WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:09.759 Hello, and welcome to Reality TV Grand the famous podcast. 2 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.279 I'm one of your whole Stelia, and I'm here with 3 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:17.480 my real tight homegirl and my daughter in law, the impeccable, 4 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:22.719 the inscrutable, the ineffable, Beadres. 5 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:24.120 Big words, that's me. 6 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:31.280 We are here to talk, sister Wevesood. But before we 7 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:34.920 get into our recap of season ten, episode two, we 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:39.520 do have to issue you a very important disclaimer. Please, 9 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.079 how'd your wife? You better hide those kids I'm looking 10 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:46.000 for I don't want to see you. I'm looking for there. 11 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.359 This isn't a reverend podcast. We're just here to have fun. 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In Now, 35 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:07.640 before we get into our recap as usual, I just 36 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:09.599 want to ask you what your thoughts and your feelings 37 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:11.560 are about the episode that we just watched. 38 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:14.360 I just find it interesting that so many of these 39 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:16.919 brown kids go to college and then they drop out, 40 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:18.199 like immediately. 41 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:18.680 What's happening with that? 42 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.319 And it's like really quick, like they literally just left 43 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.560 for college, like I feel like a couple episodes ago. Yeah, 44 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:27.479 and so they've probably only been in school for maybe 45 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:31.319 a year. But like we already have Maddie dropping out, 46 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:33.080 we got Mikelthy dropping out. 47 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.159 I don't know if asmen is. I couldn't really tell you. 48 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:38.479 Now it sounds like she's moving in with Robin's Yeah, 49 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.199 and she can go to school as. 50 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:42.080 Well, still stay in school. But I'm just like, why 51 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:43.000 y'all dropping out? 52 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.039 Though I don't know money. 53 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.560 Maybe I was kind of wondering that, Like I wonder 54 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:50.639 if the parents were like, hmm, can't afford tuition, so 55 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.840 we already think you're gonna be a failure. 56 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:58.039 Maybe just drop go work at a pawnshop. I don't 57 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:00.680 have a takeaway. I was supremely bored. Yeah, I guess 58 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:04.479 that's my takeaway. So I'm just here to snipe and 59 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:07.639 be the little parrot. Yeah, make in trouble, all right. So, 60 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:11.159 without further ado, let's get into our recap of season ten, 61 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:15.599 episode to the Catfish season of Sister Wives. 62 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:20.919 In te told pond shops and polygamy perks. Okay, well, amazing. 63 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.800 So we begin the episode. It's three weeks after their 64 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.960 family therapy session with Nancy discussing the catfish. 65 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:33.039 That resulted in nothing. 66 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.599 And literally nothing. It was kind of interesting the way 67 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:38.120 that they were talking about it, because like Mary is saying, 68 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.800 we're working through it, like we're getting through, we're trying 69 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.000 to reconnect as a family and also as a couple. 70 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.400 But she's not really saying that, but she's just like, yeah, 71 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:49.639 we're working through It'll be all right. And then we 72 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.560 hear from Cody who's like, I don't know what to think, 73 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:55.800 I don't know what to feel, I don't know what 74 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:59.199 to do in this situation. I'm just here right basically 75 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.759 what Cody is saying. And we all know that behind 76 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:06.680 the scenes, Cody is checked out from this. He's supremely 77 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:11.199 betrayed and he's not working on anything with Mary. 78 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:13.680 No, not at all. He can't stand her at all. 79 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:16.480 And then Janelle, we hear from her saying that the 80 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:19.920 real work is going to be coming back together as 81 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:24.120 a family because obviously this caused a big rift and 82 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:26.720 Mary feels like a square pig trying to fit herself 83 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:28.439 in a round hole, so we have to work on 84 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:32.079 bringing her back into the family. And it's just it's 85 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.439 interesting watching this back because this really is like the 86 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.519 crack and the foundation. I mean, obviously there were little 87 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.759 fractures and stuff here and there, and like Cody was 88 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:48.240 already favoring Robin, but Mary having an emotional affair with 89 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:50.600 a man online really was, what done it? 90 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:54.199 Yeah? I think it just brought it out into the forefront. 91 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:59.920 And can you imagine being Mary, like taking such a 92 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.759 a supreme chance with some rando online, some person that 93 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:06.720 you think is a guy that you fall in love 94 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.560 with according to the recordings that we've listened to, like 95 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:13.160 she fell in love with Sam, and then to find 96 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:15.839 out that you were talking to a woman, and then 97 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:18.519 it gets leaked to the public, and then you have 98 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:22.199 to go crawling back to the husband who alienated you 99 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.040 in the first place, just so that you can stay 100 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:24.680 in the family. 