Eric Kanevsky On Getting Arrested, Craziest Pranks, Playing A Russian Gangster, And Being Banned Frrom College Campuses & Planet Fitness!
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On this episode of Freshman Podcast, we have a special guest in the house, Eric Konefsky. Eric is a prankster, podcaster, and podcaster. He is one of the most well-known pranksters on the internet, and has been featured on Comedy Central, MTV, and more. We talk about his life growing up in Ukraine, how he got started in the prank game, and what it's like being an immigrant in the United States. We also talk about the ups and downs of being on the show, and how he dealt with the consequences of his prank videos. We hope you enjoy this episode, and don't forget to subscribe on your favorite streaming platform so you never miss an episode. Freshman is a production of the Freshmen Podcast. Freshmen is a podcast about college students from the Freshman Class, hosted by Myron and Myron's, produced by FreshmanFreshmanFresh and Freshfit. Freshman has been created by FreshmenFreshmenFreshman Freshman Freshmen and FreshFreshFreshmen. FreshFresh Freshmen FreshFresh is a new podcast that focuses on college students and their experiences in college life and college life. FreshFreshman Podcast is a student-produced podcast, hosted and produced in Los Angeles, California. Hosted by FreshFresh, Myron & Myron, AKA FreshFresh. . Fresh Fresh, Freshfit Fresh Freshman, Fresh Freshness, FreshFreshness Freshness Fresh Freshfit, and Fresh Fresh. We are all Fresh Fresh Fresh! We will be covering college students across the country, college, high school, and post-universities, and college campus, and everything in between. Fresh Freshday, we are here to bring you the best of what's going on in the world of college life! we are FreshFresh! and we are excited to have you here to talk about college life, food, culture, music, and so much more. and everything else! - Fresh Freshment Freshness. -Fresh Fresh, we hope you all enjoy Fresh Fresh and all things college life with FreshFreshfit Freshness with Fresh Freshfied. ! - Myron + Fresh Fresh Fit, , Fresh FreshFreshelf, Freshelf, Freshelf and Freshelf We hope y'all have a great week! - Freshelf & Freshelf! - We love you're all having a good week!
Transcript
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And then rumble.com slash freshfit, as you guys know.
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Not YouTube, but we're on Rumble, Twitch, Twitter, and Facebook.
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We don't want to censor it, guys, so we're just doing it on Rumble, and we're going to probably close out the other platforms here very soon.
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Without further ado, we know who you are, brother.
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But if you don't mind, tell them who you are, the audience.
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So, I have a prank channel on YouTube, pretty much the only prankster my size, and I'd say I probably do the craziest pranks on all of YouTube, like...
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Yeah, by the way, when you hit me up, like, two weeks ago to be on the show, I couldn't fucking believe it.
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Like, at first I saw you view my story, and, like, all my friends and I watched the show, so, like, I was just gonna screenshot that you viewed my story, and I'm like, oh shit, Myron viewed it.
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Then I see you DMing to be on the show, I'm like, oh man, no fucking way.
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I was watching your stuff back in the day, man, before I was even on YouTube myself.
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I was like an agent doing surveillance, and I was like, what the fuck is this Russian guy doing being a professor at a university?
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Um, and the thing too is that like, you know, we all know that the prank genre is kind of like fell off and died off or whatever, but you're one of the few guys that are still doing it, doing a high level and it's real stuff.
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I mean, and you've had to deal with some issues because of it.
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I had eight court cases last year simultaneously that I was dealing with.
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I was facing a year in jail if I got arrested again.
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It's a lot of attention, but the downside of it is like the aftermaths or the side effects of, you know, the happening.
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But before we talk about the prank channels and everything, because I got a lot of questions on that.
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Can you take us a little bit about your background?
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Obviously, you're from Russia, but can you tell us about like, you know, because you came into the country as an immigrant.
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But if it's, okay, if it's the Russian-speaking side, okay.
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I couldn't even, honestly, I couldn't even tell you what the war is about.
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So like, but it's so funny, like, on my channel, people all the time, they're like, oh, are you actually Russian?
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And all these comments, like, going crazy about it, like, I just don't get it.
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Like, I just rep both countries, and that's it.
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Yeah, I thought, because you speak Russian fluently, right?
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But I mean, They're like the brother of brother nations, man.
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And the reason I go by Russian gangster is because up until two years ago, nobody knew what the fuck Ukraine even is.
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Like, if you're from Ukraine, Belarus, etc., you just say you're Russian in America.
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Yeah, because, I mean, let's keep it a thousand.
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I mean, unless you're a passport bro, or you're just a well-traveled individual, you're not going to know Ukraine.
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Like, I bet a lot of people still don't know that Ukrainians and Russians are, like, the same exact people.
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Do you speak Ukrainian too, or do you only speak Russian?
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And then, how was it like in your childhood, basically?
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But for you, you're always like A student, B student.
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Well, growing up, I always did pranks growing up.
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When I was a little kid with my group of friends, we would literally spend our time prank calling people.
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We used to call me and my friend, Jeremy, if you're watching this right now, you already know what I'm about to say.
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We used to call Italian restaurants and pretend to be the mafia.
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And then they're like, oh, what are you talking about?
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We call Chinese stores, sorry, Chinese restaurants and say that we were the FDA and we had information that they were cooking cats and dogs.
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We should get off Twitch, probably, and Facebook it.
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Come on over to Rumble, niggas, so that we can have the conversation that we want to have, goddammit.
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Because I want to put the Rumble chat in here, too.
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So, guys, yeah, kill all the other streams, guys.
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Come on over to Rumble, rumble.com slash fresherfit, so that we can do this interview the way that we fucking want to do it, okay?
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So, yeah, I love pranks because, like, one, it's funny, but two, it's like, that experience you get and the thrill you get is amazing.
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So, in school, right, I was class clown, 100%, and I'll never forget, back in those days, I didn't eat a lot, but when I ate, it was garbage.
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So, in class, right, I'll sit at the front, And then I moved to the back because I know I'm going to fart, right?
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And there's always like one or two deaths open.
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So I would fart in the front and walk to the back.
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So then back then, when I would walk to the back, obviously it would permeate through the whole room.
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Yeah, when I was in 6th grade, I found this fart spray.
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So I would bring it to class, and I would start, like, spraying it.
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And every day, the teacher would just, like, go crazy, like, she's like, whoever's doing this, you know, you need to see a doctor, whatever.
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Then I started telling, like, all the other students, and, like, we'd plan a time where it's gonna go off, and, like, everybody would be waiting for it.
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But then one girl snitched on me, and then when the teacher found out, like, she made the whole class evacuate, and...
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I was supposed to go clean the toilets the whole day after.
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We were all huddled in the middle at the very morning.
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I had, like, Maubi's, like, a local drink there.
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And then I made sure I was in the middle of the attendance.
