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Sister Wives S5 E8 - Hard to Say Goodbye - Part 1 · My Sister Wives Podcast

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What does the nanny do? OK, so we're done.
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Goodbye. You shut it off.
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Do not twist my words. Do not make me a victim.
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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. Season 5 episode 8 hard to say
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goodbye goodbye. It started out well, but you
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know, it's just kind of like a
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Who knows where it's going to end.
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This is the season finale of season 5.
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I hope you're ready. Buckle up because it's a
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moderate ride. A little bit of housekeeping to
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start the episode. I recently saw a notification
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from Spotify come in saying that
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and listener hours and all of that, like the stats, the
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analytics for our show, that other shows that get as many
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plays as ours have four times as
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Now this is a stat that I'm not mad at because that actually
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means that plenty of people are listening to our show in
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comparison to people that are following.
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So another show has like 4 times
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subscribers as us on average get the same number of plays as
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us. The ask that I have with this
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little bit of housekeeping is that if you listen to our show
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subscribed, you just see it come up every week.
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Well, we love that and we appreciate it.
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But if you wouldn't mind taking this minute to go hit follow or
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subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or YouTube or wherever
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you're listening to us right now, it would be awesome.
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And we would really appreciate it because that does give us
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some boost in the algorithm, you know, shows us to other people
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And it would just be really helpful.
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And realistically, there are other shows I listen to where
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they beat people over the head every week to like, follow and
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We don't do that. This is just our once a season.
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Ask to please follow and
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subscribe if you haven't already, even though you're
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listening. And we appreciate the listens,
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of course. Please like and follow and
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subscribe. Yes, absolutely.
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Through that home skillet. Thank you anyway.
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I'm like some O'Brien potatoes, you know, some onions and some
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Peppers in there. You know, I would actually liken
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you to some Groton potatoes. Or what did we?
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I think I'm all kinds of. Potatoes.
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The kinds of the boxed potatoes are better, even though you
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think that the homemade ones would be better, but not the box
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ones are better, baby. And that's us all the way.
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And I could be any kind of spud you want.
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Any kind at all. I'm flexible when it comes to
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potatoes. Frami Dami laid to the side me
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like Meri's hair. And Meri's hair was definitely
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abundant. And here.
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In this episode. Lots of Meri's hair.
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Screaming for help as per usual.
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As per usual. Oh man.
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So to start this episode, we are of course, going to be talking
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It's like, Oh my God, how many seasons do we have to wrap
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talking about this same stuff? Well, we get the recap.
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We hear about Logan's UNLV announcement.
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We hear about Meri's French doors and not having the gliding
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gliding doors or the sliding doors or the French doors or the
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what kind of fries that you want Meri with your doors.
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We hear about Christine and how the family is falling apart and
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failing as a family, but the recap this time is actually,
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like, useful. No, this is the stuff that.
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They actually touch on. It is the last episode of the
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season 2 so I guess they probably had to be tip top.
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Oh gosh, but we got to hear about these doors again.
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Oh yes, well this is it. The episode starts with the
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adults arriving at Pinnacle Homes.
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We're going back to Pinnacle Homes to make our choices,
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particularly when it comes to carpets and tile.
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Finalizing the options. Yes, of course.
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And we're meeting with Mona and Lynette.
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Lynette, who I don't recall meeting before.
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I heard Lana. There's Lana, they say Lana but
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Lynette is the bottom third. So her full name is Lynette and
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I do, I do tend towards the formal.
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As we know on this podcast, I'm a sophisticated woman.
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So Lynette is how I will refer to Lana because that is her
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God-given name. And Mona and Lynette let Kody
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know that they could be moving in during the month of December.
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when is it that we're likely to be able to move in?
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When could we be in? And they did agree that December
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is realistic. And this is setting us up for
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our timeline. But Kody wants to do all of the
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moves everyone at once. Well, that would be ideal for
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According to him, the entire family's moved in before
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Christmas. He doesn't care if they're doing
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Christmas out of boxes, which we
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down the road that Kody is quite the Bah humbug.
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He's a little anti Christmas, which is funny because he's such
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a Christ follower. Well, he's kind of like the
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Antichrist, so yeah. So it does fit.
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Yeah. At one point when they're
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talking about this, Christine says that she doesn't even care
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about Christmas. She just wants to close.
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Because now we're going to talk about, you know, the process of
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these, the pre approvals and the
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And for some reason Christine is
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She says that she's up at 3:00
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of the things. It's incredibly stupid how
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perfect I have to look on paperwork on.
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Paper and it's so funny because it's like, well, anyone that's
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been through a pre qualification
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anybody who's applied for a loan
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you can't look like a fucking disaster for your paperwork.
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Like it's not big deal. It's not a big dull.
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It's not a big dull, but it is a
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I know when it comes to. Her, it's definitely a big dull.
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And Kody tells her like, well,
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And of course, all the wives have to have some visual
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reaction to Kody being unsupportive in his comments
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about how we're all doing that.
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He can't just validate. Christie, you, you just suck at
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validating and I don't know, I just have a slight personal
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issue with people just validating everyone all the time
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I need to validate. But he literally never does it.
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Well, it's I, I like to validate
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people with their rights. I, I don't really subscribe to
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the idea of just validating everyone all the time.
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It feels like an empty practice that makes me feel like people
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are not being honest when they're just validating people
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all the time. That's just an opinion that I
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have and I don't really think that Christine needs to be super
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validated considering they're all doing the same thing.
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I just think she's stressed out because she's very naive and
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this is the first time that she's had to like do something
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on her own. And then Kody says we had to pre
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qualify, but there's no guarantee we get into this.
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But it's looking very good. But he just kind of harps on the
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fact that she's not the only one
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boat and he has to make it about him.
