This Past Weekend with Theo Von - #691 - Johnny Hamcheck

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00:00:51.340 Netflix, and thank you all for the support. He's got those six-inch chains and those seven and a

00:00:59.260 half foot egg rolls. Uh, he's a prankster. He's a content creator. Um, he's, this guy's one of a

00:01:06.260 kind and he's revealing himself for the first time today. Uh, I'm fortunate to sit down with

00:01:14.140 Johnny Hamcheck.

00:01:29.260 am i acting all right that's a good question dude you gotta tell me man this i don't do

00:01:40.520 podcasts bro but i'm comfortable but you know dude one thing i would ask my friends all the

00:01:46.220 time i'd be like dude do i seem all right yeah like i never had any idea if i seem all right or

00:01:51.020 not like my best friend scott i remember one time telling him like dude tell me who i am you know

00:01:56.820 most of my life has just been oh 100 i don't know who i am i i look at myself from an outside

00:02:03.200 body all the time and wonder what the hell who would you think you are who are you there's

00:02:09.060 it's a good question i don't think any of us know i mean maybe that's true dude life is weird bro

00:02:16.880 like everyone's is weird though you know we're all down here trying to figure it out it's a

00:02:22.320 messed up game you know and a lot of and some of us are kind of being a little bit perverts too

00:02:26.840 there's a lot of pecker checkers out there bro i mean i told you dude who runs this shit dude

00:02:34.540 i don't know but it's something else man uh johnny hamchick one of the premier pranksters i would say

00:02:42.040 right now probably maybe in the world dude that's i feel like you know you came on my radar just like

00:02:48.220 probably as a lot of people just like through social media just seeing your pranks um and

00:02:53.220 today's the first day that you're kind of showing showing yourself like this is it this is the

00:02:58.840 reveal that I've been holding off on doing for five years you know it's been a game of cat and

00:03:04.820 mouse with the internet and to be honest it feels great it just feels good to let let them let them

00:03:12.220 have it this is it this is it and I'm you know it feels good it's like I had something in my

00:03:18.100 stomach i needed to throw up for so long man and i can't explain how happy i am about doing this

00:03:24.280 reveal actually and saying what's up to all the people and thanking them for all the love and

00:03:29.860 it's been a fun journey but it's time to move on to the next stage of my life you know and i don't

00:03:34.280 know what that's going to be but i'm done hiding from the public you know it's caused so much

00:03:39.740 stress dude does it really oh yeah just acting funny about oh you can't take a picture you can't

00:03:46.260 send it to your friends like and it was only for the fans i only did it for the fans because they

00:03:51.900 love then a lot of them are going to be upset you know that you're revealing yourself yeah oh yeah

00:03:57.260 yeah and because you have you have millions and millions of views on your pranks but you've never

00:04:02.800 shown who you are no in the very early days in my first tiktoks i i did i had tiktoks with myself

00:04:12.320 I did this alibi prank, and I'd go to Walmart and say,

00:04:15.700 hey, will you do a video with me?

00:04:17.020 And I showed myself early on, and then when I saw that the people

00:04:20.240 on the internet were saying, I love that he doesn't show himself,

00:04:23.540 and then I jumped on board and just made it POV with never showing myself.

00:04:28.740 And it's been like a really – it's been a fun game.

00:04:31.760 It's been, I mean, fun for them because everybody comes up

00:04:34.920 with their own image of what they think I look like, you know.

00:04:38.200 Let me ask you, did you know what I looked like?

00:04:40.640 Didn't have a clue.

00:04:41.260 No way.

00:04:41.920 Yeah, I didn't have a clue, man.

00:04:43.080 And I was curious, and it is this thing.

00:04:44.840 It's like, yeah, it adds to a level of mystery you don't even know.

00:04:47.960 As the viewer, you just don't even think about it.

00:04:49.740 You're like, oh, this is this voice.

00:04:52.140 But yeah, I don't know who it is.

00:04:54.060 And I think I'm probably an average viewer.

00:04:56.260 I don't go back and, you know, I didn't go back and research the first one if there was a reveal.

00:05:00.560 I just always assumed that there wasn't.

00:05:03.500 What's some of the stress that we don't see about hiding your identity?

00:05:07.280 um the the fans are always zooming in on reflections you know when I shoot videos

00:05:14.860 when somebody has glasses on and they think I don't know but I know exactly what I'm giving

00:05:20.220 them I like to give them little glimpses you know and it's like I said it's gotten

00:05:26.200 annoying for me to try to keep playing that game um but I do I did it to for the fans sake um I

00:05:35.000 didn't really do it for myself. I was tired of this game years ago, you know, but not of the

00:05:40.860 pranking, but of the Lord, the hiding. Yeah. The hiding, I mean, pranking, I mean, I'm a little

00:05:46.260 burnt out on the pranking. I'm not going to lie. I mean, I'm 50 years old. You can't street prank

00:05:51.780 and just, it's like, come on, man, it's time to do something different, you know? And I don't,

00:05:56.320 I don't care what it is, but anyway, I'm talking too much. Um, no, well, we, we want to hear you

00:06:02.980 talk um and and i do want to show people at home and just so some people may be hearing your voice

00:06:07.820 and they may not be exactly familiar but uh trevin let's play one of just play 20 seconds of um

00:06:13.020 of uh johnny hamchag hey sorry i'm late buddy what i said sorry i'm late oh you're good yeah

00:06:20.720 did they tell you i was coming who are you i'm johnny project manager i know okay yeah balboni

00:06:27.120 told me to bring those chains to you guys what the hell do you do here i flag i know you're doing a

00:06:32.360 good job too well thank you yeah they told me about you i'm off today but uh did my girl bring

00:06:38.640 the chick-fil-a by the chick-fil-a no i don't believe so she was supposed to bring some chicken

00:06:43.540 sandwiches for everybody this morning for breakfast okay yeah dude you must be so many

00:06:51.820 of years that i that i watched uh or once you pulling up on construction sites you must be

00:06:57.240 known at every construction site now yes uh yes just in north carolina the other day a young kid

00:07:03.540 jumped out of the bobcat i saw his eyes instantly i see them before they see me they'd have a voice

00:07:09.660 recognition it's the craziest thing it's like a blind guy that has super senses with his um ears

00:07:17.120 because they don't know what i look like they match they match the voice up i'll be walking

00:07:23.340 in Vegas. I'll be in Beverly Hills. I can't, if I talk and people walk by me, they'll start

00:07:29.160 getting curious. Yeah. And when I tell them, no, I'm not Johnny. They're like, yeah, you are.

00:07:33.920 Yeah, you are. That's a fun, that's a funny thing, man. I found that interesting about

00:07:40.380 humans. Is it hard to find like a construction site to work these days or like, are you moving

00:07:45.180 area to area? What do you, what's that like? No, it's all about the individual. I'll pick out a

00:07:50.340 guy that looks like he might not watch social media. It's all about the goofy characters for

00:07:55.560 me. Everything is about what they give me. It's not me most of the time, obviously. It's just

00:08:01.780 these people. But when I leave Ohio, I feel free because Ohio, nine times out of 10, I walk up

00:08:09.680 insecure because I know they're going to bust me. So I'm ready for them to catch me. Those videos

00:08:15.480 do really well because my fans love seeing people recognizing me so in columbus it's still cool to

00:08:22.360 do those but i don't mess with even any pranks really in columbus is getting old but i can still

00:08:29.060 find tons of construction sites and i've gotten lazy over the last few years where i pull up in

00:08:35.640 the car i used to walk you know all i gotta do is get out put a vest on and you know so you used to

00:08:43.360 look more of the part yeah in the early days though i walked up in shorts no hat now i dude

00:08:50.260 i pull up with the construction the hard hat on in my car which is the funniest thing because it's

00:08:55.360 like the stupidest thing ever but when i first started pranking i had a very nice car i was you

00:09:02.480 know i had you know i had a good job and would you have like a chevelle or something dodge neon

00:09:07.900 Dude, I had a $100,000 Lexus when I first started doing these pranks,

00:09:13.500 and it was a big black.

00:09:15.220 So they bought it.

00:09:16.660 And then I went broke and went kind of homeless,

00:09:19.240 and then I was driving around these $500 cars.

00:09:21.760 So it was really a funny transition.

00:09:24.740 But did the Lexus help the pranks?

00:09:26.200 Yeah, yeah, because they're like, oh, this is definitely a boss.

00:09:28.900 Oh, this is Balboni.

00:09:29.800 Yeah, this is definitely the boss.

00:09:31.260 He runs stuff.

00:09:32.080 He's, you know, and but it still worked in a fucking G6 that I ended up to a friend gave me a G6, man, with duct tape holding up the panel.

00:09:44.400 There was a bungee cord holding up the panels.

00:09:46.560 But when I put that hat on, man, it was the funniest thing pulling up like somebody's going to drive around with a hard hat on in the car.

00:09:54.140 So originally you would what you would get out and walk up.

00:09:56.860 Was that did that create a different energy?

00:09:58.960 Yeah, that's a whole different one.

00:10:00.520 It takes more energy, basically, yeah.

00:10:03.040 So you got lazy, not you just kind of pulled it up in your whip?

00:10:04.900 Yeah, because the window ones, when they come to the window, it's like they're on TV.

00:10:08.360 It's perfect.

00:10:09.180 Perfect.

00:10:09.760 So those work, too.

00:10:10.900 But I used to just walk, man, miles, dude.

00:10:15.480 Like Columbus, Ohio, I would walk from one end of town.

00:10:19.860 I mean, I was putting 20, 25,000 steps a day before I went to work.

00:10:23.720 On your limbs, you're putting those miles on your own.

00:10:24.720 On my feet, yeah, on my dogs, man.

00:10:27.260 And that was when I had a job.

00:10:29.060 I'd go into work at one.

00:10:30.520 And I'd make six in the early days, man, is like six videos a day.

00:10:34.940 I mean, I can make them all day long if I want.

00:10:37.560 I mean, it's but it gets old and, you know, got to do something different.

00:10:43.040 But I don't think it gets old for us, but it probably starts to turn into a lot more of a job than it does like something that's entertaining for you.

00:10:50.620 I call it feeding the fish, feeding the Internet and feeling that pressure to keep giving them something.

00:10:57.140 And they get so upset when I don't post for a while.

00:11:01.200 And it's like, yeah, it's an addiction.

00:11:04.240 And you know that I have addictive tendencies.

00:11:07.640 And I hate the addiction to feeding the fans these videos.

00:11:12.520 And then if I don't have a viral video or something, man, I get withdrawal.

00:11:16.720 I get sick, you know?

00:11:17.760 You start to feel bad about yourself even?

00:11:20.120 It's literally a dopamine addiction.

00:11:22.400 like when i if i don't have a fresh killer video that's going viral then i i feel i start to get

00:11:28.760 sick and after a couple weeks i get sick man and i have like this i gotta go get some i gotta go get

00:11:35.760 i gotta go get a video and they don't make like a suboxone for pranksters no if they did i would

00:11:40.580 take it right now i'd get i'd get off i'd get off the pranks right away go to rehab yeah get on that

00:11:46.740 methadone homie oh my gosh suboxone speaking of that i mean we'll talk about that later but that

00:11:53.760 is the hardest drug to ever get off of i had to kick that in february 25 and it's the worst i mean

00:12:00.460 it was harder than getting off the hard fentanyl it was harder than getting off fentanyl because

00:12:05.760 yeah before you go down that road i know that uh because we've talked a little bit about addiction

00:12:09.640 right we're both in recovery yeah so amen bro amen good job amen good job i'm very happy for

00:12:16.660 you and anybody that's actually taken that path because the toughest knuckles in the world you

00:12:23.220 need them in that game because it's an internal battle bro nobody's gonna do it for you you know

00:12:29.700 it's the biggest war of a human's life man amen yeah yeah amen bro yeah so um let's start from

00:12:38.300 the beginning in your life bro because you've had some i mean you were a used car salesman you were

00:12:41.960 in a band you dealt with heroin addiction you've been to prison dude you've got me not prison but

00:12:47.020 the county jail for like six months so i've been to jail many times but i have never gotten a number

00:12:53.420 is what they say oh shit no way yeah oh but they want they said prison was way better than the

00:13:01.080 county jail i was in it's called the workhouse in columbus ohio it's the worst place that

00:13:05.540 it's the worst you didn't like it does it even have stars on like google review or whatever

00:13:11.540 Would you like it? 50 gangbangers and not just gang, just every type of criminal. And there's

00:13:17.940 one bathroom behind the brick wall, you know, that everyone gets to use and everyone's fighting

00:13:23.080 every day. I mean, I fought a couple of times. They're picking up people on mattresses while

00:13:28.220 they're sleeping and launching them across the room to the weaker people. It was so, but I found,

00:13:34.700 I mean, dude, you find God when you're in those places. Like I was part of this Bible study and

00:13:39.500 we got up every morning and read the Bible and like, but man,

00:13:43.220 when you don't know when you're getting out and if you've never had your

00:13:46.520 freedom taken away, you need to, to appreciate life.

00:13:49.580 I always say that sometimes I get so comfortable out here. I'm like, man,

00:13:55.060 I need to go lock myself up just to remember that feeling of getting out,

00:13:59.220 man.

00:13:59.880 Wow. Of just the gratitude of being free, bro. Yeah.

00:14:03.500 A free ish.

00:14:04.360 Freedom is something that we all take for granted, man. It's geez.

00:14:09.500 Do you ever, did you ever celebrate a, like a holiday in prison? Sorry, in jail?

00:14:14.800 No, but I just celebrated my birth last year down in Florida. I was in long-term treatment. I was

00:14:22.500 down there for two months and, um, I celebrated my 49th birthday down there. But when the whole

00:14:29.780 rehab facility found out who I was, it really helped, man. I had all these fans in rehab with

00:14:36.860 me and they were just going crazy and it was like i was happy to to make it fun for them you know

00:14:43.840 if somebody's ham checking into rehab dude in long-term treatment where we're all just trying

00:14:49.500 to get by for long two months you know but yeah that was that was the last time i was on hard

00:14:56.240 drugs too i got clean in february 25 thank god but now what was your question about jail i forget

00:15:04.200 Oh, holidays in jail.

00:15:05.760 I mean, no, but my ex-wife had her, you know, I was in there, and she had a little baby, you know.

00:15:16.380 She had my son, and it was stressful.

00:15:19.240 Dude, that's a crazy way to refer to your son as she had a little baby, but I do.

00:15:25.920 Yeah, my son, he's the man, dude.

00:15:27.540 He's awesome.

00:15:28.360 But that's awesome, dude.

00:15:29.960 How did you get into pranking?

00:15:31.260 You're from Ohio.

00:15:32.200 Yeah.

00:15:33.280 So I was always a class.

00:15:35.220 I mean, I always remember that first time that everyone was quiet in the library and I farted, you know, like you just never forget the humor and the laughter that comes with that.

00:15:44.840 So I remember getting addicted to being the class clown in seventh grade.

00:15:51.020 Me and my friends would prank these Chinese restaurants, you know, my buddy's parents were doctors.

00:15:58.500 So we'd go in its basement.

00:15:59.940 They had the fancy phones in the 80s, the big speaker, the ones you could use speakerphone.

00:16:04.540 It was, I mean, so we would prank this Chinese restaurant all the time, man.

00:16:10.200 What would y'all do?

00:16:11.660 Well, I would call and ask them if their fortune cookies were true, you know, and we would order all these egg rolls, so many egg rolls.

00:16:21.960 But I said, are your fortune cookies true?

00:16:26.020 because this one says

00:16:27.400 I'm going to eat a big turd

00:16:28.800 and blow up

00:16:29.300 like that's not even funny

00:16:30.460 but my buddy

00:16:31.220 reminded me of that

00:16:32.380 the other day

00:16:33.100 but we called him

00:16:34.700 every day

00:16:35.560 and then

00:16:36.600 so the owner

00:16:38.160 got so mad

00:16:39.240 what did he get mad about?

00:16:41.040 well apparently

00:16:41.800 they were getting

00:16:42.820 all these orders ready

00:16:43.820 and we never

00:16:44.420 we were little kids

00:16:45.440 we never came

00:16:46.280 and picked them up

00:16:47.080 oh so you guys

00:16:47.640 would make orders

00:16:48.140 for Eddie?

00:16:49.740 yeah

00:16:50.000 we ordered

00:16:50.740 seven and a half inch

00:16:52.760 egg rolls for Eddie

00:16:53.760 and it was not cool

00:16:55.040 because

00:16:55.520 they're working their butts off and we're just little kids laughing on the phone and

00:17:00.300 but the craziest stuff happened this this guy that ran the restaurant i'll never forget one time he

00:17:07.540 said you'll come down to my restaurant i'll blow your fucking head off yeah and uh he said that to

00:17:14.240 me and three of my friends and then he said you'll get yours in the mail and uh we got subpoenaed in

00:17:20.820 the mail in seventh and seventh grade you got subpoenaed by the chinese in seventh grade the

00:17:25.520 restaurant yeah yeah so we had to go to court i went me and two friends and his parents took us

00:17:32.040 to court and we sat at a big table and got lectured and they told us how many thousands

00:17:37.660 of hours we cost them in business and my buddy's dad's car got towed while we were in there

00:17:42.240 They must have been pissed

00:17:45.660 They were so pissed dude

00:17:47.680 It was so funny

00:17:48.620 I'll never forget that shit

00:17:50.420 What other stuff would y'all say to them over the phone

00:17:52.580 I mean

00:17:55.060 All I remember is

00:17:56.700 Making them mad

00:17:58.200 Ordering egg rolls

00:17:59.980 I don't remember really

00:18:02.660 Egg rolls are good

00:18:03.440 And you're not going to pick them up

00:18:06.540 So you have no plan to pick up the egg rolls you're ordering

00:18:08.740 No

00:18:09.260 And I think I was probably just practicing my impression of a Chinese person or something.

00:18:16.500 I think Bobby's Chinese, dude.

00:18:17.540 He doesn't give a fuck even.

00:18:18.720 Even if you ask him, he fucking denies it.

00:18:20.820 He's a pussy.

00:18:22.160 That's crazy.

00:18:23.320 He's a good guy, but he's also a fucking – he's one of those people that denies where he's from or whatever.

00:18:29.620 Where is he from?

00:18:32.180 China.

