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Boots on the Ground at Ole Miss Rush · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, the truth about sorority life, with
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  Speaker 1: your hosts, me.
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  Speaker 2: Gia Giudice, Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Fessler.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Joan Bassos, joined by my friend Trista Sutter, and
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  Speaker 4: today we are jumping into part two of our producer
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  Speaker 4: college takeover.
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  Speaker 3: Let's jump in.
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  Speaker 5: Now we have two of our producers who touched down
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  Speaker 5: on the Ole Miss campus.
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  Speaker 2: We're really excited to hear.
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  Speaker 5: about your experience at Ole Miss and all the details
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  Speaker 5: that you found out. So what is the biggest thing
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  Speaker 5: that I guess is kind of your remembering about or
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  Speaker 5: most impacted you about your visit to Ole Miss?
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  Speaker 1: So I come from a school of way like smaller,
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  Speaker 1: like small school sorority wise. So going to Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: was just like insane.
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  Speaker 6: And I think.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you go? Sorry to interrupt. No, no, you're okay.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Cal, I go to Cal state Northridge
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  Speaker 1: and like they have sororities, but it's very, it's a
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  Speaker 1: commuter school for me. So I never thought to join,
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  Speaker 1: but I have friends that are in it and they,
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  Speaker 1: they even say themselves, it's very small. And yeah, going
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  Speaker 1: to Ole Miss and seeing, we.
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  Speaker 7: Actually went when they were rushing. So we got to
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  Speaker 7: see the girls run home and everything.
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  Speaker 1: And I think for me, me and Stas went ahead
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  Speaker 1: and we went ahead before they ran home and saw
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  Speaker 1: the houses all decked out. And I think it was
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  Speaker 1: just crazy to see the amount of effort and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure time. And I'm also sure money put into these houses.
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  Speaker 1: And I told Stas, I told Sasa, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: it's like walking on candy cane lane.
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  Speaker 7: Like it's like Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Lights watching, but with, with, with sorority houses and it
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  Speaker 1: was just insane.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But better, but better.
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  Speaker 7: So I think that's the main thing that stood out
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  Speaker 7: for me.
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  Speaker 1: And also just seeing how into it they are, especially
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  Speaker 1: the parents as well. I didn't expect the parents like
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  Speaker 1: that were going to be as excited as the girls,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even more excited, but it was crazy to see.
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  Speaker 4: So the parents show up for what preference day or.
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  Speaker 7: For rush for the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I have a friend for a bid day.
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  Speaker 6: They just show up for a bid day.
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  Speaker 5: OK, well, I will say I have a friend who
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  Speaker 5: rushed from Vail, Colorado at not Ole Miss, but Bama.
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  Speaker 5: We were just talking about Bama. And my friend went
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  Speaker 5: out there for two weeks and stayed in a hotel
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  Speaker 5: with her daughter while she was going through Rush.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's normal at.
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  Speaker 5: Bama, but it is good to hear that at least
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  Speaker 5: Ole Miss, they just come for bid day. Because I
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  Speaker 5: feel like, why not let these girls experience it? It's their-
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  Speaker 5: you know, like, yes, maybe be there to help them
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  Speaker 5: pick out their outfit, but you can do that over
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  Speaker 5: Zoom or WhatsApp or, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And it kind of motivates them, especially if they're freshmen,
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  Speaker 4: to meet somebody else. So like you're now going through
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  Speaker 4: this experience with somebody and like to have somebody to
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  Speaker 4: commiserate with.
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  Speaker 3: And talk about your outfits and not have it be
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  Speaker 3: your mother anymore. It's been your mom for 18 years.
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  Speaker 4: Like this is such a good time to branch out
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  Speaker 4: and rely on somebody else and form some bonds like
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  Speaker 4: early on. I mean, some people like made their best
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  Speaker 4: friends like the first week of school. Totally.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Totally.
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  Speaker 6: Something like I, I think with the parents that I
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  Speaker 6: noticed there is that we didn't talk to a single
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  Speaker 6: parent who wasn't also in either the same.
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  Speaker 8: Story with some type of legacy.
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  Speaker 6: So like for them, it was like, this is their
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  Speaker 6: daughters coming out to society in a sense of, This
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  Speaker 6: is everything that we've like worked for, like until she
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  Speaker 6: was born, we had a daughter, we knew that she
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  Speaker 6: was going to be in sorority, it was like literally
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  Speaker 6: seen like it was life or death. Oh, like, that
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  Speaker 6: bid day card open. I mean, we were standing out there.
