A Deep Dive into Loneliness

Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

Audacy

Comedy

4.1 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A new study reveals a counterpoint to the popular saying "loneliness kills”

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0:00.0	Blah, blah, blah, blah.
0:00.5	Get up!
0:01.2	With Sarah and Vinny.
0:02.7	Legit.
0:03.3	Yeah.
0:03.8	Alice at 973.
0:06.8	Okay, I teased you with this story, and it's interesting because I can kind of see both sides of this.
0:11.9	I do believe human beings are social.
0:15.6	Yes.
0:16.0	And it's an important thing that we try to deny ourselves because sometimes you will also find
0:22.4	yourself feeling like if I go out then I get caught up in all this stuff like I things that you
0:29.7	know whatever it might be whether it's the holidays or just a regular reason pick a knack and then
0:35.5	you find yourself going oh it's going to be parking and this and that.
0:39.8	It's not worth the hassle.
0:41.3	Oh.
0:42.3	A comprehensive new study of nearly 400,000 older folks receiving care in their homes has found that lonely older adults had an 18 to 23% lower risk of dying within a year
0:57.0	compared to non-l lonely seniors.
1:00.3	I'm so lonely.
1:02.7	But I'm still alive.
1:04.5	Have you ever had those times?
1:06.4	This is off the study now, but those days where, and I had one not that long ago, where I just,
1:12.4	I got someone's name wrong and then I did another thing. And I was just driving home dejected,
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