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So, when you moved from Ukraine, did you do most of your growing up in LA? Yeah, I lived in LA pretty much all my life.
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When COVID started, I moved to Texas for two years, and I loved it out there, but the problem is, compared to LA, you can't film shit.
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When you say you can't film it, was it tough to be able to do pranks, get reactions?
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So once I'm trespassed from both, what the hell do I do?
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And there's also like no Russian community like in LA. And I love like doing those pranks.
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Fucking with like the Russian Armenian community there.
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Okay, so you liked being in Texas, but it was just really tough to film.
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Yeah, I'd love to live there, but for what I do for work, it wasn't worth it.
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But I can see, like, being from there, the type of content that you make, it makes sense.
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And to be honest with you, most of the biggest YouTubers are all out in L.A. anyway.
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Like, very few guys are, you know, outside of Los Angeles.
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So, tell us, I guess, pluses and negatives of being in L.A.? Well, for me, I mean, the filming is, there's no other place like LA, like, because first of all, the police doesn't give a fuck.
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If you go into the right areas with the LAP, they don't give a fuck.
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The sheriff's department doesn't even come anymore if it's a non-violent crime.
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Yeah, but you gotta be careful not to go to the wrong place, because like Burbank, when we did a prank there, that's when I really got fucked.
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It was actually doing a Gideon parody, and yeah, so that's what I got a year of probation for, where if I got arrested again, I'd get a year in jail automatically.
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And you got in trouble for knocking over cupcakes?
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I think I pushed him into cupcakes, then he threw me into vegetables.
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And we were doing a parody of Jadeon's Calling Tow Trucks on Toy Cars video.
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So, we did Calling Security on Toy Action Figures.
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But then we just got really out of hand because we wanted to outdo the original scene.
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Oh, and the worst part is a fucking fan, he was talking my ear off outside.
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And we were telling him, we gotta go, we gotta go.
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But he just kept talking my ear off and that's what led to us getting arrested.
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I mean, no, I don't really film, like, in those parts that much.
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So, okay, so on the positive side, endless opportunities to film content and not necessarily, I guess with the content you make, police response time is slow, which is good.
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Like, I mean, you can't, like, if it's raining every day, how are you going to film pranks, you know?
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Yeah, so, I mean, not just for the pranks, but the weather is just nice, you know?
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Because remember we tried to film your prank for the hype thing?
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And we kept having to push it back because of weather?
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Weather during COVID. It was just like, everything was working against us.
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Because even if it's a little cold, it's almost always sunny.
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But as a fellow prankster, what was your moment where you said, you know what, this prank is going to blow up, or it blew up, and you knew it.
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That's just like a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing.
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I kept seeing all those lecture pranks that everybody does, but all the other pranksters, they look like fucking little kids.
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And I was only 23 at the time, but I could pass for an older guy.
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So I'm like, I need to do a fake professor prank.
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Imagine a big buff guy walking into your school.
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Obviously, so you had the itch for being 20, doing pranks, etc.
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What got you involved with YouTube in the first place?
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I mean, I originally started in like 2008 when I was 12, just like filming.
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It just always seemed cool to me, like creating your own content and posting it and being able to like make money doing your own thing.
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Yeah, in 2012, I started my fitness channel, which is, like, the first serious channel I had.
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Like, I was literally editing my videos falling asleep.
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How many times can you talk about, you know, day of eating or bicep workout?
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Like, any creators you wanted to, like, be like?
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So, you know, as soon as I saw Vitaly in December 2012, I was 16 at the time.
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As soon as I saw him, like, that's what put the idea in my head to go do pranks.
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And I hit up my friends in high school and, like, we did a prank, like...
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We were supposed to do it the next week, but we did it the next month because, you know, planning it out with high school kids.
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When I saw Who Man TV buying all these cars, living in a mega mansion in LA, I was like, bro, this was money?
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So, this is a prank that we're referring to, guys, which is hilarious.
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I mean, I don't even know what the goal was supposed to be.
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I thought there would be a professor already there.
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So I thought I would go in and say, no, I'm the professor.
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And then we tried another classroom right before this where the professor was there.
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I was going to say, your buddy is clearly filming this and he's pretending to be a student.
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Sometimes it's not the best shot that way, but there has to be a balance between getting a good shot and staying hidden.
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Nowadays, a lot of pranksters, they just openly film everything.
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You're one of the few that still do a real prank, man!
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To be honest, most people, to save time, they just set it up.
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They pay an actor, they come into the scene, and then they just do it.
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I mean, first he even admitted that he had to, like, fake a bunch of his pranks, bro.
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All the rest was other, yo, bro, it's taking too much time.
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If you look at how it's made, a girl has to have a reaction that's kind of, like, bad at the beginning, and then turn to good, which can happen, but it takes hours to get that reaction, bro.
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So you gotta set up an actor and just get it done in less than an hour.
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Yeah, and a girl that hot, usually, like, what are the odds?
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But, like, I've really been wanting to, for the longest time, to do, like, the first real gold digger prank.
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My experience is, once you do it, the first reaction may not be what you want, so you have to be there for hours waiting for that perfect response.
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That's what I've seen from doing gold digger pranks.
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Because they'll be like, oh, nice car, whatever, I walk away, oh, I'm not interested.
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But that's kind of what I wanted to show, like, what would actually happen, you know?
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So you said your second class that you did this, right?
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And I had an appointment right after for Root Canal.
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Everybody out from the other side of the building.
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There's no professor there yet, so they don't know who the professor is.
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Like, do you know even what the class was supposed to be?
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It's a business class, but it had like a weird name, like Consumer of the Legal Business Economics, like some weird shit.
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Okay, so I just called it the Consumer Business Class because I couldn't remember that long ass shit.
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But listen, it's gonna say 1230 on the screen, but the actual professor didn't come until like 1240.
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I'm texting my camera guy, what the fuck do I do?
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So the whole time I'm selling it with my face, like I'm this medicine guy, but I'm like, fuck.
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Oh, yeah, by the way, guys, get your Rumble rants in if you guys want to be involved in the show.
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If you guys want to super chat your questions into the show as well...
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So RumbleRant or SuperChat in FNFSuperChat.com.
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If you guys want to get involved with the show, you got a question for Eric or you guys want to make comments or whatever, this is going to be a good one.
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And then we'll keep reacting to this shit now because I've seen this video a million times.
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You're like, alright, I'm about to go into business class.
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And this big Russian dude walks in, writes his name on the board in Russian, and pulls out a bottle of vodka.
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That girl was like, looking back like, I'm in the right class?
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So the students were probably thinking, what the fuck?
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So you're saying that awkwardly, did anyone say shit?
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No, I'm just sitting there pretending to text, but I'm texting my camera guy, like, yo, where the fuck is this guy?
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Who's here for V-Log CAF 309, the consumer and the legal and economic environment?
