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  • Ep 304: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapters 9 and 10
    Aug 25 2025

    “Chapters 9 & 10: Pages 167-190”

    This week Meri and Janelle tackle “family” in their own signature styles. Meri frames herself as the no-nonsense disciplinarian (with some Kate Gosselin energy and couches that could survive the apocalypse), while also spiraling into empty-nest dread and grocery-shopping laments. Janelle on the other hand barely bothers to engage - offering a few surface-level thoughts on parenting and finances that feel more like first-draft filler than heartfelt reflection.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Ep 303: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapter 8
    Aug 18 2025

    “Chapter 8: Pages 152-166”

    Robyn is just a broke, single mom with nothing to give ya until TLC conveniently swoops in to bankroll the dream wedding she couldn’t afford. Her hardships include multiple delayed wedding timelines, endless excuses, and a suspiciously long honeymoon that somehow solved nothing. Along the way, she leans on her favorite defense: that the other wives just don’t understand her; all while slipping into victimhood so effortlessly it almost feels rehearsed. This chapter showcases what Robyn does best: rewriting the story until she’s both the underdog and the star.

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    56 mins
  • Ep 302: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapter 7
    Aug 11 2025

    “Chapter 7: Pages 136-151”

    Christine’s chapter is part honeymoon; part hostage situation. Between Kody’s selective hearing, Meri’s simmering tension, and a Nauvoo trip from hell - she’s juggling way too much while trying to keep the peace. After Robyn joins the family, Christine spends the rest of the chapter apologizing for feelings she’s completely entitled to have. Joseph Smith, take the wheel.

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    58 mins
  • Ep 301: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapter 6
    Aug 4 2025

    “Chapter 6: Pages 112-135”

    This week we cover Janelle’s descent into domestic chaos, cowboy disillusionment, and the emotional abyss of shared living with Meri. We track her people-pleasing resignation from anything that makes her feel emotion, all while Meri sharpens her passive-aggressive toolkit and Kody logs countless hours making "sales." Christine enters the fray, the family patterns get more obvious, and Robyn looms on the horizon like a bedazzled harbinger of future drama.


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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Ep 300: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapter 5
    Jul 28 2025

    “Chapter 5: Pages 87-111”

    We’re back in Meri’s internal monologue and it’s giving: emotional avoidance with a side of spiritual martyrdom. While Meri fixates on betrayal from Janelle, Kody, and life itself - we noticed a deeper pattern: a woman piling on challenges not to grow, but to outrun the void. We dig into Meri's feud with Janelle, fertility grief, identity crises, and the Biggie Housie that somehow only magnified her invisibility. Just when things couldn’t get more complicated, it's Robyn to the rescue as the emotional duct tape for everyone’s relationship problems.


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    55 mins
  • Ep 299: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapter 4
    Jul 21 2025

    “Chapter 4: Pages 64-86”

    This week, Robyn shows up and everything changes (not for the better). We cover the Robyn & Kody origin story, Meri’s enthusiastic cosign, and Janelle & Christine’s less-than-thrilled reactions. There are spiritual witnesses from God, divine signs from She-Rah, and another fast that ends with a proposal. Is it true love, divine inspiration - or just another round of Kody's greatest hits?


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Ep 298: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapter 3
    Jul 14 2025

    “Chapter 3: Pages 47-63”

    Everyone's favorite basement wife Christine gets her turn in the spotlight as we break down Chapter 3 of Becoming Sister Wives - everything from her polygamist pedigree to her fast-track courtship with the ever-flirtatious cowboy himself, Kody Brown.

    We discuss Christine’s early dream of being Wife #3, yet another iconic eye-lock in church, as well as the infamous chili cheese nachos moment in all its glory. From third-wife idealism to the pecking-order reality, we’re unpacking how Christine went from polygamy princess to instant regret on the honeymoon horizon.

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    54 mins
  • Ep 297: "Becoming Sister Wives" Book Club: Chapter 2
    Jul 7 2025

    “Chapter 2: Pages 32-46”

    We’re back with Chapter 2 of Becoming Sister Wives, and this one’s all about Janelle - her backstory, her spirit journey, and her very practical decision to marry her former brother-in-law. We discuss Janelle’s no-nonsense approach to love and religion, as well as her intense career focus. Was her hyper-independence a trauma response? Divine guidance or a logistical partnership? Either way, things get complicated fast when their roommates-from-hell energy shifts to a honeymoon filled with instant regret. We break down Janelle and Kody’s whirlwind start and how Meri may or may not have known any of it was happening.


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    47 mins