Bussin' With The Boys - Shawn Johnson East & Andrew East

Episode Date: October 22, 2019

Thank you: www.regalrg.com  Anheuser Busch Ajax Turner  10 time gold medal gymnast, Shawn Johnson East, hops on the bus this week with husband/Journeyman long snapper, Andrew East. Andrew, Shawn, and Will discuss Shawn's experience at the Olympics, Andrew's odd NFL career, and how the couple started dating.East Family YouTube Pages:The East Fam TalksThe East Family Check out our sponsors:Regal Realty Group - Hunter BrileyPersonal 615-630-9735615-483-0856www.regalrg.comAnheuser BuschAjax Turner  Rate us 5 stars because you're for the boys. Website: bussinwtb.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/BussinWTB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bussinwtb/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BussinWTB/  Merch: https://hangtn.com/collections/bussin-with-the-boysFor more, visit barstool.link/bussinwtbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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let the group go and wait 60 seconds before the other group goes, dude. Because we were absolutely pissed at one point. When we walked up on a group and then the other group was behind us, like a little group sandwich. And we were like, yo, this is not spooky at all. Stop trying to fucking scare us. because this is now bullshit. Now I'm pissed off. But other than that,

solid 4.5 spook. It was actually, it was a really good time. The first one's a banger. A lot of people go. They're super popular. Look up Nightmare in Nashville. That haunted house is very solid. There's like four or five of them.

Reminder about the pod. These were shot ahead of time. I might have already said that. Again, CTE. I apologize. Our guest today, dude. Our very first female guest is none other than a of the legendary Sean Johnson.

And if you don't know who Sean Johnson is, number one, hashtag don't give, I respect it. But number two, you've got to get versed in who Sean Johnson is. She's an American legend. She's a gymnast who, you know, those a squad of like four gymnasts or that gymnast team, like back in the 2000s. I say 2000s. Like, it's still the 2000s.

The Olympic Games, a World Championship, Pan Am Games. just to give you a little background information. She's had 10 gold medals, 6 silver, no bronze, because she ain't about that life, dude. She brings home the hardware, bro. But she was part of that little dream team that was on every commercial, Wheaties box, everything known to man out there,

grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, standing at a strong 4'1 foot 11. She came on the bus, dude, and she's just like looking at my belly button on my head, just go take a seat over there, and your husband will get him in dad's chair right here. But standing at a strong 4'4 foot 11, dude, and an absolute stud was a prodigy at a young age. And, you know, we talk about her journey and how stressful and everything that was growing up and literally eat, breathe, sleep, everything, you know, gymnast or gym or whatever, you know, whatever you say there, balanced beam shit.

Her husband, Andrew East stud as well. He got my number from the boys out in D.C. the Redskins. He's a long snapper. He's kind of a journeyman long snapper. He's been on eight different teams, eight different teams in three years. And to give you guys a little perspective on what that's like, my man travels around and goes to a plethora of workouts for teams, right? He was on the Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles, L.A. Rams. Oakland Raiders again, Jacksonville Jaguars, Memphis Express.

So not even in the NFL, but the boys still out there grinding. Washington Redskins. All these different teams, man, in three years. And these aren't, I'm not even saying teams where he worked out. He worked out for plenty of other teams, too. And what I respect about him is I went when I was looking him up and on his YouTube channel, Andrew East, go check him out. And also the East family. They have like a billion subscribers.

And they're all about that ooey-gooey, corny, lovey-dovey stuff. But hey, I fucking respect it, dude, because they're doing the damn thing. But no, he kind of documents every time he travels around. So before he goes in and does a workout, he's like got his phone in his face and kind of backing everybody, hey, I'm traveling here this week. It's been stressful. You know, my wife is going through this. but I had to go here. He documents after the workout.

He's like, hey, I think I killed it. They said a lot of good things. He had to yada. He's like, hey, I made the team. And then literally like two days later, he's like, hey, I got cut. He's standing out in the parking lot, kind of talking about it. And just you're kind of on this journey with him. It was really cool to kind of watch and kind of get that perspective because when guys are kind of shuffled in and out and you're on the team, you're on the NFL team.

And you see these guys getting shuffled in and out. You don't think nothing of it. It's just like, oh, another face in their body, you know, another victim taken. but you kind of get some you kind of get some insight and perspective on what he goes through so go check him out he's also got a podcast called redirected very insightful he sits down

and has conversations and kind of where people redirect their lives and their process on how they became successful and just he sits down with a magnitude of people and it's really cool so go check him out but you know I'm going to stop I'm going to stop rambling on guys your dad

your boy your dad Taylor Luan your boy Com Nassu we love you we appreciate you guys are nothing but phenomenal keep doing your thing on social media for us give us a follow share our stuff shout us out do all that stuff we really we really do appreciate it go subscribe to our YouTube that's kind of the one we're

trying to build right now is that YouTube channel but again man guys much appreciated we love you we thank you and also you know what hashtag don't give it dude go be a fucking wolf today Blossie drop this beautiful piece for the boys Everybody spoke so highly you got there. Dude, I miss the boys at the Redskins, man.

We had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. And like Tress and Hop and Sundberg, like those were all like I rolled with them. I mean, really, everybody. I was there for like five years. So I was tight with everybody. I'm sure you got close with like Gabby. Gabby and Bree.

Yeah. Yeah, Gabby and Bree. They have twins now. Oh, my gosh. They came and stayed with us. They're the cutest old kids in the world. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah. I love those. your house though, bro. Without you even knowing it. Oh, really? Spot out east. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, okay. I just made that connection. Yeah. So that was the house I bought going into my last year. And, um, yeah, Hop and Gabby rented out. And I had went back to get furniture to move it. My girlfriend and I, we just moved out here on the West End. And so we were kind of gathering furniture and we went back and I asked Hop.

I was like, hey man, are you, are you the only one living here? And, uh, he was like, yeah, we have a couple of people that house sit for us, but it's just to look over the house. Yeah. And I was like, I mean, it seems like, I was like, are you sure you, I'm allowed to take this stuff? Because I was like, it seems like they're set up in the house. Like, I'll be messing a lot of stuff up. And how long would you stay with him?

We were, I mean, I was only out there for three weeks last season. So he housed us for like two of them. Yeah. I don't know who it was. It was like a buddy. And they had like their individual photos and couples photos in the bathroom. in the bathroom. Yeah, the babysitter.

And I was like, there's photos all up. I was like, I can't even tell you guys live here. I was like, so I need to take these tables and couches and beds. And I was like, are you sure it's okay? He was like, yeah, man, that's fine. You know, hop, super cool. And then like, fast forward a couple weeks. He calls and he was like, hey, man, I appreciate you kind of letting me know.

He's like, we had no idea that they were doing this. It didn't end well, dude. It didn't? No, so you sparked that whole chain of a man. I guess so. I didn't know. I did hopefully so. It had to be called out.

Somebody was like, I think I was talking to ionitis because ionitis was helping me do stuff. I was like, I think other people. Yeah, I love ionitis. I was like,

I think other people are living in this house and he's like, that doesn't make you feel a certain way. I was like, no, man, I respect the hustle. Like if Hop's like, if they're going and they have another couple in here

and they're charging them rent so then he can kind of finance my side of the rent. I was like, I respect the hustle. So I'm not going to get mad. He's like, dude, I don't know, man.

And then I kind of was telling Hop, then yeah, a couple weeks later, he was like, hey, I appreciate we had no idea that people were, that they were like living here full time like that. I'm talking photos, pictures. I was moving stuff. I was like, I feel bad about moving this because some people are like, like for sure, they're going to come back and like, you're in the hell. Did the TV go in the living room? Like a table, beds everywhere.

