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Speaker 2: Oh my guys, we are here to talk.
Speaker 1: Sister wowd Yes, we are currently in our rewind era.
We are going through the records and we are in
season nine.
Speaker 2: Which is where shit starts popping.
Speaker 1: That's right. So last week we talked about Mary and
Cody's legal divorce and then of course Robin snatched him
right up and they eloped. We've got some tension between
Mary and Janelle. There's a lot of things perk. Yeah,
and none of them really continued on into this episode.
Speaker 2: No, they didn't.
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whether you had any thoughts, any feelings, or any takeaways.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, this episode was kind of boring,
and it starts getting better in this season, I do remember,
because we've got Galveston and we've got the catfish and stuff,
so like it starts popping off. But this episode was boring.
My other takeaway is that I think it's interesting that
they edited it in a way where we're talking about
the adoption of Robin's kids, but then we're also talking
about how Cody and his relationships with his kids is
starting to suffer, and how there's a glowing or glaring
disparity between his relationships with his daughters versus his sons,
and it's kind of low key shitty and misogynistic because
he's like, I only get along with the boys because
they like boy stuff.
Speaker 3: They like to russell Duhn't they're real men like me,
Like I can't talk about the girls with girl stuff
because you know, I'm not a girl vagina.
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: So it's just like, it's just interesting to me that
they chose to edit it in this way where we're
like talking about him making this effort with Robin's kids
and they're not biologically his. But then he's like not
having a good relationship with the rest of his children.
It's it's pretty shitty.
Speaker 1: It is shitty. I agree. So my takeaway, I'm just
gonna start right out the gate and tell you it's inappropriate.
It's not cool. But I mean, I think we're all
thinking it. Yeah, and so I want to be that
person who represents is the mouthpiece of the dumpster. And
I'm just gonna say, and I mean it in the
most complimentary way, that Hunter's booty is popping out. Did
you see him in those ones?
Speaker 2: Siaes girl, his booty.
Speaker 1: Just out there, body popping out.
Speaker 2: I'm sure guys everywhere we're like, oh.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's eighteen here, he's about to
graduate in high school and go off to college. I'm
not trying to be inapproprobe, but like, you put him
in these I'm sorry, you put him in these skimpy
little outfits and it's just showing everything and I'm just like, damn, wow.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's very telling that Cody says wrestling is
the best sport in the whole world, and I'm like,
why because of the leotards?
Speaker 1: Is that why, well, because of the ball's right in
your face. There's balls right right, and say, sense of
a man. It was very interesting sort of the outfits,
the regalia, and that's all I'm gonna say about that.
I just know I just noticed it. And my bad. No,
you could tell me I'm bad. I'm old's going wait
until I'm like legit eighty girl and you take me
to the Starbucks and I'm just talking straight to people.
You got a nice ass, young man. Oh god, I
can't wait. Nobody's gonna do nothing well in this day
and age. They might kill me. They might murk me
on the spot.
Speaker 2: For sexually harassing the.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they might dispatch me from this planet. Okay, without
further ato, let's get into our recap of Sister Wives
season nine episode to a Tatto.
Speaker 2: To Wrestling with Adoption.
Speaker 1: Okay, this, I'm so so boring. It really was.
Speaker 2: We're just gonna bring what can't we even talk? There
really wasn't much here. It was a lot of filler, honestly,
and it was a lot of like the same conversation
over and over again. So we start off the episode
at Robin's house, of course, because we have to tell
Leon and Robin's kids about Mary's divorce, and Cody ends
up asking Robin's kids in a very performative way for
the camera.
Speaker 3: Like Lee, let me adove you can I be a daddy,
And of course Aurora runs up to him and jumps
in his arms, and I'm just like pointing out that
I feel like they have kind of a weird relationship.
I don't want to say, of course, not inappropriate, saying
that I would hope not to God, I would hope
that there's not anything inappropriate going on, But I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of.
