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♪ Delta is the one for me! ♪

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So I just have a couple
of thoughts regarding

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this supposed HBO Max
documentary on Bama Rush.

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Okay, you guys, we have
more tea coming through about,

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is someone filming
Rush this year?

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I have gotten a couple
of reports...

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They haven't went up
against this college yet,

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and I'm telling you,
you don't want to

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go up against
the University of Alabama.

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Not to be dramatic,
but this HBO special

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could be the end of Greek life
as we know it.

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-Hey, y'all.
-Hey, y'all.

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Hey, welcome to day one
of Rush week.

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We're getting ready to rush.

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Like, look at the people
already starting to line up.

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Love it!

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Is anybody else way too old
and has too many kids

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to be this invested in
Bama Rush TikTok?

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Like, if Katie
does not get the Delta Zeta bid,

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she is going to be devastated.

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I've never smoked crystal meth,
but this is how I would imagine

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one would feel on
a 72-hour crystal meth binge.

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This is officially
becoming a problem.

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This is me, two days after
watching Bama Rush Tok.

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Bama Rush sisterhood
day one OOTD.

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Jewelry is from
Vivienne Westwood, Tiffany.

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You know the vibes.

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Blouse is from --

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We did it. We did it, Joe.

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I have been picking my outfits
since January. January.

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And my shoes are Dolce Vita.

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-These earrings from --
-Amazon.

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I think I'm gonna be
different than everyone else.

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Wish us luck. Roll Tide.

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I'm gonna ask for y'all to
pray for me.

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They are doing the Lord's work.

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I'm losing it!

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Roll Tide.

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Hi!

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Got my little finger on it,

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and I think
it's my acceptance thing,

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but I don't really know --
or acceptance or decline

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or whatever it is.

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Really scared.

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I'm shaking really bad.

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Pretty emotional day
there when we got that, so...

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-Oh!
-Oh, my gosh!

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Stops here.

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Oh.

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Those are all
my Alabama T-shirts,

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so the obsession is real.

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Gotta love it.

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I've had these since, some of
them, like, freshman year.

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I'm not even 100%
sure how she found it,

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but once she found it,
she was in 100%.

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She knew it's where
she wanted to be.

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She's our first person
in the family

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to do a full four-year college,

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so excited for her
for that, too.

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I can tell a million people
that I'll be going

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to the University of Alabama,
and they'll be like,

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"You're totally meant
to go there.

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She's so bubbly
and outgoing, like,

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she definitely needs to be
in a sorority."

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Alabama hair ties.

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Three people,
three different people

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decided to give me these
for Christmas, 'cause they know.

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Probably the part of my life
that I am most proud of

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is my adoption story.

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So I was adopted
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and I started
a nonprofit organization

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called Fostering Hope
where I help foster children

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and foster families
in the state of Illinois,

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and that's something
that I'm super proud of,

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but that's just
a little bit about me.

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Let's be honest,
I probably would not be going

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to the University of Alabama
if it did not blow up on TikTok.

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Just because I saw it so much,
so I looked into the school.

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Being in a sorority
will kind of help me figure out

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who I want to be,
help me be surrounded by people

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that will always have my back,
no matter what.

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I've always needed a thing
to be a part of, like,

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as part of my identity.

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It's been really hard
for me to find, like,

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a sense of, like, you know,
self-worth

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or, like, pride in something
because I feel like

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I don't really know
who I am, you know?

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Not like this.

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I remember doing a tequila shot
with this DILF.

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You had a fuckin' hard hat on.

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-Ally?
-Yes?

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I'm so sorry for
whatever I did last night.

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-You actually weren't that bad.
-Was I not?

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Okay, I actually
want to be president.

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So I'm gonna, like,

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work my way up
in the governmental system.

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I think I'm gonna be, like,
a governmental lawyer,

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like, something on that track.

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I'm not, like, 100% sure
what I do to get there yet.

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Can you tell us how many jobs
you're working right now?

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I work at a nutrition shop,
so, like, Herbalife,

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and then I also work
at a tanning salon.

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Oh, my therapist also called me
a workaholic.

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I was like, "Whatever, girl.
At least I work."

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"Hayley --"
or for like, Miss USA,

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if I, like, won Miss Alabama,

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I'd be like, "Hayley Holliday,
Miss Alabama."

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I did pageants
like at 18 months old.

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Walking on the stage is the best
feeling in the whole wide world.

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I get a high off of winning.

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We're walking to our retreat.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Look at our retreat.

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I got into my sorority.
Like, I was living the dream.

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This was, like,
everything I've ever wanted.

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Like, I was, like, in the
sorority with my, like, sisters

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and I had friends,

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and then I wore
the wrong sorority sticker

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and got dropped.

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-For wearing a sticker?
-Yes.

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For wearing
another sorority sticker.

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Like, I would rather a guy
tell me that I was ugly

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than get dropped by a sorority.

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I was so humbled.

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I thought those people
were my very best friends.

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Like, this was my home,
this was where I belonged.

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And it does scare me going into,
like, next year's Rush.

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-Oh.
-'Sup?

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Oh, probably 9:30
would be better.

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What time are we waking up?

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-Huh?
-I don't know.

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I've actually been going to
class this week.

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I'm actually in a really good
mood today.

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Very rare for me.

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I feel like I didn't rush
freshman year

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because I need
to find my place here.

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When I first moved here, like,
it was just all, like, too much.

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But I do regret not rushing.
I did feel really left out.

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When did you know you wanted
to be in criminal justice?

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Well...

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when I was in high school,

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I really wanted to be a coroner.

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I was very weird.

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I got interested
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'cause my dad
was a police officer.

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I was 13
when my dad passed away,

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so I was in seventh grade.

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Yeah.

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He would be glad I'm here,
but I don't know about rushing.

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He has always wanted to keep me

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in a little bubble
and protect me.

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Sororities really started along
with co-education.

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In 1883, a professor at Harvard

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wrote a book called
"Sex in Education."

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The basis of his argument
is that if women studied,

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then the blood would go to their
brains and not their ovaries,

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and that they would shrivel up
and -- and the women would die.

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Imagine it's in this environment

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that these women
are going to college,

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and in the face of that,
they're coming together

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to form these early sororities.

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The emphasis was very much
on showing that women

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could succeed
in higher education.

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They were feminists in many ways
before that was a word.

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And into the early 1910s,

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more and more women
are coming to campus.

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The first generation has proven
that they're successful.

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In the second generation,

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the sororities become
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on socializing,
and on showing that they are

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the best representatives
of true womanhood on campus.

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The whole notion of Rush came

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because they were rushing
to show themselves

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as the best sororities on campus
to attract the best members.

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They would meet the trains
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were taking to get to campus,

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literally whisking them off
and trying to woo and win over

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the best members
of the new class.

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So this is my Rush binder,
because I have OCD,

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so it's just going to be
organized by each sorority,

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with each recruitment letter,

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and then I'm probably
gonna have a mock-up

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of my recruitment letter of
how I'll send it out

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to each person in here as well.

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I'm definitely going to do
Google slides of my outfits,

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and I'm gonna have them
pre-planned and packed

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in a separate bag,

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so that way, if I still need
to unpack some stuff

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after my parents leave
or while I'm rushing,

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like, at night time,
I can unpack that,

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but I want to have all
my Rush stuff ready to go.

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When did you know you wanted
to be in a sorority at Alabama?

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Yes, so I started watching
Gracie O'Connor,

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who's on YouTube.

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It made me want
to go there even more.

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She was like,
so adorable and fun,

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and I was like,
that looks like so much fun

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and I want that.

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Here it is.
It's my final look.

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Got this super cute
tassel earrings,

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bracelets, and the necklace.

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When Bama Rush Tok blew up,

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you know, I had plenty
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"Don't forget the OG,
Gracie O'Connor."

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And I'm like, me?

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At the University of Alabama,

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Rush consists of four
highly competitive rounds

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that give sororities
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the chance to make
the best possible impression

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on one another.

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And during these rounds,

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the sororities vote
on their top PNMs,

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and the PNMs vote
on their top sororities.

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They're trying to find
the perfect match.

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Basically what happens
is there's multiple girls

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that gets to talk to one PNM.

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That amount of girls
will get to vote on her.

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If she gets high enough votes
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then she'll come back.

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Over the course of the week,

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the girls return to
fewer and fewer sororities,

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whether they were dropped
or chose to drop

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certain sororities
along the way.

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Active members are
looking for girls

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that we can see futures in

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and that are going to, like,
literally uphold our chapter

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and make us better
in all aspects,

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whether that be grades or, like,

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how we present ourselves
to the universe.

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If you're not meeting
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you'll kind of just be dropped.

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After the final round,
PNMs choose their top sorority

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and the sororities select
their new pledge class.

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It comes down to, like,
crunch time, and no one wants

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to make any decisions
on anybody's girl,

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but someone has to.

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And so we're just, like,
crying through the process.

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Like, it's never easy.

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That part sucks.

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It's way more dramatic
than you're thinking it is.

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Like, it's way...

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And I'm not going to tell you
how hard it is.

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I'm so sorry. I can't.

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This all leads up to Bid Day.

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The PNMs meet at
Bryant-Denny Stadium

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and open envelopes containing
the name of the sorority

249
00:13:36,983 --> 00:13:38,234
that they've been
invited to join,

250
00:13:38,318 --> 00:13:40,278
and hopefully,
it's their top choice.

251
00:13:40,362 --> 00:13:42,364
After the PNMs
open their invitations,

252
00:13:42,405 --> 00:13:44,240
they run back
to their forever home

253
00:13:44,282 --> 00:13:46,534
with the new sisters
in their pledge class.

254
00:13:48,203 --> 00:13:50,955
Rush has gotten so competitive
over the past decade

255
00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:53,416
that I really saw a need
for our services

256
00:13:53,458 --> 00:13:57,045
and what we do to help
prepare girls to go through Rush

257
00:13:57,128 --> 00:14:00,465
and hopefully get them
into the house of their dreams.

258
00:14:00,548 --> 00:14:04,219
I remember when we were going
through recruitment at Georgia,

259
00:14:04,260 --> 00:14:06,846
we would all be looking
at what Alabama was doing.

260
00:14:06,930 --> 00:14:09,099
Yeah, they're just
the trend setters.

261
00:14:09,182 --> 00:14:10,892
And I think that's why so many
out-of-state girls

262
00:14:10,934 --> 00:14:13,144
decide to go to the
University of Alabama and Rush.

263
00:14:13,228 --> 00:14:18,066
It's just this beast,
because Greek life is

264
00:14:18,149 --> 00:14:20,151
everything at Alabama.

265
00:14:20,235 --> 00:14:24,114
The University of Alabama
is the top sorority recruitment

266
00:14:24,197 --> 00:14:26,616
in all of the country,
and it's a huge school

267
00:14:26,658 --> 00:14:28,159
with tons of money
rolling into it

268
00:14:28,243 --> 00:14:29,953
for their football program.

269
00:14:29,994 --> 00:14:31,955
The girls are, like,
glammed to the gods.

270
00:14:31,996 --> 00:14:34,791
It sucks you in.

271
00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:37,085
Rush at
the University of Alabama

272
00:14:37,168 --> 00:14:39,671
traditionally
has kind of a bad rap.

273
00:14:39,754 --> 00:14:41,965
It's kind of
a cutthroat process.

274
00:14:42,048 --> 00:14:45,343
It's just uniquely,
uniquely Alabama,

275
00:14:45,427 --> 00:14:48,304
which doesn't really make
much sense, but...

276
00:14:50,473 --> 00:14:53,685
I'm still holding out
that we're gonna be able

277
00:14:53,768 --> 00:14:54,978
to get into those houses.

278
00:14:55,020 --> 00:14:55,979
What do you think?

279
00:14:56,021 --> 00:14:58,314
Oh. Probably not.

280
00:14:58,398 --> 00:15:01,651
Getting inside those houses
is like, absolutely not.

281
00:15:01,693 --> 00:15:04,362
They're very protective of it,
and rightfully so,

282
00:15:04,446 --> 00:15:08,783
because of the misconceptions
that people want to expose,

283
00:15:08,825 --> 00:15:10,493
like, these sorority secrets.

284
00:15:12,996 --> 00:15:15,123
Hey, who are you filming for?

285
00:15:15,165 --> 00:15:18,710
Okay, ma'am, I'm going to have
to ask you to, like, leave.

286
00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:25,175
Tell me more about
what you hope

287
00:15:25,216 --> 00:15:27,510
to get out of
being in a sorority?

288
00:15:27,594 --> 00:15:31,014
I've had a really hard time
finding someone

289
00:15:31,056 --> 00:15:33,016
that can love me
no matter what.

290
00:15:33,058 --> 00:15:35,393
I have, like, my friends
from school who love

291
00:15:35,477 --> 00:15:39,147
the, like, crazy fun,
sneaking into school at midnight

292
00:15:39,189 --> 00:15:41,566
and jumping in the pool
kind of girl.

293
00:15:41,649 --> 00:15:46,321
And then there's my family,
who loves the sweet and caring

294
00:15:46,363 --> 00:15:49,199
and, you know,
really involved person.

295
00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:53,495
And I feel like no one knows
me fully and loves me fully,

296
00:15:53,536 --> 00:15:55,830
and I feel like
that's really something

297
00:15:55,872 --> 00:15:57,707
I want with these girls.

298
00:16:58,226 --> 00:16:59,769
You know what? Let's just go.

299
00:17:02,522 --> 00:17:05,108
Weird?
Why you being weird to me?

300
00:17:05,191 --> 00:17:07,027
You said you
wanted to get married.

301
00:17:07,110 --> 00:17:08,611
"When I say that?"

302
00:17:08,695 --> 00:17:12,157
♪ When you had the leg up,
up, up, up ♪

303
00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,783
I have a serious question
for, like, everyone,

304
00:17:13,867 --> 00:17:15,452
and everyone has to answer this.

305
00:17:15,535 --> 00:17:17,287
If you were a fruit, what kind
of fruit would you be and why?

306
00:17:17,328 --> 00:17:19,164
I would be a strawberry.

307
00:17:19,247 --> 00:17:20,457
-Why a strawberry?
-I don't know.

308
00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,959
I just -- everybody
loves strawberries

309
00:17:23,043 --> 00:17:24,419
and I just, like,
want to be loved

310
00:17:24,502 --> 00:17:26,504
by everybody, because
I low-key, like, see --

311
00:17:26,588 --> 00:17:29,758
Like, I don't like
when people don't like me.

312
00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:31,468
Makayla, what about you?

313
00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:33,720
A watermelon.

314
00:17:33,803 --> 00:17:35,221
Why?

315
00:17:35,305 --> 00:17:38,141
Because I act hard
on the outside,

316
00:17:38,183 --> 00:17:40,977
but I'm soft on the inside.

317
00:17:41,019 --> 00:17:43,355
Aww.

318
00:17:44,481 --> 00:17:47,025
'Cause, I mean,
I moved out at 16, so...

319
00:17:47,108 --> 00:17:49,027
as soon as my dad died, I...

320
00:17:49,110 --> 00:17:50,320
...hit the hay.

321
00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:52,489
I think that's why
we also bond, too,

322
00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:54,366
because we're missing our dads.

323
00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:57,869
Trauma bond!

324
00:18:02,665 --> 00:18:06,336
This hill!

325
00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:07,504
Dang!

326
00:18:07,545 --> 00:18:10,590
There's some fresh bodies
over here.

327
00:18:10,674 --> 00:18:14,177
Why are we seeing
my dad's grave on Halloween?

328
00:18:14,219 --> 00:18:16,054
Why?

329
00:18:16,137 --> 00:18:20,183
Oh, my gosh.
Your dad's grave is so pretty.

330
00:18:20,225 --> 00:18:23,186
My dad loved his job so much.

331
00:18:23,228 --> 00:18:26,398
Everyone talks about
how he was the best police.

332
00:18:26,481 --> 00:18:29,567
My dad would even give
my mom tickets.

333
00:18:29,651 --> 00:18:33,029
He was serious about the ticket.
He liked to mess with her a lot.

334
00:18:33,113 --> 00:18:35,156
My dad was such a jokester.

335
00:18:35,198 --> 00:18:41,496
Like, yeah, so he was,
like...I don't know.

336
00:18:42,872 --> 00:18:46,668
It just is exhausting
having to hold everything in.

337
00:18:46,710 --> 00:18:50,213
-You don't have to.
-That's how I was raised.

338
00:18:50,255 --> 00:18:51,548
I know.
I was raised the same way.

339
00:18:51,589 --> 00:18:53,174
But me and Abby are
always here for you.

340
00:18:53,216 --> 00:18:55,343
Yeah.

341
00:18:55,385 --> 00:18:58,638
I'm just a very,
like, to myself person

342
00:18:58,722 --> 00:19:00,557
about this kind of stuff.

343
00:19:43,308 --> 00:19:45,310
Whoo! Whoo!

344
00:20:14,297 --> 00:20:15,674
Hey, y'all.

345
00:20:15,757 --> 00:20:19,427
Alabama recruitment day three,
outfit of the day.

346
00:20:19,469 --> 00:20:21,971
Shirt is a personal gift
from Jeff Bezos.

347
00:20:22,055 --> 00:20:25,725
Jeans are from an internment
camp in San Francisco.

348
00:20:25,809 --> 00:20:30,021
Earrings are a gift from my
grandma from beyond the grave.

349
00:20:30,105 --> 00:20:32,816
Bracelets are from Applebee's
and shoes are from Target.

350
00:20:32,899 --> 00:20:35,151
You know, something
that's ingrained in us

351
00:20:35,193 --> 00:20:38,154
early on is that,
yeah, you're a person,

352
00:20:38,196 --> 00:20:39,656
but you're a Sigma Kappa first.

353
00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:42,242
You're a woman, but you're
a Sigma Kappa woman first,

354
00:20:42,325 --> 00:20:45,161
and that's a lot of what being
in a sorority is.

355
00:20:45,245 --> 00:20:46,538
It's branding.

356
00:20:46,621 --> 00:20:48,707
That's, you know,
every single Greek organization.

357
00:20:48,790 --> 00:20:51,167
That's kind of one of the things
that we sign on to

358
00:20:51,251 --> 00:20:52,919
when we join one.

359
00:21:06,224 --> 00:21:08,518
♪ ...for a roll call ♪

360
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,520
♪ Queens of the Row, check ♪

361
00:21:10,562 --> 00:21:12,188
♪ Good grades on exams, check ♪

362
00:21:12,230 --> 00:21:13,690
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

363
00:21:13,773 --> 00:21:15,358
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

364
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:17,444
Should I put on lip gloss?

365
00:21:17,527 --> 00:21:18,945
-Yeah.
-Okay, ready?

366
00:21:19,029 --> 00:21:21,114
-Does it look bad on camera?
-No, it looks pretty.

367
00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:24,159
Oh, no, I lost my pen.

368
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,869
With social media,
with recruitment,

369
00:21:25,952 --> 00:21:29,748
people, like, literally look
at you like you are in college

370
00:21:29,831 --> 00:21:32,792
majoring in sorority,
almost like a little doll

371
00:21:32,876 --> 00:21:35,378
in your fake
University of Alabama world

372
00:21:35,462 --> 00:21:37,630
in your little sorority
doing your,

373
00:21:37,714 --> 00:21:39,341
you know, tiny little tasks.

