Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 177 | our wildest stories: part 1

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

In this episode, we begin our brand new series where we tell our wild stories. In part 1 we discuss a graphic incident while Andrew was pursuing an interesting new hobby overseas, a close encounter with a bear, and the reason we received a call from the CDC. It's so fun for us to share these stories with you guys and take a look back at everything we've been through together. If you like this series or have an idea for another episode please drop a comment on our youtube channel! We can't wait for you guys to hear this one and stay tuned for more!! Love, Shawn & Andrew This episode is brought to you by Needed! ▶ Use code FAMILYMADE for 20% off at https://thisisneeded.com This episode is also brought to you by Better Help! ▶ Visit https://BetterHelp.com/EASTFAM today to get 10% off your first month Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions and manage your expenses the easy way by going to https://RocketMoney.com/eastfam. Follow My Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/ShawnJohnson Follow Andrew’s Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast Andrew’s Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewdeast?lang=en Like the Facebook page! ▶ https://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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They're like, do you have a couple minutes to talk? I was like, yeah. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things with Sean and Andrew. A podcast all about couples. And the things they go through. Andrew, I think, is more excited about this series. It's going to be a three-episode series we're about to do than any episode we've really done.

And I'm not going to lie, so am I. We're going to go down memory lane a little bit. Andrew has compiled a long list of our most ridiculous couple stories. Yeah, our most memorable couple stories. And I'm excited about this for a couple different reasons. One, you know, we've been doing YouTube for eight years now. Yep. Which is a long time.

But some of these stories happened before we were making videos about them. And uncaptured. Most of these stories aren't on YouTube because they're like little snippets that we didn't capture that actually just happened in real time. Right. That we can only tell in the audio way. Right. And then also, podcast is just like, we didn't always have a podcast, but this is such a fun format to, like, capture. This is really just selfish for Sean and I to have these things solidified so that maybe our kids can listen to them.

So I'm excited to, like, relive some of these, too, and just share them in all its glory without having to shove it into a YouTube video with all the clickbait and jump cuts and all the stuff. I'm most excited to see that his versus hers. Stories? Yeah, because I think we're going to have very different perspectives on these. Okay, where should we start? I know a good place to start. I want to start with my encounter with a bear. That's what you want to start with?

Okay, no, you start. This is just a random list that we've assimilated. Oh, I was going to go in order. You want to go in order? Because Trinidad and Tobago is pretty good. Okay, let's start in Trinidad and Tobago. Okay, guys. So let's go back to 2015.

Yeah. Andrew was jumping around the NFL. We were engaged. Yeah, we weren't even married then, which is wild. Yeah. And Andrew at this time is kind of, your contract was technically on the wire. You had been cut by someone,

and you were just kind of wandering around waiting for a call. Doing the free agent NFL player life. And in true Andrew fashion, by the way there's a lot of laws against everything we're going to tell you so NFL if you're listening i apologize please don't sue us um so his contract's on the wire in true andrew fashion he's been having these side conversations with USA rugby as in like the Olympic national team rugby you know some of the players you've been talking to them befriending them telling them that you want to be a rugby player all while you're in the NFL which again probably not legal and in

out of nowhere USA rugby contacts you in this like three day time span and they're like how about you come do a tryout during a USA rugby match against who'd you play against it was a couple different teams it was not a USA rugby team jersey that I was wearing no it was like the feeder it was one of the feeder teams yeah why don't you just come play in Trinidad and Tobago technically Tobago which is middle of the Caribbean yes and why don't you come to it tomorrow now let me just give you the red tape here real quick um Andrews technically if your contract's on the wire you're still like you're still contracted

by the NFL you went and played one of the most physical sports possible without your agent knowing I think you technically lied to him I think you lied to the coaches that we're calling all these things

but yet here we were we were like how do we get a plane ticket to turn it out in Tobago let's just hop on a plane So we go down there and I'd never heard of Trinidad and Tobago and I was excited to go to this exotic resort on this great adventure with my wife. We thought it was Turks and Kekos.

