Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 285 | There was a shift in Episode 5: Special Forces

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

We’re going back to talk about Episode 5! Last week we accidentally went ahead so let's take it back! Dang, this one was tough. We showed up to Day 5 knowing things were about to shift when the DS told anyone who had doubts to hand in their armband and leave. We saw a side of them we hadn’t seen before.We ran the brutal heat race, faced the backward dive, and left that episode more battered than we expected. We’re so grateful to have been a part of this show and can’t wait for you guys to watch how it all unfolds! Branch Basics ▶ go to https://www.BranchBasics.com/EASTFAM and use code EASTFAM for 15% off and FREE shipping. BEAM ▶ Go to https://www.ShopBeam.com/COUPLETHINGS and try Beam Kids today. Nurture Life ▶ head to https://www.NurtureLife.com/EASTFAM and use code EASTFAM for 55% off your first order PLUS free shipping Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletterFollow our podcast Instagram ▶https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ Follow My Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/ShawnJohnson Follow My Tik Tok ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnjohnson Shop My LTK Page ▶ https://www.shopltk.com/explore/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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things. With Sean and Andrew. Today is episode five. Episode five. We just finished watching this. And I love this show. What do you love about it?

I just think it's thrilling. I love the character development. I love learning and seeing people push through weakness and, like, better it. I love the intensity. I love the cinematography. is honestly beautiful the setting is always insane whether it be new zealand or morocco where we did it i feel like the narrator's voice is epic i feel like the way they try to paint picture people in a in a positive light is really unique i will say to add to that there were a lot of things that happened small things

of like things that could be very very embarrassing to people because you're put in such vulnerable raw positions and you're super afraid and I've been really impressed to see that they haven't shown little things like that for they've like kept it out on purpose for like integrity of the human being which is really cool most reality shows try to capitalize on anything that's dramatic or embarrassing or shameful because honestly those are interesting stories But what I appreciate about this show is the fact that they're like, no, let's actually dig into people's stories and try to show them in the best way we can. Like you think, how many of us had to take massive dumps in front of each other and we're

wearing mics? I don't think I've ever heard you. Yeah. And how many people were changing naked and like you're just put in so many awkward positions that they truly could have exploited. They did show you in your skimpies on this past episode. Do you see that? I mean, it was like...

For a split second. Grandie panties. So it was hardly skimpies. Just saying. Let's do life updates real quick. Life is moving fast right now. We just got back from fall break. Do you want to debrief how we went to Orlando and all the things we did?

We went to Orlando. We did Disney World for two days. We went to an Orlando pride soccer game. So fun. Women's soccer. It was incredible. So fun. We went to like a really fun restaurant only for bear because it's like his jam right now.

He lives for bulldozers. It's like the first word he says when he wakes up and the last thing he says when he goes to bed. But there was a restaurant called Construction Zone. You wore hard hats. There was some bulldozer in the restaurant. I went there. I went to a magic game, which was so much fun. We got to see some alligators and Gatorland, which is like a little animal.

I don't know, reservation came and there were snakes and lizards, he held an alligator. Which is so on par for jet. Yeah. Can I just say mom hack, parent hack, if you're doing the Orlando thing, this is not an ad. I swear to gosh. I appreciate that. Yeah. Evermore Resort.

We had everyone tell us we needed to stay at like the four seasons down there or like a really nice restaurant or hotel. We ended up staying at the Evermore. It blew me away. I think it has to be one of the nicest resorts to ever say that. Highly recommend. Great pricing. Yeah, compared to four seasons. I don't know if it was just a time of year, but I'm not saying it's like cheap.

No. But for the experience, we had a pool. It's like a house that you run out. It's almost like an Airbnb, but they're all owned by the resort. There's a pool. There's like a large space for the kids to run around in. Our kids, they had like this little sand area under a hammock. They played in for hours.

