Former Stanford University sailing coach John Vandemoer is the first person to be sentenced in the college admissions cheating scandal: Operation Varsity Blues. He was sentenced to one day in prison, six months of home detention, two years of supervised release, and a $10,000 fine.  My producer Miranda joins us to break it down and the thing that worked in his favor, he never pocketed the money, but sent it all back to the sailing program.

Next, nearly 1,400 people had died in Congo from an Ebola outbreak that has lasted nearly a year, and now the contagious disease has spread to Uganda.  A 5 year old boy crossed the border with his family and later died.  The Ebola problems have persisted in Congo as a result of community distrust and armed rebel groups threatening violence against health workers. Andrew Freedman, science editor at Axios, joins us for more on the Ebola outbreak.

Finally, at first it looked like a simple domestic murder, but then police learned about the alien reptilian cult.  Steve Mineo was shot by his girlfriend Barbara Rogers who had been accused of being a “Vampire Witch Reptilian Super Soldier.” She has now been found guilty of third-degree murder. Kyle Swenson, reporter for the Washington Post, joins us for the bizarre backstory of this extraterrestrial cult that swallowed them both up. 

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