The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

It is not reflective views or opinions of my university or its affiliates. Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor.

That's me. I'm Dr. Adam, Professor of Interpersonal and Family Communication, and big fan of reality TV, and this is my podcast.

Where I talk to you all about reality TV shows,

especially sister wives seeking sister wife, and of course, welcome to Plathville.

This is a pretty big day for me because I am finishing coverage of a season, which always feels kind of weird and kind of good at the same time, feels like, hey, you know, I kind of did the thing.

I stuck the landing, hopefully, I guess. It's up to you if I stuck the landing or not, but I at least

am going to have a landing. That is guaranteed because we are finishing part two of Welcome

to Plathville, season three, episode 12. If you didn't catch it last week, episode 12 of season

three is like two hours long.

And so for the purposes of this podcast, like I've done before, these extra long finale, I split it into two.

And the timing is kind of perfect because Welcome to Plathville, season eight starts next week, which of course I am very excited about.

Can't wait to see that and hopefully talk to you about it.

But that's it. We are going to finish up Welcome to Plathville Season 3. It's a big finale. There's some good stuff here. I've got some interesting things to talk to you about, and I'm really excited about it. So I do want to thank you for making me a part of your day here. Thanks for letting me be the background noise to the important things that are currently making up your life, or even the unimportant things that are currently making up your life. Maybe you're just trying to fall asleep, which I would argue is actually pretty darn important. A lot of people listen to me to fall asleep, which is kind of an honor in a way, is I listen to a lot of ASMR and stuff to fall asleep, so believe me, I get it.

But anyway, let's get to it.

Welcome to Plathville, Season 3, Episode 12.

Yes, again, I want to talk to your parents.

And if you don't remember, Lydia is currently having her graduation party.

The only graduation party the Plaths have ever thrown for any of their children, which they are doing, I think, because there are cameras now, but I talked about that last week.

Kim started a contra dance. The only contra I know was on the NES. Well, anyway, this is a contra dance, and it's a mixer dance. You start with somebody, then you swap couples throughout the whole thing. How scandalous, but the dance starts up. And this is where

Mariah asks Lydia to come to her and go see. Somebody's here to see you. It's a big surprise.

They're at the top of the driveway. And I remember years ago when I first saw this, I thought

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