Didn't you walk in on the confrontation of it? Oh, yeah. We were there when the split up happened. happened with the roommates. Really? I'd never been a part of anything like that but it was crazy. Nah. Yeah it was like they were moving all their stuff out and they came back and like no eye contact made. You could tell there was a lot of salt in the room. You know, Hop and Gabby are just trying to play cool and calm and relax. Yeah, super awesome people. I love those guys, man. So then when you came, you came to the Redskins,

I even forget what happened. Like Twitter's just fun. And do you even remember, do you remember what we were tweeting or something like that? interaction I had I had some grievance against you will because did you because somebody tweeted out like I can't wait to see um Tress Nick hopp and Andrew East on the field uh in Nashville yeah and you were like yeah me neither dot dot dot but who's Andrew East I was like what's up dude you come at me man oh man and then I was like I sent the gift like I'm not calling him dad or something like that Cop you like them or something. Oh, man, I miss all those guys.

But, yeah, you were on the Redskins, and you've been on every fucking NFL team. But on a lot. You're like the Josh McCown of special of a long snapper. Without the Josh McCown, like, money and contracting here and then you're out. I know, yeah. I wouldn't mind that part of it. But we've had some good times. We've had some great times.

Yeah. We've been all over. We moved to Oakland for the Raiders the morning after our wedding. That was a fun one. yeah I saw that I saw the video where you guys had your wedding and then the next morning you go out to the Raiders Raiders try you out like what three times yeah what yeah do you continue to try out because maybe I

oversell I'm like they signed me three times you know what I'm saying so you went there okay that you go there you worked out and probably did a physical I was signed a contract three times with them really and I just keep getting cut in camp that's my M-O bro oh my God dude I've signed like all the contracts. How many, so how many teams have you been on?

So seven, I was on an Alliance of American Football. I saw that. So I've been on seven pro teams, including the Memphis team there, and signed nine contracts. Golly, dude. That's a journey. But you know how it is. Yeah.

Yeah. It is a fucking journey. I mean, that's how it works, dude. It's like a revolving door. Like guys will come in and out. And sometimes you don't know if you should get to know somebody or not, Because the next day they can be gone. And who's the team you were there along?

Who's the longest you were with the team? I guess technically the Redskins. Really? Yeah. Is the Redskins where you were. That was my first regular season game I played. Really? My fifth year in, I played my first game.

I was, uh, I hate to in a row because I want to continue talking about that. But we have Sean on the bus too. And Sean's actually the superstar. No. She's the Olympian gold medals and silver, right? Yeah. Golden Silver medalist. You were like a prodigy as a kid.

And you guys were coming on the bus. And I was kind of telling him, I'm like, yo, Andrew hit me up. And he wanted to kind of collab. And they wanted to come on the bus. And I'm like, yeah, no doubt. And I'm sitting here like figuring out how do I even interview both of them at the same time? Because they each have such like deep level stories about where stuff goes and where your journey is. And like you do with your podcast.

And I'm sitting here. I'm like, how do I even sit here and go back and forth and talk? Like, what was it like being under pressure for your entire life as a gymnast? And then it's like, how do you fly in and out to every airport within one season? How many teams were you on? What were the most teams you're on within one year? Three. I was on.

It was the Seahawks year. I guess just two. Seahawks and Raiders. But you went out and tried out at numerous sponsors. Same year. Seahawks, Raiders, Redskins. You signed three contracts. Okay.

I'll trust you. This is what's cool, though. And I'm super thankful to have married this chick. There's nobody else, honestly, that probably would have put up with the shenanigans of the NFL having to move around, like, at a split seconds notice besides her. Like, just thinking about she went pro when she was 12 and left home and had that instability like for a long time. So it's cool just to think like how that kind of worked out, you know?

Yeah. Like now I want to go over. I'm like, you left home to go pro at 12 years. years old as a gymnast and it's like what what in the hell does that even entail like going pro at 12 years old um that's a good question uh I signed my first agent when I was 12 so professional status and going pro was basically like I made the United States national team at 12 years old and then I signed an agent which sounds so ridiculous um but I would travel to Houston once a month for a week and a half and train there and then go back and forth between

every country in the world and then Iowa which is where I lived and then trained in Houston so oh my gosh yeah so NFL's nothing yeah I was gonna say it's like uh you see there's nobody else that can that you having somebody like that who understands the complete business side of everything everybody thinks it's like such a such glamour and nice fairy tale like the business it's super we're all super grateful like it's a blessing like nobody gets to kind of do this stuff we get to do. But at the same time, those like behind the scenes grind of an athlete and just going through it. Yeah. And you went through it. You played at Vanderbilt? Yeah, man. Yeah. Were you there when I, when I spoke to the team? No. When did you speak to

the team? Probably the year after. I came in. So they brought you in to speak to the team. Yeah, it's crazy. They brought me in. I was, I was trying. Yeah, it was crazy. Dobson. Were you with Dobson at all? One year. One year with James Dobson. So James Dobson. Wait, who's that? The weight coach. He was a strength coach. Oh, that's right. Nebraska boy.

Yeah. He was my strength coach at Nebraska all five years I was there. You played in Nebraska? Yeah. You're a Husker? Corn Husker. That's right. I'm a hot guy.

I know you are. Idiots out wandering around. Iowa. T-shay. Yeah, there you go. But I saw I knew Dobson, super close with Dobson because he was like, he was there the whole time I was in Nebraska. And then in some off seasons, I would come back and kind of consult if I learned anything

new from him. and I would train at Vendee for like a few days at a time and uh amir abdula and I came back one year and he had me speak he had me speak to the team I was super nervous but uh he had me speak to the team and just kind of talk about my story and some beliefs I have and how I go about daily stuff and this and that and my speech to the team came right after coach Mason just ripped the shit out of the entire squad for there was this business seminar and guys didn't take it very seriously they were wearing like casual clothes and not dressed up wearing suits and wearing business attire and he came in and he was ripping him dude like ripping him i'm standing there and i lean to dobson i'm like hey you sure

this is good morning for me to kind of go up and speak and he kind of just stood there he's like shut up stop talking i was okay and then um they introduced me and i was super oh man it was crazy but yeah i train of andy i'm there every day dobson does a great job love dobson they got a i like the way they run everything there you know it's like i root for Vandy because I see what happens behind the scenes, like where they kind of, like how hard it is to win football games at Vanderbilt with how. Yeah, but that makes me mad. That makes me mad, though, because you got Stanford, Northwestern Duke basketball.

It's like, why can't Vandy be? True, but you probably know, Vandy seems to be their academic first. They seem to be way harder to get in in school to play football, whereas Stanford will try and find loops and holes to get athletes to come to Stanford and get admitted, whereas Vandy, they don't care. Like, you have to meet certain requirements to play at Vandy. Which is a good thing, at the end of the day, it is a good thing. But it's like when it comes to football, like the academic world is kind of separate from the football world.

And the academics kind of runs Vandy. Whereas Stanford, you have sports and they probably coexist and sit at the table like, hey, how can we get certain guys here? Hey, how can we do this? Where in Vandy, they kind of don't care as much. So kind of, they seem to have to go. through a lot more. Yeah. Because Dobson is super lenient on guys compared to Nebraska. He's like, you don't get it. It's way different here, dude. He's like academics take precedent way more over

Nebraska's of the world and this and that, which is a positive thing. Well, that's no surprise, you know, over Nebraska. You have a cool story, though, on drafted free agent, now you're, what, six years in? Yeah, going on seven. And it's crazy. A part of me feels, a part of me feels bad not being as prepared for this interview because this morning my agent calls on flying out to Saints tomorrow to do a workout. Dude, let's go. I know. I know.

I'm hype, dude. I'm super hype. So by the time everybody hears this, it won't just know that this is the day where if I potentially sign with the Saints, this is the day where I'm doing a podcast

with you guys. So I'm like, I have a lot of anxiety right now because I kind of do this podcast. I got my crew. We kind of just wing this shit. And we're doing like all these things, dude, and keeping up with it. And it's like, you know, it's like a separate

little business that. you got to work on if you want it to be good. It really is. And we're super committed to making it good. And then at the same time, I get done doing my early routine, like on the computer, whether it's meeting with Matt or meeting with Ryan or meeting with somebody about the podcast, then you go home and I got to start packing and thinking about going to Vandy and get my workout in and be completely all in on working out and being focused for football. And at the same time, I'm thinking of all these new ideas for the podcast.

