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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: How Mail Order Marriages Work

04 Oct 2025

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Everybody knows mail order marriages are at best a last resort for jerks looking to boss a foreign spouse around or, at worst, a front for human trafficking. Or are they? Yes and no. Mail order marriage comes with nuance and a surprisingly long history. Learn all about it in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey, I'm Kyle McLaughlin.

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38.015 - 52.531 Cal Penn

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60.559 - 73.018 Cal Penn

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74.197 - 92.357 Josh Clark

You may not know this, but the original purpose of Stuff You Should Know was to change people's minds about mail order marriages. And we certainly did with this episode. We were so successful that we decided to keep the podcast going. I'm just kidding for those of our listeners who have trouble detecting that kind of thing.

92.958 - 106.989 Josh Clark

What is true is that it's a surprisingly interesting episode and it may very well change your mind about mail order marriages. I was serious just now for those of our listeners who always think I'm kidding. How about we all just enjoy this episode, shall we?

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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.

121.126 - 151.757 Josh Clark

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too. And this is stuff you should know about mail-order marriages. The murky waters. Yeah, really. Yeah, this is one of those where we researched and researched and read and read. Yeah. And I think it's one of those deals for me that's like, and this is just my opening statement. Okay.

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