Love Is Blind & Dumb

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Speaker 2 Or I say you put the pictures of everybody up on the wall. Yeah.
And you don't tell them whose voice goes with which picture. Ooh, that's good.

Speaker 2 But you put a number on there, and you get, and you can, if you, if you choose to guess, you choose to guess. Like, if you put numbers.
You just got an idea. Yes, you have an idea.

Speaker 2 This is one of these people, right? One of these 10 people is talking to me right now, and I'm really attracted to her. And

Speaker 2 you can only go on that vacation and get married if you're both picks the right number with the right voice and you guys fall in love. That's it.

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Hambone and Modley. A little true crime?

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Bad reviews, dating. Dating.
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Don't worry. Yeah, there'll still be free stuff.
There'll still be free stuff. Lots of free stuff.

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Okay. All right.

Speaker 2 But starting today, let's see if we can make our way through talking about one topic and one topic only, and that is the television shows that we are currently watching.

Speaker 2 And if my hands look like I've dipped them in red ink,

Speaker 2 I got dye all over my hands. Food coloring actually is what it is.
So anyway, I'm not going to go down that road. We're talking about television shows.

Speaker 2 I just wanted to warn anybody that's watching on YouTube that, you know, my hands aren't bloody. They're just full of red ink.
I have been watching The Diplomat. We were just, yes, talking about that.

Speaker 2 I blew through it. Jeff and I blew through it.
And I'm ripping through it. The third season is so good.
God,

Speaker 2 it's such a great show. I mean, I can't say enough good things about it.
It is. There are episodes that I think move along quicker than others.

Speaker 2 I think some feel a little bit filly to me, like they're filling a little bit of time. But I will say, with only six, seven, or eight episodes per season,

Speaker 2 you know, I was thinking about this last night in the shower as I was watching one of the episodes.

Speaker 2 I was thinking, thinking, used to be like when I watched the West Wing, there are 22 episodes per season.

Speaker 2 That's what a season was.

Speaker 2 And that's 22 hours of a particular season. And man, are there so many great episodes in a 22 season, especially the first four of the West Wing? But there certainly are filler episodes, too.

Speaker 2 I just wish there wasn't the filler episodes with a season that's only six episodes. But The Diplomat is fantastic.

Speaker 2 Carrie Russell is amazing. And I love her husband, too.

Speaker 2 He is so good. Yeah, he is so good.

Speaker 2 Alison Janney. Allison Janney's in it now.

Speaker 2 Allison Janney is from the West Wing. She played C.J.
Craig on the West Wing, the press secretary.

Speaker 2 Let me ask you this, because I don't see it. Bradley Whitford,

Speaker 2 who was also a main star, if not the main star in the West Wing, made one appearance for three minutes on one episode in season five, like the last episode of season five. Okay.

Speaker 2 But I haven't seen him back. Oh, you'll see him.
He comes back? Yeah, yeah. Bradley Woodford comes back.
Okay, good.

Speaker 2 I was like, is that just a nod to what a lot of people are comparing the diplomat to the West Wing? Sure. I don't think they're anything alike, if I'm being honest.

Speaker 2 But now Allison Janney is the president at this point. You'll go through.
I hope I didn't blow anything for you. Sorry.

Speaker 2 Well, you learned that if you watched the last season. Yeah,

Speaker 2 if you watch season two, then you know that Allison Janney became president by default. But she is so good in this role.
So good in this role.

Speaker 2 Everybody is so good in their respective roles in this television show. I don't think it's anything like the West Wing.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, I don't see that either. I mean, there's some similarities.
Yeah. And of course, now we've got some of the actors from that show.

Speaker 2 Yeah, now we've got some crossover with actors, but I think this is way more

Speaker 2 dramatic. and

Speaker 2 like unrealistic scenarios. I'm not saying they couldn't happen.
I'm saying they likely wouldn't happen.

Speaker 2 Like the West Wings seem very rooted in some kind of reality, except for a couple of different episodes where things just they ratcheted up the drama by making things extra dramatic.

Speaker 2 But I think this is a fun show to watch in the sense that it's not always grounded in super reality.

Speaker 2 I love it. I think Carrie Russell deserves an Emmy for this role.
Oh, me too. This role.
She does a great job. She and Alice and Jenny were on Andy Cohen's show, Watch What Happens Live.

Speaker 2 Oh, they were? Yeah, you've got to watch. I'll send you the episode.
Okay, please. They were great while they're together.
Please, send that to me. And I love Carrie.

Speaker 2 Carrie Russell is so beautiful, in my opinion. She is just a gorgeous woman, but she is one of the best actresses of our time.
I'm sure of it. As is Alison Janney.

Speaker 2 And she's already, yeah, she's won a bunch of stuff. Emmys and she won an Oscar or something.
I don't know. She was in something

Speaker 2 that she was nominated for an Oscar. If you're not watching the Diplomat, you're really missing out on a lot of good politically

Speaker 2 government drama kind of thing. If that's your thing, action, spies, you know,

Speaker 2 malfeasance,

Speaker 2 crazy, kooky characters, high in government offices, then this is the show for you. It's also an international show, so they're moving all over the world and doing this and doing that.

Speaker 2 Oh, which is fun to see. And that's on Netflix.
Yeah. The West Wing was stuck in the West Wing for the most part on every episode.
At least it was called the East Wing. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 The East Wing no longer there. I was, I'm, I'm watching the West Wing also, again, for like the 50-50.
Yeah, you, you you've definitely watched yeah, oh, I've watched it so many.

Speaker 2 I mean, I can some of these episodes I've memorized at this point, but every time I seem to pick out something new and I'm watching it, and I love it in that sense.

Speaker 2 And the theme song, it's almost worth watching an episode of the West Wing just for the theme song. It makes you long for the days when

Speaker 2 government was who we thought might be working on behalf of the people.

Speaker 2 But I was trying to think if they did any shots from the East Wing. And they did, on occasion, do some stuff from the East Wing,

Speaker 2 mainly when it came to Mrs. Bartlett or, you know, the president's wife, the first lady.
So it's a great show. The diplomat.
I'm all about it. Yeah.
Tune in.

Speaker 2 Yes. All right.
Let's talk a little bit about something that you turned me on to. And that's, what is it, the chair? The chair company? The chair company.
Whoa.

Speaker 2 I've seen two episodes. And a half.
Okay. So, and there's four out now.
So, yeah. And this is on HBO.
Oh, wait. Just wait.

Speaker 2 Just wait. It is wild.
It is. It's bizarre.
It's funny. It's Tim Robinson.

Speaker 2 Right. That's his name.
His name. And he is.