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  Speaker 6: And the only reason that we knew the girls were
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  Speaker 6: even going to start running out was because the daughters
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  Speaker 6: would text the mom's. And tell them the house that
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  Speaker 6: they got and they would start screaming.
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  Speaker 8: And crying and hugging one another.
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  Speaker 6: Being like, oh my gosh, she got Katie like, and
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  Speaker 6: they're all freaking out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 6: That was like, kind of like, oh, I see how,
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  Speaker 6: and they get so dressed up and they like wear
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  Speaker 6: their colors or, and it's.
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  Speaker 8: Like, it's a whole thing with the parents.
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  Speaker 5: Did you feel like like as a mom who will
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  Speaker 5: have a daughter going through it, maybe possibly next year,
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  Speaker 5: not at Ole Miss, I don't think, but do you
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  Speaker 5: think it's like your vibe on these parents? Do you
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  Speaker 5: feel like they were being helicopter moms or do you
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  Speaker 5: feel like it was so sweet of them to be there?
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  Speaker 5: Like what was the vibe that you were getting?
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  Speaker 8: I think such a mix of both, honestly. Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 8: I think a mix of both.
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  Speaker 6: Like I, I think for them, it was helicopter mom
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  Speaker 6: in the sense of she's going to get a sorority
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  Speaker 6: and she's going to get a house. But then it
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  Speaker 6: was also like, I don't know if it was necessarily
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  Speaker 6: she has to have this house or she needs to
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  Speaker 6: be in my house. Like I remember talking to a
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  Speaker 6: lot of families and it was different houses amongst like
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  Speaker 6: the mom and the aunt and then the grandma and
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  Speaker 6: like different, even different schools too. I know like SEC schools,
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  Speaker 6: it's so like Ole Miss, Alabama sucks or Tennessee sucks.
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  Speaker 8: Like we met a lot of people like that too.
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  Speaker 6: So it wasn't, I don't think it was too helicopter-y,
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  Speaker 6: but I think in a sense it was, she's going
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  Speaker 6: to be in a house and she needs to be
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  Speaker 6: in a house.
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  Speaker 5: Understood. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And I do like kind of feel that way. I
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  Speaker 3: know my daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I have a daughter who went to college in,
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  Speaker 4: I've got to remember what year, 2015.
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  Speaker 3: No, 2013.
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  Speaker 7: I'm old.
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  Speaker 4: She's old.
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  Speaker 3: She's in her thirties now.
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  Speaker 4: And her best friend went to Ole Miss and, um,
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's part of me that doesn't understand how
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  Speaker 4: she didn't get in a house. She was probably the
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  Speaker 4: prettiest girl in my daughter's class. She was really fun.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody loved her.
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  Speaker 4: Her name was Grayson. Everybody loved her. And she came
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  Speaker 4: back from Ole Miss. And she actually, I don't think,
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  Speaker 4: went back after her freshman year.
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  Speaker 3: She quit. She ended up going to school up in
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  Speaker 3: New York City.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if she was maybe too like northeast
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  Speaker 4: kind of girl. So I live in Maryland. So we're
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  Speaker 4: living to be a little urban with it right outside
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  Speaker 4: of D.C. I wonder if maybe she just didn't fit in.
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  Speaker 4: But how hard is it when and like the way
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about the moms are even like that invested
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  Speaker 4: in it. Like how hard is it if you don't
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  Speaker 4: get in a house?
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  Speaker 8: I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Or you're not from there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Or you're not from there. Like how hard is it
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  Speaker 2: to get in the houses?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: To be a part of it.
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  Speaker 6: One story that I totally remember was we were sitting
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  Speaker 6: at a diner with this mom and daughter and she
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  Speaker 6: was actually, she was a PNM going through recruitment.
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  Speaker 8: And I remember her telling us.
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  Speaker 6: About how the letters of rec are really hard to get,
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  Speaker 6: especially when you're not from the South. So they have
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  Speaker 6: a group chat of moms that all come together to
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  Speaker 6: help get their daughters all letter of recommendations because then
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  Speaker 6: she was telling me, that they always say like letter
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  Speaker 6: of recommendations technically aren't needed or like they you don't
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  Speaker 6: have to have them um but she said the two
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  Speaker 6: houses that she didn't have letter of recommendations from those
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  Speaker 6: were the two that she got immediately dropped from first
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  Speaker 6: yeah so i think it's a i think it's probably
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  Speaker 6: a lot harder not coming from the south not already
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  Speaker 6: being a legacy because that.
