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Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor.

That's me.

I'm Dr. Adam.

I am a professor of interpersonal and family communication.

And I'm a follower of the TLC series, Sister Wives.

And it is my great pleasure to talk to you today about that show, specifically season

two, episode eight, titled Sister Wives and Holiday Crisis.

And boy, are they ever in both holiday and crisis in this episode. Some of these

titles are not always the most accurate. Credit where credit is due. This one was. Before we get

into the episode, as always, I have got to thank all of my wonderful patrons at patreon.com slash the sister wives professor.

Everybody at the master's level and above just recently got access to my second ever

sister wives deep dive podcast over 40 minutes of me just talking about kind of the first stage of what I think is Robin Brown's evolution

within the Brown family, how she started, I think, doing table setting to become the Robin that we

see today and to create really the version of the Brown family such as it is. And of course,

there's always more coming. But I'll talk about that at the

end of the podcast. Let's get to the good stuff. Let's get to sister wives. I'm so excited to talk to

you about this show. I always am. Let's talk about the episode. Goodness. Okay, excuse me. I got my NW root beer here, as always. I don't know if I've

mentioned that before. I mentioned root beer once, but a little peek behind the scenes. I almost

always have a can of A&W diet root beer with me when I record this podcast. I'm a big diet root&W root beer guy. It's just kind of my go-to

thing. It goes with everything. The episode, it opens with snow footage, and lots of Christmas

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