Campus Files

About Campus Files

College holds a mythic place in American culture, hailed as the best four years of your life and revered as a beacon of integrity and excellence. But behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story, exploring everything from rigged admissions to sports scandals, free speech, and hazing. Consider this your unofficial campus tour. Do you have tips or story ideas? Send us an email: campusfilespod@gmail.com‬. For additional stories on scandals that have rocked American institutions, check out seasons 1-3 of Gangster Capitalism in this feed: Season 1: The College Admissions Scandal Season 2: The NRA Season 3: Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University Campus Files is an Audacy original podcast.

Publisher

Audacy

Category

society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Apr 2019

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

53 of 98 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Beating the House | The MIT Blackjack Team

   Host Ben Kern interviews members of the MIT Blackjack Team as they reveal how they used mathematics to beat casinos and the consequences they faced.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Pit of Hades | Chemical Weapons at American University

   Host [Host Name] explores the terrifying discovery of buried World War I chemical weapons at American University, revealing the hidden dangers beneath campus.

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   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Radioactive Oatmeal | MIT’s Experiments on Institutionalized Children

   Host Dan Taberski explores MIT's ethically questionable radioactive oatmeal experiments on institutionalized children, revealing a dark chapter in nutritional research.

Inside a recent episode

Beating the House | The MIT Blackjack Team

Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And if you can keep track of that, then you can bet a lot of money when there are mostly big cards left in the deck. And on the average, you will win because of that phenomenon. Hearing about the theory, JP was intrigued, but he wasn't going to accept it just because a mathematician said it was true. So, of course, being MIT nerds, we decided we would figure out whether it was true or not. To test the theory, they needed a computer. And in the 1970s, that wasn't something most people could easily access, even at MIT. But the lab where JP worked did have them. So without exactly advertising what he was doing, he used one of those computers to run the numbers. […]

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

7,243 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

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28

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

94