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talk sis well, honey. Yeah, we are in season nine
and this is the episode of the Flotilla, the Cardboard Ships,
the huge waste of time. But there were a few
little things that happened that shine the light on what's
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So before we get into this episode, Beatrice, I have
to ask you if you had any takeaways.
Speaker 2: I kind of enjoyed Robin and Christine going after Cody
in this episode. It felt to me kind of genuine.
It felt to me like Robin was actually getting annoyed
with Cody for once, and I kind of loved it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my takeaway is that Robin's annoyance was purely performative.
You think so, yes, and that she does this as
a tactic to sidle up to her other sister Wives
so she can give the impression that she's one of them.
Speaker 2: That's dubious, But.
Speaker 1: She's not one of them. She's the head, bitch and
charge and we all know it. So, without any further ado,
let's get into our recap of Sister Wives Season nine,
episode six.
Speaker 2: Just trying to stay afloat okay in more ways than one, indeed,
So this episode really had two major things. Number one,
the Browns decided to enter some stupid booty ass cardboard
boat contest in some greasy lake in Las Vegas, and
they're gonna build these cardboard boats. The family's gonna split
up into two teams. They're realist, surius about it, really
competitive about it. And then the other thing of this
episode is surrounding Dayton, Aurora and Brianna's adoption legal bs.
So the beginning of the episode, we have the Browns
taking a literal class with a guy telling them how
to build a cardboard boat and how to make.
Speaker 4: Sure it's engineered properly so it'll float. You got to
make sure you paint it so it seals up so
there's no leaks.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is cringe. You have Christine taking notes
about it. Oh, it's embarrassing. And then the adults say
that they're gonna split up into two teams. We're gonna
have Cody, Christine, and Robin on one team, and then
Janelle and all of the kids on another team. Mary meanwhile,
is too busy talking to her catfish.
Speaker 1: And I know, I know because I'm always looking at
her body. Yeah, like where she is on the spectrum.
And so we've got the thinner Mary, We've got the
banana in the mouth Mary. I do want to say though,
that I think that it was very smart of Janelle
just to say, like, I don't want any part of
Cody and him building something. They certainly don't want a
part of that trio, because that would be me, or
actually Mary would be me. I was gonna say, you'd
be Harry to be like, I am not doing any
of that.
Speaker 2: I have no interest in doing that.
Speaker 1: Where's my glass?
Speaker 2: Bye bye?
Speaker 1: I'm on the sidelines.
Speaker 2: I did kind of like that, and I I was
totally side eyeing Mary because Mary really is not in
this episode, like at all. She's there a little bit
when we talk about the adoption, but that's it. And
I'm like, you're totally talking to Sam on the HH.
Speaker 1: Yes, she is in.
Speaker 2: Your home alone. It's crazy. And so then we bought
back and forth between Cody, Christine and Robin building their
bum ass boat and then Janelle and the kids building
her boat. And really Janelle and the kids are kind
of whatever because the kids are like preteens. They're arguing
with each other. Janelle's arguing with Gabe mainly.
Speaker 1: Gabe is being a little dictator. Well he's kind of cute,
it is, yeah, because he's like thirteen, he's a boy. Yeah,
he thinks he knows everything and he's kind of rolling
all over or steamrolling Gwen. And also little Savannah. Little
Savannah is adorable. She's like, you are bossy. You were
telling me to get snacks and you didn't see things. God,
she's so freaking she is. I can't.
Speaker 2: She reminds me of my little sister at that age.
Speaker 1: May non exist in overa for aching for a baby.
Speaker 3: She's so cute.
Speaker 2: And so, yeah, Janelle's just dealing with these preteens and
she's making this boat. Basically by herself with these kids.
And it's kind of funny because they named their boat
SS just enough to participate, which maybe, And it's the
ugliest looking boat painted white. It's not designed in like
any particular way.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I know I'm telegraphing ahead.
Speaker 2: Oh good. Meanwhile, we have Cody, Christine, and Robin arguing
literally stop nonst.
Speaker 1: The entire episode.
Speaker 2: It's really funny. So they're gonna make a Viking ship,
but they're gonna paint it purple and name it after
my sister wife's clause, which is the most ridiculous thing ever.
