The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - Dirty Rush: What the Heck is a Pinning?

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

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I don't know if I can announce this, but I'm just gonna. Open your free IHeard radio app. Search Loss Cultureista and listen to the full podcast now. Welcome to Dirty Rush, the Truth About Sorority Life. With your host, me, Gia Judice, Daisy Kent, and Jennifer Fessler. Hi, guys, we're back with another episode of Dirty Rush, and today I'm going to be talking all about sorority pinning ceremonies. I personally never went through a sorority pinning ceremony, so I do not know 100% what it's all about, but we are going to have a lot of guests today

to talk to us about everything that it is and everything. everything that it entails. And I'm sure we'll hear some really good stories as well along with those. So if I were to think of what a pinning was going back to my sorority days, I know I got pinned, but it was like when I was getting initiated, then I got pinned to be in my sorority. But the pinning that we're talking about today is actually, I think this is what it is. So people can correct me if I'm wrong. But when a guy in a fraternity, wants to like be with you forever and so then it's like this huge ceremony i've heard that some schools like we're all white and then the girl gets pinned and it's parents basically like before an

engagement comes so you get pinned and then you get engaged i guess i'm not really sure how it all works out but that's my understanding of it so we're going to talk to some people and see what it's all about. I know a few girls my age who had them at their school. But besides that, I'd never heard about this or knew it was a thing. So I'm interested to talk to these people and see what they say it's all about. Hi, Jennifer. Hi. Okay. So I'm so excited to have you on this episode. We heard that you have a pinning ceremony that had happened and you went to one and experienced one. I was in a sorority, but I never actually experienced a pinning. So I think it's when like a guy really likes a girl. He pins her and then they like get engaged or something. But can you let us know

what your experience was? Yeah. So I didn't know the girl super well. She was an upperclassman at the time I was an underclassman. Because I was an underclassman, we were told that we had to go to this. So we didn't have a lot of choice in the matter. I don't even know if he was a lot of these people ended up getting engaged, but it's pretty strange. It's like the entire frat house came out. Oh. All presented her with a single rose. Oh, like all of them handed her a rose while singing. And then eventually she had a giant bouquet of roses and he pinned her with his fraternity pin and we were all outside. I don't know why I had to be there. Um, we were just kind of like supporting her and like we had to all be yeah just so she wasn't like

alone standing there yeah it was like a giant gaggle of girls just standing there watching men bring up single flowers and singing do you know like how long they had been dating before i think like a year you know nothing okay your college sweethearts um i do not remember the exact song that they sang i think it may have been like top gun you've lost that love and feeling which wouldn't make any sense in context right so were there a lot of girls in your sorority throughout college that got pinned um i mean i believe there was like at least one a year that got pinned and so if you get pinned it's like that's basically like they're proposing kind of i think i don't know it's so heteronormative and strange it's like a light proposal i don't know

what it is um that's so funny do you know if they like did she wear the pin around? I, you know, no. I don't think so. She only wore it when she was pinned. And then I do remember that we all had to be in black. That was very important. You all had to be in black? Yes. Okay. Was she in white or black? No. She was in black as well. Sounds like a funeral. I'm not sure if it was a promise ring, but a promise pin. Like, I don't know, you know, I wasn't, I didn't go to college to get married. So I'm not sure. I love that.

Yeah, if this was like a promise. I feel like most people don't. I feel like a lot of people now, like, they like find their person in college. But yeah, I'm also like, isn't everyone's like away from home and like figuring things out. So. Hmm. Interesting. Also like it's funny because like you didn't even like really know the girl you said.

And I'm like, I don't think I'd want people there who I didn't know that well. Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure what your experience in a sorority was like, I have no regrets in being involved. I just found that when you're supposed to treat all 180 girls that were in it as one big friend group, it was kind of strange because I don't have 180 close friends. Yeah, no, that's so true. It's like when you're in it, I feel like it's like this like sisterhood thing. But then like when I think about it right now, I'm like, I would not want 180 girls that I barely knew at my wedding. Yeah. I mean, I have like 10 really good girlfriends that I made from it. And then I have like, you know, a satellite group of a few others that I still am friendly with. But I'm not, I'm not best friends with 180 girls currently. Yeah, that's kind of how mine is too. I don't regret doing it at all either. I had such a great experience and it was so fun. But yeah, it is funny. Those like little things like that. Wow. I really wonder if that couples together still. I don't care.

