Welcome to Skeptical Sunday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. Today I'm here with Skeptical Sunday

co-host, writer, and researcher, Nick Pell. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories,

secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical

advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Our mission is to help you

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with a variety of amazing folks, from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and performers.

On Sundays, though, we do skeptical Sunday. That's where a rotating guest co-host and I break

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slash start or search for us in your Spotify app to get starting. So today, if your family was

anything like mine, there was just no question about it. You were going to

college after high school. Now, however, many people, myself included, are skeptical that college is really

a good deal at the end of the day. You might have heard more and more people talking about the

idea of skipping college and going straight to work or entering the trades. But is college really useless?

Is it a bad investment? Or is this just another talking point without facts to back it up?

Here to give us a little higher education on the topic is Anglo-Saxon poetry enthusiast

Nick Bell. Before we go any further, Nick, you went to college, correct?

Not as much as you did. Well, your bank account certainly thanks you for that.

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