374
00:21:39,382 --> 00:21:42,052
Everyone's putting
their best out on social media.

375
00:21:42,135 --> 00:21:43,511
I'm not going to post that,

376
00:21:43,553 --> 00:21:45,764
"Oh, I -- You know,
I got a C on my chem test,

377
00:21:45,847 --> 00:21:47,807
even though I studied
for 12 hours.

378
00:21:47,891 --> 00:21:49,225
Boo."

379
00:21:49,309 --> 00:21:50,560
Should we hang it
over the balcony right here?

380
00:21:50,602 --> 00:21:52,395
-That's I was thinking.
-That's funny.

381
00:21:52,437 --> 00:21:54,647
Like this.
Yeah, look at her.

382
00:21:54,731 --> 00:21:56,608
Three...
I can't see the phone.

383
00:21:56,691 --> 00:21:59,569
-Oh.
-I lost something once.

384
00:21:59,611 --> 00:22:01,863
That's good. That's so funny.

385
00:22:01,905 --> 00:22:04,407
I lost something once.

386
00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:07,243
-It's so perfect!
-I lost my pen.

387
00:22:07,327 --> 00:22:09,245
People assume what
you're gonna be like

388
00:22:09,287 --> 00:22:11,081
as a woman in a sorority.
Yeah.

389
00:22:11,122 --> 00:22:12,248
"Oh, why are you trying so hard?

390
00:22:12,332 --> 00:22:13,875
Like, you should
just get a husband."

391
00:22:13,917 --> 00:22:17,420
I'm not only a sorority girl.
I'm a woman in a sorority.

392
00:22:17,462 --> 00:22:18,880
-Yeah.
-And it's not the same thing.

393
00:22:18,922 --> 00:22:20,715
Honestly, what makes me mad
is that in our sorority,

394
00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:23,635
like, we're so understanding,
and it's the people that,

395
00:22:23,718 --> 00:22:25,637
like, hate on us,
and they stereotype us --

396
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,764
I'm like,
y'all are the mean ones, not us.

397
00:22:27,806 --> 00:22:29,808
Like, we don't do anything.
What do we do?

398
00:22:29,891 --> 00:22:33,353
Sit there and eat
our chicken sandwiches together?

399
00:22:33,436 --> 00:22:34,813
Like, what?
We don't do anything.

400
00:22:34,896 --> 00:22:36,981
We put a lot --
a lot of pressure on ourselves.

401
00:22:37,065 --> 00:22:40,235
Example, right here
of my sweet little girls.

402
00:22:40,276 --> 00:22:41,736
-Are you editing us?
-Yep.

403
00:22:41,778 --> 00:22:43,571
So, like, let's just say...
Let me look at that.

404
00:22:43,613 --> 00:22:45,448
...we want to make
Lauren's arm smaller.

405
00:22:45,532 --> 00:22:46,950
We can go like this.

406
00:22:46,991 --> 00:22:48,410
We can make it smaller,
we can make it smaller.

407
00:22:48,451 --> 00:22:49,828
Let's whiten her teeth
a little bit.

408
00:22:49,911 --> 00:22:52,622
And then let's make
Kaiya's head big for fun,

409
00:22:52,706 --> 00:22:54,416
just so you guys can see.

410
00:22:54,457 --> 00:22:55,792
Like, just so you can see.
You want to do me dirty?

411
00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:58,336
-Like, a child could do this.
-It's so easy.

412
00:22:58,420 --> 00:22:59,796
If you want to make
your waist thinner

413
00:22:59,879 --> 00:23:01,840
to make yourself feel better
about posting it online,

414
00:23:01,923 --> 00:23:03,717
I understand,
but the problem is,

415
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,469
is that these women with
millions of followers...

416
00:23:06,553 --> 00:23:07,554
14-year-old girls are gonna
look at that and be like,

417
00:23:07,637 --> 00:23:08,930
"Why don't I look that way?"

418
00:23:08,972 --> 00:23:10,598
...post that and act like
it's real.

419
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,100
The things that I say to myself
and think to myself

420
00:23:12,183 --> 00:23:14,644
about my body, I would never say
that to someone else.

421
00:23:14,686 --> 00:23:16,438
You know, when you're living
with other women

422
00:23:16,479 --> 00:23:18,606
and, like, you're around
other women all the time

423
00:23:18,648 --> 00:23:21,776
that, you know, I think
are very beautiful girls...

424
00:23:21,818 --> 00:23:25,989
You know, I would kill to
look like any of my friends.

425
00:23:26,072 --> 00:23:29,325
You know, it's hard to be like,
"That's okay

426
00:23:29,367 --> 00:23:30,660
that I don't look like them."

427
00:23:30,744 --> 00:23:33,538
Everyone has, like,
their important qualities

428
00:23:33,621 --> 00:23:34,914
that aren't affected

429
00:23:34,998 --> 00:23:37,625
by how prettier
you think your friends are

430
00:23:37,667 --> 00:23:40,503
or, like, how you want your hair
to look like her hair.

431
00:23:40,545 --> 00:23:42,005
It doesn't change who you are

432
00:23:42,047 --> 00:23:46,968
and who -- like, what people
really value you for.

433
00:23:47,010 --> 00:23:50,096
Okay, great. So there's just
a few more questions

434
00:23:50,180 --> 00:23:51,681
and we can, like, go through.

435
00:23:51,765 --> 00:23:53,892
Well, interim question that
has nothing to do with this,

436
00:23:53,975 --> 00:23:56,269
but just out of curiosity...
Yes?

437
00:23:56,353 --> 00:23:59,022
Nobody in my family is even,

438
00:23:59,064 --> 00:24:01,733
like, bald from just
being an older man.

439
00:24:01,816 --> 00:24:03,443
Do you put sunscreen
on your head?

440
00:24:03,526 --> 00:24:04,778
-Yes!
-Yes, right?

441
00:24:04,861 --> 00:24:06,613
That's what I thought. Yeah.
So much.

442
00:24:06,696 --> 00:24:09,032
So much, because, like,

443
00:24:09,074 --> 00:24:12,035
I could never get
skin cancer on my head.

444
00:24:12,118 --> 00:24:14,371
-Yeah, what would you do?
-This is my whole thing.

445
00:24:14,454 --> 00:24:17,248
Right. That's terrible.

446
00:24:17,332 --> 00:24:19,209
It's actually
stressful at the beach.

447
00:24:19,250 --> 00:24:20,418
I can... Right?

448
00:24:20,502 --> 00:24:21,920
You must have to do a hat,
right?

449
00:24:22,003 --> 00:24:24,798
With summer, yeah,
I do hats and I do turbans.

450
00:24:24,881 --> 00:24:26,883
Mm-hmm.

451
00:24:28,218 --> 00:24:32,681
Okay, I think I know where
I'm going with this.

452
00:24:32,722 --> 00:24:35,934
Between Katie,
this smart, beautiful girl,

453
00:24:36,017 --> 00:24:39,604
telling me that she wishes
she looked like her friends

454
00:24:39,688 --> 00:24:42,899
or she compares herself
to other women

455
00:24:42,941 --> 00:24:47,153
and the endless scrolling
of these OOTDs,

456
00:24:47,237 --> 00:24:48,947
it hit me.

457
00:24:50,782 --> 00:24:54,411
I feel like I rushed, too.

458
00:24:54,452 --> 00:24:56,871
And just stay with me on this --

459
00:24:56,913 --> 00:25:00,917
in these OOTDs, these girls
are showing us their earrings,

460
00:25:00,959 --> 00:25:04,671
their necklaces, their outfits
that they put on

461
00:25:04,754 --> 00:25:08,591
to look like
they belong in a sorority.

462
00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:13,430
And I feel like I rushed
because I have alopecia

463
00:25:13,513 --> 00:25:16,850
and I wore a wig for 14 years.

464
00:25:16,933 --> 00:25:19,102
I wore a different wig
every year.

465
00:25:19,144 --> 00:25:22,939
I wore a mullet, a bowl cut,
a blunt cut, a body wave,

466
00:25:23,023 --> 00:25:25,608
a perm --
I wore a layered look.

467
00:25:25,650 --> 00:25:27,402
My Rush looked different.

468
00:25:27,444 --> 00:25:32,073
I was trying to get into
the sorority of

469
00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:34,951
all of the girls
in the world who have hair,

470
00:25:34,993 --> 00:25:39,039
and it felt like an impossible
sorority to get into.

471
00:25:39,122 --> 00:25:42,625
I was going to compete
for my position,

472
00:25:42,667 --> 00:25:44,252
and my wig was a secret.

473
00:25:44,294 --> 00:25:46,838
If you found out
that I wore a wig,

474
00:25:46,921 --> 00:25:50,967
if you even questioned
that I wore a wig,

475
00:25:51,051 --> 00:25:54,304
it would shatter me.

476
00:25:54,346 --> 00:25:59,059
So I know it's not exactly like
the Alabama Rush,

477
00:25:59,142 --> 00:26:02,562
but it's like,
not that different.

478
00:26:02,645 --> 00:26:05,732
I think the competition
mostly comes from

479
00:26:05,815 --> 00:26:07,817
the rankings of sororities,

480
00:26:07,859 --> 00:26:10,820
trying to get in one of those
top or middle-tier houses

481
00:26:10,862 --> 00:26:14,074
and not getting into
a bottom house.

482
00:26:14,157 --> 00:26:17,577
I visited the
University of Alabama,

483
00:26:17,660 --> 00:26:21,623
observing
the sorority Rush parties.

484
00:26:21,664 --> 00:26:24,167
I probably saw
five or six houses.

485
00:26:24,209 --> 00:26:29,172
Rush is a social
stratification ritual bar none.

486
00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:30,715
Stratification in the sense

487
00:26:30,799 --> 00:26:35,095
of organizing people
and groups of people

488
00:26:35,178 --> 00:26:41,935
into tiers of power,
of status, of prestige.

489
00:26:42,018 --> 00:26:44,813
It's a proving ground
of competitive femininity

490
00:26:44,854 --> 00:26:49,234
and the contemporary performance
of the Southern belle.

491
00:26:49,317 --> 00:26:50,235
-Hey, y'all.
-Hey, y'all.

492
00:26:50,318 --> 00:26:51,653
Hey, y'all.

493
00:26:51,695 --> 00:26:52,987
Do you think I would get
into a top-tier house?

494
00:26:53,029 --> 00:26:54,489
You wouldn't get in
with those shoes.

495
00:26:54,531 --> 00:26:56,408
You got to have cute shoes.

496
00:26:58,493 --> 00:27:00,286
Who determines the rankings?

497
00:27:00,370 --> 00:27:04,374
I have no idea, to be honest.

498
00:27:04,416 --> 00:27:07,335
Actually, I'm going to give you
my potential thoughts on it.

499
00:27:07,377 --> 00:27:10,755
I think a lot of the times
people like to rank --

500
00:27:10,839 --> 00:27:13,842
and by people,
I usually mean fraternity boys

501
00:27:13,883 --> 00:27:15,677
or boys in general,
I feel like they're like,

502
00:27:15,719 --> 00:27:17,846
"Oh, this house
has the hottest girls,

503
00:27:17,929 --> 00:27:19,222
so they're a top house."

504
00:27:19,305 --> 00:27:21,725
Like, "These freshmen
are the hottest freshmen,

505
00:27:21,808 --> 00:27:23,476
so they're going to be
considered a top house."

506
00:27:30,233 --> 00:27:32,235
The potential new members
are trying to get in,

507
00:27:32,318 --> 00:27:34,529
but also, these sororities
are trying to get,

508
00:27:34,571 --> 00:27:35,864
like, the best girls.

509
00:27:35,947 --> 00:27:37,615
-For sure.
-What does that even mean?

510
00:27:37,699 --> 00:27:39,951
Yeah, so, the ranking system,

511
00:27:40,035 --> 00:27:42,996
I truly believe it's based
on the fraternities.

512
00:27:44,789 --> 00:27:46,750
So essentially,
they have a social calendar,

513
00:27:46,791 --> 00:27:48,460
and they get to mix
with certain sororities,

514
00:27:48,543 --> 00:27:51,212
but it's only a limited amount,
and the fraternities want to be

515
00:27:51,254 --> 00:27:53,923
mixing with the hottest
sororities, of course,

516
00:27:53,965 --> 00:27:56,051
'cause, you know,
they're 20-year-old males.

517
00:27:56,092 --> 00:27:59,262
So that's kind of where
the ranking system comes from.

518
00:27:59,304 --> 00:28:01,973
They want to make sure the girls
who are wearing their letters

519
00:28:02,057 --> 00:28:04,934
are up to their standards.

520
00:28:16,905 --> 00:28:19,699
The hierarchy of sororities
that exist here

521
00:28:19,783 --> 00:28:21,993
really determines
how your experience

522
00:28:22,077 --> 00:28:24,662
in the Greek system
is going to be.

523
00:28:24,746 --> 00:28:28,124
There are a lot of things
that you're entitled to

524
00:28:28,208 --> 00:28:30,377
when you're
in a top-tier sorority.

525
00:28:30,460 --> 00:28:31,795
You're entitled to test banks

526
00:28:31,836 --> 00:28:33,588
that are going to help you
on your exams.

527
00:28:33,630 --> 00:28:36,049
You're entitled to people
in your sorority

528
00:28:36,132 --> 00:28:37,926
that have better connections,

529
00:28:37,967 --> 00:28:40,845
whether their parents
are richer or more connected.

530
00:28:40,929 --> 00:28:44,474
You're entitled to a male gaze

531
00:28:44,516 --> 00:28:47,769
that might be a little bit
more beneficial to you.

532
00:28:47,811 --> 00:28:50,313
And so, you know,
being in a bottom-tier sorority,

533
00:28:50,397 --> 00:28:53,942
I have to understand that
at some point, there's nothing

534
00:28:54,025 --> 00:28:57,987
that I can do to change
institutionalized rankings.

535
00:28:58,029 --> 00:29:01,908
You know, Sigma Kappa,
we've done all the right things,

536
00:29:01,991 --> 00:29:04,494
but we'll never be
anything but bottom tier

537
00:29:04,536 --> 00:29:07,080
for at least
the next 20, 30 years,

538
00:29:07,163 --> 00:29:10,709
because that's just
how it works here.

539
00:29:10,792 --> 00:29:12,836
You guys,
as far as we have heard,

540
00:29:12,877 --> 00:29:15,839
are considered
like, a top-tier sorority.

541
00:29:15,922 --> 00:29:17,382
-I --
-I mean, I'm not going to lie.

542
00:29:17,465 --> 00:29:19,217
Like, whenever I tell someone
what sorority I'm in,

543
00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:20,719
and they're like, "Oh, wow,"
that's flattering.

544
00:29:20,802 --> 00:29:22,137
I think it's hard.

545
00:29:22,220 --> 00:29:24,347
We kind of have to tiptoe
around this question,

546
00:29:24,431 --> 00:29:29,853
because we would be naive
to deny that lots of people

547
00:29:29,936 --> 00:29:33,106
recognize us as a top tier --
"top tier" house.

548
00:29:33,189 --> 00:29:35,608
But do I think there are
other great sororities?

549
00:29:35,692 --> 00:29:37,485
Absolutely.
Absolutely.

550
00:29:53,043 --> 00:29:57,714
So this is basically
the Shelby Taj Mahal.

551
00:29:57,756 --> 00:29:59,049
That's what my family calls it.

552
00:29:59,090 --> 00:30:02,344
But these are awards
from dance competitions.

553
00:30:02,385 --> 00:30:06,139
I volunteer with children with
special needs and we race,

554
00:30:06,222 --> 00:30:09,059
and the girl that I raced with
got first place.

555
00:30:09,142 --> 00:30:12,395
Look, I got the Super Style
award in fifth grade.

556
00:30:12,437 --> 00:30:17,150
I think Rush is a week-long
adrenaline rush like no other.

557
00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:19,361
The Olympics, that's what
we should call it from now on.

558
00:30:19,402 --> 00:30:23,073
I definitely think it's a sport.
Definitely.

559
00:30:23,114 --> 00:30:24,449
So this is my pageant binder.

560
00:30:24,532 --> 00:30:27,202
This is my life
when I competed in pageants,

561
00:30:27,285 --> 00:30:28,953
so it's kind of
why I wanted to do

562
00:30:29,037 --> 00:30:31,414
the sorority Rush binder
for myself.

563
00:30:31,498 --> 00:30:36,169
I will have kind of the similar
things in here for Rush.

564
00:30:36,252 --> 00:30:39,839
I'll definitely have
a motivation tab of just

565
00:30:39,923 --> 00:30:42,342
a ton of quotes
and stuff for me to look at.

566
00:30:42,425 --> 00:30:45,720
I like the paper copy because
I like to be able to feel it

567
00:30:45,762 --> 00:30:47,806
and really look at it,

568
00:30:47,889 --> 00:30:49,224
'cause sometimes
when you're in the moment

569
00:30:49,265 --> 00:30:50,767
and you're stressed out
and you're worried,

570
00:30:50,850 --> 00:30:54,437
you forget all the things
that you've been taught.

571
00:30:54,521 --> 00:30:58,441
I feel like I fit in perfectly
with the way that they dress --

572
00:30:58,525 --> 00:31:00,318
not because I've chosen
to be that way,

573
00:31:00,402 --> 00:31:03,613
but just because, like,
that's who I am.

574
00:31:03,697 --> 00:31:08,952
I don't think you want to wear
anything that's too scandalous,

575
00:31:09,035 --> 00:31:10,787
or as we call it, scandy.

576
00:31:10,829 --> 00:31:14,124
You don't want to, like, have
a bad reputation for yourself.

577
00:31:14,165 --> 00:31:16,710
You want to keep it
the three C's --

578
00:31:16,793 --> 00:31:19,254
classy, calm, and cool.

579
00:31:21,256 --> 00:31:25,969
The biggest thing is that,
because it started so early on,

580
00:31:26,011 --> 00:31:28,847
like, maybe 1800s -- 1898.

581
00:31:28,930 --> 00:31:31,433
Zeta Tau Alpha
was established in 1898.

582
00:31:31,516 --> 00:31:33,059
There's kind of like

583
00:31:33,143 --> 00:31:37,105
those really old-timey,
strict rules

584
00:31:37,147 --> 00:31:38,481
of what the group is.

585
00:31:38,523 --> 00:31:40,483
You have a lot of rules
you have to follow,

586
00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:42,152
which, some of them
I really agree with.

587
00:31:42,193 --> 00:31:43,445
Some of them are like,

588
00:31:43,486 --> 00:31:45,196
"Oh, are you kidding me
right now?"

589
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,490
We are not allowed to drink
in our letters whatsoever.

590
00:31:47,574 --> 00:31:49,159
I don't think in any of
the sorority houses,

591
00:31:49,242 --> 00:31:50,994
you can have alcohol.
Why is that, do you know?