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But then he also brings in everyone else.
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So it's not, you can't just say, oh, he just brought it back to
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I mean, he may look like an insensitive asshole.
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I'm just saying I'd probably be in the same boat.
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I'd probably be going listen girl, we're all trying to
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prequalify. Like, well, she's also studying
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for this exam probably at this time, you know, and she's on her
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have been kind of him at this point is to be like, that is
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stressful. And you know, I'm sorry that
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you're feeling the stress and we all can't wait for it to be
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over. Oh, wow.
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Like, come on. That's how you do some
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validating. That's how you do some
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validating while also saying everyone else is feeling it.
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Like like you can validate but also say, yes, we're on the same
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Christine wouldn't know that they're on the same page because
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Straight up, Straight up. So.
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Lynette suggests that all the wives make their choices
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individually because that would make things a little more easy,
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keep things moving along, which does make sense.
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Everyone leaves the room except for Robyn and Kody.
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She suggests we start with Robyn because it's like the first
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dinner spreadsheet or. Something she wants to each wife
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Options oh the lot order which? Yeah, we're going to go around
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The helmet head bubble haired Lana.
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Do you think that her head looks like a helmet?
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Maybe. Oh, her name is Lana and she's
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bone out here. Her hair looks like a bubble.
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She's caused a lot of trouble. What's up?
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Who's there? It's Lana.
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Hey, I don't know. AKA Lynette Kody is not excited
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about picking carpet colors. He's basically just here to be
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things through, just getting it done.
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I don't know if he gave us any precious pearls with this.
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I didn't note anything specific. Kody wants to hurry through and
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get it all done. He said that he is there to just
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No, he just wants to validate what they've chosen to get it
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done, son. See now this is where I can't.
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I just it sucks when you say something that aligns with
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someone that is so despicable. But he can't validate Christine,
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wins. Like, all right, motherfucker,
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Typical. Typical.
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Oh man, not even 3 minutes apart.
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Not even 3 minutes apart. These quotes.
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Oh God. So Robyn, of course, is our
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first wife, even though she's the fourth wife and she while
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picking through the carpets, it's like oh La La, la, la.
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She lands on the color bear skin for her carpet.
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She. Goes well.
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I'm not going to go with white. Oh, of course.
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And then Kody says, well, put your black shirt against this
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color. And she pulls her black sleeve
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And then they decide on bear skin.
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OK. OK, Clownches.
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OK. Robyn says there are more
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important things in life than picking finishings.
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She's just happy to get the home.
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Kody has to say Robyn went quickly.
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Oh. Did she?
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Gold Star wife. She really did.
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Oh, as quickly as you do with her each time, Kody.
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Robyn was A2 hump pump with that carpet selection.
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Love it, love it. Thanks Robyn.
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Now Meri is next and cue the music.
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Don't, don't, don't. Meri is next when Robyn has left
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So $200 over budget. All right.
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Sounds good. Bring in Meri.
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So they still need to pick around $5000 worth of things in
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the home and she's $200 over budget.
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And of course, they have to tell Kody this before she even comes
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into the room, though. All right, so Q Meri walking in
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all innocent. The dramatic music is playing
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like it's going to happen, it's going to happen.
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She's turning the corner, she's coming through the door.
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Here she is. And what does Meri say?
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That actually ties in really well to the soundtrack
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happening, She says. It almost felt a little bit
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ominous when I walked into the room and I lol because I'm like,
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walked into the ominous room. Yeah, Kody makes a comment about
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don't want her to see or look at things that are over budget.
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And it was kind of this like
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underhanded like comment that's not focused on.
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I think it was kind of like a passing thing while they're
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showing another shot, but it seems like they're teeing it up.
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Like please don't show Meri. We're not going to show her on
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budget options. Right.
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Because as we see later, there's
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options and then of course there's nicer carpet.
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And it's like, don't show Meri
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just going to go, oh God, how can I not live without this
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nicer carpet? And it's like like everybody
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lives with normal carpet. Like hello.
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She's wearing this like dark purple tank top and this light
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purple tight skin long sleeve shirt.
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She's trying to outdo Robbins.
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Oh gosh, there's no way you can be more purple than Robyn.
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Kody tells Meri that she's $200 over budget.
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Now, what I love about this is
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like starts grabbing the tile samples and the whatever and the
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carpet samples to get started.
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budget. Here we go.
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Here's the things like he's making it all like, quick,
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quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
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Like let's go, let's go. Here we go.
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It's going to be fine. And Meri's like hold on a
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second, am I really already over
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Yeah. It's like, yeah, bitch, how do
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you not know you're over budget?
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She should know she's over budget.
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Yeah, she's like, Kody, you have this weird, funky energy, and
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it's stressing me out. And Kody is like, well, I'm
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going to have to insist on a few things, like a washer and a
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dryer. And we hear that she hasn't even
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And I think this is the first
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time we're hearing like, OK, you're $200 over budget, but you
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still don't have a washer and a dryer.
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Yeah. And maybe that's the last round,
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like in this last round of Selects, I don't know.
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But we do find out later that Kody, of course, is of the
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opinion that a washer and dryer should be part of their budget
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so that she doesn't have to buy one after they move in and deal
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with the, you know, I don't know, delivery and whatever.
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He kind of makes it sound like
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And I don't really know that it's a big dull.
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I think it's like, if she wants to get it later than let her.
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I mean, she's the bitch that's
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You think Kody's doing laundry
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I think the big deal is that he doesn't want the bug doll is
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that he doesn't want her bringing her shot to Robyn's
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house. Oh God, right.
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What if? She's that would be a big doll.
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That would be a big doll. She can't walk in while they're
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dulling with the pickle, you know, because.