Speaker 1: Like I do see people on Reddit speculating and commenting
and being stupid about that. But I just think that
in the absence of her bio dad's presence, she's really
attached to Cody, and you can't blame her. And Rob
really pushed for that as well.
Speaker 2: I guess I just I don't know. Like I was
a kid when my parents divorced and I was like
thirteen fourteen, and I wasn't running into my stepdad's arms
like that, you know what I mean? I don't know,
But what who am I? I'm just a person, And
so then it's the next day or whatever, We're still
at Robin's house and we're talking about like Solomon needing
a haircut, and Robin's like, I'm worried about talking about
it with Coony because he's like so attached to Solomon's
hair or whatever. But then Cody comes in and he's like,
we should get Solomon a haircut, and she's like, oh
my god.
Speaker 1: It's like we are so connected.
Speaker 2: We're so connected, we're twinlad And.
Speaker 1: Five minutes later there's a hairstylist. So this was all
booked in advance, had already talked about it and it
was planned.
Speaker 2: And then after that, Cody's talks to Robin on camera also,
which I just think is inappropriate, and.
Speaker 4: He's like, maybe should have another baby. Maybe after his haircut,
it's time for us to have a baby. And Robin
like beams and gets immediately wet, and she's like, oh
my god, cooy, I.
Speaker 1: Think she's already pregnant.
Speaker 2: You think so.
Speaker 1: Furthermore, can we just take a little sidebar here, because
at the end of last season or whatever season, had
the recommitment ceremony, Yeah, didn't Robin go running from the
celebration because there was some kind of a secret do
you remember this, I do vaguely, And it felt like
they were going to announce the pregnancy with Ariella, like
something was going on, but they never resolved that. They
went straight to a tell all yeah yeah, and then
into a new season and I'm like, well, what was
that all about? Well maybe she literally ran away. Yeah,
but this editing and production is sloppy.
Speaker 2: Well, it just goes to show that they've been doing
this like fuckery with like, oh, we're gonna pre film
all of this content and then we'll release it like
whenever the hell we want to. It's like we're probably
watching stuff from yeah, last season in season nine.
Speaker 1: Well, even with Solomon's hair, they promptly get it cut.
Yeah he looks super turbo cue.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's Alopi.
Speaker 1: But then in like the next scene, it's long again. Yeah,
exactly did you notice that? I'm like okay together?
Speaker 2: And then Robin wants to pretend like she's concerned about
having a baby with Cody, because you know, if I
have a baby with him right now, he's gonna be
six seventh, he's gonna be six seven when he's gonna
be a senior citizen. You know, I have to think
about that. But then she doesn't end up thinking about it,
She just ends up having a baby with him. Anywaygnant,
she's already pregnant, because of course she is.
Speaker 1: She's on the couch and she's kind of wearing this
billowing top and she's kind of smushed by Mary.
Speaker 2: She's hiding her belly. And then we head over to
Hunter's wrestling tournament because he's a state champion. He's a
return dan. I mean actually.
Speaker 1: Though, he's fit, popping out her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fitting fresh.
Speaker 1: I just I look at it and I cove it.
I'm so jealous. I got a Colmcave booty.
Speaker 2: Do you think a big booty on a man is attractive.
Speaker 1: If it's like a football player he's wearing those like
tights and stuff. Yeah, because it indicates thrusting potential. He
can get it in and you know, he can move
it around and make it feel really So that's what
a butt indicates. And so yeah, but like I don't
need a big juicy like you do. I know you
love a big juicy booty, well a girl. Yeah, but
back to me, Yeah, I ain't got that. I ain't
got any of that. We're it's supposed to go like that.
Speaker 2: Goes like that, which is really funny because her daughter's.
Speaker 1: My daughter has a great ass. My mom had a
great ass. Really, yes, my mom had a great ass.
My dad had a flat fucking ass. So you got
brother has a flat fucking ass, jeans sucking ass. I
gotta do squats or something. What do the kids do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta do squats and hip thrusts. You gotta
grow them glutes.
