Speaker 1: Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sororiti Life with
Speaker 1: your hosts me Gia Judice.
Speaker 2: Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Kessler.
Speaker 3: We're back to continue the conversation about work week. So
Speaker 3: here's why Dirty Rush works is because we allow.
Speaker 2: People to be anonymous when they need to be, so.
Speaker 3: That they feel safe, secure, confident in telling you what
Speaker 3: it really is, like work week Rush pledging initiation.
Speaker 2: So we allow people to have real names, fake names.
Speaker 3: We're okay with it because we want you to know
Speaker 3: that what we're telling you is the truth. So what
Speaker 3: we did as we're doing this series on work Week
Speaker 3: this weekend, we sent two people, producer Evy and your
Speaker 3: name Bella and Bella might be a fake name.
Speaker 2: We sent Bella to Bama Rush.
Speaker 3: So look, anybody who knows anything about Rush knows that suddenly,
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, out of nowhere, Bama Rush exploded.
Speaker 2: It became the rush to watch.
Speaker 3: It became the tiktoks to watch, It became the girls
Speaker 3: to analyze, it became everything.
Speaker 2: So we are boots on the ground this.
Speaker 3: Season on Dirty Rush, and we are sending our team
Speaker 3: all over the country to cover Rush, to cover work
Speaker 3: week Rush and so on. So we are in a
Speaker 3: secret retreat, as you guys know if you listen to
Speaker 3: the previous episode, we are in a secret location on
Speaker 3: a sorority retreat. Essentially, we have sorority girls from all
Speaker 3: over the country here and we are bringing you these
Speaker 3: dirty Rush episodes. So basically, we sent producer Evy and
Speaker 3: Bella to Alabama. So first of all, what I want
Speaker 3: to ask you guys, is immediately when you got there
Speaker 3: and you started to sort of explore the town, So
Speaker 3: is the university in Alabama?
Speaker 2: What city?
Speaker 1: It's in Tuscaloosa, which is like an hour outside of Birmingham,
Speaker 1: which is the airport, right.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the University of Alabama. And look,
Speaker 2: I get it. If you're in Alabama, you're rolling your
Speaker 2: eyes at what idiots we are. But there's people that
Speaker 2: may not know that.
Speaker 3: So you flew into Birmingham and then how far from
Speaker 3: the airport is it to get to Tuscalooso where the
Speaker 3: University of Alabama is an hour?
Speaker 2: An hour?
Speaker 3: And did you immediately when you get there feel the
Speaker 3: sort of sorority energy?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about it.
Speaker 4: It's like right when I stepped foot on the campus,
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, I get this whole Alabama thing.
Speaker 2: Because I need more, Like what do you mean?
Speaker 1: I think even when we like landed in the airport
Speaker 1: and we're like waiting for our bags, we saw girls
Speaker 1: who immediately like fit the bill, like you could tell
Speaker 1: they were on their way to do work week that
Speaker 1: they went to the University of Alabama. Like they were
Speaker 1: wearing like Park malk necks and like athletist.
Speaker 2: So they said, I can't write that down.
Speaker 3: So they were wearing Park which I obviously understand. Park
Speaker 3: Baknax is like the thing. Yeah, and did it feel
Speaker 3: pink or is that like a legally blonde.
Speaker 1: Like it's an im super pink but definitely like preppy,
Speaker 1: colorful monogram.
Speaker 4: And the things that they knew about, like what girls
Speaker 4: wear to class, they were wearing, like.
Speaker 2: Give me details. They're wearing Hooka sneakers.
Speaker 4: They're wearing like either like an alo tennis dress or
Speaker 4: kind of like a set like a like a tennis
Speaker 4: skirt top set. Like everything's very put together, and they
Speaker 4: have like monograms on their little ll bean toes or whatever,
Speaker 4: like they have been planning to pack for So we're.
Speaker 3: Not actually talking Gucci Dior Chanelle. No, it's leveled down,
Speaker 3: but it is brand names. Yeah, and it is coordinated
Speaker 3: and it is preppy.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: I think what I came to understand is that like
Speaker 4: the big like the Gucci and the designer and all
Speaker 4: that stuff that you see on TikTok, Like, isn't it
Speaker 4: Like I'm sure that's there, as it is at any
Speaker 4: score any sorority, but it's not the focus. They've just
Speaker 4: people online have made it the focus.
Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, Okay, is it blonde or what was it?
Speaker 2: Did you see extensions? Differently? It is blonde.
Speaker 4: Every everyone's blonde tan long blonde, long blonde, like a
Speaker 4: platinum blonde, right, blonde, bright blonde, bright tan.
Speaker 2: We went into a tanning slawn everyone there.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to hear all about this. So first
Speaker 3: I know you guys, did you take an uber? This
Speaker 3: is where you've met?
Speaker 2: Your first interview was later We were support was great, normal,
Speaker 2: but just nothing on the rush scene.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: We actually we were kind of that first night when
Speaker 4: we landed, we were kind of striking out. We took
Speaker 4: a walk around campus. Okay, girls are getting ready for
Speaker 4: work week.
Speaker 1: We saw a group of girls talking to each other
Speaker 1: like on Greek row like, and they were in different
Speaker 1: houses we learned from listening in and they were like,
Speaker 1: they were like, what are you doing tomorrow? Like one
Speaker 1: of them and the other two were like secret.
Speaker 2: Oh, like they're getting a secret with each each other.
Speaker 3: And they were you stand out as like clearly you
Speaker 3: don't got you don't go there, or could you blend?