00:18:32.780 Is he?

00:18:33.300 Okay.

00:18:33.780 Yeah, but he denies it.

00:18:34.760 He's just like, he's kind of like, he's like DJ Khaled or whatever.

00:18:40.180 Because he's from Palestine, he just doesn't talk about it.

00:18:42.860 Oh, okay.

00:18:43.520 But Bobby just has something against his own culture or whatever.

00:18:48.140 Bring up a picture of him.

00:18:50.280 He used to dance, too, back in his home country or whatever.

00:18:54.600 Oh, yeah, I've seen him.

00:18:56.040 He's a funny guy.

00:18:58.860 Is he out in L.A.?

00:19:00.260 I don't know where he lives.

00:19:01.420 He probably denies wherever he lives.

00:19:02.920 I don't think he won't even tell you where he fucking lives

00:19:05.980 It's just the kind of guy he is

00:19:07.820 But he's dealt with a lot of shit

00:19:09.860 That's the shit

00:19:12.100 That makes me glad I don't have hair

00:19:13.800 Sometimes I feel like the people with hair

00:19:16.260 Have to figure out how to look cool

00:19:17.920 You know

00:19:18.380 I'm like you know

00:19:20.680 I don't have to worry about that shit

00:19:22.920 Oh yeah he looks like he's been sniffing fireworks right there

00:19:25.760 But he's good

00:19:27.520 He's definitely a good guy

00:19:28.600 So you guys would call over there

00:19:31.020 And do you remember any of the other, like, things you would say that the fortune said?

00:19:35.180 No, I don't, actually.

00:19:36.800 My buddy just reminded me of that.

00:19:38.820 It stuck in his memory for that long, and he just told me, my fortune says that I'm going to eat a giant turd and blow up, you know?

00:19:49.360 And he just thought that was so funny.

00:19:51.380 I don't really think it's that funny, but he'll never forget me saying that.

00:19:56.140 But I just remember the guy saying, I'll blow your effing head off, you know?

00:20:00.660 like that that's crazy to say that on the phone but back then you can trace calls you know but

00:20:07.220 not from their country dude they've been in so many wars and stuff i and a lot of their family

00:20:11.960 have been victims of stuff like that so i think fuck it yeah i'm gonna blow his head off

00:20:20.440 they look at a lot of people especially bro i think you have to think that chinese restaurants

00:20:28.020 look at anybody who calls as the enemy dude yeah because they must get 80 of their calls

00:20:35.280 must be people just fucking with them back then we pulled up in the yellow page the phone books

00:20:41.760 man you can call the yellow pages it's okay i know what you're talking about do you i don't

00:20:45.840 think you're old enough to remember that shit man we used to just pick names out oh i think

00:20:50.540 oh i thought you meant it was like a racial book or whatever oh but yeah i see what you're saying

00:20:56.360 oh the big ass phone books that we would do prank calls with the rotary dial and shit but

00:21:01.520 i was holding a big ass vhs camera on my shoulder at a young age making we hung this banana like 20

00:21:10.000 20 stories down and i tied a tied a kite string to a banana and there was this heavyset guy tanning

00:21:18.060 with all this oil on and i dangled and we had the we had the camera um and we dangled the the banana

00:21:24.740 it all the way down onto his belly from 20 stories oh well i mean it was up and it was in panama city

00:21:30.880 it was very high up but it was impressive yeah i've lost so many of those good tapes you know

00:21:37.080 god i hate losing and y'all slowly moved it all the way down oh yeah yeah it was awesome oh it's

00:21:41.480 beautiful yeah and it just did you touch him or just get as close as possible i think i dangled

00:21:47.120 it i don't remember it landing on his belly but he was like laid out like a frog man i'll never

00:21:52.360 forget that he was all greased up and he looked like a frog from up there and it was so impressive

00:21:58.680 that we got it right in front of his face though you know yeah fruit face and they call that

00:22:03.780 if you can do you want i mean that's the problem is there's not like a there's not like an olympics

00:22:11.480 for the fucking awesome shit like that you know there's an olympics even jump over something

00:22:15.760 but if you can dangle a piece of fruit or produce or something 20 about 20 stories down and get it

00:22:24.080 two centimeters away from a guy's mouth i probably have the world record you know without even

00:22:29.780 knowing it you know i bet you have a few of them dude yeah that's that's that's true um what was

00:22:35.660 it like growing up where you grew up like what was your home life like like were your parents

00:22:38.840 like were you like i mean this is retarded where did you come from like was your dad a clown or

00:22:43.520 or what was going on?

00:22:44.880 Man, he was basically a clown.

00:22:46.200 I mean, so I was born in New York City because my dad was in the Coast Guard,

00:22:50.900 so I'm proud to have been born in New York, and I lived there for three years,

00:22:57.480 and then we moved to Ohio.

00:23:00.260 So I grew up in, you know, my dad's dad was, my grandpa was a preacher, you know,

00:23:07.040 at a small little Bible church, and it was just, but my dad was wild.

00:23:13.280 He played guitar.

00:23:14.680 He didn't drink or smoke.

00:23:16.440 My dad never has done any drugs or anything, man.

00:23:20.020 It's like so strange that somebody can go through life without doing anything like that,

00:23:24.660 not having a drink or anything.

00:23:26.360 I'd take a rip off of something, dude.

00:23:28.340 I know.

00:23:29.040 I mean, how do you handle life?

00:23:30.760 But he was, before we went to the pool every day, we had to like read Zig Zig,

00:23:37.320 listen to Zig Ziglar audio books on how to be successful, you know,

00:23:41.360 and then memorized the Bible.

00:23:44.240 What was Zig Ziglar?

00:23:45.260 Bring that up.

00:23:47.040 Bring up an audio book,

00:23:48.020 just a link of it on YouTube if you can.

00:23:54.600 I'm Zig Ziglar,

00:23:55.960 and I'm in a studio

00:23:57.320 sharing with you a couple of thoughts

00:23:59.260 before we go to the live audience.

00:24:01.420 To begin with,

00:24:02.700 this program is literally for everyone,

00:24:05.820 whether you're a mechanic or a physician,

00:24:08.400 whether you're a college professor

00:24:09.760 or a kindergarten student.

00:24:12.180 The information is something that you will benefit from.

00:24:16.460 So, okay, and this one's called

00:24:18.380 Developing the Qualities of Success.

00:24:20.200 So Zig Ziglar was like a motivational speaker?

00:24:22.020 Yeah, it was about sales and being a motivational speaker.

00:24:25.840 So you guys would listen to that?

00:24:27.260 Yeah, and memorize the Bible.

00:24:29.320 We had to memorize certain books of the Bible,

00:24:32.580 do like pull-ups, push-ups,

00:24:35.260 and it was just like this whole routine

00:24:38.440 before we could go to the pool.

00:24:39.760 but my dad I was kind of I was embarrassed of him when I was young I mean he would wear this

00:24:44.900 he'd put this rubber old man mask on and drive down the road and I'm a little kid in the back

00:24:49.800 seat and he's scaring people on the highway you know and um dude and my dad was actually an old

00:24:54.860 man driving down the road really yeah so that's had the the white hair in the back of this rubber

00:25:00.520 mask dude oh yeah dude my dad used to give away he had like he got this deal like stocking vending

00:25:06.380 machines or something but he quit like the first time he he got too much of the deliveries they

00:25:11.400 deliver all the chocolates and everything and the pretzels and the mints or whatever so he left all

00:25:16.340 the shit in the back of his car and the windows were always cracked because they wouldn't go all

00:25:20.720 the way up so the rain would get in and it got hot in there so bro but then for years we'd have to

00:25:25.640 sit on top of all these boxes of fucking melted chocolate and bullshit you get out of there you

00:25:29.800 have chocolate and pretzels stuck to you it was horrible they had mushrooms growing out of the

00:25:36.580 bottom of his car and shit like it was just it was a fucking produce section of a vehicle

00:25:41.720 chocolate salad bro it was his his whole car was a piece of shit and so every time we get out we'd

00:25:48.480 like not only would be so ashamed of ourselves but we would just be covered in like nougat and

00:25:53.060 fucking bullshit and shame but go on no dude that's funny my dad ended up doing the gumball

00:25:58.780 machines eventually in life did he yeah he was taking gumball machines to but like but did y'all

00:26:05.400 have a sack of gum in the fridge because my my old roommate did gum and he had uh at night he'd

00:26:10.340 have to come home and put a sack of like bro he had like 1100 gumballs in a garbage bag he'd have

00:26:15.500 to keep them in the fridge at night but bro we would be getting high and shit and we'd go in

00:26:19.320 there and we would eat like bro oh we'd eat 11 gums bro the taste goes away in three seconds of

00:26:27.020 those shit he would lose his mind bro he'd have to fucking go for a run he couldn't even handle

00:26:32.480 it and we fucking we would lie about it and our faces would be all like blue and pink on the

00:26:36.900 edges bro like we had a damn gender reveal going on in our throat bro we just been smacking on his

00:26:42.280 fucking uh on his product bro oh my gosh that's hilarious anyway go on bro no no but i you know

00:26:48.900 looking back i was like why you know my dad played guitar on the porch you know and sang his songs to

00:26:54.360 everybody in the neighborhood and he wrote them yeah yeah he's he was he's a great um musician he

00:26:59.980 he he plays all these like awesome folk songs that are his you know and uh and he was a good

00:27:07.540 athlete he'd be running his miles and shit when I was getting on the bus you know but like when you

00:27:12.180 when you're younger you're kind of embarrassed to everything your parents do you know what I mean

00:27:16.300 but looking back and he you know he taught us to he he'd build stilts you know and we were walking

00:27:22.340 around the neighborhood on like these giant stilts you know and riding unicycles just doing

00:27:27.780 all the weird shit what do you mean riding you know like like was he trying to like be seen by

00:27:32.700 people or was he trying actually to do unique stuff yeah i think it was just that he'd like

00:27:37.520 to do unique stuff you know he'd build a boat in the backyard you know and we'd sleep out on the

00:27:42.840 a flat boat out on the water and stuff and like i mean it was cool i i think it's cool now but

00:27:48.760 when i was younger i was embarrassed oh dude getting embarrassed to your parents bro my mom

00:27:53.780 got a sheepskin jacket or whatever from new jersey and she was all excited about it she saved up for

00:28:01.080 like two years for it bro i don't even know how she got a hold of it she got like a good deal on

00:28:06.380 it or whatever but it had real uh you know what like the curly stuff that comes off of a sheep

00:28:13.400 or whatever what is that called that real wiry shit wool yeah yeah yeah yeah that was it bro she

00:28:18.640 had that real wool and she had it bro and she had this bitch bro she looked like a she looked like a

00:28:25.740 care bear that somebody like had never blow dried or whatever that had been it was insane dude and

00:28:30.820 she would wear it everywhere and she'd be like i have on my new jersey jacket and dude we couldn't

00:28:36.980 even like that but it was all see the wool around the neck it the whole thing the whole thing was

00:28:44.080 the wool when was this I don't even know I quit keeping track of time once I hated the world

00:28:50.360 you feel me yeah 100% good idea bro it was so embarrassing dude and I would like uh oh I was

00:29:01.520 always so embarrassed when I was a kid you know we held hands and prayed at every restaurant in

00:29:06.360 public and i was you know i was always ashamed of that you know because the waitress always comes up

00:29:11.460 when you're praying yeah the waitress i'm sure comes up and goes hey aren't you the guy who said

00:29:15.940 that you're gonna eat a huge turd and fucking blow your head off i'm sure we didn't always eat at

00:29:22.580 chinese restaurants my parents took us to pizza hut sometimes bro dude pizza hut had pac-man and

00:29:29.580 shit and the mini balls how great was it pizza was the best i still miss some pizza hut but they

00:29:37.280 don't it doesn't taste like it used to it's not the same i think like cbs or paramount owns it

00:29:42.860 now somebody does but i remember they made it big time dude they would have uh funeral parties at

00:29:48.180 the one in our town bro really yeah damn and so like we'd be over there but can you guys quiet

00:29:54.320 down we're doing like a funeral service and we're like bro this is pizza do you remember the red

00:30:01.500 cups oh those red cups are so good oh the pop that came out of them oh but it just like yeah

00:30:09.300 dude i just and i would sit there fuming so angry that these people had died or whatever i couldn't

00:30:15.240 even remember what was going on but shit like that just fucking pickled my fucking dick yeah you know

00:30:21.420 I was just, something was wrong with me, though.

00:30:23.220 But anyway.

00:30:23.660 It was a party place.

00:30:24.800 Pizza Hut was a party place.

00:30:25.860 Yeah, it was a party place, dude.

00:30:27.340 And we had this little place called BJ's Pizza,

00:30:29.920 and they would never tell you what the BJ's stood for,

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00:30:33.800 You already know.

00:30:34.840 Right.

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00:33:25.820 So your dad was a unique character and you guys would pray at these restaurants?

00:33:29.600 Well, yeah.

00:33:30.320 I mean, we were raised going to church every Sunday.

00:33:33.780 you know, and, uh, I was just saying that, you know, and now, I mean, I'll bow my head and pray

00:33:41.040 and I'm not, I'm not ashamed of it. It's just funny how, uh, you know, when you're younger,

00:33:45.960 you know, not many people at the restaurant are holding hands and praying before pizza hut,

00:33:50.760 you know? So it was just, that was just something. Um, it reminds me, bro, my mom would make us pray.

00:33:57.260 We'd pray for clean clothes for everybody in the world. Seriously. Yeah. That's a good prayer though.

00:34:02.440 you know it's pretty good i pray i just wrap it up i pray for everyone going through a hard time

00:34:08.180 everyone's suffering you know oh so you just do the whole you just in and out i mean no no not

00:34:15.400 that quick but that's one of my main focuses during a prayer because it covers so much i'm

00:34:20.460 like i pray for all the people out there that are suffering today yeah because everyone's going

00:34:25.680 through something man oh for sure yeah freaking it just seems is that a little generic sometimes

00:34:30.420 i'm like well yeah i mean sorry dude i'm putting you on the prayer no you're fine i don't care but

00:34:36.480 i know that we're supposed to ask for i mean who knows what we're supposed to do but i mean i do

00:34:43.520 isolate certain prayers although i feel like god knows what he's supposed to do you know it's like

00:34:49.420 it is kind of weird bro if you know what you're supposed to do right say if you're willy wonka

00:34:54.240 right and you want people to come by in the morning to your factory and knock on the door

00:34:59.960 and be like, don't forget to make candy today or whatever.

00:35:04.240 You know what I'm saying?

00:35:05.420 It's kind of crazy.

00:35:06.620 It's annoying when people tell you what you already know you're going to do

00:35:09.700 or you need to do.

00:35:11.140 I mean, you deal with it.

00:35:12.240 I deal with it.

00:35:12.980 Or like if you're ironing a shirt and somebody's like, hey, man,

00:35:14.940 iron that shirt.

00:35:16.220 Yeah.

00:35:17.200 No shit.

00:35:18.180 I'm getting around to it, okay?

00:35:19.700 I was just about to iron it, you know?

00:35:22.140 Yeah, like what if God's like, dude, I'm already doing this.

00:35:26.020 I mean, I love people, but, man, they're annoying.

00:35:28.580 I mean, I'm annoying myself, but I'm just saying that dealing with people.

00:35:32.860 A lot of people are made out of just shit and fucking static.

00:35:36.240 A lot of fucking bullshit.

00:35:38.240 Yeah, dude.

00:35:39.160 And then there's always some gay dude trying to fuck, just trying to fucking cum on your back or whatever.

00:35:44.580 Dude, we used to have a gay dude in our town, and he would fucking, bro, he would J-O in his hands, and he would just fucking hum it off a building, dude.

00:35:52.400 Are you serious?

00:35:53.100 Yeah.

00:35:53.900 That's crazy.

00:35:55.040 For no reason.

00:35:56.440 What?

00:35:56.700 For no reason at all.

00:35:57.420 Is this a true story?

00:35:58.580 Yeah.

00:35:59.720 What do you mean, Hamchuk?

00:36:01.180 Dude, I was locked up in D.C. on a U.S. Marshal's warrant

00:36:06.040 because anything you do in D.C. is a federal crime.

00:36:11.080 So, dude, but there's this one little dude.

00:36:14.180 We're, like, in a pod in the U.S. Marshal's office,

00:36:16.920 and there's, like, 30 of us in these bars.

00:36:20.000 Yeah.

00:36:20.240 And one dude can't stop whacking off, you know,

00:36:23.880 and everybody kick him, you know, and be like,

00:36:27.320 start again and then all of a sudden everything was cool and then you turn around he's he's in

00:36:32.700 the back corner i mean people can't help it you know certain people i mean he obviously had some

00:36:38.500 issues but yeah but i think i mean it's better than him committing a crime or a murder or what

00:36:42.380 was he in for do you know probably doing that on the streets i'm guessing but i don't know i didn't

00:36:47.980 talk to him man i probably i probably helped stop him from from doing that i'll tell you this bro

00:36:53.800 If I'm jerking off near you, kick me.

00:36:56.620 I'm going to, bro, 100%.

00:36:58.700 Thank you.

00:36:58.860 You're not coming on my back, bro.

00:37:00.700 Hey, bro.

00:37:01.340 No, bro.

00:37:01.940 Dude, one of the best things I ever heard somebody say,

00:37:04.000 don't come on my back and tell me it's raining.

00:37:07.060 Don't steal my boxers and help me look for it either.

00:37:09.600 That's what they do in jail.

00:37:11.000 They take your shit and then help you look for it.

00:37:13.360 Search parties.

00:37:15.220 Is it a fun game or it's actually just theft?

00:37:17.860 No, it's just a quote.

00:37:19.100 I always like to say that, you know, you steal your boxers and help you look for them.

00:37:26.220 Oh, dude, we were on spring break, bro.

00:37:28.140 We all were doing pills and everything, and we all, we had three guys all, like, sharing a room or whatever.

00:37:34.760 We all stole each other's pills at the same time and then helped each other fucking look for them.

00:37:39.340 No way.

00:37:40.060 Yeah.

00:37:40.620 And I was like, dude, no way.

00:37:42.040 Somebody fucking stole your pills, and somebody had stole mine, and somebody stole Kyle's, dude.