I was not optimistic about my NFL career. I'm still not, to be honest. It was not working out. So I was in this position where I was like, well, here I am like pretty much in the NFL almost. Surely I could play some other sport because NFL is the most competitive league out there. let me try out rugby and I'll just do a quick Olympics with them, win a gold medal, and then come back and play the NFL. That was literally my thought process. Now, I've never really lacked for confidence in certain areas of my life and others massive lack of confidence. But so we go down there

at Trinidad, Tobago with this team. I'd never met any of these people. By the way, getting to Trinidad and Tobago, you fly into Trinidad, which is basically like the main country. Then you have to after you land in Trinidad. So you can't. You can't technically, oh my gosh. Do you remember the plane ride, the puddle jump? I'm having flashbacks. You can't technically buy. Stop.

Yes. Yes. Oh. You cannot technically book a trip from like Atlanta to Tobago. You can only book it as far as Trinidad. But Tobago is a separate island. We didn't really understand this. So you land in Trinidad and you're wandering around a foreign country and you're like,

I need to get to Tobago and they're like, oh, you have to buy another plane ticket on this puddle jumper that goes from Trinidad to Tobago, which it's, yeah. So that in of itself is his own story. We got on this plane and it's like late pushing out of the gate and everyone's kind of upset. And apparently there had been a strife between one of the passengers who was. like trying to get someone who hadn't bought a ticket her mother her mother onto the plane by like you know pressuring this flight attendant and so at one point they turn around in front of the plane and then say and they yell who on this plane thinks they should let my mom on and like I think they were expecting everyone to like get behind them and say yeah let them on

and no one was like no let's freaking go we're late we're supposed to have pushed off 30 minutes anyway that was funny I'd never experienced anything like that anyways we land in Tobago and we land in the middle of the night because we've been traveling all day. Again, being so naive and dumb at our age, thinking it was like Turks and Caicos and there was going to be some four seasons resort. Couldn't get a taxi because it was like this like heckling situation. Someone tried to take our bags. Wow. Yeah. People were trying to hand us. We couldn't find where we were supposed to stay either. We couldn't find where we were supposed to stay. The communication with this team was not ideal.

It was not polished like the NFL is. No. So we start walking, which I don't think I would recommend in hindsight. We find our hotel, which is surrounded by barbed wire fence. Looks as if it might fall down in a second, the building itself. We go inside, still can't find anybody, try to check into this hotel, can't even do that. Our names aren't on the list. It's all these things.

Anyways, fast forward. We get into our room. Yeah, there's, I mean, you have to boil the water. There's no first aid kit, foreshadow. Anyway, wake up the next day and go out to the first practice. I was hyped because Sean had this sweet contract with Nike, and she gifted me some really nice, like, soccer cleats, because what you run in cleat-wise in rugby is different than in football.

So she got me these soccer cleats. Never worn them before. I got to my first practice with these brand-new cleats on this Caribbean. like clay soil. It's like 100 plus degrees. It was hot. It was hard soil. We go out there and practice for like two hours and within the first 15 minutes I had blisters on my feet from all these different factors, which was not great, right? We go back. I'm in extreme pain and literally my feet are falling apart. We have a picture of this with blisters, like skin just peeling off. If you are watching on YouTube, this episode will post the picture so you can see. So then we try to

like start bandaging these these blisters okay so here's the bigger issue andrew has no experience with like the blister situation everything that was my career so i was very used to like traveling and dealing with like rips on your hands like that that's part of gymnastics so you were very lucky that i at least like knew how to handle this but he had ripped off like the bottom of his feet it was so so bad it hurt so bad and I was like okay I've seen the Chinese do it I've seen the Russian do it I know all these different techniques we go to the first step or the front desk I was like first aid kit we at least need some alcohol at least nothing something because you would also I don't know if you remember oh my gosh

this is just coming back to you you would also like fun to relive an idiot I am sorry, but I have no other words now that I remember this. You had taken off your cleats and your socks and walked on the sandy beach and into the ocean. I thought that was going to sterilize it. I thought the saltwater would help. Oh my gosh. But what it did was just get sand into this blister. And bacteria into these massively open moons that you're walking around on.

Okay. So you go to the front desk. I ask for a first aid kit. I go to the rugby people ask for a first aid kit. I go everywhere and ask for a first aid kit. Nowhere to be found. We finally find this like drug convenience store in Tobago that doesn't sell first aid kits.

