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I'm a lot. Hello and as always, the warmest of welcomes to the Sister Wives Professor.

That's me. My name is Adam. I am a professor of communication at a university.

And I'm a huge fan, well, huge follower anyway, of the TLC series Sister Wives, which is what I have the privilege of talking to you about today as we continue

season six with a really special episode, a very mother-centric episode. You may know what I'm

talking about. I don't know if you read the description or not.

We are going to talk about this episode in great detail. Let's talk about the episode. Sister Wives

Season 6, Episode 12, Mother-in-law Invasion. And we start in the cul-de-sac of love. The kids are

outside. Mary is having fun on a razor scooter. Being rad. Cody says it's been five months

in the new homes. Five months since they started becoming a happy family, he says. Robin says they called

a circle, not a cul-de-sac. Christine likes Plague-de-sac, which Robin hates, and I got a side with

Robin on that one. I don't particularly care for that term.

I don't know why. I live in a cul-de-sac, too. It's just kind of a funny term, isn't it? Maybe not. Maybe I just haven't heard it enough, even though I've been living here a while. They just don't like that C-word, not cul-de-sac, but compound. Christine hates the word compound. She won't even say it, but Cody gleefully, having fun, pushing back on and irritating his wife, Christine, says, oh, you mean compound? And he gives a big cheeky smile. He's so cheeky. He's Thomas the tank engine over here. He's so cheeky. Cody says the kids have been doing great. They've acclimated. They're going from house to house, pretty much from day one. They're peas in a pod. And we see him running around from house to house doing his Rick Flair

doo-doo pants, jaunty run. This feels a lot, by the way, like a season premiere. So I kind of wanted

to talk about that real quick. I seem to remember this being the premiere of season seven at one

point, how I streamed it online at least?

Because typically the tell-all, which was last episode, would be the end of a season.

Correct? I'm not wrong about that.

Not the Q&A's where they do the iPads and stuff.

They did that as well, but the actual sit-down tell-all.

And yet, this is listed on Discovery Plus and Amazon, and I checked,

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