Sam Pressler & Soren Duggan of Nobody to Call – Men Without College Degrees & the Yearning to Connect | Candid Conversations. Underdog Wisdom | Goodpain Podcast S02E017
IN THIS EPISODE
What the Disconnected survey (2024) established about the college degree as the dividing line in American civic life
Why the male loneliness narrative misreads the real crisis – and what "left alone by society" means instead
The friendship cliff: why connections collapse after high school for men without degrees
Tenuous ties and single points of failure in men's relational lives
The accompaniment framework: loss and transition as communal experiences, not individual problems
Why the self-help ethos is the wrong prescription for structural disconnection
What it means to "call…
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