592
00:31:51,036 --> 00:31:52,245
It must be a Panhellenic rule,

593
00:31:52,328 --> 00:31:54,497
because fraternities are
always allowed,

594
00:31:54,581 --> 00:31:57,500
and the amount of alcohol
in that house is disgusting.

595
00:31:59,169 --> 00:32:01,296
Another rule that I just
thought was really dumb --

596
00:32:01,338 --> 00:32:05,133
no wet hair in the house
on the first floor.

597
00:32:05,175 --> 00:32:06,343
I know there was one house

598
00:32:06,426 --> 00:32:08,261
that my roommate
was in freshman year.

599
00:32:08,345 --> 00:32:11,222
She told me that they literally
could not leave the dorm

600
00:32:11,306 --> 00:32:13,058
unless they had two
out of three done,

601
00:32:13,141 --> 00:32:15,060
which was either you had to
have your hair done,

602
00:32:15,143 --> 00:32:17,854
makeup done, or outfit on.

603
00:32:17,896 --> 00:32:20,899
All it takes is one person
to know what chapter you're in

604
00:32:20,982 --> 00:32:22,150
and like,
to reach out to somebody,

605
00:32:22,192 --> 00:32:24,444
and you can be
in trouble the next day.

606
00:32:27,405 --> 00:32:29,366
Like, as far as our rules,
we have just

607
00:32:29,407 --> 00:32:31,993
the longest COC
in the entire universe,

608
00:32:32,035 --> 00:32:33,286
our code of conduct.

609
00:32:33,370 --> 00:32:35,372
The ones I usually
get in trouble for

610
00:32:35,413 --> 00:32:37,832
are like,
disrespecting a sister,

611
00:32:37,916 --> 00:32:39,709
which is such
a subjective thing,

612
00:32:39,793 --> 00:32:41,211
and really makes
our standards process

613
00:32:41,252 --> 00:32:42,879
kind of a joke sometimes.

614
00:32:42,921 --> 00:32:45,298
So essentially, what happens is
you go to the standards meeting.

615
00:32:45,382 --> 00:32:47,217
There are six girls
that like to play judge

616
00:32:47,258 --> 00:32:50,095
and they like to reiterate that

617
00:32:50,178 --> 00:32:51,930
you're innocent
until proven guilty,

618
00:32:52,013 --> 00:32:53,640
but you're -- you're guilty

619
00:32:53,723 --> 00:32:55,266
until you prove yourself
innocent.

620
00:32:55,350 --> 00:32:57,811
Is that my standards?

621
00:32:57,894 --> 00:32:59,896
"Specify the issue or concern."

622
00:32:59,979 --> 00:33:01,189
"Member had a video of her

623
00:33:01,231 --> 00:33:02,649
wearing her Sigma Kappa
letters" --

624
00:33:02,732 --> 00:33:03,858
misspelled.

625
00:33:03,942 --> 00:33:05,318
"The video seemed to put
Sigma Kappa

626
00:33:05,402 --> 00:33:07,529
and Greek life in
a negative light."

627
00:33:07,612 --> 00:33:08,988
And since coming here,

628
00:33:09,072 --> 00:33:11,449
I've changed in ways
that I don't fucking like.

629
00:33:11,533 --> 00:33:12,617
Roll Tide, though.

630
00:33:12,701 --> 00:33:16,037
Did I lie? Did I lie? Did I lie?
I didn't lie.

631
00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:17,914
I wasn't talking shit
about Sigma Kappa

632
00:33:17,997 --> 00:33:20,125
or like, the Greek life.

633
00:33:20,208 --> 00:33:22,502
I was saying that, like,
the culture at Alabama

634
00:33:22,585 --> 00:33:23,545
is fucking weird.

635
00:33:23,586 --> 00:33:26,631
And you know what? It is.
So die mad.

636
00:33:26,715 --> 00:33:28,466
♪ This is my ministry,
lightweight-type chemistry ♪

637
00:33:28,550 --> 00:33:30,427
♪ Going to Italy,
like it, you feeling me? ♪

638
00:33:30,510 --> 00:33:32,595
♪ Playing with my racks,
a nigga attacks ♪

639
00:33:32,679 --> 00:33:34,514
♪ Fuck with me crucially,
you catchin' disa ♪

640
00:33:34,597 --> 00:33:36,433
♪ Playing with my racks,
a nigga attacks ♪

641
00:33:36,516 --> 00:33:38,143
♪ Fuck with me crucially,
you catchin' disa ♪

642
00:33:38,226 --> 00:33:39,602
Are you serious?

643
00:33:39,686 --> 00:33:43,565
They're literally wearing
someone else's sticker.

644
00:33:43,606 --> 00:33:48,111
And I got in trouble
for wearing another sticker?

645
00:33:48,194 --> 00:33:50,572
Are you kidding me right now?

646
00:33:52,490 --> 00:33:55,535
I just felt like they were
looking for a reason to drop me.

647
00:33:55,618 --> 00:33:58,163
Other girls went upstairs
in fraternity houses.

648
00:33:58,246 --> 00:34:01,249
Other girls slept
at fraternity houses,

649
00:34:01,291 --> 00:34:03,960
and they're still
in the sorority.

650
00:34:06,463 --> 00:34:09,716
I know who tattled on me.
I'm not going to say.

651
00:34:09,799 --> 00:34:11,634
And it's fine, like, you know,
I just wish nothing

652
00:34:11,718 --> 00:34:13,720
but happiness for her
and I hope she's having, like,

653
00:34:13,803 --> 00:34:17,640
the best life in DZ as she can.

654
00:34:33,031 --> 00:34:36,951
I've been meeting every week
with a sorority consultant.

655
00:34:36,993 --> 00:34:39,829
Her name's Sloan,
and she's the best.

656
00:34:39,871 --> 00:34:41,122
I love her, and I feel like

657
00:34:41,164 --> 00:34:44,626
I would be
absolutely lost without her.

658
00:34:44,668 --> 00:34:47,212
You have to remember
who's recruiting you --

659
00:34:47,295 --> 00:34:50,173
19-year-olds, 20-year-olds,
and 21-year-olds.

660
00:34:50,215 --> 00:34:51,675
-Yeah.
-Do they...

661
00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:54,302
Are they looking for you
to talk about a specific topic?

662
00:34:54,344 --> 00:34:56,846
No. No, they're not.
Yeah.

663
00:34:56,888 --> 00:34:58,348
So what
they are looking for you

664
00:34:58,431 --> 00:35:00,725
is just to stay away
from five topics.

665
00:35:00,809 --> 00:35:02,560
And they're called
the five B's, and that --

666
00:35:02,644 --> 00:35:04,312
I don't know who
came up with that,

667
00:35:04,354 --> 00:35:06,022
but it's just a great way
for you to, like,

668
00:35:06,106 --> 00:35:07,357
kind of remember.

669
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,358
So, Boys.

670
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:09,984
It just means fraternity boys

671
00:35:10,026 --> 00:35:12,737
and talking about like, swaps
or mixers or anything like that.

672
00:35:12,821 --> 00:35:15,448
But if they bring it up,
it's okay to talk about it,

673
00:35:15,532 --> 00:35:18,034
just you don't want to, like,
initiate that conversation

674
00:35:18,118 --> 00:35:20,578
and be like, "What fraternities
do you guys hang out with?"

675
00:35:20,662 --> 00:35:23,456
The next one is Booze.
Just don't talk about alcohol.

676
00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:24,749
Bible.

677
00:35:24,833 --> 00:35:27,335
All they mean is like,
asking about their religion,

678
00:35:27,377 --> 00:35:29,337
what church they go to
or anything like that

679
00:35:29,379 --> 00:35:30,880
puts someone in a corner.

680
00:35:30,964 --> 00:35:33,717
The next one is Bucks,
so, money.

681
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,511
So you don't want to be like,
"Does your dad own a yacht

682
00:35:36,553 --> 00:35:39,389
off of the South of France?"
or anything like that.

683
00:35:39,472 --> 00:35:41,766
Or you don't want to bring
that stuff up as well.

684
00:35:41,850 --> 00:35:45,353
And the last one is Biden
is what they're probably

685
00:35:45,395 --> 00:35:47,397
referring to now,
and all it means is, politics.

686
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,233
And again, you're more than
welcome to talk about diversity

687
00:35:50,316 --> 00:35:52,485
and Black Lives Matter
and if you're, you know,

688
00:35:52,569 --> 00:35:54,446
a political science major
or anything like that,

689
00:35:54,529 --> 00:35:56,865
going to law school,
Elle Woods, whatever.

690
00:35:56,906 --> 00:35:59,492
But you just don't want
to ask them specific questions

691
00:35:59,576 --> 00:36:01,578
about their
political affiliation.

692
00:36:01,661 --> 00:36:03,955
So, "What are your thoughts
on inflation?

693
00:36:04,039 --> 00:36:05,498
What are your thoughts on Biden?

694
00:36:05,582 --> 00:36:07,417
Do you think Donald Trump
should have won the election?"

695
00:36:07,459 --> 00:36:11,129
It just puts people in a corner
and it makes them uncomfortable.

696
00:36:11,212 --> 00:36:12,922
-Yeah.
-That's all it is.

697
00:36:15,759 --> 00:36:18,511
So my experience
was pretty typical,

698
00:36:18,595 --> 00:36:20,388
and I definitely had
my ups and downs.

699
00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:23,475
I got dropped by a sorority
I loved on Pref,

700
00:36:23,558 --> 00:36:25,268
and I was really devastated.

701
00:36:25,310 --> 00:36:26,770
I was literally crying

702
00:36:26,811 --> 00:36:30,440
in the Miller Learning Center
at Georgia,

703
00:36:30,523 --> 00:36:32,776
and I wiped the mascara
from under my eyes and said,

704
00:36:32,859 --> 00:36:34,778
okay, I'm going to give these
two sororities one more chance,

705
00:36:34,861 --> 00:36:38,073
and Pref completely changed
my mind on the sorority

706
00:36:38,156 --> 00:36:39,532
I ended up joining.

707
00:36:39,616 --> 00:36:43,286
I met this incredible woman,
and she was just so fun.

708
00:36:43,370 --> 00:36:45,330
Like, it was the first time
during sorority recruitment

709
00:36:45,413 --> 00:36:46,790
where I didn't put pressure
on myself

710
00:36:46,831 --> 00:36:49,084
and I was just able to open up
and talk to her

711
00:36:49,167 --> 00:36:50,335
and she was so fun.

712
00:36:50,418 --> 00:36:51,836
Luckily, they liked me enough

713
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,714
to make sure
that I was on the Bid Day list.

714
00:36:54,798 --> 00:36:56,883
What's giving me anxiety
is my anxiety,

715
00:36:56,966 --> 00:36:58,343
'cause I'm like, what if I,
like, break down?

716
00:36:58,426 --> 00:36:59,678
Like,
what if I have a panic attack?

717
00:36:59,761 --> 00:37:02,013
What if I start
to get really nervous

718
00:37:02,097 --> 00:37:03,390
or I mess something up

719
00:37:03,473 --> 00:37:05,809
and, like, it causes me to,
like, totally,

720
00:37:05,850 --> 00:37:07,268
you know, spiral?

721
00:37:07,310 --> 00:37:10,355
So I'm on medication and stuff,
but just,

722
00:37:10,438 --> 00:37:13,983
do you have any tips to make me,
like, less anxious?

723
00:37:14,067 --> 00:37:16,653
And I think the main thing
that will cause like, anxiety

724
00:37:16,695 --> 00:37:19,614
is if like, I think I messed up
or if I say the wrong thing

725
00:37:19,656 --> 00:37:21,950
and I get really like...
you know, just, like, nervous

726
00:37:22,033 --> 00:37:23,660
and have a panic attack.

727
00:37:23,702 --> 00:37:26,454
Do you have any, like, tips
on how to, like, not freak out?

728
00:37:26,496 --> 00:37:29,374
Great question.
So we'll have a ton of practice.

729
00:37:29,457 --> 00:37:31,459
-Okay.
-We'll figure out your answers

730
00:37:31,501 --> 00:37:33,044
and practice your conversations,

731
00:37:33,128 --> 00:37:34,629
so you will be
hitting your points.

732
00:37:34,671 --> 00:37:35,880
-Yeah.
-Good.

733
00:37:35,964 --> 00:37:37,465
But also, the members
are there to reassure you.

734
00:37:37,507 --> 00:37:38,842
You'll know if you had
a good conversation.

735
00:37:38,925 --> 00:37:41,803
-Uh-huh. Yeah.
-Also, I'm a phone call away.

736
00:37:46,683 --> 00:37:49,894
I have always been, like,
an anxious person.

737
00:37:49,978 --> 00:37:51,354
I would be so anxious

738
00:37:51,438 --> 00:37:54,607
that I would cry myself
to sleep every night.

739
00:37:54,691 --> 00:37:56,651
I always kind of struggled,
like, with my body

740
00:37:56,735 --> 00:37:58,153
and, like,
with feeling confident.

741
00:37:58,194 --> 00:37:59,696
These girls would make fun of me

742
00:37:59,738 --> 00:38:01,781
every single day
in the locker room,

743
00:38:01,865 --> 00:38:05,535
like, about my body and make
comments while I'm changing,

744
00:38:05,618 --> 00:38:07,704
you know,
comments about, like,

745
00:38:07,746 --> 00:38:10,665
not eating, like, I shouldn't
eat or if I, you know --

746
00:38:10,707 --> 00:38:13,585
wear this, then I look fat,
or stuff like that.

747
00:38:13,668 --> 00:38:15,712
And it sent me

748
00:38:15,754 --> 00:38:18,256
into a really bad relationship
with food.

749
00:38:18,340 --> 00:38:19,632
So for like a full year,

750
00:38:19,716 --> 00:38:22,552
I was living with, like,
an eating disorder.

751
00:38:22,635 --> 00:38:24,637
And I hope by the time
I'm in college,

752
00:38:24,721 --> 00:38:27,891
I will be in a lot better place,
mentally.

753
00:38:27,932 --> 00:38:30,560
Isabelle reminded me
that the locker room

754
00:38:30,643 --> 00:38:33,813
is a terrifying place
for a girl.

755
00:38:33,897 --> 00:38:37,400
In the summer between
fifth grade and sixth grade

756
00:38:37,442 --> 00:38:40,362
at day camp, this girl --

757
00:38:40,403 --> 00:38:44,532
let's call her
Sally Steinberg --

758
00:38:44,574 --> 00:38:46,910
cornered me in the locker room,

759
00:38:46,993 --> 00:38:50,997
and she said,
"I know you're wearing a wig."

760
00:38:51,081 --> 00:38:53,208
And I said, "No, I'm not."

761
00:38:53,291 --> 00:38:56,419
And then she said,
"Yes, you are."

762
00:38:56,503 --> 00:39:00,423
And it was devastating,
and it was frightening.

763
00:39:00,465 --> 00:39:01,925
I was mortified.

764
00:39:02,008 --> 00:39:04,552
It felt like she was saying,

765
00:39:04,594 --> 00:39:08,306
"You're not one of us,
and you'll never be,

766
00:39:08,390 --> 00:39:09,933
and I know."

767
00:39:12,852 --> 00:39:14,145
So I, like --

768
00:39:14,229 --> 00:39:16,106
So you know how I was talking
about my eating disorder?

769
00:39:16,189 --> 00:39:17,399
-Yeah.
-For years -- If I can ask --

770
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:18,817
Can I ask you a question?
Sure.

771
00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:20,568
Okay, so for years,
did you, like,

772
00:39:20,610 --> 00:39:22,028
stand in the mirror for, like,
hours and just, like,

773
00:39:22,112 --> 00:39:24,447
look at yourself and like...
I do that all the --

774
00:39:24,489 --> 00:39:26,950
And like, even if I pass
a mirror now, I'm like --

775
00:39:27,033 --> 00:39:29,869
And I, like,
have cellulite on my legs now

776
00:39:29,953 --> 00:39:31,871
from working out and stretch
marks, and I'm like --

777
00:39:31,955 --> 00:39:33,623
But, like, they're so beautiful
because it shows, like,

778
00:39:33,707 --> 00:39:36,126
I'm overcoming something
and growing.

779
00:39:41,756 --> 00:39:44,050
I'm just jealous
of your hip flexors.

780
00:39:50,223 --> 00:39:51,975
It's like, my quads and stuff

781
00:39:52,017 --> 00:39:54,728
are bigger now
'cause like, they've got,

782
00:39:54,811 --> 00:39:58,148
like, all the muscles
flowing into them.

783
00:40:01,985 --> 00:40:04,029
I'll show you
the before and after.

784
00:40:04,112 --> 00:40:05,405
Yeah, show us.

785
00:40:05,488 --> 00:40:07,032
Okay, that was a bad video,
but it's fine.

786
00:40:07,115 --> 00:40:10,076
How much do you think
it has to do with looks?

787
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,327
Great question.

788
00:40:11,369 --> 00:40:13,621
This is something I have thought

789
00:40:13,663 --> 00:40:15,123
about for years,
to be completely honest,

790
00:40:15,165 --> 00:40:17,959
how much looks matters
during sorority recruitment.

791
00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:20,503
And I think it matters
to a certain extent.

792
00:40:20,587 --> 00:40:23,757
Again, you have to be
"pretty enough" to get in.

793
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,761
I would say they only really,
truly matter at round one.

794
00:40:29,679 --> 00:40:31,765
Just from talking to women
all over the country,

795
00:40:31,848 --> 00:40:34,601
I have realized
there's four main steps

796
00:40:34,684 --> 00:40:36,895
that really
help women stand out.

797
00:40:36,978 --> 00:40:38,730
First one is all about
getting your name out there,

798
00:40:38,813 --> 00:40:40,357
because you want people
talking about you

799
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,025
before sorority recruitment
starts.

800
00:40:42,108 --> 00:40:45,153
The second step I always take
my clients through is mindset,

801
00:40:45,195 --> 00:40:48,948
because sorority recruitment
is an emotional journey.

802
00:40:49,032 --> 00:40:50,450
You immediately get
in your head.

803
00:40:50,533 --> 00:40:52,452
What happened?
Am I not pretty enough?

804
00:40:52,535 --> 00:40:53,787
Am I not cool enough?

805
00:40:53,870 --> 00:40:55,663
Like, why did these
sororities drop me?

806
00:40:55,705 --> 00:40:58,208
The third step is
the most important one,

807
00:40:58,291 --> 00:40:59,918
I believe, is small talk.

808
00:41:00,001 --> 00:41:02,837
We figure out your answers to
the questions through a formula

809
00:41:02,879 --> 00:41:04,964
because there really just
is a simple formula.

810
00:41:05,048 --> 00:41:08,385
And the last step
is optimization strategy,

811
00:41:08,468 --> 00:41:10,136
which is just playing the game.

812
00:41:10,220 --> 00:41:12,722
Sorority recruitment's a game --
you have to know how to play it

813
00:41:12,764 --> 00:41:15,183
to keep
sororities interested in you.

814
00:41:15,225 --> 00:41:16,726
If you're getting
an average score,

815
00:41:16,810 --> 00:41:18,687
you're not getting invited back.

816
00:41:18,770 --> 00:41:20,814
Some girls get
their second choice.