Speaker 2 He plays just such a great character. I don't know how to describe it.
He is a paranoid,

Speaker 2 weird, kooky, nuanced, or unnuanced. What is the premise again? The premise is this.
It's pretty simple, actually. Tim Robinson plays

Speaker 2 a husband and a worker at a company that builds malls, builds and refurbishes malls. And now they're building a new mall in town, and he has been assigned like the head of that project, right?

Speaker 2 So he's got a big job. He's got a big promotion.
He's got a big job. The very first episode, we kind of see him go through this promotion.
He's giving his first big speech.

Speaker 2 We already can see from the first, like from the first scene, he's a kooky character. He's Tim Robinson.

Speaker 2 All of the hijinks that come with Tim are still there, but it's a much more serious, the way it's shot, kind of dimly lit and with the overtones of the musicality of the show, it feels like a drama, but it's Tim being Tim, so it's hilarious at the same time.

Speaker 2 The only thing that I could liken it to would maybe be Barry, like the show Barry. I could kind of see that.

Speaker 2 The characters weren't as, they were crazy in Barry, but it wasn't as wild of a show. Yeah, Yeah, it wasn't as kooky of a show.
So it's almost like the office. Kind of.
Yeah, there's a little office.

Speaker 2 There's a little sprinkling of the office. It's hard to describe, bro.

Speaker 2 It is. Yeah, it's there are other things that are like it, but this is.

Speaker 2 So the thing is, is that he falls. He's

Speaker 2 a visual speech up in front of the whole company. The president of the company's there, the CEO.
He introduces Tim.

Speaker 2 Tim gives like a two-minute speech about the new mall and heading up the project and how he's grateful. He's very nervous about this speech.

Speaker 2 And then he goes goes and he goes to sit down in a chair, and the chair breaks when he sits. Embarrassing moment for him, for sure.

Speaker 2 And everyone laughs at him, and or he thinks everybody's laughing, and people are helping him up.

Speaker 2 And, you know, okay, an incidental situation that happened that most of us would go, that was embarrassing, but it's not the end of the world. And it wasn't my fault.
It was the chair's fault, right?

Speaker 2 I mean, the chair broke. Well, Tim gets super paranoid about this chair breaking.
He thinks that he's been targeted, that this is a conspiracy, that people in the office maybe did it.

Speaker 2 And then it just gets

Speaker 2 fucking

Speaker 2 the chair company and yeah. He gets obsessed.
He does. Yeah, he gets obsessed, but then he might be right because someone's following him around,

Speaker 2 telling him to stop calling the chair company, stop looking up the chair company, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 2 So now he's got reason to be paranoid. And man, does it go balloony-tuny for him? There's a little person involved in the closet.

Speaker 2 I don't know there's like a private eye yeah there's like a gangster there's a guy's hiding in the closet there's now i mean i don't even want to give it away because i want to see where it goes yeah it goes to a really crazy place this last episode that came out

Speaker 2 i mean you like and the the show does this good balance of

Speaker 2 making tim look just as crazy as he's acting and wondering whether there's actually something there like is did the chair company do something Who is the chair company? Who is the chair company?

Speaker 2 He goes to this warehouse and it's empty. Where's the chair company? Yeah.
They're supposed to be here, but they're not Tekka chair company.

Speaker 2 It's great. Every bit of it is great.
Detroiters is another show that Tim did with. Okay.

Speaker 2 I can't remember the name. He was an advert.
They were advertising executives, like local advertising executives doing creative. I want to go back and watch that.

Speaker 2 You got to watch Detroiters because Detroiters quickly rose up the top of my list once I started watching it. Every episode is fucking hilarious.
It is wild. It is outrageous.

Speaker 2 I need to name this actor because he's really good.

Speaker 2 Where can we watch Detroiters?

Speaker 2 I think on HBO. I think on HBO, Max, or is it Netflix?

Speaker 2 It's Netflix. I'm sorry.
Watch it on Netflix.

Speaker 2 The cast is Sam Richardson. Okay.
Sam Richardson, I think, was on SNL for a couple of seasons, I believe.

Speaker 2 Was he

Speaker 2 on

Speaker 2 SNL? Or maybe not. Maybe he wasn't.
He was on Veep.

Speaker 2 He's been in Ted Lasso.

Speaker 2 He was in After Party, which is a show that a lot of, like an indie show that a lot of people loved. So these two get up to a bunch.
of craziness in Detroiters.

Speaker 2 And this show, there's like four seasons, three seasons. It's great.
Every episode is great. I wish it had continued.

Speaker 2 They tried to get someone else to bite bite off on it. It was on Comedy Central.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 this is like the evolution of Tim Robinson's kind of dark, weird, crazy, paranoid comedy. And I just love everything about it.
And I'm so glad that they're doing this show.

Speaker 2 And I hope it gets the accolades that it deserves. Because if you like kind of that weird,

Speaker 2 like just crazy comedy. If you like crazy comedy, you'll be up for this.
But there's a through line there.

Speaker 2 The best kind of crazy comedy is where there's enough touching the ground that it seems like a little bit realistic. And they do a great job of this.
I don't know who the directors or writers are.

Speaker 2 I'm sure Tim.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they're doing a great job of moving in and out of this weird world that Tim's creating around a fucking chair breaking. I mean, it's insane.

Speaker 2 And that's when Tim is best is taking one simple, idiotic life thing, incident, situation, item, and just going ham on it. And he is going ham, apparently, for seven episodes on a chair.

Speaker 2 So it's great. You're going to love it.
I highly recommend you tune it in. So we love the diplomat.
We love the chair company. Be tuning in.

Speaker 2 I also have to say that I just finished the latest season of Slow Horses, Slough House. Okay, yeah, Jeff and I were waiting.
Okay. We were waiting until it was all done.
It's all done. Okay.

Speaker 2 It's all done. You can watch it.
Okay. You can watch it, and they actually have a preview at the end of the season.
They have a preview for the next season. Okay, good.

Speaker 2 So that's already in the can, right? I love that show.

Speaker 2 I love it. I just am all about Sloughhouse.
I love Sloughhouse. Listen, it's getting a little ridiculous that Sloughhouse seems to save the day every time.

Speaker 2 Like the worst. Yes.

Speaker 2 The whole premise of Slough House is that when you are in the British Secret Service, MI5, and you fuck up, but they don't want to quite get rid of you, you go to Sloughhouse, where the Slow Horses are.

Speaker 2 And it's this rundown, beat-up shack in the middle of London. And

Speaker 2 Gary Oldman is heading this whole.

Speaker 2 He's perfect. He's perfect.
He's a dirty, disgusting, cigarette-smoking, drinking, smelly, farty

Speaker 2 guy who just hates everybody and hates the world. But he seems super smart.
Yes. He seems to save the day every time.

