All right, team, welcome back to The Man Talk Show.

Connor Beaton here.

Today, we're going to be talking about male loneliness, the rise of it,

and why you probably need more male friends.

How to actually get that done?

How do you actually accomplish that? So in a

recent piece of research, I think about a year and a half ago, researchers found that men between

the ages of 18 to 30 are spending on average 6.6 hours alone per day. Now this is up about an

hour and a half more from four years before and is much higher

than it was in decades prior. And so on average, men, especially younger men, but also older men,

when you look at the data, are spending more and more time by themselves. Now, of course,

many of you are sitting there thinking, well, I like spending time by

myself. I like solitude. I also like being self-sufficient. You know, I enjoy my life the way that it is.

And sometimes other people can be a pain in the ass and they can be irritating. And I get all

that. But the reality is that we need friendships. We need socialization for the optimal mental

and emotional health in order for us to share life with. And the truth is that many men are

lonelier than ever before. And you can see this in the data, not just in the amount of time

that they're spending together. But when you look at the data around friendships, you'll see that

roughly 15 to 20% of men cannot identify a close friend or a best friend. You might not even feel like

you have anybody in your life that you can talk to when things are going south or to get some

advice from or some guidance from. And that may have inadvertently been something

that you did intentionally. Or it might be something that you did unintentionally. You know,

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