our dope zebra has been popping up in a lot of places lately now it’s time to come clean about the backstory I’m John Lamond errata from the Philippines let’s talk about that this episode is brought to you by mule makers of amazing musical apps for the iPad iPhone and now Android including zombify which is available on android download it for free do it you won’t regret it scared by new technology oh yeah it’s frightening ly awesome okay a lot of you have been asking on the Twitter on the facebook on our website just in person I’ve been singing the dope zebra everywhere guys did – somebody steal the dope zebra from you guys is that you in the dope zebra on this and that yeah LMFAO Billboard Awards I got it you know got a text over the weekend Billboard Awards did they take your dope zebra this is a friend of ours so forever so now we’re friend of a friend of mine oh but anyway I so much as accumulated in terms of dope zebra stories and you know what we haven’t talked about it just because it’s just been it’s just been happening so quickly and we’ve been working on other things but we thought we would at least since you guys have been asking put it all together in a chronological X Planet of format well he could be explanatory I’m gonna go explanatory it’s the first thing that happened is we were asked by the guys at small HD friends back in North Carolina on the company small HD they got they’ve won the crash the Super Bowl Doritos commercial contest a couple of times so they were making another commercial they wanted us to be in it they said we have a zebra costume and we love for you guys to come to North Carolina be in this in the commercial in the zebra costume great friends of ours they do amazing work we were like yes we’re coming to North Carolina let’s get in the zebra cops part of the process is you vote if you’re selected as a finalist in the crash the Super Bowl Doritos contest it’s depending on votes so you know we can help get you guys to vote if we’re if we’re we’ve contributed to the commercial so we went back to North Carolina and went to the Asheboro Zoo got in the zebra suit we were actually in the zebra suit for the commercial act commercial so after they completed the commercial there was this waiting period to figure out if they were gonna be a finalist and if we were gonna have to help them get votes once they became a finalist so we had an idea let’s take the zebra suit bring it to California we’ll make a video that hopefully will get a lot of views and then when you guys get selected as finalists we’ll be able to put this video out there and say hey go vote for this particular commercial that crashed Super Bowl we knew we wanted to make just a dance video with the zebra locked-off shot it’s all about the zebra doing these moves and we could we said you know we can come up with some moves let’s Google trendy dance moves let’s figure out how to do them because yeah just like in the commercial we were going to be in the zebra suit so we put on the zebra suit and we start trying to do the running man and in the running man and the running man and then we were you know all of a sudden I’m you know I’m down here like my head is in red but and Rhett’s head is up here in the zebra head and we’re both just sucking air like it’s just it’s suffocating we started realizing how first of all out of shape we were yeah second of all how few dances we actually knew and third of all how we can make a much better video if we got some guys who could actually dance and we got behind the camera and told them what to do if we directed the video so then we met Flitz and steve dancers who have their own channel on youtube comedy sketch channel shot glass films I believe is what it’s called yeah well link to that and so we had them over and you know they’re dancers they knew the trendy dance moves and they not only knew how to do them but they knew how to died while trying to do them in a zebra suit right so we started court we choreographed the whole thing based on okay they can do this move this move this move let’s put them together in this order let’s put them in a suit but we also wanted them to be able to stand up on it the zebra on its back legs and kind of walk around and dance and for that we got a stunt couple Rick and Stacy they’re married couple and they’re both stunt people in Hollywood and friends of ours is about we got them to show up and that’s where all the really crazy moves and you start thinking how is Red Power rhettandlink in that suit if I take this awkward it’s a little awkward well it’s a married couple inside the suit doing all that stuff and then we got Chuck to come get in the suit at the end and we took the the head off and of course Chuck delivers is his life you probably thought this zebra was alive no Chuck testa so we upload it to our Channel it gets a lot of views in a very short period of time and within three days after the video has gone up I remember Saturday morning we got an email from the producer of LMFAO’s next music video and she said hey we love your dancing zebra we love zebras we want to put the zebra in our next music video we’re shooting on the universal a lot this coming Wednesday can you guys bring the zebra and be in the video we were like yes so so we get flits and steve to get in the zebra suit but we said listen here’s the deal can we also be in the video I mean we’re not in the zebra suit but can we like show up and just make a cameo and be in the actual video tube can they want to be in your video and they said sure I mean they were they were they were great about not wanting to commandeer the idea of it saying hey you guys made this a viral video this is your dope zebra they’ll use a lot of zebra stuff in their video yeah they do so we show up the wardrobe person comes up to us in their life you guys need to put on some party rock let’s relate what our party rocket clothes so we go into a trailer and there’s a guy and there’s this racks of all these loud zebra print fluorescent party rock shuffling anthem tight clothes and she asked us a question I remember she turned her us and said well we were we said now we we want to be we want to be eye-catching