Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast. Full disclosure, because you're seeing that, hey, you're not in your normal studio. No, I am not. I'm on the lovely campus of the University of Southern California. Or as my friends in Columbia, South Carolina would say, the USC of the West. I am out here.

I've got to participate in a meeting of the Big Ten government relations staff. That's right.

If you forgot, the USC is in the Big Ten. And so we got the host of Spini. It was actually

quite interesting, quite fun. And I got to give a shout out to the Big Ten. More so than the other conferences, though I'm not saying the other conferences aren't trying to create non-athletic sort of collaborative efforts here. But the Big Ten does seem to be more aggressive and better at having non-athletic collaboration between the schools.

And it only, you know, it's sort of if you're going to create these super conferences, you know, figure out ways to take advantage.

I mean, if you're the ACC, hey, guys, you got some incredible elite universities

from Duke to Miami to Georgia Tech to Stanford, to Cal, to SMU, a ton in between.

These are, this is an opportunity. BC's another rising school. Syracuse is great. You know,

take a page from how the

Big Ten is operating. SEC could benefit in the same way. My understanding, the Big 12 is trying to

figure out how to create some sort of some sort of collaboration. So as many of you know,

I teach adjunct and I'm going to'm a scholar in residence at the USCDC campus.

So it does afford me the opportunity to come out to L.A. once or twice a year for some of my USC duties.

And so that's where we're coming from today.

As you know, most Wednesdays, I want to lean more into my campaign roots, my political junkie

roots. So I'll have a later in this broadcast, the top five list on the top five most likely

governor seats to flip. And I'm going to, it's both 25 and 26, so it will include the two races

we're talking about now. And I guess I will have a lot more to say about Virginia, like I did on Monday there. I think there's definitely a lot more to say there. My guest is actually very campaign oriented. Adam Bonica is my guest today. He does a substack called On Data and Democracy. And he's from one of the ACC's West Coast members, Sanford University.

He did our terrific deep dive on essentially exposing a octopus of a scam fundraising scheme on the left

and all these and how it's essentially praying on elderly people.

We've seen this phenomenon takes place on the right, but he was able to identify the fact that

a myriad of these organizations, if you're in email inbox, if you're over a certain age and

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