Fitness Frauds Sued For Pranking Morning News

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this is chop and steal a strongman team

demonstrating their workout routine 10

mark at this point you're probably

thinking that this looks like a big joke

and you'd be right

it's easy to spot for most people with a

few exceptions chop and steal are here

in studio we basically travel around

doing strongman demonstrations

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infiltrating the Morning News seemed

like a harmless prank but one of these

stations didn't quite get the joke do

you understand that you are here to

testify as a defendant in a lawsuit

brought by great television Group Inc

for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud

you got dressed up for it yeah it's like

being in church where you want to save

so many dumb things and you can't from

the very beginning we saw this is a

really stupid First Amendment battle

Nick and I have known each other since

we were in sixth grade and we started

collecting videos I think like in high

school this is a recent find here nude

barbeque this is jingle cats the guy's a

genius he actually has another video

called jingle babies this just as good

as it sounds for the past 14 years have

been touring around the country with our

comedy show the found footage festival

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single finger coops the festival is

basically a guided tour through our VHS

collection these are videos that weren't

meant to be shown in public so there are

things like exercise videos public

access TV promotional tapes all your

ugly friends we tour a lot and early on

we started doing these morning news

shows most of these news stations they

just weren't doing their research they

would get our names wrong yeah and they

would forget that we were even coming I

mean we just hated doing these things as

an experiment we came up with the idea

to invent a fake character he's an

award-winning and master yo-yo is chase

Ross a yo-yo professional yeah be up and

down okay

okay our buddy mark he said he'd be the

yo-yo expert and then Oh mark has no

idea how to yo-yo at all nor can't make

it come up after it's gone down I know

his level of yo-yo yo-yo

it didn't matter we got him on I think

seven morning news shows we are giving

out yo-yos to the homeless we decided to

be dumb again and we wrote a press

release saying that Nick was a celebrity

chef right Nick like after he poured

like a smoothie with like chicken in it

would offer it to the news anchors take

a funnel that you get at a hardware

store put an old milk jug to the couple

look she had no clothes write it no

questions asked

huh in November 2016 we came up with the

idea to pitch ourselves as strongmen

what these things give me a heart attack

to do like I feel like we're robbing a

bank every time we get on one of these

shows

but better he posted some of the

highlights from our news appearances and

that's when we found out that one of the

news stations parent company was suing

us it was hilarious and frightening at

the same time now but like six months

later it's just frightening it's not

funny it's like yeah we're going broke

because students stunned to learn what

this federal complaint oh my goodness

pranking the media is nothing new it

would appear that the plane was shot

down by blasts the winds from Howard

Stern's ass what makes Nick and Joe's

case unique is that this is the first

example we could find of retaliatory

legal action being taken by a media

company I think what it was is they're

like we need to make an example of these

people so instead of spending that money

to train their employees about how to

better vent guests they are using that

money to pay a very pricey law firm to

to sue us we reached out to grey media

and were put in touch with their lawyer

after trying many times to arrange an

on-camera interview something unexpected

happened honey battery

all right everyone it's Joe and Nick

we're here because we have a big

announcement our lawsuit is finally done

we reached a settlement and we're really

really happy and we want to thank you

guys we went back to Nick and Joe to

find the reason for the sudden

about-face from our understanding

actually when they found out about the

peace and vice that's when they finally

decided oh this is gonna be very bad for

us they caved after a reporter from vice

news called the gray television I got 10

missed calls from opposing counsel and I

was asked if there was any way that we

could kill this piece they were

interested in settling before the piece

came out if I had speculated was to take

the teeth out of the piece so it

wouldn't run Gray's lawyer did not deny

trying to keep vice muses story from

airing they released this statement

saying in part that because in the

settlement Nick and Joe agreed not to

prank gray again gray had accomplished

its goals in the lawsuit to spin this is

them coming out victoriously getting

what they wanted is ridiculous the

amount that they got back from us for

how much they paid

I would say maybe they got 1% back yeah

naughty not even yeah they basically had

to admit in a legal document that they

are bad journalists they only took a

cursory glance that was as a quote so I

bet to why it feels like a win for us

but you can no longer prank great media

right yeah that was tough for us to

agree to in response to the defendants

criticism of Grey's vetting process

Gray's lawyer directed us to the

plaintiffs court filing stating that the

companies booking procedures were

consistent with similar programs if we

had hundreds of thousands of dollars and

had like three attorneys working on it

absolutely would take this to trial

that's the scary part for me let's say

somebody criticizes a person and that

person has a ton of money and lawyers

even if the person is completely right

about their criticism they can be

quashed we can prank other news stations

I think specifically Sinclair that we

should go after Sinclair stations next