Chop and Steele

March 21, 2017 2:01 PM

The Fake Strongmen of Morning News Explain How They Get Away with It -- A chat with Chop and Steele.
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates (7 comments total)

I'm pretty sure it's not that the hosts think these guys are authentic in some way. That's pretty obvious. I think it goes something like this:

That's really goofy. Are they entertaining?

Yes. Yes they are.

Great. Put them on.
posted by Naberius at 2:09 PM on March 21, 2017

Reminds me of K-Strass The Yo Yo Master
posted by lkc at 2:17 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]

These guys were apparently also behind the K-Strass thing, lkc.
(But yes, the Yo-Yo Master will forever remain #1 in all our hearts.)
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:21 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]

And it says it right there in the article! That's why it all seemed so familiar. I think i clicked away trying to remember the yoyo guys name and then it just turned into a milkshake in my short-term memory.
posted by lkc at 2:44 PM on March 21, 2017

I love this in principle, but cannot watch due to sympathetic cringing.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 3:06 PM on March 21, 2017

Seems to have been taken down on YouTube, but there's another copy on the Found Footage Fest website.
posted by ectabo at 4:43 PM on March 21, 2017

You have to let life bounce off of you, right? And so we are gonna do just that literally, in a literal sense.
posted by Evilspork at 12:27 PM on March 23, 2017