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Infamous

Why Do Influencers Want To Be Trad Wives?

Infamous

Sony Music

True Crime, News, Relationships, Entertainment News, Society & Culture

3.8 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Natalie  explores the rise of the “trad wife”—a woman who embraces traditional gender roles and 1950s-style domesticity—with Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse. From curated homemaking to cultural nostalgia, we unpack what this retro revival says about gender, identity, and the digital age. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. To connect with Infamous's creative team, plus access behind the scenes content, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, bingers. It's Ben Bailey Smith here from Kermode-Mayo's Take. Now, there are some amazing stories that are coming to Netflix this month, all of them based on real-life events. And if you love a good doc, like me, then you might be interested in a few of these. First up, coming out on the 9th of May, a deadly American marriage. This is unreal. This story is super complex. It's about this 39-year-old man whose life

0:23.3

has been taken by his 31-year-old wife Molly. Honestly, from the start, I was questioning

0:29.2

absolutely everything because it's such a strange setup. By the end, my jaw was bouncing

0:35.6

off of the top of my shoes. I highly recommend this. Also,

0:39.3

Fred and Rose West, a British horror story. Now, you know the story, we all know the story,

0:43.7

but this doc brings police interview tapes to the screen to help address important unanswered

0:49.0

questions about their crimes. And then there's cold case, the Tylenol murders, which is like a

0:53.5

four-part true crime doc centering around this con artist James Lewis. And then there's Cold Case, the Tylenol murders, which is like a four-part true crime doc

0:55.4

centering around this con artist James Lewis.

0:57.9

And finally, untold, the Liver King, the story of Brian Johnson, who is this social media,

1:02.9

fitness and ancestral living influencer, who was hit by scandal and came out the other side.

1:08.0

So listen, for the best of amazing true stories, there's only one place to go.

1:12.0

Netflix.

1:14.6

Campside Media.

1:22.5

Hello, everyone. Vanessa Grigoriata's here, and thank you so much for coming back to listen to Infamous.

1:29.8

Over the last couple of weeks, we told you a story about a wife on the main line, and she was living in a very traditional marriage.

1:38.0

She was a traditional wife.

1:40.2

Now, would you actually call her a trad wife?

1:43.6

The way we understand trad wives today is like blonde.

1:47.5

She's got those leteethed lashes, beloved of baking. That is not necessarily Cammy.

1:54.7

But her story did put us in a mood to think about trad wives and that whole phenomenon.

2:00.6

If you're on social media, you know

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