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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Friends and neighbors, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: You know what that music means. I'm ben, I'm known.

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Speaker 1: Apparently it's a nice day for a white wedding. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as we speak. Given the just the raw numbers, odds

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Speaker 1: are that there are thousands of couples getting married today,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, even, It's very true. It is a

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Speaker 1: popular pastime. MM. And of course we are joined by

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Speaker 1: our super producer, Casey Pegram here and today we are

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Speaker 1: looking at one of the world's most universal traditions, the

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Speaker 1: tradition of matrimony. I like to call it nuptials. Nuptials

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Speaker 1: is cool too, It just sounds cute. And we know

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Speaker 1: whether or not you have been married, or whether or

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Speaker 1: not you've actually been to a wedding. It's impossible not

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Speaker 1: to know a little bit about it because it's such

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Speaker 1: a fundamental part of so much fiction. It's in so

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Speaker 1: many films, not just rom coms, but definitely in rom coms,

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Speaker 1: definitely definitely big in rom coms. So everybody is aware

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Speaker 1: on some level of the the basic idea that typically

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Speaker 1: it's going to be two people who decide that they're

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Speaker 1: going to uh in front of members of their society,

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Speaker 1: and the Lord and the Lord right whatever Lord that

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Speaker 1: maybe precisely they're they're going to be an official item

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Speaker 1: until death do they part, unless it's a shotgun wedding.

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Speaker 1: Unless it's a shotgun in which case you're sort of

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Speaker 1: out of luck. You guys gotta kind of bite the bullet,

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Speaker 1: or you have to bite the bullet Daddy's bullet. So

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Speaker 1: at some point you and I have looked into weird

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Speaker 1: traditions before traditions. I want to be fair, traditions that

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Speaker 1: might seem unusual. Two outsiders, we've looked into this sort

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Speaker 1: of theme before tradition. You know that you've seen The

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Speaker 1: Fiddler on the Roof. I have a long time ago

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Speaker 1: all about tradition. In fact, one of the most popular

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Speaker 1: songs from it is the song tradition that goes like

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Speaker 1: I just sang Was that an excerpt or is that

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Speaker 1: the whole thing? That was just my my bit? That's

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Speaker 1: really the only the only lyric I I remember, But

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Speaker 1: there there's a whole song around it. You guys can

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Speaker 1: check it out in your own time, yes, please do.

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Speaker 1: And while you are checking things out, you may also

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Speaker 1: run into their strange traditions. Were familiar with some wedding traditions,

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Speaker 1: like uh, tossing the garter belts? What's that one? I've

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Speaker 1: always been there. That seems so ascay. It's like the

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Speaker 1: person who catches the garter belt traditionally is amongst like

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Speaker 1: the male folk or the grooms, and they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: married next. But then the and then the bouquet is

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Speaker 1: the female who's gonna get married next. Yeah, yeah, at

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Speaker 1: least traditionally. And I know there's some problematic gender norms

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Speaker 1: you know, these traditions range from the you know, innocuous

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Speaker 1: to the bizarre. And the one we're talking about today

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Speaker 1: history it became a thing for the happy couple to

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Speaker 1: shove wedding cake into each other's face. Holes do have

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Speaker 1: else at the wedding because other wedding members don't do

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Speaker 1: this a ritualistic force feeding. Yes, and we do know

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Speaker 1: that newly weds beforehand would feed the first slice of

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Speaker 1: this comes from Rachel Sylvester, associate Real Weddings Editor with

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Speaker 1: the not However, says Sylvester, the symbolisms often lost, and

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Speaker 1: it's been replaced increasingly now with this tradition that Noel

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Speaker 1: June of two thousand eleven where Faithful writes into Abbey

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Speaker 1: and says, Dear Abbey, I'm writing you about a disgusting,

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Speaker 1: rude and obscene habit the bride and groom shoving wedding

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Speaker 1: of this custom? And Dear Abbey has okay, so no

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Speaker 1: fifty years ago. The significance of this quote unquote ritual

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Speaker 1: to curious customs by Tad tou Leja. The cake cutting

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Speaker 1: than than misogyny. But they're both present there if if

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Speaker 1: And then the bride has apologetically wiped clean the groom's

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Speaker 1: does this go. We know in ancient room the bride

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Speaker 1: then I found this, uh, this great Smithsonian article that

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Speaker 1: there prosperity in the years to come. But there's another

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Speaker 1: it's also argued that this tradition of barley caking was

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Speaker 1: done to symbolize male dominance and to encourage fertility, and

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Speaker 1: because sugar was becoming more plentiful and affordable in England. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: serious status symbol, right Ben, Yeah, it was absolutely serious

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Speaker 1: And wedding cakes are big business these days, and all

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Speaker 1: just Casey Nolan. I it's tough for us to collectively

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Speaker 1: that just needs to go away, and it's levity, right.

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of things cooking here and we

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Speaker 1: have some new how Stuff Work shows coming out now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know um our buddy

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Speaker 1: Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame. I think he's the when

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Speaker 1: the winning ist Jeopardy contestant and I think he only

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Speaker 1: was finally dethroned by the notorious Watson computer that bested him. Um.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's hard to uh to fight

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Speaker 1: back against our robot overlord. So I still love you. Ken.

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Speaker 1: And Ken and his buddy John Roderick, who was in

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Speaker 1: a real cool band called the Long Winters, have a

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Speaker 1: new show that will be available anywhere you get your

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Speaker 1: podcasts by the time you hear this episode called Omnibus,

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Speaker 1: where they the whole concept is their podcasting from the

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Speaker 1: present for the people of the distant future. UM, given

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Speaker 1: some sort of monumental catastrophe that would decimate our society,

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Speaker 1: and they want to preserve all kinds of weird esoteric

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Speaker 1: bits of knowledge and curio and do so with a plum.

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Speaker 1: And they're quite funny and charming and it's got kind

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Speaker 1: of a fun sci fi quality to it. Actually was

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Speaker 1: lucky enough I got to do all the music for

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Speaker 1: it and the sound design. So give Omnibus a listen

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Speaker 1: whenever you get a chance, and right to them. Tell

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Speaker 1: them Ben and Noel saying, maybe that'll you know, will

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Speaker 1: that give him some credit? Will that be a ding?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think we might need to get

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Speaker 1: credit from them because the show is going to be

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Speaker 1: a hit. Yes, agree to end while you're looking for omnibus.

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Speaker 1: Of course we want to end on the question. Please

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Speaker 1: write to us, let us know what strange wedding traditions

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Speaker 1: you have encountered or taken part in, and most importantly,

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Speaker 1: join us next time for another episode of ridiculous history.

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Speaker 1: Goodbye everyone,