Welcome to Plathville - 8.3 - Fish or Cut Bait
The Sister Wives Professor
Dr. Adam
4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Barry is single and ready to mingle with the help of his son-in-law and a friend. Ethan, Micah and Isaac are all left to navigate the wake of their own breakup, and Isaac in particular seems to regret his choices. The Plath system continues to function and malfunction as change continues for seemingly every member.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. |
| 0:03.4 | It does not reflect the views or opinions of my university or its affiliates. |
| 0:30.0 | The Hello, and as always, welcome to the Sister Wives Professor. |
| 0:36.2 | That is me. I'm Dr. Adam, Professor of Communication, big fan of reality television. |
| 0:39.3 | And this is my podcast where a couple times a week, |
| 0:47.7 | at least, I get together with you to talk about TV, talk about families, because what I study at work is families and relationships. And reality TV, as you very well know, is a great opportunity to study people and families and things that we probably don't want to experience ourselves, right? |
| 1:01.9 | Kind of like horror movies in a way. |
| 1:04.4 | Is Plathville kind of like a horror movie? |
| 1:06.8 | Psychological horror maybe in the past. |
| 1:09.7 | This season has been pretty good so far. |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, more than pretty good. |
| 1:13.7 | It's been really good to me. |
| 1:15.1 | This is only three episodes in, |
| 1:16.9 | so I don't want to get too too excited or be too definitive |
| 1:20.8 | in terms of my assessment of the season. |
| 1:23.8 | But I've been really pleased with how it's been going. |
| 1:25.6 | This is my first time covering an ongoing |
| 1:27.5 | season of Plathville. I've covered seasons one through three in the archives. I've certainly covered |
| 1:32.6 | current seasons of sister wives and even of seeking sister wife that last season they did. But this is my |
| 1:38.6 | first time keeping up with the Plas as they go. So I hope you're enjoying my coverage so far if you're just checking |
| 1:45.3 | it out today for the very first time. Welcome. I'm so glad you're here. I hope you stick around. |
| 1:49.9 | Let's get to it. Welcome to Plathville. Season 8, episode three, fish or cut bait. Can we just do neither? |
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