Speaker 2 Yes. So what he's got is essentially a bunch of outcasts that are really the best agents in MI5

Speaker 2 living a futile existence in this terrible place. But

Speaker 2 it's like purgatory for MI5 agents, but apparently they're all the best in the world because they always seem to save the day. They're in the middle of it every time.

Speaker 2 So it's getting a little ridiculous in that sense.

Speaker 2 But if you can suspend belief, if you can suspend disbelief for just a moment, then I think that Slow Horse's Sloughhouse is one of the best television shows that Apple is betting on.

Speaker 2 We're on season four, and now we know season five is coming. I love it.
Keep it coming

Speaker 2 all day long. As long as Gary Oldman's willing to be old and cranky, let it be.
Oh, he carries it. I mean, yeah, you've got to have him.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I wonder where Gary Oldman and his character start and stop. I know.
He just seems like

Speaker 2 a job where he can walk in, act miserable, smoke cigarettes, and pretend to drink booze. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's amazing. And the one thing I will note is in this season,

Speaker 2 he's got kind of a handler, a secretary that looks over him. Oh, right.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 she's not letting him smoke this season. So he does get a couple of cigarettes in here or there, but she's like, right from the first episode, she's like, you got to put that out.

Speaker 2 The doctor said not to smoke. But I'm like, I want my Gary Oldman smoking all the time.
I don't give a shit. I like smoking in television and movies.
I liked, you know, listen.

Speaker 2 Anybody that tells you that smoking ain't fun is lying to you. Smoking is fun, but it will kill you.
That's the problem. It will kill you.
You shouldn't smoke. No one should smoke.

Speaker 2 It does look good in film. It looks good.
Great.

Speaker 2 It's so cool. It looks so cool.
Smoking looks so cool. But it smells bad.
It stains your fingers. It makes life miserable.
And eventually you start wheezing.

Speaker 2 And when you start wheezing, you should let it out. And of course, I've got my lineup of TLC shows.

Speaker 2 Well, I was going to say, no, this isn't TLC, but have you gone, have you dipped your toe in the Love is Blind

Speaker 2 episode,

Speaker 2 new season?

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 2 We were not. I might be done.
Yeah, we were not jazzed by the last season. It was okay.

Speaker 2 I think I might be done after this one yeah i think it's run its course if i'm being honest it was a great covid experiment that every it was shocking that we they could do this

Speaker 2 but now everybody who's in on love is blind wants to be on tv wants to be on tv it's gotten to the it's got it's one of those uh reality shows like all reality shows they jump the shark they are eventually uh

Speaker 2 they're they're eventually like parodies of themselves, essentially. And I think Love is Blind did that about three seasons ago.
But this last season,

Speaker 2 one season ago, it was clear to me that none of these people, I think, were really in it for love. I think they're in it for fame.
Yeah, and this season, they do a big reunion at the end.

Speaker 2 And I mean, I was just cursing myself. Like, why am I even watching this? It was just so dumb.
It was. All of the stuff that comes out.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I mean, yeah, I won't, if you're not going to watch it, I'll tell you. I'm not going to watch it.
Nobody gets married. Nobody? No one.
Not one? Nope.

Speaker 2 Wow, that's a new record for Love is Blind. Because they know that

Speaker 2 it's not a ridiculous premise. People can fall in love instantaneously and get married.
Listen, Aster and I got married in a year. Like, I mean, we did.
We got married a year after meeting each other.

Speaker 2 And 10 years, 11 years later, we're still together. So I'm not judging how fast or how slow someone gets married or whatever it is.
But, you know. Is love really blind?

Speaker 2 I think most of the time not.

Speaker 2 And I think that's proven time and time. It's the premise of it, but there does also have to be that chemistry in person.
It's got to be there. It's got to be in order to have sex with the person,

Speaker 2 live with the person, be together, have children with the person. Yes.
And how can you spend 10 hours, 12 hours, 15 hours in a compartment, not looking at somebody and fall in love with them?

Speaker 2 Okay, I get it. There's some energy building up between the two.
You know, you're not getting to the next step unless you get engaged. So there's incentive already.

Speaker 2 If you want to be famous, if you want to be on television, if you want to go on vacation, if you want this ride to continue, you've got to get engaged.

Speaker 2 So, there's it's highly incentivized on the wrong things, not the right things. The first season, we didn't know that.
Yeah, so okay, no one knew that.

Speaker 2 The second season, maybe some people didn't know it. The third season,

Speaker 2 but the third season ends up having one of the best love stories of them all. And that is the love story where

Speaker 2 you know, uh, the song plays at the end: if you fan it, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn up.

Speaker 2 What was that? If you want to burn them, give it up on dance. Just dance.

Speaker 2 Remember? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He falls in love with somebody.
It quickly becomes, he falls in love with two women. He dumps one of them.
He picks the one that's clearly not the right choice.

Speaker 2 We all were yelling at the screen. They go.
Two days later, they're like, this isn't working. It's not for us.
And he comes crawling back to the original woman in her hometown.

Speaker 2 And it's the best love story. And now they are married with children.
they have married, and they have kids.

Speaker 2 So, I will say that it just goes to show like this experiment is a little bit broken in the sense that it incentivizes the wrong things, right?

Speaker 2 The right thing is, yes, the personality matches and all that values and yeah, religions and whatever. All the things learn that after you fuck them because that's how most of us do it.

Speaker 2 Make sure your dick fits in the right hole first. You know what I'm saying? That's the that's just basic human anatomy.
I'm not trying to rabble rouse. I'm just being honest.

Speaker 2 It will not work if you're not attracted to that person. And maybe they don't need to make it with a marriage.
Maybe they can somehow change it to where it's like you just, you move in together. Yes.

Speaker 2 That's where things go wrong. Yes.
If we're being honest. Or I say you put the pictures of everybody up on the wall.
Yeah. And you don't tell them whose voice goes with which picture.

Speaker 2 Ooh, that's good. But you put a number on there and you get, and you can, if you, if you choose to guess, you choose to guess.

Speaker 2 Yes, you have an idea. This is one of these people, right? One of these ten people is talking to me right now, and I'm really attracted to her.

Speaker 2 And only you can only go on that vacation and get married if you're both pick the right number with the right voice and you guys fall in love. That's it.
And then

Speaker 2 it's like a game show, right? I think they need to make it get where's Je where's Jess? Uh, Nick and Jess. Nick and whatever, Vanessa.
Yeah, yeah, we need to get that.

Speaker 2 Of course, they show for two minutes every season. I know.

Speaker 2 I thought, you know, I thought they were executive producers. They are not.
Really? Executive producers.

Speaker 2 Yeah, they're just, they get paid like $12,000 a season. They got to have some part of it now.
There's got to be something.

