A major rift has emerged within the Sister Wives family, centered on tensions between Cody Brown and his children, particularly his trans son Leon. Leon recently posted on Instagram accusing Cody of falsifying claims about reaching out to his kids, citing emotional abandonment and a lack of meaningful contact, especially after his brother’s death. Cody, however, has repeatedly claimed in interviews—on Decider and the Vile Files—that he has made efforts to reconnect with all his children and even revealed he’s undiagnosed with ADHD, which he says fuels his emotional volatility. He also admitted to being bitter toward women due to past divorces and stated that reality TV, which he says exploits marital conflicts, is damaging his family dynamics. Critics argue that his statements, especially on the show *Special Forces*, where he failed the mental and interrogation tests, reveal a lack of emotional maturity and authenticity. His claims of reaching out to all children are contradicted by Leon’s account and public sentiment, fueling widespread online backlash. The situation has escalated beyond personal conflict, sparking broader conversations about fatherhood, mental health, and reality TV’s impact on family relationships. Additionally, a separate controversy involves the Maryfields, who are promoting a luxury resort in California through an AI-generated, heavily edited pitch, raising suspicions of a potential scam. The post has drawn sharp criticism for unrealistic visuals and poor engineering. Meanwhile, the host highlights a podcast course sale with deep discounts, positioning podcasting as a viable career path for listeners. The episode underscores how public scrutiny, emotional trauma, and media exposure are reshaping the dynamics of the Sister Wives family.
(upbeat music) - Hey everybody, welcome in. Frigiax, we have a huge show for you because we have some breaking sister wives news. It appears that the sister wives family is a bit at war. - At war. - Okay, so I've been inundated. I have seen your messages. Did you see Leon's Instagram story? You have to comment. Okay, I am commenting. We're gonna get into this. Leon who is Mary and Cody Brown's only child together posted a scathing IG story about him yesterday after it has been a one week non-stop press tour. In fact, it took me a second to get this podcast episode out because there's been so many articles. Cody has sat down with Decider, Fox, the local Fox affiliate in New York, Nick Vial, the Vial files did a special forces reunion show, which was over an hour. And by the way, they don't even get into Cody Brown until like 55 minutes into the podcast, which is fine. Special forces wrapped last week. Episode nine, Cody made it to the finale. He did not win the show. Sean Johnson, East and Gia Judice, my girls. I love, now look, a lot of y'all come for me on the YouTube in the comments. Y'all go bitch, I'm gonna have to unfollow you if you don't say nice things about special forces. Those staff are so trained and they're amazing navy seals. And one guy is hot. I think it's Foxy. Is Foxy the one with a dark hair that everybody thinks is hot? Anyhow, I was like, I said they weren't particularly hot to look at, they've gotten hotter, okay? As the show's gone on. But I'll tell you what, seeing those two women win, I was inspired. I was like, ooh, raw, okay, America. I love my America and I love my US military. And I love when a woman does well. Now granted, this is playing army for nine days, okay? So it's not exactly what it really takes to be a navy seal. But they're the only two women in the history of four seasons of special forces to basically quote unquote win, okay? And you really don't win necessarily if to pass a series of mental physical tests and then the staff basically chooses if you are ultimately you pass the special forces, right? Which they did. So we have a ton to recap. We're gonna start with Leon and Cody Brown at war. We're gonna talk about the Vile Files podcast, the Decider podcast because Cody has revealed everything under the sun. I mean, he wants Robin off TV. Brianna chicken fry called him a creep and then clarified that comment. In Decider, he talks about and in the Vile Files. He talks about how weird. He sees himself now from special forces. He never knew he never saw himself as being quirky and weird and ruffling feathers until he did these shows. He talks about being bitter towards women. The guy has revealed a lot, okay? In the past week in these interviews. So we are gonna break all those down. And then at the end, super quick. We'll talk, welcome to Plathville T. And Seeking Sister Wife, the Maryfields, Garek Maryfield, Garek Ik, Maryfield. Are they running a scam? I'm so tempted to invest. I'm really invested. I'm so close. Like I wanna give them $5,000 or $10,000. Just to follow the storyline for the podcast. I know y'all think I'm bad shit. But I really wanna write Garek Maryfield a check for $5,000 for what's being described as his AI-generated so-called California resort. Y'all, there's so much to get to. Okay, let's start immediately with Leon Brown. As of the recording of this podcast, Leon Brown yesterday dropped an IG story that had y'all, I mean, y'all were in my comments left and right. Have you seen this? Are you gonna comment on what's going on? All right, here's what Leon wrote. Now, Leon is Mary and Cody's child. Leon