:39:13
  the beginning to how this has brought Dayton closer to Meri.
• 1:39:18
  I kind of believe, I don't give her thinking the face of like
• 1:39:21
  that emoji that's like I'm broken, you know, I kind of
• 1:39:26
  believe it because I think that Dayton will a reference.
• 1:39:30
  I'm not sure if in the show they've talked about his
• 1:39:32
  Asperger's yet. They.
• 1:39:34
  Brought it up. Okay, and you know, there's some
• 1:39:37
  assimilation issues with the other boys and like him getting
• 1:39:40
  along. That's right because Peyton
• 1:39:42
  walks with him now to school on the bus.
• 1:39:44
  Like they've talked about some stuff with him being treated
• 1:39:47
  like an outsider, being perceived as an outsider and
• 1:39:50
  maybe acting as an outsider. There's an element of truth in
• 1:39:54
  probably mostly from Meri's perspective that like, oh,
• 1:39:58
  there's this thing we have in common.
• 1:40:00
  She probably doesn't mind because he's an outsider to be
• 1:40:03
  like, okay, let's do this thing together.
• 1:40:05
  It gives them a bond. I didn't feel like it was
• 1:40:07
  bullshit. I felt like it was like, that
• 1:40:09
  makes sense. Yeah, I didn't feel like it was
• 1:40:11
  bullshit, but I also think that it's a way for her to make
• 1:40:14
  herself feel good. Well, sure, but we all need
• 1:40:16
  that. Okay.
• 1:40:19
  If they need someone, listen, I share a birthday with no one.
• 1:40:23
  And if I shared a birthday with someone, well, no, I do share a
• 1:40:26
  birthday with Aubrey Plaza and Ariana Grande.
• 1:40:29
  You told me this before. I know I'm obsessed because I'm
• 1:40:32
  beautiful and talented and so it makes sense.
• 1:40:35
  But you're not the type of person that would like give a
• 1:40:38
  homeless person money and then go and put it on your Facebook
• 1:40:42
  page, right? Well, no, I would never give a
• 1:40:44
  homeless person money. Stop.
• 1:40:48
  Let me tell you. I'm terrible.
• 1:40:50
  You set me up for that. Oh God, no.
• 1:40:52
  I mean all my all the things I do good for other people to get
• 1:40:56
  attention. I don't put it online.
• 1:40:57
  I just tell people in person. Yeah, right.
• 1:41:01
  You do the good deed out of the goodness of your heart, and you
• 1:41:03
  don't try to brag about it. Yeah, that's what I meant, yes.
• 1:41:06
  Yeah. All I'm going to say is that it
• 1:41:08
  didn't seem staged to me that their birthdays are on the same
• 1:41:12
  day and that it means something to someone.
• 1:41:14
  I think it probably does mean something to someone.
• 1:41:16
  So that's all I mean. Fair enough.
• 1:41:18
  There's some voice overs while the party's getting set up.
• 1:41:22
  Of course, you know, Meri's got her leg up.
• 1:41:24
  She's got her her hair knee brace on.
• 1:41:26
  She's got her crutches. She's handicapped.
• 1:41:30
  Meri is handicrapped. And that's where And that's
• 1:41:33
  what's going on in this episode. Now, Kody says that there are
• 1:41:36
  challenges to blending our families and he's on the couch
• 1:41:41
  with Robyn for a spotlight moment.
• 1:41:42
  And he shares an example of how Maddie shared a photo with her
• 1:41:46
  and Solomon on social media. And he almost cries.
• 1:41:51
  She. Starts like tearing up.
• 1:41:52
  Yeah, like he gets for Clamped. Yeah.
• 1:41:56
  The problem with Kody is like, I feel like if this was coming
• 1:41:59
  from another person, I would have some feels about it.
• 1:42:02
  Like I would be like that is cute like.
• 1:42:04
  Heart warming. It is a symbol of your family
• 1:42:08
  coming together. But because it's Kody, I'm like,
• 1:42:10
  Oh my God. Well, and it's like, what are
• 1:42:13
  your kids going to do? Be an asshole to a baby?
• 1:42:15
  Like come on. I don't know, Like they keep
• 1:42:19
  bringing it up. Like, we just didn't think that
• 1:42:21
  the kids were going to treat him like a brother.
• 1:42:25
  Yeah, right. Well, like, like throw him down
• 1:42:27
  the stairs. What do you want him to do?
• 1:42:29
  Like I don't know. And you're asking her to babysit
• 1:42:32
  like most. Teenage girls are probably going
• 1:42:34
  to post a photo of their new stepbrother, their half brother,
• 1:42:37
  their true brother, whatever the situation is on their socials
• 1:42:42
  being like hey baby brother. Like it's not exactly the most
• 1:42:45
  moving thing. Once again, if it was in my
• 1:42:48
  family I would probably find it to be touching.