You can still get room. service and housekeeping and so it was incredible yeah it was great so thank you orlando uh i think we have a couple of fun videos we'll share from our time there i also wanted to share some comments from previous videos uh we did the live stream everyone's really excited for us to publish our episode four i know recap because we are now a week behind but i felt like it was important to do yeah we need to catch up so we might have to release two in one week we'll see maybe because the finale can't come out and then our recap come out two weeks later you think we should catch up okay well sandy ho checker says watching you two support each other was so heartwarming when sean put her face to yours

and you told her she was beast you could tell she was exhausted that was at the end of episode four uh sean and i did have a little cuddle moment that they included and then hannah benson said i'm actually watching the show to see you guys on it going to be honest didn't think it was going to be my cup of tea but i am loving it it's so fun to see you guys on the show honestly there's a lot people that have said that and um i hope we're not letting you down so i'm excited to see the character development for the rest of the time we're on the show to see if it develops anymore um yeah yeah it was a fun experience so let's dive into episode five recap a little behind the scenes episode starts off with ravi and nick talking about how they're beat up we meet in the parade square

and they leave. Ravi and Nick leave. I feel like there are some missing details that maybe, honestly, I heard Rudy yell in a way that I've not heard anybody yell ever in my life. Ever. And they did not include that. And that was a result of a couple things. We don't need to like dive into the full situation.

But Ravi and Nick did leave early that morning, first thing. something that they value on the show and something that the DS tried to like really instill in all of us from day one is they were not there for a TV show. They were there to put on this course and this challenge in in exchange for us doing the course, what they demanded of us was respect of the course, respect of them, and respect of their careers that we are trying to simulate for a short amount of time. and some of the characters who had a harder time really buying into that seriousness got reprimanded for it in a way that I had never heard before only because it came out of a

please do not disrespect everything that we are creating here in showcasing and trying to like teach you because it actually stems from something very real for us. I've never heard anybody yell like that in my life. Never. You could even tell, like, I guess knowing Rudy

what his kind of baseline equilibrium is and in the show they showed clips of him and he was like fired up. You can tell just by how he was looking. At the very beginning when Nick and Robbie leave, you can see on Rudy's face. It's just a different demeanor. Yeah.

I do feel like this was a pivotal point in the show as far as Nick and Rovey provided a lot of comedic relief. Yeah. And their exit sparked like a more somber tone. Yeah. Both how their exit went down and then also obviously having them leave. Yeah. Was big.

I also do want to say one more life update, which was last night, Sean and I actually had the opportunity to host an event for the Special Forces Charitable Trust, who we've worked with for years. the green berets it's a nonprofit that supports the families of special forces because if you look at the stats on like mental health suicide rate all these things 22 people yeah a day that people in the military commit suicide a day yeah and you know we do a lot of work with families with the videos that we make and so we felt like this was a a really important thing that we could involve with and sean's actually been working with this organization in one form or another for like what, 15, 20? 17 years. 17 years. Since I was 15.

And we got to host an event here in Nashville where we got to meet some green berets. And then it was really fun to talk to them about, you know, they're all excited about the show. They all watch the show. Which is comical. They even like brought it up while we were there. And I was like, this is a laughable thing as far as like, all of you in this room are heroes. Yeah. heroes the most humble

amazing heroes we've ever met and all they wanted to talk about was the show and I was like we got to go play but they were like all bought in on it for a short amount of time

they're like I want to do some of those challenges yeah it was so ironic and they're like oh it's special forces world's toughest test you're like no stop you guys sacrifice so much more and I feel like if there's one thing that I would like to come as a result of us being on the show is maybe bringing more appreciation to these guys.

Because, I don't know, we get to make podcasts about this and be on a TV show and do all these media tours about it, which we just published on the main channel, our little media tour behind the scenes, which is fun. But I hope that people have a greater appreciation for what the special forces actually go through as a result of us talking about our experience of doing the hard things of pretending to do this but um anyway ravi and nick it was fascinating they uh it is kind of a choice it's not like you're pretending to be on uh it's all so real but there is a a decision you to make of am i going to fully walk into this experience and like buy into listen to

to the DS and doing as I'm told and taking this seriously or am I going to joke around and try to be the- Am I going to see it as a TV show? You can either walk into it and say, I'm here to play a TV show game. Or you can walk into it and say, I'm going to immerse myself in a special forces experience to live the life of a special forces operator for a short amount of time. That just so happens to be filmed and yeah i think they they played that line of like we're here to have fun and this is no longer kind of fun so i'm i'm done but i'm not even saying one's better or worse because having ravi and nick there was a highlight you know they were so much fun it was a treat to get to know them it just started to create some friction which was interesting so they left again super somber