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Meri suspects that Mona and Lynette have already told Kody
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to watch out because she's over budget.
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She tells this to camera and it's like, duh.
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Like of course. And that's when you know, she
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says. This is really causing me
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stress. Yeah, she starts crying.
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And Kody shows her the tile and granite she previously picked
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out. He asks her if she even wants to
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see more expensive carpet given her budget overage.
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She says yes, just for fun. It's.
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Just your fun. It's not going to be fun.
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That's why everyone's trying to spare themselves from having
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you look at it like it's not. Going to be fun.
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And who thinks it's going to be fun?
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I don't know, maybe I'm an idiot, but if I know going into
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a situation that I only have so much money, I'm not going to be
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like, show me the things I can't
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This is why they warned him but also at the same time I feel
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like it's a little like gross to
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that like the man has the dominion and he'll make the
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final say. And please talk some sense into
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your dumb wife. Yeah, I feel that.
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So I kind of get it, but I don't
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working with them, they know that it's a good idea to tell
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him to help talk some sense into
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But if they really knew them, they would know that's not a
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great idea. So the whole situation just
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backfires on them. Well.
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It's almost like a little too interpersonal as well because
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like, they're, they're doing a
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It's not like, you know, is it
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the budget low? Like, probably not.
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I'm sure Pinnacle Homes would be
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her budget. I think that the problem here is
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that there's so many homes that they can't just go over budget
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if it was one home. Like if it was me and my husband
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building a ticky tacky home and picking these options, they
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wouldn't mind if we went over budget a little bit.
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That doesn't fucking matter to
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But when there's this big of a
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sale on the line and all these
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the family could back out because one of them fails at
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making this qualification happen, I think that that's why.
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That could be. I would assume that it's more of
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a self-serving thing so that they don't lose everybody over
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it. Or have any issues with
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financing at all? Yes.
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That makes sense 1000%. Either way, it's a little gross
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to me to go behind a spouse and say something to the other
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spouse when you're supposed to
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I see that when Meri does say this, yes, just for fun, looking
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at the carpet, that she knows she can't afford this dumb
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bitch. She looks like she's going to
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pull all of the fried hair out
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Like, she looks like, as she's
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carpet just for fun. It looks like she's in near
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tears. I mean, which she looks like a
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lot in this episode. Yeah, but it's like, oh, why are
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you doing this to yourself? Like it's like she's torturing
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herself and it's weird. I mean, it's like, darling, you
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could just not color that hair
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that looks like your hair if you
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But I. Wanted the carpet that closely
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matched my hair. I wanted to people lay on my
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carpet and look bald. Kody's like Meri.
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Put your head on the table next to the carpet.
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Let's see which one more closely
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Oh no. Kennedy in the hairdresser.
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Oh. Kennedy.
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We're going to hear about you later.
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Oh, Kennedy, Oh. How?
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Did we not start the episode by letting people know we are
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going to be introduced to Kennedy?
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Oh God, we're failures. Oh no.
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We have an interjection where they're on the couch for a
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spotlight moment and Meri tells Kody that she can be logical.
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She tells him he had a wall up when she was walking in and he
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I guess that's I mean that's what happened, but why is she so
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If anybody wants a very good image of how Kody looks right
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now, I'm going to say a very niche comment and if you get it,
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Kody looks like Captain Phoebus from the Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Phoebus A1 of romantic partner of an Esmeralda.
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All right, I'm just going to put that little tidbit in your mind.
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Needs some layers, Kennedy. All right, moving on.
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Now. Moving on SO.
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Then we're back in the room with
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says Kody, you have this weird
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Kody, you have this word energy,
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It's stressing me out. And she just always looks like
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she's like trying to, she's constipated and she's going to
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have a nervous breakdown. And it's like, Oh my God, bitch,
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you haven't even, we've been in the room at this point for like
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1 minute. Oh my God.
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That sunless Tanner has set into
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out and it's so. Out, Kody.
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Sorry, Mayor, I just know that
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we're already over budget. Meri, I'm going to need you to
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not have this energy. You're stressing me out.
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It's like, OK, enough with the
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You're not. I mean, my God, these people.
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She starts tearing up and these big crocodile tears look like
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they're going to start pouring
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And she goes Christine. Can Christine and Janelle go
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first? She just needs a moment.
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Maybe the more easygoing sister Wives could go before her.
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So she leaves the room, thank God, and she tells the camera
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she just needs a break to figure
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Well, yeah, she needs a break.
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fucking Meri. My God, she was in this room for
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like 2 minutes and it was 45 minutes of drama.
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You know, her hairs needed a break for like fucking five
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years. But has she listened to those
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dried ends? No.
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No. Has Kennedy listened to those
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dried ends for the last year she's been doing her hair?
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No. Meri, we need conditioner.
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Meri, help us. Meri, we're.
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So. All right.
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We could barely talk. We're crispy crispy.
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So gross. So ridiculous.
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Love you, Meri. I have to.
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I think I gave Meri my mustard
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This is what's so funny about this show.
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It's like I just gave her a mustard seed and now I'm like,
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put her in the incinerator. Like I'm done.
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I'm fucking done. Put her in the incinerator like
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her hair on the flat air and we could just see Janelle.
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Max though, which is peachy fucking keen, right?
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Yes, and Janelle is wearing a priMeri very red shirt, like
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red, red, red, like the reddest red you've ever seen, like a
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Target billboard. And I'm like, wow, Janelle, your
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skin is very light and your hair
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wearing this bright red shirt.
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me, it reminded me of TV shows
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kind of blurs because it's just so hard to watch.
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But it was just Janelle shirt.