I'm sorry that sounds bitchy um no not at all i mean i think i was just told that i had to be there because i was an underclassman and they needed bodies yeah throughout the situation which like i don't really know why they needed a giant gaggle of girls standing on steps watching a girl get roses yeah that is so true it is funny all those little things and also like i wonder like is it it planned ahead of time? Do you know? Like, how ahead of time do people know that like she's going to get pinned? So I think, okay, I might be like misremembering this, but I'm pretty sure that the pin E is in the dark. They don't know what's coming. They're told that they have to be at the house for a special event and wear black. Oh, wow. For the sorty that I was in. So I think it was a surprise,

but then when I heard she kind of knew it was coming and, you know, obviously when a giant group of men start singing at you and giving you flowers, like, you know something's going to happen to you. Oh, for sure. I mean, hopefully it's just getting pinned. But, like... I kind of love the, like, thrill of that, like, not knowing if it's you. Yeah. This was in the aughts, late aughts, like mid-auts.

So not recently. But my younger sister did get pinned and she's 10 years younger than me. so oh no way yeah is she still with the guy they got married yeah they are married they got married last year oh my goodness that's amazing yeah no but like it's funny because i i don't really think that that was her style i think they were just you know at the yeah but they're they're really cute couple i wasn't there for that because i obviously wasn't in school at that time yeah so did she like get pinned and then get engaged no no she got pinned and was with him for like an additional five years then got engaged okay so it was like two separate

it wasn't really a formal pre-engagement type of situation with her at all yeah i feel like back in the day it probably was a pre-engagement but i don't know you know yeah i'm sure like depending on the school and like the situation too it's probably different yeah well this is um southern California, like USC. So, okay. I feel like, I don't, were you in like a southern sorority or were you in what, what area? I went to San Diego State. Okay, God, it's Southern California as well. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like Southern ones probably do it a little different or, you know, everyone's got their own flavor. Oh, for sure. Well, thank you so much for coming on. It was great to talk to you, Jennifer. On the podcast Health Stuff, we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night.

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and so they sort of become outsized indicators of inflation. Listen to the big take from Bloomberg News every weekday afternoon on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, everyone, we have Jeanette and Molly. Hi, you guys. Hello. So I'm curious to hear your experience about the whole, like, pinning situation. For me, my understanding was it a pinning for a sorority is when a fraternity guy really

likes her, basically wants to get engaged to her, and they get pinned. But tell me from your guys' experience. experience what it is. I mean, that's like what it, that's what it is, but it's like at our school, it was just like a huge roast pretty much. And it was. Oh, no way. It was like one big roast. And then, yeah, like usually it was a couple. So whoever's like been dating for a while, it's like a big deal at the end. Like you're going to have a pinning. And it's originally it was like you're supposed to like pin your frat pin on the girl and it's like this whole big thing and I think that's how it started and then as the years went on and like it just became like

this whole entire huge roast battle between the girls she has like a panel so it would be like I don't know like five girls her roommates usually and they have like five guys and then they would kind of go through and roast the girls would roast the guys and then they would roast the couple. Okay. Yeah. So would it always be like just the girls roasting the guy or would the guys roast the girls too? So the guys would, they would first roast the guys and then they would go down and do all the

girls so you would have like some roommates who are like they're like oh we're like super good friends you're my best friend but and then it would be this like horrible like not funny rude roast about like the girl like they're yeah so it would be like hey sister i love you so much but and then it would be like you have no personality and you're super annoying and that was like fully like we were in the audience and we heard that and we were like that is just not funny it's just like you have to go home together and you're still roommates do you have like any particular ones that were like crazy that you remember so there was one that we saw and it was a girl talking to her best friend and she was like hey you're like

my best friend but you don't have any other friends and I'm your only friend and you're so annoying or like it was something like that oh my goodness yeah that's like so sad and when you were like picked did you guys ever have to do the roast um so the one that we were in i was the mc so i was like leading it and i would be like next up is this person and i would just say like the lightest not even rude like hey whatever molly was the one who was on the panel channel. Okay. What was your experience, Molly? So leading up to it, we were, when I like had to be on this panel, I was like, one, this is really scary and I don't want to do this because you're in front of a whole group of people. And this is really scary. So, Jeanette, my girl, gave me a little anxiety pill

because I was super anxious. And I was like, freaking out, I don't want to do this. I don't want to be roasted. You're like, I got to chill. Yeah. I needed. to chill. And then I was also sick. So I also like had some day quill and I had some mucinex. And then I was like, well, to really like, I don't want to be nervous. I'm going to take shots too. So I was so hammered and I don't remember any of it. But I do remember I was hooking up with this guy and I also hooked up with his little. And so pretty much the whole roast was like, you hooked up with this guy's little and yeah that was pretty humiliating i got some some guys were like i got roasted on being like loud and annoying and i'm like sorry i'm fun i don't know yeah

