October 21, 2025 • 7 mins
A new study shows that Halloween is the LONELIEST Holiday. But how true is it?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This month, that the joshow is brought to you by
blood Bath and beyond everything you need to clean up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Flz, it's the jhow.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That oathroom gold? Did you know that Halloween's the loneliest holiday?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, there was a survey that was released asking two
thousand Americans when do you feel the loneliest? And Halloween
was the number one holiday, more than Valentine Day, more
than Christmas or those Thanks December holidays, Thanksgiving which is
all about family partying. Halloween is the number one and
(00:48):
the partying is the reason why, because not only are
singles feeling lonely from not having a significant other, but
also if they're not with their friends, they feel like
almost like they have no friends. So spending Halloween alone
causes more loneliness feelings than on Christmas morning.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I can only say yes that because you hear all
the outside noise, and you hear people trigger treating, having fun,
maybe neighbors throwing a party, so you feel lonely.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
But I don't feel lonely, so I'm not a part
of that.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
What do you mean you don't feel long?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I don't ever feel Halloween. I do not feel long.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
But come on, Halloween is fun to like go out
and party.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, but I don't think it's just not a major
holiday for me to like party. I know for you,
like you would have one hundred percent feel lonely if
you didn't do anything on Halloween.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
You were that percentage though you love dressing up.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
But yeah, I don't know what you're trying to say.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Like, yeah, I'm saying, I'm just saying we're the complete opposite.
Whereas you're saying that people feel the loneliest when it
comes to holidays. On Halloween, I don't feel that way.
I feel as though, maybe because I don't really care
about how woween, that is not really important to me,
So I'm not lonely. Or as Valentine's Day or Thanksgiving
and Christmas, I can't spend those holidays alone.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I need to be around people.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Okay, all right, eight hundred and four oh nine ninety
three ninety three. Then I want to know from you,
what is that holiday you don't want to be single on.
I feel like couples hate on Valentine's Day so much
that then when you're single on Valentine's Day, you're like fit,
I don't really care. But I get the Halloween thing
(02:31):
because it's what's better than dressing up with someone a
couple's costume?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Alyssa and I did that last year. That was amazing,
it was funny.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
We're not dressing up this year because we've got other
things going on for Halloween, which sucks because I really
want to like dress I love dressing up, and this
year was going to be amazing. I was going to
be Deadpool. She'd be Lady Deadpool, Jed b Wolverine. Life
is going to be fantastic then, but can't wait? What
would your girlfriend have been then?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter, Yeah,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, you guys are going to be that one percent lonely.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Are you excited to do like a? Are you doing
a couple's costume this year?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I don't think so. Well, you guys aren't real then,
what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
We're not.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Off?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Is not real?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I don't real. I don't mean to do it. And Halleen, no,
she's like the spooky stuff and she well, I will
say that she got mad at me the other day Ashley,
because I didn't You haven't carved pumpkins yet?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh you gotta carved pumpkins.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Joe, does that you did? You did it a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Or maybe you bake cookies. You did something that was
really cute. You know what I'm talking about? What you
like holiday cookies? That's like me assuming you can wrap? Okay, Nah,
how how dare you? That's a that's a racial stereotype.