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The consumer and the legal and economic environment?
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I'm supposed to start teaching, but there is another person here.
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Okay, so I thought I was, I'm a professor here at Texas.
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They told me I was assigned to this class in this classroom today.
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I'm in the dean's office because you don't know who I am.
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And Vladimir has been trained by me What class is it?
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Can you please go to Dean's office now and speak to him about me?
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Vladimir is supposed to be teaching the class today.
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Just so everybody knows, last semester I did not teach it because I was department chair.
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I'll walk up to the Dean's office and whatever works out, it'll be fine.
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That's not up for this class because you're the teacher.
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Okay, everybody, I will be your professor for this class.
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Bradley Wellington II. Or his son, Bradley Wellington III. Well, they are the richest family in Arizona, and I work for them.
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So they taught me a lot about business, and that is why I will be teaching you, because Mr.
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Wellington is the biggest investor in the school.
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So I'm going to talk a little bit about the rules in my class.
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Every day we will start, every Tuesday, Thursday, we meet at 12.30.
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Anybody who comes in tardy, like this gentleman will be Mark Tardy.
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And if you get three tardys in my class, It is an automatic fail.
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If you get three absences in my class, it is an automatic fail as well.
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You already know they're going to be fucking pissed because in college, nobody shows up to class, guys.
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So if you tell a college student, yo, three absences, it's a F, they're going to be like, what the fuck, bro?
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Because a lot of college students don't show up, guys.
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It would have been funny if you said, you miss three classes, you get killed.
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I didn't think the real professor was just going to leave me the class.
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And this is only like my third, fourth prank ever.
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The smallest prank, you thought, you know what, whatever, we'll just wing it.
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And you got like, what, 30 kids in there, probably?
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Yeah, because y'all don't see the entire classroom, bro.
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Like, these college classrooms would be, like, huge.
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No talking while I talk, and that's it for now.
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Right now, I just want to figure out what is going on.
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No, no eating, no drinking in my class, like I said.
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So I know more about business than any professor here.
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I'm waiting for Peter to come back to confirm that I am the professor.
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So you're waiting for the other guy to come back?
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I mean, honestly, I wish I had more of a plan, but, like, I'm literally just trying to kill time.
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Yo, at this point, like, what's going through your mind?
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Okay, so I kept texting my camera guy back and forth, because he kind of had the camera on the table.
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He kept texting me like, smoke, smoke, smoke, now, smoke.
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And I was worried, like, who's going to come through the door next?
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People always forget that prankster's always nervous, bro.
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This is like one of my first pranks ever, again.
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And it's interesting to like watch this and actually have you here and get your mindset like play-by-play.
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Because like, you're going in thinking like, alright, I'm going to be here for like two minutes.
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Now you got the smart-ass bitch in the front asking you questions.
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Yo, it's always the dumb girl, bro, in the front of the class asking the worst questions.
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Y'all want to know why she asked that stupid-ass question?
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So, when you sign up, For anyone, I mean, this is what I did when I went to college.
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I always looked at the professor and I would search on Rate My Professor and I would always go with the professor that was easiest that I could get an A with.
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So a lot of students sign up for classes simply on the professor.
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So if the professor isn't there, you're going to be like, oh, what the fuck?
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And keep in mind, you're paying money, you're spending time, etc.
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And then he also said, oh, if you don't show up three times...
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Bro, most college students will fail just off of that because a lot of students don't show up.
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They only show up for the exams, and they show up maybe for the important days, but people don't show up, bro.
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Like, college is, to be honest with y'all, it's like an acceptable way to spend four years partying and doing drugs and doing dumb shit.
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Very few kids actually take college seriously, and then they look at the professor up to four.
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Has this ever happened in one of your classes before?
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And I had to make her come to the front because the camera can't see her.
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I have a consumer science, real 9-I class that meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Everybody out from the other side of the building.
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Everybody out from the other side of the building.
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I know who this room is assigned to and who's teaching the class.
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You better care who you're speaking to because all your bills are paid because of me.
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He's supposed to be at Arizona State University teaching today.
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This is not Arizona State, this is Cal State Long Beach.
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Vladimir, you're supposed to be at ASU teaching today.
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I thought this was ASU. What is wrong with you?
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You better apologize right now to everybody in class.
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Stand up and say sorry to all the students and the teachers and the dean, please.
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So, I sent all the students to the other side of the building to wait.
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Okay, so where in Arizona did you think- Where is Arizona?
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Okay, did they arrest you for this or anything?
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So, they wrote about it in the school newspaper after this.
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They sent out an email like, hey, this Russian gangster posed as a professor, blah, blah.
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They legitimately sent an email out to all the students after this shit happened.
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The reason I went to the school is because one of the students was a fan.
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And he was terrified after they were going to find him.
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Yeah, because someone I think posted in the comments in the video like, yo, this is legit and they posted a reddit thing and it went like they sent out a full on email.
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But the escape plan saying, oh, it's the wrong school was...
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And then this is probably the first time I went through this shit where we just go straight to the car.
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I get in the back with the tinted windows, lay down, and the camera guy just like books it.
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Because we knew we didn't have much time before the cops get there.
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I'm shocked that they weren't there the whole time.
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Because if you notice, all the pranksters, they leave immediately.
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Like, trying to, like, instigate a fight and shit?
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Well, my favorite video that I did with them is the Uber prank, where we call an Uber for dead bodies.
00:43:27.000
We stole the Uber's car, like, twice when we were doing that.
00:43:33.000
That's how you know he had eight court cases at once, bro.
00:43:35.000
Like, yo, it's very difficult to do this stuff without, like, getting in trouble, man.
00:43:38.000
So, when I did it without Top Notch, the Uber prank, like, a year later, the next time I did it, I actually got banned from Uber.
00:43:46.000
And so I had to call them to, like, you know, get the account back.
00:43:49.000
And the lady's like, oh, my God, like, I'm actually shocked you're calling back.
00:43:55.000
Because she thought we were putting a dead body in its trunk.
00:44:00.000
What the big deal is, my friend was passed out.
00:44:03.000
We were just trying to put him in the Uber, and I don't know why the driver freaked out and drove away.
00:44:28.000
It's really not gonna make a lot of sense without context, but...
00:44:32.000
So basically we're trying to do a JD on parody, and long story short, we just had to, like, kind of...
00:44:38.000
I mean, I was kind of trying to show how ridiculous, like, the scene he did is, and try to make ours even more ridiculous, so...
00:44:45.000
And dumbass me, I tried to explain that to the police after.
00:44:52.000
It was jacking things in the hood gone extremely wrong.
00:44:55.000
Do you want to get jacked with top-notch idiots?
00:45:08.000
And then the other thing you became famous for was getting kicked out of Planet Fitness.
00:45:20.000
Because I think that's how you kind of got started with the prank stuff.
