“Do you ever get tired of this?”

My friend saw this public post on Facebook:

She sent me a screenshot, asking, “Do you ever get tired of this?”  

No, I don’t get tired of people taking pictures of the house where Kody Brown used to live with his plural wives.  At least, I haven’t gotten tired of it yet. It’s not as if there’s a constant stream of cars — it’s more like a couple of times a month — and I just think it’s funny.

We always try to get a picture of the person taking pictures of us. Here’s a collection of some of the photos we’ve taken of people driving past our house while taking photos or videos.

When someone is slowly driving by with their phone out, I do find one thing annoying, to be honest: When they notice us watching them, they almost always drive away, as if they’re doing something wrong.  

Under different circumstances, I would feel differently about uninvited strangers regularly taking photos of my home.  But I understand the desire to see the original Sister Wives house.  I don’t think devotees are doing anything wrong when they seek out the house and drive by.

Rather than quickly drive away with their guilty consciences, I would prefer it if the fans would wave “Hello!” or roll down their window and say, “We’re just looking at Kody Brown’s old house!  Hope you don’t mind!”  

And yes, the Facebook post is correct. Rather than having a horse pasture across the street, we now live across from a housing development with dozens of new single-family homes. In the above photos of the cars, you can easily see signs of the ongoing construction.

Mormon Renegade

My polygamous family has had a few opportunities to be on reality TV shows. Kody Brown even tried persuading us to have our own show, and listening to his reasons got me excited, but when we considered the drama and divisiveness that TV producers require (or create), we ultimately decided against it. 

Because of this blog I’ve also received invitations to be on various shows and podcasts, but I’ve declined all of them. I don’t agree with or know the agendas of the creators and I don’t want to give up the power to tell my own story. 

But there’s a relatively new podcast that Melissa and I (and some others) were recently invited to be on and we actually agreed to do it. The episode was released today, and in it we spent over 3 hours discussing plural marriage, our religious journeys, and other topics. 

If you’d like to hear the interview, you can find it here. You can find The Mormon Renegade Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Castbox, etc. Today’s episode is #60 and it’s called “Dave Goes to Relief Society”. 😄

Joshua has several full-length interviews on the podcast as well.  Those episodes are #15, #27, #28, #30, #40, and #56, totalling over 12 hours of audio, and a couple more episodes will be released soon.  In those episodes Joshua tells some of our story, why we find it extremely important to keep the Biblical holidays, and what each of the holidays is about.  If you’re curious why Mormons are sometimes interested in Jewish stuff (a few of my readers have recently wondered that), then this is the series for you.