817
00:41:20,897 --> 00:41:23,692
Some girls have been dropped
so much in the process,

818
00:41:23,775 --> 00:41:25,402
and they just settled.

819
00:41:25,443 --> 00:41:27,737
And some girls, they get calls
right before Bid Day, like,

820
00:41:27,779 --> 00:41:31,199
saying, "You've been dropped
from sorority recruitment."

821
00:41:31,241 --> 00:41:32,784
Which is hard.

822
00:41:40,625 --> 00:41:42,002
Do I look Southern?

823
00:41:42,085 --> 00:41:44,254
Definitely there,
they don't like girls

824
00:41:44,295 --> 00:41:46,006
who look "too Northern."

825
00:41:46,089 --> 00:41:47,424
I look very Northern.

826
00:41:47,465 --> 00:41:49,050
Like, that's not going
to change that much.

827
00:41:49,092 --> 00:41:56,099
Okay, I saved this one for last
because, oh, it is so unique,

828
00:41:56,641 --> 00:41:58,143
and I love to be unique,

829
00:41:58,226 --> 00:42:02,272
and this is definitely
just a great, unique dress.

830
00:42:02,313 --> 00:42:03,857
Tomorrow I'm gonna go pick up

831
00:42:03,940 --> 00:42:06,818
my sorority dress
for my sorority,

832
00:42:06,901 --> 00:42:08,570
and I'm rushing my sorority.

833
00:42:08,611 --> 00:42:10,030
What sorority do you want
to be in?

834
00:42:10,113 --> 00:42:13,241
The sorority I want to
be in is to not --

835
00:42:13,283 --> 00:42:15,994
to not be discussed,
because that brings bad luck

836
00:42:16,077 --> 00:42:18,038
if I tell you guys.

837
00:42:18,121 --> 00:42:20,540
Those boys are fine.

838
00:42:22,292 --> 00:42:25,754
That one -- not the one
with the long things,

839
00:42:25,837 --> 00:42:30,550
but the mixed one
with the curly hair.

840
00:42:30,633 --> 00:42:32,093
-No, bro.
-What?

841
00:42:32,135 --> 00:42:36,473
When we rush,
it's gonna be like...

842
00:42:36,514 --> 00:42:37,807
real crazy.

843
00:42:37,849 --> 00:42:40,977
Hey. Hey! Hey, hey! Hey!

844
00:42:43,938 --> 00:42:46,608
If you thought Alabama Rush
was crazy,

845
00:42:46,649 --> 00:42:49,402
just wait until you hear
about The Machine.

846
00:42:49,486 --> 00:42:51,988
Burglary, cross burning,
vandalism.

847
00:42:52,030 --> 00:42:54,532
You are deep into it
that you have found out

848
00:42:54,616 --> 00:42:56,159
about The Machine.

849
00:42:56,201 --> 00:42:57,994
Congratulations.

850
00:43:06,252 --> 00:43:09,839
Have you guys heard of
this thing, "The Machine"?

851
00:43:09,923 --> 00:43:11,341
Do you know about that?

852
00:43:11,383 --> 00:43:14,177
For...? For sororities?

853
00:43:14,260 --> 00:43:16,680
No, it's like, for all
Greek life in Alabama

854
00:43:16,763 --> 00:43:20,809
and it's on the Internet,
and I was like, what is this?

855
00:43:20,892 --> 00:43:23,895
I don't think I know.

856
00:43:25,188 --> 00:43:27,565
Like, I don't think
it's an actual thing.

857
00:43:27,649 --> 00:43:29,317
We always get asked this.

858
00:43:29,359 --> 00:43:30,902
People ask us this all the --

859
00:43:30,985 --> 00:43:32,487
Because it is on social media.

860
00:43:32,529 --> 00:43:33,822
All my friends
from home think...

861
00:43:33,863 --> 00:43:35,407
-They're like, ooh.
-Yeah.

862
00:43:36,950 --> 00:43:38,827
What's the deal
with The Machine?

863
00:43:38,868 --> 00:43:40,286
No, I can't talk about that.

864
00:43:40,370 --> 00:43:42,956
-Can't talk about it.
-Yeah.

865
00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:44,749
It'd ruin, like,
a lot of stuff for us.

866
00:43:44,833 --> 00:43:46,835
Even our life, honestly?

867
00:43:46,918 --> 00:43:49,045
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-It's deep.

868
00:43:51,464 --> 00:43:52,716
Mnh-mnh.

869
00:43:52,799 --> 00:43:55,301
We would never get
into a sorority again.

870
00:43:55,385 --> 00:43:59,139
-No. Danger.
-Okay.

871
00:43:59,222 --> 00:44:01,224
I'm John Archibald.

872
00:44:01,266 --> 00:44:04,102
I've been a journalist
in Alabama for --

873
00:44:04,185 --> 00:44:06,229
God -- 36 years now,

874
00:44:06,271 --> 00:44:09,315
and I got my start
at the University of Alabama

875
00:44:09,399 --> 00:44:11,067
because of The Machine.

876
00:44:15,780 --> 00:44:17,574
It's a secret society.

877
00:44:17,615 --> 00:44:19,242
I believe that the phrase was,

878
00:44:19,284 --> 00:44:23,038
"little is known,
and what is known is secret."

879
00:44:23,121 --> 00:44:26,124
Something very similar to that.

880
00:44:27,792 --> 00:44:29,294
So The Machine
is the Greek system.

881
00:44:29,377 --> 00:44:31,212
They go synonymous,
they're hand in hand.

882
00:44:31,254 --> 00:44:32,714
It's the exact same thing.

883
00:44:32,756 --> 00:44:34,174
They control everything
on this campus.

884
00:44:34,257 --> 00:44:36,426
So if there's an election,
The Machine's rigging it.

885
00:44:36,468 --> 00:44:39,512
If there's a Homecoming queen,
it's The Machine candidate.

886
00:44:39,596 --> 00:44:42,349
You're going to look at awards
and different jobs and networks,

887
00:44:42,432 --> 00:44:45,185
it's all going to The Machine
kids that run their own thing.

888
00:44:45,268 --> 00:44:47,896
Even the most trivial things
like football seats,

889
00:44:47,979 --> 00:44:49,272
it's going to The Machine kids.

890
00:44:49,356 --> 00:44:52,609
Every Greek house
that's a member of The Machine

891
00:44:52,692 --> 00:44:54,152
each have Machine
representatives.

892
00:44:54,235 --> 00:44:55,987
These representatives
form a council that meets

893
00:44:56,071 --> 00:44:58,948
in fraternity basements
to discuss student politics,

894
00:44:59,032 --> 00:45:00,909
and then they report back
to their house

895
00:45:00,950 --> 00:45:03,578
and their student politicians
within those houses

896
00:45:03,661 --> 00:45:05,914
and tell them how to vote.

897
00:45:05,955 --> 00:45:08,166
You know, I wish that
I could say that I had never

898
00:45:08,249 --> 00:45:10,251
gotten involved with The Machine
in the first place,

899
00:45:10,335 --> 00:45:12,128
but like, I did.

900
00:45:12,212 --> 00:45:15,298
I really did try
to be a good Machine senator,

901
00:45:15,382 --> 00:45:16,883
But at the end of the day,

902
00:45:16,966 --> 00:45:20,011
something just felt
really dark and ugly about it.

903
00:45:22,263 --> 00:45:26,810
We slowly make our way over
to the Kappa Alpha house,

904
00:45:26,851 --> 00:45:29,521
and we go downstairs
into the basement,

905
00:45:29,604 --> 00:45:31,940
and I kind of peer in
and can see

906
00:45:32,023 --> 00:45:35,068
this circle
of people standing around

907
00:45:35,151 --> 00:45:39,114
in this kind of like dingy,
smelly fraternity basement.

908
00:45:39,155 --> 00:45:41,616
I'm asking myself,
"What have I got myself into?"

909
00:45:41,658 --> 00:45:42,826
Because I'm like, number one,

910
00:45:42,867 --> 00:45:44,285
why are we meeting
in a basement?

911
00:45:44,327 --> 00:45:46,705
Number two, why are we meeting
at, you know,

912
00:45:46,788 --> 00:45:48,581
10:00, 11:00 at night
on a Tuesday?

913
00:45:48,665 --> 00:45:49,874
What are we hiding?

914
00:45:49,958 --> 00:45:51,376
The individual
leading the meeting,

915
00:45:51,459 --> 00:45:53,795
he was like, "This is just
an opportunity for you

916
00:45:53,837 --> 00:45:55,588
to see each other's faces.

917
00:45:55,672 --> 00:45:56,756
This is, like,
the group of people

918
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,259
you're going to
be working with."

919
00:45:59,342 --> 00:46:01,094
Up until that point,
I didn't understand

920
00:46:01,177 --> 00:46:05,181
that I was essentially
going to be a figurehead

921
00:46:05,223 --> 00:46:09,019
that was going to do what
my Machine rep told me to do.

922
00:46:09,102 --> 00:46:11,980
And, you know,
every time I did something

923
00:46:12,022 --> 00:46:14,566
that she wanted me to do,

924
00:46:14,649 --> 00:46:16,860
I always received
positive feedback.

925
00:46:16,901 --> 00:46:18,528
I always received praise.

926
00:46:18,570 --> 00:46:22,032
In that moment, I felt like
I was doing something good,

927
00:46:22,115 --> 00:46:24,200
but I really wasn't doing
anything at all

928
00:46:24,284 --> 00:46:26,411
except, you know,
being a puppet.

929
00:46:26,494 --> 00:46:30,290
I think it's ridiculous that
sororities require you to send

930
00:46:30,373 --> 00:46:33,084
a screenshot
of your voting receipt, right?

931
00:46:33,168 --> 00:46:35,211
Others want the e-mail
of your voting receipt, like,

932
00:46:35,295 --> 00:46:38,089
and if you don't send that in,
some sororities fine you.

933
00:46:39,299 --> 00:46:42,927
My sorority reacted
very negatively to the article,

934
00:46:43,011 --> 00:46:45,555
because The Machine
is the Greek system.

935
00:46:45,597 --> 00:46:49,934
I think it was perceived as me
going against my own sisterhood

936
00:46:50,018 --> 00:46:52,062
and my own sorority.

937
00:46:52,103 --> 00:46:55,065
Only a handful of
independent candidates

938
00:46:55,148 --> 00:46:59,235
have successfully gone against
The Machine and beat them.

939
00:46:59,319 --> 00:47:01,571
The university actually
had to shut down

940
00:47:01,613 --> 00:47:06,993
the Student Government
Association from 1993 until 1996

941
00:47:07,077 --> 00:47:10,330
because of The Machine's
alleged activities.

942
00:47:24,260 --> 00:47:29,099
The Machine systematically
made sure that a minority group

943
00:47:29,140 --> 00:47:34,646
on campus of "elite people"
who got special treatment,

944
00:47:34,729 --> 00:47:36,231
who lived in special homes,

945
00:47:36,272 --> 00:47:40,193
who came from the most affluent
and powerful families,

946
00:47:40,276 --> 00:47:42,737
got an advantage
on everyone else.

947
00:47:42,779 --> 00:47:45,031
It's a way better teacher
of how to do

948
00:47:45,115 --> 00:47:48,451
nefarious things for power

949
00:47:48,535 --> 00:47:51,996
than you could ever get
in a political science class.

950
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,792
But I think it's a threat
to people's hopes and dreams

951
00:47:55,875 --> 00:47:59,129
that they may not be able
to fit into the crowd

952
00:47:59,170 --> 00:48:02,716
in maybe the tax bracket
they want to fit into.

953
00:48:02,799 --> 00:48:05,093
I think the danger
is not belonging,

954
00:48:05,176 --> 00:48:08,138
it's not being one
of the chosen people.

955
00:48:12,851 --> 00:48:14,185
Okay.

956
00:48:14,269 --> 00:48:17,063
Little update for you guys.
I'm so excited.

957
00:48:17,147 --> 00:48:20,316
We are 139 days from me

958
00:48:20,358 --> 00:48:23,486
attending the University
of Alabama and rushing.

959
00:48:23,570 --> 00:48:27,157
It is so nice to see,
like, an actual copy

960
00:48:27,198 --> 00:48:29,993
in my hand
of my sorority résumé.

961
00:48:30,076 --> 00:48:32,078
I've had three different
people proof it.

962
00:48:32,162 --> 00:48:33,413
I need to tweak a few things.

963
00:48:33,496 --> 00:48:35,331
I'm going to bring
this light pink down.

964
00:48:35,373 --> 00:48:38,376
And then I also have
my headshot.

965
00:48:38,460 --> 00:48:40,253
I probably look my best
in this photo.

966
00:48:40,337 --> 00:48:43,131
It's honestly been really
therapeutic doing this résumé

967
00:48:43,173 --> 00:48:44,841
and just creating this.

968
00:48:44,883 --> 00:48:46,509
I've been super stressed out
with school

969
00:48:46,593 --> 00:48:50,347
and just life in general and
my anxiety has been really bad,

970
00:48:50,430 --> 00:48:52,515
so honestly, what's been
pushing me through each day

971
00:48:52,557 --> 00:48:54,601
is reminding myself
that I get to go to the school

972
00:48:54,684 --> 00:48:57,812
that I've wanted to go to
since my freshman year,

973
00:48:57,854 --> 00:48:59,689
and I also get to rush

974
00:48:59,731 --> 00:49:02,025
and meet a bunch of new people.

975
00:49:02,108 --> 00:49:04,527
On the days when I feel
super lonely at home,

976
00:49:04,569 --> 00:49:07,364
that's what I think about
constantly, is how I get to

977
00:49:07,447 --> 00:49:09,199
go to a new school
and meet new people.

978
00:49:09,240 --> 00:49:12,327
So if you're feeling down
right now,

979
00:49:12,369 --> 00:49:14,662
just think of the future
and think of the positive,

980
00:49:14,704 --> 00:49:15,997
'cause that's what
I've been doing.

981
00:49:16,039 --> 00:49:18,208
Just an update for y'all.

982
00:49:26,424 --> 00:49:27,676
♪ Hey ♪

983
00:49:27,717 --> 00:49:30,345
♪ Am I normal enough? ♪

984
00:49:31,554 --> 00:49:34,391
So why do you think
you need a Rush consultant?

985
00:49:34,474 --> 00:49:37,185
Just 'cause I didn't have
anyone in my family

986
00:49:37,227 --> 00:49:39,270
that's been through
the Rush process,

987
00:49:39,354 --> 00:49:44,275
so going to her would help,
like, get all my stuff in order.

988
00:49:44,359 --> 00:49:47,570
So when I walk in the house,
you know, like in

989
00:49:47,654 --> 00:49:52,283
the open house or whatever,
and you meet them and like,

990
00:49:52,367 --> 00:49:54,202
I'm talking,
having a conversation

991
00:49:54,244 --> 00:49:57,455
and then I run out of,
like, things to say

992
00:49:57,539 --> 00:50:00,250
and I'm just staring back
at them, like,

993
00:50:00,333 --> 00:50:02,002
what am I supposed to do?

994
00:50:02,085 --> 00:50:06,172
I can help you be prepared
for that awkwardness,

995
00:50:06,256 --> 00:50:07,799
and so you're not
going to have it.

996
00:50:07,882 --> 00:50:10,468
Somebody else can be awkward.
You're not gonna be awkward.

997
00:50:10,552 --> 00:50:11,511
Just sayin'.

998
00:50:11,594 --> 00:50:13,013
So does that answer
your question?

999
00:50:13,096 --> 00:50:14,097
That make you feel
a little bit better?

1000
00:50:14,180 --> 00:50:15,348
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

1001
00:50:15,432 --> 00:50:16,725
So we do résumé and pictures,

1002
00:50:16,766 --> 00:50:20,311
and then we start working
on your recommendations.

1003
00:50:20,395 --> 00:50:22,105
I used to be
a professional photographer,

1004
00:50:22,147 --> 00:50:26,359
so I can shoot a few pictures
of you today if you want.

1005
00:50:26,443 --> 00:50:29,237
Look up at me.

1006
00:50:29,279 --> 00:50:30,947
I really want
to do one with you

1007
00:50:30,989 --> 00:50:33,867
laying with your feet
crossed behind you.

1008
00:50:33,950 --> 00:50:35,076
Hold on.

1009
00:50:38,413 --> 00:50:41,708
I've lived one of their
worst nightmares.

1010
00:50:41,791 --> 00:50:45,420
I can still smell
the smells of the dorm room.

1011
00:50:47,839 --> 00:50:50,592
I remember this girl
was sitting,

1012
00:50:50,633 --> 00:50:54,095
leaning against the wall,
reading a book, like,

1013
00:50:54,137 --> 00:50:55,889
while she was
waiting to find out.

1014
00:50:55,972 --> 00:50:57,182
And I was like,

1015
00:50:57,265 --> 00:50:59,434
"How can anybody
be that confident

1016
00:50:59,476 --> 00:51:00,977
that they're getting in
the sorority?"

1017
00:51:01,061 --> 00:51:03,480
This girl got into
a sorority and I didn't,

1018
00:51:03,521 --> 00:51:06,483
and I was just weeping
for hours.

1019
00:51:06,524 --> 00:51:09,569
I was embarrassed.
What did I do? Am I ugly?

1020
00:51:09,652 --> 00:51:12,155
What is it about me
that I can't be getting ready

1021
00:51:12,197 --> 00:51:14,366
to go to a social tonight?

1022
00:51:14,449 --> 00:51:17,160
I went back through Rush
my sophomore year

1023
00:51:17,202 --> 00:51:19,162
and got my first choice,

1024
00:51:19,204 --> 00:51:22,624
but it has made me
uniquely understand

1025
00:51:22,665 --> 00:51:26,503
the feelings
that these girls are having.

1026
00:51:26,544 --> 00:51:31,549
I can recall that feeling
just like it was yesterday.

1027
00:51:31,633 --> 00:51:35,345
From that experience, that's why
I started this business.

1028
00:51:35,387 --> 00:51:37,013
Now do, like,
a really big smile.

1029
00:51:46,439 --> 00:51:50,985
God, you are so perfect
for this.

1030
00:51:51,069 --> 00:51:53,863
Hold on, one second.

1031
00:51:56,700 --> 00:51:59,202
Everyone here thinks
I'm everything but Black.

1032
00:51:59,244 --> 00:52:03,081
Like, I'm white and Black.
They think I'm everything.

1033
00:52:03,164 --> 00:52:05,750
Like, this one guy thought --
Like, he was --

1034
00:52:05,834 --> 00:52:09,212
He swore that I was just white
and just really, really tan.

1035
00:52:09,254 --> 00:52:11,715
-Tan.
-Yeah.

1036
00:52:11,798 --> 00:52:17,470
I was like, can you not tell,
like, I'm mixed?

1037
00:52:17,554 --> 00:52:21,349
Everyone here just look at you
if you have any color in you.

1038
00:52:21,391 --> 00:52:24,769
It's just, like,
really awkward, I guess.

1039
00:52:24,853 --> 00:52:28,481
I feel like a black sheep.

1040
00:52:28,565 --> 00:52:31,818
If I'm too white,
then I'm whitewashed,

1041
00:52:31,901 --> 00:52:35,155
but if I act too Black, then...

