The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Boots on the Ground at Ole Miss Rush

Episode Date: September 19, 2026

We’re live at Ole Miss getting the juiciest bid day stories, talking with crazy Rush moms, and a Frat Boy Run in!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome back to another episode of Dirty Rush. I'm Joan Bassos, joined by my friend Trista and today we are jumping into part two of our producer college takeover. Let's jump in. Now we have two of our producers who touched down on the Old Miss campus. We're really excited to hear about your experience at Old Miss and all the details that you found out. So what is the biggest thing that I guess is kind of you're remembering about or most impacted you about your visit to Ole Miss? So I come from a school of way like smaller, like small school sorority-wise. So going to Ole Miss was just like insane.

And I think the main- Where did you go? Sorry to interrupt. I went to, no, no, you're okay. I went to Cal State Northridge. And like they have sororities, but it's very, it's a commuter school for me. So I never thought to join, but I have friends that are in it. And they even say themselves, it's very small.

And going to Ole Miss and seeing. We actually went when they were rushing, so we got to see the girls run home and everything. And I think for me, me and Stas went ahead. And we went ahead before they ran home and saw the houses all decked out. And I think it was just crazy to see the amount of effort. And I'm sure time and I'm also sure money put into these houses. And I told, I told Sasa, I was like, it's like walking on Candy Cane Lane. Like, it's like Christmas lights.

watching but with with sorority houses and it was just insane yeah but better obviously truly but but better so i think that's the main thing that stood out for me and also just seeing how into it they are especially the parents as well i didn't expect the parents like that were going to be as excited as the girls maybe even more excited but it was crazy to see so the parents show up for um what preference day or for rush for yeah or the whole thing Actually, so I have a friend. Just for a bid day. They just show up for bid day.

Just bid day. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Well, I will say I have a friend who rushed from Vail, Colorado at not Ole Miss, but Bama. We were just talking about Bama. And my friend went out there for two weeks and stayed in a hotel with her daughter while she was going through rush. I don't know if that's normal at Bama, but it is good to hear that at least a

miss, they just come for bid day. because I feel like why not let these girls like experience it? It's their, you know, like, yes, maybe be there to help them pick out their outfit, but you can do that over Zoom or WhatsApp or, you know. And you kind of motivate some, especially with their freshmen, to meet somebody else. So like you're now going through this experience with somebody and like to have somebody to commiserate with and talk about your outfits and not have it be your mother anymore. It's been your mom for 18 years.

Like this is such a good time to branch out. and rely on somebody else and form some bonds, like, early on. I mean, some people, like, made their best friends, like, the first week of school. Totally. Yeah, totally. Something that, like, I think with the parents that I noticed there is that we didn't talk to a single parent who wasn't also in either the same story with some type of legacy. So, like, for them, it was, like, this is their daughters coming out to society, in a sense.

So this is midday. This is everything that we've, like, worked for, like, until she's. she was born. We had a daughter and we knew that she was going to be a sorority. It would like literally seem like it was life or death of like waiting for that bid day card open. I mean, we were standing out there. And the only reason that we knew the girls were even going to start running out was because the daughters would text the moms and tell them the house that they got. And they would start screaming and crying and hugging one another being like, oh my gosh, she got Katie. Like, and they're all freaking out. Oh my gosh. That was like kind of like, oh, I see how

And they get so dressed up and they like wear their colors or. And it's like it's a whole thing with the parents. Did you feel like like as a mom who will have a daughter going through it maybe possibly next year? Not at Ole Miss, I don't think. But do you think it's like your vibe on these parents? Do you feel like they were being helicopter moms or do you feel like it was so sweet of them to be there? Like what was the vibe that you were getting? I think such a mix of both honestly

Yeah I agree I think a mix of both Like I think for them it was helicopter mom In the sense of she's gonna get a sorority And she's gonna get a house But then it was also like I don't know if it was necessarily She has to have this house

Or she needs to be in my house Like I remember talking to a lot of families And it was different houses Among like the mom and the aunt And then the grandma And like different even different schools too I know like SEC schools It's so like

Oh miss Alabama sucks or Tennessee sucks. We met a lot of people like that too. So I don't think it was too helicoptery, but I think in a sense it was she's going to be in a house and she needs to be in a house. I understand. Yeah.

