CLASSIC: Diamonds: The Conspiracy
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Diamonds: according to the ads, they're a girl's best friend, and the only thing worth picking for an engagement ring. But how did diamonds become so important -- and why?
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| 0:00.0 | So Matt are you proposing? |
| 0:04.3 | You said you were you said you wouldn't do it like this on the podcast |
| 0:10.9 | Well luckily for everybody involved it turns out that you are my friend already a married man |
| 0:18.8 | Are you got me? Okay, all right. Well, well, that's probably better for everybody |
| 0:23.4 | I I wanted to ask you this has been on my mind for a while |
| 0:27.6 | I wanted to ask you when you got married |
| 0:32.2 | Did you feel pressured |
| 0:35.3 | Not by not by your lovely spouse is a friend of mine as well like did you feel pressured by society to get a diamond? |
| 0:45.9 | I felt the pressure |
| 0:48.4 | Of that which creates diamonds upon carbon |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, they're yeah |
| 0:55.2 | I don't even know how to state it at the time when I got married |
| 0:59.9 | There was no other option the there was the possibility to get a sapphire |
| 1:05.2 | I think like maybe if you were if you were just out there enough you could get a sapphire instead of a diamond |
| 1:11.4 | But you had to finesse it right like yeah, okay your PR had to be really good |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, and then the pressure |
| 1:18.4 | Internally from the spouse was yeah, let's go with the diamond. Oh, yeah, well. Yeah |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah, yeah, that that makes sense and you know sometimes as they say you have to one must pick their battles |
| 1:30.8 | But it's interesting when we say that you had to have good PR if you were going to go for a sapphire or some other precious stone because |
| 1:39.4 | There is a tremendous amount of |
| 1:42.4 | Money time and as we'll see blood poured into the ongoing PR campaign to make people feel like they have to have a |
| 1:52.1 | Diamond and in this week's classic episode we dive deep into |
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