Sister Wives 20.12 - What If We Worked This Out?
The Sister Wives Professor
Dr. Adam
4.9 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The apology tour continues with its next stop - Christine (and David)! Kody struggles with a lack of control in the situation and spirals in how he communicates about David in particular. Meanwhile we are treated to SIGNIFICANT RONTENT finally. All the Ron you could ever ask for and perhaps a bit more as Meri and her found family rally deservingly around Jenn's husband.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. |
| 0:03.5 | It does not reflect the views or opinions of my university or its affiliates. |
| 0:28.4 | Hello. Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor. |
| 0:33.1 | That's me. I'm Dr. Adam, real-life professor of interpersonal and family communication, |
| 0:43.5 | and longtime follower of the TLC series Sister Wives, started watching this show back in graduate school, man, back in 2011, if I'm remembering right, |
| 0:47.0 | and I have never quit, and I don't think I'm ever going to quit. |
| 0:49.5 | They're going to have to quit me at this point. |
| 0:52.3 | But just in case this is your first time ever tuning into the podcast, thanks for giving it a try. |
| 1:11.4 | I am a professor. I am an expert in family relationships, romantic relationships, and body language. Particularly, I study stigmatized identities. What does that mean? I like to look at things about people that most people don't like and try to understand why don't they like them. Is it justified or is it not? And that was why I was immediately interested in sister wives because of that, |
| 1:16.2 | ooh, polygamy, I know absolutely nothing about this. I didn't even know anything about the mainstream |
| 1:21.3 | Mormon church, which is very, very different, obviously from the AUB and all that stuff. But yeah, |
| 1:26.9 | I don't really talk about this |
| 1:28.3 | very much anymore. I always assume everybody knows, because I've been doing this for over two years now, |
| 1:33.3 | two years actually last month since I launched the podcast. But every podcast is somebody's first. |
| 1:38.0 | So I figured, you know what, why don't I just introduce myself all over again? And my goal is to |
| 1:43.2 | talk about the show and hopefully make your |
| 1:45.0 | day a little bit better. That is always my goal, or certainly not to make your day any worse. |
| 1:50.4 | That's my intention. A lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff going on on social media and whatnot |
| 1:55.3 | for me over on Patreon just this past week, this past Friday. Me and my wife released our faculty book club that we do |
| 2:02.4 | every month. This month was heavier than heaven. The definitive, I think, anyway, definitive |
| 2:07.0 | biography of Kirk Cobain. I was a grunge kid. I love grunge music to this very day, Alison Chains, |
| 2:14.1 | sound garden, especially Pearl Jam, but even Mother Lovebone, Green River, |
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