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it reminded you of Robbins Cold source, but you missed that
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little. I missed that time and God damn
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it. Well, you know, Janelle says
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that she doesn't have the budget
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back door. She's aware of this.
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This is what she'd like to do.
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back door, but she knows she doesn't have the budget.
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Now Janelle is our shrewd businesswoman, AKA no, no, no,
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she just can. She already knows what she can
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afford or not based on all of the work they've already done.
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Well, right. And she would rather have blinds
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on her. She would rather have blinds.
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She would rather not be blinded by the light.
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Eat every morning. She wants blinds.
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She has to choose. She wants blinds.
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She wants builder grade blinds
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to fuck up like the cat blinds
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Like, Oh my God. So imagine those broken hanging
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off blinds. She has to choose between the
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cement pad or the blinds and she
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And Kody is like, well, then all
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dragging dirt into your back door and you're not to put up
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with that. And she says, well I guess I'm
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going to have to DIY a back pad because I want the blinds.
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She wants the blinds. A DIY girly after my own heart.
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Well. This is, I mean, you know, a
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cement pad off of a dusty backyard is probably the way to
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go in my opinion. Like I don't we are talking
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about the desert like their lots
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Now, if Janelle, if you were to say I'm going to build
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something outside of my house to like stop the.
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With some pavers like come on.
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would say I see it, Janelle doing it.
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We'll see. Well I can I could make blinds
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or a cement pad so I would give my husband the option.
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You're like hand making blind.
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bedroom? I made those fucking curtains in
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the guest set. Curtains are one thing, blinds
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are another. OK.
25:24
Well, curtains versus blinds, they're.
25:28
Talking about blinds, They're not talking about curtains.
25:30
Their window treatment game is a
25:32
It is an F. You know their windows look like
25:34
shit. Well I want to know then here
25:37
because it's like what is cheaper buying blackout curtains
25:42
and for going blinds or a cement
25:47
And did they actually do the math on the cost effective thing
25:51
here? Probably fucking not.
25:53
Probably not. This is why I'm saying I just
25:55
would have had the pad port because it's easy and it's done
25:58
and you don't have to deal with.
25:59
It I don't know. Curtains are expensive.
26:00
Though I know, but curtains are also something you can just go
26:05
probably can't measure for curtains and hang a curtain rod
26:08
to save their fucking life, which is why they go with
26:10
blinds. Would be like, I had to buy
26:12
blinds and I was up at 3:00 AM and I didn't even know what to
26:16
have you survived? Like, how many homes have you
26:18
been in where they don't have curtains and they just have
26:20
blinds? Yeah, like a lot.
26:22
A lot I know. So sorry to anybody that doesn't
26:28
opposite. Like my main rooms have curated
26:31
curtains from like ceiling to floor to elongate the windows
26:36
and like they weren't super expensive.
26:39
I guess they're most of them are from Amazon, but I just feel
26:43
like these aren't the type of people that could choose their
26:49
Yeah. I don't know what to say.
26:50
I'm a gay man who knows how to pick out a curtain.
26:52
I'm not a gay man who's going to pour a concrete pad because I
26:55
just feel like it. So I don't really.
26:57
Know I also helped my parents put in their own like stone
27:02
patio with cement between the stone pieces in high school so I
27:12
I was going to say, so you're just fishing for praise when
27:15
we're talking about Janelle. I just, I had to mix up the
27:19
concrete to pour between the granite slabs.
27:21
No slate slabs that my parents laid out.
27:26
You know, child labor. It's for free.
27:29
Janelle, you got a lot of kids. I think you could do it.
27:32
Just saying. Moving on, Mona says we're done.
27:38
And I'm like L0L 0L. Yeah.
27:40
Like if anyone's going to make
27:43
it's Janelle. Is it the wrong decision?
27:45
Yes. But did Janelle make it?
27:47
Yes. And was it easy?
27:48
Yes. So thanks for letting her know,
27:51
Mona. Kody says good job you got to
27:53
give me a kiss because that was so.
27:56
Easy. I'm like, Can you imagine saying
27:59
that to your spouse? Like kiss me because he made it
28:01
so easy. Like.
28:04
It's like a treat, like he's doling out like a little, Oh, a
28:07
little. Good job, Smoocher.
28:10
Like. OK, I'd be pissed.
28:13
I'd be like, that's your like stipulation here.
28:16
And then obviously it comes right after Meri.
28:20
So it's like fucker. Yeah, I I just imagine being
28:24
like this is not a compliment.
28:28
as all of these wives in the competition do.
28:31
It's like pitting the wives against each other as per usual.
28:34
And it's working so. Well, Janelle says she's going
28:38
to have to get the pad port after they move in.
28:40
And I'm like, cool, good for you, Janelle.
28:43
Or DIY it. Yep.
28:44
Well, Christine is next. Lynette says that Christine has
28:50
a bunch of money left to spend
28:52
some great choices. Christine says I have a bucket
28:56
of money left. It's like, OK, Christine, good
28:59
for you. And Kody says could you loan
29:01
that to another wife? Yeah.
29:03
Christine goes, really, do I have to?
29:06
Why don't I see what I want and go from there?
29:09
And it's like, are you literally
29:13
to consider this? Which we do circle back to, and
29:17
it seems like she's not immediately dismissing it, which
29:19
is shocking. I would be like, are you fucking
29:22
kidding me? So I don't even know.
29:24
Well, at first it kind of seems like a joke.
29:27
And she's like, and she's brings
29:32
Yes. And she says that she wants
29:34
stone on the outside. And what do they think about it?
29:38
Meaning the two women And they're like, well, everybody
29:42
goes with the stone. It's it's gorgeous.
29:45
It's a nice feature and it's worth the investment.