Those don't exist in Tobago. But they sold like, I think they had band-aids. And tea bags. And tea bags, which is very, which is this whole Russian thing. Okay. So we get back to the hotel room and I'm like, this is all we got. we're going to have to make do so i get water put it on the stove which we happen to have a stove in our room because you had to boil the water to drink it yeah and i started boiling a ton of water

after the water's scalding hot this is a russian technique i don't know if there's any science behind this so don't try this at home you boil the tea bags and scalding hot water and then you almost like cauterize the wound well you just take the tea bag and you put it on the on the wound yeah as hot as as as humanly possible yeah so i had like rinsed it out with a boiling water done all this i'd cut all the skin off with like some random something we found maybe a butter knife i don't even remember and got you cleaned up it took a long time and i would my feet at this point where they weren't feeling better and better they're feeling worse and worse because i'd done a lot of foolish stuff also we weren't just asking for first aid kids we were asking for like

just hey get us something to sterilize this with we remember we almost we bought a bottle like vodka we did buy a bottle of vodka uh we were looking for some type of alcohol we were looking for neosporin anything and it didn't exist yeah we now travel with that we now travel with our own first take care we were down there a total of three days first day was practice second and third day were games i'll tell you what you played with all these i played with the wounds and i was hurt but the first time i touched the ball i took that boy to the house you feel me i i got to try it I freaking got a tuddy, as they say. That was the second game.

I also had played rugby one season of my life. And that was like five years before, so I forgot some of the rules. And I did get some penalties. So all in all, my rugby showout was like, I would say pretty good. I need to add one more story. Go ahead. So as the games are happening, Andrew's like locked in on his own game. Whereas I am standing as a spectator and watching, there's like seven other games going on.

Guys are getting annihilated. There are some athletes out there. But like knocked unconscious, broken legs, being carried off the field on stretchers made of tarp, being put in ambulances that really couldn't operate. There were no athletic trainers. It was not like this like sanctioned event. So then some of the USA athletes are starting, or like the athletes that you were competing with from the United States were coming to me and they're like hey do you know how to

tape ankles and I was like you've got to be kidding me you're like no no I need my ankles taped so I became the athletic trainer and I was taping people's ankles I was also making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on white wonder bread team mom for everybody I became team mom and team doc but then you played two days mind you we have no self self service at all so during the entire day all three days we didn't have our cell phones with us we left them in the room the only time we got cell service is so we went back to the room and hooked up to Wi-Fi so the very last day we're there we go back to the hotel room I think we might have even fallen asleep it was late it was late and yeah I think it was I think it was like

7 p.m. I get a text from my agent who says hey the Giants want you to to do a tryout and I was like sweet cool like well this is about to wrap up here and turn outtabago his agent also thinks he's in like Nashville Nashville we're about to wrap up here in Trenton Tobago we'll go home we'll take care of my feet thing whatever's happening and then I'll go but he was like I said when do they want me there he said tomorrow at 6 a.m.

Bro I'll never forget I can't believe that worked I don't know how it worked so we're in the middle of Caribbean and we have to be in New York City by the next morning we're talking like a 11 hours. I don't remember how what time it was, but it was dark out. Yes. And we were laying in bed. So we wrote a note to the team and said, hey, sorry we had to split early.

They were doing like this big close out party. Yeah. We missed. We go to the airport. We buy a ticket. Fortunately, they had a flight available that got us in at like 2 a.m. To Miami. Oh, yeah.

We just bought a ticket to Miami. Yes. And then we had to figure out to get to New York from there. And then we had to figure out to get to New York. But. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, yeah, that hurt. So we finally.

So we get to the Tobago airport. We catch a puddle jumper to Trinidad. We catch our flight from Trinidad to Miami. And then we have to figure it out there. Now, this is where things got bad. So Andrew's been playing for three days on these open wounds on his feet. We're talking the ocean water and the sand, all these different tea bag things, the lack of sterilization, sweat and continuing to wear on it.

And I, in Miami, I almost had a. take you to a hospital. It scared me to death because from Tobago to Trinidad, you are complaining that you're in pain, which understandably you had open winds on your feet. We get into Trinidad, we start getting on the plane in Miami, and your legs are starting to swell. Swell and get pretty red. Red. So like from his foot to his knee, it's like hot, swollen red throbbing. And I broke out in a fever. Yes. By the time we landed in Miami, you had the fever, you had cold sweats. I was like, oh my God, you have like a infection.

