November 8, 2025 • 28 mins
The sorority girls explain the tradition of pinnings.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sorority Life with
your hosts me Gia Judice.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Kessler. Hi, guys, We're back with
another episode of Dirty Rush, and today I'm going to
be talking all about sorority pinning ceremonies. I personally never
went through a sorority pinning ceremony, so I do not
know one hundred percent what it's all about. But we
(00:29):
are going to have a lot of guests today to
talk to us about everything that it is and everything
that it entails, and I'm sure we'll hear some really
good stories as well along with those. So if I
were to think of what a pinning was, going back
to my sorority days, I know I got pinned, but
it was like when I was getting initiated. Then I
(00:51):
got pinned to be in my sorority. But the pinning
that we're talking about today is actually I think this
is what it is, so people can correct me if
I'm wrong. But when a guy in a fraternity wants
to like be with you forever and so then it's
like this huge ceremony. I've heard that some schools like
(01:12):
we're all white and then the girl gets pinned and
it's parents. Basically like before an engagement comes. So you
get pinned and then you get engaged. I guess I'm
not really sure how it all works out, but that's
my understanding of it. So we're gonna talk to some
people and see what it's all about. I know, so
(01:33):
I know a few girls my age who had them
at their school, but besides that, I had never heard
about this or knew it was a thing. So I'm
interested to talk to these people and see what they say.
It's all about. Hi, Jennifer, Why, Okay, So I'm so
excited to have you on this episode. We heard that
you have a pinning ceremony that had happened, and you
(01:55):
went to one and experienced one.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I had.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I was in a sorority, but I actually experienced a pinning.
So I think it's when like a guy really likes
a girl, he pins her and then they like get
engaged or something. But can you let us know what
your experience was.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, so I didn't know the girl super well. She
was an upperclassman at the time. I was an underclassman. Okay,
because I was an underclassman, we were told that we
had to go to this, so we didn't make a
lot of choice in the matter. I don't even know
if these people ended up getting engaged, but it's pretty strange.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The entire frat house came out. Oh, all presented her
with a single rose.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, like all of them handed her a rose.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
While singing, and then eventually she had a giant bouquet
of roses and he pinned her with his fraternity pin
and we were all outside. I don't know why I
had to be there. We were just kind of like
supporting her and like we had it all.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Be there, Yeah, just so she wasn't like alone standing there.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, it was like a giant gaggle of girls just
standing there watching men bring up single flowers and singing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Do you know, like how long they have been dating before?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I think like a year? You know nothing, okay, your
college sweethearts. I do not remember the exact song that
they sang. I think it may have been like top
gun you've lost that love and feeling, which wouldn't make
any sense in context.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Right, So were there a lot of girls in your
sorority throughout college that got pinned?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I mean I believe there was like at least one
a year that got.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Pinned, and so if you get pinned, it's like that's
basically like their proposing kind of.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think, I don't know, it's so heteronormative and strange.
It's like a light proposal. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's so funny. Do you know if they like, did
she wear the pin or out?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
No, I don't think so. She only wore it when
she was pinned. And then I do remember that we
all had to be in black.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That was very o you all had to be in black? Yes, okay?
Was she in white or black?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
No, she wasn't black as well.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Sounds like a funeral.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I'm not sure if it was a promise ring but
a promise pined Like I don't know, you know, I wasn't.
I didn't go to college to get married, so I'm
not sure.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Like I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, if this was like.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
A pro I feel like most people don't. I feel
like a lot of people now like they like find
their person in college. But yeah, I'm also like, isn't
everyone's like away from home and like figuring things out.
So M just also like it's funny because like you
didn't even like really know the girl you said, and
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I'm like, I don't think i'd want people there who
I didn't know that well, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Mean I'm not sure what you're experience and a sorority
was like, I have no regrets in being involved. I
just found that when we were supposed to treat all
one hundred and eighty girls that were in it as
one big friend group, it was kind of strange because, yeah,
I don't have one hundred and eighty close friends.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no, that's so true. It's like when you're in it,
I feel like it's like this like sisterhood thing. But
then like when I think about it right now, I'm like,
I would not want one hundred and eighty girls that
I barely knew at my boddy.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I mean I have like ten really good girlfriends that
I made from it, and then I have like, you know,
a satellite group of a few others that I stay, Yeah,
I'm friendly with, but I'm not best friends with one
hundred and eighty girls. Correct.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, that's kind of how mine is too. I don't
regret doing it at all either. I had such a
great experience and it was so fun, but yeah, it
is funny those like little things like that. Wow, I
really wonder if that couples together.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Still, I don't care perfonally, I am sorry that sounds bitchy, No,
not at all. I mean I think I was just
told that I had to be there because I was
an underclassman and they needed bodies, yeah, throughout the situation, which,
like I don't really know why they needed a giant
gaggle of girls standing on steps watching a girl get roses.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, that is so true. It is funny all those
little things. And also like I wonder, like is it
planned ahead of time? Do you know, like how ahead
of time do people know that, like she's gonna get pinned?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So I think, okay, I might be like misremembering this,
but I'm pretty sure that the pin eat is in
the dark. They don't know what's coming. They're told that
they have to be at the house for a special event,
and we're black. Oh wow for the story that I
was in, So I think it was a surprise. But
then when I heard she kind of knew it was coming.