Speaker 2 Yeah. There's got to be something to pay them to go ask dumb questions at the end of the season.
I mean, it has been a huge hit, but I think it's jumped the shark. I think so too.

Speaker 2 I was like, okay, I'm done. I'm not biting on season.
What is it? Season seven now? Six? Six, I think.

Speaker 2 Seven, something like that I'm not biting on season six or seven and forget about all the other cultures you know Sweden UK and I tried to watch UK that's that's yeah I tried to watch the UK one too and I didn't like it either yeah and now married at first sight

Speaker 2 which is different but similar which I think there's a better chance of those people getting along right because at least you see them when you're walking down the aisle yeah yeah and they have they have like experts that help you along and coach you and all this other stuff and the experts match you guys together.

Speaker 2 Yes. So there's some, they have a better hitting rate, the hitting average, I think, batting average.
I don't think they're actually broadcasting that on the television anymore.

Speaker 2 I think you got to go to Paramount Plus or Lifetime or whatever it is. But anyway, the married were at Married at First Sight, Australia is the best of the bunch because everybody wants to be famous.

Speaker 2 They know they're there to be famous and they don't give a shit. They just rabble-rouse and cause trouble.
And that's fine with me.

Speaker 2 If we're going to deal with what we're going to deal with, let us deal with it. That's it.
All right. But still, TLC still hitting home runs with some of the programming.

Speaker 2 Married at First Sight, I'm out. Yeah.
Married at First Sight, the other way is a little interesting this year.

Speaker 2 But Married at First Sight with the same five fucking people, you know, as everyone's, whatever. I don't care anymore.
But there are a couple of shows. Seven Little Johnstons.

Speaker 2 Out Loud, Bailin Out Loud, which is the girl who has extreme

Speaker 2 Tourette's syndrome. That show is pretty fun and funny to watch, but Seeking Sister Wives

Speaker 2 is still

Speaker 2 up there. Yes, because the same idiots are back and new idiots are there and everyone's trying to fuck everybody else.
Really?

Speaker 2 Yes, I wanted you to watch a little bit of it with me and tell me what you think. So let's do that.

Speaker 2 We'll take a break and we'll watch some of the most recent seasons. Cody's still there.

Speaker 2 No, that is sister wives. That's a whole different show.

Speaker 2 No, all those people are divorced, by the way. That's what I thought.
Not one sister wife left. Not one.
I mean, there's one. I was confused.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but the other four, five ten whatever they were they all left now they're all dating now they're all on tinder or tinder people now i don't know only fans yeah it's a whole different show now now it's like single sister lives i guess

Speaker 2 seeking single sister wife yeah seeking single wives yeah seeking one wife

Speaker 2 all right we'll be back

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Speaker 2 Okay, let me turn you on to a little bit of seeking sisters. Okay.

Speaker 2 This show.

Speaker 2 This show is wild. All right.
Now,

Speaker 2 the guy that we're going to introduce you to,

Speaker 2 I'll just let you make the judgment call here.

Speaker 2 You make the judgment call.

Speaker 10 So, you know, you guys have been part of our journey as we've been growing our family.

Speaker 2 This guy's name is Reed.

Speaker 10 We are going to continue growing it.

Speaker 10 But this time, not with a baby.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Hey, well, the family, he's saying this to the family. This is Reed.
Reed's talking to his family. He's letting everyone know that he's going to grow without his family.

Speaker 2 Tell me what you think about Reed. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I don't want to make assumptions based on someone's affectation, but it

Speaker 2 it might or might not sound like Reed is playing for both teams you know what I'm saying we're actually seeking a sister wife

Speaker 2 the family

Speaker 2 can't even

Speaker 2 they can't even

Speaker 2 Oh, this is going to get juicy.

Speaker 2 I love it. Okay, here we go.

Speaker 10 So we got the chickens today, huh?

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was cold.

Speaker 12 Hey, Papua, where's your other sister wife?

Speaker 8 She's over there.

Speaker 2 Aww. Aw, so sweet.
Look at Lil Rooster over there. First of all, you got to know that Reed, they are in a rather small house somewhere probably rural.
That's fine, whatever. They have five chickens

Speaker 2 inside the house in the kitchen around their small children. Bird flu, dude.

Speaker 2 Sweetie, come on. What are they feeding it to? What's that? What are they feeding that?

Speaker 2 A tomato? I don't know. I didn't know chickens ate tomatoes.

Speaker 8 I'm Billie Jean.

Speaker 13 And we're the Williamsons.

Speaker 2 What's the babies?

Speaker 2 I have never been so excited about saying my name.

Speaker 13 And we're the Williamsons.

Speaker 10 What's the babies doing?

Speaker 2 Okay, so they've got two. Are they twins? Yeah, they're twins.

Speaker 2 I mean, they're young. Yeah, they're really young.
Nine months, ten months old?

Speaker 10 We live in New Ross, Indiana. We are a little bit country.

Speaker 2 A little bit rock and roll.

Speaker 8 We've got two kids, two dogs, we've got three cats, chickens. Hello, my lovies.
And we are seeking a sister wise.

Speaker 2 Oh, sister-wise.

Speaker 2 Why is he doing jazz handles every time he talks?

Speaker 2 What's going on?

Speaker 2 And what an enticing situation that they've fostered in order to entice someone to come over and be your sister-wise. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Screaming babies, chickens, cats. Yes.

Speaker 2 Tiny place, Indiana.

Speaker 2 Oh, shoot.

Speaker 10 Well,

Speaker 2 the chicken's now on the counter. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I can't even. No.

Speaker 8 She's like, I've got an egg to come out, and I need a place to lay it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, your kitchen counter sounds like a good place to lay an egg around. It's a little nest up there.
10-month-old child. I love my chickens.

Speaker 10 I love that for you.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 8 Do you guys want some eggs?

Speaker 8 They're feeding eggs to the chicken.

Speaker 2 What? Oh, this is all wrong. It's just wrong.
I know you'll eat it.

Speaker 12 We've been together for seven years.

Speaker 2 Lay the egg and then she fed it. Yeah, then she boiled it and then she fed it the shell.
I guess the shell. Okay.
All right. I didn't know chickens ate chicken shells.
Tomatoes and shells.

Speaker 2 Tomatoes and shells.

Speaker 8 And married for four. But we've known each other for over 20 years.
We met.

Speaker 2 We were in middle school.

Speaker 10 We were both in show choir together. And I

Speaker 10 was like the star of the show. And she was.

Speaker 8 I was on stage crew.

Speaker 2 So she was stage crew.

Speaker 10 And she actually was the one that helped me get into my outfit. So she was already undressing me a long time before we knew it.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 2 I've almost never been so sure about something in my entire life, Chrissy.

