Another week, another amazing guest to help us tackle a truly terribly idea! This time, Todd VanDerWerff, critic-at-large at Vox.com and co-creator of the podcast Arden, has signed up to help us unpack the real-life trend of hiring fake friends to save face at your wedding. We toy with keeping up appearances and/or burning it all down. Plus, the perils of rock climbing, the defeat of The Patriarchy, and when having it spoiled somehow makes it better.

Today’s Bad Idea™: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/05/419419307/fake-wedding-guests-korea-role-players

You can check out Arden at https://www.ardenpodcast.com/ and follow Todd’s work on Vox at https://www.vox.com/authors/todd-vanderwerff or @tvoti on Twitter. 

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