But like while they're building this boat, they're literally going
at it, and you have Robin, you know, making these
comments to Cody about how he's being annoying and he's
being mean and he's just being bossy, and I just
have to let him do what he wants to do
because he's just gonna call the shots. And Christine and
Robin have this little like buddy buddy camaraderie going on,
which I thought was kind of interesting. And if your
theory is right that Robin was doing this in a
performative way, I could see that.
Speaker 1: I think Robin hates Christine Oh, I think Cody hates
Christine as well.
Speaker 2: I think Cody for sure hates Christine, but I don't know.
My vibe in this was like, is this real? Like
does Robin actually get annoyed with Cody?
Speaker 1: Probably, but I don't think this is an instance of
that personally.
Speaker 2: And I was also thinking, like, if Robin does actually
get annoyed with Cody, he probably receives it a lot
better than he does with any of the other wives. Yes,
because he loves Robin and he doesn't really care, And
they probably get annoyed with each other in a flirtatious
way and then do sixty nine later.
Speaker 1: Apparently that's their thing.
Speaker 2: So at one point, when they're building this freaking dumb boat,
Cody says something like it's got to be sixty nine
inches or something.
Speaker 1: He's yelling at Christine, yeah, and he's showing her like
some sort of paper diagram of what she's supposed to
be building, and he's like, look, it looks like a
sixty nine. Do you get it, dummy? And then you
look across at Robin at the words sixty nine. She
looks at Cody and she kind of smiles a little yeah,
And then he catches her gaze and he looks away
really fast, as if this is something that's special to them.
Speaker 2: He probably got a little chubby going because she smiled
at him when you're talking about sixty night.
Speaker 1: So that made me think of them sixty niney Ow,
that wasn't a really good image for me.
Speaker 2: It made me think about them sixty ninety two because
I'm like, how does that work with a Mayan? Because
the man's not getting on top.
Speaker 1: Isn't Now the man is on the bottom and you're
on the top, you know. I mean, I'm sure you've
sat on a face or two oh in your lesbian repertoire,
your lesbian history. You sit out face and you turn
around and you lie down on the man, and then
you do the thing you do with the sixty nine.
That's so, it's easy peasy. It's great.
Speaker 2: You're so close to their butthole, you know what I mean,
like a man's butthole.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you think is happening when you're you know, women.
Speaker 2: Are you know, well what kind of cured and clean
and stuff. Then's got hairy buttholes and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's true too, So I'm just saying, but there's pheromones,
and you like the pheromone.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to no.
Speaker 1: I don't want a dirty butthole. I don't need a
guy who's like so dirty down there he's making dough
loaf is fermenting. Absolutely not. You want to clean the
pagenic man. But once you got a real man, that
dick right in my mouth. Girl, put that dick in
my mind.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I just adore it personally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I support you and your lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Choice, my heterosexicality.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, Cody and Robin like to sixty nine,
and so do I.
Speaker 3: So Delia, oh my god, already out of pocket.
Speaker 2: And then Christine and Cody just keep going at it,
and like Christine's getting annoyed because Cody's being a bossy
ass bitch and he really is, like he wants to
do everything his way. He doesn't think that Christine or
Robin really have good ideas of how to build this
boat because they're women, and he's a miam right, and
he knows what will be structurally sound with this cardboard.
And like every little chance he can, he has to
argue about something, and you know, Christine keeps making comments
about how we just got to do it his way
and we just got to kind of shut up, and
you know, Cody's getting annoyed. And it's hot as fuck
outside too. They're building this out in the Las Vegas heat,
so everybody's cranky. Meanwhile, Janelle's with the kids and she's
just yelling at game constantly.
Speaker 1: Why are you guys doing this? Nobody's actually having any fun.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I was watching this whole episode and it reminded
me of of my own childhood because my parents used
to argue all the time, and I just I thought
it was funny because you're seeing like a real family
dynamic happen in real time, like even though it's edited
and everything, like this is how they are. And some
of the older kids are talking about how Cody and
Christine like always bicker all the time and that's just
how they are, and I'm like, damn, dude, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, so how are you and your wife when you
have to build something?
Speaker 2: She builds it okay, and I hold the instructions and
I give her the nuts and bolts.
Speaker 1: Are you the project manager? I'm the project.
Speaker 2: Manaday because I get frustrated. I call it old man angry,
Like I get get takerous when I have to build
something and I like, fuck it up. I just get mad.
So we have this agreement that I'm like, anything needs
to be built, she does it because she does it
so calmly. She'll like plug in her podcast and she's
just chilling, and I'm just there for moral support.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because like, you're the one who installed the garbage.
