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Music Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor. That is me. I'm Dr. Adam,

Professor of Communication and longtime follower of the TLC series, Sister Wives.

And it is my great pleasure, as always, to talk to you about this ridiculous show.

And what a ridiculous and substantive, shall we say, at least for analysis,

episode we have to talk about.

And so I actually have the opportunity, talk about big follower, big fan to collaborate with one of my very favorite content creators, certainly one of my favorite reality television content creators.

You will know Sarah from her YouTube channel's Reality Squad and Sarah Spills as well as her podcast, mostly harmless.

Sarah, thank you so much for being on the podcast today. Thank you for having me, Dr. Adam. It is my pleasure, and we have quite the episode

to talk about, as you know. Yes, we do. Sister Wives, Season 3, Episode 6, and if you all didn't

read the title or the description, this is the Wives Diet

Wows. And so we just, let's just get, do you want to just get into it? You want to just kind of talk about

this? Let's just hop on that scale, Adam. Okay. I'm like Janelle. I'm nervous and kind of regret

doing this in front of so many people. But here we go. Oh, my gosh. Janelle has been

through the ringer over the years of being forced to do things that she does not want to do.

And getting weighed publicly, no thank you. Yeah, we're going to talk about it. We're going to

talk about it. Real quick, too, just to preface this, my master's thesis.

So the first, like, major substantive project I did in graduate school was on communication

about weight gain and weight loss and the different sort of key messages we receive.

Because, like a lot of people listening to this, I'm sure, my weight has changed dramatically

throughout my life.

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