And you know, obviously when a giant group of men
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start singing at you and giving you flowers, like you know,
something's going to happen to.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You, Oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I mean hopefully it's just getting pinned.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Uh, But like I kind of love the like thrill
of that, like not knowing if it's you.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah. This was in the aughts, late outs, like midats,
so not recently. But my my younger sister did get pinned.
And she's ten years younger than me, so.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh no way. Yeah, is she still with the guy?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
They got married?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, they are married.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
They got married last year.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh my goodness, that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, But like it's funny because I don't really think
that that was her style. I think they were just
you know, at the Yeah, but they're they're really cute couple.
I wasn't there for that because I obviously wasn't in
school at that time.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So did she like get pinned and then get engaged.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
No, No, she got pinned, was with him for like
an additional five years, then got engaged.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, so it was like two separate.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It wasn't really a formal pre engagement type of situation
with her at all.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I feel like back in the day it probably was
a pre engagement, but I don't know, you.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Know, Yeah, I'm sure, like depending on the school and
like the situation too, it's probably different.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, well this is southern California, like USC. So okay,
I feel like in I don't were you in like
a southern sorority or were you in what what area?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I went to San Diego State.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Okay, God, this is southern California as well.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like southern.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Ones probably do it a little different or you know,
everyone's got their own flavor.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh for sure. Well, thank you so much for coming on.
It was great to talk to you, Jennifer. Okay, everyone,
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we have Jeanette and Mollie. Hi you guys.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So I'm curious to hear your experience about the whole
like pinning situation. For me, my understanding was it. A
pinning for a sorority is when a fraternity I really
likes her basically wants to get engaged to her and
they get pinned. But tell me from your guys's experience,
what it is.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
I mean, that's like it, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But it's like at our school, it was just like
a huge roast pretty much, and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It was oh no way, it was like.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
One big roast and then yeah, like usually it was
a couple, so whoever's like been dating for a while,
it's like a big deal at the end, like you're
gonna have a pinning and it's originally it was like
you're supposed to like pin your frat pin on the girl,
and it's like this whole big thing, and I think
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that's how it started. And then as the years went
on and like it just became like this whole entire,
huge roast battle.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Between the girls.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
She has like a panel, so it would be like,
I don't know, like five girls her roommates usually, and
then they have like five guys and then they would
kind of go through and roast the girls would roast
the guys, and then they would roast the couple.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Uh okay, yeah, So would it always be like just
the girls roasting the guy or would the guys roast
the girls too?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So the guys would they would first roast the guys
and then they would go down and do all the girls.
So you would have.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Like some roommates who are like they're like, oh, we're
like super good friends, You're my best friend, but and
then be this like horrible, like not funny, rude.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Roast about like the girl like they're ing.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
So it would be like, hey, sister, I love you
so much, but and then it would be like you
have no personality and you're super annoying. And that was
like fully, like we were in the audience and we
heard that, and we were like, that's just not funny.
It's just like you have to go home together and
you're still roommates.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Do you have like any particular ones that were like
crazy that you remember.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So there was one that we saw and it was
a girl talking to her best friend and she was like, Hey,
you're like my best friend, but you don't have any
other friends and I'm your only friend and you're so
annoying or like it was something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, that's like so sad. And when
you were like picked, did you guys ever have to
do the roast?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
So the one that we weren't, I was the.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
MC, so I was like leading it and I would
be like next up is this person?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
And I would just say like the lightest not even rude,
like hey whatever. Molly was the one who was on the.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Panel, Okay, what was your experience, Mollie.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So leading up to it, we were when I like
had to be on this panel. I was like, one,
this is really scary, and I don't want to do
this because you're in front of a whole group of
people and this is really scary. So Janette, my girl,
gave me a little anxiety pill because I was super
anxious and I was like freaking out.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I don't want to be roasted whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Like I got a chill, yeah, I needed to chill.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And then I was also sick, so I also like
had some day quill and I had some musin X
and then I was like, well to really like I
I don't want to be nervous. I'm going to take
shots too.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So I was so.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Hammered and I don't remember any of it, but I
do remember I was hooking up with this guy and
I also hooked up with his little and so pretty
much the whole roast was like you hooked up with
this guy's little and yeah, that was pretty humiliating. I
got some Some guys were like I got roasted on
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being like loud and annoying, and I'm like, sorry, I'm fun.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't know. Yeah, honestly, this just sounds kind of evil.
It was evil, like who came up with this.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I don't know, but they used to be like super
romantic and it would be like it was like so
beautiful and they would have like their candles and it
was like it was like all for the couple. But
now it is like a total crap. Shoot, you don't
even say anything nice about like the they'll say at
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like the last second, they'll be like blah blah blah
blah blah, saying all this mean stuff and then they'll
be like, but you guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Also, I feel like college is already like a hard
like enough time, like you don't need that on top
of it. But whose idea is it to like get pinned?