1042
00:52:35,238 --> 00:52:37,240
I'm not white enough.

1043
00:52:37,323 --> 00:52:38,783
Like, what am I supposed to be?

1044
00:52:38,867 --> 00:52:41,619
'Cause I'm both races.
Why can't I just act myself?

1045
00:52:41,703 --> 00:52:45,081
I'm not acting a race.
You can't act a race.

1046
00:52:45,165 --> 00:52:48,543
I'm just split in two,
my whole life.

1047
00:52:48,585 --> 00:52:52,922
I'm just gonna be split.
Society's dumb.

1048
00:52:52,964 --> 00:52:57,886
So at the University of Alabama,
the Panhellenic sorority

1049
00:52:57,927 --> 00:53:00,930
are historically like, white,

1050
00:53:00,972 --> 00:53:03,266
and the Divine 9 here

1051
00:53:03,350 --> 00:53:07,437
is historically
a Black sorority.

1052
00:53:07,479 --> 00:53:08,646
What's the difference between

1053
00:53:08,730 --> 00:53:10,940
Black sororities
and the white sororities?

1054
00:53:10,982 --> 00:53:15,111
I don't really know much
about the Black sororities

1055
00:53:15,153 --> 00:53:17,322
that much,

1056
00:53:17,405 --> 00:53:18,823
because I haven't
actually looked into it,

1057
00:53:18,907 --> 00:53:23,912
because I just wanted to be in
the other one.

1058
00:53:25,288 --> 00:53:29,125
To be in a D9 sorority,
I feel like there is

1059
00:53:29,209 --> 00:53:31,544
a tie to history
that you need to have.

1060
00:53:31,628 --> 00:53:35,215
Even had I become
more comfortable

1061
00:53:35,298 --> 00:53:37,759
with who I was
in a racial sense,

1062
00:53:37,842 --> 00:53:41,304
I still feel like
I wouldn't fit in there,

1063
00:53:41,388 --> 00:53:43,807
because I was raised
by white people.

1064
00:53:43,848 --> 00:53:46,476
I think that they
would have accepted me,

1065
00:53:46,518 --> 00:53:49,604
but I wouldn't have
accepted myself enough

1066
00:53:49,646 --> 00:53:51,690
to get the sorority experience

1067
00:53:51,773 --> 00:53:53,817
that I would
have been happy with.

1068
00:53:53,858 --> 00:53:59,239
So in my sorority, I haven't had
any overt racist experiences,

1069
00:53:59,322 --> 00:54:02,325
but I have had some weird things

1070
00:54:02,367 --> 00:54:05,328
that people feel empowered
to say to me.

1071
00:54:05,370 --> 00:54:07,706
I was at chapter for
formal chapter.

1072
00:54:07,789 --> 00:54:11,376
So we have to be, you know,
in business casual, essentially,

1073
00:54:11,459 --> 00:54:13,712
and I...
there were a group of girls,

1074
00:54:13,795 --> 00:54:16,131
and there was one girl
in my sorority that,

1075
00:54:16,172 --> 00:54:18,591
she is --

1076
00:54:18,675 --> 00:54:21,344
she -- she wants so badly
to be progressive

1077
00:54:21,428 --> 00:54:23,221
and to be like "woke"
or whatever.

1078
00:54:23,304 --> 00:54:25,181
She goes, "Oh, my God, Rian,
your hair is curly."

1079
00:54:25,265 --> 00:54:27,434
I'm like,
"Yeah, yeah, I haven't...

1080
00:54:27,517 --> 00:54:28,685
I didn't straighten it."

1081
00:54:28,727 --> 00:54:30,687
She goes,
"Did your relaxer wash out?"

1082
00:54:30,729 --> 00:54:32,772
I'm like, "Oh, my God.
Oh, my God."

1083
00:54:32,856 --> 00:54:35,358
Like, what does that even mean?
Like, what...?

1084
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,360
It's that she, like,
wants to, like, flex that

1085
00:54:37,444 --> 00:54:39,070
she, like, has an understanding
of Black culture

1086
00:54:39,154 --> 00:54:40,864
and she, like, knows
what a relaxer is,

1087
00:54:40,947 --> 00:54:42,157
but, like, bestie girl.

1088
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:43,867
What?

1089
00:54:43,950 --> 00:54:46,911
The same girl, probably
every time that I, like,

1090
00:54:46,995 --> 00:54:49,080
sit down and I talk to her,
she's like, "Remind me.

1091
00:54:49,164 --> 00:54:50,749
Which one of your parents
is white?"

1092
00:54:50,832 --> 00:54:53,418
I'm like, "It's still my mom.
It is still my mom.

1093
00:54:53,501 --> 00:54:55,378
Every single time
that you will ask me,

1094
00:54:55,462 --> 00:54:56,713
it's still my mom."

1095
00:54:56,796 --> 00:55:00,008
She's not getting any darker.
Like what?

1096
00:55:09,225 --> 00:55:11,561
So I attended
the University of Alabama

1097
00:55:11,644 --> 00:55:16,066
from the fall of 1983
through the spring of 1987.

1098
00:55:16,149 --> 00:55:19,527
I started law school in '87
and graduated in '90,

1099
00:55:19,569 --> 00:55:21,863
so I was there for two tours.

1100
00:55:25,867 --> 00:55:28,787
So you would think that progress
would be made more quickly,

1101
00:55:28,870 --> 00:55:32,332
that it wouldn't take
until the year 2013

1102
00:55:32,415 --> 00:55:34,459
to integrate the sororities,

1103
00:55:34,542 --> 00:55:35,919
but when you think
about the history

1104
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,420
of the sororities themselves

1105
00:55:37,462 --> 00:55:38,797
and the history
of the state of Alabama

1106
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,341
and just
the undercurrent of racism

1107
00:55:41,424 --> 00:55:44,594
that has been so prominent
in our history,

1108
00:55:44,678 --> 00:55:47,555
it really doesn't surprise me
that it took that long.

1109
00:55:47,597 --> 00:55:51,768
I didn't necessarily see it
as an option or a choice

1110
00:55:51,851 --> 00:55:53,812
to rush Panhellenic.

1111
00:55:53,895 --> 00:55:59,859
I didn't see any women that look
like me in those organizations.

1112
00:55:59,943 --> 00:56:03,822
It's a busy time at Alabama.
It's time for sorority Rush.

1113
00:56:03,905 --> 00:56:07,575
Girls brimming with excitement
at the thought of being chosen

1114
00:56:07,659 --> 00:56:09,577
to move to Magnolia Drive.

1115
00:56:09,619 --> 00:56:11,579
But there's another
group moving in --

1116
00:56:11,621 --> 00:56:13,331
the Alpha Kappa Alphas.

1117
00:56:14,874 --> 00:56:18,169
We were the first
African-American sorority

1118
00:56:18,253 --> 00:56:19,462
on Sorority Row.

1119
00:56:19,504 --> 00:56:21,589
We integrated Sorority Row.

1120
00:56:21,673 --> 00:56:23,383
♪ One, two...three, four ♪

1121
00:56:23,466 --> 00:56:27,470
♪ A-L-P-H-A K-A-P-P-A
A-L-P-H-A ♪

1122
00:56:27,512 --> 00:56:29,889
♪ Alpha Kappa Alpha ♪

1123
00:56:29,973 --> 00:56:33,727
♪ A-L-P-H-A K-A-P-P-A
A-L-P-H-A ♪

1124
00:56:33,810 --> 00:56:36,688
♪ Alpha Kappa Alpha ♪

1125
00:56:36,771 --> 00:56:42,318
One night after we were at a --
at a fraternity party,

1126
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:43,778
we were driving by

1127
00:56:43,820 --> 00:56:48,074
and we noticed a smoldering
cross on the front lawn.

1128
00:56:48,158 --> 00:56:49,534
We were terrified.

1129
00:56:49,617 --> 00:56:52,996
And anger crept in later,
after we got beyond

1130
00:56:53,079 --> 00:56:57,334
the shock and the dismay
of the entire situation.

1131
00:56:57,375 --> 00:56:58,626
Now, I grew up in Alabama,

1132
00:56:58,668 --> 00:57:02,213
so hearing that crosses
were being burned

1133
00:57:02,297 --> 00:57:04,007
is something that
I grew up hearing about,

1134
00:57:04,049 --> 00:57:08,762
but I had never personally seen
a cross being burned.

1135
00:57:08,845 --> 00:57:12,682
And once you see that,
you can't unsee it,

1136
00:57:12,724 --> 00:57:15,185
and it sticks with you
for a lifetime.

1137
00:57:25,153 --> 00:57:29,699
I have come to know and love
the people in my sorority,

1138
00:57:29,741 --> 00:57:33,995
and to know that they wouldn't
have loved or trusted me

1139
00:57:34,037 --> 00:57:39,542
40, 50 years ago,
it makes me feel upset.

1140
00:57:39,626 --> 00:57:42,879
And I -- I honestly,
for my own self-preservation,

1141
00:57:42,921 --> 00:57:45,215
don't really like
to think about it.

1142
00:58:14,035 --> 00:58:15,620
Little bit more?

1143
00:58:15,704 --> 00:58:17,372
Just a little bit more.

1144
00:58:17,414 --> 00:58:19,499
On Bid Day, we sat outside,

1145
00:58:19,582 --> 00:58:20,834
and we could hear, like,

1146
00:58:20,917 --> 00:58:22,252
all the screams coming from
the stadium

1147
00:58:22,335 --> 00:58:23,586
whenever they opened
their bids.

1148
00:58:23,628 --> 00:58:24,838
And it was just crazy.
Oh, my gosh.

1149
00:58:24,921 --> 00:58:26,673
My friend sent me a snap,
and he was like,

1150
00:58:26,756 --> 00:58:29,300
"The ground just rumbled."
Literally.

1151
00:58:31,177 --> 00:58:32,303
I'm gonna rush in the fall.

1152
00:58:32,387 --> 00:58:34,431
I'm rushing in the fall,
for sure.

1153
00:58:34,514 --> 00:58:38,101
And then what about Abby?
I'm not planning on it.

1154
00:58:38,184 --> 00:58:43,106
It just -- it's lot of money
and a lot of time commitment

1155
00:58:43,148 --> 00:58:45,775
and just a lot of work,
it seems like.

1156
00:58:45,817 --> 00:58:48,737
So there's like, almost
250 calories in my bowl,

1157
00:58:48,778 --> 00:58:50,655
because the meat and seasoning
and everything.

1158
00:58:50,739 --> 00:58:52,032
How do you know that?

1159
00:58:52,115 --> 00:58:53,742
'Cause that's why
I count out the chips,

1160
00:58:53,825 --> 00:58:56,745
so there's exactly 10 chips
in my bowl.

1161
00:58:56,786 --> 00:58:58,329
Wait, I didn't even see you
do that, though.

1162
00:58:58,413 --> 00:59:01,082
'Cause I -- when I was
shaking it, I counted it out.

1163
00:59:01,124 --> 00:59:04,711
I just have this image in
my head that I need to be...

1164
00:59:04,794 --> 00:59:08,089
like, tiny, I guess, 'cause..
You are tiny.

1165
00:59:08,131 --> 00:59:10,300
Well, I don't --
I really don't see myself...

1166
00:59:10,342 --> 00:59:15,889
Like, when I look at myself,
I see myself, like, as fat.

1167
00:59:15,972 --> 00:59:17,640
Like, I know you guys
say I'm not,

1168
00:59:17,724 --> 00:59:20,977
but, like, I see myself as that
and I can't help it.

1169
00:59:21,019 --> 00:59:24,898
I feel like I would never have
had an eating disorder

1170
00:59:24,981 --> 00:59:27,650
or anything
if the boys growing up

1171
00:59:27,734 --> 00:59:28,985
didn't say what they said to me.

1172
00:59:29,069 --> 00:59:30,904
Yeah, it is --
it really is the men.

1173
00:59:30,987 --> 00:59:32,739
I feel like women are like --

1174
00:59:32,822 --> 00:59:36,117
Like, you grow up to,
like, cater to men,

1175
00:59:36,159 --> 00:59:38,495
and it's sad.

1176
00:59:38,578 --> 00:59:41,206
Have the three of you
ever gotten in a fight?

1177
00:59:42,707 --> 00:59:43,958
-No.
-I don't think so.

1178
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:45,919
We -- like, last night, okay,

1179
00:59:46,002 --> 00:59:48,713
I get overstimulated sometimes
really easily and, like,

1180
00:59:48,797 --> 00:59:50,298
I just break, like,
I'm just like,

1181
00:59:50,340 --> 00:59:53,843
"Oh, my God, Stop. Like,
everything just needs to stop."

1182
00:59:53,927 --> 00:59:55,887
And so last night,
I got a little overstimulated

1183
00:59:55,970 --> 00:59:58,431
and I yelled at Makayla, and
then she was like, "We're good."

1184
01:00:00,725 --> 01:00:03,269
It was bad, but we're good.

1185
01:00:03,353 --> 01:00:04,521
Yeah, I wasn't listening to her

1186
01:00:04,562 --> 01:00:06,398
when she
was yelling at me, either.

1187
01:00:07,774 --> 01:00:09,859
Hardcore Southern Baptist.

1188
01:00:09,901 --> 01:00:12,070
We're all Baptist?
I didn't know that.

1189
01:00:12,153 --> 01:00:14,781
I think when you're
raised in Alabama,

1190
01:00:14,864 --> 01:00:16,199
you're kind of forced to be.

1191
01:00:16,282 --> 01:00:17,784
I don't know, there's a lot of
people in my town

1192
01:00:17,867 --> 01:00:19,077
that are, like,
Presbyterian and stuff.

1193
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,871
What's your relationship
with God like?

1194
01:00:21,955 --> 01:00:24,499
I really think He's just
the anchor in my life,

1195
01:00:24,541 --> 01:00:26,960
that I need to, like, keep,

1196
01:00:27,043 --> 01:00:31,172
'cause life be getting
real difficult sometimes.

1197
01:00:31,214 --> 01:00:33,216
And the fact that He
risked His life --

1198
01:00:33,299 --> 01:00:35,844
like, He died for us

1199
01:00:35,885 --> 01:00:38,138
and, like, just for our sins.

1200
01:00:38,221 --> 01:00:40,098
I don't know,
that's just really comforting

1201
01:00:40,181 --> 01:00:44,185
to know that someone
would do that for you.

1202
01:00:44,227 --> 01:00:46,563
Hold up.

1203
01:00:46,604 --> 01:00:47,731
Like, if I could do anything
ever again,

1204
01:00:47,772 --> 01:00:49,024
it would be Rush week.

1205
01:00:49,107 --> 01:00:50,984
The experience is worth it.
Yeah.

1206
01:00:51,067 --> 01:00:56,656
Like, because everyone talks
about how, like, cool it is.

1207
01:00:56,740 --> 01:00:58,700
I just want to do it.

1208
01:00:58,783 --> 01:01:00,368
Feet are, like, on the wall?

1209
01:01:00,410 --> 01:01:02,078
Well, that's the thing --
Makayla does that all the time.

1210
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:03,913
-I'm like...
-You don't think it'd be weird?

1211
01:01:03,997 --> 01:01:05,915
I don't mean it
to be stretchy.

1212
01:01:05,957 --> 01:01:09,878
Like...

1213
01:01:09,961 --> 01:01:11,254
I did that too well, though.

1214
01:01:11,338 --> 01:01:13,423
Yeah, you did.
You've gone that way before.

1215
01:01:13,465 --> 01:01:15,759
-I'm like --
-No!

1216
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,553
No, me and Makayla were like --

1217
01:01:18,595 --> 01:01:21,431
-We were like, "Hey."
-"Heyyy."

1218
01:01:21,473 --> 01:01:23,641
Makayla was like, "George Bush!"

1219
01:01:23,725 --> 01:01:26,311
Did I tell you
she did that to me?

1220
01:01:59,761 --> 01:02:00,970
♪ Hey ♪

1221
01:02:01,054 --> 01:02:03,014
We got roofied at a bar.

1222
01:02:03,098 --> 01:02:04,849
So, this guy ordered us shots.

1223
01:02:04,933 --> 01:02:06,976
One of the bartenders was
telling us how, like,

1224
01:02:07,018 --> 01:02:08,186
when they went back
in the video footage,

1225
01:02:08,269 --> 01:02:10,814
he, like,
slipped it into all of them.

1226
01:02:10,855 --> 01:02:13,400
So it's nice.
We love that for us.

1227
01:02:13,483 --> 01:02:15,944
The last thing I remember
is looking at Makayla,

1228
01:02:15,985 --> 01:02:19,280
and I was gone, and my, like,
friend found me in the woods.

1229
01:02:19,322 --> 01:02:21,741
We took Makayla to the hospital,
and she had, like,

1230
01:02:21,825 --> 01:02:23,118
drugs in her system,

1231
01:02:23,159 --> 01:02:25,161
and we don't do drugs,
like, at all,

1232
01:02:25,203 --> 01:02:26,663
and I was with her
the whole night.

1233
01:02:26,705 --> 01:02:27,997
But they did find him,

1234
01:02:28,081 --> 01:02:30,959
and he did get beat up
really bad.

1235
01:02:31,042 --> 01:02:33,920
Do you think he'll get,
like, criminal charges?

1236
01:02:34,004 --> 01:02:36,923
If we -- If anybody
pressed any, but I'm not.

1237
01:02:37,007 --> 01:02:38,633
I don't know, I just don't...

1238
01:02:38,675 --> 01:02:40,260
Honestly, I don't want to go
through the whole court case,

1239
01:02:40,343 --> 01:02:41,970
'cause I've only been through
that court case.

1240
01:02:42,053 --> 01:02:44,180
I don't want to go
through it again. It's annoying.

1241
01:02:44,264 --> 01:02:47,684
-Have you been roofied before?
-Mm-hmm.

1242
01:02:47,767 --> 01:02:49,436
Like, three times before.

1243
01:02:52,439 --> 01:02:54,733
Oh, I could give you
the pageant walk, but --

1244
01:02:56,026 --> 01:02:58,737
It's so, like, fierce, though.

1245
01:03:03,408 --> 01:03:05,535
♪ Heyyy ♪

1246
01:03:05,577 --> 01:03:08,121
It's hard to be a perfectionist,
because you want everything

1247
01:03:08,204 --> 01:03:10,540
to go in order,
and sometimes it doesn't.

1248
01:03:10,582 --> 01:03:14,002
And when there's multiple things
that just don't go right,

1249
01:03:14,085 --> 01:03:17,464
it really stresses me out.

1250
01:03:17,547 --> 01:03:19,174
And my adoption, like,

1251
01:03:19,215 --> 01:03:21,843
it triggers some of
my depression and my anxiety.

1252
01:03:21,885 --> 01:03:24,137
When people are,
like, going distant,

1253
01:03:24,220 --> 01:03:26,514
it really makes me nervous
because I --

1254
01:03:26,556 --> 01:03:28,016
I have trust issues with people,

1255
01:03:28,058 --> 01:03:32,020
and I get nervous that people
are gonna leave me.