00:37:47.220 And we all had each other's pills

00:37:49.680 Bunch of shady motherfuckers, man

00:37:51.640 That is messed up

00:37:52.960 How do you hide the camera

00:37:55.620 Whenever you're out there?

00:37:56.400 How do you keep it concealed?

00:37:57.840 Or do you not?

00:37:59.220 Actually, I'm just very creative

00:38:01.280 And that's a question I've never answered before

00:38:03.660 Just like showing myself

00:38:05.440 So it's

00:38:06.060 The craziest thing

00:38:09.020 It's not about the camera

00:38:10.200 I put them in some sort of weird hypnosis

00:38:15.000 With the confusion and the stupidity

00:38:16.960 that once I start engaging, I hold the phone right in their face sometimes, the camera.

00:38:24.720 But in the early days, it was the backpack.

00:38:27.520 I would act like I'm a college student and just keep it right here.

00:38:31.780 And then I'd be in a store, and I'd hold eight things and just have it.

00:38:36.300 But it was all about the confusion and getting their eye contact,

00:38:40.840 and they believe me that I'm not.

00:38:42.980 There's no way this guy's filming me with that phone right there in my face.

00:38:46.560 And, and dude, now my phone has six cameras and it's orange, you know, and it's still, it still works though. But I, yeah, that's, that's something that everybody has wanted to know. I call it the ham cam, you know, because it's not about, it's not about the phone actually, you know, it's just a weird thing. I mean.

00:39:07.860 Is it a strategy that you use that was part of your plan when you approach people? Like I'm going to create this sort of confusion out of the gate or did it just kind of evolve into that?

00:39:16.000 Yeah. I just always used to mess with people and like act like I knew them. That was one thing I did at a very young age. Back when I was 1920 on Ohio State campus, we would roam the streets at night, you know, tripping on mushrooms and just talking to the street, the night people, you know, but God's warriors, they call them.

00:39:36.580 Oh, yeah. And they have the funniest stories and stuff, too. But I prefer attorneys and doctors. I like to prank more sophisticated people now. I don't mess with, in the early days, I was messing with the sign holders. But it was the scammer ones, though. I wasn't messing with the ones that really needed it. I was just kind of busting the scammer sign flyers.

00:40:05.520 They call him, I'm flying a sign.

00:40:07.920 I'm just out here flying a sign.

00:40:11.400 Yeah, dude, the night people, bro.

00:40:13.360 Oh, yeah, bro.

00:40:15.020 There's something about being out at night.

00:40:17.380 Dude, one night, we'd been eating some mushrooms or something.

00:40:20.440 We parked down here at the gas station just to see who was alive, right?

00:40:25.600 And there's a dude fucked up.

00:40:29.440 There's one guy unconscious who was trying to get out of his car

00:40:32.460 and had just given up, right?

00:40:33.960 so he's just like leaned up against like a sleep in his own car with the door open one foot out of

00:40:40.300 it and then there's another dude he's like my car's broken can you help me i was like i don't

00:40:44.700 know enough about vehicles you know and he goes well there's just like some engine trouble or

00:40:51.300 whatever and he's looking in the back of his car in the trunk right he's looking for the engine

00:40:55.720 or whatever so i was like oh fuck nobody can help this guy right then there's another dude over on

00:41:02.800 the side he's dressed like indiana jones right for some reason and he's like oh i'll help you

00:41:08.660 dude in this dude i see him walk over he has a fucking machete hanging off the edge of his pants

00:41:13.420 like a real indiana jones guy and i was like oh these are dude they're warriors they're warriors

00:41:20.080 these are the night people these are the people that god makes as side quests you know 100 these

00:41:26.160 So the after-hour heroes of Christ, brother.

00:41:30.360 The outfits on those people sometimes,

00:41:32.820 they have some weird alternative weapon

00:41:35.880 and usually have some glittery pink tank top on.

00:41:41.960 Oh, yeah.

00:41:43.040 They're ready to pump on somebody.

00:41:44.640 I was out in L.A. recently

00:41:45.900 and saw some really interesting outfits on some characters.

00:41:49.740 Oh, they have guys out there that'll smoke their own cock or whatever.

00:41:52.960 They don't even care.

00:41:53.820 They'll fucking put a lighter to their own nuts.

00:41:55.420 People don't care anymore.

00:41:57.580 So take me out of high school.

00:41:58.900 So you grew up, you have this wild family.

00:42:00.780 You and your friends are cranking the chair.

00:42:01.980 Well, they weren't that wild.

00:42:02.600 I just grew up in a Christian family, you know.

00:42:05.900 But if y'all are unicycling, bro.

00:42:07.720 Yeah, you're right.

00:42:08.520 We were the strange people in the neighborhood.

00:42:10.220 I could do gainers off the high dives.

00:42:14.260 We had a lot of very special skills that most of my friends can't.

00:42:19.780 I'm still proud of that.

00:42:21.160 Can you ride a unicycle one wheel?

00:42:24.700 Anyway, I like to throw that around still.

00:42:27.540 I probably can't.

00:42:28.560 I mean.

00:42:29.180 Is it hard?

00:42:30.260 Yeah, it's pretty hard.

00:42:31.340 What's the trick to it?

00:42:34.240 Like, just practicing every day.

00:42:36.460 Like, I'd still fall off like five times before I was actually taking off and getting momentum.

00:42:41.740 Yeah.

00:42:42.060 And just pedaling.

00:42:42.900 Because the guy on Enos is like, oh, it's always this.

00:42:44.920 Like, fucking just go one way.

00:42:46.440 Oh, they go back and forth.

00:42:47.880 Can you imagine the high ones?

00:42:49.780 Like, gosh.

00:42:50.540 Like, you know, when they're like seven feet in the air.

00:42:53.460 if you fall, man. Damn. So what's, what's like, uh, your first kind of occupation that you head

00:42:59.280 into like out of college? Like, so I went to college for a year at Liberty University. So I

00:43:03.660 just wanted to get out of Ohio. And I believe it or not, I saw an infomercial saying come to Liberty

00:43:09.560 University. And I called this number and they gave me all this free money to go to school there.

00:43:14.300 And it's a Christian college in Virginia, but I went there for a year. I thought I was going to

00:43:19.340 walk. I thought I could play football there. I thought I could walk on and football. Did you

00:43:24.380 try? No, I went to one practice and saw they were like NFL sized athletes. Cause when I heard like

00:43:30.580 one double A or division two, I was, I was way out of my league, you know? So I just started

00:43:36.720 partying. My roommate was in a band and I fell in love with music. We started just smoking weed

00:43:41.880 and recording music, man, like just recording anything. And I've always liked to record and

00:43:49.060 listen back, but it started with smoking weed in college. And I fell in love with, you know,

00:43:54.540 my buddy was just packing bars and I'd got to watch the excitement of somebody being in a band.

00:44:01.400 And so I came back, I went to school for a year. I was like, hell no. I remember I just barely did

00:44:08.180 enough. It wasn't worth my time. I was like C student. I was just part, I ended up partying

00:44:13.080 more at the Christian college than I had in high school, you know? And I mean, they, they party

00:44:18.740 hard at those schools and do they yeah yeah i mean we all doing lsd and coke and shit bro

00:44:24.680 or smoking crypto i for christ or whatever i put acid in my buddy i look back on what i did to my

00:44:30.840 old roommate he had never tripped before dude and i think it's the most fucked up thing i've ever

00:44:37.040 done is put acid in my buddy's beer and then ask him later how he's feeling at the party dude that's

00:44:44.060 just not cool at all now he works for the government and he's like and he won't even

00:44:48.860 take my call he texts me all the time but dude he's so paranoid to talk to me and we were tight

00:44:56.180 we're still tight but he just will never take my call for some reason and I think I understand

00:45:01.160 oh dude yeah bro people how could I do that to somebody I got older and I was like what the

00:45:07.280 fuck was I thinking man that's like kind of the ultimate prank I feel bad about it I want to make

00:45:12.320 it clear that it's not okay and um you know it happened though you know i just think it's crazy

00:45:17.600 that i thought it was okay at the time oh dude no no yeah well yeah a comedian did that to somebody

00:45:23.340 and the guy developed like a severe like he like takes his shirt off all the time now or whatever

00:45:28.500 something happened to him so it's fucking that kind of shit can something can happen to him

00:45:33.260 and your guy joined the fucking cia or whatever he's basically very double oh seven can't tell

00:45:39.040 me what he does always flying in helicopters with the government all the politicians he's still

00:45:43.960 tripping he's getting awards yeah but it helped him i think that this one this time it helped him

00:45:49.300 raise raise the bar he's really kicking ass oh praise god that's how god works sometimes dude

00:45:54.480 and i'll say this also they had a thing vajip and a lot of girls would put a hit lsd in their

00:45:58.580 vaginas back in the day that was a big thing in our town and one girl they put it in their

00:46:03.620 in their vagina yeah in their cooters or whatever people call them different stuff but

00:46:07.880 But people would do that, but they'd call it vagip and that was a big thing.

00:46:11.180 Bring that up, vagip and see if people have that took off or not.

00:46:16.460 Because that was a cool thing in our community.

00:46:20.000 Taking LSC vaginally is often referred to or misspelled in online spaces as vagip and it's biologically possible, but carries significant health risks.

00:46:31.340 Makes sense.

00:46:32.740 To try shrooms up there instead, it's more natural.

00:46:36.440 That's a good point.

00:46:37.300 Yeah.

00:46:37.580 Dude, yeah, if they made like a psilocybin-based IUD or whatever.

00:46:42.360 Yeah.

00:46:43.240 That shit would be popping, bro.

00:46:45.720 This girl told me recently there's groups of people that try to collect as many STDs as they can.

00:46:51.500 Really?

00:46:52.160 Is that nuts?

00:46:53.160 They're called frats.

00:46:54.120 I mean, that's how sick the world has become.

00:46:56.500 They go home and celebrate if they add another one to their—I mean, it's just a sick world that we live in.

00:47:02.220 It's like baseball cards for your vagina or whatever.

00:47:04.420 Oh, yeah.

00:47:05.360 So take me back in, bro.

00:47:06.580 So you're dosing your roommate or whatever.

00:47:09.580 He's in the CIA.

00:47:11.000 What else happened?

00:47:12.280 Well, like I said, I wasn't college caliber football.

00:47:17.600 So I called my buddies and they were working at the car lot in Columbus, Ohio at this Toyota store.

00:47:25.240 And they're like, man, we're selling cars, man, making $300 and $400 a car, you know?

00:47:30.140 Oh, shit.

00:47:30.820 And I was like, man, if these guys can do it, I can do that shit.

00:47:33.620 And I went right back, I was 19 years old and started, that was a big job.

00:47:38.000 I mean, I was making a lot of money for, and I was living on campus, you know.

00:47:43.100 And, you know, making five to seven grand a month when you're 19 years old is a lot of money.

00:47:50.080 I went right to the pawn shop and bought drums, keyboard.

00:47:54.060 I bought everybody down on campus at Ohio State campus.

00:47:57.140 I was just living with all my buddies who were going there now.

00:47:59.640 And I remember that first check I got, I went and bought all the instruments that we needed,

00:48:06.160 and we started a band on the Ohio State campus.

00:48:09.060 But I was selling cars, and I was pretty good at it right away, you know.

00:48:13.540 So that was the first big job I had.

00:48:16.020 What made you good at being a car salesman?

00:48:19.300 I think it was my work ethic from football and then my addiction probably.

00:48:25.200 because once I started getting, once I'd sell my first car,

00:48:30.400 and the manager's like, on the calculator, yep, you made $400.

00:48:34.660 You know how much that was to a 19-year-old broke college student.

00:48:39.180 So I was like, but work ethic, because playing football was like,

00:48:43.400 I think it taught me a lot, sports, you know.

00:48:46.300 So nobody, I grinded pretty hard on the car lot.

00:48:50.680 I would just, you work a lot in that business.

00:48:54.100 but were you a good closer like what was your thing like no i god gave me this weird gift with

00:49:01.860 my voice it's the no pressure i don't care if you buy but customers always wanted to buy from me

00:49:09.680 because i didn't care if they bought but it was like i sound stone when i talk or whatever i sound

00:49:15.420 laid back and they like that it does some it's something i can't teach it's just a weird god

00:49:21.480 given gift 100 you know because i always did good in sales i became a closer years later i was a

00:49:30.020 manager and stuff like that so they'd send you in the freaking auto eckerously huh oh yeah

00:49:35.420 yeah the that was weird but that was that was fun it was easy it's the same shit just be it

00:49:42.660 talk to them ask them how they're doing where they're from and you know just how's everything

00:49:48.400 else been going what were you selling trucks vans toyotas actually um yeah in the early days i was

00:49:56.700 selling used cars you know at a toyota store and and but toyotas you know that was what i always

00:50:04.620 liked to sell hell yeah and what was like your most successful year do you think selling them

00:50:10.880 well

00:50:12.800 2016

00:50:14.880 I was

00:50:15.900 I hit 40 cars

00:50:17.840 a month

00:50:18.740 a couple times

00:50:19.700 which was

00:50:20.500 pretty

00:50:20.940 and I was winning

00:50:21.760 a lot of awards

00:50:22.920 like top salesman

00:50:23.820 in the city

00:50:24.320 and they'd give us

00:50:26.320 envelopes full of

00:50:27.320 like five grand

00:50:28.200 every month

00:50:28.820 and shit

00:50:29.320 and I'd give my wife

00:50:31.020 a thousand

00:50:31.520 and then keep

00:50:32.620 four grand

00:50:33.600 dude

00:50:33.980 just

00:50:34.840 I was

00:50:35.880 I was bad

00:50:36.660 bro that's freaking love

00:50:38.560 man

00:50:38.800 it's called mama don't know money

00:50:40.120 you know

00:50:41.260 I was like, babe, I got second place in the city.

00:50:44.000 Here's $1,000.

00:50:45.740 Go ahead and buy yourself something nice.

00:50:47.920 But I had $4,000 to go play poker with.

00:50:51.040 And is that what you were doing with your money?

00:50:52.760 Like what were you doing with your money?

00:50:53.860 Did you notice your addiction start then?

00:50:57.040 Yeah.

00:50:57.540 I mean, I destroyed myself financially like many times over

00:51:04.420 chasing the big score in poker.

00:51:07.180 I mean, I played in the World Series of Poker.

00:51:08.880 I mean, I have some success, you know, I've got, but, but I literally, once I got behind in life,

00:51:15.560 you know, like owing the IRS a bunch of money and just building up all kinds of debt, I was going,

00:51:21.740 I was playing for millions of dollars and out in Vegas and I would put whatever I needed to

00:51:26.740 into these tournaments to play. So yeah, I mean, a hundred percent addiction destroyed my marriage

00:51:33.140 because I was gambling all the time.

00:51:36.320 I mean, I always made it to my kids' games and stuff,

00:51:39.120 but looking back, I was 13 years completely sober off drugs and alcohol.

00:51:44.360 But the gambling was the biggest monster, man.

00:51:47.300 And it wasn't until recently I quit gambling,

00:51:49.640 and it's like the most freeing feeling ever, dude,

00:51:53.100 because it controlled my life for years, bro.

00:51:56.500 It was bad.

00:51:57.760 How did it start?

00:51:59.380 Dude, these little fairs when I was a little kid had the wheel

00:52:02.720 and the dice that rolled down.

00:52:04.440 They were letting little kids.

00:52:06.000 It was called the West Jefferson Ox Roast, man.

00:52:08.720 I'm giving my little hometown a shout-out.

00:52:12.500 But I'd like to file a lawsuit against them starting.

00:52:16.100 I mean, they started.

00:52:17.360 They had the – there was a game called Big Six and then Chuck-a-Luck, man.

00:52:22.120 And then Chuck-a-Luck?

00:52:23.240 Chuck-a-Luck.

00:52:24.740 The firemen would run this charity game.

00:52:26.760 But little kids, we were betting dollars, and we're little.

00:52:30.960 I mean same year I pranked the Chinese restaurants man I was like in seventh grade when I started

00:52:35.940 gambling at these little local fairs you know you know how the churches will have them and stuff

00:52:40.900 sometimes the churches have them a lot especially bro I would go over my buddy and I would drive

00:52:46.820 over there my buddy Lance we used to drive over to I think it was Virginia dude and his mom I think

00:52:55.320 lived over there and I couldn't he would go into the strip club or whatever I wasn't old enough

00:53:00.940 but he'd come out and tell me what the tits looked like and everything and i'd sit out in the van

00:53:04.900 and uh and so he'd be in there having some drinks where he had a you know fake id and looking at the

00:53:10.720 tits whatever he'd come out and describe them to me or whatever wake me up because i'd i wouldn't

00:53:14.980 stay awake the whole time waiting like a fucking pervert or whatever i'd fucking get a little rest

00:53:19.300 or whatever yeah and then uh but we would go to these they have these little church fairs where

00:53:24.160 you could actually gamble and win money at them that's what i'm talking about you pull up chuck

00:53:28.820 Chuckaluck, I learned to scam at a young age with that game Chuckaluck.

00:53:34.740 The dice would bounce around, okay?

00:53:36.980 You had to put your money on a color.

00:53:38.640 The dice had yellow, red, all the colors.

00:53:41.800 But it would roll down this thing, this big dice, and bounce around.

00:53:47.100 And the guys running it, the firemen were just looking out at the people,

00:53:51.540 and I would wait until we see the dice land on yellow.

00:53:55.920 and I'd slide the dollar on yellow and it's all about the celebration you know I started

00:54:01.400 yeah just like acting like you won and you did it and you know you sell it right there

00:54:06.680 that you sell the hustle. So they believed you won even if you hadn't? Yeah yeah they didn't see

00:54:12.220 that you saw the dice bounce on yellow and then you slide your you slide your hand and raise them

00:54:17.820 at the same time you slide the dollar and celebrate. Wow. Dude but I do it and I mean I beat

00:54:24.100 so there's a game in Vegas that, um, it's nevermind, but it's a game.

00:54:30.620 I still, I mean, I'm not proud of that, but if you can beat Vegas, it's okay.

00:54:34.620 I mean, not that I've really beat it, but there is one game I can,

00:54:38.560 I use the fake celebration method. You know, if you celebrate loud enough,

00:54:42.580 they're just like, yeah, pay the man. He won.

00:54:44.620 He wouldn't be celebrating if, you know, if he didn't.