And then I leave football, got to go get nutrition. we might have a podcast today. I went home, banked out food, started a load of laundry because I got to be ready to pack tomorrow. And I'm trying to get all these things in order. And at the same time, I'm playing YouTube videos of your guys' interviews to try and learn a little bit of background before I sit down on an interview. And I'm sitting here and I'm texting with like, you know, the Rams and Redskins Packer. Like I'm texting with all these teams that kind of briefed them on, hey, I'm flying out, making sure, you know, there's nothing. There's nothing in the works because these are all the teams I've kind of talked to up until this point.

And just a lot of anxiety going on because then I could be gone tomorrow. And as you know, I might not leave New Orleans after tomorrow. And then I got to think about how do I get stuff up there? Until February, you might not. Yeah, until February, especially on a team like New Orleans with True Bree is under center. But so a lot of anxiety. So I apologize and I'm all over the place right now. Do you feel like you doing a pot, Sean and I have had a lot of conversations about we put out YouTube videos, podcasts, everything.

Do you feel like you doing this podcast will affect your NFL career? Like say a coach listen to Will Compton's podcast, Bustin with the Boys, and they're like, oh, this guy is not my type. I don't want to, like, you go down to New Orleans and the guy's like, you just don't vibe with them because of what he heard on your podcast. Potentially, but also I think we've had, we've had Vrable, we've had Arthur Smith, and I get feedback from coaches on to these teams that I've played on or that know who I am and stuff like that.

And they kind of reach out to me and talk about how much they love the podcast. That's great. And honestly, like, I know what I am at this point. Like, I know I can play well and you know how the league works. Like, if somebody brings me in this year, they're looking at me as a depth special teams guy right now, right? Unless somebody gets hurt and then they know I have starting experience, you know, being a captain, all this stuff to where it's like he can plug and play. But if I don't have that opportunity to start games or play, my career prolonging even farther gets that much smaller. So if I think of it from that standpoint,

this is like helping that transitional and kind of be on this journey with me at doing that. But then also, if somebody gets hurt and I'm playing and I'm starting, like the boy's gonna, he's gonna play well. So then you don't know if I can re-up again and get another year or another shot. You know what I mean?

Yeah. So like right now I'm just having, I'm just having fun doing this stuff and knowing that I'm almost 30 and you know the NFL, like once you get on the wrong side of 30, like that's kind of the, age limit where guys start looking at you, you know, how much wear and tear does he have on his body?

So if this were to be my last year, then it doesn't necessarily bother me that I have this podcast or what coaches might think about it. And then if I play well, it's almost like a boost in everything else. So I'm not too worried. I would have been super worried a few years back because the minute I wrote down in my,

when I would journal and write down goals for the podcast, I was looking back on it the other day because I was seeing how far we've kind of came, Taylor and I with the pod. I think it was in a journal in like 2015, and it was be one of the first players, active players with a podcast. Be one of the first players slash coach, because I've always wanted to coach football as well. Be one of the first players slash coach with a podcast. And then that podcast have a million all-time downloads.

Hey, nice. So that was like, I look back on that. I'm like, man, it is crazy what is coming about from actually doing that from looking, reading that from a few years ago. So that's kind of like. Did you throw an active player in there, just kind of throw a jab at, at me. No. No, no, not all. No, no. I'm kidding. You were doing your thing though, while you were doing you're doing your thing though while you were playing. I'm just thinking like, it's unique what we do. Yeah. Like you kind of journal and have that vlogging kind of mixed with your podcast and

YouTube channel and you with your lifestyle of like always recording the stuff you guys are doing as you guys are doing stuff. So I think that makes it super unique. A couple of things. One, it's going to be sweet to look back on this and see what happens with the Saints. Yeah. Two, I got to tell a quick Taylor-Lawand story. Please do. Because I'm at my second game was the Titans in Nashville back home. It was so awesome. Because we live here now full of the time.

And first of all, I remember seeing, you rocked a visor all the time? Yeah. It's a good look. It's a good look. Got you, man. When you're a white boy out there, you got to have some swag about you. Nobody's going to respect you. You got the towel.

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, after the game, I see some Titans players. on the Redskins side line. And Taylor, he's, you know, he's got a reputation. This is the J-No story, I bet, guys. Here we go. I'm over there, like, saying hello to my family because we had 30 people come out.

That's awesome. And all of a sudden, I look back, and there's Taylor. Just, like, holding up a... He's pointing his finger like this and laughing, like, Joker from Batman type of insanity, like out of his face. And then all of a sudden, woo, right in front of me, a helmet from Josh Norman comes to... Oh, you were saying it right there.

you're in the middle of it. Oh my gosh, dude. If you look at the footage, I'm like standing right there. This is my second game. I don't know what to do. What in the hell is going on out here? It was crazy. Oh, my goodness, man.

That game was so fun, dude. Just because I, the Redskins like, look at that. Go back. Rewind that. I think about the very big. Yeah, what was he doing over there? Taylor? That's what it was.

Hold on, I had to cross in the back somewhere. Anyway. Yeah, Taylor. Taylor, there's. the helmet in the back. Taylor like does his little bow and arrow. You know, on our side line. Yeah. After the game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't, I told him, I told them I'm like, yeah, I don't know why you would do that, but which is, it's not the best move, but it was, I mean, it made for a great little video and we've been trying to actually get Jano to come on the podcast. But, dude, that game

was so fun, like playing against the skins and just being out there on the field against those guys. I was staying there on kickoff and guys on the sideline are just like yelling at me and chirping me the entire time. It was hilarious. Can I tell a Marshawn Lynch story that has to do with Sean? Hey, I'm just telling stories. I'm just rolling. That's all right.

This is great. This is great. We're all here to talk about it. So I'm coming out of Vandy. It's my last year in school. And I'm like, looking at the NFL, I'm like, this is going to be so cool. And Sean has the opportunity to go to the Super Bowl as like a Yahoo like correspondent. So we go to the media days and they want her to talk to,

Tom Brady and Marshawn Lynch. It was a Patriot. I know. She was a big deal. You were working for Yahoo? I was Inside Edition. Oh, inside. Sorry.

Inside Edition. And so we were talking like Britney Spear. It was legit, dude. It was sweet. But Marshawn Lynch, this was a year that he was saying, I'm only here so I don't get fine, right? Yeah. Yeah.

And so. And I was instructed to throw Skittles at him to try to get a reaction out of it. And I was like, there's no way. You're going to get me to throw a bag of skittles of this guy. He would probably love. That would probably have been a great video. It's up, dude. So the whole time in the interview, he's saying, I'm only here so I don't get

fine. I'm only here so I don't get fine. And then you see he like gets distracted offstage to the left. And he like interrupts whatever he was saying. He's like, he's like, oh, you kind of cute though. He's talking to my way. That was Sean. That was Sean, dude.

The only thing he said other than I'm only here is I don't get fine. I almost got fired from my correspondent job because they really wanted me to like get him to answer questions. I was like, I'm a former athlete myself. I'm not going to like throw candy at an athlete. Yeah. Just try to get a response out of them. So I got his attention.

I was like, just want to wish you good luck. And like kind of like tossed a bag of Skittles. Was it Skittles? It's his thing. Yeah. And like toss it his way. And then yeah. She's like, was it?

Was it this? And you're like, you know what it was. You know what he said to you. That's a good story. You got to finish the story. So then I'm on the Raiders with him when he made his comeback. and my first interaction, well, something you'll learn about me.

