Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to episode 242 of my somewhat sporadic podcast. Who's paying attention?

I am back on dry land. I finished the 80s cruise. It was a blast. And yeah, now I'm back at it. I'm heading up to Tommy Tees in Pleasanton this weekend. I'll be at the punchline in Atlanta next weekend.

I am back to work. And, well, the world certainly didn't take a vacation, right? The world

didn't go on a cruise. As you know, the big news this week is the college payoff bribery entrance fee, whatever you want to call it,

scandal. Fifty people charged with college admissions bribery. Now, mind you, I don't think this is

something that we didn't know about,

but now we have confirmation, right? I mean, let's be honest. This is a case of white privilege.

This is a case of the rich get richer. This is a case of the haves versus the have-nots. And this is the case

of how you cheat. And this didn't just start. They just got busted. So basically what has

happened over the last, what, eight years since 2011, the FBI has found out that parents have paid about 25 million in bribes to get their kids into schools.

There was a company, let's see, the key worldwide foundation basically was the company that was funneling this money around. So, for example,

Laurie Loughlin, I think her name is, the actress, her daughters wanted to get into USC. So they put

them on the crew team. The crew, crew is a type of rowing. If you didn't know that, don't feel bad,

because her daughters didn't know that and they were

on the team.

So yeah, they use things like that.

Pay a college coach some money, get your kid on athletic admission or pay this key foundation

and they had people cheating on SAT tests.

They had people changing the answers after the SAT was turned in,

etc., etc.

All this to get their rich kids in school.

And the kids didn't give a shit.

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