Speaker 3: Like maybe we can get in because we are young
Speaker 3: and we look like sorty girls.
Speaker 4: Well, Bella texted me when we were packing for this
Speaker 4: trip and she goes, you know what are you bringing?
Speaker 2: I'm like, prep you to the nine.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm bringing my you know, everything from And let
Speaker 4: me say she nailed it. O my prints, you know,
Speaker 4: your golden goose, sneakers or whatever you got.
Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna look like we blind in.
Speaker 4: And when we're walking around campus that first night, I'm
Speaker 4: trying to scope out the scene and see like who
Speaker 4: could talk to us and whatever, and they are already
Speaker 4: looking at you a little like a right.
Speaker 2: For the person listening for you listening.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Our two reporters are in their twenties, so they do
Speaker 3: they could pass easily for college students sorty girls obviously,
Speaker 3: we're doing that intentionally because we're infiltrating rush and trying
Speaker 3: to bring you like top secret information. All right, So
Speaker 3: you when you get to the hotel, is it a sorority?
Speaker 2: You know our sorority moms there? Did you feel that vibe?
Speaker 4: So we could tell that people were already, like even
Speaker 4: before classes or anything, had already begun.
Speaker 2: Like work, we could not quite begun.
Speaker 4: It was happening like the next day or the next day,
Speaker 4: but pete girls were moving into the hotel.
Speaker 2: Rushies there yet. Okay, so this is just sorority, just
Speaker 2: sorority girls girls women. It was like people doing rush
Speaker 2: who were like rushing. The p and ms were arriving,
Speaker 2: so it was like sophomore girls, the sophomore junior seniors.
Speaker 1: But what always interesting was in our hotel there was
Speaker 1: all these girls that we kept seeing like moving big
Speaker 1: ball because like unloading signs and we were like, oh,
Speaker 1: like what are you guys doing like whatever? They were
Speaker 1: on the panelonic board and they were running rush out.
Speaker 2: We were staying up. We split you at the right hotel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, this was definitely like the University of Alabama
Speaker 4: hotel where people say or whatever. But you could tell
Speaker 4: that moms were moving them into and everyone just has
Speaker 4: a little bit of this air of skepticism or secrecy
Speaker 4: or on their guard because I think they know that
Speaker 4: there's just so much attention around their school. And even
Speaker 4: we were walking around when the first night we got there,
Speaker 4: and I just like saw a girl walking towards us
Speaker 4: and asked her like, hey, you know, we're just we're reporters.
Speaker 4: I was just like, oh, we're you know, we're Felow
Speaker 4: Crority girls, but we work for this podcast and we
Speaker 4: like would love to ask you a few questions. And
Speaker 4: she was like, uh, I don't think I can say
Speaker 4: anything to you. And we're like, oh, okay, are you
Speaker 4: enjoying work week? And she's like, it's really chill, Like
Speaker 4: it's chill. It's much more chill than the people say
Speaker 4: that it is.
Speaker 2: And what did all right? But it felt like that
Speaker 2: was they're clearing the you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I think I guess my question is are
Speaker 3: you seeing people making these tiktoks trying to be quote
Speaker 3: TikTok famous.
Speaker 2: Or does it feel like authentic rush.
Speaker 1: I would say like the last day we were there,
Speaker 1: like we kind of started seeing more of like the
Speaker 1: actual work week, Like the girls like in their outfits,
Speaker 1: they're like making tiktoks, like doing all that stuff.
Speaker 2: But like before that, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, we did hear from a P and M that
Speaker 4: I asked her. I was like, have you been advised
Speaker 4: at all on girls who are trying to get TikTok
Speaker 4: famous or whatever going into rush? Like, gir no longer
Speaker 4: did sororities want those girls? Like it brings on too much?
Speaker 3: Okay, So that's interesting, right, I think that that had
Speaker 3: its moment and it does seem to be changing, and
Speaker 3: maybe a new school will become.
Speaker 2: That, right.
Speaker 4: They actually said they're like, I think Oklahoma's your school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I've heard that that Oklahoma is the
Speaker 3: new Bama Rush.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also like to compare it to a show like
Speaker 3: The Bachelor. Right in the early seasons, you got more
Speaker 3: authentic people because there was no Bachelor famous, right, and
Speaker 3: then you get these sort of trying too hards because
Speaker 3: they're not there for the reasons which it sounds like
Speaker 3: these you know, potential rush rushies and the actives are
Speaker 3: trying to just have.
Speaker 2: A cool sorority.
Speaker 3: All right, So you hop in this uber and tell
Speaker 3: me a little bit about this Uber driver that you.
Speaker 2: Guys spoke to. Mama was his story? Was she in
Speaker 2: a sorority?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: What was her story?
Speaker 4: I mean, we like hit the jackpot with our first Uber.
Speaker 4: We're feeling a little depleted from the night before, like
Speaker 4: getting so rejected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, reporter is a tough beat. I know it's there.
Speaker 2: Even the Uber driver.
Speaker 4: From the night before, Like she wasn't giving us much
Speaker 4: like shit, okay, all right, And we get in the
Speaker 4: car and we're like and we tell her what we're doing.
Speaker 4: You know, we're here, but we're trying to be soft with.
Speaker 2: People, so maybe they tell us. She starts off and
Speaker 2: she's she's got a Tumblr that says Mama Cy and.
