S26E3: Sweet Home Alabama | America’s Surprise Divorce Capital (A Trashy Divorces Encore Plus!)
Trashy Divorces
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🗓️ 22 December 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As much as we love a Vegas wedding and a Reno divorce - or a Tijuana divorce - the truth is that for a sparkling 25 or so years in the mid-20th century, Alabama abolished any residency requirements in divorce matters, and cheap, quickie divorces became a mainstay for Alabama lawyers. And as you would expect, this wild west environment drew a lot of high profile names - including some TD Alums - to the state, if only briefly.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:07.0 | And oh my, what a treat we have for you today with this encore Sunday. |
| 0:11.6 | My name is Stacy. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, friends, Alicia here, and I am pulling one out of the vault from so long ago. |
| 0:18.3 | Stacy, you and I have officially now in current day completed our move back to my |
| 0:25.1 | home state of Alabama, the state of your childhood and adolescence, and what a joy to be back. |
| 0:33.0 | Okay. Let's go with that. Boxes are getting whittled down and the house is coming along. |
| 0:39.8 | That is true. |
| 0:40.5 | And we are literally back in the land of trashy divorces. What do I mean by that? |
| 0:46.3 | Y'all, in this encore, I can't even wait to let you know that Alabama was the divorce |
| 0:51.4 | capital of the United States for a number of decades. |
| 0:56.4 | One of these divorces that we're going to talk about did come up in our Onassis arc |
| 1:01.2 | with a little Tina Onassis Spiderweb we just recently discussed. |
| 1:06.6 | Friends, this one is quite a delightful ride taken from a long ago episode all the way back from September 1st, 2019. |
| 1:15.4 | Who knew that we would be back in Alabama when we did this one so many moons ago? |
| 1:21.3 | Yep. |
| 1:22.4 | Trash Pandas, we will catch up on our thanks and love to new patrons and a few other fine folks this coming Wednesday |
| 1:28.2 | with a brand new episode on Christmas Day. No podcast desert here in Trash Candyland. But now let us |
| 1:35.8 | get to the Southland and find out about this little known trashy divorces capital. Let's go, go, |
| 1:41.7 | go. So, Alicia, you've got something a little different. Oh, entirely |
| 1:58.2 | different today. I'm really excited to tell this story. All of my best |
| 2:02.4 | of worst knowledge, Stacey, comes from the 1939 film, The Women, which in my opinion is one of the |
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