Speaker 2 I read an article about this the other day, though, and it was about a gay man and his best friend, a woman, and they got married and they were having a baby. And it was like a thing.

Speaker 2 Happens that one of the most controversial shows.

Speaker 2 They both knew. Yeah.

Speaker 2 One of the most controversial shows that has ever aired on TLC was My Husband Is Gay.

Speaker 2 And it was about Mormons who who lived in Utah, whose husbands were gay, but because they didn't believe in homosexuality, they married women who knew they were gay.

Speaker 2 And then the guys, then there were a bunch of them, right? A bunch of guys that

Speaker 2 this was well known and

Speaker 2 retreats.

Speaker 2 They would go on camping trips and have book clubs and have drinking nights. They would hang out together.

Speaker 2 That's it. That's all I got to say.

Speaker 2 Each of their own.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was so controversial that it only ran for two episodes and they pulled pulled it off air and you can't find it anymore who does that with show yeah sometimes they they bury it

Speaker 2 well because when you're going this far off the radar you're about to have a you're gonna have a fuck up

Speaker 2 yes

Speaker 8 oh no his pacifier fell i gotta get a new one the idea for our polygamy family came from me

Speaker 8 We had to do IVF because I can't use my own eggs to form an embryo. When we went through our infertility journey, one of my friends donated her eggs for us so we could do IVF.

Speaker 8 We want a big family and I think we would have as many kids as possible.

Speaker 2 She'd be pregnant right now.

Speaker 8 Yeah, the only thing is that we have to do IVF and so why don't we have someone else come in who wants more kids and so we can have an even bigger family than what we're doing.

Speaker 2 You mean like

Speaker 2 you

Speaker 2 this is weird. You're bringing in someone just to fuck your husband?

Speaker 2 So we really have been. I mean, I guess that's what seeking sister wife is, huh?

Speaker 10 Talking about adding a sister wife and polygamy for a couple years. She's been

Speaker 8 talking about it anyways. Yeah.
Bringing it up, trying to put a bug in his ear.

Speaker 10 Yeah, and I mean, I just really, you know, recently took her serious on it.

Speaker 2 Oh, you got the pretty one.

Speaker 8 That one's sweet.

Speaker 8 Oh, oh, goodness.

Speaker 10 Whoever this sister wife is is

Speaker 10 it?

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, the chicken's shitting all over her.
Yeah, I think we can get over the chickens.

Speaker 8 Yeah, she kind of needs to be a little bit more country than city.

Speaker 10 I just, I don't know where to begin. Like, are we going to go to the apps? I don't think anyone in small town New Ross is going.

Speaker 8 No, that's why you can set your distance out so you can meet more people.

Speaker 2 Throw them that line.

Speaker 2 Move that line.

Speaker 8 On the app is definitely something to get us like our feet in the door and see what we're doing.

Speaker 2 I mean, and then where do you start with the apps? Is it the apps for threesomes? You kind of start there. I don't know.
I'm sure that there are.

Speaker 2 There must be polygamy apps. Probably.
I would imagine it's popular enough now that you can probably have an app to

Speaker 2 consolidate. But there's also, I think, on the regular apps, you can just indicate that you're looking for someone else.

Speaker 2 No, you can't. No, but I'm saying that for like a threesome, though, but this is like to marry.
Yeah, that's a different whole, that's a whole different

Speaker 2 bag of wax. Yeah.
And I do have to say,

Speaker 2 i think it's a little maybe not weird but i think it's a little shoe on the other foot that it's the women in some of these cases that really are pushing their husband for another wife yeah begins

Speaker 2 right

Speaker 10 we are completely brand new to this i don't know what we're really getting ourselves into because we have no idea what this life is is like because i was lucky enough to get one i don't know if i'm gonna catch two but we're willing to give it a shot because it's focused on what we are looking for: a community.

Speaker 2 A community. Yeah, I feel like we have to have go to church.

Speaker 2 Get involved in the PTA.

Speaker 10 Some guidelines for us.

Speaker 8 We'll figure it out as we go.

Speaker 12 There's no rules, really.

Speaker 2 Oh, the old wolf figure it out as we go.

Speaker 2 Always turns out for mates.

Speaker 2 We'll figure it out as we go.

Speaker 8 Mates and me hanging back because I feel like we have a good enough connection and I trust his opinion.

Speaker 8 and I want him to also that when he's meeting someone new, I want them to have those first few moments together in the bond and to get to know each other.

Speaker 8 So down the line, I can totally see me like jumping in and wanting to get to know them. But as far as first impressions and getting the feels out there, I trust Reese totally with that.

Speaker 2 What was that show on HBO that was the, was it called Sister Wives? That was a great show to looking back on it. Now, it was so revolutionary, but then now TLC has come out with actual reality shows.

Speaker 2 But it was a, it was a

Speaker 2 actress. Chloe

Speaker 2 Svengali. Yeah, was in it.

Speaker 2 She played one of the wives. Not Svengali.
No, no, not Svengi. Svenji or whatever her name is.
Yeah, she's beautiful. I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 Yeah. God, I can't remember the name.

Speaker 8 I think it'll be funny to kind of see you on a date with someone else because.

Speaker 10 You want to watch me just friend zone someone else?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 8 I know, because like you're lucky you got me.

Speaker 10 You know, like if I hadn't spoke up, imagine where we would be so that's my only see I'm already nervous just like thinking about it and I haven't even I don't even know if anyone's gonna date me but

Speaker 2 I mean wow this guy he's no Casanova that's for sure unlike a lot of these guys who want

Speaker 2 sister wives they're macho alpha males who are ready to stick their dick in anything that moves this guy Not that guy.

Speaker 10 We're not like hypersexual people at this point. Like, I know there's some times that

Speaker 8 Mr. Spicy is non-existent.

Speaker 12 Mr.

Speaker 10 Mr.

Speaker 10 Latone, she adds the sprinkles.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 8 I add the flavor.

Speaker 2 He is gay.

Speaker 2 There is no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 The way that he's touching her, looking at her, his affectations, I don't want to like throw the baby out with the bathwater and say everyone who has a lisp or does jazz hands every time they talk is gay.

Speaker 2 Because that's,

Speaker 2 I don't also want to then throw a big blanket over everyone. No, no, I don't know.
Every gay man. Clearly, there are very macho gay men.
There are very effeminate gay men. Well, he was in the chorus.

Speaker 2 He was in the chorus.

Speaker 2 She was undressing him. There's no sex.
He doesn't care.

Speaker 2 He doesn't like women. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 8 But this is my plain vanilla.

Speaker 10 I'm just the prop.

Speaker 2 It's so cold.