Speaker 1: Her license plate says mama And we're like, so, what's
Speaker 1: the deal, Like, what's Mama Cy? And she's like, I
Speaker 1: am the number one Uber driver in the world. And
Speaker 1: at first I'm like, is this self proclaimed?
Speaker 2: That's good?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, she pulls it up.
Speaker 1: Uber has also awarded her as the number one Uber
Speaker 1: driver with over sixty thousand rides.
Speaker 2: Irrelevant, irrelevant, but like, good for you, Momacy, you rock.
Speaker 2: Then why did she tell you about sorority?
Speaker 6: She said?
Speaker 2: Born and raised in Tuscaloosa. It's beautiful, beautiful. She was
Speaker 2: in a sorority. She was a fine you know, well,
Speaker 2: we go, how what are you doing in Tescalusa? How
Speaker 2: are you getting all these rides whatever?
Speaker 4: And she's like, I do all the sorority transportation in Ubers.
Speaker 2: I'm a main uber driver. Did she go to Alabama?
Speaker 4: Yes, she goes, I went to University of Alabama and
Speaker 4: I was I'm from here.
Speaker 2: He was top house there. This is what we learned.
Speaker 2: And she goes, I was a fine meal. We go,
Speaker 2: is that the top house?
Speaker 4: And she goes, well, it's the only white house on canvas?
Speaker 1: So all no, sound, son't wait, let us explain. Let
Speaker 1: us explain suddenly, let us it is like physy painted
Speaker 1: white outside of the physical five ye sorority house, while
Speaker 1: all the other ones are brick brown.
Speaker 2: So it stands out a law on campus already looks prestigious.
Speaker 2: Before you know, that is beautiful there, I mean there
Speaker 2: must be effect. We'll get that. We'll get to that,
Speaker 2: all right. Your conversation with Mammasy roll it.
Speaker 4: Would you say you were telling us, but the reason
Speaker 4: why a lot of you know, girls are just hesitant
Speaker 4: to talk about and talk to us right now.
Speaker 2: It's because of everything that happened with Yeah.
Speaker 5: I feel like it just because it gets such a
Speaker 5: name on TikTok that everybody's just hasn't it because they
Speaker 5: are told, you.
Speaker 8: Know, not to say anything, not to do this, you know,
Speaker 8: just basically do your you know, get ready with me
Speaker 8: and call it a day and don't really say anything else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're just held to like higher standards just to
Speaker 5: make it more fair for everyone.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And do you think maybe that.
Speaker 4: They're probably also worried that something gets picked up or something,
Speaker 4: you know, they just don't want anything.
Speaker 5: Well, they don't want to focus on them because if
Speaker 5: the focus is on them, then it's a risk for
Speaker 5: the chack to.
Speaker 4: Take them mm, got it.
Speaker 8: So and you don't want social media at risk. There's
Speaker 8: too much.
Speaker 6: Involved in that.
Speaker 2: So absolutely.
Speaker 4: And and is it the case where they would go
Speaker 4: right to standards if if some if someone did say something.
Speaker 5: Or oh, I would say definitely, well they would take
Speaker 5: they would go straight to jayboard first, and then straight
Speaker 5: it would get straight to panelantics.
Speaker 8: Well, OK, and they take that very serious.
Speaker 5: Our girls are very good, they're jayboard girls, and our
Speaker 5: fo guys are very serious. About it, and they pick
Speaker 5: up on everything, got it, So they are very they're
Speaker 5: on top of it. They're some of the most restigious
Speaker 5: girls on campus, so they are really really on.
Speaker 8: Top of it, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, even the girls that we talked to
Speaker 4: seemed like when I went up to someone to the
Speaker 4: sheep right outside the hotel, she was on Panelinic and
Speaker 4: they seemed really buttoned up and.
Speaker 8: Ready to go. And that's the thing is like, the
Speaker 8: quatter you are, the better chance that everyone has.
Speaker 5: And that's what I always say, Like, you don't want
Speaker 5: to put a girl in that standard. You don't want
Speaker 5: to put her in that position, especially because if you're
Speaker 5: from like just a California and you're coming to Alabama,
Speaker 5: you're already are like, she'll shocked, so you don't know
Speaker 5: what to expect, and then you get here and then
Speaker 5: you're just that seven days is just miserable.
Speaker 8: Every day one hundred degree heat, ninety five percent humidity.
Speaker 8: You're hot, you're sweaty, you're miserable, and then you're going
Speaker 8: in there and then you're just it's just a lot
Speaker 8: of information to take in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I would say, yeah, I mean, I feel
Speaker 5: like it's fair to everyone, but I do feel like
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 8: It's very cut through all right.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: So Mama Sy, right, that's how everyone knows you number
Speaker 4: one uber in the world.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. You gotta love Mama Sy. First
Speaker 2: of all, she's got the voice, she really does. We
Speaker 2: didn't make any of this up. You can't fake you
Speaker 2: hit the jackpot with that. We just kept letting her talk. Great,
Speaker 2: I love it all right. So where was Mamsey taking you?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 4: We had been recommended this boutique, Papoori, okay, and we
Speaker 4: saw it online too.
Speaker 2: We like, they got this TikTok that went viral.
Speaker 4: All their stuff looked so cute, very Bama rush like,
Speaker 4: we got to get there.
Speaker 2: So we walk in and then we're a little confused
Speaker 2: because we're like, this is a furniture store. Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 2: But then it's so good.
Speaker 4: The other woman pipes in, she's like, are you looking
Speaker 4: for Papoori And we're like yeah, and she's like over here, y'all,
Speaker 4: And then we walk over into it's like the back
Speaker 4: of this furniture.