Just I can do something like this septic, yeah, cut
the tree branches down, yeah. But she's building an Ikea
bookcase exactly can't do it.
Speaker 2: I'm the handyman. She's the Ikea lesbian. Okay, so she'll
build all the stuff, but I do all the nasty shit, and.
Speaker 3: That's like fine by me. I'm like I'll do that.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 2: Leave me alone, you know. But in this situation, like
with the cardboard boat, I probably would have been cranky too,
been hot, and I'm like, I don't want to fucking
build a cardboard boat that everybody has to sit in
and float across this nasty lake.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. It sounds like the worst day possible.
Speaker 2: Terrible, And so everybody's arguing. Everybody is annoyed, and then
we change gears a little bit, and we go to
Robin and Cody's house at some point and we start
talking about the adoption, and I guess they got a
text from their lawyer, Sasha in Montana, who said that
Preston agreed to sign the adoption papers, and obviously Cody
and Robin are super happy about it. They were really
stressing about this adoption and stressinged about whether or not
Preston would do this, but he ultimately agrees to sign
his rights away, and now it's time for Cody and
Robin to tell the family. And so they start with
Mary first, because she made the sacrifice to give up
her legal marriage and it was her idea apparently, sure
to do this for Cody and Robin. So they bring
Mary over and she begrudgingly walks over because she was
in the middle of sexting.
Speaker 1: Sands, so she had a banana in her mouth.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. And they tell her Preston agreed
to sign, and Mary is like.
Speaker 1: That's great, sounds good. Cool, I'll go back to my house,
though I kind of got something going on.
Speaker 2: I was in the middle of using my batter operated boyfriend,
and I go, yeah, Mary seems not excited about it
at all. And so after they tell Mary, then they
call Janelle up because they were going to have her
come over, but Janelle's at the supermarket, and so they
tell her while she's at the supermarket. Janelle's like cool, great,
sounds good, awesome. Then they bring Christine over and Christine
is the only one with like an actual good reaction,
and she actually hugs Mary. No, she hugs Robin first, yes,
which was interesting. She's happy, she tears up. Then she
hugs Mary and says, hey, your divorce was worth it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of funny. But in this moment, it felt
like to me that Christine was really being so congratulatory
to demonstrate to Cody that he can trust her. Remember,
because in last week's episode that was like the big
deal and it's the doorway to intimacy with Cody, and
so she wants to be as supportive as possible, especially
to Robin, because if she's not, then she ain't gonna
get to the OU. That makes sense. So yeah, she's
the only one who has like a big reaction.
Speaker 2: That makes sense actually, And so after they tell the wives,
then they tell Aurora, Dayton and Brianna that their dad
gave them up, and Aurora bursts into tears.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile Brianna's just sitting there, blank stare on her face. Okay, great,
Dayton is quote baffled and surprised.
Speaker 1: Yes, so let's not just gloss over these reactions. Yes,
So with Aurora, she proceeds to cry for the rest
of the episode, like for the entire day, not the
I mean, when they go to the little flotilla thing,
she's not crying, but like she cries all day. She's
sobbing mm hmm. And initially I thought, oh my gosh,
she's really happy. Good for her, you know, this is
means a lot to her. But then when she kept
crying and seemed so devastated, I was like, is this
about your father saying yeah to giving you up a
little bit too? Yeah? Or like the idea that maybe
you won't be seeing him. You already haven't seen him
for two years according to Robin, and so does this
maybe solidify in your child's heart like maybe I'm never
gonna say my dad again. And then you switch on
over to Dayton, who doesn't really have a filter about
what he's thinking. And he's like, yeah, I'm a little
bit confused. I'm a little bit baffled. I wish somebody
would have said, well, why Yeah. I think Robin said
something like but it's good, right, and Dayton says, yeah, no, no,
it's it's good. Yeah, But he's baffled. He's confused, And
I'm wondering if he's baffled, because like, why did my
dad give me up?
Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: Why did my dad sign away his rights? Why did
that happen? And there was no space in that moment
for a conversation, like for the kids that get it,
like what actually happened. I don't think Brianna got it.
Brianna's just a little baby, but I think those two
kids did totally.
