In the vast expanse of podcasting, seven shows unite.

For one extraordinary mission, on January 25th, the boundaries between shows will blur,

and the greatest minds in Star Trek podcasting converge.

Their goal?

To boldly support the future of science education.

Prepare yourself.

Greatest Generation presents Star Trek Podcrawl. Star Trek pod crawl.

Star Trek podcrawl.com.

You're about to listen to an episode of Wholesome, which is a side project that me and Ben and Adam Ruggusia have been working on for many months.

It's a patrons-only podcast available at patreon.com slash wholesome underscore pod.

Very few episodes have snuck out from behind that paywall, but we wanted to put one in here

that we thought fans of Greatest Trek might enjoy.

So without much further ado,

and because we are taking a little break

for my family leave,

we present this special episode of Wholesome.

We hope you enjoy it.

Music this special episode of Holesome, we hope you enjoy it. One of the most important and off-sighted pieces of social criticism of the last few decades

is the book Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam. I haven't read this book, but I've heard

interviews about it, and it comes up in conversations about the loneliness epidemic we have

going on in America so often that I imagine I could, like a large language model, generate

at least a few paragraphs of prose that plausibly come from the book.

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