Sometimes I say things, and this goes for a dating process too. Like I mean well, but it comes off way wrong. So my first interaction with Marchand, I thought it was going to be a great idea to confront him about this situation. And I was like, I went up to him,

I was like, Marcia, nice to meet you. Yo, I got a bone to pick. You called my wife sexy, and I'm not good with that. He was like, but was I lying though? Yo, that is hilarious. Anyway, we were yeah dude he's just he seems like a super cool cat he's awesome like that that response is like

it just puts a smile on my face like how do you just say hey was i right though and just squash anything that even if you were actually yeah upset yeah but uh so take i don't even know which story to start with probably where you guys met at vandy we met because of vandy you tell that story um yeah tell your story tell a little bit of the story i met Andrew's oldest brother his name is Guy East at the London Olympics he was racing as a cyclist for the United States and I had a friend who was his teammate found myself at the event

met him and he just wouldn't stop talking about his younger brother that I had to meet so were you into him were you into guy no yeah you know what I'm saying Andrew like if she hits me up I'm questioning like yo were you into my bro first and I was just next choice What is No it was not

Yo what is What's the village like in the Olympics You hear the stories like Just fucking be real about it If I'm gonna be honest I want honesty This is you've probably seen some of the podcasts I was I was 16

When I was at the Like an Olympic village Okay So we literally had Talk about what you've seen then We had armed guards Outside of our doors So

we nothing happened with the gymnasts but yeah what would you see with the older crowd we don't need to name any names I need to know some stories Sean you're lying right now okay there we go that's what I need what you're talking about my mom when we started dating sent me that ESPN article about

the condoms being there yeah they write one every Olympics I feel like but she's the only her and one they quoted the 16 year old which is so messed up making out on the porch you you were the same she's like the only athlete mentioned I think in this article.

Which is really concerning. I think it's like 2012. So the one who got quoted in the article of there's all the condoms and they talk about the village. That's your quote. They were quoting? No, no, no, no, no. She was mentioned as like, just asked Sean Johnson and Taylor Finney who were making out on.

Oh, let's go. Am I lying? No. She's like, no, I just have, you're my husband. My husband's sitting here. And then that's how I met Andrew. was Taylor Finney was Guy East teammate. Oh, so.

Yes. It's very complex. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, we got to dive into that. So Guy's teammate that you were talking about is the, what's his name? Taylor Finney. And that's the one you were making out with. Yeah.

And Taylor put you on Andrew. I was, I think it's like the last paragraph on this. I'm sorry, I don't want to butcher that. Hey, did Taylor, did Taylor, what? Finney. Taylor Finney, did he hook you guys up? He approved it. He was like, you're a good guy.

This was one of those things that Sean said, I never dated Taylor, I never dated Taylor. And then finally. It was like an Olympic fling. And you're just thinking like, I'm not stupid. It was literally an Olympic fling. And again, I was a child. But everything that I heard as a child

and everything that I saw as a child at the Olympics is, yeah, it's very true. Wait, is this it right here? What did you? There it is. Taylor Finney who's looking for you Guys this is like

High school drama It doesn't matter Like this is like This is hilarious Because I remember when this article came out Not like I knew all the names But you're always like Oh do you guys see like

You know the Olympic Village And what goes on So we had armed guards outside Our doors at the Olympic Village Because we were the only minors in the village I don't know why I'm telling you all this Taylor Finney lived in the villa, like in the apartment complex, I think, below us. Yeah.

And he would always, he was always the guy that would like throw us snickers at night. I was like, cool. Can we clarify? He would throw you. Kissing session. It was a kissing. Okay. Kissing session.

That sounds better than make out of session. So he would throw you as snickers because you guys were younger? Yeah. We would just sit on the patio and talk every night. Yes. And became an Olympic fling. This is really weird. guys.

Now, would you witness stuff that, like, what everybody thinks about the Olympic Village? Yes. Is that stuff? Yes. That's a real deal. Well, okay, you think about it. All these, like, elite-minded athletes. Yeah, testosterone, a lot of hormones and emotions.

They've worked for so long and been so restricted with, like, everything. They finished this, like, Olympic movement. They've reached the epitome of their sport. And now it's just a free-for-all in every sense. Really? Yeah. Free fall on every sense. Yeah.

Wow. That's fucking crazy. Well, and it's the Olympic Village. There's no media. There's no tourists. It's just athletes. Reading the next generation? God.

Yeah, of Olympians. A lot of Olympians come down. And how many Olympic games did you go to? Just one. Just one. You were going to do another one, right? I was going to do another one. But that's when you tore your knee.

Yes. What happened to your knee and what happened? I went skiing. Is that politically correct? What was that? Oh, that's real? You said I went skiing? I didn't even get hurt in gymnastics.

I was trying to make a comeback. I went skiing. I tore everything in my knee, ACL MCL meniscus and hamstring. Holy shit. Tried to do a reconstruction and still come back and it just wasn't working. And you retired the week before that next Olympics.

Yeah. So, before Olympic trials, I could have competed, but I just knew if I competed and if I made the team, which there was a good chance I was, my body wouldn't have lasted through the Olympics.

So I bowed out. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. How, what was that like when you, the moment you tore your knee skiing? I assume it's just you were just out having fun with family, friends. Yep, family. And you knew, was it an accident or something that kind of just loosely slipped? A freak accident.

My safety release on my ski was broke and I didn't know it. I took a really small fall, but my ski got. caught in the snow and my boot didn't come out so I like rolled over my leg. Did you know right away? Yeah. Were you just tears right away? No.

No tears. Because you didn't know at first how bad it was. You probably thought I might have tore something? You could, I feel like as athletes, you're very aware of your body. Right. You knew something was wrong. Yeah. I mean, I heard a huge pop and you don't hear that with like a sprain or a strain.

What was going through your mind? What if I could never do gymnastics? gymnastics again. And then like, how am I going to tell somebody? Yeah, like your coach is. He was really scared to tell my coach.

Because that's the one rule he had training was you could do anything you wanted. You just couldn't ski. And, yeah. Were you guys together at this point? No. God. Andrew wouldn't allow that.

Man. Yeah. That's brutal. But then you're going to make a comeback. Yep. It was that process pretty rigorous. It was. It was the first time I'd really.

had a bad injury in my career. So it was the first time I ever doubted my body, which was really hard. Like having any fear or doubt in your body, I think is a huge weakness as an athlete. And for me, I would picture things going wrong instead of like having confidence

in my ability of my sport. I made it all the way back to World Championships, made it to Olympic trials, and just I was living off of cortisone injections. Yeah, it's never... Yeah, I wasn't going to make it. So I don't know about you, but you take Torado or anything like that,

four games. No, no, never. Yeah, like not, not quarter zone, but you're taking all these anti-inflammatories that are trying to mass whatever pain you have so you can go out there for the purge, which makes it so much worse afterwards. What's up? Which makes it so much worse afterwards. Yeah, you're so sore. Oh, because you're pushing your body way past what it should, like, be doing. So what, what made you think this is the time I should retire? Or did you, did you, it was a week before Olympic trials. Did you know before that week that you were going to, ultimately, retire or did it kind of hit you like it was coming up and you're like I can't do this or I shouldn't or I was kind of on the fence for for quite a while probably at least six months leading up

to the trials my body was just falling apart and then I feel like my mind wasn't as strong just because I was kind of losing the passion and I had frustration with my body and the sport so it was just it was a mix of things but a week before Olympic trials I remember watching so we have two different trials We have the United States Championships, and then a week later is the trials. So I competed at championships, and I saw all the other girls coming up who had never competed at the Olympics before. And they had so much passion and energy and just like everything that I had in 2008. And I remember thinking to myself, like, I'm dreading making the team, which I don't think is a good sign that you should be representing your country in the biggest event in the world. So I just kind of had this really.

When you say dreading, meaning doubting. if you make the team or you're dreading like you almost didn't want to make the team. No, I didn't want to make the team. Really? No. Only because my body was falling apart and because my body was falling apart, my mind was falling apart. I just wasn't. You have mental breakdowns and stuff like that? In the sense of like with gymnastics, with gymnastics, we flip on a four inch beam that's four foot off the ground. Right. So if you get up on a beam and you're getting ready to do a standing, you know, 360, 360, 360 and you start doubting your ability, you get hurt. That's like when he's, like, when he's, you're, you're getting ready to do a standing, you're standing, you know, you get hurt. That's like when he's. You're. You're huge injuries happen in our sport. And I started doubting myself. And I started having these like, I don't know, I would picture everything that could go wrong instead of what could go right.

Yeah. And that when that happens. And that's very, very scary for our sport. And I just knew that if I made the team, I was probably going to break at the Olympics. And I just wasn't for me anymore. Wow. That's crazy.