00:45:22.000
That's how you kind of merged the fitness stuff into the prank stuff and then eventually segued over into the pranking stuff.
00:45:29.000
We all know fitness channels are monotonous and fitness channels are kind of dead nowadays, right?
00:45:33.000
At least, I think like, Finish Channel's like, Definitely had their prime from like 2010 to like 2015, 2016.
00:45:46.000
But prank channels started to rise around that time, I would say.
00:45:49.000
But he's the only jacked prankster I know that can make shit funny because, bro, I want skinny, muscular.
00:46:02.000
So, yeah, tell us about the Planet Fitness pranks.
00:46:09.000
I think I had, like, before I even had a prank channel, when I was just sporadically doing them on my fitness channel, I had, like, eight parts just trolling Planet Fitness.
00:46:17.000
And the first one I did, that's the first time I kind of went viral.
00:46:24.000
So, like, we just went to Planet Fitness and did a max-out set on the Smith machine of deadlifts, as many reps as I could.
00:46:30.000
I don't know if you saw that one where, like, the...
00:46:34.000
Yeah, where, like, the employee, he, like, threw my chalk out and he went crazy.
00:46:37.000
Yeah, and then the next day, like, back when you could share videos...
00:46:43.000
He did a bunch of Max Deadlifts guys with chalk on a deadlift machine, so it made it even more ridiculous.
00:46:57.000
We'll do the cupcake one right now, and then I'll pull up the...
00:46:59.000
I mean, before we start that one, I got to say, when you watch this, you'll...
00:47:03.000
Be like, okay, like, he deserved to get arrested for this.
00:47:08.000
I mean, I still think I deserve to get arrested for this.
00:47:10.000
Like, we should have just been, you know, quicker to get away.
00:47:15.000
But it's funny because, like, meeting a person, you're very gentle, very kind.
00:47:23.000
I mean, yeah, when I film, like, I go into a different mode, because, I mean, I have a vision for, like, how I want the prank to go, and, like, even if it makes me uncomfortable to do it, like, if I don't do it, who else is gonna do it, you know, so...
00:47:37.000
Was it just like come up randomly in your head or like you see other people doing pranks?
00:47:41.000
I mean I just think of like ideas that I think would be hilarious and then it's like I have to do them and sometimes when it's a day off it's like fuck now I actually gotta follow through and do it but like again if I don't do it like Do fans send you ideas too?
00:47:54.000
Yeah so I have a whole series where I do dares that fans leave me in the comments.
00:48:00.000
The university shit that got me fucked that was actually a dare.
00:48:27.000
Or on Rumble, so we can talk about fictional stories all day.
00:48:38.000
And I sent another one in there too with the deadlift one.
00:48:46.000
Yeah, it's funny because I remember watching this one back in the day.
00:49:01.000
Click the last one I put in with the deadlifts, then.
00:49:11.000
Have you seen the one where I got attacked by the 6'7 guy recently?
00:49:23.000
Because, like, he left to Africa after this, and he said that he caused the hurricane in LA. Oh, yeah, he retarded, bro.
00:49:45.000
My name is Eric Ganefsky from Ganefsky Fitness, the most optimal person in history.
00:50:07.000
For those that are wondering, Planet Fitness is a judgment-free zone.
00:50:15.000
So you're not supposed to go in there and go super hard, lift heavy weights, make noise, grunts, wear tank tops.
00:50:23.000
Myron, one thing I want to point out is that before I did this, nobody else had tried to do this shit.
00:50:31.000
Getting the lung alarm pulled at Planet Fitness.
00:50:36.000
Because obviously, back then, I didn't have any subs.
00:50:42.000
You're the first one to troll Planet Fitness, by far.
00:50:49.000
Well, I'm banned from half the country on the East Coast, but it's actually for the last time I did it, and they sued me, too, for it.
00:51:12.000
Well, you don't have any here right now, so, I mean...
00:51:16.000
Oh, but, I mean, this one was two years ago when I said the Lunk alarm on fire.
00:51:21.000
Yeah, this is his first, like, at least that I remember.
00:51:26.000
So this is the first one, and then it becomes worse and worse.
00:51:31.000
But this is back, like, when fitness channels were, like, a thing.
00:51:33.000
So, like, no one would think to do this because people were still making, like, real fitness content.
00:51:38.000
You know, this is, like, just to give you guys a go back in time here.
00:51:42.000
In 2013, guys like Chris Jones, Matt Ogis, Eric Helms, Omar Isoff, Lane Norton were coming into prominence, Brad Schoenfeld, like all of these fitness influencers, Jason Blaha, which you kind of look like him a little bit right now.
00:52:04.000
All these guys were like, all these YouTube channels were huge for fitness.
00:52:12.000
What was the biggest fitness channel back then?
00:52:16.000
It was twin muscle workout back then, which doesn't even exist anymore.
00:52:25.000
But these are like some of the biggest YouTube...
00:52:29.000
Z's had just passed away two years prior, but the Aesthetics Revolution was still huge.
00:52:40.000
I was really close with Connor like just when he started popping off.
00:52:50.000
So was C.T. Fletcher was huge at this point, too.
00:52:55.000
Shout out Rich Piana, but that was a little later.
00:53:06.000
So for someone to do this, like a segue from fitness into pranks, I think you were the first person to do it, bro.
00:53:17.000
Just to give guys a picture of what the fuck was going on back then.
00:55:00.000
This is an older person setting gym in here, so you can't be, you know, maxing out reps here.
00:55:14.000
Because, like, I mean, at first he was, like, kind of calm, so we just kept, like, kind of going for a while until, like, yeah.
00:55:23.000
It seems like the camera is what set him off when he found out y'all were recording.
00:55:28.000
But also, like, back then, it was such a pain in the ass for me to even film, because, like, I was 17 without a car.
00:55:34.000
I had to rely on, like, other people to, you know?
00:55:37.000
So I waited, like, months to go here, and, like, he just wasn't reacting.
00:55:41.000
So, like, I just kept pushing it, like, until he finally, you know...
00:55:47.000
And then you said you got banned, like, permanently for sending the Lunk Alarm on fire?
00:55:52.000
Yeah, so apparently if you set it off for over two minutes, it just sets on fire.
00:55:58.000
So we went in as corporate, and we said we need to fix the lunk alarm.
00:56:12.000
So we set the lunk alarm off for two minutes straight, and then it just turns off completely.
00:56:24.000
Let's read the chats, because I know y'all probably got a bunch to say.
00:56:27.000
And guys, again, it's FNFSuperChat.com if you guys want to get involved in the show and have your stuff read on screen.
00:56:36.000
We got Dan Dan the Factor says, W8 hour stream.
00:56:41.000
Stream was over when I finished my recycle at 2pm.
00:56:57.000
Or it'll say Castle Club TV. Either way is fine.
00:57:08.000
Alright, and then up next we have Iris Jackster says, Will you guys ever have Gary Breka on the show?
