Ep 340: Almost Meri'ed - Chapter 1
Surviving Sister Wives
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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"Chapter 1: How did this happen to me?"
This week is all about the laughs as we officially kickoff our latest book club featuring the self-published saga from Meri's infamous catfish. We take every piece of information provided with a VERY large grain of salt, and we begin our decent into the delicate (and entirely fabricated) psyche of Samuel Jacob Cooper.
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| 0:00.0 | Surviving Sister Wives contains adult content that may not be suitable for Latter-day Saints or sinners. |
| 0:05.5 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello and welcome to Surviving Sister Wives. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Corey. |
| 0:17.6 | And I'm Carly, and we're back with the first chapter of Almost Married, a book by Samuel J. Cooper. |
| 0:28.2 | I almost said Sam Fisher, but that's a character from a video game that I used to play. |
| 0:32.3 | A very long time ago, not any relevancy here. |
| 0:35.6 | I mean, kind of fitting since this is not a real person. |
| 0:38.3 | There was a lot of espionage in that game. |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah, but just probably not to the extent that we're going to see in this chapter. |
| 0:45.9 | What did this feel like, though? |
| 0:47.0 | This chapter was like, it's a car on a cold day, and we're trying to get that engine to turn over. |
| 0:53.7 | But you felt like it was not a great start? |
| 0:57.9 | We're not getting anywhere, right? And then we're just repeating things. And then it's just |
| 1:02.6 | for people who complain about the format of sister wives and the limited |
| 1:06.8 | storytelling that we're able to achieve in one singular season. |
| 1:13.7 | There's a lot of criticism that flies around. |
| 1:15.3 | Turns out it's hard to do. |
| 1:18.2 | If you sit down in front of there and you're trying to type something out, |
| 1:20.8 | sometimes it just ends up sounding like a repeat. I feel like part of the problem is that this is a book written by somebody who hasn't |
| 1:25.7 | read a lot of books, |
| 1:27.1 | but is trying to mimic how they think a book should by somebody who hasn't read a lot of books, but is trying to mimic how they |
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