Yeah. Oh my gosh. And we get to the Miami airport and I was like, the least I can do is find a freaking first aid kit with some alcohol and some like antibiotic cream or something. Wow. And so we found a first aid kit in the Miami airport. I tried to clean you up some more there.

Contemplated taking you to the emergency room. But you were like, press ahead. We got to get to this. Giants workout. We somehow catch a flight to New York City. Do I recommend this? No. Should we have gone to the emergency room?

Yes. Good mems. Yes. We land early that morning and we had a couple hours before I needed to be at the facility. You can't even walk. We got an Uber driver from the airport to the CVS before we went to the hotel. And Sean had been hustling trying to figure out like what's the best way to take care of the situation. both from an infection standpoint

and so Andrew can like feel good about the tryout like he has to run around tomorrow disclaimer the best way to take care of the situation that we were dealing with was to go to the emergency room yeah okay but I just need to that was not so she gets all this stuff

we go to the hotel and like we spent how again it's like 2 a.m. we maybe had three or four hours where Sean was like disinfecting she was bandaging she was uh we took a salt bath i remember or i was in a bath i don't know i had been talking to like doctors here in nashville but again within the nfl you can't call NFL affiliated doctors because it has to be

documented all these things so i was like calling other doctors i'm like what do i do and a whatever so i showed up to this workout and we had numbed this with spray i had taken a bunch of adville we did all the things that probably are not good in the long run i also remember right before you left the hotel, you were practicing walking. Yeah, because you didn't want them to know you were hurt. It hurt so bad that I couldn't move around normally. I couldn't walk much less run. And with a tryout with the NFL, the very first part of your tryout is a physical with

their doctors. So he was trying to pass the physical. And I was like trying to hide it too. Anyway, I did a lot of things wrong is what I'm gathering here. And maybe that's why my NFL career. didn't work out. But I showed up to this workout. I, like, did a decent showing, but definitely like one of my qualities that they were looking for is my speed down the field. And I was definitely lacking. I was like very tender on my feet. I'm out there with like Tom Coughlin,

who's like this NFL Hall of Famer coach. And it was like, it's a very stiff environment. There's like 30 coaches. And I'm just literally trying to walk normal. Anyway, spoiler alert, I didn't make the Giants roster that year. And I ended up continuing my NFL career after that, though, because that sent me on several other tryouts because all the other teams saw that I tried out. And I also didn't make the Olympic rugby team. But up into today, nobody in the NFL knew you were in Tobago.

Even my agent. Oh, also, the Giants were trying to buy my plane ticket. And they were like, hey, let's buy your ticket. And I was like, no, we're going to buy it. Because I didn't want them to see that I was in Tobago. I didn't want them to book a ticket from Trinidad and Tobago to New York to see, like, what is this guy on vacation or something? Yeah. So we had them reimbursed.

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that Sean and I love East Tennessee so much so that we got an Airbnb out there which we can link details to but it's this house that's on top of a mountain has this amazing panoramic view of like great Smoky Mountain National Park Pigeon Forge, Dollywood, all of it and I go out there to check this place out for the first time and I'm alone he goes by himself doesn't pack a single thing he's just like quickly going up and back yeah just to like make sure that everything looks good we're about to have tenants start and hopefully a lot of you guys will actually go stay there because it's really cool you'll know firsthand when you're there that like it is on the very very tip top isolated in the middle of nowhere top of a mountain it's amazing we'll include video footage so i go up there and there's no one else around there's like there's no society close there is a hot tub yep and i decide man it would be such a great night to sit in the hot tub and to look at the stars just by myself like we just had a kid it was big life changes happening

and i just wanted like a night to sit in god's glory so i didn't pack a bathing suit i'm butt naked in this hot tub chilling looking at the stars it's like it's like midnight and if you guys like click the link below and like look at pictures if you were to look at it since it's since the house is like suspended on the edge of a cliff almost the hot tub is like suspended as well so they're built up on these like stilts stilts so it's like built up and the only thing around you is like

drop off yeah there's one entrance that's like a three foot wide gate and that's how you walk onto this platform that's on stilts that's holding a hot tub yeah so I'm sitting there just like thankful I was like wow what a night when all of a sudden I hear rustling behind me but you should

not hear at this house because it's in the middle of nowhere there's no people around and uh in a first I thought it was just a wind blowing the leaves so I gave it a second and then I heard it very deliberately it was something stepping on leaves and my first thought was this is a person up here yeah who knows this is isolated and I'm about to die yeah I'm about to die butt naked in this hot tub and I was like literally I think through my options like all right if they have a gun here's my plan a if it's just a fist fight I'm ready to attack I'm ready to like take this guy down naked