00:54:49.240 But so it's, so gambling even affected your, like it affected though,

00:54:52.380 it started to get bad yeah I mean yeah I was I was like taking I was going out to Vegas all the

00:55:01.200 time the wife was awesome she she would support all my bad decisions you know because she was a

00:55:06.960 sweet she's amazing and and uh and this is why you were a car car salesman yeah yeah I was I was

00:55:13.400 always successful in business you know always made a lot of money and uh because of the car business

00:55:19.160 you know, but I always hate, I've been an artist. I hated selling. I don't like talking to people

00:55:24.160 into buying stuff, you know, but it's the way that I paid the bills and for years, but yeah,

00:55:31.080 I made so much that I was very bad with my money and chasing poker. I just had this dream to win

00:55:38.260 a world series of poker bracelet. Like my whole life, I was like trying to, trying to win that,

00:55:43.260 you know, so, but I got in debt with, you know, the IRS because every year they take half my

00:55:50.860 checks and then they still want 20 grand at the end of the year, you know, and I didn't save up

00:55:55.960 20 grand, you know, anyway, I was, yeah, but addiction, gambling addiction is one of my worst.

00:56:02.960 I'll be, I have no problem admitting it. It destroyed, it destroyed a lot of things in my

00:56:10.060 life you know i've kind of screwed up financially over and over again you know and there was always

00:56:15.500 gambling that got you like put that help put you in those tough spots yeah i mean i'd quit doing

00:56:20.180 drugs and alcohol but i would never want to let everything go i was like man no way i'm letting

00:56:26.240 cards go because cart poker is a sport it's on espn you know it's not it's not fucking it's not

00:56:32.720 gambling but of course dude yeah people sometimes wear cleats when they play it dude dude i did see

00:56:38.700 guy. Actually, Balboni

00:56:40.580 plays poker, actually. You might not know that.

00:56:43.240 But he wears

00:56:44.980 cleats. Yeah, he wears cleats

00:56:46.600 at the table.

00:56:50.880 What's the most that you ever lost,

00:56:52.700 do you feel like, and the most you ever

00:56:54.660 won?

00:56:56.760 I won

00:56:57.720 17,000 at

00:57:00.540 one tournament, second place in

00:57:02.340 a tournament.

00:57:04.120 The last day I gambled down in

00:57:06.540 Seminole, Florida, Hard Rock, Florida. I, uh, I lost like seven grand in one day, but it wasn't

00:57:15.160 that it was just, I couldn't stop myself from going back to the ATM. And I had, I had won all

00:57:19.900 week, but I busted out of this big tournament that was with 300,000 was like on the line.

00:57:27.640 And I had all the chips in this tournament and just got super unlucky. Um, God had been telling

00:57:35.140 me to quit gambling forever he's like man i gave you skills with art with comedy you have all these

00:57:41.780 other talents and you're going to chase this this dead-end road because all the top poker players

00:57:48.980 go broke eventually like it's not a good it's not a good career path you know

00:57:54.600 anyway um yeah so addiction gambling addiction was bad and what about at that moment that

00:58:02.600 You're like, I got to get clean from this.

00:58:05.360 Well, it had been going on for years.

00:58:07.880 I knew that I needed to stop.

00:58:09.600 And then I had all these things happening with Johnny Hamcheck, you know.

00:58:14.680 I'm like, you got millions of fans that love you and you're doing good at this.

00:58:20.920 You don't lose.

00:58:21.980 It's not luck, you know.

00:58:23.180 You can go out and make videos every day.

00:58:25.820 But I just kept trying to score.

00:58:30.320 it hit a big hit a big lick you know just hit a big one and try to get a million and because I

00:58:35.880 was always I'm shit I'm still dealing with the IRS man yeah you know you owe them oh dude you

00:58:42.800 have no idea I'm gonna get one of those special agents you know that comes to your house with

00:58:46.940 the briefcase like Will Smith was in a movie like I I go downtown to the office and they're like

00:58:54.140 you can't we can't help you here and the guy comes around the cubicle looking like did you

00:59:00.880 say he owes over a hundred thousand you know like like oh like the big like he's like like

00:59:05.540 yeah he was snooping in he's like he can't do anything for him you know that right and and i'm

00:59:10.240 like man because i'm trying to make things right you know i'm like look i'm here trying to settle

00:59:14.980 this shit you know bro it was just i didn't pay i didn't pay attention to irs for seven years one

00:59:21.500 time because i was so angry that they take half my check yeah and then want 20 more at the end of

00:59:27.960 the year i'm like man they can come to the house and get it yeah come pull up that's the only and

00:59:33.020 they eventually did you know they eventually oh it's the biggest scam dude it is it's the biggest

00:59:40.360 fucking scam and then the money's not even used here in our country dude yeah what do they do

00:59:45.980 with it i mean i'm not fixing freeways we know dude but we can't really talk about it yeah you're

00:59:52.240 buying missiles for child care centers dude it's just you know they're busy you gotta get missiles

00:59:57.980 at child care centers oh our government is so busy buying missiles for child care centers

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01:03:48.220 So let's get back into pranking.

01:03:50.400 How did Johnny Hamcheck start?

01:03:53.300 One time, I was in the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center for six months.

01:03:58.780 I graduated class of 2002 there.

01:04:01.900 Oh, nice.

01:04:02.320 What branch were you?

01:04:03.260 Oh, Army.

01:04:03.760 Sorry, go ahead.

01:04:04.280 Salvation Army.

01:04:05.480 And that's why I always ask people, do I get credit for this?

01:04:08.820 I mean, I was in the Salvation Army, so I want my discounts, you know.

01:04:13.440 But anyway.

01:04:14.360 Yeah, dude, you were on the front lines.

01:04:15.720 I was answering phones in the donation center when I was living there.

01:04:19.900 This was during some hard times, you know.

01:04:21.860 So somebody said, I want to talk to your manager, and I came up with, I said, hold on.

01:04:31.040 They were mad at me and wanted to speak to my manager.

01:04:34.980 So I put the manager on the phone, and I just came up with the name Johnny Hamcheck.

01:04:39.480 so that's when I came up with the name particularly the name but the pranking started I was down in

01:04:47.540 North Carolina working at a car dealership in Greensboro and I was the top salesman so I had

01:04:55.200 an office and there was three rookie salesmen that had started that week and I just had this idea

01:05:01.960 I was going to tell them they had to do all this crazy shit and I told them I was the trainer so

01:05:07.840 I brought him in my office and I told, I told that this, um, this young kid who just started,

01:05:14.640 he was like a pastor, real nerdy kid named Ryan. And he, uh, I said, man, you're going to have to

01:05:21.100 hold, you know, sometimes you're going to have to get swung on by these customers. And, um,

01:05:27.300 I just told him he'd have to hold hands with customers and tell them that he loves them

01:05:31.900 to sell a car. And I told him all this crazy stuff. He was going to have to take advantage

01:05:37.140 of 90-year-old ladies and stuff.

01:05:38.980 I was like, are you ready for this, you know?

01:05:40.760 And he was ready to quit after that little interview.

01:05:44.020 So I started making videos, and they rotted on YouTube for years.

01:05:48.520 I did a few of those where I told these rookie car salesmen

01:05:53.420 they were going to have to do this crazy shit, you know?

01:05:56.280 And those videos were still some of my favorite videos.

01:06:00.540 Are they out there right now?

01:06:01.960 Yeah.

01:06:02.320 I don't know.

01:06:03.480 um it's called a rookie car salesman they're they're the best car salesman prank that is

01:06:09.960 that's the very first one that and this is you right here talking to a potential uh like a

01:06:16.420 trainee he had just started and i just brought him into my office because i had an office i was

01:06:21.060 just a salesman but told him i was they wanted the bosses wanted me to train you guys and this

01:06:25.880 is the stuff i want to go over and i scared him to death with some of this crazy shit that i tell

01:06:30.360 all right sometimes people will question how sturdy is your car i don't want to buy a car

01:06:35.660 that's not sturdy you know and you got to let them know you got to get behind the car and you

01:06:39.980 got to start rocking it from the front then you got to go around to the back you're pretty strong

01:06:44.000 guy you work out work out a little bit but i'm still pretty strong you seem pretty strong yeah

01:06:48.460 probably wrestled a little bit i actually know i was a musician and uh did acting and probably

01:06:54.480 gotten a fight or something right actually no i'm pretty peaceful i know well you gotta get behind

01:07:01.520 the car and you gotta push it until it starts rocking back and forth and you gotta get it in

01:07:05.280 a little rhythm and then you gotta get on the other side and rock it and sometimes you gotta

01:07:08.880 get the customer to start rocking it with you okay yeah no big deal there um you may have to defend

01:07:15.280 yourself sometimes sometimes customers yes you do you know any um martial arts at all i did take

01:07:23.200 martial arts when i was younger um so i would feel pretty confident you might get swung on wow

01:07:29.840 it's intense okay um this is wow keep playing oh yeah i've knocked a customer out before on the lot

01:07:43.520 it's intense okay um has that ever happened to you oh yeah i've knocked a customer out before

01:07:48.480 on the lock right in front of the manager guess what the manager did he

01:07:55.440 high-fived me because I was swung on okay I was swung on and Ryan you got to

01:08:02.340 be ready to defend yourself just in case something like that happens all right so

01:08:06.540 you might want to pick up a couple classes of judo and be a little yoga on

01:08:10.240 the side I mean what was the story can you give a little backup well not right

01:08:15.780 now i want to just go over hit a couple more points with you okay but i took him it wasn't

01:08:20.740 it wasn't hard i'll tell you that much i did a roundhouse kick on him i used to do karate

01:08:25.500 nice well uh what style um just basic black belt okay um now how you feel this is a tough

01:08:34.880 one for everybody but how do you feel about taking advantage of the elderly

01:08:38.560 he will not do that and that's where he drew the line he's like no and i was like

01:08:48.300 it's all about dedication ryan and dude he was ready to quit after this interview dude

01:08:53.040 he's a manager now in the car business go ryan ryan or brian ryan and he was a preacher too

01:09:00.480 like he was already a preacher so amen i told him he'd have to price gouge 90 year old ladies and

01:09:06.920 He said, I won't price gouge 90-year-old ladies.

01:09:09.800 You understand what I'm saying, right?

01:09:11.180 And I go, it's all about dedication, right?

01:09:14.320 Yeah.

01:09:15.960 Oh, man.

01:09:17.300 So I did him, and then I did this young black kid, dude,

01:09:20.440 and he was like, it's a dog-eat-dog world, man.

01:09:23.200 And that's the funniest.

01:09:24.760 And then I did this little Latino kid, and he's like,

01:09:28.620 I told him we were going to have to go to geriatric conventions

01:09:31.980 because the elderly are easier to sell cars to.

01:09:35.480 G-Cons, yeah.

01:09:36.300 And we went to hospitals where people just got in accidents because they will sign papers easily.

01:09:42.600 I told him, he's like, are we going to miss work?

01:09:48.060 But, dude, when Rob, he's my friend now, he said, it's a dog-eat-dog world.

01:09:54.700 So I got three versions of those, and I was so proud of them, and they rotted on YouTube, so I gave up for eight years, bro.

01:10:01.700 I didn't make a video for eight years.

01:10:03.040 I said, if this shit don't do it, yeah, there's Rob.

01:10:06.300 I said, if this shit doesn't work, I give up on trying to be funny on the internet.

01:10:11.240 Then TikTok comes around and my buddy said, dude, you should try your stuff on TikTok.

01:10:15.400 And it was instant traction, you know?

01:10:18.660 What was the first TikTok, like the first one that popped off?

01:10:22.120 Bro, for all the wrong reasons, okay?

01:10:25.180 I'm selling cars at this car dealership and these customers are speaking in their own language.

01:10:30.900 And I always just told people how I felt.

01:10:33.720 And I was like, you mind speaking English?

01:10:36.560 I'm right here, okay?

01:10:38.400 He's like, we are speaking in our language.

01:10:40.340 And I said, yeah, but I'm right here.

01:10:43.080 They just, the internet went crazy about this racist car salesman.

01:10:47.080 And they hated me.

01:10:49.300 This TikTok went so, and it was at a different dealership.

01:10:53.260 I was the manager at this time.

01:10:55.340 And some big influencer with millions of followers got on the page at this Toyota store where I worked and said,

01:11:02.980 this is 2021 and said you have a racist uh car salesman there the video was done years ago at

01:11:10.620 another dealership and then this one in vegas who was the influencer that did it i'll know i never

01:11:16.380 remember her name it was just some somebody some girl that had millions of followers got on the

01:11:22.200 facebook page of my dealership and tried to get me fired for that so i pulled it down but i had

01:11:27.120 seen the excitement but but it was negative though right it was a negative yeah it's all negative but

01:11:31.980 still felt exciting well like tell me about that I hated arguing with people that I'm not I'm I'm

01:11:38.800 the farthest thing from racist you know so I was I wanted to argue with them but the whole they

01:11:44.400 didn't know me yet the internet didn't know me they didn't know who I was they just saw this

01:11:49.260 video where I'm telling some customers to speak English you know because they were whispering and

01:11:55.280 their language right in front of me and I'm the car seat of them sitting right in front of them

01:11:58.640 and so i mean i shouldn't have said it or whatever well i don't know i mean it's some of it could be

01:12:02.240 a level of like i want to don't if you feel like you're being excluded or something you know and

01:12:06.780 and i don't think it even matters really but it wasn't positive but it still felt exciting

01:12:11.060 um i i guess i just saw the that platform i i was i don't know you're right i don't know if it

01:12:18.320 i don't like i'm just curious as to you know what i'm saying like well it was still funny to the

01:12:23.140 two people that weren't offended you know it was a funny video and people still think it's

01:12:28.460 it's hilarious but another one i in vegas i walk up on these guys cutting bike locks off stealing

01:12:35.480 and my whole idea with ham check was he's this idiot that just goes up to people in weird

01:12:40.320 situations and i was like hey guys and they're like they're like cutting this bike lock off

01:12:46.280 two dudes stealing bikes in vegas i'm like hey guys what are you up to and they're like get that

01:12:51.840 camera out of my face bitch and so that video went viral for all the wrong reasons also yeah

01:12:59.220 because i walked up on some thieves stealing a bike and it was so it didn't i didn't get to use

01:13:06.840 my humor till the juice for milk video the one that most people know it's the home depot one

01:13:11.760 where that um it's literally still my number one video my favorite video it's still my favorite

01:13:19.100 It's your favorite one?

01:13:19.900 Yeah, and it's because I finally got to use my humor in something that wasn't hateful online.

01:13:27.080 Got it. Let's see it.

01:13:28.460 We've been trying to get a hold of you, but the machine down at the office is broken right now.

01:13:32.980 Wrong guy.

01:13:34.560 Or Justin?

01:13:36.020 Yeah, yeah.

01:13:37.120 Hey, dude.

01:13:38.560 I wonder what happened to you, man.

01:13:41.000 Bro, it's been rough, man. I ain't seen you forever.

01:13:44.000 Yeah, um...

01:13:45.120 And you don't know this guy.

01:13:45.920 Excuse us, sir.

01:13:46.800 and uh the drywall deal in newark dude yeah you still need that done or well you know what i

01:13:54.000 didn't know what happened man i figured brian would contact me brian's always got my number

01:13:58.240 well dude that guy kept fucking with me oh and i got a i had to put him what i had to put him out

01:14:04.320 so i got a big lawsuit going on right now oh was that your property i hit him with a hammer you

01:14:09.760 know i got i got pissed off no shit yeah i hit him upside the head with a hammer he was out for

01:14:16.080 three and a half hours man but he deserved it you know yeah he just saw you fucking riding me dude

01:14:23.540 i wasn't gonna take it crazy dude this guy's a legend i'm a little worried about what's gonna

01:14:28.180 happen you ever done time i did a little bit of time i did too yeah yeah i did it before i'm not

01:14:34.780 looking forward to going back this fucking food sucks you know but dude yeah the workouts that's

01:14:44.020 Oh, dude, yeah, me too.

01:14:46.660 We call it gladiator tanks, you know?

01:14:52.020 Juice for milk.

01:14:53.260 Yeah, dude, but you should have seen it, man.

01:14:55.700 Sorry.

01:14:56.240 Because you trade shit in there.

01:14:57.440 It was one of them.

01:14:58.660 Oh, because you trade shit in there?

01:14:59.980 Yeah, that's where that whole juice for milk came from,

01:15:02.580 and we both were familiar with the workhouse in Columbus, Ohio,

01:15:05.980 so it's a horrible place to be.

01:15:07.860 It was what I was telling you about earlier.

01:15:09.320 Yeah.

01:15:09.580 But everyone's trading trays, and, you know,

01:15:11.860 And I lost a lot of shit, and I lost a lot of poker.

01:15:15.500 It was spades.

01:15:17.140 I lost, like—

01:15:18.280 In jail?

01:15:18.720 Yeah, I was gambling in jail.

01:15:20.340 I was losing my tray every day.

01:15:21.880 I wouldn't eat for two days sometimes because I lost to these guys

01:15:25.820 that were probably cheating.

01:15:27.120 Yeah.

01:15:27.880 You know?

01:15:28.520 Yeah.

01:15:28.940 But that guy is a legend, dude.

01:15:30.580 And later I say, he said, man, I've been saying that all for six months,

01:15:36.540 and I want to hit somebody in the head with a hammer, you know?

01:15:38.900 And that guy was so great.

01:15:40.500 And as he walked away that night, I'll never forget, I was like, man, get that guy's contact, you know, and I've never been able to find him again, you know, like I see a lot of these people many times after, but that was my favorite prank.

01:15:57.520 Cause it was funny.

01:15:58.380 It wasn't negative, you know?

01:16:00.760 Yeah.

01:16:01.140 Yeah.

01:16:01.400 It's still one of my top favorites.

01:16:03.400 Do some of them get kind of uncomfortable?

01:16:05.660 Like, have you been in some uncomfortable situations?

01:16:08.560 Oh yeah.

01:16:09.560 Yeah.

