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I am your sister host, Christine.

And I'm your brother host, Zandi.

And for the first time ever, those titles are actually applicable to today's topic.

We have a special guest with us today.

Bridger Weiner is here.

He's a writer-comedian host of the hit podcast with awesome guests like yours truly, called I Said No Gifts, but most importantly for today's topic at hand, he's an expert in a particular field of study called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Welcome, Bridger. Thank you for coming on our show.

Oh, my God, I'm honored. I'm so happy to be here and on such a special day.

That's exactly what we were hoping you'd say. Yeah, this is definitely a first. We don't do too many, like, specific reality show. I don't, this might be our first, but it's such a phenomenon. We just really have to. pop culture phenomenon. Can you give us a little bit of info on like the allure,, why you're drawn to the show before we kind, for those who haven't seen it? Of course. I grew up in Utah,

I'm a former Mormon. So that alone was kind of the appeal for me. But I began watching the show

and found it extremely boring and stupid.

And, uh, but there's something about the way I watch it was these women feel very much like people I grew up with.

So I was like, well, this isn't interesting at all to me.

These are just like boring girls I went to high school with.

They're everyday life.

Yeah.

But then some, it worked its charm on me. And once you get into the show, you realize about every 40 seconds, there's a new unbelievably high stakes drama for these people.

It's just their lives are, but high stakes for them to anybody else, they're like, oh, that's just like, I wouldn't even blink an eye at what they're worried about. So it's an interesting high stakes, low stakes that's happening. Like the lack of alcohol, probably, the lack of, probably plays into that, I imagine. Yeah. You know, most reality shows, especially like Real Housewives or whatever, you watch those shows and they're almost always drunk. They're like feeding them. Yeah. To feed into the drama. So you watch Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and they're screaming at each other stone cold sober. So it's like, how is this happening? You know, that's actually fascinating. I hadn't thought of that because like the drunk screaming gets old on those shows. Like maybe the sober screaming might be a little scarier.

I don't know.

It is a little scarier. Yeah, it's pretty scary. Pretty scary to me. I mean, I don't like screaming at all, believe it or not. Well, it depends on the context. High stakes, I'm in. Yeah, I was glad to hear you say it's boring or something. You didn't say anything too kind because we probably won't say too much.

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