101 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:25.319 Yep. 102 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.680 God, what a terrible position to be in. 103 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.319 And then we have to lie about the situation too, 104 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.040 make herself out to be the victim in it and 105 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:35.720 that she was targeted or whatever, because they don't want 106 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:38.319 the real truth to come out, which is that her 107 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:41.399 and Cody's relationship has been horrible, and you know, the 108 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.199 family is actually really dysfunctional at this point in time, 109 00:05:44.279 --> 00:05:47.480 and Christine's addicted to opiates, and like, right, how many 110 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.079 things happening in this family. They're trying to keep it 111 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.079 under wraps, but it is falling apart before our eyes, 112 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:58.959 Yes it is. And so after we gloss over the Catfish, 113 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.879 which was such a big dil this season and the 114 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:03.240 end of last season. 115 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.240 Until the last season, Like, yeah, it is a huge 116 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:08.160 deal that we need to be talking about more. It 117 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:11.480 drives me crazy that we just keep it moving now 118 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.920 onto Mickelty or whatever, going to Saint George, Utah. 119 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.319 Literally, Cody's like there's a lot of changes happening in 120 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:20.360 the family, like Mikeelty and Aspen are moving out, Like, Okay, 121 00:06:20.519 --> 00:06:21.160 nobody cares. 122 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:26.199 Nobody cares, talk about the affair, talk about the banana 123 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:27.399 in your wife's mouth. 124 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:32.079 No for real though, But yeah, we quickly shift gears 125 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:35.959 to Mikelty and Aspen in their apartment and they are 126 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:39.879 basically sick of living with each other because Michelty is 127 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.720 still like a child according to everybody, Like she doesn't 128 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:46.600 want to be told what to do, and Aspen doesn't 129 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:49.920 want to be a mother to any of her siblings, 130 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.600 and she says that multiple times in this episode, which 131 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:55.560 I did think was very poignant. I guess when she 132 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.040 was living with McKelty, she was still taking on that 133 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.839 mothering role, and you can even see it in their 134 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:04.399 interactions in this episode. She's like telling Mickelty what to 135 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.199 do and how to pack things and make sure you 136 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.160 close the door, and make sure you do this, this 137 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:11.519 and this, And I really felt for as been here 138 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:14.839 as like another eldest daughter, Like that's really hard to 139 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.800 stop managing other people. But she has been doing it 140 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:21.920 her entire fucking life. And so mickelty is gonna move 141 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.279 down to Saint George, Utah to live her dream of 142 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:26.399 working at the pawn shop. 143 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.560 Well, and before we got on recording, you had told 144 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:33.879 me that your theory is that McKelty at this time, 145 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:38.480 while she's in Vegas is actually talking to Tony probably, 146 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.560 which is the only reason that she would want to 147 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:41.759 move to Saint George, Utah. 148 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:43.720 That's kind of what it feels like to me, Like 149 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.319 she's dropping out of school, yeah, to go work at 150 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:49.639 a pawn shop. And the family's like framing it like, no, 151 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:52.199 it's actually good because she's gonna be working for a 152 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:54.360 family friend and we'll kind of keep an eye on 153 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:56.920 her even though she's a couple hours away. But to me, 154 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.399 it feels like she dropped out of school for her 155 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:02.639 men the professional chess player. 156 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.319 Future professional chess player. I don't know that he was 157 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.000 doing anything at this time. No, it's just kind of 158 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:13.160 bizarre to me because for the last few seasons we've 159 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:19.439 really focused on mckelte's education and her fashion career and 160 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.720 how she wanted to move to New York and start 161 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.560 a fashion line, and like this was a big part 162 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.040 of her story, and all of a sudden, she's like, yeah, Yolo, 163 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:30.199 I'm just gonna move to the pawn shop. I'm going 164 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:32.000 to work above a pown shop or a live above 165 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:33.600 a pawn shop, and this is going to be my 166 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.279 new life. And I'm like, Okay, well, what's really happening here. 167 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.519 I'm wondering whether funds at this point are being allocated 168 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:46.440 away from these families into Robin Cody's coffers. 169 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.360 It kind of feels like that because if you think 170 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.039 about how many kids they have in school right now, 171 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:53.799 You've got Logan, You've got Hunter who's at the Air 172 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:56.360 Force Academy, so maybe his education's being. 