honestly this just sounds kind of evil it's so evil like who came up with this i don't know i don't know but they used to be like super romantic and it would be like it was like so beautiful and they would have like their candles and it was like it was like all for the couple but now it is like a total crap shoot you don't even say anything nice about like the couple they'll say at like the last second they'll be like blah blah blah blah blah blah saying all this mean stuff and then they'll be like but you guys are the best also i feel like college is already like a hard like enough time like you don't need that on top of it but who's ideas it to like get pinned is it the guy or the girl then like who's like I want to be roasted with my friends for me all of my friends and my boyfriend's friends wanted to do it so they were like you have to have one I was did not want to because I was like that sounds like my personal hell and so that was how that started but we were going to do ours like later in the year and so everyone was having theirs like one after the other yeah and they were just getting like

worse and worse like they just it wasn't cutesy it wasn't lovey it was just like a hard watch and there were like two hours yeah that sounds horrible yeah yeah it honestly was like it was it was like war yeah yeah i mean i'm sure people learned like a lot of tea though yeah yeah a lot of tea. Yeah. A lot of tea. I'm sure there was a lot of drama afterwards, too. Oh, yeah.

How could they not be? Right? We had, so we would have when, we would have like an Ivy Man or I was in Alpha Phi at San Diego State. And so we would pick like the like top like favorite five guys from like each fraternity or whatever. And they would come in and like compete for Ivy Man. And one of the things was a roast and they had to like sit in front of all of us. and then people could like ask them whatever questions they want or like interrogate them and I remember one of them was like so bad I was like this is horrible I feel so bad for this guy

I want to leave and then like everyone ended up apologizing to him after and it was like this huge ordeal because I was like this is horrible it's like at what cost like best case scenario what you're the ivy man like I know right I can't believe I can't imagine like girls going at girls though and guys too like mixing it all together that would be crazy honestly it was like everyone would have drinks and like everyone was kind of like free for all in like yeah like no matter what like if you're drunk you're gonna be say more exactly so there was like no boundary yeah in their so bad i guess people got to get things off their shoulders no really is there anyone that you guys were friends with and then like heard them say something um i know janet you didn't really get

roasted but molly do you remember anyone that you heard like say something about you and you were really like okay like i do not want you to be like a part of my life anymore not me personally but like i've seen it i think we saw it at one of the pinnings um one of the girls who's on the panel a guy roasted her and like this is so bad he like went after her weight And so after that, it was just like, everyone was like, screw this guy. Like, that was just, yeah, that's horrible. Horrible. And so, yeah, I think.

And, like, then he was, like, kind of known as, like, no one f f f***s with that guy. He's a total loser. Oh, for sure. If you do something like that. Yeah. That was, like, his junior year and, like, his senior year was just, like, he was known for that. Yeah. He probably had the worst year.

after that. Yeah. Like a year long of scleries. Yeah. Oh my goodness, for sure. Okay, wait. So, Jeanette, you were pinned, right? I was pinned.

Are you still with him? I am not still with him. Okay. So, yeah, I was pinned and just like we were saying, after we saw, like, everyone else's, we were like, this sounds horrible. So at the end of the year, when it was like our turn, last minute, we all were like, F this, we can't do this. So we just had like a hula party and we had like the cheerleaders and like the guys did like

a hula dance and everyone just blacked out and like we played game. So that was like my pinning. Sounds like a great time. So you can kind of decide at your school. You could kind of decide what you wanted your pinning to be if you didn't want to do the roast. Or was that just you just being like, screw this? Like, I'm doing whatever I want. Yeah, that was kind of me just like, F this.

But they're supposed to be a roast. And so people were coming and they were like, wait, what? And I was like, I don't know. But thanks for coming. Well, I'm happy your pinning was more fun than the other ones. It was. That's great. Well, thank you, Molly and Jeanette for coming on.

It was great talking with you, girls. and very interesting learning this aspect of finning versus the other ones that I've heard about. So thank you both very, very much. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, you guys have a great rest of your night. You too. Bye.

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Unprecedented. Every weekday afternoon, we dive deep into one big global business story. The biggest story of the reaction of the oil market to the conflict in the Middle East is one of what has not happened. Katie, you told me that ETFs are your favorite thing. They are. Explain that. Why is that the case? and unpack what it means for you.