00:57:18.000
So it would be a great pod, possibly life-changing for many, bro.
00:57:21.000
It's a walking bastion of knowledge on bike-hockey and your body.
00:57:24.000
Yeah, he has clients like Grant Cardone, Steve Will Do It, He's very knowledgeable, so possibly in the future.
00:57:53.000
I told Bills, I said, yo, Bills, we're going to see the sun, bro.
00:57:56.000
But since it was a wrestling topic, I could have went.
00:58:02.000
I could have gone even more hours just off wrestling topics alone.
00:58:21.000
So we're setting up a date right now for him to come down to Miami.
00:58:25.000
But he is, I want to say, the best person I know right now.
00:58:30.000
He's a divorce attorney, so he knows behind the scenes what's happening.
00:58:33.000
And honestly, guys, he's fighting for men to become better and win cases because, once again, the system is not for us.
00:58:45.000
Can you tell us how it was growing with the Fatu family?
00:58:55.000
Canter Time says, Eric, how was it meeting Rybeck and Billy Gunn?
00:58:59.000
What other WWE wrestlers you met and did you troll them too?
00:59:06.000
If you fart, they will arrest you for air pollution.
00:59:18.000
Jacoza says, Myron, I implemented what you taught me and I now have an opportunity to buy a condo in upstate New York.
00:59:26.000
I run the numbers and I'll be cash flowing for $100.
00:59:31.000
I'll say that for my ring too as well, but I mean, bro, once it's above zero, you're winning, bro.
00:59:37.000
Okay, so Masculinity Archive says, did that professor ever invite you?
00:59:45.000
So he says, Eric, can you tell us how it was going up with the Fatu family?
00:59:51.000
Oh, so I trained, when I started training for pro wrestling, I actually trained with Rikishi, who was my trainer for a while.
01:00:00.000
Bro, that is the only character you know in wrestling, bro.
01:00:07.000
I know, bro, but that's all I know for wrestling, bro.
01:00:10.000
Yeah, so I just trained for, I didn't train that long because I actually got injured.
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I almost died like four months into my training.
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But it was fun for the four months that I did it and then I eventually started training with a different trainer.
01:00:24.000
But shout out Jacob Fatu, I think that's his nephew.
01:00:27.000
He's cool as fuck and I hope he gets into WWE. Nice.
01:00:32.000
Okay, how's it meeting Ray Beck and Billy Gunn?
01:00:36.000
Yeah, so I made a video trolling WWE superstars at WrestleCon.
01:00:43.000
I think he's friends with Mike O'Hearn, and Mike doesn't really like me, so he was kind of a dick.
01:00:48.000
I feel like he wouldn't be if he wasn't friends with Mike.
01:00:52.000
I mean, I wanted to troll so many of the wrestlers, but I also kind of felt kind of bad, because these are my childhood heroes.
01:01:02.000
I remember seeing Matt Hardy, and I'm thinking about it, and I'm just like, Oh, I just can't do it.
01:01:07.000
But next year at WrestleCon, like, I'll be more prepared.
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Like, I looked up to all these guys, like, I just can't.
01:01:22.000
Turi Love says, Hey, please do a woman's bodybuilding show as a trans.
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I actually did that back in 2016 before trans was even a big thing.
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I don't think it's still on YouTube, that video.
01:01:47.000
Oh, it just got deleted, but I have it up on my Facebook for people who want to see it.
01:02:04.000
Okay, so he wants to know, did that professor ever invite you as a guest lecturer after the prank?
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But what happened after is apparently they moved classrooms for the whole semester.
01:02:19.000
Yeah, I know the first date was because it smelled like a casino in there.
01:02:26.000
But, like, the other professor, remember I told you that I tried to do another classroom before this and it didn't work out?
01:02:32.000
So he had, like, a security guard just for him, like, the whole semester after that.
01:02:36.000
Because I guess he thought I was going to come back and, like, I don't know.
01:02:40.000
Which is, like, kind of excessive because, like, once they see my channel and know it's a prank, like, what are they so scared of, you know?
01:02:47.000
I couldn't imagine students in there with what they were thinking.
01:02:52.000
Alright, and then we got any donors from Streamlabs?
01:03:14.000
There's the Russian baker that I fuck with in every video that I do.
01:03:18.000
And there's also the YouTuber Anatoly that like...
01:03:21.000
Have you seen the prankster that's blowing up named Anatoly?
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He like dresses up as a janitor and then he like...
01:03:32.000
Five million subs or something in like just a couple months.
01:03:36.000
But then the Russian baker Anatoly, if that's who you're talking about, then W. I don't even know.
01:03:49.000
He said, I'm Canadian, 18 years old, work at a minimum wage job and live with my parents and want to save up for a few years to invest in real estate.
01:03:57.000
How much do you think I should be aiming to save for one or two properties and how would you suggest I store the money?
01:04:07.000
Yeah, so you're in Canada, so it's pretty similar to the U.S. I would just say, make sure you have reserves because you can get a property, of course.
01:04:13.000
Let's say you got like $15,000, $20,000 saved up and get a property easily with an FHA loan.
01:04:19.000
But once you get a property, things will go wrong.
01:04:27.000
So for each property, I would say have at least $20,000, $25,000 for each property just to be safe.
01:04:32.000
30-40 would be best, but I'd say between 30 and 25 would be fine for both properties.
01:04:38.000
So, one for 25, first property 25k, next one 25k as well.
01:04:49.000
Out of all your pranks, right, what's your most, like, I want to say desirable, treasurable one that you remember?
01:05:02.000
The fact that the professor got the class taken away from him the other semester and he actually believed it.
01:05:13.000
So let's say someone's watching right now, right?
01:05:16.000
What's the first step to being a prankster, you would say?
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Shit, it's hard to say because, I mean, for me, a big part of it is the way I look.
01:05:27.000
Like, I feel like that's what really sets me apart.
01:05:38.000
And maybe I'm in the gym, but I don't look like you.
01:05:41.000
Any tips for, like, marketing or getting yourself off the ground, you would say?
01:05:45.000
I mean, like I always say, like, just make the best possible content you can and be consistent, and eventually, like, time will do its thing.
01:05:54.000
Like, you will get recognized for it, you know?
01:05:57.000
Yeah, because, like, for me, like, it took a couple years.
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Like, for a year and a half, I was stuck at, you know, 100k.
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Then just randomly, it finally got into the algorithm.
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But, like, I just kept going because I knew, like, my shit's, like, too good to, you know, not eventually blow up.
01:06:15.000
Because I think most people, they get on YouTube and they'll start doing pranks, but they don't get a lot of views and then they quit.
01:06:21.000
Well, especially because, like, the behind the scenes of the pranks, like, there's...
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Just getting the cameraman, and then you have to do all this.
01:06:28.000
Like, the shit that you see, the reactions, those are the good ones.