29:48
Which, you know, I guess makes
29:50
It's a way to differentiate your
29:53
ticky tacky houses on the same end of the cul-de-sac.
29:55
Yes, and the fact that they're
29:59
know, usually goes with the stone.
30:00
Stone and other wives probably
30:03
Yeah. And Kody says if you don't get
30:06
it, though, you could give the
30:11
I mean God. Yeah, Christine says.
30:15
I want to see how much the stone
30:19
likely I'll probably do it and be selfish with it.
30:21
And it's like, OK, like no one
30:25
It's up to you. And I'm like, going, of course
30:29
it's up to her. That's the point.
30:31
And Christine says, are you trying to guilt trip me?
30:34
Kody's like, no, not at all. She says, good.
30:38
And then they flashback to the
30:40
Oh, God. And now we get an opportunity to
30:41
hear all these adults talk about
30:43
On the couch, Kody claims that
30:49
He claims that offering her budget if she doesn't go with a
30:53
stone to marry is a joke. It was not a joke.
30:58
It was very obvious it was not a
31:01
just made his life easier if she had said that.
31:05
And then like her normal keep sweet Christine self and not
31:12
done the stone and giving it to Meri and Christine says well it
31:16
made me feel selfish and it made
31:19
it. I felt that it was something I
31:27
There are times where people put ideas in your head, whether it's
31:36
your own intentions or if the mistake you made was simply a
31:42
mistake or not. And I've dealt with this in my
31:49
syndrome or the person that's kind and puts others 1st.
31:53
And Christine's one of the people in this show that I think
32:01
first. So I do believe that she
32:03
questioned herself and probably layed awake until 3:00 AM
32:08
feeling guilty about putting Stone on her house because of
32:12
Kody's fucking joke about giving
32:17
Oh God, when Christine is talking about this, she tells
32:20
Meri. I'm sorry and I hope that you
32:22
don't think it's selfish and Meri does the whole pretending
32:25
thing like you're talking to me.
32:27
Like yes, of course she's talking to you, you dumb bitch.
32:30
And that's when Kody says I was
32:31
joking and it's like no, he was not.
32:34
Meri does try to reassure Christine that it's not selfish
32:37
and Meri did snap to it. I hope that it was more than
32:40
just a narcissistically driven
32:45
a bitch in the moment by being
32:47
Because it's like, yeah, of course she's talking to you like
32:51
you're the one that's over budget.
32:52
And she's saying I feel a little
32:55
by not sharing my budget. Meri says absolutely not.
33:00
I feel selfish being over budget.
33:03
It's absolutely aggravating. Right, Like aggravating, as if
33:07
it's anybody else's responsibility or anything like
33:11
these. Cold sores are flaring up over
33:14
at Meri What? Oh my God.
33:18
Get out of here. Meri's cold sores are not
33:20
flaring up, but she's not really
33:22
She's just pretending. I'm so aggravated over your own
33:26
decisions. Utterly bizarre.
33:27
Just strange. We return to the showroom at
33:30
Pinnacle Homes, and Lynette shows Christine her laptop
33:34
screen and basically we don't see any details, but she's
33:37
demonstrating to Christine that she can afford the stone.
33:40
And Christine is obviously happy.
33:42
And she's like, oh, good, I'm done.
33:44
And they tell Christine to have Meri come in.
33:51
Oh, God. So then when Meri's coming in,
33:53
who's joining Meri on her entrance?
33:56
Darling, Who walks into the room
33:58
Oh, 1st it's Solomon, then Robyn.
34:02
Oh, Solomon strolled in. He walked on in, sure he was
34:07
just he was just in, in Robyn's arms being like carried in,
34:12
carried in with some headphones on be bopping to those tunes.
34:16
All right, Solomon has headphones on.
34:19
He attempts to take them off and
34:23
and she won't let him take the
34:26
And this is where I had to turn to the interwebs and I said,
34:31
why does Solomon have headphones on?
34:34
And the first thing that came up was literally this episode.
34:39
And a Reddit user says clearly he's working customer service
34:44
for my sister wife's closet Hazel is holding online too
34:50
asking for a refund. And this was three years ago.
34:56
And I. Oh my God.
34:59
In my brain and I clocked it for this moment.
35:03
Oh my God. But why is Solomon wearing
35:07
headphones? And why is Robyn keeping him
35:09
from taking them off? And I know that she has a son
35:13
that's on the autism spectrum. So in my mind, I had to look
35:18
this up and be like, is Solomon like on the spectrum?
35:22
Is he wearing headphones because he's not good with sound?
35:26
But no, they look like they're plugged in.
35:29
Yeah, they're plugged in. They're on a thing plugged into
35:32
a device. And even at this time, you had
35:48
But it's weird. And also like, to stop him from
35:51
taking them off is weird. A sound deprivation situation is
36:00
something off. I don't know.
36:02
I have children with ear tubes. And to me, like if my kid was
36:06
listening to something while we were like sitting in a store in
36:10
a situation where we were waiting and one of them tried to
36:18
this, I would let them. It just seemed like a very
36:22
bizarre situation and like to drown out the noise, to drown
36:27
out the potential fighting, like I don't understand it and it was
36:38
tubes, but when I was witnessing this, I was going, he's so
36:44
young. So like.
36:46
He's just like literally, I don't want to say a newborn, but
36:52
He's a like a he's an infant. He's little and so like, how
36:57
would you even know that he would require headphones?
37:02
You don't. I mean, like, it just seemed
37:04
like a bunch of whatever and it was like, why is this happening,
37:09
kids from a very young age if we went to any sort of live music,
37:14
and that was even when we were standing, like very far away
37:17
from the live music. But they were just headphones
37:20
for muting sound to protect their ears.
37:23
It wasn't to make them ever listen to anything.
