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Hey and welcome to the short.

So if I'm Josh and there's Chuck, so let's go Tally Ho.

So this one is interesting, I think.

It's about the idea and this goes by many names, all of which are fairly misogynistic, I think.

Yeah, marrying up, gold digging, trophy wife, these sort of terms have long been used.

Even though I did see that Forbes magazine claims to have invented the term coin the term

trophy wife in the 90s.

That feels like more of an 80s thing to me, don't you think?

Hey, that's what Forbes said.

I read that article.

But all to say, the idea of marrying up, which actually has a real name behind it, which

is, how are you going to pronounce this?

Hypergamy.

Hypergamy.

Hypergamy.

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