Is it the guy or the girl?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Like who's like I want to be roasted with my friends?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
For me?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
All of my friends and my boyfriend's friends wanted to
do it, so they were like, okay, I have one.
I did not want it because I was like that
sounds like my personal hell. And so that was how
that started. But we were going to do ours like
later in the year, and so everyone was having theirs,
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like one after the other, yeah, and they were just
getting like worse and worse, like they just it wasn't cute.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
See, it wasn't levy.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It was just like a hard watch and they were
like two hours.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah that sounds horrible.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, it honestly was like it was terrible. There
was there was like.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
War, yeah, yeah, I mean I'm sure people learned like
a lot of.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Tea though, Yeah, a lot of tea.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, lot of t I'm sure there was a lot
of drama afterwards too.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Oh yeah, how could they're not me?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We had so we would have when we would have
like an ivy man or I was in Alpha Fia
at San Diego, say, and so we would pick like
the like top like favorite five guys from like each
fraternity or whatever, and they would come in and compete
for Ivyman. And one of the things was a roast
and they had to like sit in front of all
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of us and then people could like ask them whatever
questions they want or like interrogate them. And I remember
one of them was like so bad. I was like
this is horrible. I feel so bad for this guy.
I want to leave, and then like everyone and ended
up apologizing to him after. And it was like this
huge ordeal because I was like this is horrible.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
It's like at what costs? Like best case.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Scenario, what you're the ivy man, Like I know, right,
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I can't imagine like girls going at girls though, and
guys too, like mixing it all together. That would be crazy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Honestly. It was like everyone would have drinks and.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Like everyone was kind of like free forrawling, like yeah,
like no matter what, like if you're drunk or even
be say more.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Exactly, so there was like no boundary.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
That so bad.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I guess people got to get things off their shoulders.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
No, really, is.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
There anyone that you guys were friends with and then
like heard them say something. I know, Jeanette, you didn't
really get roasted, But Mollie, do you remember anyone that
you heard like say something about you? And you were
really like okay, like I do not want you to
be like at of my life anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Not me personally, but like I've seen it. I think
we saw it at one of the pinnings. One of
the girls who was on the panel, a guy roasted
her and like this is so bad. He like went
after her weight, and so after that it was just
like everyone was like screw this guy.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Like that was just.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, that's horrible, horrible, and so yeah, I think and
like then he was like kind of known as like
no one is that guy.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
He's a total loser.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh for sure if you do something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It was yeah, that was like his junior year and
like his senior year was just like like he was
known for that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, he probably had the worst year after that.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Was like a year long of scaries.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, oh my goodness, for sure. Okay, wait, so Jeannette,
you were pinned, right.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I was pinned?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
And are you still with him?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I am not still with him? Okay, So yeah I
was pinned. And just like we were saying, after we
saw like everyone else's we were like, this sounds horrible.
So at the end of the year, when it was
like our turn, last minute, we all were like, f this,
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we can't do this. So we just had like a
hula party and we had like the cheerleaders and like
the guys did like a hula dance and everyone just
blacked out and like we played game.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
So that was like my pinning.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Sounds like a great dive. So you can kind of
decide at your school, you could kind of decide what
you wanted your pinning to be if you didn't want
to do the roast or was that just you just
being like screw this, like I'm doing whatever I want.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, that was kind of me, just like f this.
But they's supposed to be a roast. And so people
were coming and they were like wait what and I
was like, I don't know, but thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Well, I'm happy your pinning was more fun than the
other ones it was. That's great. Well, thank you Mollie
and Jeanette for coming on. It was great talking with
you girls and very interesting learning this aspect of pinning
versus the other ones that I've heard about. So thank
you both, very very much.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yes, you guys, have a great rest of your night,
you too.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Bye bye.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Hey Jack, Hey guys.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So I'm so excited for you to be on this
one because I have not heard about what a pinning
is yet from a guy that was in a fraternity,
so I'm excited to hear your take on it. So
tell us all what a pinning is and if you
ever pinned anyone of course.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
So I need to preface this by saying pinning, can
you mean a lot of different things at a lot
of different schools. Okay, at my school, a pinning is
when a guy and a girl who have been dating
for kind of a long time, like at least a year,
will have their own wedding, if you will. Maybe wedding
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would be a better term for it. But the fraternity
and the sorority will all get together and celebrate these
two people's relationship. But there are some slight differences between
this event and an actual wedding.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, so what are so is it like a sarah
like a ceremony like this girl of pinherd? Does that
mean like like she's like your wife, like you want
to be with her for the rest of your life.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I mean, that's definitely plays into it, But I think
it taps into some more raunchy parts of your guys
relationship rather than the romantic ones. Okay, of course you
celebrate like all of the your guys like romantic like
affections for each other. But the ceremony, maybe I can
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just give a little explanation of what actually happens.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, give us, give us the whole rundown. What happens
when you're there.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Right, So what happens is like any wedding, it'll start
with a bachelor and a bachelor atte party. So the
guy with all of his guy friends will go out,
have a couple of drinks, probably end up over serving themselves,
and especially make sure that whoever's getting married is blacked
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out before you even get to the ceremony. And then
the same thing happens. The same thing happens with the girls.
