The Ben Shapiro Show - August 12, 2026


People Are Paying $10,000 for a Sorority Rush Coach


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00:00:00.000 Do you have a high school aged kid?
00:00:01.000 I have a question for you. 1.00
00:00:02.000 Would you pay up to 10 grand to get her into a sorority at a southern school? 1.00
00:00:07.000 Apparently, parents are now paying out the nose to make sure their kids are in the cool kids club in colleges in the South, like Olmis or Alabama.
00:00:14.000 And it kind of makes sense a little.
00:00:16.000 I was way too much of a nerd in college to know anything about any of this.
00:00:19.000 So Daily Wire host Lyndon Blake of That's So Criminal joins us to explain the great appeal of sororities and how these students could be setting themselves up for success.
00:00:28.000 So Lyndon, I've been told that you make an incredibly convincing case.
00:00:30.000 Okay, fine.
00:00:31.000 Let's hear it.
00:00:32.000 Why should parents and students spend You know, six, $10,000 trying to cultivate themselves, then get into sororities.
00:00:40.000 You may think it's so criminal to spend that money, but I'm telling you, if you want to get your precious daughter into a Southern sorority, the way it is, is you have to be able to walk the walk, talk the talk, and dress the dress to get in.
00:00:57.000 Now, what does that mean?
00:00:58.000 I'm not talking about your Big Ten sororities.
00:01:00.000 I'm talking about your Southeastern Conference sororities, your Alabama's, your Auburn's.
00:01:05.000 If you've noticed, I'm wearing some Ole Miss colors right now to give them a little shout out because that's one of the other big schools that are having these people from New Jersey, Connecticut, New York pay Rush coaches.
00:01:17.000 They're called Rush coaches to train their daughters to try to get in a sorority because, Ben, this is the ugly truth about it.
00:01:23.000 And I went to Auburn, I was in a sorority.
00:01:26.000 If you can't tell, it is very hard to get into these Southern sororities if you're from out of state.
00:01:31.000 Because when you're in these Southern sororities, you have people in the chapters that are focused on Birmingham, Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama, Mobile, Alabama.
00:01:31.000 Why?
00:01:39.000 Atlanta, Georgia, these big southern cities where you just have legacy.
00:01:44.000 You have people that know people that know someone's grandma and know someone's second cousin.
00:01:48.000 But oh my gosh, they were a KD and they're going to get you into the sorority.
00:01:51.000 And when you come from out of state, you could be the coolest person ever.
00:01:54.000 You could be as cool as Ben Shapiro.
00:01:57.000 But if no one knows you are in these southern schools, sorry, you're either going to get cut from all the sororities or you're not going to get the one you want.
00:02:03.000 It is cutthroat out there.
00:02:05.000 So I was talking to some of my friends last night and we were saying, You know, it sounds crazy, but if paying five grand, six grand to get my daughter in a good sorority when we have no affiliation with the school anymore, say I'm living in, I don't know, the middle of absolute nowhere one day when my kid goes to college and they want to go to Alabama or Auburn.
00:02:25.000 They'll never go to Alabama, only Auburn.
00:02:27.000 But you know what?
00:02:28.000 I think I would pay it because Ben, sororities do so much more for you than just your social life.
00:02:34.000 It is how you stay in good graces in college.
00:02:37.000 You have to make the grades to be in your sorority.
00:02:39.000 It gives you these connections that last a lifetime.
00:02:42.000 I still believe.
00:02:43.000 I got Nancy Grace on my podcast.
00:02:45.000 That's so criminal because we were both 80 pies.
00:02:50.000 Okay.
00:02:50.000 So, first of all, I pray and wish for every person listening to this that they are significantly cooler when they go to college than I was when I went to college or law school.
00:02:59.000 I was the dork who would show up to actual parties in law school with a book under my arm in case things got incredibly boring.
00:03:04.000 And spoiler alert, they got really boring like 85% of the time.
00:03:07.000 So, I absolutely would go to parties and just sit in the corner and read books.
00:03:11.000 But put that aside, I actually am not going to find this to be super crazy.
00:03:16.000 And the reason that I don't find this to be super crazy is because college is no longer a place where you actually obtain many of the skills that you used to.
00:03:23.000 So college used to be basically for three things one, make the social connections for life, two, you're going to attain some sort of skill set, and three, you're going to get a degree.
00:03:30.000 So you get the degree, but at a major college right now, are you going to actually get a skill set?
00:03:36.000 I don't know, probably not unless you're in the STEMs.
00:03:38.000 And if you are trying to make social connections, if the school is really, really big, the truth is the social connections you make beyond some of your dorm mates or like some immediate people in your vicinity.
00:03:47.000 Are fairly limited.
00:03:48.000 And so, if you want to leave with the connections, which again is one of the big things about college now, and every study shows this is one of the major after effects of college, then yeah, why wouldn't you pay that surcharge in order to have significantly more robust personal connections with all these people that you end up hanging out with in college?
00:04:04.000 I actually don't think this is the craziest thing, but I do have to ask what exactly is this training?
00:04:08.000 Like, what are they doing?
00:04:09.000 Do they teach you an accent?
00:04:10.000 Is it like Zoran Momdani?
00:04:11.000 You go from like Ugandan accent to soft southern milk?
00:04:14.000 Like, how does this work?
00:04:16.000 I cannot wait to answer this question.
00:04:17.000 First off, I can verify how cool you were in college because when I was in Israel recently, I met someone that went to school with you in college.
00:04:24.000 So I'm going to have to WhatsApp him and figure out if y'all's stories match up.