You do think that I just carve pumpkins.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I can rap.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I do carve pumpkins, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I don't know why. Well, I think that our
I think that our community has guidelines about not having
pumpkins outside of your front door because we have so
many animals that live by it. So we have like
raccoons and other animal you know, she doesn't she have
a home?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
I'm sorry? Does she not live on?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Also made these holidays a lot very couplely, like now
you've got the boot boxes and things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The box.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Who is this?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Hi? Karina?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Hi, Karina? What are you calling it about?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Do you feel the loneliest on Halloween? Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Really tell us why?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I would say, because I don't really like to go
out like that, and people go out for the wrong reason.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Okay, Jonathan, go ahead, definitely.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
In New Year's everybody has a resolution for the year goals.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It wants to be lonely all year.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah, so do we all need right now? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I gotta wake you up, Jonathan, Jonathan, what do you
get going on today?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Matt work?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah? What do you do for a living? Whisper? No,
I'm a mechanic.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Look at you sound like are you hiding?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Are you hiding your phone? Are you hiding the fact
that you're you're trying to act?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
No, I have my ear pod and I to disconnect
you from.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
My ear pod. Okay, I just wanted to make sure
everything was good. Yep. Charging anyone today you act like they.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Got something wrong with their car that they don't really
have something.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, you know, you know that's the problem with with
the industry. You know, there's a lot of scumbags out
there that do that.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
They don't do what Brandon Honda really they don't, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Just stay away from Nissan Jenkins Nith.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Car dealership.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I see what you're doing there, Jonathan. Thanks for listening
to us while you work on cars and everything. If
I ever need anything, I'm coming to you. Okay, Jonathan
and Lakeland the man, Amelia, you agree with Halloween so real?
Quick back to a man talking about study came out
said that Halloween is the loneliest day for singles, even
(06:12):
more so than Valentine's Day.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Why is that right?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Because it has to be the answer. Everybody wants to
make money, and every holiday other than Halloween is time
and a half, so everybody wants to work on those holidays.
People fight, practically fight each other for those holidays. But
Halloweens you don't get no time in a half.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
You make double the money.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You're right, hands down. And of course you know there's
always fun. Halleen, It's so fun.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
All right, Next year, cauld you know you can do
this year. I'm not celebrating. I'm very sad about it.
Next year, we're gonna make sure everyone feels like together.
Why do we let's send to a couple's costume. Let's
do a show costume. I'm not talking about four people.
I'm talking about anyone who listens to the show. Anyone
who listens to the show. We're gonna do minions or whatever.
(07:05):
Oh there's more than that. I'll be stud hey, Kevin,
Amelia E baye eh.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I love it. Sore Minions.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Next year the million Minions. Isn't it funny too When
people say, hey, I'm a Minion, they always pick a
name that's not theirs. But the whole joke of the
minions is that they all have our names.
This month, that the joshow is brought to you by
blood Bath and beyond everything you need to clean up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Flz, it's the jhow.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That oathroom gold? Did you know that Halloween's the loneliest holiday?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, there was a survey that was released asking two
thousand Americans when do you feel the loneliest? And Halloween
was the number one holiday, more than Valentine Day, more
than Christmas or those Thanks December holidays, Thanksgiving which is
all about family partying. Halloween is the number one and
(00:48):
the partying is the reason why, because not only are
singles feeling lonely from not having a significant other, but
also if they're not with their friends, they feel like
almost like they have no friends. So spending Halloween alone
causes more loneliness feelings than on Christmas morning.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I can only say yes that because you hear all
the outside noise, and you hear people trigger treating, having fun,
maybe neighbors throwing a party, so you feel lonely.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
But I don't feel lonely, so I'm not a part
of that.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
What do you mean you don't feel long?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I don't ever feel Halloween. I do not feel long.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
But come on, Halloween is fun to like go out
and party.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah, but I don't think it's just not a major
holiday for me to like party. I know for you,
like you would have one hundred percent feel lonely if
you didn't do anything on Halloween.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
You were that percentage though you love dressing up.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
But yeah, I don't know what you're trying to say.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Like, yeah, I'm saying, I'm just saying we're the complete opposite.
Whereas you're saying that people feel the loneliest when it
comes to holidays. On Halloween, I don't feel that way.
I feel as though, maybe because I don't really care
about how woween, that is not really important to me,
So I'm not lonely. Or as Valentine's Day or Thanksgiving
and Christmas, I can't spend those holidays alone.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I need to be around people.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Okay, all right, eight hundred and four oh nine ninety
three ninety three. Then I want to know from you,
what is that holiday you don't want to be single on.