We'll do their bachelortte party. You'll like take a party
bus with all of your friends, go to a bar,
have a couple of drinks. Make sure that you're loose,
because after you're bouchering a better rupp party. Everyone will
meet up at the sorority house and you're joined by
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like the rest of like your entire fraternity and sorority,
and you'll gather in the courtyard of the sorority and
then there's not really any speeches that go down at
the ceremony. Everyone, everyone in the fraternity sorority starts counting
up to one hundred and for those hundred seconds, whoever's
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getting pinned is just making out in the middle of everyone.
Oh my goodness, right in front of everyone.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
This is it's so funny because we've talked to a
few different people about what pinnings are, and like everyone
has a different take on it, So like do you
did you give a speech about her or anything, or
where you guys were just making out and then it
was like then you're pinned.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
That's kind of how it goes at our school. But
there's a little there's a little more romantic side to it,
like I wrote her a letter and then the whole
idea is that it's supposed to be a surprise for
the bride, if you will, so she won't know that
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like her pinning's happening until a couple hours before.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Okay, So like the other girls have it like set up,
like the party busts and stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Kind of.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah, they plan it all like without her knowing, and
they'll have an event on their social calendar that might
say something like really generic, just like something totally unexpecting,
but everyone knows that it's the pinning except for her,
or at least that's the idea. Of course, you know,
sometimes it'll get spoiled. But yeah, they trick her into
going to a dinner at their sorority because like when
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you're a senior, maybe you don't go to your sorority
house as much. As you did when you were like
lesh and sophomore junior. So that's that. That's like step
one except two us. Once you get him there, one
of their close friends will read them the letter that
I wrote, or that the groom I wrote to his bride.
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So in that letter, you know, there's there's a couple
of sweet notes and then there's a couple there's a
couple of jokes, maybe some things that the bride would
would have rather preferred him keep to himself. But that's
the whole point of it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's so sweet, and you're still with this girl, right
I am? I am okay.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
And funny enough, her parents were dating when they were
in college. Her dad was in a fraternity and her
mom was in a sorority and they had piddings at
their school. It was a little different celebrate and we had.
But her dad refused to get pinned to her mom
(25:08):
because he didn't want to jinx the relationship.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
In no way. That's funny. Well, that's funny that they
like it was like a thing there too. But I
think we have your girl in the waiting room too,
so I think we'll bring her in also, Oh please
do then we can get her side. Well, hey, team, okay,
so now we have Jill in here with us. So
jail Jack was just telling me all about the pinnings
(25:34):
on like his side and how they all looked like. So,
I'm curious, did you know when you were gonna get
pinned that it happened, or that it was happening or no.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
So I heard some rumors, but essentially kind of It's
supposed to be entirely a surprise.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
But a lot of people wound up surprising me.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Right after I got back from a little movie night
at Jack's, came in and the entire apartment was decorated
with like a bunch of different hearts, and everybody else celebrated,
and then we went to our favorite frozen yogurt spot
in Los Angeles, so Jack and all the girls for
a little bachelorette party, And then I got some good sleep,
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and it was the next day.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
But it was totally a surprise and it was lots
of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I love that, So were you, Like we heard about
the like making now in front of the whole sorority fraternity.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
But I wish I could tell you all the details.
But to be quite frank, if anybody has to do
that you're not supposed to remember parts of it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Say you were pretty tuned up, yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
But no, it was awesome. We were all in a
circle and thankfully there was another.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Couple that could steal the show with us, so they
were in the circle and we all counted to you
one hundred and I have video proof if you'd like
to see.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Did yes send in the video? Did a lot did
a lot of your friends get pinned?
Speaker 8 (27:02):
I'd say so it was. It's a very fun tradition.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Like freshman year, I remember our first pinning and it's
just this crazy event. And by senior year it's normal
and some of your other friends are getting pinned too.
Funny enough, this tradition has actually been a thing for
a long time.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
My grandparents were actually pinned. But back in the.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Day they pass their letters to the girl, so like
they get a little pin of letters.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
But by senior year, a lot of our friends to
get pinned. So it's super cool.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So did you like, did you call your grandparents and
were you like I got pinned?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
They?
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Essentially I think it was very different.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Truly, theirs is a super cute little pin passing.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Yeah, a dance around. It was very wholesome. However, nowadays
it's a lot different.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
You know, I was on back shoulders, we signed a beam,
we kissed for one hundred seconds.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
It's a lot different, but it's definitely definitely a party.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, it sounds like a great time. Honestly, maybe I
think they should do pinnings everywhere if they're that fun.
And how long have you guys been together?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Just under a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I love that. Well, congrats to you guys. I hope
you're pinning last forever. This is a great spot to pause.
We had so many callers that called in, and I
definitely want to get to more. So we'll be back
with more on Dirty Rush.