Speaker 1: Okay, I could do that. Oh my god, Jereedy.
Speaker 2: And anyway, so we're getting ready to head to Hunter
State tournament. It's going to be in Winnemucca, Nevada, akim
the middle of nowhere, and we have this like stupid
segment with the family where like Mary and Christine are
making fun of wrestling, as they should because it's kind
of a funny sport, but Cody's like, but heard about
it because he thinks it's the greatest sport in the
world because it's the only time in his life where
he gets to feel the closeness of another man. So
while they're getting ready to go to the tournament, we
have like a little spat where gwendolen I guess said
she wanted to go and then she decided that she
didn't want to go because she wants to hang out
with Aura with Robin. Because of course, Robin conveniently gets
to stay behind while Mary and Janelle and Christine all
have to go to the tournament with a lot of
their kids. So Gwendolyn's gonna stay behind. Cody gets but
hurt about it. Then they're in Winnamucca the Hunter's returning
state champ and that's great. I just don't care, Like
I just don't want to watch it on TV, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, there was a lot of time dedicated to
his various wrestling matches and what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: And then like we have this awkward segment with the
adults on the couch when they're talking about wrestling and
how great it is, and I think Cody makes some
kind of inappropriate comment a little bit.
Speaker 4: He's like, well, it's deep, it's very deep grind, getting,
you know, aggressive and intimate with.
Speaker 2: A man, and like all the wives are laughing at
him for it, and like, why are you saying deep grind?
You're in blying sex, which is so scandalous for these
Mormons to even really be talking about.
Speaker 1: So I know, he went to university, or he said
he did because he had some sort of a sillacious
encounter in university. Yeah, was he wrestling in university?
Speaker 2: I would assume.
Speaker 1: So oh interesting, so interesting. One.
Speaker 2: I'm just like wondering, is that why people thought you
were flamboyantly gay in high school? Because you were a wrestler,
and like maybe you were like fondling some of the
guys in.
Speaker 1: The locker room allegedly And we're just joking, we are,
but heavily implying, And then we switch gears entirely, and
then we like go to talk to some of the
older kids on the couch, specifically like Aspen.
Speaker 2: And Maddie, and I think Logan and Hunter and stuff
are there, but like Aspen's the one that brings it up.
How Cody is closer with all of the boys in
the family and he's not as close with the girls.
And Maddie in particular, is like I used to be
really but hurt by it because growing up, Hunter was
basically worshiped because he was this pro wrestler and he
was this athlete and blah blah blah blah, and like
we just got kind of pushed to the side and
then we hear from like Cody at the same time saying,
you know, yeah, like I could work on my relationships
with my kids, specifically my daughters, but like also I
just like relate to the boys because you know, I'm
a man, right.
Speaker 1: But didn't we already talk about this with the archaeologists. Yeah,
I just don't understand why we have to have this
same conversation again. We've already established that Cody lacks a
connection with his girls for whatever reason. He already said
last season he wants to do something about that. And
so now here we are in season died, and we're
still talking about it. And I don't think he's doing
anything about it though.
Speaker 2: He's not at all. And I don't know why we're
addressing it. Maybe it's because they think or they're assuming
that the viewers can pick up on the fact that
Cody is not having a good relationship with his kids,
and so they're trying to like do damage control or
like they're trying to be like no, no, no, like.
Speaker 1: We're because the archaeologists did and maybe that bring it
up and so maybe they are concerned about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then you have the wives kind of defending
Cody for it. Like, I think Christine's the one that says,
you know, Cody feels a lot of pressure to have
good relationships with all of his kids, and you know, like,
I'm definitely one of the wives that pressures him a
lot to have a good relationship with my daughters. And
then Janelle offends him even further and says, you know what,
my dad was monogamous, and Cody's so much more present
than my dad ever was, so like, I think he's
doing great.
