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I'm going to... Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor.

That is me. I am Dr. Adam, Professor of Communication and Long-G longtime follower of the TLC series Sister Wives,

which it is my privilege to talk to you about today, this interesting episode.

I certainly thought it was interesting anyway. It was an emotional roller coaster in many ways, and man, they really have not stopped leaning

on the recycled footage. I get that this is for context and to remind us, and it kind of makes

sense, I guess, to be fair, as this is season 19 of a TV show and not everybody has rewatched

the entirety of the show as many times as I have, to be sure.

So I do get it, but man, there's a lot of recycled footage.

And I thought maybe that Christine's wedding would be the end of that, but it hasn't been.

But that's kind of maybe nitpicking.

Maybe that's just me complaining, but I did want to bring it out because I'm sure you

noticed it too, those of you that have watched the show.

And those of you that don't watch the show anymore and just listen to, yeah, man, you've probably seen a lot of the stuff that you would have seen had you watched this one.

You've probably seen it already.

But that's okay.

No real announcements for me.

So why don't we get into the episode, Season 19, episode 19, Behold, I come like a thief.

They are really trolling with the Bible quote titles at this point, aren't they? We start out in

Greenville, North Carolina. Why not? At Maddie and Caleb's house, in fact. Nice house, nice size, certainly looked, kept up.

Janelle is there in the kitchen and on the couch too. She's explaining that she's working on some

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