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  Speaker 8: Was like another thing that they said was everyone's a.
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  Speaker 6: Legacy so unless you're like a third or fourth like
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  Speaker 6: legacy then maybe that's when you start to have the
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  Speaker 6: upper hand but like They were like, no.
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  Speaker 8: One cares for your legacy.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone doesn't stand out.
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  Speaker 8: It doesn't stand out.
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  Speaker 6: So it's like, and I always think like I'm from
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  Speaker 6: West coast.
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  Speaker 8: I go to, I'm in a West coast.
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  Speaker 6: Sorority that I don't even, I wouldn't even know where
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  Speaker 6: to start with letter recommendations. I wouldn't even know like
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  Speaker 6: people out there. It's just a whole different like bubble
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  Speaker 6: that like, you're not even really involved.
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  Speaker 2: Totally. I'm intimidating.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I've written a bunch of them. I don't really like, I, I,
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  Speaker 3: I written for people. I don't even know.
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  Speaker 4: So like, I don't feel like they're very, like, I
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  Speaker 4: can't imagine that they are that important because you just
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  Speaker 4: get anybody to write them.
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  Speaker 3: I've written probably five for people I don't even know.
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  Speaker 8: Right. I know.
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  Speaker 5: I actually write the moms and say, can you at
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  Speaker 5: least share something about them so I can write, you know,
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  Speaker 5: if it's a friend of a friend or whatever, which
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  Speaker 5: I'm happy to do. But I honestly think it's just
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  Speaker 5: like you were saying, if they didn't have a letter
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  Speaker 5: of rec, then they immediately get dropped.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just getting them in the door.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you know, I don't think they, I have to
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  Speaker 5: assume they have so many letters of recommendation.
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  Speaker 2: To go through. I cannot imagine that they read all
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  Speaker 2: of them. There's no way.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, maybe if it's coming down to like the,
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  Speaker 4: like the last few people that you're voting on, you
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  Speaker 4: just have something to differentiate them because you just can't decide.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe like a really good recommendation would, you know, sway
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  Speaker 4: them in some way, but otherwise I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 3: It being a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know about the frat boys at Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 4: And I hear that they rank the sororities. Please enlighten
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  Speaker 4: me and I would have to hate them all.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I will say is– I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: probably everywhere, but the ego at Ole Miss– from those
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  Speaker 1: men are is insane and they're very much about their
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  Speaker 1: school like we were talking to them about like just
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  Speaker 1: like different things and.
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  Speaker 8: They were like Ole Miss is on top like we are.
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  Speaker 1: The best and we're talking about just a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different things like sports and they were like we're better
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  Speaker 1: than any other sport like our stadium is.
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  Speaker 3: Always packed out like we have the best school.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and we were like well what about Bama or
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  Speaker 1: any other like big school and he was like no
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  Speaker 1: like they don't even come close to us like We
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  Speaker 1: stay on top.
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  Speaker 8: And I was just like oh.
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  Speaker 1: Okay but that's one thing I will definitely say was
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  Speaker 1: interesting but take the rest about the sorority.
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  Speaker 4: Houses tell us about how they rank the sororities That was.
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  Speaker 6: So what was funny about our experience going was that
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  Speaker 6: since we were out in the middle of recruitment, the
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  Speaker 6: girls weren't going out because it's dry.
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  Speaker 8: The whole week is dry. So it was literally just
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  Speaker 8: all frat guys. We were like, where are the girls?
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  Speaker 8: Are there any girls out? You would go and some
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  Speaker 8: of the bars were all outside. And it would just
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  Speaker 8: be tables and tables of the frat guys.
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  Speaker 6: And so... I just remember being very upfront and honest
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  Speaker 6: with them about what we were doing and thank God
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  Speaker 6: they were so excited about it.
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  Speaker 8: And when I asked them what, like, what are, like,
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  Speaker 8: what are the top sororities here? Like, who are the
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  Speaker 8: most like dateable women here?
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  Speaker 6: Um, I got tried out Kappa and I want to
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  Speaker 6: say Katie or the top ones.
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  Speaker 8: And it was kind of funny.
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  Speaker 6: Cause then I remember also when you go to the houses,
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  Speaker 6: the row, um, that all these houses are on is
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  Speaker 6: literally called sorority row.
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  Speaker 8: And it literally looks like Barbie land. It, there's like
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  Speaker 8: a lake and it's a little cul-de-sac and all the houses.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you could, you guys could play telephone with
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  Speaker 8: a cup and a.
