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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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As a one-off bonus (?), Dr. Adam is joined by Dr. K, a fellow communication professor and someone personally familiar with polyamory, to discuss the first-ever episode of TLC's Polyfamily.
How does Polyfamily represent polyamory in the eyes of someone who is both an academic and a consensual non-monogamist? How do the professors read Sean and Tyler's cold-war parenting conflict? And just... just what is going on here? Lets all find out together.
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0:00.0 | The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. |
0:03.9 | It does not reflect the views or opinions of my university or its affiliates. Hello and as always welcome to the sister wives professor. |
0:29.5 | That is me. |
0:30.4 | I'm Dr. Adam, Professor of Communication and new fan, follower of the show Polly Family. Yeah, I have gotten your emails and your comments |
0:41.6 | and your texts. Well, not text. That'd be weird. Y'all don't know my phone number, but you know what I mean. |
0:44.8 | I've gotten a lot of, I've gotten a lot of questions and requests about am I going to cover this show. |
0:48.4 | And so the answer is kind of. I am going to at least, as you probably have figured out by now, because you are very |
0:54.5 | observant and very intelligent. I am going to cover this episode, the first episode, which by the time |
0:59.6 | you hear this, the second one will probably have aired. Sorry about that. But I don't really know |
1:04.1 | much about this stuff, but I, one of the many benefits of what I do in my life, is if I don't |
1:08.5 | know something, I probably know somebody smarter than me that does. I want to introduce you to my longtime friend, former colleague, fellow communication professor, |
1:17.7 | researcher, teacher, wonderful human, Dr. H. Hello, how are you today? Hello, Dr. Adam. Thank you |
1:25.0 | so much for having me on the podcast. I'm really excited to be here |
1:29.9 | talk about this stuff, and I have many questions as well. You do have a lot of questions, I'm sure. |
1:36.3 | We talked about this off mic. Yeah, we both have a lot of questions. You are much more qualified |
1:41.2 | in many ways to talk about a show like this, though. |
1:44.7 | And so do you want to talk about that and like how this topic at least intersects with your life? |
1:50.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
1:51.0 | So like you said, I'm a professor of communication. |
1:55.5 | I research and teach a lot of different topics. |
1:59.4 | But kind of most recently I've been trying to delve into my |
2:04.7 | own life as a Polly person. I am married. I have a husband. He's asleep right now, and it's his |
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