Speaker 9: It's like pretty friendly and nice, so nice, so nice,
Speaker 9: and the people who are like don't want to be
Speaker 9: associated with you like not speaking or like the sweetest
Speaker 9: like like somehow to deliver it in.
Speaker 2: The sweetest way. You can't even be master if this
Speaker 2: is your first reporting assignment you've ever been given in
Speaker 2: your lives or have you previously reported on things let's say, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, producer Evy, you reported on things before. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've I've reported on before so and in college too.
Speaker 3: So you do you talk to the woman at this boutique, lindsay.
Speaker 1: So, then we get to the back of the furniture store.
Speaker 1: We meet Lindsay and another sales associate who's very nice,
Speaker 1: who goes to the university.
Speaker 2: How do they get action in the back of the
Speaker 2: furniture store.
Speaker 4: Her sister in law owns the furniture store.
Speaker 2: And then Lindsay she sends people to the back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she says, I.
Speaker 4: Mean it's a very nice, upscale furniture store that has
Speaker 4: like multiple rooms and then there's the back for all
Speaker 4: the dresses.
Speaker 2: And so you walk into this back boutique and is
Speaker 2: it like sorolreaty closed, like.
Speaker 1: Love to the brim, like perfectly curated for every round
Speaker 1: of rush for anything Alabama, Like you're like perfect, perfect
Speaker 1: like Prame Day, Prince Bright fun and.
Speaker 2: Are we talking expensive expensive or no?
Speaker 4: So what I've found about because when I hear boutique,
Speaker 4: I think pricey, But what I found about Southern boutiques
Speaker 4: is actually they kind of like like and I'm not
Speaker 4: flaming in a web, like they dupe. I've noticed that
Speaker 4: they duped something that would be like on Revolve or
Speaker 4: maybe like that's like Mesa or farm Rio or whatever,
Speaker 4: like a brand that might be more a little high end,
Speaker 4: a little high end, and they kind of dupe it
Speaker 4: and maybe it feels a little different whatever, but it's
Speaker 4: the same look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so it's kind of fan yeah, good, good good,
Speaker 2: you know, whole thing and like.
Speaker 3: Three people probably doesn't need to do. But I think
Speaker 3: they would have anthropology dresses.
Speaker 4: Right, that kind of thing, where like it's similar styles
Speaker 4: or shapes that are recognized with.
Speaker 2: A price point more like a fifty dollars.
Speaker 4: It was like probably like the dress like under one hundred,
Speaker 4: under one hundred, like cute like night like I don't know, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, so what so and lindsay talk to you guys,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, and we're like do you own the store?
Speaker 4: She's got this cute sales associate TK who talk.
Speaker 2: To all the sorority girls in there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well what she did tell us is she
Speaker 4: was like, what we found about the University of Alabama,
Speaker 4: there's Old Row and Newro kind of with the arority.
Speaker 1: Mamma See said, she talked a little bit about Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Old Row, New Row.
Speaker 4: And and it just basically means Old Row is for
Speaker 4: some people might have more prestigialized because it's just like
Speaker 4: it's like the Ivy leaks, Like it's more they've been
Speaker 4: around the longest at Alabama.
Speaker 2: And then there's New Row. But they're still like really
Speaker 2: popular sororities in New Row. But I think those are.
Speaker 3: Is about the houses on those streets, not like the
Speaker 3: restaurants or stores.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, Rich sorority for the White House. The final
Speaker 2: So let's.
Speaker 3: Listen to a little bit of what Lindsay told you, guys,
Speaker 3: so give me again. Like what she was explaining, like
Speaker 3: about the sorority girls coming into the bea.
Speaker 1: She's like more Old Row sorority girls typically like the
Speaker 1: styles in our boutique as they lean a little more
Speaker 1: conservative preppy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Old Row.
Speaker 3: And New Row dressed differently. A little bit different vibes.
Speaker 3: I guess my question is are there top houses on
Speaker 3: both Old Row and New Rock?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So that like Zeta House that got that went TikTok
Speaker 4: viral and whatever. They're a New Row interesting, but it's
Speaker 4: more of the girls like from out of state, like
Speaker 4: I think like Old Rows, Like like even Mama Ce
Speaker 4: was like where She's like, I'm from Tuscaluso.
Speaker 2: What do you think I was in Old Row? Got it?
Speaker 2: What's rolrity? I'm you got it? Okay, all right, got it?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: So let's let's take a listen to Lindsay.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I'm here with Lindsay from Papoori Boutique.
Speaker 2: Hi, Lindsay, come on talk Okay, So tell us about
Speaker 2: your store.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 10: So we're a little clothing boutique in tesclose to Alabama.
Speaker 10: We're located in sad lampot Is Living, which is like
Speaker 10: a high end decorating store, and we're hidden in the
Speaker 10: back like towards the right hand corner, and we just
Speaker 10: sell a bunch of cute little like rush dresses and
Speaker 10: game day dresses for Alabama to the girls on campus
Speaker 10: and locals here in town and Tuesclosa.
Speaker 4: Have you gotten to know the girl, like the girls
Speaker 4: who live here in town really well to know what
Speaker 4: they would like.
Speaker 10: Yes, So we definitely have a lot of local shop
Speaker 10: with us and then a local a lot of local
Speaker 10: girls that are in school at Alabama. For those that
Speaker 10: are like going through rush, we have a bunch of
Speaker 10: cute little rush outfits. Normally here in Alabama, they do
Speaker 10: like mini dresses and not a lot of midi or
Speaker 10: maxi just because it's so hot in the summer, so
Speaker 10: we try to stock up for a lot for them. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and just for the various different days that they go through.