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Because I can't remember it correctly if they swapped it. I believe we went to the water first. But I can't remember. So let's see. Yeah, 7 a.m. we woke up, Rovey and Nick left. This on day five. Eight to two that day we did the backwards truck. fall. So we did the water first. And that was a long drive. It's like an hour and a half drive each

way. I think in that, in that car ride, Cody and I had some really fascinating theological discussion. I'm like, how do you end up in a place where your religion informs and endorses multiple wives? Anyway, it was actually a delightful, like, insight into, wow, that's fascinating. You're really, really good at being curious with people, even despite having you know differing beliefs yeah and i think cody felt very disarmed around you in the sense of he was able to share a lot um but yeah it was very fascinating so i'll walk through the real life schedule and then we walk through the episode 8 to 2 was a backward trust fall 2 to 4 was a clean up the courtyard and the candy fiasco which we will talk about oh my gosh and then 430 to 645 was a truck kit

carry relay challenge that was a short drive that's uh And then 10 p.m. I had written down that we did the candy penalty beasting in the cage. Okay. So they did that pretty much backwards during the episode. And the episode it goes, Ravi and Nick. Oh. And then we did Who Do You Not Trust? Oh, yeah. Which was honestly, one of my least favorite things to do on the show. You know, day two, we did this big group share. You hear about people's stories. And you really open up. and you're like, I want to have your back. Yeah, we're all team.

And then they put you in this situation where you're choosing, who do you want to leave behind? The whole, like, backstory was, all right, you have a team of six. You're going out and there's one person you need to leave behind because you have seven of you here in this room. And who are you leaving behind?

They argue, they say, we have to do this every single day based off of the real-life scenario. Yeah, you can only fit so many people in a helicopter. Who's the best one to leave off? for this particular you know

thing we have to go do it just felt a little maniacal and manipulative to like have us do this bonding stuff and then now you got to freaking act somebody but this is also the very first day I would say

where up until this point on the show or the course everything that you've watched and everything that we experienced was very physical there was a lot of mental um like strength that went into

those physical challenges because you're facing fears. But this is the first day they started introducing psychological, I don't want to say warfare, but like a psychological side of it where you're like, okay, I got to put all emotion, all offensiveness aside, insecurities. Like it's no longer about fear. It's like how I can actually do my job with all of this going on. And this is where it starts to get a little weird. Dicey. Yeah, it gets, it gets fascinating. So I think they displayed that whole thing rather accurately, just to fill in a little more. Really, there was two main numbers called 8 and 19, which were Chanel and Gia.

Was it 19 or 13? I don't remember. But, I feel like it's important to mention that Gia was not too far voted second. yeah like it was a close second and that's important to keep in mind for later just important to keep in mind so you got chanelle and gia it was so brutal they call you up there and you're standing facing everybody and it's like all right who do you not want on your team i tried to i tried to i tried to shimmy it a little bit yelled out for it but you don't see andrew gets called up probably close to last yeah like who would you choose and he calls himself. I said 11, which is my number. And Billy's like, all right, 11. And then he's like,

wait a minute, you're 11. Nice try, cheeky. And then, and then they got a little mad. They were like, no, effing around. Like, answer the question. Yeah. So then they forced, because I really didn't want to isolate anybody or make anyone feel lonely because we had just gone through this whole bonding experience of hearing people's back. And it was also so dumb because like you were obviously like the strongest to there. One of the top strongest. Yeah. and they're like okay yeah whatever so anyway they forced us to each choose somebody and then we all load up in the car and it was like sucked yeah we all obviously did not feel great about that situation um in real life we went to the backwards trust fall but in the show it talks about the uh kick carry