Speaker 10 First margarita is on me. Let's go.

Speaker 2 Margarita.

Speaker 10 Tonight we are baby free. So we are going to meet up with my dear friend Kayla.

Speaker 2 Reese, are you wearing slippers?

Speaker 2 Oh my goodness.

Speaker 12 Doesn't surprise me.

Speaker 2 You've been wearing slippers since high school.

Speaker 2 Kayla's.

Speaker 2 That's a way to get the ladies.

Speaker 2 Get them to love your slippers first. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 It was called Big Love. Oh, Big Love.
I do remember that. Okay, let's take a break.
And when we get back, we'll get

Speaker 2 more of Reese's opinion on

Speaker 2 plural marriage. On flippers.
Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2 Okay, we're back. We're watching Sister, Seeking Sister Wives, and we're looking at Reese and Billie Jean's relationship.
They are new this season. There's always a couple new ones, a couple old ones.

Speaker 2 What's the old ones? So they don't start off new every season? No, they don't start. Well, not some of them.

Speaker 2 Like some leave and then, you know, I imagine that it's hard enough to find a sister wife, but then you have a camera crew following you around. And a lot of them just don't work out.

Speaker 2 So I think the next season,

Speaker 2 the cameras are uninterested in following them around. But this is Reese and Billie Jean.
They are new this season. This is the beginning of their journey.

Speaker 2 I want to point out that they're at a Mexican restaurant, the most colorful Mexican restaurant I've ever seen in my entire life.

Speaker 2 There are two grandmas in the background having nothing to do with this. They are drinking margaritas that are neon.

Speaker 2 They're neon.

Speaker 2 That's not the natural color of a margarita. I'm sure of it.

Speaker 10 My best friends, I've known her, gosh, since high school when we were on Show Choir. Her and I also went to the same college.
She was in our wedding. She's like, like a sister to me.

Speaker 8 I mean, not like the sister wife, sister.

Speaker 10 Yeah, we could never, that's gross.

Speaker 10 I love her to death, but I could never, she could never be a sister wife.

Speaker 2 Says every guy when they're attracted to another girl. Right.

Speaker 2 So how's the search been going for the sister wife?

Speaker 10 Well, like, I'm worried because I've been out of the game. I was never really in the game.
I was going to say,

Speaker 2 at least he's honest. Yeah.
I like it.

Speaker 10 One of my biggest concerns is in the past, people have said, like,

Speaker 2 assumed I was gay. Okay.
Okay. There we go.
We are addressing the elephant in the room right away. I like it.
Go.

Speaker 10 I don't know what.

Speaker 8 mean.

Speaker 12 I remember like the first time it got brought to my attention that they're like, I thought he was gay. And I was like,

Speaker 2 well, I mean, I can see. Oh, come on, girl.
Oh, come on, girl. You knew it from the moment you met him.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I can see how you would think that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he loves the arts.

Speaker 21 He loves humans and loves that connection. And it's not coming across to women as, hey, I want to get home with you.

Speaker 12 I think he comes off as feminine.

Speaker 2 I think you're right about that.

Speaker 8 Even the first time my dad met him, my dad asked if he was gay. I took him over to a family dinner.

Speaker 2 Well, we were gay. He's a good white star.

Speaker 10 So, I mean, I didn't help.

Speaker 2 The jazz hands don't help. Yeah, the flipper bows.
Jazz hands don't help. See, everybody's recognizing the same things.

Speaker 2 But that's me. Like,

Speaker 2 I don't give a crap. Yeah, because you're animated.
You use your hands a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 10 And I've got your nice

Speaker 2 little guy. I think people just.

Speaker 2 Wow, this is just a beat up session on his masculinity. Oh,

Speaker 2 poor guy. You're short.
You're short. You're ugly.
I mean, you're gay. That's why people think you're gay.
It's because you're gay.

Speaker 2 You were a late bloomer.

Speaker 8 Super flamboyant and loud, but that's.

Speaker 2 This is his own wife talking. Oh, my God.

Speaker 10 Just not. Flamboyant.

Speaker 8 Yeah. You are.
You are.

Speaker 2 The margaritas are flowing.

Speaker 2 the truth comes out He's learning for you're learning for the first time you're flamboyant. I highly doubt it.
Okay, no,

Speaker 2 I'm just okay.

Speaker 5 I'm taking notes. I'm just taking notes.

Speaker 2 Yes over here. Yes chicken fajita

Speaker 10 Thank you, sir

Speaker 10 Thank you. Oh my god, that was so delicious.
Thank you.

Speaker 8 Thank you if we're gonna be like really serious about this then like you really need to step up your game when a waitress comes over again.

Speaker 10 I'm gonna make her blush.

Speaker 2 Oh

Speaker 2 really excellent how this happens.

Speaker 10 I mean, I can make her blush.

Speaker 10 If I was gay, I would, yeah, I would tell everyone.

Speaker 10 I'd shout it from the rooftops, like, no problem there, but I like the boobies too much.

Speaker 2 Anybody.

Speaker 2 That doesn't mean you're not gay. I mean,

Speaker 2 I've been friends with gay guys. One of my roommates was a gay guy.
And you know what?

Speaker 2 They can appreciate some boobs. He loved hits more than I did.

Speaker 8 We need to be a little more smooth than goofy because

Speaker 2 adult women don't want goofy.

Speaker 8 We want a man.

Speaker 8 How's everything doing, guys?

Speaker 2 Oh, okay. Here comes a cute little waitress coming over.
Now his job is to flirt with her.

Speaker 10 Everything was beautiful. It is great.
Oh, my gosh, you're more scared.

Speaker 2 He's touching her in a way that just screams not

Speaker 2 super manly. I don't know.
We literally have to go. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 10 It is so delicious. Do you cook this yourself?

Speaker 8 I mean, I like to say

Speaker 12 you.

Speaker 2 I could. I could try.

Speaker 10 Because I could eat this every day. So if you want to come home with us anytime,

Speaker 10 you know.

Speaker 2 Oh my God, I'm embarrassed.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I get ass.

Speaker 12 I mean, no, he's probably not kidding about the you can come home with them.

Speaker 2 They are looking for a sister wife.

Speaker 2 What? A sister wisdom wife?

Speaker 2 A what? What's a that?

Speaker 12 A sister wife? A sister wife?

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 10 The big question here is: like, they're saying I don't have any game.

Speaker 2 So how did I do that? How did I do great? I think you did great.

Speaker 15 All right.

Speaker 21 Honestly, I think you did great.

Speaker 2 Also, I work for you.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 also.

Speaker 2 I need your money to pay my rent.

Speaker 10 You can be honest, please.

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 12 Oh, I don't know if that could ever be a sister. Why?