Speaker 1: It's super interesting watching these earlier seasons and seeing just
how much Janelle capes for Cody. She does a lot
all the time, which you want your partner to do that,
but there's a difference between what Janelle divulges and says
versus what Christine offers and even what Mary offers. Like
Janelle's very tight lipped, and she's always writing really hard
for him, yeah.
Speaker 2: Always, and it's actually kind of annoying to me. Yeah,
Like the more that I see it, the more I'm like, oh, Okay,
I don't really like you. Janelle.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe she was getting that extra money, as we
have discussed.
Speaker 2: Pre probably yep, and then totally given her that sweet
sweet love and so that way she can continue to
defend him because he needs people in his court because
at this point, you know, Mary's sucking on bananas and
Christine's mad at him all the time. And then they
go to Galveston, so it's like, you know, he needs
Janelle in his corner. And so then after the tournament,
you know, Hunter wins. That's great, yay, amazing, awesome. They
go back home. They're back at Robin's house. They're building
a swing set for her backyard, I guess, And I'm
just like, there's a lot of scenes here where we're
at Robin's house. Yes, very curious.
Speaker 1: Well, I was looking at the placement of the elaborate
swing set for all those kids, and I was wondering
if it was kind of between houses. I'm not sure
it was predominantly at near Robin's. And I'm like, this
is a glaring thing to me, because we never really
see what's going on in Mary's backyard or Christine's or Janelle's.
It's always Robin's. It's getting tricked out.
Speaker 2: Well, because I think she's the only one that has
the finished backyard at this point, because I think did
Christine talk about it, how like in Vegas, Like it
was always just gravel back.
Speaker 1: There, yes, like it was a moon's scape. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think at this point it probably is
just Robin's house, but it was weird. This This segment
was about the swing set, and this is where we
talk more about Cody's shitty relationships with his kids. But
Robin at one point makes a comment about how she
was questioning whether plural marriage would be good for their kids,
specifically when she was courting Cody, but now that she's
in this arrangement, she sees that it is good for
the kids, And I'm like, why make that comment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of a non sequitur.
Speaker 2: And I was wondering if she was making it in
response to, like Cody talking about his relationships with his kids,
like she didn't want people to think that it was
because of plural marriage, because it kind of brought up
that conversation of like, well, you know, some people think
that in plural marriage, like the dads can't have good
relationships with all their kids, And it's not because of
plural marriage. It's because it's a lot of pressure over
the mom because it's so much for him. You know,
he's got a lot on his plate, right, So I
was wondering if that was why she made that comment,
but it was just weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then Christine talks about how she's gotten onto Cody
a lot for not being involved with the kids. She
doesn't want Cody to have regrets like her dad did,
which is really telling.
Speaker 1: I would like to hear more about that. Yeah, I
don't think she actually wrote about that in her book.
Speaker 2: I don't think so either.
Speaker 1: She doesn't really talk about her dad too much. She
talks about her mom quite a bit more, but I
would like to learn more about her patriarch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be very interesting. And then Cody again
talks about how it's hard to relate to teenage girls,
but it's easier to relate to teenage boys, so that's
why he has better relationships with his sons. And it's
just like, I don't know, my dad was a girl dad,
so he didn't have sons, and he was involved, like,
he did his best to relate to us, you know,
and there were times where he couldn't because yeah, like
we like girly things or whatever. But Cody using this
as an excuse to not relate to his daughters is
really fucked up.
Speaker 1: It's very misogynistic. Yeah, it's very toxic.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand where what his life is with that,
because I'm like, you can, you can try, though, And
then we hear from the adult kids, Maddie in particular,
saying that, you know, actually, our dad used to take
us out on dates, right, and he used to get
us flowers and like treat us how to like girl
dad dates or whatever. And now he stopped doing that
and we really miss being able to do that with him.