1256
01:03:32,103 --> 01:03:36,107
I accidentally found out
about me being adopted.

1257
01:03:36,191 --> 01:03:38,276
I'm really close with
my grandparents,

1258
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,029
and my grandpa had handed me
a paper, and he was like,

1259
01:03:41,071 --> 01:03:43,073
"Do you think your parents
still want this paper?"

1260
01:03:43,114 --> 01:03:45,200
And I was like,
"I don't think so.

1261
01:03:45,241 --> 01:03:46,701
Like, let me just read it,
though."

1262
01:03:46,743 --> 01:03:48,578
I was more concerned
about my homework,

1263
01:03:48,661 --> 01:03:50,080
and I'd read it after,

1264
01:03:50,121 --> 01:03:52,415
and it had talked
about me being adopted,

1265
01:03:52,499 --> 01:03:55,126
and I was like --
I thought they were joking

1266
01:03:55,210 --> 01:03:56,753
and, like,
I thought it was a joke,

1267
01:03:56,795 --> 01:03:58,755
so I was waiting for, like,
the laughing,

1268
01:03:58,838 --> 01:04:00,298
and there was no laughing.

1269
01:04:00,382 --> 01:04:02,300
Like, he was just focused
on doing his own thing.

1270
01:04:02,384 --> 01:04:04,302
He didn't even know
that it said that.

1271
01:04:04,386 --> 01:04:08,765
So it -- it turned
my world upside down.

1272
01:04:10,350 --> 01:04:12,644
Basically, I thought I knew
who I was,

1273
01:04:12,727 --> 01:04:14,354
and then it completely changed.

1274
01:04:14,437 --> 01:04:16,648
I've been in therapy
since I was 13,

1275
01:04:16,731 --> 01:04:20,610
and then last year, I started
doing some trauma treatments

1276
01:04:20,652 --> 01:04:24,614
for just trauma that I didn't
even realize that I could have,

1277
01:04:24,656 --> 01:04:28,201
but it was making my anxiety
and my depression so high.

1278
01:04:28,284 --> 01:04:31,955
I used to be able to not even
take a test in class

1279
01:04:31,996 --> 01:04:33,623
without almost passing out.

1280
01:04:33,665 --> 01:04:36,501
So I'm really hoping that
when I get to Alabama, like,

1281
01:04:36,584 --> 01:04:39,462
I can just always have
an open heart and an open mind

1282
01:04:39,504 --> 01:04:44,134
and just let myself be me
and not let my triggers,

1283
01:04:44,217 --> 01:04:47,303
like, affect me
and take over my life there.

1284
01:04:51,808 --> 01:04:53,351
Just like Shelby,

1285
01:04:53,435 --> 01:04:55,979
I was really looking forward
to freshman year of college.

1286
01:04:56,021 --> 01:04:57,480
It's a new beginning.

1287
01:04:57,564 --> 01:05:03,486
My big plan was that
I was going to take the wig off.

1288
01:05:03,570 --> 01:05:05,989
But when I got to college,
I was too scared.

1289
01:05:06,072 --> 01:05:07,615
I couldn't do it.

1290
01:05:07,657 --> 01:05:10,660
I couldn't even tell my freshman
year roommate that I wore a wig.

1291
01:05:10,702 --> 01:05:16,416
So I slept in my wig
every single night that year.

1292
01:05:16,499 --> 01:05:19,627
I was convinced that,
if you knew I was bald,

1293
01:05:19,711 --> 01:05:22,213
you wouldn't want
to be my friend.

1294
01:05:26,843 --> 01:05:28,261
I don't know.

1295
01:05:28,345 --> 01:05:30,722
I always said I was
never going to dye my hair.

1296
01:05:30,805 --> 01:05:32,515
And then I started, like,
I got highlights

1297
01:05:32,557 --> 01:05:34,100
and now I just can't stop.

1298
01:05:34,184 --> 01:05:36,728
Like, every time I love
to just go lighter and lighter.

1299
01:05:36,811 --> 01:05:41,858
Every time she asks what I want,
I just say, "Okay, blonder."

1300
01:05:41,941 --> 01:05:43,985
-Which one of the dates? August?
-Yeah.

1301
01:05:44,027 --> 01:05:47,364
We have Open House
and then Philanthropy.

1302
01:05:47,447 --> 01:05:50,158
And then there's
Sisterhood Preference Day,

1303
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:51,868
and then there's Bid Day.

1304
01:06:04,756 --> 01:06:07,050
I had a whole spiritual
awakening while you were gone.

1305
01:06:07,092 --> 01:06:08,343
You don't even understand.

1306
01:06:08,385 --> 01:06:09,844
During finals,
I definitely had, like,

1307
01:06:09,886 --> 01:06:11,262
a blinding revelation.

1308
01:06:11,346 --> 01:06:14,099
Like, I sat myself down
in front of a mirror

1309
01:06:14,182 --> 01:06:16,434
and was like,
"How you've been acting lately

1310
01:06:16,518 --> 01:06:18,853
is not you,
that's out of character,

1311
01:06:18,937 --> 01:06:20,480
and you need to
pull it together."

1312
01:06:20,563 --> 01:06:23,441
The stuff I've been doing,
like, going out how I have been,

1313
01:06:23,525 --> 01:06:27,487
you know, I shouldn't be
doing that on a Wednesday.

1314
01:06:27,570 --> 01:06:29,280
I need to be focusing
on my studies.

1315
01:06:29,364 --> 01:06:31,741
Like, I'm there to build
my career, make money,

1316
01:06:31,825 --> 01:06:34,077
and build an empire.

1317
01:06:34,119 --> 01:06:37,414
I'm not there to
see who can drink the most.

1318
01:06:37,455 --> 01:06:42,585
Like, that's just not me.
I just need to grow up.

1319
01:06:42,669 --> 01:06:45,338
I'm not trying to force
anything anymore.

1320
01:06:47,924 --> 01:06:49,467
Holliday: Hey,
what are you doing?

1321
01:06:49,551 --> 01:06:50,635
Driving.

1322
01:06:53,471 --> 01:06:55,181
Are you okay?

1323
01:06:55,265 --> 01:06:58,268
Oh, I just wanted
to talk to you.

1324
01:06:58,309 --> 01:06:59,394
I got a text last night

1325
01:06:59,477 --> 01:07:02,397
and someone was telling me
about how you

1326
01:07:02,439 --> 01:07:05,942
and Kirsten were just,
like, trashing me and

1327
01:07:05,984 --> 01:07:08,111
talking, like,
really bad about me

1328
01:07:08,153 --> 01:07:09,654
and I just want to talk to you
about that because

1329
01:07:09,738 --> 01:07:10,697
I don't really understand --

1330
01:07:10,780 --> 01:07:12,449
Who said that?

1331
01:07:12,490 --> 01:07:13,324
Huh?

1332
01:07:13,408 --> 01:07:15,535
-Who said that?
-Emma.

1333
01:07:15,618 --> 01:07:18,163
If I was in your position
I would be like,

1334
01:07:18,246 --> 01:07:19,831
who am I to believe Makayla

1335
01:07:19,914 --> 01:07:21,458
'cause she could
just be saying that

1336
01:07:21,499 --> 01:07:23,626
and she is actually
just doing that.

1337
01:07:23,710 --> 01:07:25,128
Well. Um.

1338
01:07:25,211 --> 01:07:27,756
Kirsten literally told Emma

1339
01:07:27,839 --> 01:07:28,840
that you said

1340
01:07:28,923 --> 01:07:32,218
I was psycho and clingy.

1341
01:07:33,595 --> 01:07:35,680
And I just had one
of Emma's friends --

1342
01:07:35,764 --> 01:07:36,681
that was with her last night --

1343
01:07:36,765 --> 01:07:38,683
confirm that Kirsten said
that you said that.

1344
01:07:43,813 --> 01:07:45,231
This is...

1345
01:07:45,315 --> 01:07:46,733
This is so annoying.

1346
01:07:49,319 --> 01:07:51,363
I just want to be
out of the drama.

1347
01:07:59,037 --> 01:08:01,081
I don't know who to believe
anymore 'cause

1348
01:08:01,164 --> 01:08:02,832
I feel like everyone just lies.

1349
01:08:19,391 --> 01:08:20,934
All she does is
hang out with Kappas,

1350
01:08:21,017 --> 01:08:22,310
and so she just ignores me now.

1351
01:08:22,352 --> 01:08:24,354
It's just a sorority
she wants to be in.

1352
01:08:24,396 --> 01:08:27,899
Well, I'm upset about it,
but, like, I -- oof. Ugh.

1353
01:08:27,982 --> 01:08:30,276
I hate emotions.

1354
01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:32,904
I do.
I'm so emotionally unavailable.

1355
01:08:32,987 --> 01:08:34,656
It's so sad.

1356
01:09:01,433 --> 01:09:04,310
I was leaving a place,
and I, like, stopped

1357
01:09:04,394 --> 01:09:05,729
'cause I heard my name.

1358
01:09:05,770 --> 01:09:07,480
Like, tell me how many people
on this campus

1359
01:09:07,564 --> 01:09:09,607
have the name Holliday?
Yeah, zero.

1360
01:09:09,691 --> 01:09:11,234
So I was eavesdropping.
I'll be honest.

1361
01:09:11,276 --> 01:09:12,527
I was being nosy.
I was eavesdropping.

1362
01:09:12,569 --> 01:09:14,237
I hear these girls
and they're like,

1363
01:09:14,279 --> 01:09:15,697
"Is that Holliday girl
going to rush, do you know?"

1364
01:09:15,739 --> 01:09:17,407
And then this other girl goes,
"Well, I hope not,

1365
01:09:17,490 --> 01:09:19,367
since she's blacklisted
from every sorority."

1366
01:09:19,409 --> 01:09:20,785
And I was like,
"Alright, that's cool."

1367
01:09:20,869 --> 01:09:22,912
Like, I'm not gonna waste
my time and money.

1368
01:09:22,996 --> 01:09:24,581
Like, if that is like...

1369
01:09:24,622 --> 01:09:26,374
you know, people are going to
blow smoke out their butt,

1370
01:09:26,416 --> 01:09:29,419
but like, if that is true,
I'm not gonna waste my money.

1371
01:09:29,461 --> 01:09:31,129
Like, there's no point.

1372
01:09:31,212 --> 01:09:33,506
I just, like,
don't think mentally

1373
01:09:33,590 --> 01:09:35,175
it would be best
for me to rush again,

1374
01:09:35,258 --> 01:09:36,468
like, and going through that.

1375
01:09:36,551 --> 01:09:38,261
Like, 'cause
I didn't realize, I guess,

1376
01:09:38,345 --> 01:09:39,888
until my therapist pointed out,

1377
01:09:39,929 --> 01:09:42,432
like, how much of a mental,
like, stress it put on me.

1378
01:09:42,515 --> 01:09:45,226
And I don't need that,
because when they say,

1379
01:09:45,268 --> 01:09:47,062
like, your freshman year
is a very humbling

1380
01:09:47,103 --> 01:09:48,897
and, like,
growing-up experience,

1381
01:09:48,980 --> 01:09:50,940
they truly mean that.

1382
01:10:01,451 --> 01:10:04,120
There has been a few nights
where I couldn't sleep at night.

1383
01:10:04,162 --> 01:10:05,538
Oh, seriously?

1384
01:10:05,622 --> 01:10:07,540
'Cause you were scared of
what I was gonna --

1385
01:10:07,624 --> 01:10:09,459
Not really afraid of
what you're...

1386
01:10:09,501 --> 01:10:11,127
It's just how we're
gonna be perceived.

1387
01:10:11,211 --> 01:10:12,712
The world we live in
right now is, like,

1388
01:10:12,796 --> 01:10:14,756
very much cancel culture.
Judgmental, yeah.

1389
01:10:14,798 --> 01:10:16,675
People are going to feel
how they're going to feel,

1390
01:10:16,758 --> 01:10:18,176
and I have to keep on
trucking along.

1391
01:10:18,259 --> 01:10:19,594
Yeah.

1392
01:10:19,636 --> 01:10:23,264
I just don't want
people to, like, hate us.

1393
01:10:23,306 --> 01:10:26,267
Or, like, hate me.
I don't want them to hate me.

1394
01:10:26,309 --> 01:10:27,686
-Or us.
-And, yeah.

1395
01:10:27,769 --> 01:10:29,646
But you're likable!

1396
01:10:31,898 --> 01:10:34,401
So, with Instagram
and all social media,

1397
01:10:34,484 --> 01:10:35,777
we first do a pre-screen.

1398
01:10:35,819 --> 01:10:37,696
So once you register,
they have your name,

1399
01:10:37,779 --> 01:10:39,531
and if they have your name,
they have the ability

1400
01:10:39,614 --> 01:10:41,449
to find you anywhere --
and these girls are like --

1401
01:10:41,491 --> 01:10:43,576
should be in the FBI,
creating fake accounts

1402
01:10:43,660 --> 01:10:46,329
and, like,
making sure they find you,

1403
01:10:46,371 --> 01:10:47,747
so they'll figure it out.

1404
01:10:47,831 --> 01:10:49,499
So we just want to make sure
your tagged photos

1405
01:10:49,541 --> 01:10:51,918
aren't anything
that would be labeled

1406
01:10:52,002 --> 01:10:54,129
as "a standard concern."

1407
01:10:54,170 --> 01:10:55,839
And I'm not seeing anything.

1408
01:10:55,880 --> 01:11:00,510
So what they'll do is they will
come sit right in front of you

1409
01:11:00,593 --> 01:11:02,429
and just start talking to you.

1410
01:11:02,512 --> 01:11:04,180
Okay, so we'll start with
the first question.

1411
01:11:04,222 --> 01:11:06,474
What made you pick
the University of Alabama?

1412
01:11:06,516 --> 01:11:09,394
So I'm going into advertising
as my major, actually.

1413
01:11:09,477 --> 01:11:11,479
They have
an amazing advertising program,

1414
01:11:11,521 --> 01:11:13,148
like, one of the best
in the country.

1415
01:11:13,189 --> 01:11:15,483
I think the biggest thing is
going to be the conversations.

1416
01:11:15,525 --> 01:11:18,862
Isabelle, you know,
is really good at small talk.

1417
01:11:18,945 --> 01:11:22,449
The only thing that I'm worried
about is that lead of getting

1418
01:11:22,532 --> 01:11:25,452
to that next part and, like,
her thinking one step ahead,

1419
01:11:25,535 --> 01:11:27,871
and that just comes
from practice.

1420
01:11:29,581 --> 01:11:31,541
-Do you dye it?
-Yeah.

1421
01:11:31,583 --> 01:11:35,712
Like, all that is,
like, blonde now.

1422
01:11:35,795 --> 01:11:39,507
And -- But we're only doing
a little bit lighter at a time

1423
01:11:39,591 --> 01:11:41,968
so it don't fall out.

1424
01:11:42,052 --> 01:11:43,470
There is a look

1425
01:11:43,553 --> 01:11:47,849
that is well put together
and showing confidence,

1426
01:11:47,891 --> 01:11:52,395
and you have to blend in
without crazy sticking out.

1427
01:11:52,437 --> 01:11:55,106
You don't have to be
like everybody else,

1428
01:11:55,190 --> 01:11:58,610
but you just need
to not stick out.

1429
01:11:58,693 --> 01:12:02,030
Not trying to follow the crowd
or the trend,

1430
01:12:02,113 --> 01:12:04,741
but while also fitting into

1431
01:12:04,824 --> 01:12:07,952
a certain kind of mold
just for Rush.

1432
01:12:08,036 --> 01:12:11,956
You don't want to give sorority
a reason to cut you.

1433
01:12:13,708 --> 01:12:15,960
What if you just naturally
stick out?

1434
01:12:16,044 --> 01:12:19,005
I'm thinking about myself,
because I have no hair.

1435
01:12:19,089 --> 01:12:20,590
-Right.
-But, like,

1436
01:12:20,674 --> 01:12:23,468
how would you
approach a situation like that

1437
01:12:23,551 --> 01:12:28,807
with somebody who just
automatically stood out?

1438
01:12:28,890 --> 01:12:30,809
There, how I would approach
someone who

1439
01:12:30,892 --> 01:12:34,646
automatically stands out,
and especially

1440
01:12:34,729 --> 01:12:39,609
in a place like Alabama,
we have a lot of clients

1441
01:12:39,651 --> 01:12:43,988
who stand out
for whatever reason,

1442
01:12:44,072 --> 01:12:47,075
but I make sure
that they're willing to listen

1443
01:12:47,158 --> 01:12:48,326
and they have to trust me.

1444
01:12:48,410 --> 01:12:51,204
They have to trust that I...

1445
01:12:51,287 --> 01:12:53,707
am not going to
steer them wrong.

1446
01:12:53,790 --> 01:12:56,626
If you own it, I think
you're -- you're great.

1447
01:12:56,668 --> 01:12:59,295
This girl is not owning it.

1448
01:12:59,379 --> 01:13:02,841
This is me freshman year,
in my wig.

1449
01:13:02,924 --> 01:13:06,511
The only time I took
my wig off that year

1450
01:13:06,594 --> 01:13:09,973
would be in the privacy
of the shower stall

1451
01:13:10,056 --> 01:13:11,641
in the bathroom.

1452
01:13:11,725 --> 01:13:17,689
I would take my wig off and let
the water pour over my head,

1453
01:13:17,772 --> 01:13:22,027
and then I'd put my wig
back on and I would wash it,

1454
01:13:22,110 --> 01:13:27,490
and I would go into my bedroom
at the dorm

1455
01:13:27,532 --> 01:13:32,370
like nothing had happened,
like everything was normal.

1456
01:13:32,454 --> 01:13:37,375
Eventually, my sophomore year,

1457
01:13:37,459 --> 01:13:42,797
the pain of not being myself

1458
01:13:42,839 --> 01:13:49,846
became greater
than my need to fit in.

1459
01:13:51,014 --> 01:13:57,520
I finally took my wig off.
It was just a simple action.

1460
01:13:57,562 --> 01:13:59,939
Just like -- Whhhh!

1461
01:14:01,900 --> 01:14:04,527
But I felt like
a thousand-pound helmet,

1462
01:14:04,569 --> 01:14:09,616
and it was the hardest thing

1463
01:14:09,699 --> 01:14:15,455
I have ever done
in my entire life.

1464
01:14:15,538 --> 01:14:18,541
And I did it,

1465
01:14:18,625 --> 01:14:22,212
and I took my wig off,

1466
01:14:22,253 --> 01:14:24,214
and I never put it back on.

1467
01:14:28,551 --> 01:14:31,221
And I owned it,

1468
01:14:31,262 --> 01:14:33,223
because I'm a bald girl.

1469
01:14:37,185 --> 01:14:38,478
That's it.

1470
01:14:38,561 --> 01:14:39,896
Hi, guys.

1471
01:14:39,979 --> 01:14:42,315
I'm rushing at the
University of Alabama this fall,

1472
01:14:42,399 --> 01:14:45,402
and I'm going to show you guys
what is in my Rush bag.