Speaker 2 I've heard of it, but never actually

Speaker 2 been around people who wanted to move forward with that kind of life.

Speaker 12 That's a lot for me.

Speaker 2 No. Yeah, we'll call you.

Speaker 12 Sounds good. I'll be here.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much, beautiful.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 2 Throw that in there. Oh, just throw that beautiful in there.

Speaker 2 Try and macho it up a little bit.

Speaker 2 That was a little bit better. I would.

Speaker 21 Reese has a challenge ahead of him. He has Billy, which is great, but it took him a while to find Billy.

Speaker 2 And now you're starting from ground zero.

Speaker 12 This is a big task.

Speaker 12 Keep the jazz hands to yourself.

Speaker 2 Not to yourself.

Speaker 2 It's crazy.

Speaker 10 Today we are on our way to my mom's house because we are going to break this news to my dad and my two cousins that we are seeking a sister wife. So we are pulling off the band-aid today.

Speaker 10 And I mean, I've even been afraid of just, you know, the few people that we have said something to. Like, is it going to get through? Are they going to hear?

Speaker 2 I don't know that you should just be announcing

Speaker 2 everyone before. But maybe they're doing it because they live in a small town.
Maybe. I don't know.
And they might, some people might be like, why is he out there searching for dates?

Speaker 10 Fine, like, we're in a small town.

Speaker 2 Okay, there you go.

Speaker 10 So, my mom, I mean, she already knows. So, it's not like, and she's, she's supportive.
She at least has told us she's supportive. Good.

Speaker 10 I know. I started to sweat thinking about it.
Right.

Speaker 10 My parents, they've been divorced for 35 years, but my mom does know she was a safe bet.

Speaker 10 Definitely. She's always going to stand by me.
So that was an easy one to be able to let her in. I think religion might come into it with Christina.

Speaker 8 I do too.

Speaker 10 I mean, they're all going to have an opinion about it. Everyone is.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 10 I think we're kind of going to, there's going to be a lot of judgment, but we definitely want to grow our family.

Speaker 8 I mean, there's all kinds of different family dynamics. So to me, a sister wife, it's not weird.
And I think it would be amazing to have that support.

Speaker 8 Having a bunch of powerful women raising kids sounds awesome.

Speaker 2 i just don't think i could do this i just don't think that i could do this i think this is like

Speaker 2 i think polyamory is an indication that something is wrong with the original relationship that's my personal opinion not in every case but in a lot of cases and i don't think it's fair i don't think it's fair to the kids that you're going to raise.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it's fair to the people inside of the relationship. And I just don't see how the mechanics work out in the long run.
Yeah. Right? I don't know.
That's just my opinion.

Speaker 2 That's just my opinion. All right.
So let's get to the part where he breaks it to his family

Speaker 2 who are super religious.

Speaker 10 So where's dad and Christina and Lindsay?

Speaker 8 They should be here anytime.

Speaker 2 Wow, he just wants to get to it, huh?

Speaker 8 I absolutely support billionaire to seek a sister wife. It's not something I would or could do in a million years.
But if it makes them happy,

Speaker 8 that's my main concern.

Speaker 2 Oh, it's blue. It is.
It's 10 blues. Oh, maybe I don't have it so bad.

Speaker 8 The division is important to me because losing our support group would be

Speaker 10 detrimental. We don't know what's going to happen.
So just the unknown is always scary. It's it's definitely got me sweating a little bit.

Speaker 10 Hey

Speaker 2 Oh, so is his dad maybe not a part of the family anymore, I guess? Well, they're divorced. Oh, they're divorced.
Yeah. Even though they've been divorced for like 30 years.

Speaker 10 We have kept it secret long enough, but I mean, it would be absolutely devastating if I lost my family over this.

Speaker 15 What can I get you, Karen? I washed my hands. No, I'm waiting.

Speaker 2 I need to wash my hands. Honestly, I'm good.
I'm waiting.

Speaker 10 I'm not in any hurry. Of course, Christina's going to remind us to wash our hands, keep everything.

Speaker 8 I washed my hands also I just did

Speaker 2 all right well guys

Speaker 2 after our little pizza party yeah after my pepperoni show slouched down my throat I wanted to let you know I'm looking to stick my dick and yet even more women thank you seriously all for coming um

Speaker 10 so you know you guys have been part of our journey as we've been growing our family

Speaker 10 and we are gonna continue growing it

Speaker 10 um

Speaker 2 but oh the dad already was was. Yeah, the dad was like, huh? You've had more sex? Yeah.
Tell me more, son.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 10 We're actually seeking a sister wife.

Speaker 2 The cousin is just a joke.

Speaker 9 Is this for real?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like the two wives. Polygamy.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Uh-oh. Dad does not seem pleased.
When Rhys tells me that he's illegal. Oh, yeah, that's true.
It's also, yeah, it's also illegal.

Speaker 2 It's also about that.

Speaker 15 My stomach dropped,

Speaker 15 and I instantly wanted to be like, no, why?

Speaker 10 What's your thoughts?

Speaker 2 You good? It's just, everything's so different. You good?

Speaker 2 Everything's so different nowadays. You got the gays with the gays.
You got people marrying roosters.

Speaker 2 You got chickens on the countertop.

Speaker 2 It was hard enough when you guys had twins. I didn't even know you were sexual.
And now you're going to have two vaginas in the same house.

Speaker 2 When I was a kid, we didn't even have one vagina in the house. We had two houses for each other.

Speaker 12 Is that even illegal?

Speaker 2 Uncle Reed was going to be a good idea. I mean, something going on.

Speaker 10 We don't have to get married. But

Speaker 2 You're only married. We can live in sin.

Speaker 2 Hey, I'm not joking.

Speaker 12 I'm just curious.

Speaker 10 Billy is the main one. Billy is wife.
The main one.

Speaker 2 The main one.

Speaker 2 I'm sure she loves that for herself.

Speaker 10 Number one queen.

Speaker 8 So you want to have more children with that other woman?

Speaker 10 I mean, we want to have more babies.

Speaker 2 So, grandpa, y'all buy more praise.

Speaker 2 That guy looks like the guy from Nerds, doesn't he?

Speaker 2 Like the main character from Nerds all grown up.

Speaker 2 What do you think?

Speaker 8 I want Christina's honest opinion about the whole

Speaker 2 thing.

Speaker 10 What do you think?

Speaker 15 Well, a few things here.

Speaker 15 I think it's confusing for children. I think that it can cause

Speaker 15 confusion in the house.

Speaker 2 It can cause disease.

Speaker 15 And obviously, of course, you know, we have different views.

Speaker 15 I believe that God created man and woman for a man and woman to be together, be married.

Speaker 15 So

Speaker 10 there's a lot of religions, though, that do practice that.