37:25
I don't think we've ever actually truly put headphones on
37:34
And I almost have a four year old.
37:35
Yeah, I'm not familiar with people putting headphones on
37:38
their very young children to listen to any audio.
37:41
It's just a bizarre decision to make and I don't know why I made
37:49
other people were commenting on it.
37:51
That was three years ago that somebody made a Reddit post
37:54
asking about it. The customer service for my.
37:57
Sister Closet. That's funny.
37:59
And there were multiple other funny comments, like about what
38:03
it was really about. People were like, oh, it's a
38:07
sermon about celibacy. Like people were commenting a
38:10
bunch of funny stuff. But that's great.
38:12
Other people noticed it enough to create an entire Reddit
38:15
thread about it. So I don't know.
38:18
Bizarre. Well, as Robyn enters the room
38:25
along the lines of like, I just figured she'll probably go to
38:29
get Robyn to complain about it and then get Robyn to side with
38:33
her so that I'll do something. After he's done saying this,
38:36
they cut to a couch moment where Meri kind of interrupts his
38:40
sound bite. And it's like, are you kidding
38:45
on one side or the other. Is that what you think This
38:49
relationship is a competition. And it's like a competition,
38:53
bitch. You're missing the point.
38:55
He thinks you're going to go get her to, like, soften the blow
38:58
and like, sand on the edges and make it so that you guys are not
39:05
says. No, I didn't mean to side with
39:08
I'm sorry. There's a reason I was in that
39:13
can't really listen to logic. And then she says, well, let's
39:18
And it's like, what does that even mean?
39:20
Do you know what she was even talking about?
39:22
Is it that she's thinking that he needs to be blamed for
39:26
something and he's trying to put it off?
39:28
I think that he feels like ganged up on when it comes to
39:32
Meri and Robyn. And if we're looking at the last
39:42
Robyn and Meri and him fighting and then Robyn having to be
39:47
there, and then maybe he's embarrassed because he's acting
39:50
like him true his true self in front of Robyn.
39:54
I think she's maybe using Robyn as a shield and that Kody is
40:00
picking up on the fact that she's using Robyn as a shield.
40:08
Off camera about it. And so Meri's kind of being
40:14
manipulative and bringing it up on camera right now to try to
40:19
pin it as something else. And I'm not defending Kody at
40:23
all because I think that the fact that Meri feels like she
40:27
needs a shield at all, whether it's Robyn or a child or another
40:37
that is telling of their relationship.
40:40
OK. But I think that the whole
40:43
situation seems manipulative and
40:47
each other out for it without actually saying what it is.
40:51
Exactly, I feel like they're both skirting.
40:53
They're skirting. What's really happening?
40:55
Yeah. And I just didn't really get her
40:57
comment. It seemed to me like she was
40:58
just kind of maybe a little bit more, maybe even like, I can't
41:03
believe you're calling me out on
41:04
Because she knows it's true. She knows she's going to bring
41:06
Robyn into the room because it'll soften blows.
41:08
And so she's like trying to be
41:11
And it's like, no, like this is what you're doing.
41:13
Like she's projecting. But also, she feels the need to
41:17
do it, which is not something you should have in a
41:19
relationship with your spouse,
41:21
person in to like, guard you and
41:25
conversations. Oh, it's so messy.
41:28
Christine's right. This family's falling apart.
41:31
Falling apart. They're failing.
41:33
But at least it's not a child being brought in.
41:37
Thank God. Oh.
41:38
My God, God, it's not a child being brought in.
41:42
I mean, is it though? Well, it's robbed the child of a
41:44
child. Yeah, Oh.
41:46
God IQ child bride allegedly, allegedly it's not even alleged
41:50
it. She was not a child bride, but
41:52
mentally, mentally a child bride.
41:56
Perhaps mentally a child bride.
41:59
And the worst part is, is over the years, she kind of declined
42:05
birds. Yeah, like, it's even worse.
42:08
Oh God. Maybe she picked her nose a lot
42:10
because there's a correlation now with nose picking and
42:15
Alzheimer's. Back in the room at Pinnacle
42:19
Homes, Kody explains to Robyn that Meri's coming in $200 over
42:23
budget before selecting her final choices.
42:25
So basically adding nothing, no blinds, no anything, she's at
42:31
$200 over. And it is telling and aligns
42:34
with our, you know, theories that like, he's explaining this
42:37
to Robyn. So like, Robyn's coming into the
42:42
They go back to the couch and
42:43
Kody says I felt like Meri brought Robyn in with her to
42:45
keep me from being combative. Yes, I I don't think that that's
42:50
untrue, but there's a reason that Meri feels like she needs
42:53
the Shield to avoid the combative discussions.
42:57
So it's like they're both just
42:58
Eventually they end up compromising on carpet and Kody
43:02
suggests the color of the cheap carpet and they compromise on
43:06
it. Kody keeps mentioning that he
43:09
wants this to go fast, like he
43:13
encounters with Meri to go fast as well when they do happen.
43:17
Now when they're sitting down,
43:18
There's totally a vibe shift. They're faking making choices in
43:22
a positive way. Like as soon as Meri agrees to
43:25
one thing, like, oh, are you going to not do the premier
43:29
carpet or whatever? And she says, yeah, no, it's
43:31
fine. Then all of a sudden, Kody
43:32
switches into, I'm agreeable with you, Mayor, that's great.
43:36
I love your choices. This is awesome.
43:38
And it's totally that fake. Like now we're on the same page,
43:41
we're just going to keep going
43:45
watch. It's so weird to watch like
43:47
couples dysfunctions filmed unlike on display.
43:50
It's so strange. Yeah, and it's not like he even
43:53
suggests bear skin. Bear skin?