01:16:09.920 I, uh, one time I was surrounded by 20 gang members in Columbus, Ohio, and they made me,

01:16:16.880 they wanted to kill me. One dude kept coming up behind me with a knife and my buddy was like

01:16:21.740 yelling for me to watch out. And I kept turning around at the last second. So I apparently

01:16:26.960 videotaped this gang gangster that was out on parole and he couldn't be on camera. So these

01:16:33.880 girls were like, Hey, you can't record us. And I was, I smarted off to him. And then I was like,

01:16:38.640 boom. It was 10 girls and 10 dudes. The girls were, they were like, they looked like ninja

01:16:45.180 turtles, man. They had white tank tops on and they were ready to kill me. Like fucking Jabbawockeez

01:16:52.280 or something, huh? Something like that. Yeah, man. They were ready to kill me. And I got lucky

01:16:58.120 and got out of that situation. That was the first time I learned about double deleting on my phone.

01:17:02.420 I didn't know that you had to delete it twice to make it go away. They made you do it? Yeah,

01:17:07.080 right in front of them and one dude kept kept me from getting killed by the others it was uh that

01:17:13.380 was an intense situation was my two buddies that were with me we can all fight we love fighting

01:17:18.700 but 20 of them and and three times the dude came up behind me trying to stab me bro and I just

01:17:25.980 turned around at the last minute and my buddies were tripping on acid dude they they could not

01:17:31.140 I could not believe that they were going through this tripping why did they want to do acid if y'all

01:17:35.820 getting attacked or whatever we met up that night they didn't take it as soon as they started getting

01:17:41.180 attacked oh they didn't know no they were tripping already and then we were walking down we were

01:17:46.140 walking down the street and i just made this video and caught these people so i wasn't tripping but

01:17:52.320 they were and i could not believe it that they went through that while tripping because we all

01:17:58.200 we we were all able to handle ourselves but it was a bad situation but i'll never

01:18:05.820 forget turning around and almost seeing myself get stabbed like three times that wasn't even a

01:18:10.720 prank I was just making a street video which I do sometimes I'll just record like that you know

01:18:16.280 just visuals and I'll throw music to it but yeah um and there's a lot of pranks I'll catch couples

01:18:23.380 cheating and they'll tell me in my dms to please take it down you know and it's like yeah there's

01:18:30.700 there's a lot of interesting things over the years you know what's another uh of your favorite

01:18:37.380 stories from pranking um favorite stories it's probably i lived in this high-rise building

01:18:46.440 downtown columbus when i got ended up getting divorced in 2023 and that was kind of where

01:18:52.040 johnny hamchick um became really popular it was like late 22 23 but i had this neighbor who was

01:19:00.620 worked at the prosecutor's office he was an attorney or something and I was I went live

01:19:05.960 on TikTok that night and it was like one in the morning and I was playing my own music

01:19:11.880 and he comes over and he pounds on the door and I was like I think I hear something I was like

01:19:18.440 live in front of all the people and I you weren't in disguise no no no no I don't when I do live I

01:19:25.780 just show POV still, you know, at that time, but it was my neighbor and he became, he comes over.

01:19:32.500 He's like, I can't sleep. I can't sleep. And I was like, I was like, what do you mean? He's like

01:19:37.300 the base, the base is pounding through the walls, you know? And, uh, I was like, it's not me. And

01:19:44.840 he's like, it's like one 30 in the morning. It had to be me. Um, Kevin, there he is. So I took

01:19:51.860 him a grapefruit to make peace and the smile that he has when I he says I'll buy you these

01:19:59.260 headphones and I was like I was like would you because there's a pair at Radio Shack I've really

01:20:04.160 been wanting and and Radio Shack doesn't even exist but he's like how much are they and I was

01:20:09.580 like five hundred dollars you you want to play that let's just play it yeah yes look if you'd

01:20:15.840 for the tv if you need headphones for it i'll buy it how much are you i don't want you to have to

01:20:22.480 do that but there's a really i mean there's a really nice pair at the radio shack that i've

01:20:27.920 been trying to get in they're like i think it's like 500 bucks the radio shack brand

01:20:37.360 i brought this as a piece off you know kevin i just don't want to have any trouble man you guys

01:20:42.960 Yeah, they're really nice.

01:20:44.680 But we just, I realize your schedule's going to be different during the summer.

01:20:48.900 I know that.

01:20:49.880 But it's just been brutal the last three months.

01:20:54.500 And what type of music are you playing?

01:20:56.840 I make beats, and I've been doing, I mean, I was in a rock band for years,

01:21:01.580 but I got into making beats in 2006.

01:21:07.100 Were you used in two at the time?

01:21:10.680 It depends.

01:21:11.780 My life has been in and out of rehab, like, forever.

01:21:15.660 Because a lot of times people that are making beats are using.

01:21:17.700 Yeah.

01:21:18.600 You know, not to play.

01:21:19.420 No, but my best stuff came when I was fresh out of rehab, man.

01:21:23.120 I had all this energy.

01:21:24.480 Oh, yeah.

01:21:24.640 Yeah, so.

01:21:25.420 Oh, that rehab fire, bro.

01:21:26.920 Dude, I'm telling you, man.

01:21:28.500 There's nothing like it.

01:21:29.880 I mean, so grateful.

01:21:31.280 Yeah, sometimes you'll go to do 30 days in rehab just to get that seven hours of feeling like you can make anything happen.

01:21:37.820 You do.

01:21:38.640 like it's it's a shame but you feel it's called a pink cloud is what they call it and it's real

01:21:43.960 because this pastime when I just quit smoking weed and drinking a few months ago almost three

01:21:50.500 months and I mean I was on a pink cloud for a while and then like life just hits you and like

01:21:56.180 every day every day is not as glorious as it was but somebody spray paints it or whatever on your

01:22:03.180 ford taurus and then shit starts getting shaky yeah yeah story of my life you still drive that

01:22:10.400 taurus it got repossessed damn not by the police but i had a neighbor that was like a seancer or

01:22:17.180 whatever but she uh she put like a spell on her fucking spell on it and that and dude it worked

01:22:24.280 bro she put a spell on that bitch dude or a hex or whatever it's called like an unpositive spell

01:22:29.660 and bro that bitch shut down bro and it would shut down i think she probably had like a replica

01:22:37.320 of it at home and she would put a pin in it or whatever like she had one of those uh

01:22:41.160 what's it called voodoo dolls like a voodoo car doll yeah that's a great idea she had a voodoo

01:22:47.480 car dude and every time she'd put a pin in that bitch it would shut down bro dude that reminds me

01:22:52.520 of my dad bro when we were kids the hood on his car weighed i think almost 17 000 million pounds

01:22:58.360 right so we'd open that thing up and he would just get in there and the engine would be everything

01:23:02.860 would be spinning he had like fan belts hooked to the everything the radio everything dude and uh

01:23:09.400 he would get under there and just spray wd-40 under the whole thing like this bro to spray

01:23:14.460 keep it going bro dude did you uh do you guys have nice cars when you're young

01:23:22.740 No, no, no, no, no.

01:23:24.640 My mom had a Dodge Neon.

01:23:26.080 I'd go sleep in it at night.

01:23:27.360 It was so nice.

01:23:28.760 Pull it up.

01:23:30.260 It was purple, semi-purple.

01:23:31.600 Dodge Neon?

01:23:32.600 Yeah, remember them?

01:23:33.360 Oh, hell yeah.

01:23:34.500 They were nice.

01:23:35.300 I sold tons of those, man.

01:23:37.780 Yeah, pull that bottom left one right there.

01:23:39.900 Oh, my gosh.

01:23:41.000 Mom got that bitch.

01:23:41.740 I'd go sit in and put the seat down, and I'd sleep in that bitch at night.

01:23:45.040 It was nicer than being in our house.

01:23:46.560 Are you serious?

01:23:47.240 In our apartment, yeah.

01:23:48.260 Damn.

01:23:48.700 That bitch was so nice, and it had, like, multicolored fabric on the seat.

01:23:52.060 or whatever it was nice yeah i remember those i mean i sold cars since 94 95 so i haven't heard

01:23:59.600 the neon i haven't heard the dodge neon forever they got discontinued i think they were flammable

01:24:04.520 i don't know if that's true but they were pretty semi-flammable they were catching on fire for a

01:24:08.360 while yeah and people were like that's for god or whatever and i was like i don't think that has

01:24:13.020 nothing to do with god or whatever god's lighting them up yeah he should burn a lot of other cars

01:24:19.700 too then my dad brought home the eagle premiere man really and he bought it without my mom and

01:24:26.220 i know how that is like when a man goes and buys a car without the wife that's crazy story is i

01:24:32.800 broke the antenna off right that night man he was so pissed i was just playing you know and it was

01:24:39.120 one of those he beat my ass after that i'll never forget but um it had power windows i'll never

01:24:46.620 forget the first car with power windows you know we thought we were doing something man oh my dream

01:24:51.880 in life was to have a sunroof oh yeah it's so funny dude thousands on the stupidest things like

01:24:57.860 minivans with sunroofs like people are just you're so cool driving down the road and with the five

01:25:03.280 thousand dollars extra um what's the biggest racket in auto in auto sales what's like one of

01:25:09.980 the biggest rackets oh man it's it's the it's the warranties on the back and the in the finance

01:25:17.020 office 100 it's uh you don't need them on a lot of cars and then a lot of them that they sell

01:25:26.140 i mean um they don't really cover cover it when something happens so it's a it's a big uh

01:25:32.960 it's a big thing in the car business that's where you make all your money at though on the warranty

01:25:37.580 Yeah, on the warranty, yeah.

01:25:39.500 And what about that rubberized,

01:25:41.100 and they used to rubberize the bottom or whatever?

01:25:43.080 Yeah, the clear, what was it called?

01:25:45.020 A clear coat.

01:25:45.580 Yeah, they had a Z-bar and shit, right?

01:25:48.340 They put what?

01:25:48.860 Yeah, they called it Z-bar or under, yeah, undercoating.

01:25:52.580 I don't know, that was,

01:25:54.240 I think that was more in the 80s and shit, to be honest.

01:25:56.860 I think they started putting that shit on everything.

01:25:59.840 A clear coat your fucking cousin in that bitch for $30, bro.

01:26:03.060 Yeah.

01:26:04.500 They light the hood on fire and shit nowadays, man.

01:26:07.480 The Asians, bro, would do that when I was in college.

01:26:10.560 They'd light the hood on fire and drive real fast.

01:26:13.560 Really?

01:26:14.500 Yeah.

01:26:15.080 No way.

01:26:15.940 Yeah.

01:26:16.280 That sounds awesome, especially if you're tripping.

01:26:18.860 It was like a crispy rice rocket or whatever it was called.

01:26:21.680 Really?

01:26:22.120 Yeah, pretty cool.

01:26:23.100 Pretty cool shit.

01:26:24.620 Dude, that reminds me of when I was in D.C.

01:26:27.960 You ever seen the show The Wire?

01:26:30.260 Oh, yeah, that Baltimore show or whatever?

01:26:31.780 Yeah, yeah.

01:26:32.620 It was about the dope game in Maryland, I think.

01:26:36.980 And I was doing good in Washington, D.C. for a while.

01:26:43.080 And then when I relapsed, man, I was going into the most dangerous ghettos in the country.

01:26:47.280 This is back when D.C.

01:26:48.400 This is 2002, but I have a dope dealer in my car, and here comes this cop cruising slow.

01:26:56.220 And the dope dealer would be like, put your seat back.

01:26:59.120 So we'd both put our seats all the way back.

01:27:02.120 Like, there's no seats in the car.

01:27:03.860 and just close our eyes while the cop went real slow.

01:27:08.140 So he's just looking at a car like, no seats in that one.

01:27:12.480 Everything looks normal here.

01:27:14.640 And it worked, but they were used to it.

01:27:17.660 They're like, put your seat back.

01:27:18.820 So both seats are all the way back.

01:27:20.140 You don't see any of the headrests.

01:27:21.380 Yeah, there's no headrests at all.

01:27:22.580 And I just thought that was the craziest shit, man.

01:27:24.860 I love that shit, dude.

01:27:26.160 God.

01:27:26.620 No, that was nuts because it was just like the show The Wire.

01:27:30.060 I'd walk up in sandals, dude, and, you know, I'm a mark just waiting to get killed.

01:27:37.900 And were you pranking or were you scoring dope?

01:27:39.740 No, no.

01:27:40.140 I was just trying to buy dope, man.

01:27:42.300 What were you on at the time?

01:27:43.520 What were you using?

01:27:43.800 So I was a heroin addict, and then I was trying to find heroin, and I couldn't find heroin.

01:27:50.440 And I was like, give me the next best thing.

01:27:52.180 And I started smoking crack in D.C., man.

01:27:54.920 Crypto?

01:27:55.620 Crypto crack, yeah.

01:27:56.840 It's just crypto.

01:27:57.600 I started smoking crypto in D.C.

01:28:00.060 And, uh, yeah, man, you did. So, and it was one night you were trying to buy heroin. You couldn't

01:28:05.440 find it. Yeah. And you settled for some crack. Yeah. I always wanted to smoke crack, man. What

01:28:10.120 is it like? Well, I can never do it without heroin. It's an explosive buzz. I hate, I hate

01:28:16.860 speed buzzes really myself. I'm a, I like to be relaxed, you know, like, yeah, yeah. That's why

01:28:24.460 I liked, uh, opiates, you know, that's why I liked dope. And, um, but when you combine the two,

01:28:30.300 it's just an explosive buzz. I used to dial 911 on my phone, man. Didn't have it ready thinking

01:28:36.860 that if I start, if I start dying, I can still hit the button, you know, like I swear. I mean,

01:28:42.580 cause I used alone, you know, in the garage, you know, I mean, my wife would go to work. I'd be

01:28:47.560 off dude i mean addiction took me some really low places um but we don't have to get into that it's

01:28:55.260 i mean i don't care i'm cool with talking about it all but uh were you ever using and also in

01:29:00.640 between times when you were filming like were both things happening in your life at the same time

01:29:04.960 like you ever get so high you thought you were filming somebody so like you get fucking confused

01:29:08.920 that you you don't even know who's being pranked or what's going on i was um i i relapsed in after

01:29:15.960 13 years sober, I had a surgery and ended up taking painkillers again. And this was while I

01:29:23.640 was ham check, you know, this was while in 2023 and kind of the prime of ham check, I, uh, I

01:29:30.640 started getting strung out again, you know, and I was, I was, I was out there pranking, um, on high

01:29:38.160 on, you know, on pills that were laced with fentanyl and shit, you know, and, uh, we ever

01:29:43.240 doze off during a prank or whatever i don't remember specifically but dude i did doze off

01:29:50.920 i hit my head on the counter like so many times that shit was so stupid what counter what are

01:29:55.840 you talking about so i'd have my plate i'd have my plate up in the um cabinet that shit was so

01:30:02.620 powerful that just a grain like i'd buy 50 worth of that stuff and of what a fentanyl fentanyl yeah

01:30:08.960 And it would, it would be white powder and I would just the tiniest little speck would get me high for all day, you know, because I had been clean for 13 years, you know, and, uh, but you, you end up falling, falling, falling over.

01:30:27.520 So I'd have the cabinet door open and, and then you just like, you start, you just fall

01:30:33.640 and I'd hit my head on the sharp part of the cabinet.

01:30:36.860 Um, and I'd wear a toboggan to work, you know, like, and pull it down.

01:30:41.660 Like a snow hat?

01:30:42.860 Yeah.

01:30:43.060 Even in the summer.

01:30:46.620 Cause you had fucking.

01:30:47.740 Yeah.

01:30:47.960 Cause I had a gash.

01:30:49.320 Cause you had fentanyl head from the cabinets.

01:30:50.680 And it always gave me hiccups too.

01:30:51.780 And my girlfriend, um, my girlfriend would always bust me out cause I had hiccups, but

01:30:57.160 a lot of videos oh you mean fentanyl gave you hiccups yeah for some reason it gives you hiccups

01:31:02.220 and it was funny so there's there's some videos where i got hiccups i'm like oh man i remember

01:31:06.940 those days but yeah i had i did a lot of pranks while high but i'll tell you what when i went

01:31:14.260 went from no drugs or alcohol to smoking weed again because the first step for me going down

01:31:20.580 the bad road was i started allowed myself to smoke weed again and um and i was laughing at

01:31:26.280 my videos I was like oh my gosh this is now I realize you know all these stoners are laughing

01:31:31.040 at my videos it is kind of funny to watch them high you know but I couldn't make them high

01:31:36.180 because you're I'm paranoid you know I'm like you see the camera I'm like I'm killing all these

01:31:42.760 pranks halfway through the prank because I was like thinking that they saw the camera and I just

01:31:49.000 would hesitate I couldn't make good videos like everything went downhill when I started smoking

01:31:54.400 weed and drinking again because the best stuff that ham check did was during my 13 years of

01:32:01.380 sobriety like and i'm way sharper now you can think on your feet a little bit better you know

01:32:08.040 yeah um get your god-given abilities man to be able to those are really your best ones

01:32:13.720 yeah all that all the drugs did was give you bigger like even bigger balls and i already had

01:32:19.500 to just infiltrate some crazy scenarios because I was numb, you know, like, but one time I pranked

01:32:26.680 this guy in Columbus and he harassed my brother in North Carolina, like started all these death

01:32:38.640 threats. Like that was a crazy story because my brother called me in the morning and I did these

01:32:46.880 pranks where i'd ask people with how long it's been or like what at what point in their life

01:32:52.160 did everything go downhill and they became homeless here in columbus i've seen those yeah

01:32:56.480 but i never go i never actually talk to homeless people i go after i talk to people that are

01:33:01.180 obviously not homeless you know this guy he's this real short dude with um this girl who ended

01:33:07.960 up being like some playboy only fans model and he like sets himself up for the interview and

01:33:16.860 shows off his watch and he's like, makes this stance and he's ready. And I hit him with the

01:33:20.900 homeless thing. And he's like, he's like me, but they got so offended that they, they looked up my

01:33:28.740 name and then they found my brother's name who I followed my older brother. And, uh, they started

01:33:34.440 harassing him, like threatening my brother. And that, that, that was, that was when ham checking

01:33:40.420 leaked into my personal life and i was like i mean it's still very touchy you know i don't like

01:33:47.520 embarrassing people and i know that sometimes i put people's family on the internet and shit it's

01:33:52.440 not it's not always cracked up to be i tell you yeah that seems like the tough part did you are

01:33:57.620 there any videos that were really great pranks but you decided not to put them up because it was just

01:34:01.900 too much well yeah there's one in particular where i'm asking this guy my normal prank it's like in

01:34:09.440 the middle of the night is like one or two in the morning in columbus ohio and i asked people for

01:34:14.540 small favors you know and i asked him to help me get some jordans down off a power line you know

01:34:20.060 and and he says he he says no but i'll give you a blow job you know he's like i got nothing but

01:34:26.900 a mouth buddy that's what he said yeah yeah he said it he he literally the old bird feeder he

01:34:33.120 He offered to give me a blowjob like four times in one video.

