10 Things That Sound Impressive Until You Do Them
The Mens Room Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You guys ever work really, really hard for something? You achieve a goal and it just didn't quite have all the pomp and circumstance that you wanted it to. |
| 0:06.9 | I find that that is generally the case. That's what I say. It's a thrill of the hunt, right? Correct. But you know what? Let's cover it. |
| 0:11.8 | The men's room top ten. The men's room top ten. |
| 0:18.3 | You said hunt, correct? |
| 0:21.2 | Yes. Maybe. |
| 0:22.0 | Got it, Miles. |
| 0:24.2 | So this comes to us via Reddit. |
| 0:25.9 | Somebody on social media asked, |
| 0:27.5 | what's something that sounds impressive until you've actually done it? |
| 0:31.6 | So here we have the list. |
| 0:32.7 | Something that sounds impressive until you've done it. |
| 0:34.8 | Right. |
| 0:35.1 | Something that sounds impressive until you've done it. |
| 0:36.8 | So bottom of the list, they say tearing a phone book in half. |
| 0:40.0 | Never done it, but sure. |
| 0:41.0 | No. |
| 0:41.4 | I've done it with a smaller one because I saw something that told you what the trick was. Right. It's about what the spine of the book. So it's not the spine of the book, but if you grab it in the middle and you kind of crimp it a little bit, you pinch it just a little bit, it'll kind of pre-start it. |
| 0:55.9 | You know, that paper's flimsy. |
| 0:57.4 | Sure. |
| 0:57.6 | So... if you grab it in the middle and you kind of crimp it a little bit you pinch it just a little bit it'll kind of pre-start it you know that paper's flimsy sure so so as soon as you just kind of get it started and as soon as you start it then you're good to go okay hmm you know what would impress me is that you have a phone book yeah right like what do we turn half now no the harder thing to do with phone book is to interlace the two and then pull them apart. |
| 1:26.7 | I've seen that, yeah. People would lose their mind if you did a phone book today. Yeah, right. I mean, you're giving my number to anyone who wants it and throwing it on your front door. That's a good call. You're giving a new one every year. be like, I don't want you to have my number. |
| 1:28.9 | I don't want some Joe Schmo to look through the phone book and start pranking me like I did when I was a kid. |
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