And this kind of gets into a segue where Cody
says Isabelle asked him for her birthday for a beach trip,
and she wanted some of her sisters to come, and
she'sa like, can we just not bring the boys? And
Cody's like, oh, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: Well, And my question was when Maddie said that that
they used to go on girl dates or individual dates
with dad, when did that stop? Exactly?
Speaker 2: I bet when Robin came into the picture, I think so,
I bet when Robin came in. And Robin even talks
to the wives at one point saying, you know, yeah,
I've had to talk to Coody about it, but it's
relationships with his Duatas and his sons, and I told that,
you know, it's not like Palatine around with the boys,
like girls are so much more emotional. You got to
be emotionally in this. To Cody, m so, why don't
you try to make more of an effort. And of
course when Robin.
Speaker 1: Says this, well, she's the Cody whisperer.
Speaker 2: Then Cody's like, yeah, I'll make more of an effort.
And then we shift gears entirely again and we talk
about Maddie getting baptized in the LDS church and we
have this like big family announcement about it, and was
she there? I don't think she was there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't either, but like.
Speaker 2: All of the wives were there and all of the
kids were there, and it was kind of weird. It
was like the family debriefing them, being like, this is
what's going to happen. And you know, for the most part,
everybody was kind of accepting of it of like, well,
it's her life, she can choose to do what she
wants to do. But some of the kids were asking
some kind of challenging questions about it, which actually made
Cody start to challenge his beliefs on it. Because at
first he was like open, and then now he's like, well,
why does she want to do it? And is she
gonna ostracize herself from the family because of it? And
I don't know. I'm just like, why are you guys
even trying to tie yourselves to the AUB at this
point though, Like you've been in Vegas for like over
a year, maybe two years at this point, and you
haven't gone to the AUB, you haven't gone to any
of those churches, church services, You don't even do church
services in your own home anymore.
Speaker 1: Right, But isn't Christine still doing principal voices at this point?
Speaker 2: Maybe she is.
Speaker 1: I think she's still involved. I think they're still in
contact with the AUB in some fashion. But also I
think they want to talk about this because this is
the cornerstone of their television identity. It's the fact that
they are polygamist Mormons, and every opportunity they have to
present that and then paint themselves as potential martyrs because
what if Maddie has to disown us, What if Maddie
can't talk to us anymore because.
Speaker 2: We're believable, we're not doing anything wrong.
Speaker 1: Like that is their whole narrative, and that's why they
keep bringing it up.
Speaker 2: And does Maddie actually end up getting baptized because I
thought she got.
Speaker 1: Like they don't accept her right, they don't even let
her in.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought. So this whole thing, it just
ends up being a moot point. And then the last
bit of the episode is discussing the adoption of Aurora,
Brianna and Dayton, and we get a little bit more
insight into why they're choosing to do it the way
that they want to do it. So they wanted to
file for the adoption in Montana, where the kid's biological father,
Preston lives, because they wanted it to be easier on him.
They didn't want it to be like Fi. I guess
they didn't want it to be in Nevada because they
didn't want I think Robin says it specifically, like we
didn't want him to think that we were going to
make it harder on him, or something to that effect.
Speaker 1: She wants it to be in Montana because there are
judges there that are sympathetic to legamy, whereas in Las
Vegas you are a lot less likely to find a
judge like that. But Cody wants Nevada to be the
home turf because it will disincline Preston of like traveling
down to Nevada and like they would maybe have to
bleed him dry and would he be able to afford
it and all of these other things. I think Cody
wants to do a snaky thing, and I do. I
think Robin does as well. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she has a lawyer there too that helped her
with her divorce, and so she wants to use that
same lawyer and I forgot. She also said she wanted
to do it in Montana because she didn't want to
have to tell her kids later on in the future
that they made it harder on their biological dad. And
I'm like, Okay, this is proof that you're just wanting
to make it as complicated and as snaky as possible,
and you are doing something bad here, like you are
taking his residents kids away.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: And that's the other layer of all of this is
that they are basically, I don't want to say blackmailing,
but they are kind of.
