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Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Gangster Capitalism S1: The College Admissions Scandal I EP 4: Ricky

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

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Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.57.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A best friend, a mentee, and a former coworker provide an intimate account of Rick Singer’s transition from the boy determined to transform himself, to the coach who refused to accept failure, to the man whose obsession with wealth would be his ultimate undoing. These people, and their stories are being heard for the first time, and a new picture of who Rick Singer really is, finally emerges.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

gangster capitalism.com or our tip line 347-674-674-6980. We can ensure anonymity.

0:29.6

Chapter 39. Talk to Skulls.

0:35.6

Whenever possible, believe your own story.

0:41.0

Theater types call it method acting.

0:44.0

The theory is that if you want to truly play a character, you have to do it from the inside

0:48.5

out.

0:50.2

Don't start by walking and talking like the character.

0:53.9

Think and feel like the character instead. That way, by walking and talking like the character. Think and feel like the character instead.

0:56.0

That way, the walking and talking come naturally.

1:00.0

If you think and feel like Hamlet, you'll soon be talking to Yorick's skull.

1:06.0

When the story of the college admission scandal broke, I wanted to learn as much as possible about William Rick Singer.

1:14.6

Who was this ringleader of the largest ever college admissions conspiracy prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department?

1:23.6

I discovered Rick wrote a book in 2011 called Getting In.

1:30.3

In the very first sentence, Singer writes,

1:34.3

This book is full of secrets.

1:38.3

In each chapter, Singer provides advice for perspective or current college students.

1:45.0

And as I read it, it was hard not to feel like Singer was often writing about himself.

1:56.0

Whether you're using a legend to cover up your mistakes or owning up to them and

1:59.0

folding them into your brand,

2:03.3

you must believe absolutely in what you're doing.

2:08.5

If you're pretending to be a sanitized version of yourself, think like that person.

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