173 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:57.639 Paid for I think so, yeah. 174 00:08:57.679 --> 00:08:58.399 But then you have. 175 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.080 Leon who's going to some private school in. 176 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.320 Utah funded entirely by Mary, so Cody's not paying for 177 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:07.200 that at all. 178 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.480 Right, But then you have Aspen in school, and then 179 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.360 you have McKelty in school, and then you have Maddie 180 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.639 in school, Like, that's a lot of kids to pay 181 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:17.000 for tuition. And so if we know that the Browns 182 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.879 are horrible with money and they're you know, up the 183 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.559 ass in interest with this cul de sac and all 184 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:23.360 these homes here. 185 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.200 And also Robin and Cody are thieves. 186 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:31.240 Totally totally, it's like it wouldn't be out of like 187 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.960 the possibility that they talked to their kids and said, hey, look, 188 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:39.559 I don't know anyway, we don't want you in school, 189 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:41.639 you don't want to be in school, let's. 190 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:42.559 Just drop out. 191 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.720 I could see that, but it's pretty terrible like to 192 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.000 do that as a parent, to be like, oh, we're 193 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.039 going to set you up for success, but then just kidding. 194 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:54.759 And it's weird how like Christine and Cody are kind 195 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:57.639 of like, okay with McKelty working at a pawn shop 196 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:59.080 and dropping out of school. 197 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:00.200 They don't care about her. 198 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:01.120 They don't at all. 199 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:04.120 She really was the black sheep. I don't think Christine 200 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.240 much liked McKelty, which is why she ponnd her off. 201 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.440 No pun intended on Robin a lot. Yep, McKelty was 202 00:10:10.440 --> 00:10:14.320 spending her time over at Robin's because neither Cody nor 203 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.519 Christine actually liked McKelty. 204 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:19.039 That's what it feels like. 205 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.840 And the way that they talk about her in this 206 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.559 episode is like, well, you know, we thought when she 207 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.600 moved to go to school, she would grow up and 208 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:29.320 she would mature, but that didn't happen, and so we 209 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:30.960 hope that when she goes to work at the fucking 210 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:35.080 pawn shop that she'll finally grow up and become a 211 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:38.159 mature adult. And I'm like, dude, she's like nineteen, give 212 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.039 her a break, God have some patience. I was just 213 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:44.879 like getting frustrated with it. But when we see McKelty 214 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:48.039 and Aspen moving out, we hear from Aspen that she's 215 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.480 actually moving back home and she's not going to be 216 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:51.759 moving back in with Christine. 217 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:53.360 This is what I want to talk to you about. 218 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:56.559 She's going to be moving in with Robin. And according 219 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.399 to Aspen, it's because her and Christine actually have started 220 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:04.279 butting heads because Aspen has been a mother figure to 221 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:08.879 all of the little kids, especially Christine's kids, and Christine 222 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.679 didn't like that because she's the mom or whatever, and 223 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.000 like a typical parent who parentifies their kids gets upset 224 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.639 when the parentified kids act like parents. It's been causing 225 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.000 some issues, and Aspen doesn't want to deal with that, 226 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.120 she doesn't want to butt heads with her mom, doesn't 227 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:26.120 want to mother the kids, so she's going to go 228 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.399 live with Robin and mother her kids. 229 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.399 So it just seems really weird to me. 230 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.919 Yeah, So I was just wondering how that was showing 231 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:37.679 up in the relationship, and what you're saying really rings true. 232 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:42.320 The audacity of a parent like Christine to really so 233 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:46.000 heavily on her child to take care of all of 234 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:49.159 her other kids and then to have some kind of 235 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.480 an issue when this child continues to do that because 236 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.080 she was entrained and raised up to do that. Now 237 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:57.679 all of a sudden, you want to be the mom 238 00:11:57.720 --> 00:11:59.279 and you want to be the last say like, that's 239 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.799 just not how it works. And so big up to 240 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.000 Aspen for being like, absolutely not. I'm not gonna live 241 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:08.159 with you. You're unlive withable. Yeah, so I'm gonna go 242 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.320 live with your ops. I go live with Robin and 243 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.840 hang out with that hoe, and it's gonna be great 244 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:15.399 because I'm not gonna have to live with you after 245 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:16.440 what you put me through. 