Sep 1, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 12 segments
On this episode, Andrez is taking us to Venezuela to visit Quinta Mayda, a beautiful old mansion with a history that’s almost as interesting as the ghosts that supposedly never left. Once home to a…
And it's genuinely hard to get into.
So recently, 159,000 students sat down to take an admissions exam.
It's like the gateway to the future for them, right? Like if they get a good score and get into this school...
Like they're like, your future is going to be set, you know? And so recently this exam went fully online where previously it was all in person and almost immediately something looked wrong to the administrators.
People online started noticing what looked like a mathematically impossible pattern.
A huge unnatural spike in perfect or near perfect scores, way more than you'd ever expect from a normal distribution.
When I'm investigated and confirmed it, the university's technical commission announced that some applicants really had cheated and about 2% of all admissions exams ended up getting canceled because of it.
So the methods included students using a cell phone during the exam, having other people help them answer in real time.
And one of the wildest ones is somebody straight up switching people.
So like somebody paid somebody else to take the test for them.
They went as far as actually filing criminal complaints themselves.
Yeah.
An LLC
just
set up for cheating.
Yep.
And it's genuinely hard to get into.
So recently, 159,000 students sat down to take an admissions exam.
It's like the gateway to the future for them, right? Like if they get a good score and get into this school...
Like they're like, your future is going to be set, you know? And so recently this exam went fully online where previously it was all in person and almost immediately something looked wrong to the administrators.
People online started noticing what looked like a mathematically impossible pattern.
A huge unnatural spike in perfect or near perfect scores, way more than you'd ever expect from a normal distribution.
When I'm investigated and confirmed it, the university's technical commission announced that some applicants really had cheated and about 2% of all admissions exams ended up getting canceled because of it.
So the methods included students using a cell phone during the exam, having other people help them answer in real time.
And one of the wildest ones is somebody straight up switching people.
So like somebody paid somebody else to take the test for them.
They went as far as actually filing criminal complaints themselves.
Yeah.
An LLC
just
set up for cheating.
Yep.
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