Speaker 1: Like trying to incentivize him to do.
Speaker 2: The adoption by forgiving his child support debt and forgiving
all of the medical bills. I guess that he allegedly
owes for the three.
Speaker 1: Kids, particularly probably date and probably which is ironic since
he was with Cody when he had his ATV accident.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so Robin's like, it's actually a good thing
for him. It's a good deal. So that's why he
should take it, because it's a good deal because he
doesn't have to pay child support and he doesn't have
to pay the medical bills. And I'm like, okay, but what.
Speaker 1: About having a biodet in their lives? Yeah, what about
the enhancement of that. I know Robin is so invested
in painting Preston as an abuser, and she's getting like
more diabolical with her rhetoric from season to season, Like
she really wants us to believe that he was a
bad guy. But Preston's family over the years have spoken
out and said, no, he's actually a good guy. Yeah,
they were poor, but Robin was actually the one who
was spending all the time getting them into debt. She
was the problem. So it's like he said, she said,
but like always, I think you should try and keep
the dad in the children's lives. And I want to
speculate here. And I wonder whether the reason we don't
see Dayton in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty
six is because he is trying to re establish a
connection with Preston, who is ill yep with cancer. How
is he doing? Does anybody know?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't found any new information about that.
If anybody knows, please let us know in the comments below.
But like, how are you.
Speaker 1: Going to feel as Aurora and Dayton and maybe Brianna
although she seems evile. Sorry, but like when you are
in your thirties, in your forties and your sick father
has passed or I don't know, I don't want to
speak anything out there, but like what if he does
and those precious years were taken away from you by
a conniving mother and adopted father who wanted to isolate
you from your dad, Like that just would be such
a horrible wound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ye, and you lose out on all that time.
Like I have my own personal experience with that, and
I have family members who've had a personal experience like
that where they had even worse situations where their mom
like completely took them away from their dad for over
ten years and then they were able to reconnect when
they were an adult, but like, you lose out on
all that time. And it's funny that you bring up Dayton,
because Robin brings up Dayton in this episode, specifically with
her worry about telling her kids later on in the
future about how the adoption process actually went. She's really
concerned because she wants to make sure her kids know
that she's doing the best thing for them and that
they're being nice to Preston about it. But in reality,
what they're doing, in my opinion, is that they are
going behind his back and they're they're totally like pulling
his arm and being like, you know, we want this
adoption on him, Yeah, if you and will forgive your
day because you can't afford to travel to Lot Vegas
at this time, and because he can't afford to litigate
it because he can't afford it, and he ohs. And
that's the thing. The other like elephant in the room
with all of this, is that they want to do
this adoption because they Preston hasn't seen his kids in
two years.
Speaker 1: But why is that?
Speaker 2: Why is that?
Speaker 1: Why aren't you taking your kids that she used to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she used to, She did like once, Yeah, but
I don't think she's been doing it regularly. And how
many out of state moves have you done at this point?
You've done at least two or three, because she went
from Montana, she went to Wyoming, then she went to
Saint George.
Speaker 1: And up to Lee High High ves And.
Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, how can you cultivate or like, uh,
nurture a relationship with their biological father if you are
states away, you can't do it.
Speaker 1: So he's already disadvantage exactly. He can't follow you around,
he doesn't have the means to do so. And meanwhile,
you're on this television show bringing in all this money.
He can see that his kids are being taken care
of and you're performing that you want to love them.
Cody and the rest of the family. I don't know,
but like it's just such a bad situation for him,
Like I don't know him. Maybe he was a bad person,
but I think there is a correlation between the time
that the news was released that he was sick and
the time that Dayton disappeared from our televisions. And I
was also watching Dayton in this episode when they announced
the adoption and they asked him specifically, how do you feel?
He was very neutral. Yeah, He's like, yeah, that sounds great, yep.
Whereas Aurora jumped into Cody's lap and Breonna was so excited.
Dayton's like, yeah, that's great, yep, Yeah I want that.