is trans. I think over the years, we've heard, you know, and Christine's even admitted this because of their religion, they, you know, they thought gay people were like, you know, whatever, right? All these religious people always have issues with the gaze and then their gay. So no shocker that the AUB was, you know, marriage is between a man and a woman. Well, Leon is trans, goes by they then. And yesterday on their Instagram, they wrote this about Cody Brown. He's been on this press tour all week long saying that he has reached out to and this past week, episode nine on Sister Wives. He said that he's reached out to every single kid. Many have not reciprocated. And then on the file files, he broke down that he is extremely close with three of his kids, three of his daughters, which everyone's assuming is Brianna, Aurora, Aurora and Ari in their house. He has a good relationship with four kids. I believe Logan is one, I don't know who the others are and he is a working relationship with four others. So there's 11, okay? Leon writes, taking a break from my social media hiatus to say one thing. There's a ridiculous video of my father circulating where he says he reaches out to his children. Let me be so fucking clear. I have not heard from that man since my brother killed himself. Cody blatantly blew me off at Garrison's funeral. He's a liar and he is a joke of a father that is all. Okay, we're beefing, we're beefing, we're at war here folks. It is, we are up, okay, shots fired. So Leon wants to make it perfectly clear that ain't no Cody Brown reaching out to them, mm-mm, know how, know what way. So there's Leon. There you have it. It, everybody's talking about this. A lot of people have hot feelings because what's been so confusing about this press tour, like I said, is McKelty and Tony recently on their own Patreon and then on Pop Psych have said, Cody reaches out to them. Like he wants a relationship with them, but McKelty will say to him, no, I, you know, you got to have a relationship with all your kids dad. And he's like, no, no, no, like it's, you know, this isn't like all or nothing. Like, I just want to have a relationship with you and Tony. And so she said that her relationship has been very hard. Cody has gone on all these shows and says that he has made an effort and he is trying to reconcile with all his kids. Now on social media platforms such as Reddit, this post of Leon's has gotten thousands and thousands of comments and discussions. Everybody has, has something to say, really. Most people are furious. The way that this man has just completely abandoned his children is so entirely sad. He's, he is this incapable to reconcile that they're, you know, that he's not willing to reach out and is doing the bare fucking minimum. This, he probably only remembered birthdays because the wives had to remind him once they stopped. He just didn't care for dates anymore. And it goes on and on. People are sharing their own experiences, quote, he also failed to invite Savannah for that after Christmas visit with truly an in Isabel. A good father would have made sure to include all of his kids, even the ones born from wives that his current spouse doesn't like. Thank you for sharing this. Somebody wrote on Reddit. It is so true. I hate when people act like Mary was the worst possible mother for not reaching out to Leon right away when Leon came out. She was shocked. She probably had her heart set on a nice sun and law on a lavish wedding and lots of grand bear babies and needed a second to adjust the dream. But now look at Cody. So people, you know, nobody has anything good to say, obviously, but this just does seem completely contradictory of what we've heard from Cody. So let's do a quick recap. That's, that's it. I mean, I'm, I'm not surprised. I, like I said, McKelty told us a couple weeks ago. He ain't really had an effort. I will say about these interviews. I'm getting sick and tired so many of these, whether it's Fox New York, whether it's Vile Files, it's really obvious that these people don't watch the show. I'm just at the point of everybody just asks him the basic questions like, where are you out with your kids? Like, let's like, and I will say this, I give Nick Vile and his wife credit. They tried to push and Cody said, "Well, this isn't the platform." You know, because it's so nuanced why the relationship isn't working. The relationship with my 18 kids isn't working. And this isn't the platform. But I just, I feel like with Cody, can someone please interview him that knows this show in and out to get him to talk about a lot of other things? A lot of other things. You know, maybe his COVID insecurities, you know, marry the barbed-to-minium scene, why that kicked off, why he, you know, now he's changing his mind. Is his constant mind change? His undiagnosed ADHD, is he also revealed on Nick Vile's podcast? Excuse me, oh my god, you know I'm pregnant and burping. What is, I just want someone to ask some other questions like, along the way. I go, it's just, it's just so surfacy. Okay, before we get into those interviews, obviously, as I mentioned, special forces last Thursday, I laughed the entire time, the final episode, there was nine episodes. Like I already told you who won, Sean Johnson East, Giajudice, and Cody Failed. You know, he failed the mental part, they keep them up for like two weeks.