I never doubt myself when I'm about to do 360s on a team. I'm never doubt. I'm about to murder this shit, dude. that's crazy yeah did you um did you ever doubt your decision after it happened uh like regret thinking okay you went through all when did you tear knee what year was it um the year after the olympics so 2009 yeah and then you're going because it's only every four years you're leading up to 2012 and then you decide to retire and then you retire the olympics go on did you ever watch the olympics or after where you're ever getting that I should have just done it because who knows like

never get those opportunities. Absolutely. I actually went to 2012 and I had to commentate. So that's where I met Guy East. That's right. She wouldn't have met me

if she was competing. Yeah. If she was, she wouldn't have met you. Right. No. Because I couldn't have gone to the cycling, whatever. I'm glad I met you.

There you go. I need to say. I see you. I knew it was the right decision for me. I never doubted that. Like, I never regret the decision.

I made, I'm very clear in my heart that, like, it was the right decision for me. But I had so many people around me, sponsors, agents, parents, even where their regret of it was almost it put pressure on me. And it kind of made me doubt my decision. And their support for like, yeah. I mean, everybody loved you. You know what I mean? And I'm not saying that.

It puts you like, yeah, everybody loved me. But you feel like everybody's so supportive of you. and you don't want to let people around you down. Well, and Andrew and I have talked about this, had I competed and made it to the 2012 games, I mean, financially, I would have been set up for a long, long time. By competing in 2012? Yeah. I was very well set up.

What's a number? Don't do it, Sean. Don't do it. Does that something go wrong if you bring that number up? No. Like us, I mean, you know, you're used to people knowing what you can make. by Googling you all the time. So I never, I never feel bad about asking people

how much, how much they could get it can make. That's interesting. Because people can come at you and just know, like everyone just knows. Even if they bring it up or not. That is interesting with the NFL. They're just like, if they think anything, like, you know, not that everybody

and whoever listens, that's with me all the time. It's not like I sit there and think like, oh, they expect me to pay for stuff. But there's, you know, if something comes out, people know how much, you make and think this doesn't this doesn't this doesn't this wouldn't bother will even if we made him do this like it's not going to affect him you know what i mean so me asking that i just i literally have no shame at all yeah i have zero shame behind what's the number it's such a like it's such a

hypothetical question just because you have x amount of sponsors that are going to pay you know what's a minimum number at least in the millions seven oh i have no idea four i really don't know what's she's saying is this imagine she's She goes to the second Olympics and wins all the gold medals. So there's like TV shows. Then it's, commentation jobs. You get like set up.

It's not only what you make from the sponsors that year. It's everything that comes after. And the gymnast team at that time. It was incredible if I'm wrong. But it's like that was the team that everybody wanted to follow. Was the gymnast team, right? Yep. Because you guys came after the track and field and stuff right?

And then it was like, hey, you know, you guys are on cereal box. You guys are on everything. Yeah. You guys were like untouchable. So it would have been, it would have been financially amazing. Amazing. But a week before those contracts took place,

like I had signed them, but they go into effect during Olympic trials. So all your prize money starts coming in with your medals. And if you make the team, I had to call every single one of those sponsors and say, I'm not going anymore. You had to or you would have had to?

I had to. Oh, man. And so that's when like the, your agents come into play and your parents come into play and you're like are you out of your mind so you knew what you could what you were walking away from absolutely and it still didn't it still didn't even affect you that didn't i was i was so ready to be done that it was the greatest decision i've ever made but it was the hardest decision for everyone around me that's that's interesting too because people are so driven like by money and i was um i was talking to my girlfriend charo um whenever

we got our first regal realty Regal Realty Group sponsor whenever we got our first sponsor my excitement for our first sponsor on a little check was trumped any excitement I was having by texting about going and trying out for teams because I've been telling teams no things like we've had probably

six opportunities to go and try out for teams and we've just kind of said no thanks save my body a little bit like I don't need to go through another training camp like six six years in like I have a resume you guys you know the NFL they need know if you're they can call around and get references you know what i mean so we're just kind of saying no thanks and i'm telling charl i'm like i'm hoping this gets prolonged so i can sit down and

have conversations and build the podcast compared to going and making you know a minimum for me i think is like eight or nine hundred or something like that you know what i mean and it's like that little check i got from regal realty hyped me up so much i remember texting to taylor and we were just we're on face time just on cloud nine like yo we're doing it yeah we're doing it we're doing just off something small you know what I mean so that's interesting to hear your perspective on knowing you're walking away from millions of dollars and arguably one of the better Olympic teams in the history but it might not have been had I been on that team you never know that's true I mean I take a gold medal over Andrew I'm just kidding bro I'm just kidding I would never bet I've

this is this is what's amazing though we walk into a mall or definitely a gymnastics gym and little girls, I kid you not, just tears when they see her. They do the same thing with you. Well, no, no. But it's because like- I mean, you've built a brand. Let's not bullshit. I'm thinking like, okay, we'll have Andrew on.

Like, I knew who you were. You texted me and I'm like, oh, did you get my number from Tress or somebody? From Hop. Yeah. I'm like, oh, I'm sure one of the boys gave my number. So they felt good about giving them the number. Like, yeah, of course I want to sit down with you. But you know what I'm known?

My brand is Sean Johnson's husband. That's what it is. Well, I'm first thinking, I didn't know. Charo had told me, I was sitting with Charo and she was like, Andrew East, that's Sean Johnson's husband. And I'm good with that. And I'm like, who's, I'm like, I said who's Sean Johnson. So I'll humble her a little bit.

And she's like, remember, it's that Olympian? I was telling you about when they, when he got it on the Redskins. I was like, oh, for real. And you kind of search it up. I'm like, oh, damn, like, she was legit. Legit. And I'm like, you know, now we're. we're here but that's crazy yeah then how how how do you how do you go from so what happened after

after the Olympics after all that stuff how do you guys begin to kind of meet or what happens in between you you and you meeting him or did that happen kind of quick what year did you guys meet so what year you got it in 2012 okay so shortly after i went straight from the london olympics where I was commentating for the Today Show. I went straight to Dancing with the Stars. I know. Nice flex. I was,

oh, my God. I didn't mean it. Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, okay. Heard of it. And it was during that, when I was on the show, that him and his brother flew out to Los Angeles. Yo, there's grinning going on right now, guys.

She booty called me pretty much. is what happened. Okay, there we go. I want to hear the story from my answer now because she's grinning like she's holding something back. So I slid in her DMs. Like I formed a Twitter. Oh boy. Formed a Twitter just so I could get Twitter, right?

And then I got her number. You formed a Twitter just to Twitter? I was not, yes. I was not a social media guy. But anyway, I got her number via DMs. So we started talking calling. Which I'm surprised they gave you my number. Yeah, I know.

But, you know, I mean, I'm pretty sure. Who'd you DM? Her. Her account, you gave him your number or was somebody running your account? No, I was running my own account. I gave my number. Okay, okay. So then she like ghost me for like a month.

And on my birthday, she sends me. She's on Dancing's and Stars, bro. What though? You probably got the, you probably got a little, you probably got a little egg profile pick. Like, who in the fuck is DM at me for my number? Anyway, she says, she sends me a text on my birthday, like a midnight. Says we want to fly out to L.A. Yeah, I was, I was drunk.

At midnight. At midnight. Want to fly out to L.A. That's what I'm saying. I'll cop it off for you. I'll handle your expenses. So kid you not, next day I jump on a plane. I leave class, leave class, and I'm out there.

Your mom cannot listen to the story. Oh, she's a listening, dude. So I was in, I was coming out of a very, very bad relationship. Sure. And it was very bad. Sure. And I was very drunk. Wow.

I don't mean it like in a bad way. But I was like, I should text this guy. And I was like, no, you want to be. to fly to L.A. I fall asleep, wake up sober, and I get a text saying, I'm on my way. Oh my, wait, wait, wait, hang on. Stop, stop, stop.

Were you guys texting in between the DM number and the fly out to L.A? She just texted you on a whim. That's what I'm saying, man. That's what I'm saying. And you dropped your luggage. Of course I did. And I freaked out. I was like, what kind of guy would do this?