01:34:38.820 Oh, yeah.

01:34:39.940 And it was a really funny video, and it went viral.

01:34:43.980 And then I got emails saying, hey, man, take this off the internet.

01:34:49.000 I'm going to sue you.

01:34:50.900 And I never pay attention to those.

01:34:53.480 I get those a lot.

01:34:55.540 But I do have a heart, and I started looking at the guy's social media,

01:35:00.980 and I saw pictures of him and his mom.

01:35:03.120 And I was like, man, this poor lady has to know that her son's out there

01:35:06.580 in the middle of the night asking people if he can blow them, you know,

01:35:09.900 which is just a strange thing to do, to ask a stranger, you know.

01:35:14.960 Yeah, yeah, I think it is.

01:35:16.800 I mean, well, I think some people, they call it like,

01:35:18.780 I think in the gay culture or whatever,

01:35:20.380 they call it bird feeding or whatever because my buddy's brother's gay

01:35:26.760 and he's been gay for a pretty good amount of time, I think.

01:35:30.200 It seems like anyway.

01:35:31.340 and he uh for halloween him and his buddies always paint get dressed up like bird feeders

01:35:36.900 they turn themselves into like they'll get like like kind of like a wood thing put on their head

01:35:41.280 with their face and it's like got a little thing where the bird can land it's like you know they

01:35:45.260 make themselves bird feeder they look like bird houses because the bird always has their mouth

01:35:49.560 open bird houses bro they look like bird houses yeah so your bird can land in there oh wow so

01:35:55.340 that's how they do it so i think it's part of that culture is being out at night looking for

01:35:59.340 those night birds or whatever maybe i don't know but um yeah that's but damn dude yeah that's so

01:36:05.540 the guy was offering you a couple blowjobs out there at night yeah and the video was very

01:36:10.840 entertaining but i felt a little bit bad yeah and then so i would take it i would take it down

01:36:16.840 and then i'd get things would get slow on the channel and i would i would say well we call it

01:36:25.280 The video was called BJ Balboni, you know, of course.

01:36:30.160 And things would get slow on the Ham Check channel,

01:36:32.740 and I'd be like, man, I need some action.

01:36:34.820 I need to grow these followers, man.

01:36:36.600 I need a viral video.

01:36:37.940 So in my head, I was like, release BJ Balboni.

01:36:42.180 And every time I'd play it, it would go viral.

01:36:45.180 And then he would email me again and say, hey, man,

01:36:48.060 I just started this new job, and everyone's coming up to me

01:36:50.960 saying that they saw me on the internet.

01:36:53.340 it is i mean people see themselves a lot on the internet yeah on tv yeah i mean because some of

01:37:01.620 it's kind of exploitive do you feel like that i mean do you feel like what does that feel like

01:37:06.300 i don't i look at myself like more of a journalist sometimes because i catch a lot of things

01:37:12.580 happening you know um that i just happen to run into and but i do i don't i don't always like it

01:37:21.960 It's definitely not that easy to do

01:37:25.580 because I have a really soft heart

01:37:27.540 and I don't like hurting people's feelings.

01:37:29.680 So I try to avoid that.

01:37:31.580 It's hard to walk the line of funny without...

01:37:36.300 That's why the construction pranks are so...

01:37:39.860 They're popular and they're very harmless.

01:37:42.440 Most of the construction bosses love it

01:37:44.680 and they're waiting to get pranked by Hamcheck with the chains.

01:37:48.880 I've had a lot of those.

01:37:50.580 With the six-inch chains or the six-foot chains?

01:37:53.140 It started with six-and-a-half-inch cables in the early days,

01:37:56.680 and then it evolved to chains, you know, and, yeah, it's now six-and-a-half-foot chains.

01:38:03.960 Has there been videos that you didn't put out that you're just like,

01:38:06.520 oh, something's too wrong with this or this is?

01:38:09.160 Yeah, I have a whole bunch of them.

01:38:13.400 I was in this one night.

01:38:15.300 I got this hotel.

01:38:16.840 It was late at night, and I was at the casino gambling all night,

01:38:20.580 And so I just booked this hotel in the worst part of town

01:38:25.180 I didn't mean to

01:38:26.100 $50 hotel or something bro

01:38:28.560 So I hear this baby

01:38:30.240 It's the biggest cockroach hotel ever man

01:38:33.400 This is a video I want to play one day

01:38:35.940 I'll save these videos for like certain times but

01:38:40.120 For your wedding or whatever

01:38:41.440 Yeah at the wedding I'll probably play this one

01:38:43.880 Because there's a baby crying all night

01:38:46.060 And I heard this baby screaming

01:38:47.580 And I finally looked out the door

01:38:50.400 like in the morning

01:38:52.440 and it was this little

01:38:54.620 black baby

01:38:56.240 that looked just like buckwheat

01:38:58.240 you know

01:38:58.740 and he was locked outside of this hotel

01:39:02.460 room man all night long

01:39:04.860 you think he forgot his

01:39:05.740 keys or whatever

01:39:07.300 those keys never work you know

01:39:09.240 that's probably the situation

01:39:11.000 dude how many times you get up to your hotel

01:39:14.140 and those damn keys don't work

01:39:15.540 and you got all your shit dude

01:39:17.220 I get so pissed

01:39:18.620 bro and this and he was just out there all night his his mom left his mom left him and i and so

01:39:25.500 the video is crazy because this crackhead lady comes into my room and i'm doing all this prank

01:39:31.560 on her she's telling me all about the mom that leaves her kid all the time and it was

01:39:36.580 it was the saddest situation and then i ended up having to yell at the um hotel lady because she

01:39:43.140 wouldn't she wouldn't call the police you know and the mom came back and i gave her a hard time

01:39:47.500 I mean, I got it all on video, but I recently got pulled over and arrested for smoking a joint in Pennsylvania.

01:39:57.620 This was like last year.

01:39:59.380 I'm still on probation in Pennsylvania, but I pranked the cops while I was doing my sobriety test.

01:40:06.100 Yeah?

01:40:06.500 Yeah.

01:40:06.880 Did they know it was you?

01:40:08.340 No.

01:40:09.540 And I've been waiting to release that footage, but I know everyone's going to get the body cam footage once they see and once I say this right now.

01:40:17.500 But it's still funny as hell because they're telling me to hold my foot up like three and a half.

01:40:21.700 I'm like, can I hold it six and a half in?

01:40:23.660 I was like, does Officer Balboni still work here?

01:40:26.080 And I literally got my phone back from him.

01:40:28.740 I got arrested, but I got all this funny footage of fucking with them while I'm doing my sobriety test.

01:40:35.060 They're like, how much weed's in the car?

01:40:36.580 I'm like, 2.83 grams.

01:40:38.340 I just bought it at the dispensary.

01:40:40.220 I knew exactly how much I had in the car, you know.

01:40:42.940 but it was funny that i was sneaky enough to um get all this footage of them while they were

01:40:50.280 making me do all the impossible tests by the way that nobody is gonna be able to pass yeah some of

01:40:56.980 it's like admit your grandfather's a or whatever and you're like what dude how did that become a

01:41:01.800 question yeah dude we don't even know dude we don't even know for sure that's it's like yeah

01:41:08.980 Some of this shit is crazy, bro.

01:41:11.060 It's impossible, dude.

01:41:11.520 It's like, yeah, name seven black guys you're brave enough to tickle or whatever.

01:41:14.760 And you're like, how can you even do that?

01:41:18.100 It's like impossible, dude.

01:41:20.280 It is, dude.

01:41:21.080 You know?

01:41:21.520 Name six friends of yours your mom would smash if you fucking left her home for the weekend.

01:41:25.460 You know?

01:41:25.620 You'd be like, who are they?

01:41:27.820 Roger.

01:41:29.160 Mike.

01:41:31.820 Damien.

01:41:32.620 Oh, yeah.

01:41:33.540 Of course.

01:41:34.900 Have you faced any lawsuits?

01:41:36.220 Have you faced any actual lawsuits?

01:41:38.980 Um, fake, just fake ones, you know, like people send, um, emails, but I ignore them and they go

01:41:47.940 away, you know, just like the bills, you know? I mean, I have, yeah, I, people, I always look and

01:41:56.000 consider, okay, so this pastor, this is a funny one. This pastor flips me off, man. It's, uh,

01:42:02.040 it's called the jaywalking pastor. I didn't know he was a pastor till his whole congregation

01:42:07.120 begged me to take it off the internet.

01:42:09.780 He made a public apology for this video.

01:42:12.500 Wow.

01:42:13.180 And I was like, no, if that's the worst thing you get caught doing in life

01:42:18.200 was flipping me off.

01:42:19.440 So he gets real mad.

01:42:20.440 I said, I saw you jaywalking.

01:42:21.860 You just tried it three times.

01:42:23.200 And this bus almost hits him.

01:42:24.860 And he has a Starbucks and he's on the phone.

01:42:27.700 And I'm like, you're jaywalking, man.

01:42:30.100 I saw you do it.

01:42:30.860 And he's like, nah.

01:42:33.640 He gave me the most angry bird ever.

01:42:38.640 And it goes viral every time I post it, you know.

01:42:42.720 The angry bird of Christ or whatever?

01:42:45.060 Basically.

01:42:46.920 But I just couldn't believe how that's not a big deal, bro.

01:42:49.880 If that's the worst thing that they put on the internet of me is flipping somebody off,

01:42:56.120 I'm like, hell yeah, you know.

01:42:58.800 Angry jaywalking past or throwback?

01:43:01.820 Let me see it.

01:43:03.640 It was a good one because the congregation begged me to take it off.

01:43:08.880 But I don't take off ones like this.

01:43:21.300 Sir, you're jaywalking.

01:43:24.160 I just saw you.

01:43:25.500 You did it three times.

01:43:28.620 Oh, sir, how dare you?

01:43:33.640 Come over here right now.

01:43:37.520 I want to have a word with you, buddy.

01:43:40.100 Does he come back over?

01:43:42.360 No, but I always like to talk to people about what they've said or done.

01:43:47.720 Then I get on a bus and make another little clip.

01:43:50.660 I said, did you see what happened to that guy?

01:43:52.880 But I will follow a lady that flipped me off two hours away to her job

01:43:57.920 and just ask her why she's so miserable.

01:44:00.620 Like I am the crazy guy that will have a conversation about your act, your craziness.

01:44:08.140 You know, I just love to make people explain themselves, you know, like, yeah, is that

01:44:14.120 what it is?

01:44:14.600 What is it about the pranking?

01:44:15.920 Like, what is it that you get out of it?

01:44:18.300 What is it that you're trying?

01:44:19.880 Like, you just said, like, I want people to explain themselves, right?

01:44:26.560 Like, yeah, I'm just, I'm curious about what that is

01:44:29.980 because it's hard sometimes to joke with people.

01:44:32.380 It's hard to keep a straight face.

01:44:33.420 It's hard to keep an energy of a prank, right?

01:44:35.500 It's really tough.

01:44:38.020 Yeah, to answer your question,

01:44:40.320 I just like watching humans in action.

01:44:43.780 Like, that's my biggest thing

01:44:45.100 is just watching the crazy things that humans do, you know?

01:44:49.620 So I like watching the reactions.

01:44:52.280 as far as calling people out on stuff like I'm going to ask the lady that sat me right next to

01:45:00.420 this loud table when there's 80 you know I but I will just ask people I don't want to punish them

01:45:10.180 or anything but I want to I want them to realize that it was stupid what they just did you know

01:45:15.560 and I want to ask like why they did it why are you so miserable you know and somebody's cussing

01:45:21.040 you out in traffic or something you know I just like to pull up this guy had a gun pointed at me

01:45:26.420 okay I thought it was his phone it was a road rage situation and he was cussing me out flipping me

01:45:33.940 off so I got my camera out and I started filming the early part of him cussing me out cussing me

01:45:39.400 out and then I followed him he pulls into this parking lot I'm thinking I'm gonna be recorded

01:45:45.580 I know the guy's going to get his phone out.

01:45:47.600 So I put, I put this hat on and shades and I put the six and a half foot chains around

01:45:52.880 my neck and I walk up to his car and I'm recording and I'm like, I'm like, dude, I'm like, you

01:46:00.000 think, I said, why don't you say that to me now?

01:46:02.080 You know, I was like, what, what were you saying back there?

01:46:04.460 You know, and, uh, I walk up closer and I think he's holding his phone, but he has a

01:46:10.020 gun pointed right up at the window.

01:46:11.700 I never touch people or invade their space, but, man, that was a crazy situation.

01:46:17.460 So I was just calling him out.

01:46:19.840 He pulled into a parking lot, and I just walked up to his window.

01:46:25.640 Everything's making a video, you know, like, and that's ridiculous, too.

01:46:31.960 I'm recording too much, man.

01:46:33.660 I got to take a break.

01:46:35.700 If you're going that far where you're pushing things to the edge,

01:46:38.340 like that somebody's actually pointing a gun at you?

01:46:40.580 Yeah.

01:46:41.020 and you're still right there did you keep talking i said are you you're actually pointing yeah the

01:46:46.120 video is pretty funny because i was like you're pointing a gun at me on this beautiful day i was

01:46:51.200 like get out of the car and give me a hug buddy i was like you need a hug so i kept going although

01:46:56.420 i was high for like two days realizing that i almost got shot in the face if i was an idiot

01:47:01.900 that touched people i don't ever do that right i mean i'm i'm i'm not like ever gonna invade

01:47:09.640 somebody touch somebody i don't ever do that but that's wild to think that like a few years ago if

01:47:14.100 you said hey will you keep pranking somebody if they pointed if they have a gun out you probably

01:47:19.420 would have said no yeah and then here you are at that space i knew it would make the video better

01:47:24.680 so i kept talking to him but i wasn't afraid but later on i realized that if i was dumb enough to

01:47:31.740 have touched that guy or gotten closer here he is you don't know look you know you three times

01:47:39.720 no i didn't i knew what i was doing you got a gun you're threatening me with a gun right now

01:47:46.220 i'm not threatening you with anything you're holding a gun sir you're the one that followed

01:47:49.660 me i asked you if you wanted to hug and you don't need a hug you have a gun right now

01:47:54.000 i don't need a hug just move on buddy let me give you a hug

01:47:57.720 people like people are so disconnected now uh dude the world's a mess right now bro but do

01:48:06.180 you think you're helping it here or do you know but he did deserve all i did was i was behind i

01:48:15.100 was just riding his bumper and the guy went crazy at the beginning saying fuck you you know just

01:48:22.320 effing me, flipping me off for, for barely getting close to his car. I didn't even touch his car.

01:48:30.420 I mean, in your car, it'd be a lot, but it was because I was distracted looking at my phone

01:48:35.760 and almost hit him. And he saw it like, you know, you almost hit somebody over and over again,

01:48:41.060 dude, I'm telling you, man, I'm going to take a break, uh, from, from all this stuff, you know,

01:48:46.100 It's been a long journey, and it's exciting to say that I'm going to do something different now.

01:48:56.280 What's the toughest part of the country to prank in?

01:48:59.280 New York is tough, man.

01:49:01.000 They've seen it all, and they're not having my shit.

01:49:04.160 I've still gotten some videos there.

01:49:07.360 The first Balboni Ben video was in Central Park.

01:49:11.540 New York is tough, though.

01:49:12.680 I get spit out pretty.

01:49:14.160 so it's always a challenge in places like that um la is kind of like that but i do pretty i do

01:49:22.340 pretty well it's these towns in the middle of nowhere the guy's got cows and horses and you

01:49:28.180 know you want to find some small towns in the middle of nowhere that's that's where i find

01:49:33.280 the best stuff you know well you feel like people have patience here they have time

01:49:36.880 yeah yeah people got time for you you know it's the thing that makes small towns great too

01:49:41.200 Yeah.

01:49:41.600 It's that people have time for you.

01:49:44.380 They're chill, they're laid back, and they'll give everyone the time of day.

01:49:48.060 You're right.

01:49:49.140 They'll listen to some stupidity shit, you know.

01:49:51.360 Are there some places you cannot prank because there are laws against it?

01:49:56.340 Well, apparently, have you ever heard of the one-party consent, two-party consent?

01:50:02.400 Yeah.

01:50:02.640 How stupid is the rule, one-party consent?

01:50:04.780 So one person in the conversation has the consent to praying.

01:50:12.340 A one-party consent law means that you can legally record a conversation such as a phone call or in-person talk as long as at least one person involved in the conversation gives permission.

01:50:23.240 If you are part of the conversation, you can record it without telling the other person.

01:50:27.360 You gave yourself consent, basically.

01:50:30.380 So you could be doing it.

01:50:33.000 They don't know.

01:50:33.700 It's okay.

01:50:34.780 right? Yeah. Uh, but out in California, like, um, apparently it's a two party state, I think.

01:50:42.500 Um, so you generally must be a participant in the conversation to record it under one party rules.

01:50:47.860 So I couldn't record two other people having a conversation secretly secret. Yeah. Here it says

01:50:53.660 secretly recording a conversation that you are not a part of is usually illegal. If you're calling

01:50:59.560 someone in a different state, the strictest law applies. If you call someone in an all-party,

01:51:04.880 which is two-party consent state, from a one-party state, you typically need permission from all

01:51:10.120 parties. I will say I'm banned from all the urology places in Columbus. I pranked my doctor

01:51:17.820 about the ball-dropping surgery, and it brings up a good topic because I was unsure if I was able to

01:51:28.460 record these real doctor's appointments, but apparently you are, you know, this, the big

01:51:36.040 wigs called me and asked me to take down these doctor's appointment videos that were some of the

01:51:42.360 funniest shit ever. So these were, this was my regular doctor that I went to urologist, you know,

01:51:49.160 and you know, being on testosterone, as I got older, you know, the doctor told me, you know,

01:51:56.500 you've done hard drugs your whole life you know you need to be on testosterone yeah your bags

01:52:01.100 cooked or whatever well yeah and I was concerned about my balls getting smaller you know and uh

01:52:07.400 so I was sitting there I was I just had the idea that I'm going to ask them to lower my balls for

01:52:13.120 me you know during my actual doctor's visit so it was my real doctor people think man you're crazy

01:52:20.580 you go and set up doctor's appointments to make pranks and I was like no I just prank while I'm

01:52:25.180 not my doctor. So I pranked this doctor so many times. The very last one, this is the compilation,

01:52:32.320 I think, is this, um, the very last one he said, there's one that shows them all. Cause I pranked

01:52:39.920 him over and over again, but at the last one, he goes, can you put your phone down for a second?