24 hours, and then they have their capture, quote-unquote capture, it's like fake capture. And they have to do a series of, you know, like the military gave them this story of why they're in Morocco. They have to try to stick to the story, be truthful to gain the trust of the captors, but also not give up secrets. Cody fails miserably. You know, he says he's in Morocco to podcast, which I love. I also love the fact that people heard that and then immediately believe that Cody is going to start his own podcast, which I think could be true. A lot of people felt like they think that Cody saw dollar signs when Brianna chicken-free told him that she is a full-time podcaster. Cody, Brianna called him creepy at one point, and they got water like dumped on each other. That was her whole, like she was saying that he was creepy. She later clarifies a Nick Vials podcast that she didn't really think that Cody was creepy. She just used that as an excuse to try to throw off the captors. She also failed the interrogation part. And you know, we heard this week that Robin wanted to kill Brianna chicken-free, literally murder her. Robin, according to Cody, in these interviews with Decider is watch the show and is very upset at the reactions, the facial reactions, physical reactions that Cody's co-hosts have had towards him. She's incredibly defensive of Cody. On top of that, Cody's hair, nobody knows to this day if his haircut was real or not. And that was how Special Forces wrapped. They ended up taking Cody's badge. Brianna chicken-free the same way they tapped out. They failed that mission. And there you have it. However, I will say the staff told Cody Brown, they were like, you should be extremely proud of yourself, like how far you made it. This is impressive. So, but his facial expressions on the show, him shirtless, it was just crazy. The other thing, as I mentioned, he's been on this whirlwind press storm, is, did he cut his hair? Did he not? Nobody really knows. It looks like it's sort of pulled back, but that's as far as we got. So we don't know for sure. To me, he's pulled down the front curls with rubber bands, with those little bands. He's pulled it back, and then he's used some sort of plastic net or whatever. Or you know what those things, I'm trying to think of what they are. They're almost like, they're just like a headband. You know what I mean? But they're very 90s. I feel like he's just pulled the hair back into that. And a lot of people, including myself, you know, he, apparently according to McKelty, is now very, he's in the comments. Like he'd be reading my YouTube. He wants to know what people are saying about him. So he's now more self-conscious about his hair. FYI. Okay, let's talk about the interviews, because these I thought were great. First of all, Decider did an interview with Cody Brown. This one was really good. So let's talk about some of the questions that they asked. What was your wife's reaction to everything that happened on special forces? I don't want to out her in any way, Cody says, but she's very protective. She's very loving. Very caring. You don't want your wife to have to protect you. But when you're kind of all out naked in front of the entire world doing special forces, just doing your thing and your quirky or whatever I am, she knows me and loves me and basically didn't like the reaction that the other people or the treatment that the other people had on special forces. So I had to leave her home with my New York City trip. I didn't want her to get, you know, to basically to get into it with other people is what he said. So this is why he did not, you know, he didn't bring her to confront chicken fry. She was not happy with Brianna chicken fry calling out Cody Brown left and right on the show. Okay. Let's go on in your mirror room scene. We saw you break down over the state of your relationship with your kids and finally admit you're part of the astrangement. This is what Decider asks him. He says, I took all credit for it at the time because in the military, I just don't think you do things half measure. I can't say, well, I'm partly to blame. So I'm like, yeah, I could have done better as everybody in the situation we were in with the divorce could have. My children were victims of a very nasty, multi-layered divorce. They of course were closer to their mothers. I had a close relationship or I thought I did, he says, but he basically kind of backtracks a bit and says that he is taking responsibility for his part, but he also says that he essentially has reached out to all of his children, which of course we know Leon has poo pooed, okay. He goes on to say there's a lot of water under the bridge, but I could have done better and I know that I could have done better and of course I'm making an effort and I have been making an effort to be in contact with my kids to go through that hard work of fixing relationships that are very strained. Obviously we know today one of his children denies all that. How's that been going, Decider follows up. What's their response been to see you talk about this on special forces and to you making these efforts? He says, quote, it's a really tough thing because when you're on, when you're in reality TV or you're doing podcasting or anything like that, what you say goes on record and other people start to judge you by that. My opinion of myself won't matter. Your opinion of me, what you tell the public is going to matter. So when you have this happen with your kids, like my dad did this or my dad did that, you really have no defense of it. I can't throw my children under the bus or I've made the mistake of saying something that I shouldn't have about