Speaker 2: I think they're old enough to understand. But they're like
at this age where they they're feeling a lot, but
they don't know how to articulate it or express any
of it because they're teenagers and like they're going through
a lot, and it's been a bit a big transition
for them in multiple ways. Like not only did they
have to make multiple moves in the last couple of years,
but then they had to go from their parents together,
then their mom is a single mom, then she's now
with Cody. Then they get married into this plural family,
then they moved to Vegas, and then their dad gives
them up. It's like it's a lot for these kids, Yes,
And I was actually thinking that with Aurora too. I
was thinking, the reason why she was crying so much
is because deep down she's sad. But I think Robin
tells her kids how to feel. Yes, And you can
tell when she's telling Dayton like, no, but it's a
good thing, you're happy, right, And Dayton's like, yeah, no,
I'm happy. And then Aurora every time she's crying in
the episode, is like, no, no, no, I'm just crying
because I'm happy because that's what Robin is telling her,
that that's what she's feeling. But deep down, I think
these kids are sad and I.
Speaker 1: Would Yes, I do as well. I think that or
Or It seems like a very empathetic and feeling young lady.
She might not have the you know, maturity and intelligence
to understand the scope of what she's feeling, but there's
more that's going on there. And I felt like they
were kind of put on the spot because the cameras
are there, and they all know, and you can see
that Dayton knows exactly how Robin wants him to answer
and what Robin wants him to say on camera, and
so he does in this moment, I felt really sad
for all those kids, but particularly Dayton, because I think
Dayton feels a need to protect Robin. That's his mom,
and just as you said, there has been so much uncertainty,
and now his mom is getting everything that she wants.
She's got this lit house, she's got money, she's got
a man that obviously adores her. So I don't want
to fuck it up for my mom by loving and
missing my dad exactly, which is sad.
Speaker 2: It's so sad, and it's a really hard place for
a kid to be put in. And when Robin tells
her kids this, she also tells them but you can
still call him and you can still see him, which
is really weird because after this, then they have a
phone call with Sasha, the lawyer, who is talking to
them and saying like, hey, when Preston was here signing
the papers, he had a lot of questions about if
he could see the kids still, if he could talk
to them, And I wasn't sure how to answer those questions,
So what do you guys want to do? And Robin
tells the lawyer, well, we're building up to that. So
she doesn't outright say he can still talk to them,
he can still visit. She tells the lawyer, we're building
up to that. So Robin is already telling two different
stories here. I think she's totally restricting access from the
kids in Preston. And then you have a little segment
with Aurora at one point where she's telling Janelle everybody
in the family was told that they're getting adopted. Aurora says, yeah,
I called Preston and made sure to thank him for
what he did, and he told me that it was
the right thing to do, even though it wasn't what
he wanted to do, but he loves them very much.
And the fact that Aurora called him Preston and she's
like already calling Cody dad, I'm just like this whole
thing is like orchestrated.
Speaker 1: And then panned to Robin on the couch saying, yeah,
I heard the conversation. Yes, oh, as I was walking
into a different room when the kids were talking to Preston,
and it was really great. Hearing them all have this
discussion and them understanding what's happening. I'm like, okay, so
you're sitting by. What this means is you're sitting by
sitting right there, probably listening to absolutely everything that is
being said between your children and Preston.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And that guy got royally screwed because, in my opinion,
they never intended for him to have continuing visitation. Of course,
I don't know whether he did. I don't know whether
there was any kind of a connection from this point on,
but I don't remember it. This is when I started watching.
I don't think so. So they just completely fucked him
because they knew that he was in a financially disadvantaged place.
Speaker 2: And that was what I was thinking during this episode,
because we've been theorizing up until this point, like you know,
how is this benefit to Preston, and like how did
they manipulate him into giving up his parental rights money?
And it had to have been because I don't think
he wanted to do this. It sounded like his hand
was forced.
Speaker 1: Well, the lawyer even said it took him a long
time to sign the papers.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So he was in that office, he did not want
to do it, yep.
Speaker 2: But then he ultimately did, and then Robin makes her
kids call him and thank him for doing what he did,
because that's what it sounded like too. Like it wasn't
like Aurora wanted to call Preston. I feel like Robin
was like, you should call him and thank him and
then talk about it on camera so we could pretend
like we were doing the right thing, right and we're
good people. Yes, the whole situation just felt super icky.