01:06:30.000
There's so much, like, cringe that you have to deal with behind the scenes, you know?
01:06:33.000
There's so many moving parts people don't understand.
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And, like, it's tough because that reaction that you want, you don't always get.
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You have to go through a lot of cringe to get the good reactions.
01:06:47.000
Would you say that, like, now is a good time to get into prankstering or no?
01:06:53.000
I would say yeah, because right now, even though I'm not a fan, because most of the prank channels right now, they mostly just vlog, and then they openly film their pranks.
01:07:03.000
So I don't fuck with the style, but those guys are so popping right now.
01:07:12.000
But yeah, Judeon, Loaf, fucking all those guys are popping right now.
01:07:17.000
So pranks are, I feel like, as big as they've ever been.
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My only concern is with pranks is that on some level, you can start and start small, but the bigger you get, the more you have to compensate to do bigger pranks.
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On some level, it's okay, but at a certain point, you can do it more and more and more.
01:07:34.000
You kind of have to break barriers that you never break before, which might be illegal stuff too.
01:07:42.000
Well, like, for example, when you get bigger and you get more connections, for example, like Nelk, they say...
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I'm a huge fan, by the way, but they say that, like, they can't do pranks nowadays.
01:07:58.000
But, like, you're saying, like, any store owner wouldn't fucking let them pretend to be a fake employee, like, you know?
01:08:05.000
Like, let them do it, and then there'd be no legal repercussions, you know?
01:08:15.000
Yeah, you're right, actually, because the store owner's in on it with them.
01:08:19.000
Like, I've done that with a bar before where I was a bouncer at the bar, and, like, the owners were in on it, but, like, the people are still being pranked.
01:08:26.000
Like, I feel like when you're bigger and you have a lot of connections, like, you can just do a lot of those pranks.
01:08:32.000
So you say use the connections to kind of, like, get leverage and then do the prank?
01:08:37.000
And then, for example, I mean, Nelk, they could probably fucking, I don't know, prank other celebrities and shit, like...
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When you're at that level, I feel like you could do so much more.
01:08:46.000
Because I saw Gideon go to the conference with Dylan and Logan Paul.
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He was right there in VIP. How did he get right there in VIP? But connections.
01:09:04.000
I did one answer, but I think this one was more for you.
01:09:07.000
Amaran, I implemented what you taught me and I now have an opportunity to buy a condo in upstate New York with a conventional loan.
01:09:12.000
My first property, I ran the numbers and I'll be cash flowing $400.
01:09:17.000
Well, if you ran in numbers, if you're getting a cash on cash return of 8% plus, then I would say, yeah, go for it.
01:09:23.000
Especially if you can increase the rent and make more money.
01:09:26.000
But it depends on what you're willing to tolerate.
01:09:29.000
I mean, in upstate New York, an 8% cash on cash return, that might not be enough for you.
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But I'd say anything above 10, you're really good.
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So you gotta figure out your cash on cash return.
01:09:45.000
Demboys, act like the Russian gangster on After Hours.
01:09:54.000
Yeah, so hopefully the girls aren't watching, but yeah, I'm gonna go as Vladimir on After Hours.
01:09:59.000
They're gonna hopefully believe I'm actually Vladimir.
01:10:07.000
If I got kicked out of 109 bars for pranks, am I the problem or are the 109 bars the problem?
01:10:12.000
Also, why does anal and reach hate y'all so much?
01:10:20.000
We're at 1.5 million despite everybody hating on us, and it took them, what, 12 fucking 10 plus years to reach what we've done in about three?
01:10:28.000
And they only got, yeah, and they only got 500k more than us, so whatever, bro.
01:10:35.000
Put the world champion video with him and the 6'8 guy.
01:10:37.000
Okay, that's the one you deferred to before, right?
01:10:39.000
I have a short of it, if you want to put the 60 second version.
01:10:44.000
Again, LAX goes, the belt in the sky at the end of the 6-7 guy video was hilarious, okay?
01:10:50.000
And then Jay Costa, hey, if I get approved for a conventional loan now for my first property, can I still get approved for an FHA loan for my second property?
01:11:00.000
Yes, you can get up to, if I'm not mistaken, four FHA loans.
01:11:06.000
Yeah, you can get up to four, bro, so you'll be good.
01:11:09.000
I don't know if you can have them all out at the same time simultaneously, though.
01:11:18.000
So you'd probably have to make it work for a year, get out, then apply again and get another one.
01:11:23.000
But if you can make it simultaneously, I don't know.
01:11:31.000
He was my red pill channel for building muscle and strength back in the day.
01:11:33.000
But Eric Konefsky's Jason Blau pranks are the absolute gold.
01:11:36.000
Yeah, he impersonates his other fitness blogger.
01:11:40.000
No, I'm scared to because he's a lot bigger in person.
01:11:47.000
Because he's 5'9", but like in person, he's a lot bigger.
01:11:54.000
Yeah, because he's also someone that's like super hated in the fitness industry.
01:11:58.000
Oh, he actually called me one time and said that if I come to his gym, he's shooting me on sight.
01:12:08.000
Yeah, so back when I was actually cool with Cassidy, we were going to do a meet-up at his gym, back when we all had fitness channels.
01:12:16.000
And then as soon as we announced it, he calls me on the phone.
01:12:18.000
He's like, just so you know, if you show up at my gym, I'm going to have to shoot you.
01:12:26.000
Like, did y'all have really bad beef at the time for him to say that?
01:12:31.000
Well, this was actually before I had the beef with him.
01:12:35.000
So he's like, just because you're associated with that creepy cub, Cassidy Campbell.
01:12:38.000
If you come to my gym, I'm going to have to shoot you.
01:12:50.000
But Creepy Cuck Cassidy Campbell, that's a great name that Jason Blaha gave him.
01:13:02.000
I'm never stopping to say Tristan Myron and Fresh always keep adding value to life.
01:13:15.000
And we all know where the cupcake comes from, right?
01:13:31.000
My friend Alex Rosen is the one who caught EDP originally.
01:13:37.000
And now Jadeon's going to get all the fucking credit for it, but that's a whole different discussion.
01:13:41.000
Well, I didn't know he was your buddy, but I knew it was the other...
01:13:43.000
He showed up on stream wearing a cupcake costume, which is hilarious.
01:13:46.000
But the knocking into the cupcakes, this was like complete coincidence.
01:14:01.000
No, the first time he got caught in April of 2021.
01:14:06.000
So his friend caught him first, then Gideon after.
01:14:14.000
It's like, bro, you don't learn your lesson, bro?
01:14:33.000
So you might be wondering, what led us to this point?
01:14:37.000
Yeah, so there's like the four stages of trying to be the next Judeon, and this is like the final stage.
01:14:53.000
Is there a problem because you kind of looked at me like...