43:57
What if he suggested like pure
43:59
Oh my God, white is snow, Meri, pure white.
44:04
At the end of everything, she ends up being $4665 over budget
44:10
that she's going to have to come
44:13
pocket money. Which I love because they
44:16
actually said 4665 and I was like, she's only $46 over
44:19
budget, why the fuck are we even
44:22
And then I realized, Chris, you're a little slow.
44:24
It's not $46.65. It's like 4665.
44:30
Like 5 grand over budget, yeah.
44:32
And when Meri's solidifying or, you know, when they're wrapping
44:35
up this discussion, Kody reminds her, you're going to
44:38
have to plan on buying a washer and dryer along with the
44:41
blinds. So once again, Meri is making
44:43
these choices and does know that, OK, you're going to have
44:46
to get window treatments. You're going to have to get a
44:47
washer and dryer. I don't know why there's such a
44:50
pushback on that in a sense where like if I was operating a
44:54
budget and someone told me that and I understood it, I'd be
44:56
like, got it. I'll get the washer and dryer.
44:58
I'll get the blinds, I'll get the curtains.
45:00
I think the problem is when you're factoring in a home loan
45:03
and home payment each month and then your income each month,
45:07
you're not factoring in the extra like Best Buy bill each
45:11
month. So like it depends.
45:14
And with the budget that this entire family is on, it's kind
45:18
of a big deal because when you
45:22
potentially having to go to Best
45:26
this or that, it is a big deal.
45:29
But we've already talked, but I mean, not to interrupt, but we
45:36
their own income coming in. And so Meri has her own budget.
45:40
Kody references their other
45:41
budgets. Like, Christina's a budget,
45:42
Everyone has a budget. And so the reason I'm scratching
45:46
my chin and my balls and my other body parts about it, I'm
45:50
going if Meri has an ability to pay for things on her own, then
45:56
what's the issue? And maybe there isn't an issue.
45:58
Maybe they just need drama. But it seems like I don't know
46:02
it. They don't make it clear.
46:04
They don't. Make it well and with like, you
46:06
know, the one child situation and with having less monthly
46:10
costs, maybe she can easily factor in an extra 5 grand.
46:16
However, we don't know like the debt situation here for Meri
46:20
specifically. Fair enough.
46:21
There could be a lot of extenuating circumstances.
46:25
There could also be the fact that he just doesn't think that
46:29
she'll do it. And so then she won't have a
46:32
washer and dryer and then she'll
46:34
needing to use an otherwise. And then the other wives will be
46:37
bitching about it. She'll be going to Robyns and
46:42
they won't be able to FERC as often because Meri will be there
46:46
doing laundry. The other thing here is we do
46:51
know Meri is a crafty bit. She could make her own blinds or
46:54
curtains so. They might be hideous, but she
46:57
could make. Them if you XNA that let's say
47:00
she's maybe just three grand over budget with, you know, the
47:06
washer dryer situation, you know, there's always her wet
47:11
bar. She could wash her laundry in
47:13
the wet bar. Oh God, she can put her laundry
47:16
in the wet bar. You know.
47:18
Hand washing. It's like a little house on the
47:20
Prairie. But she is a polygamist.
47:21
She should be used to this, right?
47:23
She's one of those downtrodden
47:26
her own laundry in the sink. I mean, she could do that.
47:30
Well, and then she's talking about the reason I'm over budget
47:33
is just this circle of events.
47:38
I wanted to have the wet bar, not for the bar part of it
47:42
because of the counter space, part of it because I like to
47:46
entertain girl. Now I have to tell you, this is
47:50
where I knew I was going to have
47:52
was going to go. I have to pose a question to you
47:55
as a faggot, as a homosexual, as
47:59
individual. When I'm hosting an event, I'm
48:05
One talented individual to another, OK?
48:07
OK, thank you. Thank you.
48:09
I apologize. Apologies.
48:10
I'm having a holiday party, having whatever.
48:13
Because at this point, they have not told us that they're Hawking
48:17
bar. It's because she likes to
48:18
entertain. So let's buy into Meri's story
48:20
here for a minute. She likes to entertain when I
48:23
entertain. Let's say I'm having a holiday
48:26
party and the number of guests
48:29
Brown family. Coming over to Meri's house for
48:31
a dinner, I'm more than comfortable with taking out my
48:35
sturdy, not the cheapest, but sturdy folding table and putting
48:41
a tablecloth over it and putting
48:45
nice decor. Let's say it's for the holidays.
48:47
You put up a little tree or a little something, and then
48:50
underneath the table you've got space for drinks.
48:54
You know, cooler garbage, You know, accoutrement.
48:56
Whatever you fucking need. And no, I have never once had
48:59
someone come up to me, not that they would.
49:01
I've never witnessed someone looking at it going like I can't
49:04
even believe he has a table here
49:06
Like is it really that big of a deal?
49:08
Like why would you need a wet bar?
49:10
It just doesn't make any sense
49:13
Sorry, I'm getting a little crazy.
49:16
Is it really that bad to have like a side table or a folding
49:18
table that's a buffet that is not hideous that you put things
49:23
on? No, and the wet bar doesn't even
49:25
allow for that much space. Exactly.
49:28
The thing with a wet bar is that
49:32
Right. So if she is making a tiny
49:37
little soup packets of drink mix, like on repeat, and she's
49:42
making 50 little soup packets of
49:46
little assistant making 25 at the wet box, she's making 25 at
49:52
the sink. That's what she does.
49:54
The whole party is making individual drinks.
49:56
Is that what's happening here?
50:00
I just don't. I just, I literally was going
50:03
questioning all of my decisions as an adult going really.