Speaker 10: So yeah, that's I would definitely keep.
Speaker 2: That in mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when it market when you when you find you
Speaker 4: like find that some sororities shop here more than others,
Speaker 4: or you've gotten to know certain sororities more than others.
Speaker 8: For sure.
Speaker 10: We definitely have certain girls and sororities that like us
Speaker 10: that could time we're I guess yeah, they're drawn to
Speaker 10: us more. It's definitely more the old row.
Speaker 4: Oh, everyone come in to be for your all your
Speaker 4: rush needs love it all.
Speaker 3: Right, So I guess, uh, are you really now that
Speaker 3: you're sort of immersed in Bama Rush. Seeing girls everywhere
Speaker 3: really experiencing Bama.
Speaker 4: Bama is like, these girls do not stop hop girl walking.
Speaker 2: I think they probably hot girl walking. They are tell
Speaker 2: me what that girl walking? They are in their hookahs,
Speaker 2: in their pink workout sets from three people Lululemon.
Speaker 4: Ala with their balla bangles which are like handweights or.
Speaker 2: Wait and best pause every So this is the girl
Speaker 2: the sorty girls.
Speaker 3: This is their sort of daytime outfit as they're walking, exercising.
Speaker 2: Yep, talking talking those bank when you said the Bengals,
Speaker 2: what was lalla.
Speaker 4: Beangals, They're like they're this brand of like cute looking
Speaker 4: hand weights.
Speaker 2: Or like, what is that the way you get my
Speaker 2: upper arms? Yeah? Like like or you can put them
Speaker 2: on your ankles. I'll try it, all right, So these
Speaker 2: guys you'd like them, I might have them. I think
Speaker 2: I might. So if I put those on my wrists
Speaker 2: while I walk, is my upper arm gonna get more?
Speaker 2: You might have to like go like this, But I
Speaker 2: feel like you kind of already.
Speaker 1: Do you see the little stuff while you're walking? Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a little ten minutes.
Speaker 3: So you're seeing these girls out walking looking hot.
Speaker 2: I was just like Bailey.
Speaker 4: I can't even like they just keep coming because I
Speaker 4: was trying to get like a video in front of
Speaker 4: the houses and I was like, just wait till they go,
Speaker 4: and then they just kept coming and they're all looking
Speaker 4: at me.
Speaker 2: So it feels like there's hundreds of girls. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: all they do is walks Barbie land. That's okay, this
Speaker 2: is interesting. So they kind of have a bar Barbie
Speaker 2: vibe during work.
Speaker 1: Week, like only the girls have really started moving in,
Speaker 1: like some people obviously were there.
Speaker 2: But did you see a girl that has brown hair? Yeah?
Speaker 2: For sure, Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Multiple it's not like, oh my gosh, like it's only
Speaker 1: definitely very all the blondes you're seeing.
Speaker 2: It's not like a California one.
Speaker 4: Oh it's white, white with extensions twenty foot or twenty
Speaker 4: inch whatever, and it's like a straight, straight look more
Speaker 4: like a little bit of like a wavy curl.
Speaker 3: This is probably an inappropriate question, but look, we're keeping
Speaker 3: it real. Similar body types or are you seeing different bodies?
Speaker 2: Is there any diversity? There is something. I think there's
Speaker 2: more like diversity. It's in the South, so it's not
Speaker 2: just one body.
Speaker 1: The girls are like pretty fit, but I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: it was like, oh like any nation like okay, it
Speaker 1: was pretty like normal.
Speaker 4: And they got some great barbecue down there, like okay,
Speaker 4: off the queue.
Speaker 3: So so speaking of looking beautiful, so you guys decide
Speaker 3: we're going to hit a tanning salon.
Speaker 2: It's right next door of the boutique, crucial part of
Speaker 2: any college canvas, especially Bama for sure.
Speaker 1: Like common girls are you know, we're like, oh formal,
Speaker 1: like go to this bratan it spray tan not back.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It's interesting.
Speaker 3: Until this very moment I was thinking tanning bed. I
Speaker 3: literally didn't realize we're talking spray tans for something. When
Speaker 3: you guys said tanning salon, the fifty year old in
Speaker 3: me thought, these people are laying in tanning beds. They
Speaker 3: got it, they're spray tanning. Yeah, so well that's why
Speaker 3: I've never I've never been tanning.
Speaker 2: Bed in my life. I'm yeah, okay, I don't do you.
Speaker 3: All spray tan at your schools and the sorty girls
Speaker 3: that are not on the air right now, raise your
Speaker 3: hands if you get spray tans.
Speaker 2: Our one fraternity.
Speaker 3: Boy okay, so in college day I got tan and
Speaker 3: our fraternity boy, Michael if you listened to our episode
Speaker 3: earlier also Spray Tank.
Speaker 6: They don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, so do you comes.
Speaker 3: You go into the Tanning Salon and did they talk
Speaker 3: to you?
Speaker 2: They will.
Speaker 4: We kind of like pitched it as like oh we
Speaker 4: and we'll promote your salan too well here and they
Speaker 4: were just trying to get off the ground, like there's
Speaker 4: members better play.
