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00:00what is going on um i don't know i think that's more of a conversation between me and taylor
00:06welcome to ms mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the craziest things we found out on
00:12the first season of this controversial hulu series do you think it's trashy to take off
00:16your dress in front of my boyfriend what put your mic on what are you talking about
00:23number 10 the chip and dale show mormon wives have fun too just don't tell their husbands
00:29a fun outing to the chip and dale show would be no big deal on another series on this show though
00:34it ends up causing some major blow-ups amongst the married mormon mom talkers he said he's just
00:39done with everything pardon me done with everything
00:49you say i'm not going to be married to someone who doesn't have values and morals
00:53the girls get to go behind the scenes and jen affleck knows right away what the fallout will
00:58be when her husband zach finds out what's going on she and taylor frankie paul end up leaving the
01:03theater before the performers even hit the stage but it doesn't help okay what's going on i thought
01:08he was cool with you being here i mean i'm in trouble like he doesn't want to be married to me
01:14if i do stuff like that both women face heat from their partners and it leads to a conversation
01:20about what is and isn't appropriate for mormon women to do he has no right to like be saying
01:25those things threatening your marriage that's really weird to me someone who carried two of
01:30your freaking children and has been nothing but supportive and bending over backwards to try to
01:35support him through medical school and everything that's gross number nine whitney's pregnancy test
01:41throughout season one whitney levitt proves she never does anything the conventional way
01:46she continues that streak in the season finale it's family dinner night and we go to dinner
01:51every once in a while so i know they're not going to expect this but i have some news to share with
01:56them tonight not only is her pregnancy a major reveal but she finds a very special way to
02:01announce the news to her family so what does she do she puts her positive pregnancy test in the
02:07center of a cake and then serves it to them oh oh my god that is disgusting what did he put in the
02:14cake oh my gosh i know what it is it's certainly innovative it also raises a lot of safety concerns
02:23levitt's sister says what we are all thinking why did you put that in the there's a lid on it
02:29here's the residue that get like the germs that this is probably one of the most unsanitary
02:36pregnancy announcements ever number eight whitney's twenty thousand dollar deal while
02:41these mormon women are clearly trying to reinvent how the world sees their faith and community
02:46some topics are still plenty sticky sex has been such a taboo topic especially within the church
02:52for so long it's like if we're trying to break the mold and modernize and get to a place of like
02:56normalizing things that starts with us when whitney levitt is offered a lucrative promotional
03:01deal for an adult device she has to do some soul searching there are a lot of important
03:06enlightening conversations that are had which ultimately help whitney make her decision in the
03:11end she's bracing against a church and a code of conduct that sees women's sexuality as shameful
03:16after all do you think that like matches your platform though because you're all like oh my god
03:21kids homemaking vibrator i mean yeah like let's empower each other i don't think it does much
03:31the biggest shock though might be the amount of money involved here
03:35levitt was offered twenty thousand dollars to promote the product whitney levitt from spreading
03:40the good word door to door to spread in the word about vibrators who would have thought
03:45congratulations number seven the soft swinging scandal i was being torn to shreds for like
03:52ruining people's lives and then them using it for like clout okay did i ruin your life or did i help
03:58your life it's the scandal that started it all without the partner swapping controversy there
04:02might never have been a show to make all of mom talk was rocked by the swinging scandal that taylor
04:08frankie paul exposed on her own tiktok my husband wanted to share he did want to open that up so
04:12it's like i i caught feelings for a man that my husband welcomed into our our house in the midst
04:18of her divorce paul opened up about her open relationship with her husband and all hell broke
04:23loose on her tight-knit mormon community the secret lives of mormon wives immediately delves
04:27into how it affected her fellow mom talkers it puts a human face on a controversy many of us
04:33watched open mouthed from afar everyone was like picking apart mom talk picking apart people's
04:38relationship like oh is it them like whitney and connor had this whitney's husband's doing this
04:42and i feel like that's where it was hard for people number six the real reason whitney went
04:48to hawaii whitney levitt is seen as a de facto figurehead of mom talk however her life is far
04:54from perfect i don't want there to be any more secrets between us i don't want another scandal
04:58so i'm ready to tell the truth when she picked up and relocated to hawaii for months levitt placed
05:05the blame on taylor frankie paul's scandals but her castmates believe there was way more to it
05:10she eventually admits that her marriage to connor levitt was on the rocks and they went away to
05:15heal i literally said i was like this does not happen to me like this isn't something that
05:19happens to me i literally haven't told anyone it's just something that we're working through
05:24the reveal that connor had a secret tinder account and had been talking and exchanging
05:28photos with women on the app throughout his marriage to whitney is hard to hear
05:32luckily the group is there to listen and support and levitt apologizes to paul for using her as a
05:37scapegoat i just wanted to get away i wanted to get away from everything because i wanted to just
05:42think for myself and everything so i'm sorry because that wasn't the reason number five the