50:06
Has it been so terrible that I've had a table set up on the
50:09
side somewhere that has like a
50:12
station? I don't think it's that big of a
50:13
deal. No, and she's like and the wet
50:15
bar had to lead to me getting the craft room or the hobby
50:22
room. Yes, the only way she could have
50:25
that wet box is to have the hobby room and the pantry behind
50:29
the kitchen. And the only way to have those
50:31
things is to have the fifth bedroom.
50:33
Yeah, it's like this circle of
50:37
Like Domino's falling. And it's what Meri calls a
50:40
circle of events, which are all her choices.
50:44
Which is really, to me, solvable
50:47
folding table and a nice tablecloth.
50:50
I don't get it. I do not.
50:51
Get this is the dumbest thing ever and she even makes a
50:54
comment about how she wanted to do this to avoid extra costs of
50:58
adding things later. Which is so fucking dumb because
51:02
you know how many people actually take a wet bar out of
51:06
their home because they would like the extra space of not
51:10
having a sink where they don't
51:13
They don't need it or just never.
51:14
Even if they don't take it out, never using it.
51:17
I've been in homes where they never use their web bar because
51:19
they don't need to. Why would they?
51:21
No Insane. I mean, it's really, really
51:26
stupid. And to spend as much money as
51:29
she spent just to have this one thing and have this circle of
51:34
events follow her like, Oh no,
51:40
following me around. Meri's circle of.
51:45
Events. So ridiculous.
51:49
And it leaves me poor. So good.
51:56
Nope honey, rest assured, Meri
52:00
is over is not coming out of any
52:02
their houses. This is something she's going to
52:04
pay for for herself. Thanks for clarifying.
52:07
We already knew this. This has been pretty clear other
52:09
than Kody trying to guilt the other wives into giving you part
52:13
of their budget. Duh, my.
52:17
God, Janelle says that she is OK
52:22
she didn't need to give up anything that she needed.
52:25
So it was almost like Kody had
52:29
wives mentioned that if they gave up a portion of their
52:34
budget like he did to Christine on camera, Janelle saying here
52:41
right now, OK. When I realized that I didn't
52:43
have to give a proportion, I was
52:46
So Kody tried to guilt all these
52:50
give up their budget. That's what I'm getting from
52:53
that. There's also a tie back to
52:54
previous discussions and topics that have happened on the show
52:58
talking about this inequality bit where, and we've discussed
53:01
it many times where if a wife is
53:04
children while you have an abundance, like that's kind of
53:07
an not kosher family dynamic. Like, even if it's fair and
53:13
right in somebody's mind, it would be messy to be like, your
53:18
kids should sleep in the dining room while my child has four
53:21
bedrooms to run around in. And so there's an element of
53:24
that coming in here, too, from
53:27
going, like Janelle, as long as she realizes she doesn't have
53:30
to give up anything, it's OK. And I think that you're right
53:34
probably about Kody planting seeds and doing whatever.
53:38
We just don't have any footage
53:40
We only have it with Christine.
53:42
Yeah, but you know, he probably made how many offhanded comments
53:47
I think that one thing that bothers me here a lot is the
53:55
backhanded, obvious sheisty nature of Kody.
53:59
And it's coming out here, but no one's really coming out and
54:02
saying it other than Christine. And in one minute he's honestly
54:07
telling her on camera that if Christine gave the rest of her
54:20
And then the gas lighting where Christine might have thought
54:25
about this when they do these couch interviews, we don't know
54:28
how long it is later. So let's say this is a month
54:31
later. Christine might have felt like
54:37
her house versus giving that budget to Meri.
54:40
And we don't know about that though, because it could have
54:45
gone on for that long. And he also could have done the
54:48
same to Janelle. We know he didn't fucking do it
54:50
to Robyn. So he might have made Christine
54:52
and Janelle feel like shit for a month before talking about it
54:55
on the couch where they feel like, oh, OK, well now we're
54:59
it's a joke. It's a joke.
55:01
She's such a fucking gaslighter. And I just feel bad for
55:06
Christine and Janelle because I feel like they kind of get
55:10
ganged up on in a different way here, where they're maybe the
55:15
easier of the wives, so they get gaslit more.
55:20
And yes, it's weird and we're seeing it here, but it's not
55:25
necessarily being called out and then it's being passed off as a
55:28
joke with one of them. At this point we get a
55:31
commercial break and when they're teeing up the commercial
55:38
Meri holding Solomon in Robyn's room after Robyn pushed that
55:41
baby out of her cootie and when she volunteered to be Meri
55:46
surrogate. And there's a voice over from
55:48
Kody that I wrote down because I'm like, this is fucking Kody
55:54
happening once we move into the houses, but I'm actually most
55:57
anxious about Meri making a decision about whether we're
56:00
going to have another baby or not.
56:02
And I feel like it's a decision for both of us, yes or no, and
56:08
And it's like you, they keep playing this clip on the coming
56:12
up ONS and the commercial breaks is him saying yes or no.
56:15
And that's what we're going to
56:16
go with. We hear it like 4 times in this
56:18
episode because of all of the previews of when we actually see
56:21
it. And it's like, you know what,
56:23
fuck you Kody. It's just gross.
56:25
The way he talks about things is
56:27
He's gross. Very gross.
56:30
So we could potentially be ending this in the same spot
56:34
here. We're going to be talking about
56:36
the merry baby decision yet again.
56:39
I don't know, maybe, maybe not.
56:42
We're going to take a little recess and come back to it.
56:48
Gather our thoughts, regain our strengths, become, I was going
56:54
Just a different people different.
56:56
Prepare our loins. 00. For this decision.
56:59
Oh God. Well, Kody does grill later in
57:08
Absolutely. So Part 2 of this episode will
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