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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

10 Things We Do, But Don't Know Why

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

circumcision rates in the U.S. have fallen by about 5% in the last 10 years, not last 10 years, but in a 10 year span.

0:06.0

Which is ironic, because I've recently switched to crew necks.

0:12.1

Make up for the other. You've heard total neck is the circumcise, right?

0:15.8

Oh, no. I didn't realize everybody was in the hoodies.

0:19.6

But that made me start thinking that's one of those things that just kind of a given.

0:22.3

You know, when you have kids, at least when my parents were having kids around that time,

0:26.9

it was just, that's just what you did.

0:28.3

There was not a whole lot of conversation there.

0:30.7

In fact, there's a lot of things that we just do just kind of because and the point gets lost.

0:34.5

The men's room top 10.

0:37.3

The men's room top ten. The men's room top ten!

0:42.4

So what we have here are the ten things that we do, but have no idea why, or at least the

0:47.0

origin's a little bit cloudy here.

0:48.4

So I have a handful of explanations for a lot of these.

0:50.9

And they start with clinking glasses.

0:52.7

You guys know that you're cheeringing each other and you clink the glasses. Does anybody actually know why we do that? Absolutely no idea. Just a toast. Something to do with spirits? So there's actually a handful of different origins here. So one is to prevent poisoning. One theory suggested that in medieval times people clink their glasses forcefully enough to slosh a bit of their drink into their neighbor's cup and vice versa.

1:11.4

This would ensure that if one drink was poisoned, both drinkers would be affected, making it an active trust. Cool, cool, fun. They were also made of wood at the time, so you could actually just clank and bash into each other like that. And that was the whole point. It's like, I'm going to give you some of mine, so you should be okay with drinking it as I, you're going to give me some of yours, so I should be good with drinking it as well.

1:27.8

Yay.

1:28.7

Warning off evil spirits, like I said, Ted.

1:30.3

Another theory claims that the sound of clinking okay with drinking it as you're going to give me some of yours, so I should be good with drinking it as well.

1:27.8

Yay.

1:28.6

Warning off evil spirits, like I said, Ted. Another theory claims that the sound of clinking glasses was used to scare away demons and evil spirits. And then they said it engages all five senses. Another idea is that the sound of the clink was added to engage all five senses when enjoying a beverage, which you could otherwise only see, smell, taste, and touch. So you're telling me they thought of scare away demons.

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