• 1:42:50
  It's just that it's Kody so I don't.
• 1:42:53
  As they're transitioning back to the actual birthday celebration.
• 1:42:56
  I had an LOL moment because I think Christine says to one of
• 1:43:00
  the kids no running in Meri's house.
• 1:43:03
  Oh my gosh, I missed that. That's.
• 1:43:06
  Funny, I was so happy because anytime there's a moment
• 1:43:10
  captured of people being told to act appropriately in Meri's
• 1:43:14
  house, I love it. It's a gift from God.
• 1:43:17
  That's. Funny, Meri and Dayton are
• 1:43:19
  opening gifts on the couch. What kind of gift does Meri get?
• 1:43:23
  Do No Does Dayton? Does Dayton open anything that
• 1:43:26
  we care about? I don't think so.
• 1:43:28
  I didn't. I didn't know anything about
• 1:43:31
  Dayton's gifts. Yeah, I didn't know anything.
• 1:43:33
  Yeah, but Meri gets a special gift.
• 1:43:37
  What does she get, darling? Well, it's very, very special,
• 1:43:41
  and Kody even jokes about how he's going to do this.
• 1:43:46
  He wraps a piece of paper up in a jewelry box.
• 1:43:49
  Oh, in a ring box? And another child makes a joke.
• 1:43:52
  He's proposing again. Everyone thinks it's so funny.
• 1:43:59
  And she proceeds to open the little ring box and unfold the
• 1:44:03
  piece of paper. And what do we have?
• 1:44:05
  The back of the piece of paper is to us and then she's smiling
• 1:44:08
  down like a 12 year old girl who just got her first like little
• 1:44:12
  love note at school. She's like, and I'm like, Oh my
• 1:44:15
  God, girl, stick your chin out. Oh, and it's like a collage that
• 1:44:22
  they put together of Google pics on a piece of paper and they
• 1:44:28
  printed it out and it's a trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
• 1:44:34
  Like printed on the home printer on a piece of paper.
• 1:44:36
  They took like a word doc and they totally Google image photos
• 1:44:42
  of Playa del Carmen and then they used like word art and
• 1:44:45
  wrote Playa del Carmen like over it.
• 1:44:48
  It's not even like a ticket or like anything.
• 1:44:52
  Yeah, not even like a brochure from the travel agent.
• 1:44:54
  Nothing like, right. Like a piece of paper he printed
• 1:44:56
  off from the computer. Yeah, that basically signifies
• 1:44:59
  that they're going to go on a trip to.
• 1:45:00
  Mexico. And what's funny is that they've
• 1:45:02
  showed in the preview her opening this box and, like,
• 1:45:05
  reading a letter. And I was like, oh, my God, he
• 1:45:08
  put a piece of paper in a box. Yeah.
• 1:45:10
  Like. Oh so.
• 1:45:12
  They were teasing it the whole episode with the like coming up
• 1:45:15
  ONS Yeah and after the commercial breaks, and I don't
• 1:45:19
  want to, it was like a let down, but it was just like, Oh my God,
• 1:45:22
  'cause they kept showing Meri looking at it like yeah, it was
• 1:45:25
  a piece of. Gold like she's gonna cry like
• 1:45:27
  he wrote her a poem like and it's like Charles Dickens over
• 1:45:31
  there. Crappy word art printed on a
• 1:45:33
  piece of paper, but it does signify that she gets to go on
• 1:45:36
  another trip to Mexico. Well, yeah, And they say a
• 1:45:40
  couple times in this episode that they didn't do anything for
• 1:45:43
  her birthday or anniversary last year.
• 1:45:46
  And as Christine lovingly pointed out, they haven't gone
• 1:45:51
  anywhere together lately. Kody's just been ignoring you,
• 1:45:56
  Meri. They.
• 1:45:57
  Haven't even left the state together in the last year.
• 1:46:01
  It seems like Kody's been avoiding you at any cost, Meri.
• 1:46:05
  Oh yeah. Oh.
• 1:46:06
  God, and then Meri's like, I know, why do you think I've
• 1:46:08
  pretended to have my knee pop out of place?
• 1:46:10
  I need some attention. Oh boy.
• 1:46:13
  And then she got the trip to Mexico.
• 1:46:15
  See, it's all working out in Meri's paper.
• 1:46:18
  After we are given this touching moment of Meri unfolding a piece
• 1:46:22
  of paper. Oh God.
• 1:46:26
  We come to Meri and Dayton blowing out the candles on a
• 1:46:31
  cake together and this moment was cute.
• 1:46:35
  They were both blowing out the candles on the cake and it was
• 1:46:37
  cute Yes, it was cute. I got to I got to give him a
• 1:46:40
  moment here that was cute. If you're going to share a
• 1:46:43
  birthday, you better both blow your spit all over the same
• 1:46:46
  cake. You know, that's what I.