01:15:13.000
Okay, wait, wait, before you go, we have to tell you something.
01:15:18.000
No, because you probably think, oh, these two guys are crazy, because it's so hot right now, and they're wearing clothes, but it's a prank!
01:15:38.000
Yeah, so this probably makes no sense watching it, but, like, without context.
01:15:43.000
But, like, so basically I did an ordering pizza naked video before, like, completely naked.
01:15:49.000
And then Judeon did a video ordering pizza and underwear, and he got, like, a hundred times as many views.
01:15:54.000
So here I was, like, explaining it, like, we're gonna take it even up a notch now.
01:16:00.000
So, like, just watching it without context, it looks stupid.
01:16:06.000
Wait, shouldn't you be clothed when you order pizza?
01:16:12.000
Because I think I've seen him on other channels.
01:16:14.000
Yeah, the guy that you're, uh, that you're filming with.
01:16:23.000
He's the only person who's gotten fucked worse than me for the pranks.
01:16:45.000
And he tried to like put it in an Uber and it was like drugs.
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As a prankster, when you get like charges and stuff, does that lower your morale?
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Because I'm just curious because if I got charges, I'd be like, damn, I don't do this shit no more.
01:17:10.000
I feel like it's just part of being a prankster.
01:17:15.000
Because when this happened, we got $20,000 bail each and it was a felony vandalism.
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And then, like, I didn't think the process of, like, probation and shit was gonna be, like, as crazy as it was.
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And luckily now, like, all the charges besides, like, one small misdemeanor have been dropped.
01:17:43.000
It was $20,000 worth of merchandise they alleged that you guys broke?
01:17:47.000
No, so over $400 of shit is a felony in California, felony vandalism, even though apparently you can steal $1900.
01:17:56.000
So maybe we should have just picked it up and walked out with it.
01:17:58.000
Yeah, you would have been better off stealing it than destroying it.
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1500, because we had a family friend, Bale Bondsman.
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But still, at the time, none of us even had that much.
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He's the one who actually showed me your guys' Fresh and Fit podcast.
01:18:40.000
How long ago was this when you guys filmed this?
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This was in 2021, and then the police fucking took the camera away.
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I didn't get it back until like a year later when I posted it.
01:19:26.000
One of the things that has become popular prankster.
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Well, after a bit of thinking, we came up with something just slightly more ridiculous.
01:19:42.000
We were going to call security on toy action figures.
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And once we did this, we would finally take over all of YouTube.
01:19:53.000
I'm very scared because he's trying to fight me or something.
01:19:55.000
The guy over there, I don't want to have to fight him, you know?
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Because, you know, I was in jail seven years in Russia.
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And if you don't, I have people that can walk in here.
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I don't feel shame, but I need to shop right now.
01:20:34.000
So, just because someone tells me something, I can't go and do it.
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I would have to review video, look at all that good stuff.
01:20:42.000
What I'm gonna do is go on camera and I'm gonna try to review what you're saying is going on, so that way I can go with the manager and then we can ask him to leave.
01:20:51.000
Okay, so I'm gonna go with the manager because you wanna keep recording.
01:20:54.000
Now they're gonna ask you to leave because you're recording.
01:20:57.000
I'm gonna beat this guy's ass if he doesn't stop.
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I was trying really hard to get him to go with my manager.
01:21:17.000
Okay, but if a woman was doing it, it'd be no problem.
01:21:21.000
I'm gonna call PD because they won't stop recording and I'm gonna review for that.
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Call PD. Excuse me, here's the guy I just spoke to, right?
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So if you're not going to help me, I'm just gonna go fuck him up right now, okay?
01:21:35.000
Because if not, I'm going to go kick his ass right now.
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He's wearing his underwear in the store, no mask.
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I'm literally just stopping for my daughter right now.
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I bet everybody in the store, like, without any context, this is literally like, what the fuck?
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Like, if I saw this, I'd be like, what the fuck?
01:22:59.000
Your friend was harassing me in front of the whole story.
01:23:18.000
This dude, he puts out a Walmart customer service vest, and he'll go into Target saying, y'all are trash and stuff like that.
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And he'll be like, bro, I've been here for five years.
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When he was visiting me in Austin, his name is Tanner.
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This employee left his vest in the parking lot, in a shopping cart or something, and it says Tanveer.
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And it says the five-year certified veteran whatever.
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Yeah, because he walks around like that, and he'll start shit with customers in Walmart.
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And then one time he did it where he went to Target, and he was telling people, like, why are you shopping here?
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And the target people would kick him out and shit.
01:24:10.000
And he had the yellow joint, so you knew it was like...
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Not the shitty blue one like every employee has.
01:24:30.000
Cigarettes make you think the action figure was attacking me.
01:25:20.000
Well, he's visible, but we're doing the GDM parody, so we're doing the whole openly filming.
01:26:31.000
We passed all four levels and now we too are going to go home, upload this and get 5 million subscribers and hundreds of millions of views.
01:26:40.000
Well, unfortunately the police had other plans.
01:26:53.000
Do you want people coming in when you're grocery shopping with your kids, banging into stuff, knocking stuff over, smoking inside the store?
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I mean, if I'm telling the truth, like, I would probably think it's funny.
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Yeah, if this was in LA, LA, like, they wouldn't even come.
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Sentenced to one year probation and facing up to one year in jail if we get arrested again.
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Like, yo, y'all are dedicated to the mission, man.
01:27:49.000
I think it was in the body cam footage where I'm watching the cops talk to the employees.
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You should have planned this out with us beforehand.
01:28:05.000
Okay, so as a prankster, when does it stop, bro?
01:28:09.000
Because like I said earlier, you've got to elevate more and more and more, but you might get in bigger trouble.
01:28:16.000
Well, I'm kind of past that phase, I feel like, where I would do shit like this.
01:28:24.000
Stay out of places like Burbank, no universities.
01:28:28.000
And I don't feel like I really, really crossed the line with shit.
01:28:32.000
I saw some British pranksters, I don't know if it's real or not, where they go inside people's houses.
01:28:39.000
Yeah, like, I would never, like, go inside somebody's house or something, you know?
01:28:43.000
I think I have a pretty good idea of, like, first of all, like, where to draw the line and, like, what's cringe and, like, what's funny, you know?
01:29:06.000
Where you basically, you know, you did a whole prep.
01:29:12.000
Take us through that bulk and that cut in that competition.
01:29:16.000
Well, when I started lifting, I was 130 pounds.
01:29:24.000
And then I bulked up to 317 pounds in my biggest.
01:29:36.000
Eventually, I went up and down a million times.
01:29:38.000
But yeah, the biggest I was was 317 pounds and...
01:29:43.000
I think the most I lost in one cut was something like that, 80-90 pounds.
01:29:55.000
Because I was never one of those guys who always want abs and want to stay linear around.
