BBT #14 | University Scandals, Celebrity Obsessions, and America's Love of Violence

Black Box Theory Podcast · Apr 26, 2026 · 57m · transcript

Hitting 2000 streams should be a celebration moment — but this episode goes deeper than that. There's a financial aid misappropriation story at an HBCU that exposes how institutional trust gets broken in the very places Black students are told to trust most, an obsession with celebrity relationships that has quietly become a full distraction industry pulling attention away from real wealth conversations, and an NBA and NFL draft cycle that reveals player image is now being manufactured long before any talent ever gets measured.

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00:00 — Introduction and Disclaimer

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