Speaker 1: Shoot glow salon g l O and they had an
Speaker 1: amazing and it said glow tide everything great in Alabama
Speaker 1: every not sorry, let me rephrase in Tuscaloosa, such a
Speaker 1: college town. Everywhere you go, sometile weaves in glow tide
Speaker 1: like Alabama, something like an elephant whatever.
Speaker 2: Or it'll just say Todd tied with go to like
Speaker 2: I said that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you go into the Tanning sloan bless them
Speaker 3: roll Tide, glow Tide.
Speaker 2: Beautiful, huge salon over thirty rooms, dirty emphasize. Remind you
Speaker 2: of Ross Pivot Ross Uh.
Speaker 3: When he got the four and the four you guys
Speaker 3: don't know from friends from the two, he forgot to
Speaker 3: turn got the two again, and then he went in
Speaker 3: again to try to even it out and got another two.
Speaker 2: So it was now he's a six. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: and he's like so orange.
Speaker 3: So anyway, tell me what tell me the gist of
Speaker 3: what they had to say in the Tanning slot.
Speaker 4: Well, we talked to a girl in there who was
Speaker 4: just about to rush. So that was a great, great
Speaker 4: girl to talk to. But they were also like trying
Speaker 4: to sell some member.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 2: No, she talked to you a little. She talked to
Speaker 2: us on tape. Oh wow. Okay, So you go in
Speaker 2: the Tanning salon and there were customers in there getting
Speaker 2: prepped for rush rushies or actives rushies. Wow, and I
Speaker 2: kind of thought it was like actives.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the girl we talked to was about to go
Speaker 2: into rush.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, so you guys were able to actually
Speaker 3: get a girl who's about to go through Bama Rush.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And she was lovely all right, we will not give
Speaker 2: her name. The greatest Rush mindset.
Speaker 1: If anyone is needing a mindset refresh before going into Rush,
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 2: Definitely listen up amazing advice.
Speaker 4: I asked her point blank. I was like, what sorty
Speaker 4: do you want to be? And like, what's the top
Speaker 4: sorority here? And she goes, Honestly, I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I haven't even looked it up.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: She's like, I made a conscious effort to not view
Speaker 1: like that. When she sees a TikTok, She's like, I
Speaker 1: try to scroll like whatever. She's like, I'm just really
Speaker 1: trying to go into an open mind and see where
Speaker 1: I find go.
Speaker 3: To listen to her, and we have altered her voice
Speaker 3: to protect her.
Speaker 7: Where are we right now?
Speaker 6: We're at Low Tanning and Tuscaalosa, Alabama. Love it? Okay?
Speaker 6: So do you?
Speaker 7: Is this like the main spot where all like sorority
Speaker 7: girls get their TEMs. So we're trying to be We
Speaker 7: just had our grain opening on Joya Lemon. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: So we're done in.
Speaker 7: Our likes here, so love it. We offer a little
Speaker 7: bit more than anything else in town.
Speaker 6: So okay.
Speaker 7: And do you go to Alabama or are you okay?
Speaker 7: We're kind of evenly split between Alabama and Shalotte. God,
Speaker 7: I love Rising Sophomore.
Speaker 6: Okay? Are you an a sororitiot? No, I'm rushing this
Speaker 6: fat Oh my.
Speaker 7: Gosh, wait, that's so exciting. Oh my gosh, what have
Speaker 7: you heard about rush? Like?
Speaker 6: Do you feel like it's gonna be crazy?
Speaker 7: I'm so excited it's going to be a lot of people,
Speaker 7: but it's gonna be like Barbie Land, just so.
Speaker 6: Much of girls. I mean, you look like a.
Speaker 7: Barbie Like when is every I feel like all the
Speaker 7: girls that work in here, everyone I'm seeing leave or
Speaker 7: like blonde haired like.
Speaker 6: Tan skin, Yes, we know everybody going? Is that?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 7: I feel like I've seen like on social media be
Speaker 7: like they got like sec five like they like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thing, it's a thing like you're just like everyone
Speaker 6: just go blonde and tan and cross. Actually a lot of.
Speaker 7: Interesting Okay, Okay, So what do you will tell you
Speaker 7: about Russia?
Speaker 6: You excited about it.
Speaker 7: Or do you?
Speaker 6: Yes? I can't wait. I'm really excited to meeting people
Speaker 6: be able to talk about talking. Yeah, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, Amy, I have a question for you. Okay, good.
Speaker 4: What do you think an unlimited membership tanning membership costs
Speaker 4: in alabam in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Speaker 2: So that means you could tan any time you want,
Speaker 2: anytime you want. You could do four services per day
Speaker 2: every day. This place also does all this u V
Speaker 2: stuff I know other day.
Speaker 3: I think that's going to cost you, and I am
Speaker 3: I giving you a monthly number, monthly number fundred fifty
Speaker 3: dollars fifty bucks if you share it with a friend,
Speaker 3: so it's like one hundred each.
Speaker 2: So me and Bella could go in on it.
Speaker 3: So for one hundred dollars, you could go to Tan
Speaker 3: as many times as you want, up to four times
Speaker 3: a day.
Speaker 1: But they also have hydra body facials like other wellness things,
Speaker 1: massage chairs, so you can do four services in one day,
Speaker 1: so you could go every day and a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people get the full membership. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I think the smart money is on that one
Speaker 2: hundred percent.
Speaker 4: When I would get a spray tan in La, it
Speaker 4: cost me eighty bucks a pop, and.
Speaker 2: This is fifty dollars unlimited services.
Speaker 4: Yeah, massage chairs, there was a massage, petties hydrah.
