The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

It does not reflect the views or opinions of my university or its affiliates. Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor.

That is me. I am Dr. Adam, Professor of Communication, and longtime follower of the TLC series Sister Wives, which it is my great

pleasure and privilege. I don't know why I said that like Tony the Tiger, but it is my

privilege to talk to about that show today. Can you tell I've been doing this for almost two years?

It will be two years on the 20... Let me check my calendar.

Seventh. Yep, I knew that. Sorry. 27th. And I still don't know quite how to start this podcast ever. I always feel a little bit weird. I never know quite what to say. But I will tell you that

over on Patreon, patreon.com slash the sister wives professor or for all my faculty lounge subscribers

to Apple. We recently,

we, meaning my wife, Amanda and I, reviewed the Darger Family's book. So if you're into that,

the book club podcast, it's available at the $8 tier on Patreon or for everybody at the faculty

lounge on Apple. That's available right now. We had a lot of fun reading that book. It's definitely

of its time. It's very much pre-Christine's book, but it's a good read. I think if you're

interested in this kind of stuff, I don't know. I won't spoil it. If that's of interest to you,

that along with all the other bonus content, of course, is available through a subscription

or through your patronage, which is always appreciated. But that's not why we're here today, is it?

No, no, we are here because we have a new episode of Sister Wives, Season 20, Episode 8, titled

Making Out Like Teenagers.

I'm going to let you sit with that for a second.

We've had some titles.

Well, we need to talk about the episode, but wait, wait, what's, what's that? What is that I hear?

Oh, goodness gracious, yes, it is time for the sister wives professor special forces special report. It is episode

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