01:30:02.000
Like, I don't, you know, I don't get why so many people are obsessed with that.
01:30:05.000
And I figured, like, to put on real size, like...
01:30:31.000
I feel like I'm slowly deteriorating, because it is harder to maintain that much size.
01:30:41.000
Yeah, how many calories do you have to take in a day to maintain?
01:30:45.000
Not even that much, honestly, like 4-5 thousand.
01:30:48.000
Because you're a tall guy, you're like, what, 6'1", 6'2"?
01:31:03.000
You weigh as much as Bradley Maher, pretty much, and you're like 2 inches shorter.
01:31:10.000
Well, first of all, I did a video back when I did the fitness stuff.
01:31:14.000
Um, I don't, I did probably more shit than like any pro bodybuilder.
01:31:25.000
And I, and I remember like now, now it's great because like more and more, uh, guys that, you know, are being upfront.
01:31:32.000
But I remember like a decade ago, like 2013, that prime time I was talking about, no one talked about it, bro.
01:31:39.000
But you know, to be real though, from what we've seen, especially everyone does it.
01:31:44.000
But what I don't understand is why Natty or Not is such a big thing.
01:31:56.000
Like, if The Rock is Natty or Not, how is it going to change your life?
01:32:03.000
But I think it's more of a crusade to catch the people that claim Natty that aren't.
01:32:11.000
But if you're like, oh no, I'm not Natty, no one bothers you.
01:32:15.000
But then they're like, oh, you're gonna die, this and blah blah blah.
01:32:22.000
Like Rich Piano, a big reason why he was so respected is because he was like, yeah, I'm on gear.
01:32:44.000
I have people running up to me at the mall like they think I'm Liver King.
01:32:53.000
No, I go, like, putting raw meat in people's food at the food court and shit.
01:33:07.000
If you met him, you think he'd be cool with it?
01:33:11.000
Yes, I think he seems like he has a good sense of humor.
01:33:17.000
I'd have to die down a little for this, but Andrew Tate.
01:33:23.000
Do you guys think he would be cool with it if he saw it?
01:33:37.000
There would be some satire in it, but it is from a good place.
01:33:47.000
That's an L. Yeah, that's an L. And that dude's, like, yeah, Cloud Chaser.
01:33:52.000
We call him Bottom G. Yeah, that's an L. I'm like, bro, what's wrong with you, man?
01:34:01.000
Because I put in a Konefsky transformation, is it?
01:34:10.000
I remember having millions upon millions of views, and I was like, holy crap, this is lit.
01:34:17.000
There's a picture, I guess, but it's not his video.
01:34:19.000
I guess we could show that if we got the photo.
01:34:32.000
Oh, he was always awesome to me because the first time I came up to him, he was probably my biggest inspiration back then.
01:34:54.000
And then at the end, I show him that I filmed the whole thing.
01:34:58.000
I think that's when he started to take me seriously.
01:35:10.000
Yeah, I always got that vibe that he was the same guy on and off camera.
01:35:13.000
There's like certain YouTubers you meet and you're just like, yeah, this is the same fucking guy.
01:35:20.000
Even though, like, obviously when you're not natty, you can train a certain way and do certain things.
01:35:25.000
I still liked him for inspiration and stuff, and I liked how candid and frank he was about shit.
01:35:29.000
One of the things I remember about him the most is that he used to always say, fuck supplements, eat real food.
01:35:34.000
And I was like, damn, this dude has a supplement line, and he's still telling y'all that eat real food.
01:35:40.000
One of my favorite things that he said that I would always think about is like, You're telling me you can't eat?
01:35:46.000
You can't even pick a fork up and put it inside your mouth?
01:35:48.000
What are you going to do if something actually gets hard in life?
01:35:51.000
And I would always think about that whenever I can't eat food.
01:35:57.000
It really helps you put things in perspective and not be a bitch.
01:36:01.000
For me, as a skinny guy growing up, and you could probably speak to this too, because you were thin as well.
01:36:07.000
I was like, one of the hardest things was like, oh, you just gotta eat more.
01:36:10.000
And it's like, you gotta build yourself up to it.
01:36:17.000
You should be happy that you're even blessed to be able to even eat in excess.
01:36:20.000
To be fair, eating a Barbados, bro, I didn't gain any weight.
01:36:25.000
Coming to America, the food here has so many hormones, bro.
01:36:33.000
No, I mean, that's, you know, rest in peace to Rich Piano, man.
01:36:51.000
I saw the transformation, the epic transformation.
01:36:54.000
That bodybuilding competition, how was that, bro?
01:36:58.000
I'm trying to think if you ended up placing it or not.
01:37:09.000
I mean, if I'm dieting, I'm angry and hungry, I can't be funny for my prank videos.
01:37:24.000
I honestly don't understand why a lot of people compete, to be completely honest with you.
01:37:31.000
The only potential I could see it worth is elevating your brand and getting a pro card.
01:37:37.000
But even the pro card is to elevate your brand, I guess.
01:37:41.000
And maybe some authority, but if you're not pursuing a pro card, there's really no need.
01:37:49.000
It's funny, a lot of these fitness people, they say, oh, you should only be on gear if you're competing in bodybuilding or powerlifting.
01:37:59.000
Like, why is that a more important goal than just looking good at the beach?
01:38:06.000
Like, standing in a thong in front of a couple men?
01:38:10.000
I think they're looking at it like, if you're gonna take that kind of risk, like, it better be from a professional standpoint.
01:38:19.000
Which, to get a pro card, you would need to take drugs.
01:38:21.000
Even if you get a pro card, you don't get paid.
01:38:26.000
Because my trainer competed, he's like, bro, he got paid nothing.
01:38:35.000
Personally, I tell guys stay natty as long as you can.
01:38:41.000
You know, obviously some people make different choices and everything and I'm not going to disagree with someone if they're like, oh, I want to go ahead and do it.
01:38:46.000
But the thing is, is that if you're going to do it, and I've said this a million times, you better train naturally for at least five to ten years and know how to do things optimally before you even go into that road so that you actually don't fuck yourself up and be under the care of a doctor if you're going to go that route.
01:38:59.000
But I tell guys, man, stay natty as long as you can.
01:39:05.000
At this point, I would probably agree with you.
01:39:07.000
Yeah, most people have no business being on gear, but me, I always knew I'm going to be a big jack guy.
01:39:20.000
Yeah, because as soon as I found out that to be the size I want to be is you need gear, I didn't even have a second thought.
01:39:35.000
Alright, guys, so we're going to be back with some lovely ladies, man.
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Catch you guys on the next episode of Fresh Fit after hours with some ladies.
01:39:51.000
Yeah, check me out on YouTube, Eric Konefsky Official, if you haven't already.
01:39:55.000
And thank you guys again so much for having me.
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One of the few pranksters that's still doing it for real, man.
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I ran, I ran so far away I just ran, I ran all night and day