Dirty Rush: Rush in the 90’s Pledge Sneaks, Puffy Paint, and Party Fouls
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iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kidnappings, weigh-ins, hazing… truth or fiction?
Jenn Fessler is joined by a Sorority contemporary to reveal Rush secrets and pledging traditions good and bad from back in the day.
We take you back to the 90’s to reveal intimate details of Rush meetings lasting all night, intense traditions and rituals, parties and proper etiquette.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 0:08.0 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
| 0:12.2 | Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. |
| 0:18.8 | Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. |
| 0:23.3 | It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on |
| 0:30.3 | the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Dirty Rush, |
| 0:36.9 | The Truth About Sorority Life, with your host, me, Gia Judice, |
| 0:41.3 | Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Fessler. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, you guys, welcome back. |
| 0:47.9 | Another week of Dirty Rush. |
| 0:49.5 | I am Jen Fessler. |
| 0:51.4 | And today, we want to get into the minds of what Rush Sorority was really like back in the day |
| 0:59.2 | and how it has changed. |
| 1:00.2 | So I am the ripe old age of 57 years old. |
| 1:05.5 | I graduated from the University of Texas in 1990. |
| 1:09.0 | So picture rush, although I actually rushed as a junior in 1988. And I can tell you |
| 1:16.6 | right here right now, just to spoil the ending, it was a lot different. And I'm also going to bring |
| 1:21.8 | in our guest today, her name is Katie. And she is here because she is from sort of my generation. Hi, Katie. |
| 1:29.9 | Hi. Wait, I'm sorry. I don't even know. How, wait, where are you, I'm 57? Yeah, I'm, I'm 50. I |
| 1:37.0 | rushed in the 90s. I was in a house in the 90s. And yeah, I mean, so much has changed, I think. |
| 1:42.8 | Right. So it really has. |
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