Will Bunch (on college in America)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Will Bunch (After the Ivory Tower Falls) is an author and journalist. Will joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he wanted to research the college story in America, why people are so politically divided over the subject of higher education, and why it's so expensive to go to American universities. Will and Dax talk about why it could be argued that college degrees are more about status than knowledge, how the debt relief program could shape the future of many people, and how it's possible for vocational schools to make a comeback. Will explains why some states stopped wanting to fund their public universities, how college is mostly about learning to think critically, and the concept of a credential society. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to Armchair Expert Experts on Expert. I'm joined by Mrs. Mouse.
0:06.0	This mouse needs a nap.
0:08.0	Yes, you...
0:11.0	I can't say that. No one wants to hear you look drowsy. I wanted to confirm your
0:17.0	story and also got scared I was drowsy I'm drowsy well you can't tell. That's right. Yeah, I would know. Good job. When you
0:28.0	rub your eyes every five minutes like a little to the six month old baby rubbing their
0:32.0	eyes that is not a giveaway.
0:33.6	Like Vinny.
0:34.7	Will Bunch is here today.
0:36.2	Will Bunch is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
0:38.5	and is currently a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
0:41.8	He has a new book out now called After the
0:45.3	Ivory Tower Falls how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics
0:50.4	and how to fix it. I love this topic. We've never really tackled colleges. We talk
0:54.2	about colleges so much, but we don't never really get into how fucking hard it is to
0:59.0	afford to go to one, how it's changed. I didn't know the history of this proliferation of college.
1:04.0	Really interesting and Will Bunch is a sweet, sweet man so please enjoy Will Bunch.
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1:24.0	He's an object bird.
1:27.0	He's an object bird.
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