1473
01:14:45,485 --> 01:14:47,904
Static guard, scissors,

1474
01:14:47,946 --> 01:14:52,742
tweezers, Tide To Go pen,
a first-aid kit, mints,

1475
01:14:52,826 --> 01:14:56,538
breath strips,
sunglasses, portable charger,

1476
01:14:56,621 --> 01:14:58,081
and then a yoga mat.

1477
01:14:58,164 --> 01:15:00,083
And I didn't cut it in case
anybody else needs a seat.

1478
01:15:00,166 --> 01:15:03,795
I wanted to be able to share
with them, so I didn't cut it.

1479
01:15:03,878 --> 01:15:06,506
And that is everything
in my Rush bag, so...

1480
01:15:06,589 --> 01:15:08,591
This is the kind of woman
that you want to marry.

1481
01:15:08,633 --> 01:15:11,052
This one right here, okay?

1482
01:15:11,094 --> 01:15:13,763
She is more prepared
to take my three children...

1483
01:15:13,847 --> 01:15:17,934
This girl is the equivalent
of a CVS receipt.

1484
01:15:17,976 --> 01:15:20,061
I want to be stuck
with this girl

1485
01:15:20,103 --> 01:15:21,604
if we're all going down.

1486
01:15:21,646 --> 01:15:24,607
Because of this girl,
I'm inspired now to dive deep

1487
01:15:24,691 --> 01:15:26,151
into sorority TikTok.

1488
01:15:28,737 --> 01:15:30,864
Now, here is a hard copy

1489
01:15:30,947 --> 01:15:32,449
of your résumé
with that picture.

1490
01:15:32,532 --> 01:15:34,200
Do you like that picture?

1491
01:15:35,535 --> 01:15:39,080
That's the one you sent me.

1492
01:15:39,122 --> 01:15:40,874
Yes.

1493
01:15:40,957 --> 01:15:44,002
And that's the one that
you want to use for that?

1494
01:15:45,670 --> 01:15:47,422
Do you think
we should change it?

1495
01:15:47,505 --> 01:15:48,673
-Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.

1496
01:15:48,757 --> 01:15:49,966
I think we should change it.

1497
01:15:50,050 --> 01:15:51,926
Super important that
you look friendly,

1498
01:15:51,968 --> 01:15:55,138
engaging, and really excited
to be doing this video.

1499
01:15:55,180 --> 01:15:58,767
Smiling the entire time
you're talking.

1500
01:15:59,976 --> 01:16:03,480
It's a necessary evil, so...

1501
01:16:04,856 --> 01:16:06,733
Hi. My name is Makayla Miller.

1502
01:16:06,816 --> 01:16:08,818
I'm going through recruitment
as a sophomore.

1503
01:16:08,860 --> 01:16:10,904
Authenticity is
my number one core value.

1504
01:16:10,987 --> 01:16:12,822
In a sorority, like in life,

1505
01:16:12,864 --> 01:16:15,617
connecting and finding
true sisterhood can only be done

1506
01:16:15,700 --> 01:16:17,285
by being authentic.

1507
01:16:17,327 --> 01:16:18,828
Respect is also a key value.

1508
01:16:18,912 --> 01:16:20,997
I think sisterhood involves

1509
01:16:21,081 --> 01:16:24,167
sisterhood involves
respecting your sisters

1510
01:16:24,209 --> 01:16:25,627
in all they do.

1511
01:16:25,669 --> 01:16:28,088
I look forward to meeting y'all,
and Roll Tide.

1512
01:16:28,171 --> 01:16:29,714
More?

1513
01:16:29,798 --> 01:16:31,049
Oh, we're going to do
a few more.

1514
01:16:31,132 --> 01:16:33,718
I don't know if this is
a little too va-va-voom,

1515
01:16:33,802 --> 01:16:35,261
but that's an option.

1516
01:16:35,345 --> 01:16:36,763
So, do you have a different
dress for each round?

1517
01:16:36,846 --> 01:16:38,181
I mean, each day of Sisterhood?
Mm-hmm.

1518
01:16:38,264 --> 01:16:40,141
I don't have all of them yet,
but I have, like,

1519
01:16:40,183 --> 01:16:42,686
ones that I've been
looking at all summer.

1520
01:16:42,727 --> 01:16:45,397
I just don't want to look like
everyone else either.

1521
01:16:45,480 --> 01:16:46,690
Because I know I'm gonna show up

1522
01:16:46,731 --> 01:16:48,108
wearing the same thing
as someone else.

1523
01:16:48,191 --> 01:16:49,401
I do not want that.

1524
01:16:49,484 --> 01:16:52,987
Hmm, I don't know
about this place.

1525
01:16:53,029 --> 01:16:57,742
It seems like a store
my mom would like, though.

1526
01:16:57,826 --> 01:16:59,744
She now sort of looks
like a Disney princess.

1527
01:16:59,828 --> 01:17:00,954
A Disney princess!

1528
01:17:01,037 --> 01:17:02,664
But taking it and wrapping it,

1529
01:17:02,706 --> 01:17:04,666
so you get some tension
and, like --

1530
01:17:04,749 --> 01:17:06,084
tension and keeping it straight.

1531
01:17:06,167 --> 01:17:07,544
That's pretty comfortable,
isn't it?

1532
01:17:07,585 --> 01:17:08,962
It's not bad.

1533
01:17:09,045 --> 01:17:11,881
You could sleep with that
and not look too crazy.

1534
01:17:11,965 --> 01:17:14,551
Beautiful.
I need to empty this out.

1535
01:17:25,895 --> 01:17:29,357
Hey, guys. I am hoping
you're having a great day.

1536
01:17:29,399 --> 01:17:30,775
Not a good day. A great day.

1537
01:17:30,859 --> 01:17:34,863
It's about damn time.
Rush is back, bitches!

1538
01:17:34,904 --> 01:17:38,742
Here we go.
Bama Rush, Season 2.

1539
01:17:38,783 --> 01:17:40,201
Much like everyone else
in America this week,

1540
01:17:40,243 --> 01:17:42,579
I will not be doing any work
at my corporate job,

1541
01:17:42,662 --> 01:17:44,080
and instead,
I will be allocating

1542
01:17:44,164 --> 01:17:47,917
every thought and conversation
I have to Bama Rush.

1543
01:17:54,132 --> 01:17:58,053
Oh, this is my little chair.
This actually goes here.

1544
01:17:59,346 --> 01:18:01,806
Everyone made fun of me
for this, but it's nice,

1545
01:18:01,890 --> 01:18:03,266
because we sit on my carpet,

1546
01:18:03,308 --> 01:18:05,352
so, like, if my friends
are sitting on my carpet,

1547
01:18:05,435 --> 01:18:07,520
I can sit on the pink chair.

1548
01:18:07,604 --> 01:18:09,647
I'm really big on crystals.

1549
01:18:09,731 --> 01:18:11,649
It's a little piece of home,
but there's like,

1550
01:18:11,733 --> 01:18:13,943
a lot of bad energy
being carried on these.

1551
01:18:14,027 --> 01:18:16,154
Like, when I first got
all these, I felt really happy,

1552
01:18:16,237 --> 01:18:18,156
and then just a lot
of bad things happened,

1553
01:18:18,239 --> 01:18:21,451
and I just feel like
I need a recharge.

1554
01:18:30,585 --> 01:18:33,254
Two weeks before I came to
the University of Alabama,

1555
01:18:33,296 --> 01:18:35,465
I was sexually assaulted.

1556
01:18:39,260 --> 01:18:40,804
When it happened, like,

1557
01:18:40,887 --> 01:18:42,847
I blamed myself
and blamed myself

1558
01:18:42,931 --> 01:18:44,349
and blamed myself.

1559
01:18:44,432 --> 01:18:46,851
But I was, like, you know,

1560
01:18:46,935 --> 01:18:48,728
like, that was the moment
I realized, I was like,

1561
01:18:48,812 --> 01:18:51,147
I need to become
my biggest protector.

1562
01:18:51,231 --> 01:18:54,984
And, you know, I feel like
I'm a very trusting person.

1563
01:18:55,068 --> 01:18:56,986
And I was like,
it is good to be trusting

1564
01:18:57,070 --> 01:18:58,822
and it is good to look
for the best in people

1565
01:18:58,863 --> 01:19:00,323
and it's good to love others,

1566
01:19:00,407 --> 01:19:02,826
but, like,
you need to protect yourself,

1567
01:19:02,867 --> 01:19:04,577
because at the end of the day,
like,

1568
01:19:04,661 --> 01:19:08,331
I'm the only one that was there
for myself at, like, all times.

1569
01:19:08,373 --> 01:19:12,168
And, you know,
I know the person that I am,

1570
01:19:12,210 --> 01:19:15,130
and the way that people saw me
was not the way I was,

1571
01:19:15,171 --> 01:19:18,216
and they treated me
how they thought I was,

1572
01:19:18,299 --> 01:19:21,678
and they treated me like
I was trash.

1573
01:19:21,761 --> 01:19:27,017
And I was really, really hurt.

1574
01:19:27,058 --> 01:19:28,518
And it was really hard.

1575
01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:31,104
I had a really hard few weeks
before I came here,

1576
01:19:31,187 --> 01:19:33,606
because
I didn't feel like myself,

1577
01:19:33,690 --> 01:19:35,900
and I would look
in the mirror every day,

1578
01:19:35,984 --> 01:19:38,695
and I would just see the things
that been done to me.

1579
01:19:40,488 --> 01:19:43,033
I hate being emotional,
but it's just like...

1580
01:19:43,074 --> 01:19:46,119
I feel like it was really weird,
just, like, coming here,

1581
01:19:46,202 --> 01:19:47,996
because, like, literally,
like, a weight was, like,

1582
01:19:48,079 --> 01:19:52,917
lifted off my shoulders,
because I was free from, like,

1583
01:19:53,001 --> 01:19:58,173
all the, like,
ideas about me that I had once.

1584
01:19:58,214 --> 01:19:59,883
And I saw who, like,
I truly was

1585
01:19:59,924 --> 01:20:01,217
and that, like, God showed me,

1586
01:20:01,301 --> 01:20:03,803
like, who I really,
truly could be.

1587
01:20:08,350 --> 01:20:13,813
I can, like, rewrite my story.
My story can start here.

1588
01:20:15,690 --> 01:20:16,941
I've been placed with a lot

1589
01:20:17,025 --> 01:20:19,569
of just really amazing
female mentors.

1590
01:20:19,652 --> 01:20:21,279
My therapist,
she is one of them.

1591
01:20:21,363 --> 01:20:25,408
My mom is one of them, and my
church leaders are some of them.

1592
01:20:25,450 --> 01:20:28,244
All these women, like,
have really just like,

1593
01:20:28,286 --> 01:20:31,331
just shown me, like,
the person, like, I want to be,

1594
01:20:31,414 --> 01:20:35,293
which is exactly what
Greek life is about.

1595
01:20:35,377 --> 01:20:37,587
Every single girl
in all of these houses

1596
01:20:37,671 --> 01:20:41,257
has gone through some amount
of struggle in their life.

1597
01:20:43,551 --> 01:20:45,261
These are really strong women

1598
01:20:45,303 --> 01:20:47,180
who want to get involved
in their school

1599
01:20:47,263 --> 01:20:49,933
and who are passionate about
building each other up.

1600
01:20:50,016 --> 01:20:54,854
Like, it is a sisterhood,
and that's why I want to rush.

1601
01:20:56,648 --> 01:20:58,775
I'm "nervited"

1602
01:20:58,858 --> 01:21:01,778
which is, like,
nervous and excited.

1603
01:21:04,781 --> 01:21:06,116
What's the thing on TikTok --

1604
01:21:06,199 --> 01:21:07,492
have you ever watched the one
that's like --

1605
01:21:11,579 --> 01:21:12,831
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪

1606
01:21:12,914 --> 01:21:14,916
♪ I wanna go to -- ♪

1607
01:21:14,958 --> 01:21:17,502
♪ I want to go Delta Zeta...
dun, dun, dun ♪

1608
01:21:17,585 --> 01:21:18,795
It was something like that.

1609
01:21:18,878 --> 01:21:20,088
It was --
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪

1610
01:21:20,171 --> 01:21:24,592
-Zeta Tau Alpha.
-Yup. They're huge.

1611
01:21:24,634 --> 01:21:26,428
And that's Sigma Kappa.

1612
01:21:32,350 --> 01:21:34,686
I should have did this
last night.

1613
01:21:34,769 --> 01:21:36,354
Rachel,
what's the triangle mean?

1614
01:21:36,438 --> 01:21:42,902
The triangle is
Delta and the Alpha...

1615
01:21:42,986 --> 01:21:44,404
Gamma Delta.

1616
01:21:44,487 --> 01:21:45,989
Yeah. AGD.

1617
01:21:46,031 --> 01:21:48,992
We're going to need, like,
a whole alphabet.

1618
01:21:49,034 --> 01:21:51,327
I'm gonna carry it around
with me.

1619
01:21:51,411 --> 01:21:53,663
I found it.

1620
01:21:53,705 --> 01:21:58,376
Yes, Zaya.
This one goes with that.

1621
01:21:58,460 --> 01:22:00,712
There's a grand piano.
Like, right?

1622
01:22:00,795 --> 01:22:03,882
Yeah. So, like, the stairs are
going up on either sides.

1623
01:22:03,965 --> 01:22:05,675
It's actually really pretty.

1624
01:22:07,635 --> 01:22:11,348
So I just have a couple
of thoughts regarding

1625
01:22:11,431 --> 01:22:15,018
this supposed
HBO Max documentary

1626
01:22:15,101 --> 01:22:16,895
on Bama Rush that's...

1627
01:22:16,978 --> 01:22:20,690
Hulu or HBO Max,
whatever it is, like, TV shows.

1628
01:22:20,732 --> 01:22:24,027
Okay, you guys, we have more
tea coming through about

1629
01:22:24,069 --> 01:22:26,613
is someone filming Rush
this year?

1630
01:22:26,696 --> 01:22:28,114
So, Bama Rush update.

1631
01:22:28,198 --> 01:22:30,700
I guess we'll address the
elephant in the room real quick.

1632
01:22:30,742 --> 01:22:32,077
So I've got to bring it
to you guys,

1633
01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:33,703
but I have gotten
a couple of reports

1634
01:22:33,787 --> 01:22:35,914
going back to potential people

1635
01:22:35,997 --> 01:22:38,208
or a handful of PNMs
being miked up.

1636
01:22:38,249 --> 01:22:41,211
Not to be dramatic,
but this HBO special

1637
01:22:41,294 --> 01:22:43,755
could be the end
of Greek life as we know it.

1638
01:22:43,838 --> 01:22:46,299
The rumor on TikTok
is that they were

1639
01:22:46,383 --> 01:22:49,928
wearing microphones
in bracelets.

1640
01:23:05,485 --> 01:23:06,569
Okay.

1641
01:23:06,653 --> 01:23:10,782
All the rumors are flying
around here at Bama

1642
01:23:10,865 --> 01:23:12,450
about HBO or Netflix.

1643
01:23:12,534 --> 01:23:18,248
Supposedly, it's HBO that has
about 20 girls they're paying,

1644
01:23:18,331 --> 01:23:22,127
and the girls will be miked up
going through Rush.

1645
01:23:22,210 --> 01:23:23,753
I don't understand.

1646
01:23:23,795 --> 01:23:26,423
They're just going to have
audio, if this is true.

1647
01:23:26,464 --> 01:23:30,677
They're not gonna have
any visual recordings.

1648
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:33,096
Um.

1649
01:23:33,138 --> 01:23:36,641
I don't get it.
I'm quite puzzled.

1650
01:23:36,725 --> 01:23:40,603
What do they think they're going
to gain by recording girls

1651
01:23:40,645 --> 01:23:41,938
going through Rush?

1652
01:23:42,022 --> 01:23:43,606
They haven't went up
against this college yet,

1653
01:23:43,690 --> 01:23:46,109
and I'm telling you,
you don't want to go up against

1654
01:23:46,151 --> 01:23:47,610
the University of Alabama.

1655
01:23:47,694 --> 01:23:51,364
I am not -- I'm here working.
I'm a fraternity mom.

1656
01:23:51,448 --> 01:23:54,451
I wouldn't go up against
the University of Alabama.

1657
01:23:54,492 --> 01:23:59,289
No way. They call them
The Machine for a reason.

1658
01:23:59,330 --> 01:24:02,375
I wouldn't go up against
the University of Alabama.

1659
01:24:02,459 --> 01:24:07,130
No way. They call them
The Machine for a reason.

1660
01:24:28,401 --> 01:24:32,405
This is a rumor that started
on social media

1661
01:24:32,489 --> 01:24:39,496
that has led to an article
in The New York Times

1662
01:24:40,038 --> 01:24:46,711
that my film that you are
watching right now

1663
01:24:46,795 --> 01:24:51,800
miked 20 potential new members

1664
01:24:51,841 --> 01:24:58,848
to record what goes on inside
the walls of a sorority house.

1665
01:24:58,932 --> 01:25:02,435
Anyone who makes a movie --
I'm going to wait for sound.

1666
01:25:02,519 --> 01:25:06,022
See, the air conditioner,
for example,

1667
01:25:06,106 --> 01:25:08,108
is going to interfere
with our sound.

1668
01:25:08,191 --> 01:25:10,235
So we're going to hold.

1669
01:25:12,278 --> 01:25:15,990
If an air conditioner
is going to interrupt

1670
01:25:16,074 --> 01:25:20,203
the quality of sound
for this film,

1671
01:25:20,245 --> 01:25:24,040
putting microphones
on girls in houses

1672
01:25:24,124 --> 01:25:28,503
where they're all screaming
to hear each other

1673
01:25:28,545 --> 01:25:30,463
is also
not gonna work.

1674
01:25:30,547 --> 01:25:32,257
Just...

1675
01:25:32,340 --> 01:25:34,342
This is what we're dealing with.

1676
01:25:34,384 --> 01:25:36,678
And not only is there
a New York Times article

1677
01:25:36,761 --> 01:25:37,929
about this idea,

1678
01:25:38,013 --> 01:25:40,724
later in the day,
we received a letter

1679
01:25:40,807 --> 01:25:43,560
from the president
of the University of Alabama,

1680
01:25:43,643 --> 01:25:47,897
and he CC'd me
and basically the Feds.

1681
01:25:56,322 --> 01:26:00,076
But who started the rumor?
That's what I'm curious about.

1682
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:03,621
These accounts
don't even look real.

1683
01:26:03,705 --> 01:26:07,208
Another rumor that goes along
with all of this

1684
01:26:07,250 --> 01:26:13,381
is that a PNM
has already been disqualified.

1685
01:26:13,423 --> 01:26:16,885
I kept tucking it, because --

1686
01:26:16,926 --> 01:26:18,261
This girl was rushing.

1687
01:26:18,345 --> 01:26:20,138
They caught her
with a black hair tie

1688
01:26:20,221 --> 01:26:21,431
tied around her T-shirt.

1689
01:26:21,473 --> 01:26:23,516
She got kicked out of Rush

1690
01:26:23,600 --> 01:26:26,936
because they thought
it was a microphone.

1691
01:26:28,104 --> 01:26:33,401
We've never met this girl, ever.