Speaker 2: I did get a many petty there though, massages at
Speaker 2: the same place, at this Globe place. No, this was
Speaker 2: a different place. Oh in Alabama. And then you're getting
Speaker 2: ready for rash All right, well okay, so I.
Speaker 3: Am excited that business. After this you found the boys
Speaker 3: well done.
Speaker 1: So then we were like after a long, hard, frivolous day, frivolous.
Speaker 2: It was pretty frivile reporting Bella's like I am really
Speaker 2: embracing my new job as a reporter.
Speaker 1: We were like, we need dinner, and I was kind
Speaker 1: of like I could do, Like I don't even know.
Speaker 2: Did I want Mexican food? I don't remember. I just
Speaker 2: dude in Tuscaloosa. So first night I knew I wanted
Speaker 2: some barbecue. Okay, I saw not name it because it
Speaker 2: wasn't my favorite.
Speaker 4: And this is the kind of establishment where you go
Speaker 4: in and they hand you a menu and.
Speaker 2: A made of wonderbread. Oh yes, but the menu is sticky,
Speaker 2: probably like it had barbecue sauce on it. Huh yeah,
Speaker 2: authentic fun. Yeah, it was good before you had jam hands.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 1: And then this night, though the food or lunch was great.
Speaker 1: The next day I thought the sandwiches, oh yeah, hub whatever, So.
Speaker 2: You guys are out eating on the dirty rush dime.
Speaker 2: But I did not cost a pretty penny. Everything there
Speaker 2: was quite cheap. College town. That's pretty sonyway. We did
Speaker 2: not go hungry.
Speaker 1: We did some TikTok research, as one does to find
Speaker 1: the best restaurant.
Speaker 2: We should go to.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, so we got onto your talk and I
Speaker 1: found this place called Taco Mama.
Speaker 2: We go, We walk there to save some money.
Speaker 3: We want, oh say thank you was not available to
Speaker 3: we just needed the exercise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, jar Barbic, I mean Bell over here was feeding
Speaker 4: a burrito and I was feeding a frat boy conversation.
Speaker 2: So here we got to love that you found the boys.
Speaker 1: So it's a great vibe Margarita's frat boys.
Speaker 3: And I did get a great picture which we should
Speaker 3: post of producer Evvy talking to the boys and we
Speaker 3: have their backs, which I loved, so we can protect
Speaker 3: them but still show you guys the photo. And we're
Speaker 3: gonna have a ton of photos on our Instagram.
Speaker 2: What is our Instagram? Dirty Rush podcast podcast great.
Speaker 3: From Bama Rush. You know Bama Rush work Week. Uh
Speaker 3: so were you asking the boys their hot take essentially
Speaker 3: on Sorority Rush?
Speaker 2: Yeah, great, tell me a little what they said, then
Speaker 2: we'll take a listen to them.
Speaker 4: Well, it's the perfect dynamic because I went up to
Speaker 4: this table of Frapp boys and I just knew they're
Speaker 4: wearing khaki shorts and the T shirts whatever, and they're like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, this guy's your guy. He's the student ambassador.
Speaker 4: Oh and then his friend comes down. He's like, and
Speaker 4: it's my birthday. And he was drink and I was like,
Speaker 4: this is great, good cop, backup, sit down, right, And
Speaker 4: so I started asking them the questions, and you know,
Speaker 4: you first, I'm learning how to be a journalist.
Speaker 2: You first asked him like, what do you guys do
Speaker 2: in here? How do you like taco mama? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And and they're like I overhear them like telling her
Speaker 1: their order.
Speaker 2: Whatever it takes to get your story.
Speaker 4: So I'm talking. I'm like, I I mean, I'm just
Speaker 4: loving Alabama. The vibes are great. I can tell why
Speaker 4: you guys love this school, Like, you know, tell me
Speaker 4: about Greek life here?
Speaker 2: What do you like it? Whatever? Going into it? And
Speaker 2: then I started asking like, well, if you had.
Speaker 4: To choose, like, what do you think the top sorority
Speaker 4: would be here?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: An ambassador? Guys like, I'm going to hand that off
Speaker 2: to this Paneliniki kind of impartial.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's like doesn't want I think he gives
Speaker 4: like it's probably like a.
Speaker 2: Tour guy take aside, right, Yeah, And the other guy's like,
Speaker 2: Kyo's my wife. Oh, Kyo's my wife. Kyo's my wife.
Speaker 2: We got to just roll the clip here movie, let's
Speaker 2: take let's listen to these these fellas.
Speaker 4: So I'm here at Taco Mama, like he would, you
Speaker 4: guys say, this is like the hottest Mexican.
Speaker 8: Place, the best Mexican place in town.
Speaker 2: So you're in a fraternity here.
Speaker 6: We are in a fraternity here.
Speaker 4: So do you feel like it's just like blown up
Speaker 4: in the last few years with like Fama.
Speaker 10: Rush, Well, probably going back to like seven four, five years.
Speaker 2: Five years, it was a really big deal. Especially a
Speaker 2: lot of the documentaries in that place. They out of
Speaker 2: the water.
Speaker 5: I would say personally that was a not an accurate
Speaker 5: representation of what we are as a Greek live community.
Speaker 4: All Right, you guys, thank you so much, and say,
Speaker 4: my conversation with those two is just made my night.
Speaker 2: They were great.
Speaker 4: Then I think they went off and partied and celebrated
Speaker 4: number two's birthday for them.