Okay. And I do like kind of feel that way. I know my daughter. Okay, so I have a daughter who went to college in, I've got to remember what year, 2015. No, 2013. I'm old. She's old.

She's in our 30s now. And her best friend went to Ole Miss. And I, you know, there's part of me that doesn't understand how she didn't get in a house. She was probably the prettiest girl in my daughter's class. She was really fun. Everybody loved her. And everybody loved her. And she came back from Ole Miss.

And she actually, I don't think, went back after her freshman year. She quit. She ended up going to school up in New York City. I don't know if she was maybe too, like, northeast kind of girl. So I live in Maryland. So we're living to be a little urban with a right outside of D.C. I wonder if maybe she just didn't fit in, but how hard is it when, and like the way you're talking about the moms are even like that invested in it? Like how hard is it if you don't get in a house?

Or you're not from there. Yeah. Or you're not from there. Like how hard is it to to get in the houses? Yeah. To be hard of it. One story that I totally remember was we were sitting at a diner with this mom and daughter. And she was actually, she was a P&M going through recruitment. And I I remember her telling us about how the letters of rec are really hard to get, especially when you're not from the South. So they have a group chat of moms that all come together to help get their daughters all letter of recommendations. Because then she was telling me that they always say like letter of recommendations technically aren't needed or like they, you don't have to have them. But she said the two houses that she didn't have letter of recommendations from. Those were the two that she got immediately dropped from first.

Really? Yeah. So I think it's a, I think it's probably a lot harder not coming from the South, not already being a legacy. Because that was like another thing that they said was everyone's a legacy. So unless you're like a third or fourth like legacy, then maybe that's when you start to have the upper hand. But like they were like, no one cares for your legacy. Everyone is. It doesn't stand out. It doesn't stand out. So it's like, and I always think like I'm from West Coast. I go to, I'm in a West Coast sorority. Yeah. I don't even, I wouldn't even know where to start with letter recommendations. I wouldn't even know like. people out there. It's just a whole different like bubble that like you're not even really involved. Yeah. Totally. I'm intimidating. Yeah. I've written a bunch of them. I don't really like I, I read for people I don't even know. So like I don't feel like they are very like I can't imagine that they are that important because you just get anybody to write them. I've written probably

five for people I don't even know. Right. I know. I actually write the moms and say, can you at least share something about them so I can write, you know, if it's a friend of a friend or whatever, which I'm happy to do. But I honestly think it's just like you were saying, if they didn't have a letter of rec, then they immediately get dropped. I think it's just getting them in the door. Like, you know, I don't think they, I have to assume they have so many letters of recommendation to go through. I cannot imagine that they read all of them. Yeah. There's no way. I mean, maybe if it's coming down to like the last few people that you're voting on, right, true.

To have something to differentiate them because you just can't decide maybe like a really good recommendation would, you know, sway them in some way. But otherwise, I can't imagine it being a big deal. Behind every night spent making the kids lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pasto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all? And will you finish episode 8 before you're done slicing the cucumbers? Get Bell Pure Fiber Internet with Craved Netflix and Disney Plus from $94 a month.

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Listen to R&B Money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I want to know about the frat boys at Ole Miss. And I do that they rank the sororities. Please get in like me and I would have to hate them all. One thing I will say is, I mean, this is probably everywhere, but the ego at Ole Miss. from those men are is insane and they're very much about their school like we were talking to them about like just like different things and they were like oh miss is on top like we are the best and we're talking about just a bunch of different things like sports and they're like we're

better than any other sport like our stadium is always packed out like we have the best school spirit and we're like well what about bama or any other like big school and he was like no like they don't even come close to us. Like, we stay on top. And I was just like, oh, okay. But that's one thing that I will definitely say it was interesting, but take the rest about the sorority houses. Tell us about how they rank the sororities.