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  Speaker 6: String with how close all these houses are to one another.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: And yeah, Yeah, I kind of just, they, when we ask, like,
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  Speaker 6: what are your guys' thoughts on, like, recruitment and work
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  Speaker 6: week and, like, all these things that they're doing, they're
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  Speaker 6: kind of just, like, I just don't really understand the
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  Speaker 6: purpose of it. I don't understand, like, why we have
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  Speaker 6: to do the themes. And I don't understand why it's
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  Speaker 6: all about, like, the dancing. Like, I feel like if
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  Speaker 6: they actually just spent more of their time dedicated to actual, like,
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  Speaker 6: prepping for recruitment, they wouldn't be complaining about.
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  Speaker 8: Having these 15-hour days.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And then, sure enough, we met one guy who his
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  Speaker 6: girlfriend was vice president of membership for one of the
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  Speaker 6: houses there, which is basically, like, the biggest role that
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  Speaker 6: you have.
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  Speaker 8: For, like, Rush. That your entire job, like, when you're.
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  Speaker 6: In that chapter is basically just planning Rush.
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  Speaker 8: And he said that he has not seen her.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Everything and so they are very much um but they
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  Speaker 8: also were like good luck with what you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Are doing good luck talking to the girls like they're
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  Speaker 6: not going to tell you anything and.
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  Speaker 8: We're like right like that's fine like we know.
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  Speaker 4: And did you experience that did they were they really
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  Speaker 4: tight-lipped didn't really give you any tea.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't i mean like we said there wasn't any
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  Speaker 1: girls out.
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  Speaker 7: So it's not even like we got a crazy chance
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  Speaker 7: to ask them.
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  Speaker 1: And especially on bid day, they're so busy with running
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  Speaker 1: home and meeting their bags and everything. So they, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't really get a chance to talk to them specifically,
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  Speaker 1: but we were able to get outside perspectives from girls.
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  Speaker 1: Like we saw some girls that were like, not even from,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even, I think they're out of country.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 8: We met two girls who were not, who they're exchange students. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They're literally from Spain or some, some out of like
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  Speaker 6: country place. And I asked, I was like, were you
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  Speaker 6: ever interested in doing recruitment? I mean like, hello, you're
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  Speaker 6: going to SEC American kind of school. Like, I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if you want that experience. And she was so
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  Speaker 6: adamant of, no, I didn't even want to attempt. I
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  Speaker 6: didn't want to do it. Like, here I want no
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  Speaker 6: part of it it's toxic this that so that was
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  Speaker 6: kind of a little bit surprising and then we had
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  Speaker 6: two girls where we met their neighbors there's these two
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  Speaker 6: girls we met their neighbors and apparently they dropped one
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  Speaker 6: of their the one they dropped their sorority at Ole
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  Speaker 6: Miss so we were trying to like.
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  Speaker 8: Find them to talk to them. And the roommates were like,
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  Speaker 8: you're probably not going to get a word out of
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  Speaker 8: them because, and even though they dropped, they still said
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  Speaker 8: that they wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: Talk about it because like the school still like come
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  Speaker 6: at them and like, they'll get banned from everything.
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  Speaker 8: They won't be allowed to invites. They will like lose friends.
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  Speaker 8: It's like, even if you still can't talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of gave off as they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: like talk us out of it in a way. Like
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  Speaker 1: we really wanted to try and reach out to them.
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  Speaker 1: So we left, a note at their door, like saying,
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  Speaker 1: just being honest, like who we were and.
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  Speaker 7: What we were trying to ask them about. We had
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  Speaker 7: no militia intentions.
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  Speaker 1: Because, you know, a lot of people can just like
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  Speaker 1: assume that nowadays, which is completely understandable. And we had
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  Speaker 1: some of the male neighbors who were fraternities help us
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  Speaker 1: write it.
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  Speaker 7: And one of them was the guy, the boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, I don't think this like we
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  Speaker 1: were walking towards and he was like, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: this is a smart idea. Like just saying like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're going to like reach out. So like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you really should just even do it.
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  Speaker 2: But what's the harm? That's exactly what we said.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing to lose.
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  Speaker 8: Right. Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: I was like, we have nothing to lose.
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  Speaker 8: We're not from here.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: There's no reason to not to. I would love to know.
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  Speaker 5: I hear that you were actually at Alpha Chi University.