Yeah, then we landed. A psychopath. We landed in L.A. And she's not responding. Duh. Yeah. Hold on the cab got this whole thing. Can you think you're just standing?

Hey, yeah, I'm here. So it worked out. My brother had a bike race out there that same weekend. So that was like, that was going to be plan A or B. Oh, and then it gets even better. So I finally, like, he texted me enough that day. I got out of Dancing with the Stars rehearsal and TV show. Flex.

And I met Andrew and his brother along with one of my friends that I was living with. This is my girlfriend. At the time, we met for dinner. We had dinner. I was not very impressed. I was just like, this guy's... Wait, with Andrew, you weren't impressed?

No. Oh, my God. Somebody held my guy right now. I was not impressed. Like, Andrew? Why weren't you impressed? Was he nervous? I don't know.

I think I was slightly just freaked out because he gets a random text message from a random chick at 1 or 2 a.m. fly out here and he does it. And you're saying that since you were drunk, now that you've came to your senses, now that's why you're like freaked out

because you're all in it. Yeah. So wait, it gets better. So after dinner. And this is all circling around Dancing with the Stars. Yes. Okay. So after dinner, me and my girlfriend

were trying to be like nice. We're like, oh, can we like drop you guys off at your hotel? She's about to blast me. I love it. I feel like she already has been, but this is where we get, it gets better. Him and his brother go, oh, we don't have a place to day. We're just going to sleep in our car tonight.

And I was like, what? Is that true? Yeah. Or he's just, that's part of your game. No, we were my husband tonight. I took it as part of his game. I was like, what is this guy doing? So then I'm the really big idiot and I'm trying to be nice. And I was like, well, you can stay in like our guest bedroom if you want.

And he hasn't, like an idiot. It's like, yeah, I love that. No, dude. This is going on. Oh, man, this is bad, dude. Put the camera on him. Put the camera on him, dude. No, this is getting...

I was afraid I was going to get murdered. I don't know. Okay, continue. We'll let her finish and then we'll go back and we'll let you talk a little bit about. So then he comes back to our apartment with his brother and me and my girlfriend. But you knew his brother. Barely.

But yes. We had had like an hour conversation once. Yeah. And so we get back to my apartment. My girlfriend and I go straight upstairs to like my room. and we locked ourselves in and we like push the doors and are like the chairs in front of the doors because I literally thought we're going to get murdered or something and then yeah that was it did knock on your door he did not oh my god that would have taken into a two different level no okay so then she

didn't talk to me for nine months after that hang out yeah yeah I don't want to go farther now I want to hear any of your parts of some of the game she might some of the holes she might be missing is that all accurate so here's a thing and reflecting on your game like what would you have done He had none. What would you have done differently? Or what did you feel like you were doing wrong to make her so creeped out? So when I, when there's an opportunity in front of me, I'm going to take it. Without even knowing what your game plan is.

So that goes for the flight. That goes for I would rather have a bed to sleep in than the car. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Did she pay for your flight? No, no, no, no. Okay. No, my dad did, but.

Shut out, dad. So is there anything she missed? Anything you want to add? We had a good time that night. I was not getting off. I'm going to murder you tonight vibes. No, not murder vibes. So you didn't just immediately run to your room.

Like, you guys probably hung out and it got better or did you become a little more person? That was the night I fell in love. That was the night I fell in love. I don't know if you need to be saying that. Yeah. I don't know if you need to be saying that. This is amazing. There are like other.

Random stuff. It was your 21st birthday and you're like, I've never had a drink before in my life and I want to get drunk. And I was like, I never said. I never said I want to get drunk. I said I'm there. Oh my gosh. Dude, when she starts dripping on me, it doesn't know. She's a little savage over there, dude.

So she didn't talk to me for nine months after that. No. So you guys parted ways and then there was ghost. There was nothing for nine months. Not from me, but from him. I was texting. Damn. And she was leaving you on Reed?

So it would be like, what is it like, if you text someone? buddy. How many texts are you going without them responding? You're going to dig yourself a great right here. Before you just fold up and close out. So when I was texting with Charo, Charo would kind of try in big time me a little bit. And if she wouldn't respond to me, I wouldn't text her back or send any repeat text or nothing. No repeat text.

I'm not doing that. And then when she would, if she would text me eventually responding to the shit I was talking about two days. ago, I would just not respond to her for like two days. And then try and you know, big time it up and, you know, do different stuff. Okay, go ahead. Tell yours no. I would text her like six times. Repeat text.

Six times in those nine months? No, no, no, no. Six times a day? No, no. Everybody calmed out. Everybody just chill out. It would be like... Six times of the course of probably like a month. Yeah, I'm sweating my heart. I know. He's like, son of a bitch. And then, so... Yeah, you got the ring. I mean, you're gay.

worked somehow and we're gonna get into that so everybody's sitting here like damn what though did he like corner her into marriage or what like it's gonna get better i am rethinking everything right now he would probably text me six times a month but then i'd be like like what were the text though any repeat text like hey what's your favorite candy yeah i'm just holy shit but for real now i believe me that's what He said it so like innocently and like, hey, what's your favorite candy? You love this right now. You love this right now.

I'm thinking, jokes are you, though, babe. Holy shit, I'm thinking, hey, what's up? What's going on? What have you been up to? And then, like, he might text again and like, yeah, great chat. Can't wait to hear about it. But it's like, hey, what's going on? Hope all is well.

And then the next chat, what's your favorite candy? Oh my gosh. Anyways. How did this get better? For the love of God. He would like just continue texting and I would finally send something back. Probably like once a month. Yeah.

I would send something back. And then nine months later, you called me, which was the first time he had like. So you weren't responding and then he's like, no, no. I'm calling. I composed the most elegant. You did. It was this. It was the chees.

No, it was the cheesiest. most like hey what is it called something versus reality what you think versus reality he said something

after nine months he's like if football has taught me anything it's how to persevere yes and then like I respect that a little bit

it was like a book and he's like cheesy never say I remember it ended with would you accompany me to the CMA Fest Well, now you're trying to throw, you're trying to throw your weight around a little bit.

He didn't even have tickets. He didn't have tickets. And I said yes. I said, I got VIP tickets to the CMI Fest. Do you want to come? She said yes. And I was like, I got to give VAT tickets. Oh, my God.

And were you responding to him at all up until this point? No. No, dude. No. Oh, my God. So I booked a flight to Nashville. Yeah. You need to write a book.

You need to write a book. There's a lot of hopeful. It's all got perseverance. That's Matt Neely strategy. He just texts until, hey, you want to go to this VIP? I got box seats. And then they say, yeah, and then he's got to fucking find a way. Well, the most impressive thing is you found away.

And we sat in a box at the CMA Fest. That's right, Brad Paisley. Yeah. Who hooked you up? Dude, it was a friend of a friend of a teammate. He was like, I'll give you these tickets, but I have to meet Sean. So, like, I was texting this dude, like trying to, run the logistics, like where we're going to meet up.

I've never met this guy. And then I'm trying not to be weird. I was like, hey, Sean, we're going to meet my friend. I've never met this guy. Not to exploit me. Because he's got my tickets. Anyway, so we sat down. We watched a Diamond Rio concert right there on the river.

Got the tickets and pieced out. And this is in 2013 now? 13. Yeah. And June. So you went not, okay, okay, okay, okay. So you went the awkward little weird fly out to LA drunk text and it was awkward. And you say you weren't impressed.

Yeah. To nine months of ghosting. responding to your texts for nine fucking months. Holy shit. To making up a story saying you want to go to VIP CMA Fest and that's what you responded to. Yeah. I love country music and I was like, sure.

And then we had a blast. We had a good time. And then actual story was my girlfriend said set me up on three dates. This is one of them. The CMA Fest day? Yeah. They were counting this as one. I was supposed to stay in Nashville for like a day

fly to Chicago for another date fly to LA for the third Oh my man I had to include this Why'd you have to include this? I know, I know But no, it's a good It's a good story Because I stayed for one night

And I canceled everything else And I stayed here for a week And I was like, this is the guy I'm gonna marry Oh really? Boom Just like that So CMA Fest did it That's right

The CMA Fest date did it Yes Yes And you thought in your head This is the guy I'm gonna marry So that was a night you fell in love.