That was. So what was funny about our experience going was that since we were out in the middle of recruitment, the girls weren't going out because it's dry. That the whole week is dry. So it was literally just all frack guys. Like we were like, where are the girls? Are there any girls out? Like you would go and like some of the bars were all outside.

And it would just be tables and tables of the frat guys. And so I just remember being very upfront and honest with them about what we were doing. And thank God they were so excited about it. And when I asked them what like what are like what are the top sororities here? Like who are the most like datable women here? I got Tridelt Kappa And I want to say KD or the top ones And it was kind of funny because then I remember also when you go to the houses

The row that all these houses are on is literally called sorority row And it literally looks like Barbie land There's like a lake and it's a little cul-de-sac and all the houses I mean you could you guys could play telephone with a cup and a string with how close all these houses are in one another. Oh, wow. And yeah, I kind of just, they, when we ask, like, what are your guys' thoughts on, like, recruitment and work week and, like, all these things that they're doing?

They're kind of just, like, I just don't really understand the purpose of it. I don't understand, like, why we have to do the themes. And I don't understand why it's all about, like, the dancing. Like, I feel like if they actually just spent more of their time dedicated to actual, like, prepping for recruitment, they wouldn't be complaining about. having his 15 hour days. Yeah. And then sure enough, we met one guy who his girlfriend was vice president of membership

for one of the houses there, which is basically like the biggest role that you have for like rush, that your entire job, like when you're in that chapter is basically just planning rush. And he said that she, he has not seen her, that she's been stalled with everything. And so they are very much. But they also were like, good luck with what you guys are doing. love talking to the girls. Like, they're not going to tell you anything. And we're like, right. Like, that's fine. We know. And did you experience that? Did they, were they really

tight-lipped? Didn't really give you any tea? We didn't. I mean, like we said, there wasn't any girls out. So it's not even like we got a crazy chance to ask them. And especially on bid day, they're so busy with running home and meeting their bags and everything. So they, we didn't really get a chance to talk to them specifically, but we were able to get outside perspectives from girls. Like, we saw some girls that were like, not even from, I don't know, I think we're, they out of country? Oh, yeah. We met two girls who were not, who they're exchange students. Mm-hmm. Oh. Yeah, they're literally from Spain or some, some out of like country place. Yeah. And I asked, I was like, were you ever interested in doing recruitment? I mean, like, hello,

you're going to an SEC, an American kind of school. Like, I don't know if you wanted that experience. And she was so adamant of no. I didn't even want to attempt. I didn't want to do it. Like, Hey,

he's ring here. I want no part of it. It's toxic. This, that. So that was kind of a little bit surprising. And then we had two girls where we met their neighbors. There's these two girls.

We met their neighbors. And apparently they dropped one of their, they dropped their sorority at Ole Miss. So we were trying to like find them to talk to them and the roommates were like you're probably not going to get a word out of them

because even though they dropped they still said that they couldn't talk about it because like the people will still like come at them and like they'll get banned from everything they won't be allowed to invites they will like use friends. It's like even if you drop still can't talk about it. Yeah it kind of gave off if they were trying to like talk us out of

it in a way. Like we really wanted to try and reach out to them. So we left a note at their door, like saying, just being honest, like who we were and what we were trying to ask them about. We had no militia intentions. Yeah. Because, you know, a lot of people can just like assume that nowadays, which is completely understandable. And we had some of the male neighbors who were fraternies help us write it. And one of them was the guy, the boyfriend. friend and he was like, I don't think this, like, we were walking towards and he was like, I don't think this is a smart idea. Like, just saying, like, I don't think they're going to, like, reach out. So, like, I don't know if you really should just even do it. But what's the harm.

