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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Plotz Plot on… TLC’s Sister Wives?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A couple years ago, Josh Foer, the co-founder of Atlas Obscura, took us to a remote patch of land in the Arizona desert, where he built (and later rebuilt) a museum in honor of the company’s former CEO, David Plotz. And just a few weeks ago, this patch of land appeared on a reality TV show. In a strange collision, Dylan talks with one of the stars of TLC’s Sister Wives about her own experience at the Plotz Plot. The Plotz Plot on… TLC’s Sister Wives?

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0:00.0

A few days ago, I got a very funny text.

0:07.0

It just read, Life Goal Achieved.

0:11.0

And then it linked to an article about how the sister wives, stars of a reality TV show about Mormon wives,

0:20.2

had visited a place out in the desert called the Plots Plot.

0:25.4

And the text was from David Plotz himself,

0:30.1

who was the former CEO of Alice Obscura and the namesake of the Plots plot.

0:36.7

So it took me a minute to do, there was some detective work.

0:40.4

There was a flurry of texting back and forth to figure out what, what David was talking

0:45.2

about when he wrote Life Goal achieved.

0:47.7

But the long and short of it is that the plot's plot, which is the only Atlas Obscira entry,

0:53.5

which is created by Atlas Obscira,, which was created by Atlas Obscira.

0:55.9

It had shown up in this reality TV show.

0:58.7

It had shown up on Sister Wives on TLC.

1:01.0

And it was, like, quite prominent.

1:02.9

It was not like in the background.

1:03.9

It was a whole big, important plot point around it.

1:09.2

And so this just set off a flurry of delight. The Alice

1:12.7

Obscure team is texting back and forth. We are watching clips of Sister Wives. It's a very funny,

1:19.2

strange collision of worlds. And in fact, a few years ago, we made an entire episode of this show

1:25.6

about the plots plot, about what it is, why we brought a shipping

1:30.9

container out to the middle of the desert and painted an orange and named it after our former

1:35.3

CEO, David Plotz. So we are going to play that episode for you. You can hear the story of how

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