And then when they ultimately announce it to the rest
of the family and all of the kids, like nobody
has a reaction to it, and Cody is a bit
disappointed by that, and he wants everybody to like cheer
and be happy, but you know, they kind of gloss
over it, saying like, well, maybe the kids just don't
think it's that big of a deal because you know, Dayton, Aurora,
Brianna are already part of the family, and like they
don't see it as a big a deal as the
adults do. But I'm like, I feel like the kids
pick up on m hmm, this is a weird situation.
Speaker 1: Well, if you listen to Maddie these days, she's talking
about how they were all very sensitive at this point
and before probably since Lehi, when Robin entered the family,
the kids were noticing that things got disproportionate and he
began to favor Robin, but not just Robin her kids.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So the reason also that they might not have been
jumping for joy is because they're like, Okay, great, you know,
now even more time with his favorite children.
Speaker 2: That's probably what it is. I was just kind of
the vibe with it. Christine really was the only one
that was excited about it, and it is probably it's
probably because you're right, like she is trying to suck
up to Robins that way she can get Cody's view
or just like.
Speaker 1: Have a relationship and the marriage with Cody totally with
some intimacy totally.
Speaker 2: But you know, when they're building the boat, it doesn't seem.
Speaker 1: Like absolutely not anything they learned in Galveston, which we
know they learned nothing like did not come with them
back to Vegas while they're building this boat. Oh, there's
no collaboration, there's no partnership, there's no.
Speaker 2: Respect, not at all, and like on you know, both ends,
Like I can see Christine being too hot headed at
some points because she's an aries and she's wanting to
do things her way and whatever, and she's wanting to
be a little bit of a boss. But Cody is
just downright mean. At one point, Christine makes a comment
about how she's and yelled at for four days or whatever,
and Cody's like, no, you haven't you cry baby?
Speaker 1: I know, and I'm like, oh my god. That's when
Robin steps in and says, hey, stop it, and he does,
but only because Robin told him.
Speaker 2: To, Yeah, which is interesting to me. And I was wondering,
like if Robin was genuine with that comment, Like did
she not like that Cody was mean to these other wives?
I don't know, because obviously now we know Robin is
this evil puppet master. She's living in her two point
one million dollar mcmanch and she doesn't give a shit
that Cody doesn't talk to anybody. But I was just
like thinking back then, I'm like Robin, like, how can
you be okay being married to somebody who talks to
other people like that, who talk to the mother women, yeah, women,
and the mother of his child, his children, Like, I
don't know, It's just crazy. And I do think that
this is also the season where Robin gives Cody that
picture right of all of the kids.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think it's this season. I think it's after the option,
because I think that's gonna be in the next episode
or two, and she gives him that that photo.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a drawing, right, the drawing based on
the photo of Cody and Christine and their family. So
she lifts the entire thing and just swaps in her
and her kids.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know if it's happening this season, but I can't wait
to get to it.
Speaker 2: I think it is because I'm recalling it now and
all of the events happening to this. But yeah, So
after they build the boats, they paint everything. I guess
Cody had a disagreement with Christine while she's painting up
the boat at the last minute about the paint that
she was using. She paints half of this fifteen foot.
Speaker 1: Long painted the whole boat.
Speaker 2: I thought it was half, No, the whole thing, and.
Speaker 1: He's painted about it. Then he's like, I don't know
if that's the right paint. You couldn't have told me
that before I painted the whole damn boat. They even
had the blue stuff, yeah on it. They were already
decorating the boat.
Speaker 2: I would have beat his ass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that felt kind of intentional, Actually.
Speaker 2: Beat his ass. You're gonna make me pay this whole thing,
fifteen foot long fucking boat. It gets wild to me.
And so ultimately they get it all done, and then
Christine stupidly ordered a fifteen foot long U haul, thinking
that that would help fit their boat, and it didn't,
so they have to like jury rig this whole thing
to fit it in there to transport it to this
dingy lake that they're gonna be competing, right, meanwow, Janelle
has her bare minimum boat, right, and she's gonna have,
of course, a Hunter and Logan and Gabe and Gwen
row it. She's not gonna be in it way soever.
Speaker 3: No, not at all, which is really funny.
Speaker 2: So we're at the little competition and Janelle is starting
to feel that Taurus competitive spirit. She's like, I don't
want to win though, And they go first, and of
course they sail across the lake.
Speaker 1: As Logan and Hunter are ballers, they're like boom boom, Yeah,
they're rowing for their lives.