Welcome to Dirty Rush, The Truth about Sorority Life with
your hosts me Gia Judice.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Kessler. Hi, guys, We're back with
another episode of Dirty Rush, and today I'm going to
be talking all about sorority pinning ceremonies. I personally never
went through a sorority pinning ceremony, so I do not
know one hundred percent what it's all about. But we
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are going to have a lot of guests today to
talk to us about everything that it is and everything
that it entails, and I'm sure we'll hear some really
good stories as well along with those. So if I
were to think of what a pinning was, going back
to my sorority days, I know I got pinned, but
it was like when I was getting initiated. Then I
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got pinned to be in my sorority. But the pinning
that we're talking about today is actually I think this
is what it is, so people can correct me if
I'm wrong. But when a guy in a fraternity wants
to like be with you forever and so then it's
like this huge ceremony. I've heard that some schools like
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we're all white and then the girl gets pinned and
it's parents. Basically like before an engagement comes. So you
get pinned and then you get engaged. I guess I'm
not really sure how it all works out, but that's
my understanding of it. So we're gonna talk to some
people and see what it's all about. I know, so
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I know a few girls my age who had them
at their school, but besides that, I had never heard
about this or knew it was a thing. So I'm
interested to talk to these people and see what they say.
It's all about. Hi, Jennifer, Why, Okay, So I'm so
excited to have you on this episode. We heard that
you have a pinning ceremony that had happened, and you
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went to one and experienced one.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I had.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I was in a sorority, but I actually experienced a pinning.
So I think it's when like a guy really likes
a girl, he pins her and then they like get
engaged or something. But can you let us know what
your experience was.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, so I didn't know the girl super well. She
was an upperclassman at the time. I was an underclassman. Okay,
because I was an underclassman, we were told that we
had to go to this, so we didn't make a
lot of choice in the matter. I don't even know
if these people ended up getting engaged, but it's pretty strange.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
It's like.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The entire frat house came out. Oh, all presented her
with a single rose.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, like all of them handed her a rose.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
While singing, and then eventually she had a giant bouquet
of roses and he pinned her with his fraternity pin
and we were all outside. I don't know why I
had to be there. We were just kind of like
supporting her and like we had it all.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Be there, Yeah, just so she wasn't like alone standing there.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, it was like a giant gaggle of girls just
standing there watching men bring up single flowers and singing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Do you know, like how long they have been dating before?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I think like a year? You know nothing, okay, your
college sweethearts. I do not remember the exact song that
they sang. I think it may have been like top
gun you've lost that love and feeling, which wouldn't make
any sense in context.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Right, So were there a lot of girls in your
sorority throughout college that got pinned?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I mean I believe there was like at least one
a year that got.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Pinned, and so if you get pinned, it's like that's
basically like their proposing kind of.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think, I don't know, it's so heteronormative and strange.
It's like a light proposal. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
That's so funny. Do you know if they like, did
she wear the pin or out?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
No, I don't think so. She only wore it when
she was pinned. And then I do remember that we
all had to be in black.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That was very o you all had to be in black? Yes, okay?
Was she in white or black?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
No, she wasn't black as well.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Sounds like a funeral.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I'm not sure if it was a promise ring but
a promise pined Like I don't know, you know, I wasn't.
I didn't go to college to get married, so I'm
not sure.
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Like I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah, if this was like.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
A pro I feel like most people don't. I feel
like a lot of people now like they like find
their person in college. But yeah, I'm also like, isn't
everyone's like away from home and like figuring things out.
So M just also like it's funny because like you
didn't even like really know the girl you said, and
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I'm like, I don't think i'd want people there who
I didn't know that well, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Mean I'm not sure what you're experience and a sorority
was like, I have no regrets in being involved. I
just found that when we were supposed to treat all
one hundred and eighty girls that were in it as
one big friend group, it was kind of strange because, yeah,
I don't have one hundred and eighty close friends.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no, that's so true. It's like when you're in it,
I feel like it's like this like sisterhood thing. But
then like when I think about it right now, I'm like,
I would not want one hundred and eighty girls that
I barely knew at my boddy.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I mean I have like ten really good girlfriends that
I made from it, and then I have like, you know,
a satellite group of a few others that I stay, Yeah,
I'm friendly with, but I'm not best friends with one
hundred and eighty girls. Correct.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, that's kind of how mine is too. I don't
regret doing it at all either. I had such a
great experience and it was so fun, but yeah, it
is funny those like little things like that. Wow, I
really wonder if that couples together.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Still, I don't care perfonally, I am sorry that sounds bitchy, No,
not at all. I mean I think I was just
told that I had to be there because I was
an underclassman and they needed bodies, yeah, throughout the situation, which,
like I don't really know why they needed a giant
gaggle of girls standing on steps watching a girl get roses.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yeah, that is so true. It is funny all those
little things. And also like I wonder, like is it
planned ahead of time? Do you know, like how ahead
of time do people know that, like she's gonna get pinned?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So I think, okay, I might be like misremembering this,
but I'm pretty sure that the pin eat is in
the dark. They don't know what's coming. They're told that
they have to be at the house for a special event,
and we're black. Oh wow for the story that I
was in, So I think it was a surprise. But
then when I heard she kind of knew it was coming.