in this video we want people to be able to see us you know just of like pop a little bit and I was kind of joking when I said it and she was like okay she was she was thinking and then she said I have just the thing and she held out two pairs of underwear with smiley faces on them and I was like oh yeah you want to see like where those on the outside of our jeans or something she’s like no I want you to just wear these just two guys in briefs and briefs boxer briefs and I said yes immediately and you said no no we actually said turned pale as a sheet we I don’t think that’s our style so we were able to mean I do have on briefs actually if I’m gonna be honest but you have stuff over it so anyway we got outfitted in normal party rock clothes we shoot the video we’re there until 5 a.m. we get there at 11 p.m. and we shoot this thing less all night long it is what you would imagine it would be shooting at LMFAO video and it’s just on the universal I just remember dancing in the back and thinking I am way too old for the it like I don’t even know how to look like I’m having a good time I don’t know it occurs me I don’t know how to party and then I knew that when the zebra danced I was gonna look right into the camera the whole time and not my head so I did that I got a little bit of that in there at the end of the at the end of that particular moment so we make a cameo the zebra makes a cameo well a little bit of time passes and all of a sudden we get a call from America’s Got Talent and they say hey we saw your video we’d love for you guys to come audition for the show and that was in downtown LA so it was pretty convenient so again we get Flitz and steve to get in the suit and course we wanted to be on stage – I’m not gonna lie we wanted to work ourselves in there again somehow without having to get into that you know death trap of a suit and but we thought okay what can we do how can we make this a bit that would work on America’s Got town we were not expecting to get past the first round we didn’t honestly didn’t even want to get past the first round right we knew it we’re just gonna do it for the fun funny novelty of it that became very apparent when we got our three strikes from the three judges within like 30 seconds of coming on stage but what you didn’t say that we were dressed we dressed up like zookeepers and acted like we had a why – animal that was gonna come out and then instead of a wild animal it’s the zebra and then he starts dancing and the crowd went wild at the audition the crowd what why but that the exes Rick came very quick from the judges that we kind of just stood on stage and Lee actually made the cut of a montage on America’s Got Talent that’s the only thing they showed half of my body all of the zebra and then half of my body is on television I’m off screen you have to get an extra wide television to see me in that particular shot actually that’s not sure but America’s Got Talent and that was tough I mean you just had to sit around in a room for one day to just be interviewed and then sit around all half the day the next day to wait to go on stage all to be in a montage for literally one second and it’s only half of you and I’m not even in it was only it wasn’t worth it wasn’t worth it it was wasn’t I wouldn’t recommend going on Americans Got Talent just to be the butt of a joke yeah a few weeks pass and we get caught by LMFAO again and they say hey we’re gonna be performing live on American Idol can you bring the zebra we’re like yeah we can bring the zebra can we get tickets for us and our wives to American Idol so we got to go to American Idol and we got to see dope zebra Flitz and Steve danced around up there during a live performance on American Idol that was very cool then a couple of more weeks passed and they said you know what can we just take this dope zebra with us on tour I mean because we’re having such a good time with him he’s great and and two days later they were leaving on tour so yeah okay so we so we’ve sent the zebra off to be on tour and then even this past Sunday on the Billboard Music Awards he our zebra was the star of the opening performance which was LMFAO’s medley performance on the Billboard Awards how good okay and now we’ve sent him out across the world are the zebra gets to see the world doesn’t that make you feel good right it makes me wish that we were still in the suit I hope he doesn’t pick up any bad habits well he’s already got sequined underwear that they’re making him wear which I so it’s been quite a journey I don’t know what kind of conclusion to draw from this but that I will say that there’s potential for a dope zebra sequel there is potential I think all hope and that is not lost the conclusion that I’m drawing is that I would have never at a million years guessed that it that much could happen from a two-person zebra suit dancing in my backyard I guessed it I knew it was gonna happen I would never have done it I didn’t think it was gonna be that awesome all right let’s spin the wheel and see how to end this episode good old zebra wonder where he is right now he’s probably curled up in a box in the bottom of the tour bus you’re in it to German you’re to my plane seat speaking of going on tour this is when you’re all you go into a plane and then you come to a row 36 excuse me sir what what I think that’s 36 there’s 36 B I think that’s my seat no 30 B that’s B is my seat let me see your ticket yes he’s 36 D yes you’re the thieves you’re D no that’s Abby that’s Abby’s or B as in boy okay B has two hops the D has one it’s like two D’s on top of each other yeah that’s a B okay well let me look let me look over here yes so you look 30 that’s B C D it’s okay I think you’re over there F sorry I know it’s a little embarrassing but you’re gonna have this I’m just can’t no I’d rather water there is a very large woman and next to your seat over there I don’t want to sit next no that’s it’s give me your ticket right quick let me take a look at it can you hold my ticket sir just goes home I just hold my ticket for a second let me hold my attendant I’m having issues with this jerk wait no I’m here yeah he said it’s still not it where’s red where’s red