Speaker 2: Actually really loved that. I thought that was great and
I loved that third design was the bare minimum. It
made me laugh.
Speaker 1: I loved it. That's something I would.
Speaker 2: Do for sure, totally. I think it's great. And then
we get to Cody Christine's.
Speaker 1: So funny.
Speaker 2: Boat. This was so funny too.
Speaker 3: So it's like all design.
Speaker 2: They have all this horrible coloring on this boat. It's
big purple my sister wives closet. Well, you know, we
put our business logo on there, even though nobody's gonna
know what it is.
Speaker 1: And nobody's ever gonna go to the website historically.
Speaker 2: And it's a Viking boat that's painted purple, and so
they're gonna wear their Viking hats. And I don't know why,
but Cody has to be in it, and then Isabelle
and then one other Brianna I think was there, and
then Aurora and who else Dayton. Yeah, so there's five
people on this boat, most of them our kids, and
they go to they go to row it and they're
just rowing in a circle because Aurora it's fucking it
up in the front right, and they can't even get
across the fucking lake.
Speaker 1: You know, it's pissing Cody off. You know that Cody
wanted to beat his boys, yep, and be faster than
his boys, and if his boys came in second, which
they did, he wants to come in first. But he's
just going in circles around this man made lake. It
is hilarious.
Speaker 2: It's so funny, and they took so much time that
ultimately they failed. They had to wave the white flag
basically get disqualified from some reason.
Speaker 3: Across the lake, which is really funny.
Speaker 2: And so of course, Janelle's team gets second, Cody and
Robin's team and Christine's team didn't even place, but they
did get an award for most creative.
Speaker 1: Because somebody had to give, like the Sister Wives from
the Sister Wives Show an award of.
Speaker 2: Course, and you know, Cody and Christine and Robin they're
like laughing about it now as they're recounting it, but like,
you know, during the whole process, it was it was.
It was a terrible experience. And even Janelle was like,
I didn't really have fun buildings, Like why did we.
Speaker 1: Even just wrangling her kids out in the heat? Who
would want to do that?
Speaker 2: Totally and honestly, Janelle the whole time looked totally checked out.
To me. It was like Janelle's not used to having
all of these kids around, and she's getting annoyed.
Speaker 1: Christine, where are you exact them take care of my kids?
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Christine is wrangling Cody.
Speaker 2: Exactly yes. And so then the episode ends with Cody
being like, you know.
Speaker 4: We had this hurdle of the adoption process and you know,
getting pressed into send these PaperWorks and paperwork, and then
we also had this hurdle of building this cardboard boat.
And now the last hurdle is going to stand in
front of a judge to ask them if they'll let
me adopt my kids.
Speaker 2: We're really worried about it, and shocker, it's going to
go off without a hitch. Not it's going to be
a total nothing burger. And so that's the way the
episode ends. Preview for next week we have Cody taking
Isabelle and some of the other younger girls on a
California beach trip because that's what isabel wanted for her birthday.
We have Robin making a comment about that, saying if
he doesn't connect with his girls at this age, they
are not gonna want to connect with him once they're
in high school and older, which is pretty poignant. Then
we have Maddie telling the parents that the LDS church
rejected her because her family is too public, and Robin says,
she's so sorry about that, And then we have Mary
looking like she's finally ready to agree to go to
therapy with Janelle four months later.
Speaker 1: After four months, that's crazy. I'd be like, forget it, no,
straight up, you made me wait almost half a year.
Speaker 2: That's so bitchy.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, it is extremely bitchy.
Speaker 2: That's so bitchy. And Janelle's worried about it too, because
it sounds like Mary's like, I gotta talk to you,
and Janelle's like, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1: Yes, all I remember, very hazily is that therapy is
not very productive. No, because Mary's got our walls up.
There's a lot of hurt feelings and those two women
cannot build a bridge and get over it.
Speaker 2: And I think if I recall like when they started
going to therapy, it's probably when the catfish stuff started
ranking up, and so it probably gets overshadowed by the
fact that, yeah, Mary's catfish got got exposed. Yes, so
that'll be juicy.
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that we should say to these beautiful raccoons before we
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Speaker 1: We will be back later this week to talk Welcome
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it's kind of getting good, getting juicy. I think the
season's winding down and or finishing, but it's getting good.
We're having a big conversation. But until then, please do
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Speaker 2: And pease a night.
Speaker 3: I guess