And you know, obviously when a giant group of men
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start singing at you and giving you flowers, like you know,
something's going to happen to.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You, Oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I mean hopefully it's just getting pinned.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Uh, But like I kind of love the like thrill
of that, like not knowing if it's you.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah. This was in the aughts, late outs, like midats,
so not recently. But my my younger sister did get pinned.
And she's ten years younger than me, so.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh no way. Yeah, is she still with the guy?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
They got married?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, they are married.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
They got married last year.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh my goodness, that's amazing.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, But like it's funny because I don't really think
that that was her style. I think they were just
you know, at the Yeah, but they're they're really cute couple.
I wasn't there for that because I obviously wasn't in
school at that time.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So did she like get pinned and then get engaged.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
No, No, she got pinned, was with him for like
an additional five years, then got engaged.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Okay, so it was like two separate.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It wasn't really a formal pre engagement type of situation
with her at all.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I feel like back in the day it probably was
a pre engagement, but I don't know, you.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Know, Yeah, I'm sure, like depending on the school and
like the situation too, it's probably different.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, well this is southern California, like USC. So okay,
I feel like in I don't were you in like
a southern sorority or were you in what what area?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I went to San Diego State.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Okay, God, this is southern California as well.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like southern.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Ones probably do it a little different or you know,
everyone's got their own flavor.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh for sure. Well, thank you so much for coming on.
It was great to talk to you, Jennifer. Okay, everyone,
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we have Jeanette and Mollie. Hi you guys.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So I'm curious to hear your experience about the whole
like pinning situation. For me, my understanding was it. A
pinning for a sorority is when a fraternity I really
likes her basically wants to get engaged to her and
they get pinned. But tell me from your guys's experience,
what it is.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
I mean, that's like it, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But it's like at our school, it was just like
a huge roast pretty much, and.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
It was oh no way, it was like.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
One big roast and then yeah, like usually it was
a couple, so whoever's like been dating for a while,
it's like a big deal at the end, like you're
gonna have a pinning and it's originally it was like
you're supposed to like pin your frat pin on the girl,
and it's like this whole big thing, and I think
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that's how it started. And then as the years went
on and like it just became like this whole entire,
huge roast battle.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Between the girls.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
She has like a panel, so it would be like,
I don't know, like five girls her roommates usually, and
then they have like five guys and then they would
kind of go through and roast the girls would roast
the guys, and then they would roast the couple.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Uh okay, yeah, So would it always be like just
the girls roasting the guy or would the guys roast
the girls too?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So the guys would they would first roast the guys
and then they would go down and do all the girls.
So you would have.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Like some roommates who are like they're like, oh, we're
like super good friends, You're my best friend, but and
then be this like horrible, like not funny, rude.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Roast about like the girl like they're ing.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
So it would be like, hey, sister, I love you
so much, but and then it would be like you
have no personality and you're super annoying. And that was
like fully, like we were in the audience and we
heard that, and we were like, that's just not funny.
It's just like you have to go home together and
you're still roommates.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Do you have like any particular ones that were like
crazy that you remember.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
So there was one that we saw and it was
a girl talking to her best friend and she was like, Hey,
you're like my best friend, but you don't have any
other friends and I'm your only friend and you're so
annoying or like it was something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh my goodness, Yeah, that's like so sad. And when
you were like picked, did you guys ever have to
do the roast?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
So the one that we weren't, I was the.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
MC, so I was like leading it and I would
be like next up is this person?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
And I would just say like the lightest not even rude,
like hey whatever. Molly was the one who was on the.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Panel, Okay, what was your experience, Mollie.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So leading up to it, we were when I like
had to be on this panel. I was like, one,
this is really scary, and I don't want to do
this because you're in front of a whole group of
people and this is really scary. So Janette, my girl,
gave me a little anxiety pill because I was super
anxious and I was like freaking out.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I don't want to be roasted whatever.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Like I got a chill, yeah, I needed to chill.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And then I was also sick, so I also like
had some day quill and I had some musin X
and then I was like, well to really like I
I don't want to be nervous. I'm going to take
shots too.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So I was so.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Hammered and I don't remember any of it, but I
do remember I was hooking up with this guy and
I also hooked up with his little and so pretty
much the whole roast was like you hooked up with
this guy's little and yeah, that was pretty humiliating. I
got some Some guys were like I got roasted on
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being like loud and annoying, and I'm like, sorry, I'm fun.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't know. Yeah, honestly, this just sounds kind of evil.
It was evil, like who came up with this.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I don't know, but they used to be like super
romantic and it would be like it was like so
beautiful and they would have like their candles and it
was like it was like all for the couple. But
now it is like a total crap. Shoot, you don't
even say anything nice about like the they'll say at
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like the last second, they'll be like blah blah blah
blah blah, saying all this mean stuff and then they'll
be like, but you guys are the best.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Also, I feel like college is already like a hard
like enough time, like you don't need that on top
of it. But whose idea is it to like get pinned?
Is it the guy or the girl?