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm ready to do whatever I need to do. Just swinging. So I turn around slowly and again, adrenaline is pumping because I was like, this is going down and the leaves were like 10 yards away. Yeah. Turn around and I see something crawling.

And I was like, interesting. Again, it's like pitch blackout because it's in the middle of the forest. So I still thought it was a person until it clicked it. Oh my gosh, that's a bear. Which, I don't know. Is that better or worse? Would you prefer a person or a bear? I think I would prefer a person.

It's a little, and so then I'm thinking, okay, here's a bear, 10 yards away from me. Yeah. Literally. Crawling, like walking towards me. And I'm trying to remember this freaking saying of like brown bear, get down, black bear, whatever the thing is. And it's not, because it's such a panic situation, it's not coming to me. I'm pulling it up so we all know. You're pulling up the saying.

So I'm in this hot tub, butt naked. And I was like, well, honestly, these are the thoughts going to throw my head. Honestly, if I die buck naked in a hot tub by a bear attack, that's a decent way to go. And I, like, shrink down to my head is just above the water. You know, a hot tub is like, whatever, five feet wide. What's the saying? Okay, it's everybody memorize, say this 10 times, okay? Just because you're going to encounter a bear someday.

If it is brown, lay down. If it is black, fight back. Okay. If it is white. good night good night it means polar bears are the most deadly polar bears you can't got no shot so I kind of dip

down so my chin's just above the water and I'm watching this bear you poop your pans in the hot tub no I was like on it I was like the most focused I've ever been in my life trying to evaluate the different options that I have so I have one exit like Sean was talking about it's like a three foot wide gate the bear was crawling towards that

there was a chance for me to climb up on this on this railing and jump to the house which would have been a pretty athletic like five-yard jump that the bear probably couldn't have got me or I could drop off the back of the cliff which I was like I was like but but then I was like okay does a bear how does a bear do on a steep side like could he crawl down and get me so there's a big drop off not a lot of good options or fourth option was I fight the bear which I was also ready to do I was like I'm gonna boop him right in the nose freaking just boop him but if he one swipe of that claw I donzo and he was big we have

I took a video, the story to fall. So I get down, the bear crawl, keeps crawling towards me, keeps crawling towards me. He puts his head over the far side of this hot tub. So I'm in the water on the far side. He puts his head over the other side. We're like five feet apart, making eye contact. It's like a showdown.

And we're just staring at each other. And I'm trying to feel out this situation. Like, okay, I don't want to make any sudden movements. I don't want to get swiped by Paul. I take a deep breath. Should have just, like, splash him. I start, just to feel out how he's going to move, I start moving left to right, moving left to right.

And he kind of froze up when I did that. And then I start moving, left to ride a little bit more, start making bigger movements. And he paused, and then he would back up. And then I started to put my hands up, and I started making noise. And so I got the fact that he was a little skittish. So he backed up about five yards

and, like, put his claws up on this tree, so much so that I had room to, exit off of the the platform could you imagine so think about being like just playing chase you know that feeling this bear was as close as i am to you no that's what i'm saying like the amount of like butt clinching oh yeah as i'm making that run oh bro so i sprint in this house close the door lock the door i call sean i'm literally trembling sharing the story i've never had that much adrenaline in my life. I was like so on it. I have never in my life heard you sound like that. And it was it started out as this like funny laughing conversation on my part because I was like

babe what's good because you were you were so adrenaline high in shock that you sounded giddy at first and then as you're talking it started sinking in I was like oh my god he's scared for his life right now. and then I started talking to you like okay babe snap out of it did you shut the doors yeah did you lock the doors well I went out there took a video of the bear which we have thank goodness um and then we closed all the doors she's like helping me think through the situation I still have to spend the night there like it's now 1 a.m and I was like oh my gosh I'm just so glad that I'm behind closed doors away from the bear and Sean generously shared this information she was like the next morning no no no she's like oh yeah this morning um i was watching