• 1:46:47
  Was then share it with the rest of the.
• 1:46:49
  Family. I know because Meri's so old.
• 1:46:51
  There's so many candles. Right.
• 1:46:53
  And her dentures fell out and everything on the cake like God
• 1:46:57
  damn. Like Dayton's turning, however
• 1:46:59
  old. At least he's 13, let's say.
• 1:47:01
  And then Meri's turning 74. So there's there's 123 candles
• 1:47:04
  on this cake and they blow, they do manage to blow them all out,
• 1:47:07
  but then like to pull all of those candles out of that cake
• 1:47:10
  and cut it up for the like $75.00 of the family missing.
• 1:47:14
  Yeah, like everyone's like I got 2 bites of cake with half a inch
• 1:47:16
  of frosting. Like, what if there was like a
• 1:47:18
  candle left and it was a trick candle and Kody goes surprise
• 1:47:22
  fifth wife coming in. You didn't blow that last one.
• 1:47:26
  You have a. Girlfriend Meri.
• 1:47:29
  We got another girlfriend for Meri.
• 1:47:31
  Oh my God, I would. Have died.
• 1:47:34
  Thank you for that bizarre hypothetical.
• 1:47:38
  Another imaginary moment in this episode.
• 1:47:41
  Kody's trick candle. We're going to start some lore.
• 1:47:46
  Listen if he this. Is why the episode's missing
• 1:47:48
  because there was supposed to be a fifth wife, however they cut
• 1:47:53
  it. They cut it out.
• 1:47:54
  That's why this episode is not on Discovery Plus Conspiracy.
• 1:48:00
  Oh boy. So to wrap up the episode, all
• 1:48:04
  the adults are on the couch. Meri's there with her knee brace
• 1:48:08
  and her crutches. Elevated by her 500 presents.
• 1:48:11
  Yeah, she's got this piece of paper folded under her leg.
• 1:48:15
  And the adults all say that they all have to work hard on their
• 1:48:18
  relationships. Yes.
• 1:48:21
  And that's the end of the episode.
• 1:48:24
  But and so, you know, another lovely episode from the Brown
• 1:48:30
  family. I really feel like I learned a
• 1:48:32
  lot. So much.
• 1:48:33
  I feel like I also didn't learn anything so.
• 1:48:38
  Yeah, well. We have a complicated
• 1:48:40
  relationship with the Browns. Very complicated.
• 1:48:42
  Now honey, the time has come for you to lip sync for your life,
• 1:48:48
  your life, for you to choose a mustard seed and a shit stain.
• 1:48:54
  Let's start this week. Let's start on a positive note,
• 1:48:57
  and let's start with a mustard seed.
• 1:48:59
  Honey, who are you going to give your mustard seed to?
• 1:49:02
  Who has given you something to plant in the ground and let it
• 1:49:06
  grow? I will say my mustard seed goes
• 1:49:11
  to Janelle for continuing her workouts for six months and
• 1:49:16
  having her non skill victories because that is kind of, you
• 1:49:23
  know, she, she deserves it. She worked hard.
• 1:49:25
  Yep. Applause all around.
• 1:49:28
  I agree that is a great mustard seed because yeah, like when
• 1:49:32
  you're doing the whole self-care vibes, it's easy to knock off
• 1:49:36
  after a month or two or three. So to stick with it for six
• 1:49:39
  months is a very good indicator. Love that for Janelle.
• 1:49:43
  Also love that she doesn't have to like, hoist herself or rock
• 1:49:46
  herself off the couch. It's a beautiful thing.
• 1:49:48
  Right. We've all been there.
• 1:49:51
  My mustard seed this episode. Oh goodness, my mustard seed.
• 1:49:56
  It just sucks when they're all so terrible.
• 1:50:00
  Yeah. I mean, there was a lot of like
• 1:50:02
  corny there. Was a lot of like who gives a
• 1:50:05
  fuck in this episode. So I think I'm going to give my
• 1:50:10
  mustard seed and this will not be the first time I'm giving my
• 1:50:13
  mustard seed to Logan. We didn't hear that much from
• 1:50:17
  Logan in this episode, but he was going to escort his sister
• 1:50:20
  Gwendolyn to the school dance. And that's very, very cute,
• 1:50:23
  especially as like a senior in high school, Like I don't, you
• 1:50:27
  know, when I was a senior in high school, I wasn't going to
• 1:50:29
  my little siblings dances. Like I would be like, no, I'm
• 1:50:33
  too cool for this. I need to go get high with my
• 1:50:35
  friends, get a little stoned. We need to drive around and
• 1:50:38
  listen to little Kim and pretend like we're real cool.
