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Short Stuff: Knock on Wood

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.676.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What's the deal with knocking on wood? It's an action one takes to ensure good luck. Which doesn't exist. Yet we do it. Humans are funny that way.

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Oh no, I was just wishing myself good luck.

0:49.0

Oh, well that should sound like this.

0:51.0

We're talking about knocking on wood, and it's actually not for good luck.

0:57.0

Knocking on wood is more to avoid tempting fate.

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It depends on who you're talking to. Are you an ancient

1:03.4

Celts or a modern day Chuck?

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I'm a modern day Kelt.

1:08.1

Oh God. No, no, no, I'm an ancient Chuck, that's what I am.

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My brain's busted now.

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You're going to have to take over the rest of this episode.

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Uh, no.

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All right, so, yeah, you're right.

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These days, we knock on wood to ward off bad luck usually it's when we're

1:23.9

saying something like a boast or we're saying something that we don't want the

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