this today's show segment where they shared a story about a bear broke into a locked door they like they like undid the lock of a door and broke into this house this is as i'm about to go to bed so i lay there literally the whole night i've never been that scared i never have trouble sleeping i was terrified that the bear was going to freaking break in and eat me alive well i will say at this house there are like safety measures that we now understand are for bears like when we first went and checked this place out they have like gates everywhere that have like double locks on them and then the doors and there's like a door within a door within a door like it's truly like bear proof but because it was Andrew's first time visiting we weren't we didn't understand that

and so as he's going to bed I was telling you about the story that I saw on the news and I was like you need to make sure all of those doors and gates are shut. And he's like, I can't go back out there. You know, what if he's downstairs? So poor guy didn't sleep at all. Wild. Tim's new scrambled egg loaded croissant. Or is it croissant?

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We have a whole list. Each one of these is a story and we've shared two now. Are we married yet? No, we're still engaged. 2015. We just gotten engaged. So we had just gotten engaged.

It was the summer. we fly we're on like this heater of like flying place to place to place to place we fly to state college Pennsylvania where I coach at like this gymnastics camp called Woodward we spend a couple days there on the very last day we go to this meal and we Andrew eats like this completely raw steak it's as raw as it so yeah we're in the middle of like Amish country There's international people there. One of them orders like a raw steak, which is natural to their culture. Natural to their culture.

They bring this steak out. And this is not like a restaurant. It's like somebody's house you're eating at. If they had a cow in the backyard, they just slaughtered. Yeah. So I ate my steak that I ordered medium well or whatever back in the day. And this lady didn't finish her steak that was bleeding on the plate. who we're friends with

and she was like Andrew we finished this and I was like not wanting to be rude so I accepted it you were also in the middle of the NFL and you were like yeah I eat the steak

wait we haven't talked about this too I actually think I was part of the Chipotle Ecoli breakout you remember that would be different that would be so around this time too

I was trying to pack on weight and I was eating Chipotle like twice a day we don't know where forecasting we don't know where the Ecoli came from yeah either this raw steak or chocolate yeah okay

anyways forward from Woodward from State College Pennsylvania we've been we go to LA LA we bounce around we bounce around from city to city for indie LA Des Moines I know because that's the I know so we go to like two three four cities where we end up in Des Moines Des Moines is our last stop before Andrew goes back to the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas Kansas City, and I go back to Nashville. Now, we get to Des Moines, and Andrew is just, like, not himself. He's complaining about all these stomach problems.

He's complaining that he literally cannot eat without having to run to the bathroom. I mean, we were in L.A. doing the S.B.'s red carpet. Like, that was our first big kind of event we did. I would even drink water, put anything in my stomach, I would have to sit on the toilet for like a half hour. My stomach was wrecked. And it was wrecked for a while. We had been on the road for a couple of weeks. Yeah.

So we get to Des Moines. He's complaining about all this. And I was like, okay, let's make an appointment with my family. Oh, my God. I wanted to kill you. Oh, man. Let's make an appointment with my family doctor that I've, like, grown up going to. Get you in.

Get some, like, blood work. Like, whatever. Now, the conversations Andrew and I are having are clearly, like, something is wrong, right? So he cannot eat without, like, pooping his pants minutes afterwards. Yeah, it was not good. That was his symptoms. Has this been his whole life? No.

I'm so dumb. No, it has not. That's an important thing to remember it. This has not been his whole life. This has been like a recent occurrence for the past couple weeks. So I get him into our family practitioner. I go in there with him. And it's like you and I in the office, I'm sitting in the corner, being a good fiancé, not saying anything.

