Hello there. It's been a minute. Been a minute since I released a Patreon and subscriber preview

for you to get a feel for what's available over at patreon.com slash the sister wives professor

and for all people who subscribe to the faculty lounge directly through Apple Podcasts, go ahead

and enjoy this. This is not the entire podcast, but this is

a deep dive. And I've got over 20 of these, Patreon exclusive and subscriber exclusive,

sister wives deep dives available for you if you like this content where I go in depth about a

concept or an aspect of the Brown family, oftentimes using academic concepts.

This is one of my most popular ones called birthday presents and daddy issues, where I look at Cody's

relationship with his father when, research on those kinds of relationships as they impact

grown men and more. This is not the entire thing. If you want the rest of the podcast, of course,

go on over to patreon.com

slash the sister wives professor or join through Apple. If that makes sense for you, but regardless,

enjoy your weekend. Thanks for checking it out. I appreciate you. So I want to talk all about that.

I want to talk about Cody and the way that he makes sense of his dad.

And the best way that I can do that, the foundation of this podcast, this deep dive that you have

access to as a patron or a subscriber, is to go back to an episode from season six.

That's going to be where I draw most of this from, because there's an episode in season six

where they in-depth discuss the passing both of Cody's father. That's going to be where I draw most of this from, because there's an episode in season six where

they in-depth discuss the passing both of Cody's father, win, but also the tragic passing of

Cody's brother Curtis. As you might imagine, and you may remember, Cody was very emotional in that

episode, deservedly so. And I want to be clear up front. It's not my intention to trivialize

the loss of, certainly not his brother, of course, but I don't want to trivialize the loss of a parent,

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