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in a fraternity. So I'm excited to hear your take on it. So tell us all what a pinning is and if you ever pinned anyone. Of course. So I need to preface this by saying pinning can mean a lot of different things at a lot of different schools. But at my school, a pinning is when, a guy and a girl who have been dating for kind of a long time like at least a year will have their own wedding if you will maybe Greek wedding would be a better term for it but the fraternity and the sorority will all get together and celebrate these two people's relationship but there are some slight differences between this event and an actual wedding okay so what are so is

it like a ceremony like this girl is like to pin her does that mean like that she's like your wife like you want to be with her for the rest of your life i mean that's definitely plays into it but i think it um taps into some more raunchy parts of your guys relationship rather than the romantic ones of course you celebrate like all of the your guys like romantic like affections for each other but um the ceremony maybe i can just give a a little explanation of what actually happens yeah give us a give us the whole rundown what happens when you're there right so what happens is like any wedding it'll start with a bachelor and a bachelor party so the guy with all of his guy friends will go out have a couple of drinks

probably end up over-serving themselves and especially make sure that whoever's getting married is blacked out before you even get to the ceremony and then the same thing happens with the girls we'll do their bachelor's party you'll like take a party bus with all of your friends go to a bar have a couple drinks make sure that you're loose because after your bachelor and bachelor and bachelor's up party everyone will meet up at the sorority house and then you're joined by like the rest of like your entire fraternity and sorority and you'll gather in the courtyard of the sorority and then there's not really any speeches that go down at the ceremony everyone everyone in the fraternity of sorority starts counting

up to a hundred and for those hundred seconds whoever's getting pinned is just making out in the middle of everyone. Oh, my goodness. Right in front of everyone. This is, it's so funny because we've talked to a few different people about what pinnings are and like everyone has a different take on it. So like, do you, did you give a speech about her or anything or where you guys were just making out and then it was like, then you're pinned?

That's kind of how it goes at our school. but there's a little more romantic side to it like I wrote her a letter and then the whole idea is that it's supposed to be a surprise for the bride if you will so she won't know that like her pinnings happening until a couple hours before okay so like the other girls have it like set up like the party busts and stuff kind of yeah they plan it all like without her knowing and they'll have an event on their social calendar that might say something like really generic. Just like something totally unexpected. But everyone knows that it's a penny except for her or at least that's the idea.

Of course, you know, sometimes it'll get spoiled. But they trick her into going to a dinner at their sorority because like when you're a senior, maybe you don't go to your sorority house as much as you did when you were like freshman, sophomore junior so that's that that's like step one step two is once you get him there one of their close friends will read them the letter that i wrote or that the groom like wrote to his to his bride so in that letter you know there's there's a couple sweet notes and then there's a couple there's a couple jokes maybe some things that the bride would would have rather preferred him keep to himself um but that's the whole point of it that's so sweet and you're still with this girl

right i am i am okay awesome funny enough her parents were dating when they were in college um her dad was in a fraternity and her mom was in a sorority and they had pinnings at their school it was a little different um celebration than we had but her dad Dad refused to get pinned to her mom because he didn't want to jinx the relationship. No way. That's funny. Well, that's funny that they like, it was like a thing there too. But I think we have your girl in the waiting room too.

So I think we'll bring her in also. Oh, please do. Then we can get her side. Well, hey, team. Okay, so now we have Jill in here with us. So Jill, Jack was just telling me all about. the pinnings on like his side and how they all looked like. So I'm curious, did you know when you were going to get pinned that it happened or that

it was happening or no? So I heard some rumors, but essentially kind of, it's supposed to be entirely a surprise. But a lot of people wound up surprising me right after I got back from a little movie night at Jacks came in and the entire apartment was decorated with like a bunch of different hearts. and everybody all celebrated and then we went to our favorite frozen yogurt spot in Los Angeles

so I'm talking all the girls for a little bachelorette party and then I got some good sleep and it was the next day but it was totally a surprise and it was lots of fun I love that so were you like

we heard about the like making out in front of the whole sorority fraternity I wish I could tell you all the details but to be quite frank if anybody has to do that you're not supposed to remember parts of it so you're pretty tuned up

yeah but no it was awesome we were all in a circle and thankfully there was another couple that could steal the show with us so they were in the circle and we all counted as you 100 and I have video proof if you'd like to see

did yes send in the video did a lot of your friends get pinned I'd say so Um, it was, it's a very fun tradition. Like freshman year, I remember our first pinning. Um, and yeah, it's just this crazy event. And by senior year, it's normal. And some of your other friends are getting pinned too. Funny enough, this tradition has actually been a thing for a long time. My grandparents were actually pinned. But back in the day, they pass their letters to the girl. So like, they get a little pin of letters. Um, but by senior year, a lot of our friends did get pinned so it's super so did you like did you call your grandparents and were you like i got pinned they i essentially i think it was very different truly theirs is a super cute little pin passing yeah they dance around it was very wholesome however nowadays it's a lot

different you know i was on back shoulders we sign a beam we kiss for a hundred seconds it's a lot different but it's definitely definitely a party well it sounds like a great time honestly maybe i think they should do pinnings everywhere if they're that fun and how long have you guys been together um just under a year and a half oh i love that well congrats to you guys i hope your pinning lasts forever this is a great spot to pause we had so many callers that called in and i definitely want to get to more so we'll be back with more on dirty rush In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you. Don't let them down.

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