like this is his let him do his thing whatever the doctor literally walks in and says tell me what's going on and he goes doc i think i'm gluten intolerant i need you to test me for um gluten basically like a gluten intolerance or celiac and i'm sitting in the corner my eyes almost pop out of my head and i was like what but then again we are aren't married at the time we hadn't like figured out this dynamic completely it was trendy back then to be celiac it was trendy huh and i just like i just notice immediately with this doctor he writes him off he's like must not be bad andrew's like oh i kind of get like this upset stomach when i eat like bread and i'm like guys i am literally sitting there like

i'm sorry what is happening right now and the doctor wraps this whole conversation up in five minutes he's like we'll get a stool sample you're good to go which by the way if you've ever done a stool sample you know it's one of the least pleasant experiences in life so a pea sample is like fine it's a little uncomfortable stool sample horrible you have to poo into like a bucket you got to dish it out like like you know those little uh ice cream scoops that give you at the the ice cream parlor that's like a sampler You have to like scoop it out with that. I think it was that day that I learned you are ridiculous.

And then you have to put in this thing like a smaller little container. And it was doing that. Like we walk out of that doctor's room to the lab where he has to do this. And I am, I'm shook. I am like either he is way blowing this out of proportion the past couple weeks where he think he's been telling me like literally poop is just flowing out of his body. or he's got a tiny little stomach ache and he thinks he's gluten intolerant and needs to change his diet.

And I was like, who is this man? Okay, now you're not saying who it's this guy. I was just like, I was appalled. You're dumb. Okay, so. So fast forward, the doc says, we'll get back to you in like 10 days. I'm going to Kansas City, I think it was like the next day.

The next morning. For my first NFL training camp, right? And I go in there, I was like the favorite to make the team. And so we go on there, out to practice. Every day before practice, we're doing hot tub. Every day after practice, we're doing community ice baths. Like, they had this big pool set up, like, 50 guys could get into this ice bath with after. You're in a locker room, like laundry, sharing laundry. And anyway, I get a call about three days in. No, longer. It was like a week.

Okay. From my unknown number, and I pick it up and they're like, hey, it's just Andrew East. Yes. This is Andrew East. Who is this? They said this is the CDC. It was the CDC. Like Department of Health, something like that. Center for Disease Control. They're like, do you have a couple minutes to talk? I was like, yeah. What is this? Like one of those spam surveys or something like that. Anyway, they're like, no, you've been diagnosed with E. coli. And we need to know every city you've been to and every person you've interacted with, every restaurant you ate at, et cetera. So I was on a heater Of traveling

Yes So I'm like Okay well we went to We went to Stay college We went to Los Angeles Des Moines Indiana They're like

Could you have traveled By coastal any more And spread this to any more people And then we go out to this whole thing I share this information They're like okay well Here's the thing You may or may not be contagious now

E. coli like spreads pretty good If there's one takeaway Just don't be with many people publicly where you could be swapping stuff and don't get in any communal bodies of water. Yeah. And I'm just reflecting on these ice bass. With the entire NFL team. Of the Kansas City Chiefs who has now won like a couple Super Bowls. And hot tubs.

Spoiler didn't make that team either. But fortunately there was no other E. coli outbreaks on that team. So big win for them. Also, spoiler, his stool sample came back and he is not gluten intolerant. guys just e coli so unpleasant experience um gosh i i never had a chance i never really gave NFL my my full focus did i never i was scared though because i was feeling bad but like the i was very much in this mindset of like i have to make the team and i don't want to like be sick for my first couple days of practice right yeah yes you get that like oh hey here's this rookie and he missed the first

week of practice because he had a stomach bug that could have been a reality for sure i think it's a little bit more than a stomach well not but but you don't know that in the moment i don't get the call until like it in retrospect it's like oh yeah he had e coli obviously said but anyway it's not a good situation regardless this was fun this was fun they only go up from here guys we only get more outrageous we just can't capture everything into a youtube video i'm really glad we didn't capture that into a YouTube video, babe. Yeah, me too. Anyway, we're excited to share more of these.

Excited to hear what you guys think. Make fun of me as much as you want. I'm here for it. Just, you know, do it in good spirits. But we've been through a lot, babe. We have. I think we're going to need more than three episodes for this. We might.

We've got to curate some of these stories because some of these are just for you and I. Really? Yeah, yeah. But we have a whole list. Anyway, thanks for making this far. If you haven't yet, and you're listening to this portion of the show,

please give this episode a thumbs up, subscribe to this show, wherever you're listening. And we'll see you next time. I'm Andrew. I'm Sean. We're the East fam. Out.