246 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.240 It's actually really interesting and it's interesting how Robin is 247 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.120 kind of like this weird like safe place for some 248 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.639 of these kids, like Rie's Christine's kids specifically. And it's 249 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:33.399 interesting too that we've had multiple kids from Christine's like 250 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.200 move out of her home or like not want to 251 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.519 be around her, Like we had Michelt, we had Aspen, 252 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:40.960 and we had Isabel who needed to live wanted to 253 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:43.840 live with Mary exactly. And so I'm just like, this 254 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:47.279 actually made me question Christine as a mom a little bit, 255 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:49.720 because I'm like, hmmm, what are you doing inside of 256 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:52.840 the house, what are you doing? And like, from the outside, 257 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.759 it looks like Christine is pretty caring and loving and nurturing, 258 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:58.919 and she did have a lot on her plate. I 259 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:00.679 will give her credit to them, Like she did have 260 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:02.559 to mother all of these kids by herself. That is 261 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.360 a lot, and she had to homeschool and she was 262 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.440 in a terrible marriage, and I get it. But I'm 263 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:11.559 just wondering why so many of her kids have been 264 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:12.480 like fuck you. 265 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:17.159 Mom, even Gwendolen kind of yeah, a little bit, even Gwendolen. 266 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.559 So I'm just like, what's going on there? 267 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:21.440 Yep, I don't know, curious. 268 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.320 I'm sus about it me too, And so Robin says, 269 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.240 she's you know, excited to have ass been live with 270 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.240 her because she wants to get to know her better. 271 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.840 But she's a little nervous because she's never had an 272 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.440 adult kid, much less a teenager live in her home, 273 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.960 and she doesn't want to step on Christine's toes and 274 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.039 on the couch. Robin says something to Christine directly, like, 275 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:41.759 you know, I just want to make sure that this 276 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:43.399 won't be an issue for you, and I don't want 277 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.240 it to cause like a rift between us, and Christine's like, oh, 278 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.320 it will be an issue. But I'm like, okay, then 279 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.200 you're gonna turn this around as this is a polygamy 280 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.480 perk because the kids can go to whatever sister wife 281 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.320 they want and they still have a mom figure around. 282 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:01.960 But Christine's like, no, I'm going to have an issue 283 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:03.919 wrote with it because you're going to get closer to 284 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:05.799 my kid than I am. 285 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:10.519 I kind of respected Robin's position on it. She's like, yeah, 286 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:12.159 I want to be careful because this is your child, 287 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.799 but at the same time, I want to open up 288 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.039 my house to all of our children because I want 289 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:17.039 to be their mom too. 290 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:17.480 Ye. 291 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.600 So it would be a difficult situation for Robin to 292 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.080 be in and it does seem in alignment with Christine 293 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.519 that she would be bitter about it because she's already 294 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:28.960 so jealous of Robin anyway in terms of Cody. But 295 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.200 now you're going to take my kids too, Well. 296 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:32.200 Girl, what are you doing? 297 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:33.840 Be a better parent than Christine? 298 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:35.759 Like look in the mirror, and I can understand why 299 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:38.399 it would be frustrating, because you know, you're looking at 300 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:40.120 yourself like what am I doing wrong? 301 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:43.200 But you're obviously doing something right. 302 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:45.240 I don't know. It just seemed really weird to me. 303 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.039 So then we shift gears. We go to Janelle's house 304 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:51.320 where we have Garrison having a conversation with Janelle and 305 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:55.480 Cody about joining the National Guard. Garrison is seventeen at 306 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:58.840 this point, and he's pretty dead set about going into 307 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:02.200 the military. The family talks about how this is something 308 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:06.320 that he has wanted for quite some time, but the 309 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:09.679 way in which they talk about it and they talk 310 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:12.759 about the National Guard kind of bothers. How you you 311 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.519 it just it just feels like they're kind of shitting 312 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:20.360 on his Like dream, I understand the parental concern of like, 313 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:22.200 I don't want my kid to get shipped out to 314 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:25.240 war and die. I get that that's completely fair and valid. 315 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.159 Every parent feels like that when they have a kid 316 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:31.440 that wants to join the military. That's fine, But like 317 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:34.240 Janelle says something like, you know, he's seventeen, he thinks 318 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:37.559 he's invincible. He just doesn't know the real world. Blah 319 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.840 blah blah. But I was just watching this and I 320 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:45.879 was thinking about my stepsister's husband, who has always been 321 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:49.440 a diehard military dude. Like he tried to get out 322 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:51.399 of the military at one point and like live as 323 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:53.639 a civilian and he could not hack it. He was 324 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:56.840 like going crazy. Ended up joining the Army National Guard 325 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.759 again because he just couldn't deal with not being in 326 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:04.159 