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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Today We Toast...

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Headlines and the Shot of the Day!

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0:00.0

I cut up at 508, we will drink and toast with a shout of the day. And we do have your headlines coming up at $5.50. Bob first quickshank on Mike Hawk and some of the stories and headlines, he is not working on. Thank you, Miles. I wish we could find that, do it again. Okay, scientists have discovered that the genes associated with dyslexia are ancient. They think they were new. Say that again?

0:23.5

The genes associated with dyslexia are ancient.

0:24.2

Yeah.

0:27.9

It's not like it just came out of nowhere.

0:29.4

It's a genetic thing.

0:30.8

It's a genetic thing. But also, nine times out of ten that you're able to diagnose dyslexia now,

1:12.1

it has to do with reading, right? Sure. I got to work. I mean, before there was the printed word, I'm sure a lot of people may have had, but you wouldn't know. Right. Right. There was nothing specific for you to go, hey, man, why is this way for you? Right. You look at a lot of the different things that people dealt with, are dealing with now. You can go back in time and look at it like, no, they were just kind of cast away or, you know, put down as whatever label you wanted to put on them. Billy Bob Thornton, but it best. He said when I was in school, they just called me an idiot. Right. It's ADHD. Right. So he was always disrupting class. Exactly. He's like, that's all, man. It's like the exact same thing, but until you know, but I'm just saying like, in ancient times, I don't know how you diagnose dyslexia. Right. Right. You still know up and down. You know, the sky is blue. I know the sun is not, right? Right. There's nothing there for you to Like I said, there's no... It's not like they had the, you know, the caveman times that came out.

1:30.6

Right.

1:30.1

You read a better. I know the son is that, right? There's nothing there for you to recognize. It's not like they had the, you know, the caveman times that came out.

1:30.6

Right.

1:32.3

You read it backwards, man.

1:34.3

Yeah, right.

1:37.9

Like, what would you do for people to know that you're dyslexic?

1:38.8

Exactly.

1:41.5

But cool.

1:42.1

All right.

2:18.5

90% of Americans believe that the U.S. is in a full-blown cost of living crisis. Yeah. If that many people think so, then it is. Right. That's one of those things that it's very subjective. Absolutely. So if 90% think that, then we most definitively are. Correct. Yeah. By the way, that's not new. No. Come on. Yeah. Are we going to do anything about it? No. No. But this is just where we're at. So, enjoy that. Researchers believe that eye scans may one day help spot Alzheimer's before memory starts to before it starts to fade. Well, what are they going to do about it, though? That's all the thing. And you do anything preventive.

2:21.3

But there's a lot of stuff they figure out through the eyes, man. There was a what was years ago. The gateway to the soul. She took a pic... Well, there's a gateway to the soul. That's how I can look at you and say, evil soul. But a woman took a picture of her kid. The kid's like eight years old or something, right?

2:31.9

But she had the flash on, so the flash reflects off the retina, blah, blah, blah.

2:35.3

But she posted this picture, like Instagram, whatever, just to say like, hey, here's my kid on his first day of third grade or something. And someone she didn't know was like, hey man, take your kid to the doctor. Because whatever, when the flash lit up the kid's She's like like this isn't right. This isn't right. Sure enough, anyway, the mother takes the kid to the doctor because you got all paranoid about it. It turns out this random person was right. Absolutely. The kid had some kind of condition and they just said, look, man, I'm not trying to freak you out, but I'm telling you, your kid probably has blank. Exactly. I actually did an auction for him, but they're down south there, a kindering center, I believe, is what it is.

3:09.2

But they'll take a look at kids like in utero and they'll notice certain dysfunctions that they'll have after they're born that they'll be able to immediately begin correcting.

3:18.4

They'll immediately begin to bring therapies out and whatnot that'll fix these issues or really get ahead of the curve there so that they're not near as debilitating. Wow. So, yeah. Good for them. Hell yeah, man. We can look in there and be like, yeah, yeah, your kid's fine. We can just tell he's going to be kind of a D. I know, right? Look, and this is not your fault. All right. Your kid's going to be a douchebag. I know you have a loving family and all that. He'll be good to you. Well, he can be a doucheback.

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