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  Speaker 5: pref night and I was an alpha guy, not obviously
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  Speaker 5: at Bama, but I'd love to know, is that really
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  Speaker 5: the case?
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  Speaker 2: And how was it? How did that happen?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. So this was really funny.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: The moment we get to our hotel, I, we get
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: out of the Uber and I see this array of
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: bags and it looks like girls is rush bags.
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: And then I see two row guys. Do they have their,
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: or get what row guys, but basically like.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: The rush counselors, they were sitting outside and I was
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: just like, wait a second, we're at a hotel right now.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: And I asked her as what's, what's going on over here.
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: She goes, Oh, Alpha Chi Omega's house is getting redone
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: right now. So we've had to do all the brush
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: at this hotel.
• 16:01
  Speaker 8: And I was like, what are you talking about?
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: And And I couldn't even imagine because there's so many
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: things that go into it. I mean, like you have
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: to know, have to line all the girls up outside
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: the door.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: Like you have to know where to line up to chat.
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: You have to be able to count how many girls
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: to know how many PNMs to match with active.
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: I was like, how are you doing this out of
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: hotel for starters? And we, they.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: Tell us they're like, they're literally in there doing their
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: prep ceremony right now.
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: And it's pretty much displayed. So you can literally go
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: see if you want. And I was like, what?
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: So we go, we walk in and I don't know
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: if all I'm in Kappa.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: So like I know my Kappa preps are very like
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: you wear black dresses.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: It's very just like elegant and just like pretty clean,
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: generic kind of thing.
• 16:51
  Speaker 8: Theirs was like there.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: They wore like the white cap sleeve long dresses with
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: the red flowers.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: Very like elegant. I think because of the South, it
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: has like more of like a religious root to it too.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: It almost seems like it was conservative. They had their
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: music playing like over a speaker. So it wasn't like
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: the girl singing. It was actually more of like a.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: Choir audio playing.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, crazy.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: And then they had their house like cut out and
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: like a cardboard box and placed.
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: It in the back. And these girls would literally.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Be standing down, like standing on this like stairway and,
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: an active would come and grab a PNM and they'd
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: walk them into this little ballroom area. That was this
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: open space of tables.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: And I was like, Oh my gosh, that is crazy.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: Cause prep is also supposed to be like prep night.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: It's like dark and like mysterious and like emotional and secret.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Do you feel like you were like, like a voyeur?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Like I'm watching this and I shouldn't really be here.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: I was kind of just like, if, Thank God they're
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: doing it here because they were doing it somewhere else
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: where maybe sororities weren't popular.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: It almost looked like a cotillion thing.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: It sounds like it with the white dresses and all that. Yeah.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Was that the most bizarre thing that you witnessed or
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: did you witness anything else that was just like blow
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: your mind?
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: I think that was like one of, I think that
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: was bizarre in the sense of you're not ever able
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: to see any.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: You see that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Pref ceremonies.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: I mean, like you should.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Ever be able to listen to any single sorority songs,
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: especially like something on pref.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: That's a lot more like sacred. I think that was
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: really bizarre.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: I think just in general though, I mean, bid day
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: had to have been like the most elaborate wild show
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: I have ever seen. I mean, it was families on
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: top of families. It was packed before the girls even
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: ran home. Just the signs, the alumni there, the house setups.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: I mean, there was professional photographers going around taking pictures
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: of like the girls and the houses and all the
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: merch and like things that they would get in their
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: rush bags.
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: It was just, I was jealous. I was like, I
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: want to run home right now. I understand why these
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: girls are having a meltdown and crying. Like I want
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: to be a part of that. Yeah. It was, it
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: was really cool. It was just so like, it definitely
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: blew my expectations out of the water.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Amazing.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: What was the fashion like?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: It was everybody like over the top or were they,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: you know, conservative.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: I'd say it's a mix of both in a way.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Like when we went out at night, it's like, it's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: not too crazy. We definitely tried to blend in with
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the crowd, but I think you can tell that we
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: weren't from there for sure.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: But I think... Yeah, I'd say it's very split in
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: my eyes, I think.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: I think on bid day, it was really fun seeing
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: the parents.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: And they would come with, like, if they were a
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: legacy of Kappa Delta or an alumni there, they would
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: come in this, like, patterned out green dress. And if
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: they had their kids with them, they'd put their little
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: daughters who were, like, three in the same matching bows
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: and same outfits.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: And it was.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Honestly the most darn cute thing ever of, like, And, like,
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: try it out. Like, they're all in, like, their yellow
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: and blue. And it was just, like, it's really cute.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: The dresses, though. It's definitely, like, you wear dresses there.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: You wear dresses with color and pattern.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: There was a funny encounter with Kappa when you accidentally
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: matched their light blue dresses, we hear. Tell us what happened.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: When we were getting ready.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Actually, when we were packing, we were talking about what
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: we were going to wear. And I was saying how
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, I think I need to fit in.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: So I need to wear a dress. And I have
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a light blue dress.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: I was like, oh, it's perfect for Ole Miss.