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Then?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Like who's like I want to be roasted with my friends?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
For me?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
All of my friends and my boyfriend's friends wanted to
do it, so they were like, okay, I have one.
I did not want it because I was like that
sounds like my personal hell. And so that was how
that started. But we were going to do ours like
later in the year, and so everyone was having theirs,
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like one after the other, yeah, and they were just
getting like worse and worse, like they just it wasn't cute.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
See, it wasn't levy.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It was just like a hard watch and they were
like two hours.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah that sounds horrible.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, yeah, it honestly was like it was terrible. There
was there was like.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
War, yeah, yeah, I mean I'm sure people learned like
a lot of.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Tea though, Yeah, a lot of tea.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, lot of t I'm sure there was a lot
of drama afterwards too.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Oh yeah, how could they're not me?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
We had so we would have when we would have
like an ivy man or I was in Alpha Fia
at San Diego, say, and so we would pick like
the like top like favorite five guys from like each
fraternity or whatever, and they would come in and compete
for Ivyman. And one of the things was a roast
and they had to like sit in front of all
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of us and then people could like ask them whatever
questions they want or like interrogate them. And I remember
one of them was like so bad. I was like
this is horrible. I feel so bad for this guy.
I want to leave, and then like everyone and ended
up apologizing to him after. And it was like this
huge ordeal because I was like this is horrible.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
It's like at what costs? Like best case.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Scenario, what you're the ivy man, Like I know, right,
I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I can't imagine like girls going at girls though, and
guys too, like mixing it all together. That would be crazy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Honestly. It was like everyone would have drinks and.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Like everyone was kind of like free forrawling, like yeah,
like no matter what, like if you're drunk or even
be say more.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Exactly, so there was like no boundary.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
That so bad.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I guess people got to get things off their shoulders.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
No, really, is.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
There anyone that you guys were friends with and then
like heard them say something. I know, Jeanette, you didn't
really get roasted, But Mollie, do you remember anyone that
you heard like say something about you? And you were
really like okay, like I do not want you to
be like at of my life anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Not me personally, but like I've seen it. I think
we saw it at one of the pinnings. One of
the girls who was on the panel, a guy roasted
her and like this is so bad. He like went
after her weight, and so after that it was just
like everyone was like screw this guy.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Like that was just.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, that's horrible, horrible, and so yeah, I think and
like then he was like kind of known as like
no one is that guy.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
He's a total loser.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh for sure if you do something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
It was yeah, that was like his junior year and
like his senior year was just like like he was
known for that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, he probably had the worst year after that.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Was like a year long of scaries.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah, oh my goodness, for sure. Okay, wait, so Jeannette,
you were pinned, right.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I was pinned?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
And are you still with him?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I am not still with him? Okay, So yeah I
was pinned. And just like we were saying, after we
saw like everyone else's we were like, this sounds horrible.
So at the end of the year, when it was
like our turn, last minute, we all were like, f this,
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we can't do this. So we just had like a
hula party and we had like the cheerleaders and like
the guys did like a hula dance and everyone just
blacked out and like we played game.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
So that was like my pinning.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Sounds like a great dive. So you can kind of
decide at your school, you could kind of decide what
you wanted your pinning to be if you didn't want
to do the roast or was that just you just
being like screw this, like I'm doing whatever I want.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, that was kind of me, just like f this.
But they's supposed to be a roast. And so people
were coming and they were like wait what and I
was like, I don't know, but thanks for coming.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Well, I'm happy your pinning was more fun than the
other ones it was. That's great. Well, thank you Mollie
and Jeanette for coming on. It was great talking with
you girls and very interesting learning this aspect of pinning
versus the other ones that I've heard about. So thank
you both, very very much.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yes, you guys, have a great rest of your night,
you too.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Bye bye.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Hey Jack, Hey guys.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So I'm so excited for you to be on this
one because I have not heard about what a pinning
is yet from a guy that was in a fraternity,
so I'm excited to hear your take on it. So
tell us all what a pinning is and if you
ever pinned anyone of course.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
So I need to preface this by saying pinning, can
you mean a lot of different things at a lot
of different schools. Okay, at my school, a pinning is
when a guy and a girl who have been dating
for kind of a long time, like at least a year,
will have their own wedding, if you will. Maybe wedding
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would be a better term for it. But the fraternity
and the sorority will all get together and celebrate these
two people's relationship. But there are some slight differences between
this event and an actual wedding.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, so what are so is it like a sarah
like a ceremony like this girl of pinherd? Does that
mean like like she's like your wife, like you want
to be with her for the rest of your life.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I mean, that's definitely plays into it, But I think
it taps into some more raunchy parts of your guys
relationship rather than the romantic ones. Okay, of course you
celebrate like all of the your guys like romantic like
affections for each other. But the ceremony, maybe I can
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just give a little explanation of what actually happens.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Yeah, give us, give us the whole rundown. What happens
when you're there.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Right, So what happens is like any wedding, it'll start
with a bachelor and a bachelor atte party. So the
guy with all of his guy friends will go out,
have a couple of drinks, probably end up over serving themselves,
and especially make sure that whoever's getting married is blacked
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out before you even get to the ceremony. And then
the same thing happens. The same thing happens with the girls.
