Bama Rush
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we discuss the new MAX documentary Bama Rush, about the sorority recruitment process at the University of Alabama. In the fall of 2021 PNM (potential new members) were posting on TikTok about their OOTD (outfit of the day) and their experiences going through sorority rush at UA and it became a phenomenon. The documentary primarily focuses on the more problematic parts of the recruitment process by following four yong women going through the process. It also features the problematic history of the Greek system at UA. We also talk about our own experiences of going through rush and being in a sorority.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. |
| 0:13.1 | And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:15.5 | So today we're going to be talking about a documentary that just came out on Max, formerly HBO Max, formerly HBO. |
| 0:25.2 | Yes. |
| 0:25.8 | And, well, the documentary is Bama Rush, which is about the sorority recruitment process at the University of Alabama, which I have to say, I don't think that this is typical of anything. |
| 0:43.4 | This is not how most campuses and rush occurs on most campuses in this country. This is an anomaly. |
| 0:55.1 | And it blew up in the fall of 2021 when all of these girls who are going through rush, |
| 1:03.3 | which they now call recruitment, new member recruitment, and what we used to call |
| 1:09.4 | rushes, the girls, are now called potential new members |
| 1:13.6 | or PNMs. |
| 1:16.0 | It's a lot to remember. |
| 1:17.6 | Yes, it is. |
| 1:18.4 | And so they started posting a lot of TikToks and they would do this outfit of the day |
| 1:24.2 | thing where they'd be like, okay, it's day one. |
| 1:26.7 | It's, you know, philanthropy's, um, you know, |
| 1:27.8 | philanthropy day. And, you know, my shoes are from Kate Spade and my skirt is from, you know, |
| 1:34.9 | wherever Chanel. I mean, you know, the lot of these brands, I don't even know, but they go |
| 1:40.3 | through their outfits of the day and say where everything was from. And people became |
| 1:45.7 | kind of obsessed with it. Yeah. And, you know, they would post other TikToks showing like on bid |
| 1:51.8 | day when people got their bids for the houses they got into and people couldn't get enough of it. |
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