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I'm going to... Well, hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor.

That is me. I am Dr. Adam, Professor of Communication.

And yeah, I'm a longtime follower of the TLC series Sister Wives, but if you read the description or the title, you know, that's not what we're doing

at the moment. No, no, we are getting back to Welcome to Plathville. Thank you to everyone who has been

so supportive of my return to covering this show. I know, obviously, it's not sister wives. It's not

even really sister wives adjacent. And yet there's just got some sauce here. I really enjoy this show a lot.

But if there's one thing I've learned, just because I enjoy a show doesn't mean that it

necessarily translates to podcasting success for me. But people seem to like my take on the Plath family,

so that's what I'm going to continue to do. As I mentioned last time, and it's been a minute,

right, since I covered season two, episode one. And so my plan right now is to try to do these

every other week as much as I can. Obviously, Sister Wives and Patreon and faculty lounge subscriber content has to come

first, but I really like doing this. I'm going to try to keep doing it every other week is my goal.

At the very least, through the rest of season two, so that's enough preamble for me. Let's talk about

Welcome to Plathville, Season 2, episode two titled My Mystery Man.

And in fact, there are several mystery men that are discussed in this episode.

So let's get down to it.

We open up in Tallahassee, and Micah is there with Helena for what he says is going to be a hot and sexy photo shoot.

He says it with all the excitement and inflection of a bucket of paint.

I love Micah.

Anyway, he talks about broadening one's horizons with different shoots,

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