05:50truth behind the nick you dance video everyone was so quick to forgive taylor online swinging
05:56and then i just feel like i still get shredded to pieces almost every single video whitney levitt
06:02knows a thing or two about getting hate online the resident queen bee of mormon wives actually
06:07made headlines a few years ago for a tiktok she made while in the nick you with her child
06:11you have a vulnerable sick child in your video i understand that back then like tick tock was
06:16very different it was like you filmed everything and it was like just throw everything out and see
06:19what sticks yeah but looking back i'm like her dance video filmed next to her infant who was
06:25recovering from rsv became a hot topic and she was promptly lambasted for exploiting her child's
06:32condition the video comes up again while on a girl's trip when demi engelman alleges that
06:37levitt admitted she only did it for likes in her confessional engelman alleges levitt said this
06:42after they had a ketamine therapy session which is a whole can of worms all its own
06:47coming out of ketamine you are feeling things very deeply truths are coming out about yourself that
06:53you maybe wouldn't otherwise admit and in that moment she admitted to me that video that she
06:58posted was for sympathy likes clout and for recognition and number four the sinner sunday dm
07:06every sunday macy neely puts her platform to good use by encouraging her followers to submit their
07:11sinful confessions messy and hilarious as that already is one sinner sunday confession kickstarts
07:17a whole new dramatic storyline one of these anonymous users alleges that they were hooking
07:21up with taylor frankie paul's boyfriend dakota while they were dating this doesn't do dakota
07:27any favors with neely i've made it very clear that i do not trust dakota and this dm is the
07:32perfect example of why i'm right i don't know if that's true or not but makes me worry she's
07:36already been open about disliking him throughout the season but it forces neely to make a decision
07:41to support her fellow mom or keep the secret from her of course she tells her it's reality tv after
07:48all in my mind i would like to think that this isn't true but at the same time i'm in my head
07:53like this could be true because of things that have happened so i don't know what to think number
07:58substance therapy whitney and i did ketamine about eight months ago which is a therapy for
08:04physical trauma or emotional trauma demi engelman is unleashing an entirely different bombshell on
08:10the group when she casually drops that she and whitney levitt have done ketamine therapy
08:14regardless of the real applications of the substance in therapeutic settings it's a crazy
08:19thing to drop in the middle of a conversation more than that given that mormons generally abstain
08:24from various everyday substances like alcohol and even coffee it's a shocking development this
08:30is a group where soda is treated like a controlled substance we don't drink alcohol or do drugs and
08:35so it's kind of our vice engelman has since gone on record about how beneficial the treatment has
08:40been for her marriage it takes you out of your conscious state and you're able to kind of let
08:45down your like really just diminish your pride let down all the walls and be able to like speak
08:51heart to heart number two taylor frankie paul's arrest just when you think mom talk drama might
08:57be settling down things go left for taylor frankie paul let's get out of here i won't lie
09:03i'm drinking like tonight i'm getting i'm getting effed up the very first episode of mormon wives
09:09ends with her arrest after an argument ensues between her and her boyfriend dakota paul appears
09:14in body cam footage disheveled and crying soon after she's taken into custody on suspicion of
09:19domestic violence the fallout within mom talk is equally dramatic brand deals have gone down
09:26we need to make sure that we have a good reputation on social media because brands aren't
09:31going to want to work with us if they think we're going to jail and throwing stools at a wall
09:37we need to make sure to just completely get rid of that culture the group considers distancing
09:41themselves from paul whom they feel has worsened their image as a unit the couple stay together
09:47despite this with paul eventually giving birth to their son dakota he was such a good partner in
09:53the process and very supportive i'm like on cloud nine and this is like the first time i've been so
09:59confident in us in a future i just i hope that i can trust him before we continue be sure to
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10:16you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one whitney levitt leaves
10:22mom talk after only half a season of drama whitney levitt does the unthinkable following a confrontation
10:28with her co-stars on their girls trip she officially makes her exit from the mom talk group chat
10:33levitt even flexes her blocking finger cutting off the mom talkers on all social media i don't know
10:39if she blocked my number i know she's blocked me on everything else i would not be surprised she
10:42leaves the group message blocks you on tiktok blocks on instagram why wouldn't she do that yeah
10:46if she thinks this will remove her from the drama however quite the opposite happens at the end of
10:51the season she is completely alienated from the group and her attempts to be friends with them
10:56are rebuffed i think it's extremely disappointing that whitney didn't show up for macy for her
11:00launch party i just feel like we don't need to continue to support her if she doesn't even want
11:05to be friends with us and support one of our friends she breaks up with mom talk seemingly
11:10for good they insist they can survive without her massive following she's not so sure hopefully
11:15there will be a season two to tell us how it all shakes out my parting words for mom talk
11:21good luck without me which of these made you want another season of mom talk drama
11:26sound off in the comments we are officially in our post whitney era and i couldn't be happier about it
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