Speaker 1: Also, just to really give people an inside look to
Speaker 1: the atmosphere in Tuscalu. So we are here on a
Speaker 1: random Monday night. School is not in session. This is
Speaker 1: a random restaurant we find and it is fully packed.
Speaker 1: People are drinking. It's like a great time on this randomie.
Speaker 3: Did you get the vibe that these kids are having
Speaker 3: a great time at college at Bama.
Speaker 4: I think, like the perfect picture to explain, like I
Speaker 4: really understood like this school breeds school spirit because the
Speaker 4: Theta house practically backed up to the football stadium.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, you couldn't be in.
Speaker 4: Your sorority room, walk down the stairs and do a hop,
Speaker 4: skip and a jump and you'd be in the football stay.
Speaker 2: I went to Cal, and we have that same situation
Speaker 2: at Cal, not at UCLA.
Speaker 3: Ucla, unfortunately you have to go like on a two
Speaker 3: hour bus ride to the football game.
Speaker 2: You take like, yeah the road to help.
Speaker 3: Ladies for your first sorority college reporting job. Bravo, well done,
Speaker 3: You've got the story. You got your story. So to
Speaker 3: sort of wrap things up, what is your kind of button?
Speaker 3: Your two cents on work week at Bama because we
Speaker 3: really are re covering work week. We wanted to learn
Speaker 3: a little bit about the school and why it's become
Speaker 3: so TikTok famous.
Speaker 2: But do you feel like they're working hard during work week?
Speaker 2: I think they're working very hard.
Speaker 1: It seemed like a lot of work was put in,
Speaker 1: like the houses are so pretty and all the decorations
Speaker 1: and stuff. But what actually, like I feel like stood
Speaker 1: out to me was that all the girls we talked to,
Speaker 1: even the ones we like didn't talk to, were really
Speaker 1: like happy and like seem like they really like their
Speaker 1: sorority and like there's so many there that I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: you're all willing to like come and do all this
Speaker 1: work for your sorority, like even obviously not all of
Speaker 1: them can be like considered like top or whatever. But
Speaker 1: I'm like you almost like like it like pretty good.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah that that's not the case at every school.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like some people are like, oh I
Speaker 1: hate my sorority like whatever.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well we did get the under We did find
Speaker 4: out that there's a really high turnover rate, like people draw.
Speaker 1: Does that mean oh, like people like girls dry like
Speaker 1: when they're like seers.
Speaker 2: Because the duw's apparently you're expensive.
Speaker 1: When upwards can be upwards of twenty thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 1: okay when you consider like uh like outfits for foremost.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what was going on. They were saying,
Speaker 2: just dudes, yeah, twenty k. So there's twenty k plus
Speaker 2: plus plus plus Yeah, so they say that, like there's
Speaker 2: a lot of turnover. Girls. Girls stay freshman, sophomore year,
Speaker 2: leave junior senior year. Okay, they're not staying the full
Speaker 2: four years.
Speaker 3: And producer Evy, what's your sort of hot take on
Speaker 3: BAMA Rush work Week?
Speaker 4: Was this both your.
Speaker 2: First times to Alabama? I can't remember, this is my first.
Speaker 2: I added a new state to the list. I'm so glad.
Speaker 2: Was this your first time Alabama?
Speaker 5: BA?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, great, yeah, give me your hand.
Speaker 4: I think my hot take would be that the moms
Speaker 4: and the like adult women are a lot more involved
Speaker 4: in the South than in where I went to school.
Speaker 2: In La same Macal, the moms are zero involved.
Speaker 4: No, and these are all of the moms are coming
Speaker 4: for work week, even if their daughters are already in sororities.
Speaker 4: All the moms come for Sorority Rush to be like
Speaker 4: they're for emotional support. They're buying a hotel room in
Speaker 4: the place that we stayed. And then we saw like
Speaker 4: a bunch of women, like like maybe women who had
Speaker 4: been in the STORTI and are like in the alumni
Speaker 4: network or whatever, rowing up their car parking and bringing.
Speaker 2: Out all this stuff for work week, like out of
Speaker 2: their car. It's like all loading rogs and all this shit.
Speaker 2: We also met a.
Speaker 1: Lot of people who had gone to Alabama, that lived
Speaker 1: in huscal loose now or we're there in Tuscaloos like
Speaker 1: do whatever. Like the two ladies on my flight randomly
Speaker 1: started talking about how they were both five US at
Speaker 1: the University of Alabama, like into Birmingham, Like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, it's momsy, this was pre momisee.
Speaker 2: Like oh wom well this fine? You two, Yes, that's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We met, we're overstirred, like five plus like a lot
Speaker 1: of people almost ever. We talked to make you go
Speaker 1: and you stay, yeah, yeah stay, it seemed, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well done, well done, well done.
Speaker 3: Well I can't wait to see where we send you next.
Speaker 3: Great stuff.
Speaker 6: Me neither.
Speaker 2: In Oklahoma, they were plugged.
Speaker 4: Lindsay at the boutique was she could not stop talking
Speaker 4: about how much she loved Auburn.
Speaker 2: She's like, you guys, just gotta go. Where's Auburn that's
Speaker 2: also in Alabama? Oh you're going back to Alabama? I guess.
Speaker 2: Well done.
Speaker 3: Then this is a dirty rush on our work week
Speaker 3: special at our sorority retreat at a secret location, and
Speaker 3: we're so glad you're listening.
Speaker 2: Let's get dirty
Speaker 1: Hmm.