my kids in the past and this hurts relationships. So reality TV can be very tricky on relationships. Special forces is the type of situation where you're going to trauma bond with each other. I mean, in the end, they're pitting us against each other. Brianna chicken fry called you very creepy. He says that he was unaware of how quirky he was until he saw himself on special forces. So he doesn't really answer the question like, what do your kids think about you talking about all this? Well, now we know at least how one child feels. Have you heard from any of your ex wives, not at all Cody Brown tells Decider recently this week? I've heard nothing. Not surfing social media or on social media very much at all. I don't know if they've talked about me. I don't know if they've said anything. I know that my oldest son who's talked to me a little bit about it is watching. And then I watch it with the children at my home. My oldest son of my wife and I comes home to watch it with us. I believe he's referring to Dayton. I'm thinking. Anyhow, the full interview is up. They talk a lot about how he felt about failing and in the special forces show, very fascinating interview. I thought. Okay. Vile files. I thought even better interview. So Nick Vile, obviously super popular podcaster, had on the special forces final five. Sean Johnson East, Andrew Herhubby, Cody, chicken fry, GDG check, very fascinating interview. I could have done without the first 55 minutes, because I really only wanted to see Cody. By the way, Nick Vile, like this goes to show you to, I don't know, I feel like this, this whole thing with the kids could be the breaking point for Cody and Robin being on TV. At the same time, when you go to Nick Vile's YouTube and you look at the comments, there isn't one comment about anybody else on this cast. It is literally all about Cody Brown. It's all about Cody. So the guy brings in ratings. I mean, there's nobody on TV that people love to hate on more. I can't think of who is, who is any more villainous on television. I don't even know of anybody. I really don't. So he's so just such a hot button to watch and people are dissecting everything he's saying. On the Vile files, I think he revealed the most. He reveals on the Vile interview that Janelle also got a release from the church. Now, we saw in episode nine, she has talking to her friends about wanting a release from the church. That means something to her to end the marriage. Cody slips and reveals on Vile files that she already has it. He says two of his wives have gotten releases from the church, boom, they're done. He goes on to say that he's undiagnosed ADHD. He was on vitamins and caffeine pills on the show, which claimed he claims that Fox was fine with. Now, people are saying he says he's undiagnosed ADHD. Why don't you just get a diagnosis? By the way, that might explain some of his behavior, sorry, I'm like, itching my boobs. At this point, like, I feel like if I were him, I would pull a tamer judge. Remember how tamer judge tried to tell us she was autistic last year? I would, if I were Cody to basically like, save myself on TV, I would see if I could get an ADHD diagnosis, get a people magazine sympathy article and like, start, like, start trying to save it because we had a real low point here. Here are some of the big reveals. One, and I thought, you know, people made a huge deal about this and then when you listen to the interview, it's actually not that big of a deal. But Cody says that he's trying to get Robin off of TV. It's not because Robin is shy, doesn't want to do television. It's because he basically admits, like a lot of people have, that reality TV ruins marriages because everything is under the spotlight and then we all, including myself, I've made a full-time career about it, dissect what's happening in their marriages, put that online And that gets. in their heads too. So he only wants Robin off TV to save their marriage because he's very much in love with Robin, which he says on the show. He also admits that he has issues with women. Nick Vial says to him, you know, on the show, you didn't seem to listen to Sean, chicken fry, Gia, you seem to do your own thing, you were dismissive to them. A lot of people thought you came off as misogynistic and he's like, yeah, actually, yeah, I've been through three divorces and when you go through that, you become very bitter towards women. Cody went on to say that he used to love to hang out with women. It was like his favorite thing, but now not so much. His relationship with his kids, now I will say this, you know, he has, well, no, Leon's correct. He said on episode nine, he's reached out to every single kid. Not all of them have reciprocated, but Leon is saying that's absolute bullshit. Now on Nick Vial's podcast, Nick and his wife push Cody a couple of times to talk about his relationship with his children, like, see, that's the thing. I'm getting tired of that. Like, I'm getting, I don't know, I think it's a long time viewer. There's so many things I want to go back and ask about. I really do. You know, even this recent NDA thing with Mary, Cody and one of these interviews clarified that his lawyer came up with that idea, but what did the NDA say? Like what? You know, how did he and Robin feel like they're misunderstood? You know, he sort of uses his excuse of he just verbal diarrhea's all the time. And when he does that, he just says what he thinks and therefore he gets himself in trouble. But like, these people don't really watch the show. Like I would be referencing McKelty's interview, Peyton's TikToks. I would be referencing, now Leon's, like someone interview him, like, I'm right, so