Some Admissions-Scandal Schadenfreude | Damage Control
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The Ringer
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.4 | With NFL free agency in full swing, the Ringer's football crew is covering all the major off-season moves on the Ringer NFL show and on the Ringer.com. |
| 0:11.8 | Also coming this week, we're introducing our new Sports Rewatchables Podcasts running across the network, |
| 0:17.8 | where you break down the most rewatchable games in football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling. |
| 0:22.8 | Already up on the Bill Simmons Podcast feed, you can hear Chris Ryan, Joe House, and Bill Simmons discuss Game 6 of the 2016 Western Conference Finals between OKC and the Golden State Warriors. |
| 0:34.0 | You can check these out on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm Justin Charity, and I'm Kate Nebs. |
| 0:53.8 | Welcome to Damage Control on the channel 33 Network. |
| 0:57.0 | A podcast will be in Packwood, upsets, excites, and divides us. |
| 1:01.2 | We're going to talk rather passionately and extensively about Operation Varsity Blues, |
| 1:09.8 | which is an FBI sting operation that swept up 50 prominent millionaires, including the actresses Felicity Huffman and Loyaloclin, |
| 1:18.2 | in a very strange college admissions scandal. |
| 1:23.0 | We're going to talk about celebrity parents, celebrity kids, meritocracy, class warfare, |
| 1:30.6 | and good old-fashioned Shadon Freude. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm glad you said that word because I don't know how to pronounce it. |
| 1:36.0 | Shadon Freude. |
| 1:42.4 | These parents are a catalog of wealth and privilege. |
| 1:45.9 | They include, for example, CEOs of private and public companies, successful securities and real estate investors, |
| 1:54.4 | two well-known actresses, a famous fashion designer, and the co-chairman of a global law firm. |
| 2:01.7 | Based on the charges unsealed today, all of them knowingly conspired with singer and others |
| 2:08.3 | to help their children either cheat on the SAT or ACT, |
| 2:12.3 | and or buy their children's admission to elite schools through fraud. |
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