Yes. You fell in love way soon, dude. You're like what they write about in stories. Like, don't fucking, I'm like, you know, you're like trying to mentor your little high school. He's like, listen, my man, don't fall in love with her. It's shit doesn't matter right now. That was you. I just saw the twinkle in her eye.

You know, you're like, oh. Okay. I could be interested in that. Yeah. I saw the twinkle. That was when I saw the twinkle. And that was in 2013. That's right.

And then what comes after that? I moved to Nashville. For him. For him. See, now she's the psycho one. Yeah, holy shit. How quickly. Three months later.

Three months later, oh my God. Yeah. I live in Des Moines. Hey, boys, for everybody out there listening, VIP CMA tickets. CMA Fest will be next year. Get the VIP tickets. Figure out who you want to love and marry

and fucking bribe them with tickets, dude. And they'll be used forever. I moved to Nashville about. The C-May Fest was in June I moved in October So yeah that was soon And then we're now To kind of pivot and go a different direction

Were you already branding yourself And your YouTube channel Kind of lifestyle personality? No What got you started in that? He started it You were now Were you already doing this shit?

No I had no idea So I got picked up by the Chiefs in 2015 So we got engaged in 2015 I was like Flex the number one long snapper coming out of college. Which means nothing though. Absolutely nothing.

But I love the flex. Number one in the world. Number one in the world. I say that because it's a joke because you can't rank long snappers. Oh, you can. You're number one. That's right. Anyway, but I thought I was like, man, I'm going to have this 10 year NFL career.

We're going to be living a good life. Get cut in camp. And I'm like, shoot. Sign up to be an Uber driver. Didn't have anything else. I came home one day. And he literally said he had signed up to be an Uber driver. And I was like, okay, we need to work on our identity a little bit.

And you guys were together and living together and then you signed with the Chiefs? So, no, I was just graduating college and we didn't live together when I was in college. And you just lived here? Yeah. She just lived. Okay. So then I get cut. And one of her friends was like, I just started a YouTube channel.

You guys should look into it. And I was like, okay, I could start that. Sean has like a lot of fans that would love to see her. What were you doing at this time? Sorry. work motivational speaking kind of going around and speaking because you can fucking do that no no doubt i respect that for sure i would too i'm speaking the vandy i speak to vanderbilt and fucking teams like that guys okay so she's doing that and then you're like i had nothing to do so

i was like i got a i'm like sad depressed little boy because you realize the NFL's now what the fuck you thought it was yeah yeah bro oh my gosh that's a hard truth to kind of go through a little bit too. And so this is, I'm pumped for you because you just getting that check from your first sponsor, you realize like, oh, I'm in control of this. And I have, I have another skill outside of football that I can do. Yeah, it's pretty, it fires me up. I like, you know, you want to, like, I want to coach. Like, I have interest in other areas. So I'm kind of just trying to find, trying to find it. And I realize I have fun with like, you know, all the relationships I have, the personality, like stuff on social media. And I'm like, I should try and figure something out. So that's why I finally just

pulled the trigger in it. I did like Taylor helped a lot. Charo, my friends back home, my parents, like in Taylor, like they were all like, we're rolling credits right now. Hell yeah, I got to. If I say Taylor, if I say Taylor and then not other people, it's going to be, oh, Taylor's the one who helped you. But there's a lot of people telling me to do it and you finally just take that leap of faith and doing it. Yeah. Is that how, so you're bummed driving fucking Uber. Yeah. Bro, so we put out our first YouTube video December 2015. You go back and look at it. It's trash.

We had no idea what we were doing. Don't go back and look at it. I'm going to because I think that's the best kind of shit. It's freaking full circle. Looking back where you came from. Yeah, we had no idea we were doing it. Who is the YouTuber that got you to look into Mallory Irvin? She's a stud? She's great, dude. Check her out. She is a Kentucky girl. Like Miss America,

she's been an amazing race. Has like this wild personality. She's great. Check her out. All right. She has her own podcast too. Anyway, so we started making videos. And then it took us about a year to really like start gaining momentum on that. And then it became like a legit thing. And now that's that is like our, that's what we spend most of our time doing.

And football and her speaking are like side gigs at this point. Love that. Isn't that awesome? Yeah. And so with YouTube, was it mainly, was it always both of you? Was there more of a focus on her at first? Because she's, she's, you know, Sean Johnson. Yeah.

Look, I don't know a lot about marketing, but I do know that there was a lot more people searching for her than there was for me. No question. Yeah, it's mostly her. And then for you, was it you always knew you're just going to kind of document your whole run on everything? So we started vlogging. We did like this collab with this family who like filmed 20 minutes of their day every single day. And that was like two months into us doing YouTube. And so I saw like, I didn't know that daily vlogging was a thing. I didn't watch much YouTube before then.

And so I was like, I saw what they were doing. I was like, well, maybe it'd be cool if I documented behind the scenes of me trying to make an NFL team. And like, because I'm doing workouts like every week, every other week. Fucking crazy. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

And I was, and as a little kid coming out of middle school, high school, like, you just think of the NFL, you think Peyton Manning, these guys that are locked into one team for for 10 years. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You don't see, you don't see guys like me. So I was like, this would be interesting to document. Plus, I want to show it to my kids to show them that I'm a boss. and I was like trying out for NFL teams, you know what I'm saying?

I feel even if I never actually played in the game. So I started doing that and then it's like now turned into this whole thing. Is there more in between that it's turned into this whole thing? What was your guys' process about kind of growing the YouTube? Because we're new to it too. So fucking any tips? Collabs. Yeah.

Yeah. I was very anti-social media when he started YouTube. Right. When you guys started, were you very nervous? about people being in your lives like that and then also commenting all the time. She already had it, so. I had it, but I had come from the sports entertainment world

where, like, you sign with Coca-Cola, and Coca-Cola says, you can't say this, you can't wear this, you can't. I mean, it's very strict. And with YouTube, it's not strict at all. You just show your actual life. And I had never done that before. And I felt like I was, like, moving into a world that was my own

that the world had never seen before. Yeah. And I hated that. Right. And, yeah, I mean, you say, like, used to it because we're in a spotlight, but it's in a spotlight of our comfort zone, playing a sport. Yeah. For, like, when we were dropping our first ones, I'm sure you guys probably had the same feeling, like, when it's your own thing and you're, you drop it and then you're just kind of refreshing, like, seeing, like, you're seeing people comment on things that you're not a pure professional in, which I think is also at the same time. what makes it what it is because it's like raw it's you're getting it's shit's organic like

people are kind of along the journey with you but um no that's crazy but with your sport if someone critiques you you you you know in your heart you're like oh you're wrong like I know my ability my talent right but if someone like critiques your real life you're kind of like oh um am i doing this right yeah so it's just it's more vulnerable and weird but we've kind of figured figured it out a little bit. And how long has the YouTube channel been going on? Since 2015? About three years, yeah.

Yeah. What's the YouTube channel called? The East Fam. The East Fam. And you have your own as well, too, right? Yeah, that's where I put my podcast. East Fam, and then what's your podcast? My podcast is called Redirected, but my YouTube channel is just Andrew East.

Talk a little bit about your podcast before you ask me a question. So, like I mentioned, I thought I was going to come out of college, come out of Vandy and play 10 years in NFL. Sign with the chiefs, get cut, and now I have to find something completely different to do. And I had no idea what that was going to be. And I realized, like, when I was coming up with the concept of my show, that everybody kind of has these interesting pivots in life where they're forced with the decision to, like, do what they want to do and pursue, like, you with this podcast or, like, kind of just go

with the flow of how life's taking them. And so I sit down with people and talk to them about the interesting pivots, or I call them redirections that they've had. So we talked with like, you know, Sean Booth, who like was on the reality show and changed his life. Talk with, uh, Luke Sanders, who was an HVAC installer. Then it was like, I'm going to fight in the UFC. So he trains for two years and actually ultimately made it. And it's like these kind of, it's not like an inspirational podcast, but it's just hearing people's stories of like, how did you get to where you are right now? Or digital influencers. Like there's YouTubers now that like, like, we're working hotel front desks. And

now they have 10 million subscribers on YouTube. It's like what a different life this was than five years ago. You know what I'm saying? By you taking that leap. Exactly. And finding that redirection and like going after it. Yeah. But here's a YouTube.