01:52:45.740 And he says, are you the one that put me on Tik TOK? But it was after, and I, I, I got banned

01:52:53.340 from a lot of urology clinics yeah yeah yeah but once again i want to talk to him about seeing if

01:53:00.860 he can get my balls to hang lower because i've been asking him for months and i want my balls

01:53:07.180 to hang lower you know because i don't feel like they hang low like they used to and all my buddy's

01:53:12.300 balls hang like way lower than mine okay what brings into that well i mean i've been talking

01:53:17.980 to you for a while about this and i don't know what i gotta do to get you to help me with it but

01:53:25.420 i really want my balls to hang lower like they used to you know my you know remember there's

01:53:33.260 gotta be a way you can drop him down a little bit right okay okay because my buddies their balls

01:53:41.100 hanging a lot lower than mine and and this is an asian doctor kit you can give me i'm pretty sure

01:53:50.220 i had never seen him till the last your balls barely

01:53:59.020 let's take a look is there any way i can get my balls lowered this i heard that people are doing

01:54:04.140 that now uh i don't know i've not heard that surgery um some of my buddy's balls hang a lot

01:54:09.660 lower than mine you know and i just want to make sure that you know we're all on the same this is

01:54:14.220 my general practice people have uh larger scrotums the longer scrotums and so it allows for the ball

01:54:20.140 of the balls the testicles to come down further and then some people don't have as low or don't

01:54:26.460 have as kind of loose of a scrotum yeah so and everybody's different and there's no right way or

01:54:32.460 wrong way nice fresh blend you got there I'm still trying to get my balls

01:54:51.740 lowered you know like I'm trying to get them dropped a couple inches you know

01:54:55.700 like we were talking about last time okay remember yeah you said you might be

01:55:04.100 able to lower them a little bit let's take a look okay here's the thing maybe I could get

01:55:09.820 a smooth dowel because some of my buddy's balls are a little bit smoother than mine I have a lot

01:55:16.680 of wrinkles let me take a look okay but remember I talked to you about the lowering my balls a

01:55:25.020 little bit. Can you put the phone down? Yeah. Are you the one that put me on TikTok?

01:55:35.900 Wow. What did he say? Was he hurt by it? Yeah. Oh yeah. He said, are you the one that put me on

01:55:42.300 TikTok? And I denied it of course, and got through the appointment, but they called me up to like

01:55:47.800 CEO and, and I got a letter in the mail saying I can't go to any of the Ohio health or whatever.

01:55:53.900 but the funniest part about the first one when i when i quit recording he says the first thing i

01:56:00.140 want to tell you is stop looking at your buddy's balls and i was like man if i would have got that

01:56:05.480 i just didn't get that but i tell the story it was the funniest shit ever and did you ever did

01:56:10.200 you have to show him your balls actually sometimes yeah but it's part of the deal i get i mean i show

01:56:14.300 my balls to the doctor you know but i don't care and i never got an extra appointment for a video

01:56:20.300 Yeah.

01:56:20.620 I just went to my appointments.

01:56:22.600 Natural appointments.

01:56:23.520 Yeah, and then kept making videos at the appointments.

01:56:26.260 And then it's balling out, dude.

01:56:28.540 In the United States, recording laws are divided into two-party consent states where every participant must consent to being recorded and a one-party consent state where only one participant needs to agree.

01:56:38.460 In these states, you generally need the consent of every person involved in a private conversation or phone call to record it legally.

01:56:44.760 California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington.

01:56:53.860 Those are two-party?

01:56:55.060 Those are two-party.

01:56:55.760 Oh, shit.

01:56:57.660 I'm breaking some laws out there.

01:57:00.040 Yeah.

01:57:00.500 One-party consent states Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Tennessee is on there, Idaho, Hawaii, Indiana, Georgia, D.C., Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi.

01:57:12.660 Wow.

01:57:13.100 Ohio's got to be down there.

01:57:14.760 yep there it is there it is the dakotas and there's others too all the all the rest of them

01:57:19.260 we didn't name in the two party huh i just find it funny one party i mean come on one person

01:57:26.040 of the two and it's the one recording yeah giving yourself consent it's stupid yeah how do you how

01:57:32.760 do you figure that out for yourself because it is kind of like i mean if something really hurts

01:57:36.920 somebody's feelings would you do you feel okay leaving it up like yeah what is your i guess

01:57:42.240 what do you feel about it? I'm just doing it Wild West style, man. I mean, I'm waiting for

01:57:46.860 trouble and I know that it's coming, you know, I'm just used to, I mean. Like, what do you mean

01:57:54.060 it's coming or whatever? Well, if somebody is upset, I consider, I take it into consideration,

01:58:00.540 you know, um, like I pranked this, um, transgender therapist in Columbus, Ohio. I did. I told her

01:58:10.260 that her dogs weren't picking up the poop. And she went crazy on me and yelled at me and then

01:58:17.760 made all these TikTok videos about me. But she never once asked me to take it down. If she would

01:58:25.220 have asked me to take it down, I would have. I didn't want to embarrass her or whatever. She's

01:58:30.220 like, that was a very controversial video. I quit looking at the internet for a while because I had

01:58:36.420 a whole group of people get sending me death threats and stuff like that you know is there

01:58:42.240 something about the stress of it about that like that you like that like that's what i'm wondering

01:58:46.220 it's interesting because dude that sounds horrifying to me like somebody's like man i

01:58:51.380 hate that you just this is messed up like you're taking or you i don't like the way you're making

01:58:56.340 me look you know i'm saying like like i don't know even for myself like one time i saw somebody

01:59:00.580 made a video I was just walking by like I was walking by a place I'd eaten at or something

01:59:06.600 and somebody made a video of me just walking by right and they're like oh I just saw Theo

01:59:10.360 Vaughn walk by looks like he's having the worst day ever man hope he's okay right that's

01:59:14.420 what it said and dude I that had been like two hours earlier in my day I saw that on

01:59:19.080 TikTok and I was having the best day yeah and it was like fuck dude now but like people

01:59:24.500 are like man hope he's okay then people are like man hope he's not overdosing or something

01:59:28.160 First of all, I wouldn't be walking by with both of my shoes on or whatever and a hat

01:59:33.380 if I was overdosing probably, but it was just like all this shit.

01:59:36.840 I'm like, what the fuck, dude, I'm having a nice day.

01:59:38.860 And just cause some asshole wants to fucking put me like that.

01:59:41.920 It makes me like, it didn't really, it didn't really bother me.

01:59:44.780 It was just the inner inch.

01:59:46.320 It was intriguing to me.

01:59:47.400 Like it made me like a little bit like, okay, well people can kind of film you whenever,

01:59:51.180 which I didn't really love, but it's like, um, I don't know.

01:59:55.140 It was just like, fuck, I'm having a good day.

01:59:57.040 and then I see this and I'm like, fuck.

01:59:59.200 I don't like it, Theo.

02:00:00.520 I'll be honest.

02:00:01.480 I mean, that's why I'm kind of,

02:00:03.700 I wish I had something else to fall back on

02:00:05.820 because like I said,

02:00:07.260 you can't just keep doing this shit.

02:00:09.040 I'm lucky I've gotten away with it

02:00:10.620 and survived five years of doing this,

02:00:13.760 but I really feel bad for people.

02:00:16.980 I want everyone to not ever be,

02:00:19.520 like I use,

02:00:20.460 people don't see what I do off the camera.

02:00:22.580 I'll stop these people and tell them I was joking.

02:00:24.860 I do not let somebody go away feeling like I just called them homeless because what they wear

02:00:30.060 I just I'm not the one that's going to show you when I give them money you know I hate when people

02:00:35.480 post giving money away just it just makes me sick actually yeah that kind of stuff's very bizarre

02:00:41.000 this need to like be I mean I don't know it's a need to be seen right but be seen doing something

02:00:46.360 positive like I certainly understand the need to be seen because because I mean that's what I do

02:00:52.560 I want to be seen.

02:00:53.880 When I was doing those stand-up shows, I would ask the audience as soon as I went out there,

02:01:00.020 okay, how many of you literally have no idea what you were coming to see tonight?

02:01:05.600 And every freaking hand went up, and I'm like, you guys, all you had to do is search a little bit harder,

02:01:12.120 and there's a million viral videos of people exposing me.

02:01:15.680 Somebody did that to me.

02:01:17.240 They posted me rapping at one of my shows.

02:01:20.360 I just found this two days ago.

02:01:22.280 Do you do stand-up?

02:01:23.640 I was doing it.

02:01:24.780 I was doing it, you know?

02:01:26.840 I was like, but, dude, these stand-up places,

02:01:29.500 they want you on stage at 7.30,

02:01:31.320 and they kick my fans out at 9 and shit,

02:01:33.700 and I was like, I wanted to hang out with everybody.

02:01:36.860 I was talking to every single person.

02:01:39.120 I didn't like to – I need, like, a three-hour venue.

02:01:42.080 I was having fun, but then, you know, I wasn't –

02:01:44.640 I'm not a stand-up comedian, but I was doing music.

02:01:47.540 I was showing unseen videos that nobody's going to see on the Internet,

02:01:51.760 and then I was doing questions and answers.

02:01:53.940 My fans loved it, but you always get the one asshole

02:01:57.080 that's going to make negative comments and stuff.

02:02:00.280 Why'd you quit doing that?

02:02:02.260 Or did you quit?

02:02:04.820 It wasn't worth the money, to be honest, man, and the exposure.

02:02:08.620 I was like, you know, sometimes I'd get like $1,500 or $2,000

02:02:14.120 and I got this crew I'm taking care of and I'm traveling all over

02:02:17.960 and it was a great show with 100, 200 people there

02:02:21.440 and the bar was trying to give me $1,500, $2,500,

02:02:24.460 and I was just like, it wasn't worth it.

02:02:26.860 Also, like, when people want to kill me,

02:02:28.680 I'm telling you where to find me, you know?

02:02:31.000 Like, so I was going to keep the lure going a little bit longer.

02:02:34.640 Oh, so you're almost on the run sometimes in a way.

02:02:37.920 Not really.

02:02:39.060 I mean, but in a way, I don't like telling somebody where to find me

02:02:42.980 when I do get death threats, you know?

02:02:45.020 It's like, I'll be here at 7.30 on stage, so you bring your gun.

02:02:49.060 And I pranked these Chicago police officers, and they loved me.

02:02:55.560 The captain messaged me and thanked me for showing light on his officers.

02:03:00.300 And I was like, you guys can all come to my shows for free.

02:03:03.200 I want them in the audience whenever I can have some backup.

02:03:09.020 But, dude.

02:03:10.680 One video you did that was one of my favorites is the – because some of them are positive.

02:03:15.240 I mean, it's all lighthearted, I feel like.

02:03:19.060 And I guess, but I mean, I guess I'm not the, or the ones that I've seen have all been like

02:03:24.000 pretty just lighthearted kind of. It's just like, it feels like good fun. The one where

02:03:30.200 the, you brought the eggs to McDonald's.

02:03:32.420 Yeah. I just took that off recently because she said her manager saw it, but.

02:03:37.060 No, dude, that was one of my favorite videos, dude.

02:03:40.560 He pulled up at McDonald's. Tell me what, yeah, just tell us what happened.

02:03:44.680 Yeah. So I was at a rest stop traveling, doing pushups in the parking lot of McDonald's. I had these eggs that I had taken from my Airbnb and they were getting old. And it just, you know, it just came to me. I'm going to walk through the drive-through line and ask her if she'll make these eggs for me. That was enough for the video. I didn't expect her to actually make them for me and all that.

02:04:07.660 Yeah. And that video went crazy viral. She was loving all the attention. I sent her, I sent her a couple hundred dollars. And then like just recently, she's like, Hey, this is random, but my manager saw that I need you to take all the videos down. And I was just like, Oh, and I did it. I took them down, but I'll put them back up when it's time to release the egg video again.

02:04:34.100 it's almost like when things get slow i'll be whipping out those eggs again trust me

02:04:41.200 because it's like there is no harm in that and if mcdonald's is your main goal in life because

02:04:47.880 i was like hey if you get fired i'll give you a job doing something else you know but

02:04:52.520 and the manager loved it i had already told her manager so some bullshit i thought it was really

02:04:58.280 cool but yeah who knows what people are i mean like i thought it was super cool but i pranked

02:05:02.780 Addict here. It is right here. Oh, wow. That's still on the internet. Wow. Oh, yeah

02:05:08.420 It says brought my own eggs to the McD's drive-thru in Florida

02:05:18.200 Well, I was wondering if you could make me a couple egg McMuffins with

02:05:23.440 Brought my own eggs. I mean, I don't have any way to fry them. I was gonna use an iron

02:05:32.780 real i don't even need the buns i just just if you can just make six of them scrambled and you

02:05:51.500 can just throw the rest away nice to coma you're loving that i'm standing in line

02:05:58.280 He's standing.

02:05:59.180 I'm a big Toyota fan myself.

02:06:01.940 Girl, you better not get in trouble for this.

02:06:06.240 Uh-uh.

02:06:06.880 That's so nice of you.

02:06:07.960 Are you serious?

02:06:08.340 I can't give you the whole $100, but give me $70 back, please.

02:06:12.080 Okay.

02:06:13.060 Are you sure?

02:06:13.600 Yeah.

02:06:14.120 The internet killed me over that $100 bill.

02:06:16.300 You should have given her the $100.

02:06:17.480 I did inside, and then I gave her more later.

02:06:21.720 Well, you can't make everybody happy.

02:06:23.500 I didn't even have an extra.

02:06:25.480 I didn't have it like that.

02:06:27.060 I've never gotten ahead in life because of these videos.

02:06:30.780 Well, dude, you're making these obviously for the IRS, dude.

02:06:34.320 Everything is going directly deposited to them.

02:06:38.720 Fuck.

02:06:39.520 Oh, man, dude.

02:06:40.580 That is probably the nicest girl right there.

02:06:44.400 That's the sweetest girl.

02:06:45.780 It was a good one, man.

02:06:46.740 I love that idea that it got through.

02:06:48.960 Yeah.

02:06:49.180 It's funny.

02:06:50.360 One thing that you've done and that I like to do over the years, too,

02:06:52.920 is I like to pick up hitchhikers, right?

02:06:54.580 that's something that I've always really enjoyed you know just because it's a total

02:07:00.420 trying to think of what it is about it like let me really think about it's there's something about

02:07:06.180 like a weird thing of like fate or like just a rochambeau with the universe it's a gamble

02:07:13.040 there's something about it and uh I'm trying there was one I had I picked up a guy I think

02:07:20.100 I was in a Maui or something I'm able to find that is that even still out there I don't know

02:07:24.000 if it's out there but um oh here we go chilling oh shit boy one of my favorite outdoor animals

02:07:31.580 right here oh shit what's up player hey man how you doing chilling bro

02:07:36.980 good Theo man what's your name Josiah how often do you hitch bro I've been doing it every day

02:07:43.380 for five years gang really yeah oh yeah that's awesome bro that's fucking Maui shit that's dope

02:07:50.120 dude i used to love picking up pitch tigers in the states but they don't really let you do it

02:07:54.520 anymore you can barely even meet anybody have you ever been picked up by any weirdos uh only a

02:07:58.840 couple really and it wasn't like anything like right here like you know what i mean like weird

02:08:03.700 stuff like that it was more like i'm an alien this is where i'm from oh really oh cool any

02:08:10.120 killers or murderers there is but i've never been picked up by one there is catch and release baby

02:08:15.400 that's a wrap i let him go bro catch and release i don't kill bro that's awesome man i didn't know

02:08:22.060 you did that oh i've always loved it dude i'll tell you this this is actually a good story i

02:08:25.660 forgot about her i'm not i shouldn't tell you it's a good story because who the fuck knows if

02:08:28.860 it is people will decide but i picked up a dude one time and he uh and i just asked him about

02:08:35.920 hitching what it was like for him and who he's getting picked up by and he said well one of the

02:08:40.340 craziest times he ever hits the ride he got into a guy's car and the guy just starts flooring it

02:08:46.680 he said the guy was on the run from the police right so next thing you know he's getting they're

02:08:51.340 getting chased by the police for like 40 minutes you know the interstate does a hitchhiker no way

02:08:56.180 he's running from the law with the guy yeah he's running from the law with the guy and he asked the

02:09:00.580 guy he goes why'd you even pick me up he goes because i know this isn't going to end well and

02:09:05.240 I don't want to die alone.

02:09:06.540 That's what he told the guy.

02:09:08.620 Whoa.

02:09:09.280 And they fucking ended up skirting off the interstate into a cornfield.

02:09:13.260 And the police got the guys or whatever.

02:09:16.420 But that was – and the police pull up on him like,

02:09:19.300 what the – get out of the fucking feet.

02:09:20.660 He's like, I'm a hitchhiker.

02:09:22.100 So the dude driving actually ran for the hitchhiker?

02:09:26.420 Ran from the police.

02:09:27.240 Yeah, with the hitchhiker in the passenger seat.

02:09:29.380 With the passenger seat.

02:09:29.980 That's pretty dope, actually.

02:09:31.200 Yeah, you're just going gangster on it, man.

02:09:33.860 And going heaven alone sounds, it does sound scary.

02:09:36.640 I know that's why it's put together the way it is,

02:09:38.600 because you have to do it by yourself or whatever,

02:09:40.420 but it does sound kind of scary.

02:09:42.980 What?

02:09:44.020 Going heaven alone or dying alone.

02:09:46.200 Oh, yeah, yeah.