We'll do their bachelortte party. You'll like take a party
bus with all of your friends, go to a bar,
have a couple of drinks. Make sure that you're loose,
because after you're bouchering a better rupp party. Everyone will
meet up at the sorority house and you're joined by
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like the rest of like your entire fraternity and sorority,
and you'll gather in the courtyard of the sorority and
then there's not really any speeches that go down at
the ceremony. Everyone, everyone in the fraternity sorority starts counting
up to one hundred and for those hundred seconds, whoever's
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getting pinned is just making out in the middle of everyone.
Oh my goodness, right in front of everyone.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
This is it's so funny because we've talked to a
few different people about what pinnings are, and like everyone
has a different take on it, So like do you
did you give a speech about her or anything, or
where you guys were just making out and then it
was like then you're pinned.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
That's kind of how it goes at our school. But
there's a little there's a little more romantic side to it,
like I wrote her a letter and then the whole
idea is that it's supposed to be a surprise for
the bride, if you will, so she won't know that
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like her pinning's happening until a couple hours before.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Okay, So like the other girls have it like set up,
like the party busts and stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Kind of.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah, they plan it all like without her knowing, and
they'll have an event on their social calendar that might
say something like really generic, just like something totally unexpecting,
but everyone knows that it's the pinning except for her,
or at least that's the idea. Of course, you know,
sometimes it'll get spoiled. But yeah, they trick her into
going to a dinner at their sorority because like when
(24:01):
you're a senior, maybe you don't go to your sorority
house as much. As you did when you were like
lesh and sophomore junior. So that's that. That's like step
one except two us. Once you get him there, one
of their close friends will read them the letter that
I wrote, or that the groom I wrote to his bride.
(24:22):
So in that letter, you know, there's there's a couple
of sweet notes and then there's a couple there's a
couple of jokes, maybe some things that the bride would
would have rather preferred him keep to himself. But that's
the whole point of it.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's so sweet, and you're still with this girl, right
I am? I am okay.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
And funny enough, her parents were dating when they were
in college. Her dad was in a fraternity and her
mom was in a sorority and they had piddings at
their school. It was a little different celebrate and we had.
But her dad refused to get pinned to her mom
(25:08):
because he didn't want to jinx the relationship.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
In no way. That's funny. Well, that's funny that they
like it was like a thing there too. But I
think we have your girl in the waiting room too,
so I think we'll bring her in also, Oh please
do then we can get her side. Well, hey, team, okay,
so now we have Jill in here with us. So
jail Jack was just telling me all about the pinnings
(25:34):
on like his side and how they all looked like. So,
I'm curious, did you know when you were gonna get
pinned that it happened, or that it was happening or no.
Speaker 9 (25:43):
So I heard some rumors, but essentially kind of It's
supposed to be entirely a surprise.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
But a lot of people wound up surprising me.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Right after I got back from a little movie night
at Jack's, came in and the entire apartment was decorated
with like a bunch of different hearts, and everybody else celebrated,
and then we went to our favorite frozen yogurt spot
in Los Angeles, so Jack and all the girls for
a little bachelorette party, And then I got some good sleep,
(26:15):
and it was the next day.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
But it was totally a surprise and it was lots
of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I love that, So were you, Like we heard about
the like making now in front of the whole sorority fraternity.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
But I wish I could tell you all the details.
But to be quite frank, if anybody has to do
that you're not supposed to remember parts of it.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Say you were pretty tuned up, yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:40):
But no, it was awesome. We were all in a
circle and thankfully there was another.
Speaker 9 (26:46):
Couple that could steal the show with us, so they
were in the circle and we all counted to you
one hundred and I have video proof if you'd like
to see.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Did yes send in the video? Did a lot did
a lot of your friends get pinned?
Speaker 8 (27:02):
I'd say so it was. It's a very fun tradition.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Like freshman year, I remember our first pinning and it's
just this crazy event. And by senior year it's normal
and some of your other friends are getting pinned too.
Funny enough, this tradition has actually been a thing for
a long time.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
My grandparents were actually pinned. But back in the.
Speaker 9 (27:24):
Day they pass their letters to the girl, so like
they get a little pin of letters.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
But by senior year, a lot of our friends to
get pinned. So it's super cool.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So did you like, did you call your grandparents and
were you like I got pinned?
Speaker 7 (27:40):
They?
Speaker 8 (27:41):
Essentially I think it was very different.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Truly, theirs is a super cute little pin passing.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
Yeah, a dance around. It was very wholesome. However, nowadays
it's a lot different.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
You know, I was on back shoulders, we signed a beam,
we kissed for one hundred seconds.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
It's a lot different, but it's definitely definitely a party.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Well, it sounds like a great time. Honestly, maybe I
think they should do pinnings everywhere if they're that fun.
And how long have you guys been together?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Just under a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I love that. Well, congrats to you guys. I hope
you're pinning last forever. This is a great spot to pause.
We had so many callers that called in, and I
definitely want to get to more. So we'll be back
with more on Dirty Rush.
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