I feel like couples hate on Valentine's Day so much
that then when you're single on Valentine's Day, you're like fit,
I don't really care. But I get the Halloween thing
(02:31):
because it's what's better than dressing up with someone a
couple's costume?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Alyssa and I did that last year. That was amazing,
it was funny.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
We're not dressing up this year because we've got other
things going on for Halloween, which sucks because I really
want to like dress I love dressing up, and this
year was going to be amazing. I was going to
be Deadpool. She'd be Lady Deadpool, Jed b Wolverine. Life
is going to be fantastic then, but can't wait? What
would your girlfriend have been then?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter, Yeah,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yeah, you guys are going to be that one percent lonely.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Are you excited to do like a? Are you doing
a couple's costume this year?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I don't think so. Well, you guys aren't real then,
what do you mean?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
We're not.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Off?
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Is not real?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I don't real. I don't mean to do it. And Halleen, no,
she's like the spooky stuff and she well, I will
say that she got mad at me the other day Ashley,
because I didn't You haven't carved pumpkins yet?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Oh you gotta carved pumpkins.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Joe, does that you did? You did it a couple
of years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Or maybe you bake cookies. You did something that was
really cute. You know what I'm talking about? What you
like holiday cookies? That's like me assuming you can wrap? Okay, Nah,
how how dare you? That's a that's a racial stereotype.
You do think that I just carve pumpkins.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I can rap.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
I do carve pumpkins, and I love it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, I don't know why. Well, I think that our
I think that our community has guidelines about not having
pumpkins outside of your front door because we have so
many animals that live by it. So we have like
raccoons and other animal you know, she doesn't she have
a home?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
I'm sorry? Does she not live on?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Also made these holidays a lot very couplely, like now
you've got the boot boxes and things like that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The box.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Hi?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Who is this?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Hi? Karina?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Hi, Karina? What are you calling it about?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Do you feel the loneliest on Halloween? Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Really tell us why?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I would say, because I don't really like to go
out like that, and people go out for the wrong reason.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Okay, Jonathan, go ahead, definitely.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
In New Year's everybody has a resolution for the year goals.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
It wants to be lonely all year.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah, so do we all need right now? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (05:03):
I gotta wake you up, Jonathan, Jonathan, what do you
get going on today?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Matt work?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yeah? What do you do for a living? Whisper? No,
I'm a mechanic.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Look at you sound like are you hiding?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Are you hiding your phone? Are you hiding the fact
that you're you're trying to act?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
No, I have my ear pod and I to disconnect
you from.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
My ear pod. Okay, I just wanted to make sure
everything was good. Yep. Charging anyone today you act like they.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Got something wrong with their car that they don't really
have something.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, you know, you know that's the problem with with
the industry. You know, there's a lot of scumbags out
there that do that.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
They don't do what Brandon Honda really they don't, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Just stay away from Nissan Jenkins Nith.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Car dealership.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I see what you're doing there, Jonathan. Thanks for listening
to us while you work on cars and everything. If
I ever need anything, I'm coming to you. Okay, Jonathan
and Lakeland the man, Amelia, you agree with Halloween so real?
Quick back to a man talking about study came out
said that Halloween is the loneliest day for singles, even
(06:12):
more so than Valentine's Day.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Why is that right?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Because it has to be the answer. Everybody wants to
make money, and every holiday other than Halloween is time
and a half, so everybody wants to work on those holidays.
People fight, practically fight each other for those holidays. But
Halloweens you don't get no time in a half.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
You make double the money.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
You're right, hands down. And of course you know there's
always fun. Halleen, It's so fun.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
All right, Next year, cauld you know you can do
this year. I'm not celebrating. I'm very sad about it.
Next year, we're gonna make sure everyone feels like together.
Why do we let's send to a couple's costume. Let's
do a show costume. I'm not talking about four people.
I'm talking about anyone who listens to the show. Anyone
who listens to the show. We're gonna do minions or whatever.
(07:05):
Oh there's more than that. I'll be stud hey, Kevin,
Amelia E baye eh.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I love it. Sore Minions.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Next year the million Minions. Isn't it funny too When
people say, hey, I'm a Minion, they always pick a
name that's not theirs. But the whole joke of the
minions is that they all have our names.
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