Speaker 2: And no wonder Robin is worried about Dayton's position.
Speaker 1: She can see it because she knows. And that's probably
because Dayton had longer with Preston. He has more of
an established relationship with his biodad and it was probably
a good one while they were together. Probably, I mean,
we're just speculating. I don't know obviously, if Preston was
actually abusive and terrible, Like we don't advocate for like
the kids having a relationship with somebody who's that terrible, obviously,
But it's just like, given Robin and Cody's track record,
how manipulative and how calculating aren't calculated, It's like it
wouldn't surprise either of us if this whole adoption thing
was done in a very terrible, shitty way. And then
when they're talking about it, they like get a phone
call from Robin's lawyer in Montana, so they filed for
the adoption of Montana because they wanted it to be
easier for Preston. The lawyer calls them and says, well,
the judge found that Nevada is actually their home state,
which they don't really go into any more detail, but
I'm kind of wondering if the judge was like, we're
not going to file this adoption in Montana because obviously
the kids live in Nevada, so file it there. And
I'm wondering if that was kind of the conversation. It
could have just been a jurisdiction issue, probably simple.
Speaker 2: And then they also mention that Preston has been avoiding
being served and he's avoiding like doing the paperwork, and
so the lawyer says something to the effect of like, well,
if he's avoiding it, it works better in your favor
because you can just file it without his influence. And
I don't know what the legality do with that.
Speaker 1: You can't proceed with the adoption without his agreement. I
know ultimately he does end up agreeing to it, but
maybe the reason his avoiding service is because he doesn't
want to lose connection with his kids.
Speaker 2: Maybe you guys are so cold hearted, and that's the thing.
And Robin's like, well, I'm really concerned. I really want
the ball to be in his court so that he
has no excuses. And I'm like, what do you mean
no excuses. It's again like it's all pointing to this
is what Robin wants. It's not necessarily for the betterment
of her kids. It's a power play. She doesn't want
Preston in her life whatsoever. It doesn't want Preston in
her kids's life, and she's making that decision for them.
And so it would make sense if Dayton grew up
and finally realize like, oh my mom's a snake. I'm
gonna go back and see my daddy.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: And then at the end of the episode, Cody, you know,
he's like, well, Preston's giving us a hard time. I
have no problem going to.
Speaker 1: War, okay, Cody for my kids.
Speaker 2: And you know, I was watching this from this perspective
of like, maybe Cody doesn't know the full extent of
the situation. Probably not, Maybe Robin has manipulated him. I'm
sure to believe that Preston was such an evil, horrible,
awful dude, and Cody is doing all of this from
a paternal like protective point of view, and I could
see that, but the whole situation to me just feels
really icky.
Speaker 1: Okay, but let's pop up a little bit, go a
little meta. So if Preston doesn't lose access to his kids,
if he still exercises his visitation, he has more influence
over those kids, and as they get older, he has
an opportunity to establish a deeper bond and relationship with
his children, who might at some point make a decision
that they want to live with their dad. Certainly Dayton
might have made that decision, and maybe even the girls,
with enough exposure to their father would want to spend
more time with him. Now, if that happened, if some
of these kids wanted to live with him or spend
more time with him, how would that impact the child support?
How would that impact the money? Like, what if at
some point he had possession of all three kids, Robin
would have to pay, Cody would have to pay. I
think there is also some sort of a financial protective
incentive that Robin is thinking about. I think she wants
to shank her ex because she wants to get him
for whatever reason. But I also think there's this protect
like I want to protect this empire that I just
got ax. I just got purview over Visa VI, my
legal marriage to Cody Brown. I am now in charge
of all of this, and I don't want him to
have any way to get any of it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so fucking diabolical. But I could
totally see that if Robin really is this master manipulator,
puppet master or whatever, I could totally see something like that,
because I mean, even if she kept like the custody
rights and Preston was paying child sport, like, he still
would have access to the kids.
