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Thank you. Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor. That is me. I am Dr. Adam,

Professor of Interpersonal and Family Communication and big fan of reality television.

And this is my podcast where I talk to you about reality TV shows,

Sister Wives, Seeking Sister Wife, and of course, Welcome to Plathville.

I didn't mention it last week, but yeah, the trailer for the new season of Welcome to Plathville is out.

Hope you're excited for that new season.

Seems like there's going to be some sea changes, some major changes with Lydia in particular, and all kinds of other stuff, man, all kinds of things going on.

A couple of people have asked me, am I going to cover that current season? I got to be honest, I am considering it.

I was going to take a break from Welcome to Plathville after I finished up, you know,

season three, because this is the penultimate episode, so second and last episode of this season that

we're talking about today. But as far as next season goes, I'm going to kind of sleep on it and

see how it goes. I tentatively, yeah, I definitely would like to. I've got to kind of make sure I can

commit to another ongoing season, you know, because the scheduling wise, like with old shows, I definitely would like to. I've got to kind of make sure I can commit to another ongoing season, you know, because the scheduling-wise, like with old shows, I can work really far ahead if I need to, stuff like that, you know what I mean? Current seasons are a lot more fun in some ways, because they have a great energy, but they're not very forgiving schedule-wise. So I don't want to commit to doing that and then not be able to finish it.

That's actually why I didn't cover last season of Welcome to Plathills. I knew scheduling-wise. I thought, you know what, I'm not going to be able to keep up and I'm going to disappoint people, so I didn't do it. But things are a little bit different now. So, yeah, hopefully, I will let you know. I mean, you'll know, right?

You'll know if I start covering the season, but my hope is to do that.

Yeah, my hope is to do that.

Anyway. let you know. I mean, you'll know, right, you'll know if I start covering the season, but my hope is to do that. Yeah, my hope is to do that. Anyway, though, we're not here to talk about the news season. We're here to talk about, like I said, the second to last episode, episode 11 of season three of Welcome to Plathville. I want to be a pirate. Let's talk about that, shall we? We start off in Cairo at Ethan and Olivia's home,

or they're home at the moment, right? They are trying to leave, of course, as we know. Ethan's packing a bag. Olivia's here, call them Stranger. Like, hey, stranger. She sounds happy to see him,

though, but that's a purposeful communicative choice. She is referencing the shorter,

comparatively at least amount of time that they are spending together based upon what she calls him there. So she's kind of lightly touching upon

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