• 1:50:40
  So I have to give kudos where kudos is due and that is to.
• 1:50:44
  Logan yes, that actually is a very good one.
• 1:50:48
  I wouldn't have even thought of that because yes he's not really
• 1:50:51
  in this episode but very good Big Brother vibes.
• 1:50:55
  Absolutely yes. Now shit stain should come a
• 1:50:58
  little easier to us. Well, maybe not because there's
• 1:51:01
  so many shit stains. Who are you going to go with,
• 1:51:05
  darling? It's going to be Meri for giving
• 1:51:08
  a horrible advice about Kody not being able to or having to
• 1:51:13
  change because he is indeed a man.
• 1:51:16
  Yeah, yeah, rough. Very rough.
• 1:51:19
  Real, real rough. Yeah, fuck Meri's advice giving.
• 1:51:23
  No one should ever take advice for Meri.
• 1:51:25
  Literally even today she's trying to be like worthy up and
• 1:51:29
  like, come take advice for me. And it's like, no, no.
• 1:51:31
  To be a no for any dog. Anyone I care about, I would be
• 1:51:36
  like don't do it. Don't do.
• 1:51:38
  It. The camel with the fly on its
• 1:51:40
  back, turns its head slowly, wags.
• 1:51:42
  Talon says no, don't take advice from.
• 1:51:47
  Her. Oh, Meri.
• 1:51:47
  No. The flag goes don't do it.
• 1:51:51
  I'm telling you, don't do it, Christine.
• 1:51:53
  No, Meri, no. Oh, these sounds are terrible.
• 1:51:56
  OK, my shit stain is going to be Kody Brown because Kody Brown is
• 1:52:05
  an idiot. Kody Brown is a narcissist.
• 1:52:09
  Yeah, Kody Brown thinks the world revolves around him.
• 1:52:15
  And for wearing white at his wedding and shoving his finger
• 1:52:18
  into Meri's mouth and then singing as if he was the star,
• 1:52:23
  it's all. It's like it was obvious from
• 1:52:25
  day one it was just no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:52:27
  The red flags were there. The white flags were there.
• 1:52:30
  White flags. There was a lot of white flags.
• 1:52:31
  A lot of ick. And you know what?
• 1:52:33
  I like to give him praise for being a cute little handsome
• 1:52:35
  young man. Because there are photos of him
• 1:52:37
  from when he was young where it's like, yeah, oh, strapping
• 1:52:39
  young red blooded, all American boy.
• 1:52:41
  Yeah, a little airy and a little whatever, but I'm a.
• 1:52:44
  Little bit of a lazy eye a. Little bit of a cute but he's
• 1:52:47
  looking but he's cute. Thumbs down, thumbs down.
• 1:52:51
  Definitely shit stain for Kody for sure.
• 1:52:54
  Whenever they show like old clips I'm just like pulling red
• 1:52:58
  flags from it for sure. Our keep sweet moment for this
• 1:53:01
  episode comes to us from K Cord. Hey Cord, this is a comment
• 1:53:06
  about the surrogacy offering from Robyn.
• 1:53:10
  Think about what Robyn gains from offering surrogacy to Meri.
• 1:53:13
  It feels strategic. She acts like a covert
• 1:53:16
  narcissist to give something that looks kind but later uses
• 1:53:20
  it for leverage. The surrogacy never happened,
• 1:53:24
  but the offer still created a sense of debt.
• 1:53:27
  Her nice gestures made Meri think loyalty to this day and
• 1:53:31
  blinded her to the point she owed her a divorce.
• 1:53:35
  Robyn still uses that gesture to keep Meri feeling obligated to
• 1:53:38
  the family. I mean that woman is insane.
• 1:53:43
  This. Is so true.
• 1:53:44
  We talked about that in the last episode together.
• 1:53:47
  Yes, absolutely. There's totally a sense of debt
• 1:53:51
  owed to Robyn because of this. Nothing was ever going to happen
• 1:53:54
  from it. And Robyn, whether she knew that
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  or not, she was going to play it to be like, look at the nice
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  things I'm doing for you, Meri and Meri.
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  I tried. As a sense of debt, I'm sure
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  this is a great example of how other people are listening to
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  this show and see what's really happening.
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  They hear what's really happening through our bullshit,
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  they are still able to understand.
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  Yep. Well, thank you K Chord for
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  listening. Appreciate it.
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  Thank you so much for your comment.
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  And I see there's some people that have liked it, so obviously
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  people are into it. Christopher, I just want to let
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  you know if you ever meet a surrogate, my womb is your womb.
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  Your womb is my womb. My womb is your womb.
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  I am here for you. So should I get a sperm donor to
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  impregnate you for my child? Oh God.
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  At least it wouldn't have a lazy eye.