00:04:28.000 This will be a good, you know, connection to keep our relationship going since I have now, you know, I'm not in Israel anymore.
00:04:33.000 But to the point about what these rush coaches teach you, keep in mind, I was born and raised in Alabama.
00:04:38.000 So I didn't have to pay a coach, but we still had ice water tea practice rounds after church.
00:04:44.000 And this would literally be a bunch of ladies that are, you know, your mom's age at the time that were in these sororities in Alabama and Auburn. 1.00
00:04:51.000 We would have, Think about like the hors d'oeuvres at like a baby shower or a wedding shower and you would wear your Sunday best. 0.98
00:04:59.000 At the time, back in the day, it was Lily Pulitzer always.
00:05:02.000 You had to have Lily Pulitzer or you were judged and you would go around and you would learn how to talk to these people and you have to learn how to say what you're doing, what people want to know.
00:05:11.000 Here's some insider ball for all you moms out there that have daughters going through rush because it is rush season.
00:05:16.000 They want to know what you did this summer and you better have sounded busy.
00:05:20.000 You're coming out of high school.
00:05:21.000 You're going into college.
00:05:22.000 They want to know that you volunteered, that you went to some type of camp.
00:05:26.000 that you are active and they want to know your plans for the future.
00:05:29.000 They want someone that's well rounded.
00:05:30.000 They do not want someone that stays on TikTok all the time making get ready with me videos or dances, even if that's fine, but they want you to go beyond that.
00:05:39.000 So what these coaches are teaching these people, especially from the North, I think the biggest thing is how to dress.
00:05:45.000 I joke about this all the time, but I just went on a bachelorette trip with a bunch of girls from New Jersey.
00:05:50.000 I love them all, but it's just a different culture.
00:05:53.000 They dress differently.
00:05:53.000 They talk differently.
00:05:55.000 You don't even pump your own gas in New Jersey and you're coming down here to Alabama and not just Alabama to the sticks.
00:06:01.000 Tuscaloosa is, you know, it is not just this utopia town.
00:06:05.000 It is in the middle of nowhere, West Alabama, and people dress differently.
00:06:09.000 They dress so modest.
00:06:11.000 So you're just learning how you do it in the South, learning how to have manners, learning how to make good eye contact, learning how to shake hands and learning how to honestly sound busy and have some type of values. 0.63
00:06:21.000 I mean, you girls going through rush in the South.
00:06:23.000 We love to talk about faith.
00:06:25.000 We love to talk about our activism and our philanthropic adventures.
00:06:28.000 So that's what you're kind of getting out of these rush coaches.
00:06:31.000 And a lot of it really is just as simple as fashion.
00:06:33.000 I'm telling you, it is so judgy.
00:06:35.000 If you come in wearing a two piece and your mid drift is showing, you're cut.
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00:07:44.000 So, I mean, honestly, I feel like some of this is good transferable skills for life.
00:07:47.000 And I will admit that I also, when I was at Harvard Law School, I had literally the worst interview record in the history of Harvard Law School.
00:07:53.000 There were 32 job interviews.
00:07:55.000 I got one job offer out of 32 job interviews.
00:07:57.000 Now, also to be fair, a large part of that was that my name, the names of my books were on my resume.
00:08:02.000 And so I would get some pretty weird questions during those interviews.
00:08:05.000 But part of it is that I was far too blunt during my actual law firm interviews.
00:08:08.000 I do recall one time I went into a law firm interview and the person asked me, Why do you want to work in transactional real estate law?
00:08:16.000 And I gave the actual true answer, which you should never do.
00:08:19.000 I said, For the money, which.
00:08:21.000 Apparently, it is a bad answer.
00:08:22.000 You're supposed to say, for the love of doc review, because I desperately wish to work 2,200 billable hours.
00:08:28.000 But yes, being a better interviewer is an important thing, being able to answer questions well, being smooth socially.
00:08:32.000 Like these are all, honestly, cultivatable skills.
00:08:35.000 And I think probably, you know, paying a little bit of money for that is not the end of the world.
00:08:38.000 I think it's a little sad that we have to do that now, but it doesn't seem like the craziest thing in the world.
00:08:43.000 So I feel like you've won me over, Lynn.
00:08:45.000 And I don't feel as though this is like the most insane thing I've ever heard.
00:08:50.000 Well, it goes back to the culture.
00:08:51.000 It goes back to why the Daily Wire decided to leave California.
00:08:59.000 We have seen this great.
00:09:06.000 you know, the Southern schools were against all these COVID shutdowns and mask mandates.
00:09:13.000 I mean, they wanted football back.
00:09:15.000 They never wanted that to be canceled or even to be kind of adjusted to make it COVID protocol.
00:09:20.000 So you've seen this large influx.
00:09:22.000 And so that makes it harder to get into sororities.
00:09:24.000 And I'm telling you, when you have a nobody and she could be the most wonderful girl from the Jersey shore.
00:09:30.000 If she comes down to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and no one knows who Miss Rosie Mae is, they're going to be like, uh, you, I hope you wish you well.
00:09:38.000 You're cute, but no one's going to fight for you unless you make that true impression.
00:09:44.000 Second, you might get a blessing.
00:09:44.000 So I think this is great.
00:09:45.000 You might get a blessing.
00:09:48.000 Yeah. 1.00
00:09:48.000 Help a lot of girls. 1.00
00:09:49.000 I mean, bless your heart.
00:09:50.000 Bless your heart.
00:09:50.000 Okay.
00:09:51.000 Well, that's, that's Lyndon Blake and you can check out her show.
00:09:53.000 That's so criminal.
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