That's exactly what we said. Nothing to lose. Right. Exactly. I was like, we have nothing to lose. We're not from here. Exactly. Exactly. There's no reason to not to. I would love to know. I hear that you were actually at Alpha Chi pref night and I was an Alpha Chi, not obviously at Bama, but I'd love to know is that really the case and how was it? How did that happen? Yeah. So this was really funny. The moment we get to our hotel, we get out of Uber and I see this array of bags and it looks

like girls is rush bags. And then I see two Roe-Key's because they have their, or get what? But we've gone rogue guys, but basically like the rush counselors, they were sitting outside. And I was just like, wait a second. We're on a hotel right now. And I asked her, I was, what's going on over here? She goes, oh, Alpha Chi Omega's house is getting redone right now. So we've had to do all of rush at this hotel.

And I was like, what are you talking about? And I couldn't even imagine because there's so many things that go into it. I mean, like you have to know, have to lie in all the girls about. outside the door. Like you have to know where to line up to chat. You have to be able to count how many girls to know how many P&Ms to match with active. I was like, how are you doing this out of hotel for starters? And we, they tell us, they're like, they're literally in there doing their prep ceremony right now. And it's pretty much displayed. So you can literally go see if you want. And I was like, what? Oh, yeah. So we go and we walk in. And I don't know of all,

I'm in Kappa. So like, I, I know. I know. I know. my cap of preps are very like you wear black dresses it's very just like elegant and just like pretty clean generic kind of thing theirs was like they wore like the white cap sleeve long dresses with the red flowers very like I think because of the south it has like more of like a religious root to it too it almost seems like it was a very conservative they had their music playing like over a speaker so it wasn't like the girl singing it was actually more of like a choir audio playing.

Wow. Oh, crazy. And then they had their house like cut out in like a cardboard box and placed it in the back. And these girls would literally be standing down, like standing on this like stairway and an active would come and grab a P&M

and they would walk them into this little ballroom area that was this open space of tables. Wow. And I was like oh my gosh, that is crazy. because preff is also supposed to be like pref night it's like dark and like mysterious and like emotional and secret did you feel like you were like like a voyeur like i'm watching this and i shouldn't really be here i was kind of just like if thank god they're doing it here because they were doing it

somewhere else where maybe sororities weren't popular it almost looked like a cotillion thing oh yeah yeah it sounds like it with the white dresses all that yeah yeah so was that the most bizarre thing that you witnessed or did you witness anything else that was just like blow your mind? I think that was like one of, I think that was bizarre in the sense of you're not ever able to see any preff ceremonies. I mean, like you could ever be able to listen to any single sorority songs, especially like something on preff that's a lot more like sacred. I think that was really bizarre. I think just in general though, I mean, bid day had 10. have been like the most elaborate wild show I have ever seen ever.

I mean, it was families on top of families. It was packed before the girls even ran home. Just the signs, the alumni there, the house setups. I mean, there was professional photographers going around taking pictures of like the girls and the houses and all the birch and like things that they would get in their rush bags. It was just, I was jealous. I was like, I want to run home right now. I understand why they're having a meltdown and crying.

Like, I want to be a part of that. Yeah. It was really cool. It was just so like, it definitely blew my expectations out of the water. Yeah. Amazing. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies?

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I'd say it's a mix of both in a way. Like when we went out at night, it's like, it's not too crazy. We definitely tried to blend it in with the crowd, but I think you can tell that we weren't from there for sure. But I think, yeah, I'd say it's a big, it's very split in my eyes. I think. I think on bid day, it was really fun seeing the parents. And they would come with like, if they were in, if they were a legacy of Kappa Delta and alumni there,

they would come in this like patterned out green dress. And if they had their kids with them, they'd put their little daughters for like three in the same matching bows and same outfits. And it was honestly the most darn cute thing ever. And like try it out. Like they're all in like they're yellow and blue. And it was just like this.