one thing that i think was amplified i don't think it was like a stretch from the truth but the leadership aspect of the kick carry like the you know driving the the the truck through the vehicle was not as explicit as some other times where they had like leadership opportunities which was kind of interesting to see how they brought that more to the surface but you still had like someone who was there to like be a team morale yeah there were a lot of logistics because there's like I don't know it's close to 20 of these little boxes that you had to carry and so someone kind of had to say all right well you you had to organize it pretty much. Let's start with

that challenge and we've kind of gone through it and we'll jump out of order here but we'll go in the form of the episode. So the first challenge they show after we have to select the weakest link, we go to this kit carry. You have to jump in a car with a team.

There are teams of three except for Randall and Eric's team. Which is crazy because this was brutal. Yeah, you drive through the city, you stop, an explosion happens and then they just point at this like big pile of like steel boxes filled with stuff and they're like you have to count it you have to carry it you have to get it all in the back of the truck and that's all they're telling us so we run we start loading them up these suckers are heavy i do think it's worth talking about

what we thought this challenge would be by the way i was hyped sean and i were not on a team often, but for this challenge, it was Sean, Christy, Rampone, and I. Great team. And I was like, whatever comes away, we're going to dominate. We're all locked in. In previous seasons, I think in every previous season, there has been some challenge where you get in a car and then you have to drive through a village and there's explosions and you have to identify like, where was a hostile or whatever. And so we thought we were going to like drive a car through the village for 10 minutes each. You're like, oh, that's interesting that we're doing it as a team, but I'm sure it'll still be this thing. I had no idea. It was an endurance strength challenge. Right. So we were

the second group to go and the show it had us being the first group to go but we're standing just to paint the picture of the context Morocco it's like desert desert desert and we're standing in the desert and then like there's a far off village maybe two miles away and so the first team goes and you have no idea what they're doing but you see the trucks pull in and you're like all right we waited there for a while it was 45 minutes yeah it was a long challenge and then they come back and get us we go in the car we're like all right sick we're gonna Like, everyone keep an eye out. You see, I think Chanel saying, I don't see anything on my window.

We were all thinking we had to identify hostile. And then we drove, I don't know, it was not that long, into this village. They stopped the car because it's an explosion. And they're like, you got to get out. And I was like, oh, no. I have no idea what we're getting into. And so, again, you go from being, like, static and sitting for a long period of time to full-on sprint for, you have no idea how long you're going to do it.

It was roughly 45 minutes, but between the setup, like at this point, we understood the challenge might be 10 minutes and it takes 30 minutes from the like set up to boxes or whatever the challenge is again. So I don't know if I'm getting into a five minute workout or a 45 minute workout. So then they're yelling at us to get out of the car. They're showing us this kit that we have to pick up and put in the back of the truck. Now my mind, and probably everyone's mind, is going to load the kit up, drive somewhere. Yeah. Again, driving challenge. Yeah.

Unload the kit. No. Oh. So we load the kit up. What they didn't show in detail was there were probably 20 boxes in the kit. Yeah. And you had your Bergens as well. So it's like 20 boxes, this big net, and then your Bergens.

You get to load every single one up. Keep count because you had to keep track. And then we got back in the car. Now they're saying drive again. We drive 20 yards. Not even. And they say, stop. Big explosion.

Your truck's done. Now they're like, now you got to carry your kit to the X-Fill location. So we just physically blew our wad by like hustling all these kits to load them in the truck. We thought we were going to be sitting down again, driving for a while. And they're like, you have to unload it. So now it's unload and carry to the next DS. So you're thinking, okay, I got to carry this to the DS. This is like where we're going.

