Bruce Feiler
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802 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Bruce Feiler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Okay.
And then this interesting thing happened halfway through, which is people started coming up together and holding hands as if in a wedding vow, completely spontaneous.
This is a reminder that a lot of these rituals, and as you said, I went to rituals and…
Dozens of countries around the world, group baptism in the Vatican and adolescent filing, tooth filing in Bali, six weddings in a day in Las Vegas, 10 funerals in a week in Ireland, sounding cold plunging in Copenhagen, forest bathing in Chile, a placenta ritual in Easter.
I mean, this is what I was doing.
And then, so there, what there is, is a way for everybody to feel involved.
I talked to this, I just love this story.
The woman who popularized jumping the broom,
which was an old custom for people outside of church or the law.
It was originally white working class people in England and then went to enslaved African in the American South.
And it died out after emancipation and it's become repopularized.
First because of roots and because this woman named Danita Rountree-Green who wrote a book about it.
And she said, I knew it was going to be adopted by black families, but that's not what happened.
At first it was gay families, interfaith families, intergenerational families.
And she told me this story
that the couple, she's now done hundreds of these, the couple is sitting there going, you know, we're going to jump the broom at the wedding, okay?
Are we going to jump on one?
Are we going to jump on three?
Are we going to jump on jump?
And then the audience is shouting out, like it becomes a way for everybody to get invested in that moment.
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