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As always to the Sister Wives Professor.

That's me.

I'm Dr. Adam, Professor of Interpersonal and Family Communication,

and longtime follower of the TLC series Sister Wives,

and this is my podcast where I talk to you all about reality TV, especially Sister Wives. And we are

making our way through season six. We're going to talk about season six episode two,

today the four lives of Cody's Wives. This is a nice slice of classic sister wives, just how I like it.

It reminds me of one of the episodes from an earlier season where they split up Cody's

day or whatever. Or is weak, you know what I mean when he goes across to each wife and sort of

addresses all her needs. Well, this is kind of like that framework, but not the entire episode,

but most of it, they split across each wife. And they try to showcase, and I think they do a

pretty darn good job of it, actually, how parallel their lives are and how separate their

lives are, because that's very much the narrative thrust of the show. At this point is the opposite

of what the first couple seasons were, which is there's this big family and they're all living together. Well, now it's kind of the show. At this point is the opposite of what the first couple seasons were,

which is there's this big family and they're all living together. Well, now it's kind of the

opposite, right? Which, to be fair, is very interesting. If you missed it real quick before I get

into this, if you're on Patreon at the $8 tier or up, or if you're a faculty lounge subscriber on

Apple, you might have caught my independent study for this month,

which is where I review an episode of a show or a documentary or whatever, and I reviewed the

episode of Dark Side of the 2000s, Charlie Sheen addicted to winning. I'm not just saying this. I think

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