Speaker 1: And therefore her empire. And so she couldn't let that happen.
It's a vulnerability at the very least. It's a weakness
and exposure.
Speaker 2: God, I just want her kids to like wake the
fuck up, and maybe Dan has I think it has.
Speaker 1: I think Aurora has the potential to. I don't know,
she's really so manipulated though, been drinking the kool aid
and really like loves Cody. But I think if she
does get married to another man, she gets integrated into
another family structure of like actually good people, like she
has a chance to like get some perspective on what's
been happening, and when she has her own kids, when
they have their own children, they'll be able to kind
of see, huh, maybe mom wasn't doing things on the
up and up the entire time. Maybe I should have
had the opportunity to know my dad.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's possible only because I was like that,
Like I had believed certain things about my family, specifically
my father. Hi Dad, if you're listening. I believed to
certain things for a long time, and then when I
got out on my own and got a partner and
went to therapy, I realized like, oh shit, this was
not the way it was like. And I was able
to reconcile things with my dad later on in life,
and I'm very grateful for that, but it took a
lot of years. And so I hope that for Aurora,
and I hope that for Brianna. I think it's possible,
but it's not easy, and it is kind of like
a ontologically shocking thing to have to go through, especially
in your twenties, when you're like your brain's fully developing
and you're becoming an adult and you realize like, oh oh,
your parents are just people, and like they're flawed and
it's like this huge journey and unless Aurora and Brionna
can get out of that fucking house and get away
from Robin and her web, like, I don't know if
they're gonna be able to come to that kind of
realization because I could only come out of that when
I got to be on my own right. So I
hope that for them, because if Preston actually wasn't a
terrible person, like he got jipped, man.
Speaker 1: Oh he got fucked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I feel bad for him, you know, if
he's not a bad guy, if he's a piece of shit,
then obviously I take that back. And so then the
preview for the next episode or the rest of the season,
Cody and Christine's anniversary is coming up, and so they're
going to Galveston. Beautiful, scenic Galveston, Texas.
Speaker 1: Did I ever tell you when I did when I
went to Galveston? Girl, I'll save it for next week.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to shit on it because I
know some people are like, I love Galveston.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great for you, But I'm from Hawaii.
Speaker 2: I'm from Oregon.
Speaker 1: No. And the golf is gorgeous, don't get me wrong.
But we'll talk about it next week, because I mean,
what an experience that was. And I think Christine's about
to have a great experience too, right.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's like their anniversary trip and then they
bring their fucking family therapist, so they bring Nancy with
them for therapy on their anniversary weekend. This sounds fun,
and I remember this episode. It's bad. Yeah, and then
Christine admits to being a jealous hoe fair and valid.
And then Robin has a panic attack because of the
adoption process. Okay, so like I might get out of here, dude, Yeah,
I just don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't either at all.
Speaker 2: So this season's gonna pop off here soon. This episode
was totally boring, but I'm hoping the next episodes are
gonna be better.
Speaker 1: Pop off like that Booty had. He's still walking around
that booty thirty years old. Yes, but I I enjoyed it.
I mean it's it's we're on a journey. We are
on a journey season nine, Jurney. I can't wait to
get to season ten because that's full catfish modee. Like
right now, I am content, and I hope everyone else
is as well. Nol Beatrice, is there anything else that
we should say? To these beautiful raccoons before we get
up on out of here.
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Speaker 1: We also want to acknowledge that we did not drop
a platfill episode last week, and that was because I
was not feeling well that day. I was under the
weather and you were also under the weather. So we
are going to do double duty this week. And also
for patrons only, I don't know if you heard about this,
but that psychotic nutcracker, allegedly Veronica Peters, Micah's ex, dropped
a live an Instagram live like in It was a
four or five part live in which she made some wild, insane,
wild allegation insane And so for patrons only, Beatrice and
I are gonna watch them and comment on them and
share with you exactly what she said. But like, it's
really bad and so we want to get to it
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