The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

It does not reflect the views or opinions of my university or its affiliates.

I'm Dr. Adam, Professor of Communication and longtime follower of the TLC series Sister Wives, as well as many other things that you and I like to talk about.

If you so choose, thanks so much for making me a small but hopefully positive part of your day.

Thanks for letting me be the background noise to the very important things that make up your life.

I wonder what you're doing right now.

I hope you're doing well.

Is it the morning?

Is it the dead of night? Some of you are up

helping your babies fall asleep. Some of you are walking your dogs. Some of you are on the

train to your very important jobs. Some of you are trying to fall or even stay asleep. And

whatever you're doing, I'm just happy to be here. I'm always happy to be here

because, hey, it beats the alternative, right? That's what I always think. Bob Ross once said,

if you don't think every day's a good day, you should try missing a few. Amen to that, brother.

Not too much going on on my end except it's finals week at day job. and that does not impact you at all, unless you're

my student, which would be weird. Stop listening to this. No, this might impact you only because at the

sister-wives professor merch store, what I cheekily call the campus bookstore at

TSWP dot dashery, d-a-S-H-E-R-Y.com.

This entire week, starting today, if you're listening to this on Monday, if you're listening

to this early on Patreon or by subscription, it's not started yet, but the very beginning of

Monday through the entire week.

So the 11th through the 17th of May, I'm doing a finals week

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