Coming up on today's episode, Bruce and I dive deep into Operation Varsity Blues and talk about David Beatty's lawsuit against Kansas and answer all of your email questions. That's next on the Audible. Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. I have a question, Bruce. Did you

get into Miami on your own merits or did somebody pay a bribe? Stu, I don't know anybody who can do that.

This story I know we're going to talk about, which I'm referring to as now, Aunt Becky Gate, because it involved Lori Lockland. I think that the Lori

Lockland-Lockland-Felicity Huffman angle of this got it. I think a lot of attention. But when I

first started looking at this, I'm like, you know, this is not a surprise at all to me that

something like this happens. Now, the layers of it are really kind of fascinating,

but I think the aspect of rich people, I mean, we see this all a lot of times with famous

politicians and big business people basically buying their kids way into educations and degrees

that they probably would never have been able to get if it was based

on their own academic merits. I think that this really touches on so many themes that are already,

you know, there's already a lot of backlash in this country. People who are going to be

running for president or are putting this central to their platform about inequality and privilege of the wealthy, and this just really hits all of that.

It stinks of it, yeah.

So you said it didn't surprise.

It doesn't surprise me that, you know, wealthy people would be trying to game the system to get their kids into college.

What I think really, because you mentioned the Hollywood part of it, when this story broke

pretty early on the West Coast, and I wish I could give credit, but I don't remember who the

reporter was that did it first. But his first tweet was, you know, massive indictments coming

today and Division I coaches are involved. So that's what got our attention. Like, whoa. and you're thinking that could be football coaches or basketball coaches and then the next one was like and two of the people arrested are lorry lockland and felicity hopman and you're going how on earth could those be connected well you know i guess the thing i would not have guessed or realized is that there would be this pretty involved

scheme in which, and these are in many cases very prominent head coaches of Olympic sport teams

at major universities. The water polo coach at USC who got arrested and fired on Tuesday,

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