1692
01:26:33,443 --> 01:26:36,446
When the execs pulled me over,
I immediately knew

1693
01:26:36,488 --> 01:26:38,365
that that could be
the reason that they pulled me.

1694
01:26:38,448 --> 01:26:39,949
So I immediately showed them

1695
01:26:39,991 --> 01:26:42,452
and they said that they weren't
"at liberty to check me"

1696
01:26:42,535 --> 01:26:44,662
or they weren't "at liberty"
to look at anything.

1697
01:26:44,746 --> 01:26:47,123
So they said basically
this was a final decision made

1698
01:26:47,207 --> 01:26:50,460
before I even had
any chance to say anything.

1699
01:26:50,543 --> 01:26:52,420
And I called
the dean of students,

1700
01:26:52,462 --> 01:26:55,840
and I called the --
Ambassador of Panhellenic,

1701
01:26:55,924 --> 01:26:58,301
and they basically said
there was nothing I could do

1702
01:26:58,343 --> 01:26:59,844
and that it was
a final decision.

1703
01:26:59,928 --> 01:27:02,681
...little black thing,
so I kept tucking it because...

1704
01:27:14,609 --> 01:27:18,405
You haven't lived until you are
waiting for a text message

1705
01:27:18,488 --> 01:27:20,824
from an 18-year-old girl.

1706
01:27:23,243 --> 01:27:25,120
We lost Shelby.

1707
01:27:34,504 --> 01:27:36,423
It strikes me as being
very Southern,

1708
01:27:36,506 --> 01:27:40,301
because we have
a long history of silence.

1709
01:27:40,343 --> 01:27:43,388
What's was the first rule
of The Machine?

1710
01:27:43,471 --> 01:27:45,765
"What is known is kept secret."

1711
01:27:45,849 --> 01:27:47,350
No talking to the media.

1712
01:27:47,392 --> 01:27:48,852
I could probably reach too deep

1713
01:27:48,893 --> 01:27:51,688
and say that you probably
represent the carpetbaggers

1714
01:27:51,730 --> 01:27:55,025
coming down to teach us
what's right and wrong.

1715
01:28:06,911 --> 01:28:11,583
I think they believe that I'm
trying to ruin their tradition.

1716
01:28:13,001 --> 01:28:14,377
And I think there's, like,

1717
01:28:14,419 --> 01:28:16,504
really good things
about your traditions here,

1718
01:28:16,546 --> 01:28:18,214
and I think there's
really toxic things

1719
01:28:18,298 --> 01:28:19,799
about your traditions here

1720
01:28:19,883 --> 01:28:23,762
and really confusing things
about the traditions here.

1721
01:28:25,847 --> 01:28:29,976
But I came into this like,
literally, Roll Tide.

1722
01:28:30,060 --> 01:28:34,230
Now that this New York Times
article has named me,

1723
01:28:34,272 --> 01:28:35,732
I'm really paranoid.

1724
01:28:35,815 --> 01:28:38,735
Like, everywhere I go,
I'm looking over my shoulder.

1725
01:28:38,818 --> 01:28:42,197
Our producers are requiring
that we hire a security detail

1726
01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:44,491
to be with the film's crew
at all times,

1727
01:28:44,574 --> 01:28:46,368
because
they're actually concerned

1728
01:28:46,409 --> 01:28:48,745
for our physical safety
at this point.

1729
01:28:48,787 --> 01:28:51,539
Because if you
Google "Rachel Fleit,"

1730
01:28:51,581 --> 01:28:54,626
the first image that comes up
is of a bald girl,

1731
01:28:54,709 --> 01:28:57,545
and I haven't seen
another bald girl in Tuscaloosa

1732
01:28:57,587 --> 01:29:00,340
since I started filming here
a year ago.

1733
01:29:00,423 --> 01:29:03,593
And if I'm going to keep
filming with my subjects,

1734
01:29:03,635 --> 01:29:05,679
I don't know what to do.

1735
01:29:27,575 --> 01:29:29,828
Do I need more curls?

1736
01:29:39,838 --> 01:29:41,131
"This is insane.

1737
01:29:41,172 --> 01:29:44,467
This literally can't be real.
Stop feeding into it."

1738
01:29:44,551 --> 01:29:46,302
What do you
feel like when you see that?

1739
01:29:46,344 --> 01:29:50,473
I don't know why they are...

1740
01:29:50,557 --> 01:29:52,851
so obsessed with it.

1741
01:29:54,519 --> 01:29:57,147
The mike --
well, if we have mikes in there,

1742
01:29:57,188 --> 01:29:58,565
that would pick up nothing.

1743
01:29:58,648 --> 01:30:01,735
Plus, the conversations,
for the most part,

1744
01:30:01,818 --> 01:30:05,697
really are, like,
not that interesting.

1745
01:30:06,990 --> 01:30:09,492
What I'm looking most for
is, like, not all,

1746
01:30:09,576 --> 01:30:10,952
like, the TikTok stuff.

1747
01:30:10,994 --> 01:30:14,414
And at the end of the day,
I want best friends,

1748
01:30:14,497 --> 01:30:15,749
and I want to have fun,

1749
01:30:15,832 --> 01:30:18,835
like, literally
helping the community,

1750
01:30:18,877 --> 01:30:20,587
which is what people
don't see, like,

1751
01:30:20,670 --> 01:30:23,506
people don't see all of the good
that sororities do.

1752
01:30:23,548 --> 01:30:28,053
It's not just Instagram posts
or, like, pretty girls.

1753
01:30:29,512 --> 01:30:31,014
Seven houses tomorrow,

1754
01:30:31,097 --> 01:30:34,517
and then I have two houses
on the next day after that,

1755
01:30:34,559 --> 01:30:36,019
and then I have one house today.

1756
01:30:36,061 --> 01:30:38,355
So I got ten houses back.

1757
01:30:38,396 --> 01:30:43,651
Everyone has, like, told me
about how extra the girls are,

1758
01:30:43,693 --> 01:30:45,862
like, in the door song
and stuff.

1759
01:30:45,904 --> 01:30:49,616
And when I saw that, I was like,
what in the world?

1760
01:30:49,699 --> 01:30:52,410
Like, I was sitting there,
like, laughing.

1761
01:30:52,494 --> 01:30:54,537
I was like...

1762
01:31:03,004 --> 01:31:07,550
I was like...I was like,
dude, can I really do that?

1763
01:31:07,634 --> 01:31:10,845
'Cause I was like, I don't know.

1764
01:31:10,887 --> 01:31:17,769
I was talking at both houses
and my lip would get stuck,

1765
01:31:17,852 --> 01:31:21,231
like, to my teeth because
there is no spit in my mouth

1766
01:31:21,314 --> 01:31:23,024
because I was talking so much.

1767
01:31:23,066 --> 01:31:24,859
'Cause they give you, like,
these little water bottles,

1768
01:31:24,901 --> 01:31:26,486
and I heard if you drink them,

1769
01:31:26,569 --> 01:31:28,863
that it'll, like,
give you bad luck

1770
01:31:28,905 --> 01:31:31,157
for the rest of the, like, time,

1771
01:31:31,241 --> 01:31:34,661
so you might get dropped
or something bad will happen.

1772
01:31:34,744 --> 01:31:36,913
So I just suffered.

1773
01:31:40,083 --> 01:31:42,752
I really think you're going
to get your top seven.

1774
01:31:42,836 --> 01:31:44,170
-Okay.
-I really think,

1775
01:31:44,254 --> 01:31:46,297
and then Pref, it all depends

1776
01:31:46,381 --> 01:31:48,258
on, like, what they're thinking.

1777
01:31:57,058 --> 01:31:59,853
I realize that,
since being a sophomore now,

1778
01:31:59,936 --> 01:32:03,189
you don't have to be in
a sorority to enjoy your life.

1779
01:32:03,273 --> 01:32:05,859
It's just me, personally,
I don't think I can do it,

1780
01:32:05,942 --> 01:32:08,820
but I know other girls
that love it.

1781
01:32:12,824 --> 01:32:16,786
And when I withdrew yesterday,

1782
01:32:16,828 --> 01:32:20,790
with my Rho Chi,
she was so, like, supportive.

1783
01:32:20,874 --> 01:32:23,543
She just kept telling me
how she was so proud

1784
01:32:23,626 --> 01:32:26,796
that I had, like,
an open mindset.

1785
01:32:28,757 --> 01:32:31,384
In Atlanta, all the dresses
looked so boring.

1786
01:32:31,468 --> 01:32:33,762
-It wasn't your style.
-Yeah.

1787
01:32:33,803 --> 01:32:37,974
It felt like I was being, like,
forced to like them, too.

1788
01:32:38,016 --> 01:32:39,351
It was annoying.

1789
01:32:39,434 --> 01:32:41,811
Did you tell Trisha yet?

1790
01:32:41,853 --> 01:32:44,898
-Yeah.
-What'd she say?

1791
01:32:44,981 --> 01:32:47,192
Well, she just texted and said,

1792
01:32:47,275 --> 01:32:51,071
"Okay, I'm here if you need me.
I'm always in your corner."

1793
01:32:53,698 --> 01:32:56,326
I don't really care
about disappointing anyone.

1794
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:16,763
Highlight of my day
was going to AD Pi,

1795
01:33:16,846 --> 01:33:20,433
and we're just talking about
making genuine conversations

1796
01:33:20,517 --> 01:33:23,186
with people and genuine friends.

1797
01:33:23,228 --> 01:33:25,855
Throughout this, like, journey,
like, I've changed so much.

1798
01:33:25,897 --> 01:33:28,525
I really have, like,
been finding myself as a person.

1799
01:33:28,566 --> 01:33:32,404
This feels more at home than
I've ever felt in a long time.

1800
01:33:34,239 --> 01:33:39,536
You can still feel pain and
you can still be angry or sad

1801
01:33:39,619 --> 01:33:41,705
at what's been done to you,

1802
01:33:41,746 --> 01:33:45,166
and that doesn't
have to go away,

1803
01:33:45,208 --> 01:33:47,502
but knowing that
there's, like, a hope

1804
01:33:47,544 --> 01:33:50,880
and there's a plan and that...

1805
01:33:50,964 --> 01:33:53,842
all of the power is within you

1806
01:33:53,925 --> 01:33:57,846
and God, like,
really just has given me

1807
01:33:57,929 --> 01:34:00,557
so much, like, will to live.

1808
01:34:03,727 --> 01:34:06,980
Rush is about being yourself
in these houses,

1809
01:34:07,063 --> 01:34:09,024
and I think that
whatever house I choose,

1810
01:34:09,065 --> 01:34:12,360
I might not realize
why I chose it in the moment,

1811
01:34:12,402 --> 01:34:14,112
or I might not realize

1812
01:34:14,195 --> 01:34:16,906
the reason
for everything right away,

1813
01:34:16,948 --> 01:34:19,325
but one day, it will all click.

1814
01:34:48,480 --> 01:34:50,899
10...9....

1815
01:34:50,940 --> 01:34:53,109
8...7...

1816
01:34:53,193 --> 01:34:57,655
6, 5, 4, 3...

1817
01:34:57,739 --> 01:35:00,533
2...1...

1818
01:35:07,665 --> 01:35:09,668
Yes!

1819
01:35:38,488 --> 01:35:41,074
On Bid Day, all I could
think about was home.

1820
01:35:41,157 --> 01:35:43,576
So I was just freaking out
and crying

1821
01:35:43,660 --> 01:35:45,078
and going back to like

1822
01:35:45,161 --> 01:35:49,249
a place of self-hatred
and, like, not knowing who I am.

1823
01:35:49,332 --> 01:35:53,628
And then -- this sounds so,
like, weird and fake and stupid,

1824
01:35:53,670 --> 01:35:58,466
but, like, I -- literally all
I could think about was AD Pi

1825
01:35:58,550 --> 01:36:00,343
and the girl, McKenna,

1826
01:36:00,427 --> 01:36:03,888
that is now, like,
she was my Bid Day Big.

1827
01:36:03,972 --> 01:36:05,348
Like, she was all
I could think about,

1828
01:36:05,390 --> 01:36:08,309
and I just -- she brought me
this sense of hope

1829
01:36:08,351 --> 01:36:11,187
and the sense
that I could, like, be myself

1830
01:36:11,229 --> 01:36:14,983
and that I finally have
not just a home,

1831
01:36:15,066 --> 01:36:17,318
but a place where I belong.

1832
01:36:21,031 --> 01:36:23,950
But now I'm here,
and it's so freeing.

1833
01:36:24,034 --> 01:36:27,120
And I feel just so, like,
not only at peace,

1834
01:36:27,203 --> 01:36:30,540
but, like, hopeful
for the future.

1835
01:36:35,128 --> 01:36:39,215
I worry about the --
the reception of all of this

1836
01:36:39,257 --> 01:36:42,302
by my sorority sisters,
because I think a lot of them

1837
01:36:42,385 --> 01:36:45,305
are going to understand it
as like a betrayal.

1838
01:36:45,388 --> 01:36:46,556
It's like, no.

1839
01:36:46,639 --> 01:36:49,225
But I also want
these organizations

1840
01:36:49,309 --> 01:36:51,269
to be less concerned
with tradition

1841
01:36:51,353 --> 01:36:55,023
and more concerned
with the well-being

1842
01:36:55,065 --> 01:36:57,817
and the individuality
of their members.

1843
01:36:57,901 --> 01:37:00,153
I would like to join
an alumna chapter,

1844
01:37:00,236 --> 01:37:02,447
if they'll have me after this.

1845
01:37:02,530 --> 01:37:04,866
I would like to.

1846
01:37:04,908 --> 01:37:08,203
Like, the people that I met
in my sorority experience

1847
01:37:08,244 --> 01:37:11,373
are just the best people
I've met in my entire life.

1848
01:37:49,828 --> 01:37:51,621
It's good to be back.

1849
01:37:55,875 --> 01:37:58,586
How do you think you've changed
since we've met?

1850
01:37:58,628 --> 01:37:59,963
Everything about me
has changed.

1851
01:38:00,005 --> 01:38:01,297
Like, my outlook on life,

1852
01:38:01,339 --> 01:38:04,134
my outlook on this school,
on Greek life.

1853
01:38:04,217 --> 01:38:07,887
Like, everything.
I've grown up for sure.

1854
01:38:07,971 --> 01:38:09,472
My mom used to have
this photo of me

1855
01:38:09,556 --> 01:38:11,933
and I was like,
throwing up a sorority sign.

1856
01:38:11,975 --> 01:38:14,310
I was like, "This is the
sorority I'm going to be in."

1857
01:38:14,352 --> 01:38:17,313
When I was younger, that's,
like, all I wanted to do.

1858
01:38:17,355 --> 01:38:19,399
But I just want to be
my own person.

1859
01:38:19,482 --> 01:38:22,777
And I feel like they all try to
mold us to be, like, one person.

1860
01:38:25,780 --> 01:38:26,990
What do you think now,

1861
01:38:27,073 --> 01:38:29,784
being on the other side
of Rush?

1862
01:38:29,868 --> 01:38:31,870
Well, I think it...

1863
01:38:31,953 --> 01:38:33,913
Like, when you're born,

1864
01:38:33,997 --> 01:38:37,417
you automatically are
wanting to belong,

1865
01:38:37,500 --> 01:38:40,003
'cause you're just
sitting there, crying,

1866
01:38:40,086 --> 01:38:42,130
you're wanting, like, comfort,

1867
01:38:42,172 --> 01:38:46,009
like, when you just got out of
this womb to this scary life.

1868
01:38:46,092 --> 01:38:48,094
So what else are you
supposed to do?

1869
01:38:48,178 --> 01:38:52,015
You're always going to need to
want something.

1870
01:38:52,057 --> 01:38:53,516
You're just going to sit there.

1871
01:39:09,949 --> 01:39:12,035
Seriously,
we're making a memory.

1872
01:39:12,077 --> 01:39:13,953
This is a --
This is a core memory.

1873
01:39:14,037 --> 01:39:16,915
-Core?
-Yeah, co-o-o-re.

1874
01:39:33,682 --> 01:39:36,559
♪ If you a ZTA
at the University of Alabama ♪

1875
01:39:36,601 --> 01:39:40,897
♪ Please come to the stage
for a roll call ♪

1876
01:39:40,939 --> 01:39:42,482
♪ Queens of the Row, check ♪

1877
01:39:42,565 --> 01:39:44,401
♪ Good grades on exams, check ♪

1878
01:39:44,442 --> 01:39:46,111
♪ You can't go a day, check ♪

1879
01:39:46,194 --> 01:39:47,821
♪ Without saying "ZLAM," check ♪

1880
01:39:47,904 --> 01:39:49,781
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1881
01:39:49,864 --> 01:39:51,241
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1882
01:39:51,282 --> 01:39:52,951
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1883
01:39:53,034 --> 01:39:54,494
♪ Where them ZTAs at? ♪
♪ Yeah ♪

1884
01:39:54,577 --> 01:39:56,538
-♪ Shout-out to Malik ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪

1885
01:39:56,579 --> 01:39:58,164
-♪ Shout-out Momma Deb ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪

1886
01:39:58,248 --> 01:39:59,958
-♪ Hottest on the Row ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪

1887
01:40:00,041 --> 01:40:01,751
-♪ Top house every year ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪

1888
01:40:01,835 --> 01:40:03,420
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1889
01:40:03,503 --> 01:40:05,171
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1890
01:40:05,255 --> 01:40:06,923
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1891
01:40:07,007 --> 01:40:08,508
♪ Where them ZTAs at? ♪

1892
01:40:08,591 --> 01:40:11,302
♪ If you a ZTA at
the University of Alabama ♪

1893
01:40:11,386 --> 01:40:15,849
♪ Please come to the stage
for a roll call ♪

1894
01:40:15,932 --> 01:40:17,434
♪ Queens of the Row, check ♪

1895
01:40:17,517 --> 01:40:19,185
♪ Good grades on exams, check ♪

1896
01:40:19,269 --> 01:40:20,854
♪ You can't go a day, check ♪

1897
01:40:20,937 --> 01:40:22,814
♪ Without saying "ZLAM," check ♪

1898
01:40:22,897 --> 01:40:24,274
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1899
01:40:24,357 --> 01:40:25,984
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1900
01:40:26,067 --> 01:40:27,736
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1901
01:40:27,777 --> 01:40:29,237
♪ Where them ZTAs at? ♪

1902
01:40:29,279 --> 01:40:31,823
♪ Zeta Tau Alpha,
throw your crowns up, hey ♪

1903
01:40:31,906 --> 01:40:36,286
♪ She in Zeta Tau Alpha,
throw your crowns up, hey ♪

1904
01:40:36,327 --> 01:40:38,288
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1905
01:40:38,329 --> 01:40:40,123
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1906
01:40:40,165 --> 01:40:41,833
♪ Where them ZTAs at? Yeah ♪

1907
01:40:41,916 --> 01:40:43,168
♪ Where them ZTAs at? ♪

1908
01:40:43,251 --> 01:40:46,838
OOTD! Okay, we...
we both have

1909
01:40:46,921 --> 01:40:49,799
these cute Zeta shirts
from Zeta.