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: And when I.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Sent a picture of what I was wearing, we had
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: both planned to wear a light blue dress.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: So we were like, you know what? Let's just do it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: So that same.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Day, we wore our light blue dresses. And we went
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: to the Kappa house. And they're all taking pictures. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: they're all in their blue dresses. we blend literally right in.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Like we could have hopped in their picture of anything
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: and said we were a part of it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: If I had worn like this thing, cause this is
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: what they all had on, which is the exact thing.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: I don't even think they would have known.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: I probably could have said, I just transferred in and
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: I'm like Hapa.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: And they would have been like, Oh my God, cool.
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: Come on in. Cause we also got there.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Super early when like, it was freshly decorated and they're
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: all still taking their pictures and we're kind of just
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: like wandering around like on their like gigantic lawns. And
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: they're definitely like making eyes with us of like, are
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: they part of us?
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Do we know them?
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Like, should we say hi?
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: These like PC classes are probably also like 200 girls.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's unreal how large these houses are. I mean,
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: the house is gigantic.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: I think they house about 180 girls.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: How many people were they giving bids to this year?
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Definitely a hundred.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: There was a lot. There was a lot. I mean,
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: those PC class photos were gigantic.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Gigantic. Which made them like. it took them so long.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: To get it together because you have to fit so
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: many girls in one photo, obviously. And they have their
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: photographer like on a ladder, like trying to come, they
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: have megaphones across the street, literally, basically. And they had
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: a megaphone trying to communicate to everyone like, okay, girls,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like I need you to really get tighter in.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: And we, when we were at the Kappa house, we
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: saw that one of.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: The girls was on the floor, like getting fanned and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: like people people were getting water like she was passing
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: out because it's hot because it is hot out there
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and being in such a tight crowd probably doesn't help
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: at all.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: No air oh my gosh that's scary yeah I bet
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: that happens.
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: A lot.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh you guys are amazing I love all
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: these inside stories it's so much fun.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: Did you have fun was this a fun assignment to
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: go down there and try to blend in and get
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: some info.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: It was yeah it definitely was we had our fun
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and i've never been to mississippi in the first place
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: yeah oh it was just their campus like we didn't
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: go on their campus but just seeing their town their
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: um square what's is what's it called square it's yeah
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it's really called the square there you go it's beautiful
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: it's a cute little town there's really cute shops there
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and it's, I.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Can see why I can see the appeal to the school.
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: And it's just, it's very, it's.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Very close together, which when we drove in, cause you
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: have to, it's like an hour drive from the airport.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: We kind of felt like we were in the middle
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: of nowhere. And then as soon as we get in,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: it's just Ole Miss. Like it's just straight school town vibes.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: College town.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: And it's, it's great.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: It was really fun. The people in the South are
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: also the nicest people.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: So friendly.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: They are the friendliest people ever. I was so nervous
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: about how much I would need to try.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: To talk to people. If you sit down, the person.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: You're sitting down next to at a restaurant, they will
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: immediately say hi to you.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love that.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: They're the nicest people there.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they really are.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: They're so welcoming and they're.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Just so personable.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: It's like I've known this person. I'm talking to someone
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: and I feel like I've known them.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: They're really nice.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, ladies.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: This has been so awesome. I think they need to
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: do more sororities and do, you know, maybe like mid semester,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: you go and check in on how many girls have
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: left the houses and how many girls are happy and
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: maybe go to a party.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So fun. I love the insights.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: The inside scoop is really fun.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I love this assignment and thank you guys for being
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: up for it and looking the part. They couldn't send
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: Trista and I, but we got.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: You young girls.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: We could be the mothers. I could be a grandmother
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: at this point. I have grandkids.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: So I love it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: I love it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you girls.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: Bye. Thank you. Bye guys.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: That's it for this episode of Dirty Rush. Thank you
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: so much for joining us this week. Make sure you
• 25:47
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• 25:52
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• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Bye.