The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

It does not reflect the views or opinions of my university or its affiliates. Hello there and welcome, as always, to the Sister Wives Professor. That's me. I'm Dr. Adam,

a professor of interpersonal and family communication, and a very long-time

follower of the TLC series, Sister Wives. And that, as always, is why I'm here today, is to

talk to you about that show, and also to thank you for making this podcast a very small part

of your day.

I really do appreciate it.

A couple things to talk about first.

Of course, I have to say thank you to my amazing patrons over at patreon.com

slash the sister wives professor.

For those of you that don't know, I recently did a guest spot with Amy and Amanda on Little Miss Recap.

And if you are not subscribed to that podcast, and especially if you are a fan like I am, of intelligent women being unfiltered and talking about friendship, life, and especially reality television.

If you're not subscribed in Little Miss Recap, you're really missing out.

So I recommend you check that out.

I'll let my hair down a little bit.

So it's definitely a different side of me than you get on this podcast.

But I think that's a good thing.

I contain multitudes.

Let's talk about the episode, specifically Sister Wives' Season

2, Episode 9, titled No Place for Home. Like the last few episodes of the show, it opens with

B-roll of the Brown family's home in the winter, the yard covered in snow. We see the pasture across the street and

some brown kids playing and even shoveling snow for fun in the yard. There's that shaggy-haired

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