the military. I think there's some people that really feel 327 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:06.240 called to that and like want to go into that. 328 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:09.080 I think it's a really honorable thing to do that. 329 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.240 So I just felt like Cody and Janelle were trying 330 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:13.600 to talk him out of it, and I'm just like, 331 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:14.320 let him do his. 332 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:17.120 Thing well, but they were trying to talk him out 333 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:20.519 of it by putting him down in terms of his maturity, 334 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.320 And I just had the feeling like you treat Garrison 335 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:27.679 like the Mchuelt of Janelle's kids, like he's the black 336 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.000 sheep in that family, and there's not much that he 337 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:32.960 can do to win favor in their eyes, according to 338 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.279 like what we see, and that's how he's been targeted 339 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:36.919 and picked on in my opinion. 340 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.320 Yeah, and I just I didn't appreciate how they were 341 00:16:39.320 --> 00:16:42.159 addressing it. I feel like there's different ways to express 342 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:46.039 your concern and to express your worry and to offer 343 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:47.960 like counter perspectives to your kids. 344 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.840 For example, with Hunter, when Hunter walks into the room 345 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:54.440 while they're having this discussion with Garrison about whether to 346 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.519 join or not, Hunter, who is currently in the academy, 347 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:58.919 is just like, are you sure you want to do that? 348 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:00.759 You're going to enter in a kind of like a grunt, 349 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.120 and you could enter in as an officer, like he's 350 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.279 actually in the military, unlike you, Cody, and he has 351 00:17:06.319 --> 00:17:09.480 a perspective as somebody who's currently in the whole thing. Like, 352 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:11.799 let Hunter and Garrison talk. I just I don't know, 353 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:14.200 it's like Janelle and Cody shut the fuck up. 354 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.599 Yeah, And I just don't like how the majority of 355 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:20.559 the scenes that we have of Garrison throughout this show 356 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.240 are him in conflict with yes, other people of the 357 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:27.559 family who are judging him for something exactly and like 358 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.599 putting him down, and he gets harshly punished and he 359 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.519 gets talked down to, like when he's trying to parent 360 00:17:33.559 --> 00:17:37.079 his siblings too, And it's just frustrating to me to 361 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.400 watch this kind of a dynamic. But they're framing it 362 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:42.039 like we just love them, we care about him, and 363 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:43.200 we're worried. 364 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:45.480 I just feel like there's a lot of dark energy 365 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.640 in that family and that it's always been there. And 366 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.039 speaking of Garrison, like I think it was last season 367 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:52.799 when he and Gabe got into some sort of an 368 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:57.200 altercation and Gabe hit him first, but Garrison was being 369 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:00.200 blamed for instigating the whole thing, and Cody was going 370 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.440 to take away his trip to Hawaii yep, if it 371 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:07.000 were true, And thank god, Gabe finally admitted that he 372 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:10.160 had lied about it. And I think Gabe's punishment was like, Okay, 373 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:13.400 you can't go to the movies tonight or whatever. Yeah, 374 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:18.559 so like what why are you so hard on Garrison? 375 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:20.920 And then of course we know, you know, Garrison gets older, 376 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:24.880 he is in the military, he comes back, but he 377 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:30.440 has problems with drinking and substances, depression and depression and 378 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:34.240 can't connect with Cody and it's just really tragic and 379 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:37.319 you can really see the roots of it, yeah, in 380 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:40.119 these earlier seasons unfortunately. 381 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.279 And I feel like I just wonder what Cody and 382 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:48.119 Janelle's thoughts are nowadays, like just knowing that these moments 383 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:50.559 are memorialized on TV, and it's like, I don't know 384 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:52.640 if we're going to see any good moments with Garrison, 385 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:55.400 you know, as we do these rewines and stuff, because 386 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:57.599 I just feel like every moment we've seen of him 387 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.839 so far hasn't really been good. It's sad, dude. I 388 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.559 just it's hard for me. But I liked at least 389 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:09.119 seeing him in this scene be excited about something and 390 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:14.559 like purpose, have some purpose. And he ultimately gets Cody 391 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:17.000 and Janelle's permission because he's seventeen, so his parents do 392 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:17.799 have to sign off. 393 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:19.759 Like I'm gonna go whether you like it or not, 394 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:21.240 as soon as I turn eight teams. 395 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:22.839 Exactly, so you might as well just agree. 396 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:23.160 Now. 397 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:25.319 They ultimately do, and they're like, Okay, if this is 398 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.559 what you want to do, we're proud of you, or whatever, 399 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:31.160 you know, but they do take great pains to put 400 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.880 him down for wanting to go into the military before 401 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:37.920