So I actually put together a little, we do like consulting now for Google. And I put together a little course. Flex. Go ahead. That was. Bro. Did you see? They did this survey for like younger millennials.

And there's 34% of them want to be YouTubers when they grow up. And then like the second most was like 30% want to be bloggers. So like all of them want to be online doing these online careers. It's kind of terrifying. So I was like. It is weird. It makes you think like where is it going to be in 2030? Yeah.

Nuts. Who knows? Yeah. But I put together this course because everybody's trying to get into it. And I feel like there's two misconceptions that people think wrongly about. One is like people don't make shareable content. So like just like you guys did with that Jalem Ramsey clip, like you got a really solid soundbite that ultimately. um barstil sports is able to pick up right right a lot of people just like snap a picture of their

food it's like nobody's going to share that to their friend oh like look with sean ate for one nobody wants to share that yeah but if we share a picture of her doing a handstand pregnant people are like it's going to stir up check out this chick pregnant doing handstands yeah it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna like create a conversation and people like oh i can't believe she can still do it or like oh is that good for the you know what i'm saying like it just starts a conversation and makes it shareable second thing is you got to do collab so like me reaching out to you it's like a bridge between my audience and yours. So like my audience is now going to be interested in your,

in your podcast and your show and content because they know a little bit about my football career. And by you being an NFL player, it gives them a broader perspective because you have six years. I only have three games, right? So like, but also by me going on in your show, I'm getting your audience.

You know what I'm saying? Right, right, right, right. This is strategic on my part. Oh, yeah. How can you share value in that way? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You're preaching.

I'm preaching. Was that too much? He spent some wisdom. He is. No, you're completely right. Like we had Brendan Shawbonne and he was kind of, he was kind of telling me that whole gig. He's like, once it gets, you know, once it climbs here, like, we'll get you out on the West Coast. And, you know, because we have, we have all these fucking people.

We would love to talk to that. Kind of helped inspire us or me and myself wanting to do a podcast. It's like the ultimate goal is to have those motherfuckers on my fucking. the bus and you know go full circle with it does this bus move no bus doesn't move yet it bus doesn't move yet um we're going to because initially we're thinking we were thinking about getting a studio we were thinking about like what studio could we get and you know one of our guys was like hey there's this bus out back the bus is awesome and i was like me i started i started know with most things and like find the yes and i'm like taylor's going to love this taylor's very like impulsive

and immediately fell in love with it and i knew that he's going to want it. And this thing, it had all the rows, all the seats going on and everything. We had to gut it. We basically put money into renovate and put all the sounding stuff you see in it and all the gear. And, yeah. And now it's like, yeah. And now it's like, it's taken off to where people like, hey, when are you going to get that thing running? Like, you should take it out to here or there. And so now we want to get it running. That would be awesome. Doing a really cool. Yeah, potentially. It's interesting because, because, Taylor is who he is.

He signed a five-year deal with the Titans. Like he's a pro bowl caliber player. He's a stud, right? He's going to be somebody that's playing football for years to come. And so his number one priority will be ball until his wheels fall off, right? Me, it's a little different. Me, I enjoy this kind of stuff. And I just make sure I'm not trying to jump at too much with him in mind.

you know what I mean? Because I know I want to protect him and I want to protect kind of the stuff we've made and not make it seem like he's not focused on one or the other make him to where it's like, say, hey, I don't want to, this isn't fun for him anymore. Because the minute it's not fun for him, you know, or I mean, me too, but I'm like super into this stuff.

But the minute it's not fun for us is when it can kind of fall apart. So it's like thinking, okay, the bus rolling will be an awesome idea, but it's unrealistic to think we're literally going to drive it around every week and try to go somewhere. That takes up a lot of time. You know how much training goes into being a football player. So we're trying to vision board strategies in the off season where maybe it's like 10 to 12 guests we want to go after.

And we take the bus to these few different locations, whether it's on the West Coast, whether it's in New York, whether it's in, you know, North Carolina at Dale Earnhardt's freaking ranch. And you go and basically, you know, you try and set it up, but wait outside their freaking facility until they come on the damn bus and kind of document that's all that kind of document the travel that goes into it document the like have a little doc like a mini docu series or some shit but i just think that would be super cool and then you're kind of you're you're you're videoing and producing some of the stuff that goes into us chasing our vision of getting in front of these people and kind of doing

something cool with each other so see so what i did with sean you have that in you too sitting outside somebody's ranch until they okay until they get on your bus yeah that's true i'm sure i'm sure Perseverance, man. We had that perseverance. That's right. That's right. What else am I missing, boys? Matt? Because, I mean, at the end of the day, we can do a, we can do a part two when we come back and circle around. Like, I'm bummed that it's like I'm not bummed, but I'm bummed that I can't go to your studio tomorrow and do yours.

Like, I looked to yours and I was listening to me. Oh, we got time. I was listening to some of Decker stuff. And I was like, yeah, this is freaking, this is an awesome podcast. And that's called redirection. Redirected. Redirected. Redirected with Andrew.

And that's on every platform. Spotify. That's right. With Apple Podcasts. That's right. Himalaya. I like Himalayas is where I listen to podcasts. Okay.

You're looking at me like you never heard of it. Never heard of it. Never heard of it. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm like, oh shit. They made a podcast platform. That's right.

But yeah, find it all there. Do you have a pod or anything? You just do you, huh? And you just make sure you videos it. I guess so No she's still not even like really bought in with the video stuff But we're getting there What?

Who does your guys as editing? Dude, it was. It was me until like six months ago We hired an edit a full-time editor Why are you looking for a job over there? Hey I mean my man's always looking Don't ever say no ball You never say no we will take all conversations

I'll be your agent I'll take a 5% of cloud I don't think people want to be our editor though We push out at least two videos every week It's a lot. Two on YouTube, two on Facebook. We usually send in the footage like the night before. Yeah, I mean, shit, we have some close calls too.

We're just some boys with the bus trying to make some magic, dude. Matt, anything. Is there anything I'm missing? Yeah, social media is where can we find you guys? Sean Johnson on everything. That's right. And then Andrew D. East. You got to drop the D.

Andrew D. East. I can't. drop the D. Does somebody have Andrew East? Can't drop the D. I got the D. Yeah. So what happened with the whole

Sean Johnson? Why isn't it Sean East? It's because you're just so iconic? This is, oh my gosh, this is going to sound bad coming from myself. It had just kind of become a brand when we got married. So like I'm actually Sean East,

but the, like, my brand is pretty much Sean Johnson. Yeah. Like little kids don't come out to me. saying like oh hey Sean East they use Johnson well by the by your guys a story you guys told I think it should be Andrew Johnson

got my man going out picking these flight and these last second flights like I appreciate you guys coming on we're going to have to do this again because an hour is not enough for like an hour's not enough for this your guys a story but you guys also have individual stories so we might need you to probably

sit out in the car one day while she does one and then we rotate Hey, anytime. Thanks for having to time, man. Yeah, this was awesome. And then I'll do yours. Do you do Skype stuff? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You always want guy. I would like to. Mostly Skype. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out because it'll be fun. He usually does Skype because all of his, your interviews are from all over. Yeah. Good luck tomorrow, though.

I appreciate that, man. I'm hype, dude. Who that nation? That's right. We'll see if it works out. You never know. I mean, you freaking know, dude. You know this business.

You never know. But now this would be cool once it, once it does drop. More stories for your podcast. Yeah, for sure. And we'll do. I'm telling you, we're going to do this again. This was a great time. I'm glad freaking Hop gave you the number.

Shout out Dustin Hopkins and Gabby. I hope you guys are taking very nice care of my house. You're not doing anything wrong to it. They are. It's beautiful. Okay, good, good, good, good, good. Well, thanks again for coming on, guys. Go ahead, drop the hook.

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