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, a very warm welcome to the Sister Wives Professor. That's me. I'm Dr. Adam,

Professor of Communication, longtime follower of the TLC series Sister Wives. And this is my podcast where I get together with you

whenever you want. I'm on demand. You can listen to me anytime you want. That's fun. But yeah,

we talk about reality TV, especially Sister Wives and Sister Wives adjacent stuff. And frankly,

just whatever pops into my head, it seems.

Thanks for coming back or thanks for joining me for the very first time. I haven't said this in a while. If you haven't already, if you think I've deserved it, if you would leave me a five-star review, that would be so amazing. It really does help people to check out the podcast. Your reviews really count. Let's talk about it. Sister Wives season six episode eight,

A Wife Decides. We are in peak sister wives right now. Oh, I love it so much. The Brown family are in the cul-de-sacca love. Cody is so happy. Only in a few weeks, he says, and life is already

back to normal. We see kids being all happy, playing together, teenagers, laughing, McHelty holding a big fashion dummy look like, which is kind of cool, because she was in her wanting to be a designer era. Good for her. Cody says the adults are struggling, though, with boundaries and nuances. Does that sound like a loaded statement to you?

It certainly did to me.

Cody says they're all figuring out how to run their households as they choose.

They're independent of each other, so they need unity within the family.

He points out on the couch they're all very different.

What is he saying?

He's saying a lot of things, and yet he's not really saying anything definitive.

Or maybe he is, but the subtext to me, the connotative meaning is much more interesting than that denotative meaning.

So the context is much more interesting to me than what he's literally saying.

To me, Cody, is saying they are not coming back together as a family as sister wives, the way that he wants them to and the way he expects them to.

This also sounds very much like Robin coming out of his mouth. Can't be sure, but it would not

shock me at this point. If there were already some conversations going on in Chateau de Robin,

about how, I don't know, Cody, I mean, I love my sister wives, but I just don't see him. I don't know

why she sounds like Bobby Hill. Sorry, I can't do Robin. Listen to surviving sister wives if you want a

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