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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Monday Mini Classic: The Male Loneliness Epidemic

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There's been a lot of talk about what has been labeled the Male Loneliness Epidemic. But what is it? Are there gendered differences in loneliness? We discuss in this classic episode.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.2

Hey, this is Annie.

0:10.5

And Samantha.

0:11.4

And welcome to Stuff Whenever Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:33.4

And today we are bringing back a classic, a bit earlier than we normally bring them back, but because Samantha and I have been talking about it a lot and referencing a lot, it a lot on the show lately.

0:37.2

I thought, you know what, let's just go ahead and bring it back.

0:38.2

And this is one that you did Samantha on the male loneliness epidemic, which after we did it, I saw a lot of other

0:46.8

newer articles being written about it. That happens to us a lot when we research things.

0:50.6

Right. Right after it comes out, you know to to our anger like oh why wasn't this here

0:58.4

earlier right people were writing papers about it but i thought it was really interesting because i

1:02.6

read one pretty quickly after we did this that was just discussing how loneliness

1:10.4

manifest differently in men and women. And should we be,

1:17.0

like, looking into that also of like, why does it manifest differently in men and women? And should we

1:23.8

be treating it the same as we do with men and women. So people are clearly still

1:28.5

talking about it. We're clearly still talking about it. So thought we might as well bring back

1:33.9

this classic. Please enjoy.

1:41.4

Hey, this is Annie. And Samantha. And welcome to Steph I Never Told You, a production of IHeartRadio.

1:54.9

And welcome to another Monday mini, where I ponder, what is happening in the world?

2:00.9

Thanks to my social media.

2:03.0

Oh dear.

2:05.0

Good luck.

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