It's really cute. The dresses, though, it's definitely like you wear dresses there. You were dresses with color and pattern. Yeah, for sure. There was a funny encounter with Kappa when you accidentally matched their light blue dresses we hear. Tell us what happened. When we were getting ready, actually, when we were packing, we were talking about

what we were going to wear. And I was saying how I was like, I think I need to fit in. So I need to wear a dress. And I have a light blue dress. I was like, oh, it's perfect for Ole Miss. And when I sent a picture of what I was wearing, we had both planned to wear a light blue dress. So we were like, you know what, let's just do it. So that same day, we wore our light blue dresses and we went to the Kappa house.

And they're all taking pictures and they're all in their like blue dresses. We blend literally right in. Like we could have popped in their picture of anything and said we were a part of it. If I had worn like this thing, because this is what they all had on, which is the exact thing. I don't even think they would have known. I probably could have said I just transferred in. And I'm like Hapa and they would have been like, oh my God, cool. Come on in.

Because we also got there super early when like it was freshly decorated and they're all still taking their pictures. And we're kind of just like wandering around like on their like gigantic lawns. And they're definitely like making eyes with us of like are they part of us? Do we know them? Like should we say hi? These like PC classes are probably also like. 200 girls. I mean, it's unreal how large these houses are.

I mean, the house, I think. I think they house about 180 girls. How many people were they giving bids to this year? Definitely 100. Wow. There was a lot. There was a lot. I mean, those PC class photos were gigantic.

Gigantic. Which made them, like, it took them so long to get it together because you have to fit so many girls in one, photo obviously. Right. And they have a photographer like on a ladder like trying to come, they have megaphone. Across the street. Literally, basically. And they had a megaphone trying to communicate to everyone like, okay, girls, like, I need you to really get tighter in. And we, when we're at the capa house, we saw that one of the girls was on the floor, like getting fanned and like people

were getting water. Like she was passing out. Oh, wow. Because it's hot downtown. Because it is hot out there. And being in such a tight crowd probably doesn't help at all. No, no air. Oh, my gosh. That's scary. Yeah, yeah. I bet that happens a lot.

Oh, my gosh. You guys are amazing. I love all these inside stories. It's so much fun. Did you have fun? Was this a fun assignment to go down there and try to blend in and get some info? It was so fun. Yeah, it definitely was.

We had our fun. And I've never been to Mississippi in the first place. Yeah. It was just their campus. Like we didn't go on their campus, but just seeing their town, their square, what's it called? Square. Yeah, it's literally called Square. It's beautiful.

It's a cute little town. There's really cute tops there. And it's, I can see why, I can see the appeal to the school. And it's just, it's very, it's very close together, which when we drove in, because you have to, it's like an hour drive from the airport, we kind of felt like we were in the middle of nowhere. and then as soon as we get in, it's just Ole Miss. Like, it's just straight school town vibes. Yeah. College town.

Exactly, yeah. And it's great. It was really fun to- The people in the South are also the nicest people. So friendly. They are the friendliest people ever. I was so nervous about how much I would need to try to talk to people. If you sit down, the person you're sitting down next to at a restaurant,

they will immediately say hi to you. Oh, I love it. It's the nicest people there. Yeah, they really are. They're so welcoming and they're just so personable. Like, it's like I've known this. I'm talking to someone and I feel like I've known them. And they're really nice.

I love it. Yeah. Well, thank you, ladies. This has been so awesome. I think they need to do more sororities and do, you know, maybe like mid-semester, you go and check in on how many girls have left the houses. and how many girls are happy and maybe go to a party. I don't know.

So fun. I love the insights. The Insight Scoop is really fun. I love this assignment. And thank you guys for being up for it and looking apart. They couldn't send Tristan and I, but we got you two young girls. We could be the mothers. I could be a grandmother at this point.

I have grandkids. I love it. I love it. All right. Thank you, girls. girls. Bye. Thank you. Bye, guys. That's it for this episode of Dirty Rush. Thank you so much for joining us this week. Make sure you follow us on Instagram and TikTok at Dirty Rush Podcasts so you don't miss any new episodes, exclusive clips, and more. Bye. Hi, this is Kylie Breakman, Angela Geratana. Jeremy Colhane, Patrick McDonald.

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