ready for him to come on the show. Read Leon's Instagram post to him and say, like, tell us, okay, did you reach out to them or not? What is the deal? On Vile though, he says he is very close with three of his daughters. Everybody's assuming those are the ones that live under his roof with Robin. Four kids, he's really working on it. Four others he's been in touch with. God, I mean, I want to go back. I want to know so much more about Cody, like what he really felt about Mary cat fishing and was there part of him back then with the Mary cat fishing incident? Like he wanted to leave her. You know, does he feel like he says he has a midlife menopause, you know, crisis moment, and that's why he no longer wanted his wives. He didn't want to deal with it. And you know, also could someone just ask him to like, hey, man, it does seem like 18 kids are a lot. It's a lot of relationships to keep up with. Is there a part of you that's just like, hey, I, I can't handle this anymore. Like I can't, I can't handle it. I, you know, I kind of want to be this father engaged with some of the kids and some not. Like, I just want to get to the truth. I don't know. They're there. That's what I had to say. Okay. Also on the file file, so that was some of the big topics that came up. As I mentioned, if you want to listen to it, you can definitely skip to the 55 minute mark. Cody goes on to say the reality TV TV is extremely hard because every producers are constantly looking for the rub, which means he says he doesn't blame TLC for his divorces, but he essentially says that going on reality TV, they are, the producers are looking for that one thing in a marriage in a relationship. They're looking for what is that thing that really rubs the person the wrong way and that is magnified. Now I do think that's the truth. And he wants to retire Rob and solely to save their marriage. So there you have it. The Leon situation, brand new, we'll see, Mary has not commented on it. I don't see where Leon's siblings have. We may get something from Maddie Brown, but so far, that's what everybody is talking about. And I think there was a narrative over the past week that Cody is really trying. Things might be improving, like maybe we were going to see some reconciliation and at least with Leon, we are not. It doesn't mean with some of the other kids. All right, let's move on quickly to two or three other topics. Isaac Plath, from Welcome to Plathville, we are getting a season eight. They are reportedly filming. How we know that is Lydia Plath, let it slip on her paid Instagram Reels. We saw cameras up. Isaac wanted to pay tribute and it's still to let us know that he's with Kaelin. His girl, they're still going strong. And he basically posted this wonderful tribute to her just saying the way you love me, babe. Ain't nobody better. Michael Plath is modeling again. I put that out on my social media. He look how it is held, too. He's down in Miami. Woo! Oh my God. He's the only man I've ever seen that had a broken nose, half ripped off nostril and the man got hotter. Now, you might have had plastic surgery this summer because we know the ripped off broken nose happened like last February. You guys should go to my TikTok at the Sarah Fraser show, check out his apps. I mean, he's like a fine wine, a grant that he's like 24. He's only getting hotter. Andy Cohen, eat your heart out, babe. Eat your heart out, babe. Babe. Babe. Lastly, Garrick, Garrick, Maryfield, the Maryfields and Danielle, Maryfield, I cannot stop watching this. Then Garrick, Maryfield, would would climb Mount Everest without help of oxygen assistance if it meant getting pussy. He would go anywhere for these women. He just had a baby with his new mama, his new wife. Danielle. Devil us Tim. He could marry the new wife, bring her here to America from Brazil, and now they got a baby together. Baby is so gorgeous. Poor child. I'm going to grow up in this family on reality TV, but I digress. Everybody's talking about seeking sister wives. The Maryfields are now recruiting investors to build their California resort. Okay. Hold me back because I really want to invest $10,000 and find out if this real is real because people say this is scammy as hell. So Garrick and Danielle announced this week on their social media that they are building a luxury boutique resort and are looking for investors and they are hoping to build in California. The divorced polygamist couple launched an investor recruitment program on IG with a sales pitch video from Danielle. The 45 second clip. Now this is where people are like, okay, you all, you all worse than the psychics network, okay? My God. Who is that famous psychic? Oh my gosh. I watched the documentary on her too, Ms. Cleo. Oh, she used to be so great. She looks like such a con artist. I loved her every second. They did a 45 minute mockup with images that appeared to be AI generated. Hi, my name is Danielle Maryfield. The video begins. Some of you know me and some of you may not. I'm here today to offer you the opportunity to join our family company and our God-given dream to build a luxury boutique resort in California. Our goal is to create a truly unique resort that draws families from all over the world. It's giving a mental experience for a mental, are we going to have a physical one? Like are these cabins going to exist? And it goes on. 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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Leon Brown, Mary and Cody Brown’s trans child, has publicly accused Cody of lying about reaching out to his children, claiming Cody abandoned them after his brother’s death and failed to show genuine concern or effort.
