Three years ago, a video of Rick Garnaas gyrating in a speedo became a minor Internet sensation. Here's the true story behind the viral video.
Hedo Rick, slightly more clothed than we've seen him before.
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In 2010, a video of a middle-aged man calling himself "Hedo Rick" gyrating poolside at an adults-only resort in a Speedo became a mid-level viral sensation. Not exactly Double-Rainbow viral, but it was featured on the Huffington Post and Tosh.0. Though the clip has over 3 million views on YouTube, information about the real Hedo Rick is scant.
So getting in touch with Hedo Rick was not easy. Rick doesn't have an email address or even own computer, though he sometimes has his buddy at work look up things online for him. I finally got in touch with him by having a friend of his give him my phone number.
It turns out I wasn't the first to track him down. Last October, Rick came home from a trip to discover some fans had showed up at his house while he was gone. "My neighbor came over and told me he had seen someone going through my mailbox," says Rick. "The guy says to my neighbor, 'Is this where Hedo Rick lives? We saw him on the Internet. We're from Washington and we want to take him to the Cardinals game tonight.'" Though he did not want his specific school district where he works as an A.C. technician mentioned by name in this article, his coworkers and bosses do already know about the video, and were amused by it.
