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The Sports Junkies

The Sports Junkies: Best of December 15th - December 19th

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to The Sports Junkies best highlights from Monday, December 15th through Friday, December 19th. Have a great weekend!

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0:00.0

This is from the Daily Mail, but it's something that gets brought up from time to time,

0:04.4

and I have kind of a personal story with it. And it's whether college is still worth it,

0:08.8

sending your kids to college. There's a new report which highlights a list of a bunch of

0:15.0

high-paying jobs that require no college degree and little to no experience.

0:22.2

Now, this is different, but your boy, Dan Foley came in here roughly a month ago.

0:28.1

Dan Foley from Foley Mechanical, yeah.

0:30.0

And Dan Foley told me, I asked him, I have a nephew.

0:34.3

Now, he is in junior college, but a couple couple years ago, I kind of started telling him when he

0:40.7

was in high school, you know what you could do? You could go into like HVAC and kill it. And so he's

0:49.0

taken a course per year. He's working at a restaurant, but he's taking a course per year in, you know,

0:55.7

air conditioning, HVAC and all that sort of thing. And what Dan Foley told me is he said his techs,

1:03.5

he's got a ton of techs who makes six figures. Right. So it's there. Um, you know, I think that that I know that the way that Eric and I grew up, the way you grew up, college was kind of just expected.

1:17.8

Yeah.

1:19.0

And I think for a lot of kids, college is expected in your, you know, where you're coming from.

1:24.9

But if you do the math, for a lot of people that aren't fortunate to have their college

1:29.9

paid for, and they take student loans, they can come out of college with $200,000, $300,000 in debt.

1:40.4

Very easily.

1:41.4

And it takes forever to pay that off if you just end up landing a job for, say, 50 grand. Let's see you get a business degree and you get some marketing job and you're making 50 grand. Yeah. Like, are you better off doing that? Yeah, but that's not a new dilemma, by the way. It's not a new dilemma. This is a dilemma a long time. It's become more stark now.

2:03.3

Because tuition is so expensive.

2:03.8

Yes.

2:05.1

Tuition, I mean... It's going up every year.

2:06.3

I had a financial planner when Kelsey was born.

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