Cody Brown has appeared on multiple podcasts—including Decider and the Vile Files—where he admits to being bitter toward women due to past divorces, reveals he has undiagnosed ADHD, and claims reality TV has damaged his relationships, particularly with his children and ex-wives.
The controversy over Cody’s relationship with his children, especially Leon, has intensified online, with thousands of comments criticizing his lack of outreach and emotional availability, while Cody’s claims of reaching out to all 11 children are disputed by Leon and others, raising questions about authenticity and fatherhood.
Summary:
A major rift has emerged within the Sister Wives family, centered on tensions between Cody Brown and his children, particularly his trans son Leon. Leon recently posted on Instagram accusing Cody of falsifying claims about reaching out to his kids, citing emotional abandonment and a lack of meaningful contact, especially after his brother’s death. Cody, however, has repeatedly claimed in interviews—on Decider and the Vile Files—that he has made efforts to reconnect with all his children and even revealed he’s undiagnosed with ADHD, which he says fuels his emotional volatility.
He also admitted to being bitter toward women due to past divorces and stated that reality TV, which he says exploits marital conflicts, is damaging his family dynamics. Critics argue that his statements, especially on the show *Special Forces*, where he failed the mental and interrogation tests, reveal a lack of emotional maturity and authenticity. His claims of reaching out to all children are contradicted by Leon’s account and public sentiment, fueling widespread online backlash.
The situation has escalated beyond personal conflict, sparking broader conversations about fatherhood, mental health, and reality TV’s impact on family relationships. Additionally, a separate controversy involves the Maryfields, who are promoting a luxury resort in California through an AI-generated, heavily edited pitch, raising suspicions of a potential scam. The post has drawn sharp criticism for unrealistic visuals and poor engineering.
Meanwhile, the host highlights a podcast course sale with deep discounts, positioning podcasting as a viable career path for listeners. The episode underscores how public scrutiny, emotional trauma, and media exposure are reshaping the dynamics of the Sister Wives family.
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Leon Brown, Cody and Mary Brown's child, has publicly criticized Cody on Instagram, accusing him of lying about reaching out to his children. Leon claims Cody abandoned them, especially after the death of his brother, and says Cody refused to attend Garrison's funeral, calling him a 'joke of a father'.
Cody claims he has made efforts to reach out to all of his children, stating he has contact with 11 of them. However, Leon Brown and others dispute this, asserting that Cody has not genuinely reached out and that his claims are false.
On the Vile Files podcast, Cody revealed he has undiagnosed ADHD, admitted he has issues with women due to past divorces, and that two of his wives have obtained church releases, ending their marriages. He also said he wants Robin off TV to protect their marriage.
Cody failed the mental and interrogation parts of the Special Forces show, where he was caught being untruthful and dismissive of co-hosts. His hair was also questioned as fake, with many noting it looked like a 90s-style headband, and he reportedly became more self-conscious about it.
Yes, many people believe the resort is a scam. The promotional video uses AI-generated images, has unrealistic architecture like treehouse cabins, and lacks plausible engineering or logistics. Critics point out fake signs and poor placement of amenities as signs of manipulation.
Yes, Cody admitted on the Vile Files podcast that he became bitter toward women after going through three divorces and that he used to enjoy spending time with women but now has less interest due to his experiences.
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