02:09:47.660 So bringing somebody along, like.

02:09:50.300 You might as well do it.

02:09:52.140 I'll low-key get it, bro.

02:09:53.420 Okay, yeah, I see what you're saying.

02:09:54.940 What's one of the wildest hitches you picked up?

02:09:57.400 Bro, so I had to tell the first time,

02:10:00.120 I hadn't slept in seven days.

02:10:01.840 I was kicking, I was going through withdrawal.

02:10:03.860 and sometimes withdrawal or use because both of those withdrawal when you're coming off of heroin

02:10:08.900 or fentanyl you get really sick and you don't sleep and sometimes i'll just hit the road

02:10:14.860 because being on the road is a buzz of its own it keeps me occupied if i get some coffee and just

02:10:21.560 drive i can get hours out of the way that i would just be tormented at home in a room

02:10:27.980 So I picked this guy up, and I always say, you won't kill me if I don't kill you, right, before they get in.

02:10:35.680 I always get a verbal disclaimer.

02:10:38.040 I get an agreement from them that they won't kill me and I won't kill them because I'm just as dangerous as they are.

02:10:43.440 They just don't know it, you know?

02:10:45.080 Yeah, it's like the Hitchhiker's Creed or whatever.

02:10:46.800 Yeah, that's what I do.

02:10:49.180 And this guy was cool for a while.

02:10:50.920 His name was James, and I took him several states away.

02:10:56.260 He did a dealership prank with me and everything.

02:10:59.180 I made him – he walked into a car dealership, and I did a prank with him.

02:11:02.840 But he ended up saying some freak stuff, and I was like, dude, all right, man.

02:11:08.660 Ride's over, bro.

02:11:09.980 Like some sex stuff or whatever?

02:11:11.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:11:11.960 Like he was trying to sniff you out or whatever?

02:11:13.660 Yep, just trying to make a gay comment or something, you know,

02:11:16.840 and I had to kick him out, dude.

02:11:19.140 And as I was leaving, he was dragging that suitcase on the next exit ramp,

02:11:23.780 And I said, you could have just not said anything weird, James.

02:11:28.960 I mean, it's like, because if it gets weird, you got to go, bro.

02:11:34.020 Yeah, it's tough.

02:11:35.160 It's also tough to ride around with a guy for a few days if you're gay and not flirt a little.

02:11:39.800 Yeah, I mean, yeah.

02:11:41.060 That's got to be hard.

02:11:41.520 I let him drive my car, and I slept for the first time in days, dude.

02:11:45.880 He hadn't driven in seven years.

02:11:47.520 I hadn't slept in seven days, dude.

02:11:49.960 And he was, like, loving being behind the wheel.

02:11:53.540 That was when I had the nice Lexus.

02:11:55.220 This is a $500 Subaru I'm driving right here.

02:11:58.200 Dude, that's cool, bro.

02:11:59.780 God.

02:12:00.360 But this is where I make him put the glasses on.

02:12:03.300 It's a great adventure.

02:12:04.840 It is.

02:12:05.460 You get stories, and you're helping somebody, too.

02:12:08.620 This guy had been walking for four days, and nobody picked him up, bro.

02:12:11.840 Really?

02:12:12.700 Oh.

02:12:13.900 How's it going?

02:12:15.340 All right.

02:12:15.840 How you doing?

02:12:16.520 Good.

02:12:17.560 All right.

02:12:18.020 More out.

02:12:18.700 Yeah.

02:12:19.080 Well, before you get in, there's a couple things we need to go over.

02:12:23.280 okay you ain't gonna kill me are you no sir and i won't kill you all right

02:12:29.360 is that a deal that's a deal you promise i promise i'm just trying to get home i ain't

02:12:34.080 trying to hop in you get you got to put them glasses on so i can keep an eye on you though

02:12:40.800 no weapons all right no weapons no sir all right man i'm trusting you

02:12:50.080 grab them glasses there in the door

02:12:54.100 Oh, these are nice.

02:12:54.700 If you don't mind, just put them on so I can keep an eye on you.

02:12:58.780 I've been out here walking for four days.

02:13:01.960 Today's the fourth day I've been out here walking.

02:13:03.480 It's easy to see him like that.

02:13:06.340 That's crazy, dude.

02:13:07.440 That's fun, dude.

02:13:08.500 This is fucking, that's awesome, dude.

02:13:10.240 Me and my buddy Caleb picked a hitchhiker up the other day, man.

02:13:14.020 Drover's just a lady carrying a bunch of stuff.

02:13:16.000 We're like, dude, we cannot drive past a woman carrying all that.

02:13:19.240 Oh, no, no.

02:13:20.420 So we drove her for a little bit.

02:13:21.140 You do have to analyze every hitchhiker, though.

02:13:23.120 Like, you're like, do I really feel like risking my life today or not?

02:13:27.500 Yeah.

02:13:27.920 Dude, I drove a guy one time to get a bunch of gasoline or something back to the family.

02:13:31.700 He didn't even say thank you.

02:13:33.640 And that still makes me mad.

02:13:36.300 That's crazy.

02:13:37.480 He didn't fucking say thank you, dude.

02:13:39.300 He should have gave you a Russian reach around.

02:13:41.360 That's the least he could do.

02:13:42.960 Yeah, he could have done anything for it.

02:13:44.620 He could have even just said even just something like thank you.

02:13:49.020 Yeah, dude.

02:13:50.020 But to answer your question, yeah, it's not always fun.

02:13:53.120 like putting people you know the videos yeah there's a lot of negativity to it believe it or

02:13:58.280 not even though mine are the nicest ones you see on the internet everyone's harassing people and

02:14:03.220 making them really angry well do you think it comes from like i'm just curious and i'm not

02:14:08.420 trying to put you on the spot or anything do you feel like i am i am on the spot and i like it it's

02:14:12.280 okay it's okay yeah it's fine do you think that it's about like we become like whoever's filming

02:14:17.280 becomes the the decider of what's okay you know i'm saying i'm wondering what like the psychology

02:14:22.920 of it is and you would probably know more than anybody because you've had like what is the

02:14:27.280 attraction to it overall do you think have you been able to think about any of that um the

02:14:34.400 attraction of it is just capturing humans in action whether it's bad or good okay this this

02:14:41.780 dope fiend comes up to my car but she was she still looked decent like but i saw her coming a

02:14:48.360 mile away and and by the end of the conversation she makes up this crazy story about crying and

02:14:56.480 everything about somebody at McDonald's and in the end I'm like you sure you don't just need this

02:15:01.500 money for dope and she's like okay I like I and it was beautiful because it was real I saw that

02:15:08.080 one okay so you saw that and that one bothers me in the recent repost of it I cut out so much stuff

02:15:14.720 that would make her look worse.

02:15:16.060 I just like to show that I'm from the streets

02:15:19.040 and I saw that shit a mile away.

02:15:21.600 But I know that I can be recorded too in those moments.

02:15:25.360 I'm prepared for the worst because of what I do.

02:15:28.720 Like, I know that one day, and that's why I'm like,

02:15:32.120 it's kind of nice to control this reveal

02:15:34.620 because people try to catch me and try to put me on blast

02:15:38.280 and try to capture me getting upset all the time.

02:15:41.960 And, uh, I mean, it's, uh, it can happen to me when I'm using dope, I could go buy it from a

02:15:48.940 prankster and, you know, I used to make up stories on the street too. I was the best. Oh, dude, I

02:15:55.040 made it $40 every 10 steps I took when I was on the street because I still, were you living on

02:16:01.960 the street at some point? I kind of, but I would like stay at a dope in a dope dealer's garage or

02:16:07.520 stay at some friends. I was never the guy freezing on the concrete, which really hurts

02:16:14.800 me to see. I always had enough, um, people in my corner or just the dope man himself

02:16:22.680 let me stay in the garage, you know? Yeah. Um, well, you're charismatic. I mean, if you, if you

02:16:28.340 have, if you can figure out people and you can navigate people, you can always survive. You're

02:16:31.500 a survivor. And I was a salesman already. So I would, when I walk up to people and I would be

02:16:36.180 like, Hey, you might help me out. You know, I didn't look like the typical addict begging for

02:16:41.600 change on the street. So they would be like, I got a 10, I got a five. I don't know, but they're

02:16:47.120 like, I'll buy you some food. And I was like, okay, that'll free up money for the dope. You

02:16:51.100 know, like I, I was a good, I was a good panhandler, but I was getting fives and tens and

02:16:57.400 twenties. And, um, and you were using at that time. Yeah. And my dumb ass would take the first

02:17:02.540 20 i got and walk all the way to the dope house instead of saving up like 300 just going a little

02:17:09.960 further down the street dude as soon as you get enough to get to the back i would walk miles back

02:17:16.200 to the dope house it's the funniest shit ever dude i was the stupidest addict ever i still am

02:17:21.980 i'm an idiot bro yeah dude addiction's crazy man yeah how did it did it affect your ability to

02:17:29.900 parent and stuff over the years like how was that did it get pretty bad for you in that space were

02:17:33.420 you always able to show up in those spaces well thank god um are you a parent yeah my son he's a

02:17:40.440 sophomore to Ohio State man yeah he's and he's a good kid my my my ex-wife was my high school

02:17:47.760 sweetheart and I always knew she'd be the best mom and she's we've raised an amazing kid and he

02:17:55.060 doesn't have so far so good he doesn't drink or do drugs he's the he's the one that drives his

02:18:02.440 friends around and he's he loves God and you know God first and stuff man so I'm so happy about that

02:18:08.540 that's a blessing yeah but he was a baby like one or you know one or two or just the the years where

02:18:17.440 I had to put him to sleep and like sleep and then as soon as he fell asleep I'd go and drive around

02:18:22.300 and get high like he doesn't remember those days I got clean in 2010 and stayed clean till 2023

02:18:30.260 but the gambling kept me from being present there was always this monster in my head saying when

02:18:37.680 can you go to Vegas again when can you when can when's the next poker tournament yeah and

02:18:43.180 so I look back on that and I'm like man even though I never missed the sports games and all

02:18:49.000 that shit the gambling still kept me from spending being present and being the person i like to think

02:18:56.260 i am today as far as like like i told you i don't have to tell my mom i gotta go just to go somewhere

02:19:02.780 you know like i can hang out and watch law and order with my mom for freaking days and just chill

02:19:08.420 with her you know and not man it's just such a blessing that i was uh i got it got clean again

02:19:15.400 you know

02:19:15.840 it's hard to get back in

02:19:17.680 it's easier to stay here

02:19:19.580 than get back here

02:19:20.680 right

02:19:21.000 that's

02:19:21.680 that's the most

02:19:22.480 that's the truest statement

02:19:23.620 I've ever heard man

02:19:24.640 I was thinking about that today

02:19:25.500 I was at a meeting today

02:19:26.220 I was thinking about that

02:19:26.880 I'm like god dude

02:19:27.780 I remember just like

02:19:28.960 and it's not long ago

02:19:29.980 I say I remember

02:19:30.580 but you know

02:19:31.400 it's like

02:19:31.840 I got like 77 days

02:19:34.260 or something right now

02:19:35.080 what

02:19:35.460 yeah

02:19:35.940 mine's July 25th

02:19:38.140 is it

02:19:38.600 I'm August 1st

02:19:39.540 you pussy

02:19:39.900 no wait

02:19:40.220 that was the day

02:19:40.980 I stopped gambling

02:19:41.860 I walked out of that casino

02:19:43.140 so my gambling clean date

02:19:45.040 is august 1st let's go that's awesome no shit um but yeah we just the organizing of things to party

02:19:52.840 to have a good to sit to all of it and it's okay it's okay it's no judgment against anybody or

02:19:57.980 anything but for me it just i couldn't work anymore and i'm just pray i'm able to keep it away

02:20:03.200 but also also dude somebody said the other day i was in a meeting i said i had to admit to myself

02:20:08.320 that i loved doing those things a lot of times i'll be like i don't love i loved having a good

02:20:14.380 i loved it that's the thing i didn't want to admit you know because then i can't really operate from

02:20:19.380 a place that's the true honesty i fucking loved it yes i didn't like the stress all the other

02:20:26.400 stuff that i don't even think about that's going on um yeah dude i loved numbing myself from

02:20:31.900 reality bro i mean it killed stress it killed everything and and then i like to feel adventurous

02:20:39.660 on it yeah people always said oh you're you have a hole in your soul and that's what you're trying

02:20:44.020 to feel. I'm like, no, I just like to get high and take a walk in the woods and trip on some

02:20:48.460 mushrooms and look at shapes changing. I, but I'm learning now that it's way more than that.

02:20:55.600 Um, but I didn't like to be handcuffed. I had to get high before I did anything,

02:21:02.020 even if it was just weed or alcohol, it was like, I didn't want to start my day until I

02:21:09.460 got high and being able to break those chains man and then the gambling thing too just i feel

02:21:15.660 i feel like i don't have handcuffs on anymore and it's the best feeling dude i'm so happy

02:21:21.200 for you for that i'm happy for anybody yeah yeah that just has like just to get some space to take

02:21:27.340 a breath um johnny hamjack what's what's next do you have a plan for what's next bro well i'm

02:21:33.700 actually working on a movie um it's been in the works for a while but I have uh they're getting

02:21:40.200 pretty serious about it they uh they said they're gonna start following me around with cameras for

02:21:45.460 a documentary here in a couple months so but I really don't know and I don't care so bright like

02:21:52.440 just being clean I can handle anything coming my way that's why I always during my sobriety as long

02:21:58.900 as I stayed, the number one priority for me is sticking to my, you know, getting, staying clean,

02:22:06.160 man. So I don't know what's next really. I mean, the pranks now are just organic when I see

02:22:12.880 something and I feel like making videos, but I'm not going to slave to the social media. I really

02:22:19.860 want to take a break. Actually, I'm really wanting to put the phone down for a couple months and I'll

02:22:25.580 probably do it after this podcast actually. How bad did the slaving get to be out finding videos?

02:22:31.320 Would you find yourself at like a crazy amount of time hunting the perfect video? No, it's pretty

02:22:36.180 easy, but the best ones come when you don't try. When you go out and say, I'm going to go find

02:22:42.160 videos, it never works. It's when I'm taking a shit at a restaurant and I see a fanny pack hanging

02:22:48.460 there and I know the guy's coming back for the fanny pack. And in my head, I already knew I was

02:22:54.160 going to start a tug of war video with this guy. So I get my phone ready and everything works when

02:22:59.960 you don't try. It's literally once I quit trying to squeeze onto things and accomplish things.

02:23:05.840 So I have no goals in life, dude. I mean, I'm 50 years old, bro. And just being healthy and

02:23:11.600 being around my family and just being a good person is all that matters. I want to do something

02:23:16.340 positive with this platform. That's all I want to do is, is do something positive with it, bro.

02:23:21.460 like that's the least I can do I've had the most fun ever because of Johnny Hamcheck but

02:23:28.280 I want to give back I want to do something with it positive man I don't know exactly what but

02:23:33.920 it's uh it's gonna happen you know hopefully well if anybody can figure something out it's you man

02:23:38.760 you it seems like you've lived a million lives man I think someone we didn't really get to talk

02:23:42.820 about um but uh yeah I just I can imagine that like I can imagine it's been a it just it's

02:23:51.400 sounds like it's been quite a journey man um and yeah dude thanks for pulling up today thanks for

02:23:56.500 just spending some time together dude it's so funny too dude the biggest prank of all is that

02:24:01.120 you say you have two ponytails in the back and you don't have i don't have one even you don't have

02:24:08.020 any hair yes one at one video recently the guy said oh you went completely the opposite direction

02:24:13.900 i was like and it is one of the funniest things and that's why i was happy to actually show and

02:24:18.720 And everyone's going to say bald bony on the internet, and I love that one.

02:24:22.780 One of my fans said bald bony, and I love it, and it's funny, and it's great.

02:24:27.440 I just don't give a shit, man.

02:24:30.420 It's all love and all fun and just, you know,

02:24:35.260 I'm probably going to take some videos down off the internet now.

02:24:38.420 Oh, no, did I make you feel bad about it?

02:24:40.180 No, dude, I'm just fucking with you.

02:24:40.940 Dude, I'm sorry, bro.

02:24:41.820 Dude, I'm totally fucking with you.

02:24:42.640 I don't know what's right or wrong.

02:24:44.060 Dude, I'm just thinking out loud.

02:24:45.920 I'm messing with you like you mess with me, dude,

02:24:47.980 like that fucking first conversation we had.

02:24:50.480 I don't know, like, I just couldn't keep up with you, dude.

02:24:53.360 You're a genius, and congrats on everything.

02:24:55.580 It's an honor to be here, bro.

02:24:57.020 I can't tell you enough how happy I am

02:24:59.720 to actually just reveal who I am a little bit, you know?

02:25:03.780 Oh, who runs this shit show, dude?

02:25:05.900 It's a fucking, yeah, I mean.

02:25:07.220 Dude, nobody knows what the hell's going on in this business, bro.

02:25:10.760 Yeah, bro, nobody knows, bro.

02:25:12.860 And that's life, dude.

02:25:14.300 It is life.

02:25:15.000 Yeah, dude, that is the truth, bro.

02:25:17.980 Nobody knows what's going on in this business, dude.

02:25:20.260 That is the truth.

02:25:21.000 Yeah, that's the thing that boggles my mind.

02:25:23.100 You're telling me somebody created all this shit?

02:25:25.460 Dude, we could talk forever about life, bro.

02:25:28.080 Well, we could do it another time.

02:25:29.280 Yeah, dude.

02:25:29.940 Anytime you want, I'm down.

02:25:31.320 But yeah, dude, I'm glad you're out there busting people's ball bonies, dude.

02:25:34.700 And it's fucking been an absolute blast to watch, bro.

02:25:38.560 Johnny Hamcheck, bro.

02:25:40.140 Love, bro.

02:25:41.300 Thank you, brother.

02:25:42.600 One love.

02:25:43.260 Now I'm just floating on the breeze

02:25:46.280 And I feel I'm falling like these leaves

02:25:49.220 I must be cornerstone

02:25:52.560 Oh, but when I reach that ground

02:25:57.120 I'll share this peace of mind I found

02:25:59.940 I can feel it in my bones

02:26:03.440 But it's gonna take

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - October 21, 2026

#691 - Johnny Hamcheck

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