Speaker 15 Right, but religion and spirituality is.

Speaker 10 It's what you believe in is not.

Speaker 2 Okay, so wait. So you're saying that you believe God created man and woman to be with each other, but that's not religion.
That's spirituality. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think you're, you know, well, I don't know. I guess I don't need to add any color commentary to that one.

Speaker 15 What, right? Maybe so, but no, like there's only one Bible, right?

Speaker 2 No, there are thousands, literally, thousands of different versions of the Bible.

Speaker 15 Think that the world we live in now, anything is welcome because we have diverted so far away from

Speaker 2 the way things used to be at least Jesus. And I also think it's confusing for children to have two of the same sex parents, let alone three parents.

Speaker 15 Isn't the sister wife going to be a lesbian with you? No, no.

Speaker 2 I'm like, no.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God. Some people are so thick.
It's basically like a friend for me.

Speaker 8 I get like a built-in friend. Like a sister.
Like a sister.

Speaker 10 And a wife for me.

Speaker 8 I told him, I was like, honestly, it would be great to have another set of hands. He's like, are you serious? I was like, yeah.
But really. No, but really.
And so like, I would bring it in.

Speaker 2 Can you do a nanny? Well, I know. Yeah.
Another set of hands. I mean, I agree with that.
Yeah. Listen.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Every situation is different.
I'm not, again, I'm not trying to like throw the baby out with the bathwater. Every situation is different.
But anytime I've seen polyamory

Speaker 2 happen, it always,

Speaker 2 at least in my personal circle, seems to end in some kind of drama. It takes a lot of work.
It takes a lot of work and a lot of understanding and a lot of, like, I think,

Speaker 2 backseating of your own natural inclination. to

Speaker 2 feel

Speaker 2 something about your loved one being with someone else. Looking Looking for a nanny.

Speaker 8 I don't, we're wanting to grow our family, not have somebody take care of our family.

Speaker 15 I think it's selfish because you guys are getting, you're fulfilling your needs. You know, you guys are wanting an extra person to help you raise kids.
You're wanting to build a village.

Speaker 15 You're wanting to build a family. You know, Rhys is going to be getting sexual intimacy out of it.
Billy's going to be getting a sister out of it.

Speaker 2 But what about the kids? What about the kids?

Speaker 15 Are they going to be made fun of? I know we should not care what people think, but it's the harsh reality, right? Like, how are these kids going to be treated because they have two moms?

Speaker 8 I want somebody with an emotional connection that we can get along with, that I can build a village and have and rely on, and that they know they can rely on me.

Speaker 2 But you're assuming that relationship will always be there. That's why I think it's unfair to kids.

Speaker 2 We were talking about, my wife and I were talking about a friend of a friend who has now gone through

Speaker 2 his first wife passed. Now he's been through a divorce, right? And the kids are obviously not handling all of this very well.

Speaker 2 And how important it is to choose wisely when you decide to bring someone into the family, into the fold, when it comes to children, because they get attached

Speaker 2 to

Speaker 2 authority figures, to parental figures, to people who love them. And then if it's not the right person, if it's not the right mix, or if it's not the right situation, and then that person leaves,

Speaker 2 if they're not old enough to understand what's going on, that can be pretty devastating to their emotional well-being. I'm not saying that happens in every situation, but look at that Cody guy.

Speaker 2 His children are all whacked. They're all like teaming up with this family and this wife and that guy.
And none of them like Cody.

Speaker 2 Cody, no one likes Cody because Cody has managed to not give his attention to 36 different children with 17 different wives. It's a hot fucking emotional mess.
And the real losers are not the women.

Speaker 2 Yes, they're losing too. I think they lost some part of their life.
It's not Cody. He's a dipshit.
It's those children.

Speaker 2 They are suffering in some way, shape, or form because they don't have a bond with the dad they needed.

Speaker 2 And they are now torn apart from the moms they had because they're all gone in separate directions. That can be so fucking tough.

Speaker 2 So if you want to do polyamory and you're 25 years old and you're out on the New York single scene,

Speaker 2 cool, dude. Yeah, no problem.
It's just your emotions involved. But that's a different kind of polyamory, in my opinion.
That's like, you know, having fun polyamory. That's exploring sexuality.

Speaker 2 And maybe you do that for the rest of your life.

Speaker 2 But when you bring kids involved and your whole purpose is to have and raise children inside of unit that's constantly growing with adult parental figures, you have to be fucking careful about who you choose to bring into that unit.

Speaker 2 And you have to make sure it's not just for now, it's for fucking ever because those kids are going to need that parent for fucking ever.

Speaker 2 Lots of divorces happen and parents manage their way through it. That's not what I'm saying.
But this feels like this is not that, in my opinion. It's not about man or woman.

Speaker 2 I'm talking about man or man, woman or woman, man or woman, dog or cat. I don't care.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You have to be careful when you bring the fucking children in because the children are the most important thing. Children are our future, Chrissy.
Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Speaker 2 Yes. I'm on a roll today.
Yes, you are.

Speaker 2 Yeah, this show is wild. And then, yeah, and then to be navigating it all with cameras.
Yes. And documentary.

Speaker 2 That's the part that really kicks me in the potatoes.

Speaker 2 But I enjoy watching it. As a fun shits and giggles show, I enjoy watching it because it's interesting to see how people are trying to navigate this.
My favorite is the two, you know, the

Speaker 2 Merrymans or whatever their name is. The guy who's always picking another hot Colombian from

Speaker 2 South America. From South America.
Yeah, he's got yet another one. Are they still on? Oh, they're on now their fourth try.

Speaker 2 They have young boys

Speaker 2 who they brought into the show from time to time. And those boys have gotten attached to woman after woman after woman.
Oh, no.

Speaker 2 And all he does is have sex with them and then manages not to get married to them. I mean, honestly.
And he's divorced her. She's their divorce.
That's right. So that he can find that sister wife.

Speaker 2 And it's all because of God.

Speaker 2 God.

Speaker 2 God told him. God came to him while he was working out and told him he wasn't.

Speaker 2 That's how he says. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He is such a dip shit.

Speaker 2 Honestly, that guy is a nudnik of epic proportions i would tell it to his face he's just he's selfish is what he is yeah he's selfish and that poor danielle she's just a hot mess merrick's out looking for the next 20 year old brazilian with big boobs brazil yeah brazil and uh danielle's in the corner crying divorced with children and he doesn't care because god told him yeah god told him

Speaker 2 you can't you can't control that No, I guess you can. Especially at the gym.
Right.

Speaker 2 All right. Well, guess what God told me? God told me to tell you to give us a call.
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Speaker 2 I'll tell you that I love you. And I love you.
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