So one by one, maybe by two. I would say the lightest box weighed There might have been one that weighed like 20 pounds But I'd say the lightest usually was probably like 40, 50 pounds And then the heaviest was like over 100 pounds Yeah No doubt And I'm not gonna like I dominated this challenge

You did you were like doing two At one point I carried four Because I remember Like Decently I'm not to two my own heart I'm decently strong Like for my size You're an animal

but picking up more than one was like not feasible because okay so think about it's not even the weight it's the way they were like yeah they were awkward five six feet long and then it's like harsh edges so just the way your wrists were like and the handles aren't big so it was super clunky and you're like walking but even picking up a small one for me I was like picking up probably 60 pounds and trying to waddle it with my bergen on to the next place so now by now you're carrying a hundred pounds. Because you have your 30, 40 pound bag and this kit. Yeah, it was. So one by one or two by two, we get to DS. We like drop the boxes and they're like sprint back, get the rest. And so we're doing, it probably took us six back and forth. Relays. To get all the kit to the DS. And you're

probably walking 150 yards. It was, yeah, probably 150 yards. Yeah. Football field and a half. It was about right yeah so then we get to the ds all of our stuff by now after six trips is like to the first ds and you know what they say pick it all back up take it to the next ds and by now my mind was it was going one of two ways it was like what the are we about to do or just grind after okay so we loaded up in the truck we unloaded it and we had to move it and then after that's I guess it would be the third time that we had to move it I did have like a panic moment I'm like oh frick when is this going to end because you keep thinking this is a finish line we just got to push hard and they didn't show it out no yeah no they looked like it was just

one stretch we probably went we probably took it close to a mile I agree with that yeah probably a mile so we ended up having to do the six you know the six back and forward fours per move per move at least five times to make it to the the final place where you're like dropping all the boxes so we had to pick just to clarify pick up and move these 20 boxes from a to b about six times okay sorry it's it's actually five times I think is what we disagree making sense so like from a to b we had to go back and forth six times to get all the boxes there and then b to c yep six times and then c to d d d to e e to f after g And then they had this drops.

And you're like walking up this hill. Again, it's uneven footing. There's just, like the Saharan Desert is just rocks. And it's 120 degrees out. So you see a sweating. There's not a lot of opportunity to grab a water except like in that short relay. Something we haven't talked about. I don't know why I just remember this, but I remembered it from this one.

It started on day one. Something that was like all around. Do you remember those bushes? Oh, with the freaking thorns? So there are these bushes everywhere. It looked like a really dried out. bush of branches almost but there are these white tiny thorns and they were everywhere and so you're trying to carry all these boxes you're tripping and falling the amount of bushes I fell into

and you would get them stuck yeah I remember I had like 50 stuck in my hands that they're so thin that you can't get them out and it would cause all these like blisters oh my gosh so speaking of hands keep in mind we had just done the casualty carry two days before so our hands are still beat up you see everyone has like tape on their fingers because we all have blisters thorns your feet are annihilated because the heat and we're walking running so many places people have blisters everywhere yeah so it's just like a a blend of a really interesting context it's november which basically means two things in our house cold and flu season and mountains of leftover Halloween candy no joke still piles of it and you know what that leads to tummy aches tears and a

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I guess we were 12 minutes ahead is what they said. At least, yeah. It was a long time. And the other team was kind of just a mess. It was like they were throwing the kit. Everyone was tired. It was a brutal physical challenge. At the end of theirs, it looked like a yard sale.

It was pretty brutal. Flipped upside down. But I will say something that they didn't show again. Everything is about, like, being meticulous and diligent and, like, listening and following the rules and whatever. As we're standing there, trying to catch our breath, all three of us, you, me, and Christy are, like, on the verge of throwing up, so tired, drinking water. You say something about our Bergens, but you refer to them as bags. Oh, frick. I did that multiple times.

Yes. And DSQ, don't know why, lost his ish. at the fact that Andrew called him bags. So as we're waiting for this team to finish, he makes us get into a plank position and do push-ups and hold this plank for probably five minutes. On rocks. Yeah.

So you, me and Christy, are just holding a plank and doing push-ups at an incline because our feet had to be on the boxes for probably five minutes. And also there was no water on this one. Do you remember that? Yeah. So, Malta, just parts. I also forgot in episode four I had to do 50 pushups because Rudy

you went pee by yourself which Andrew they talked to us I did so many times which was fascinating so a peek behind the curtain we're we're doing the damn repel if you remember from episode four and you're standing out there for hours so like people would just go pee at this one spot again people wouldn't just go pee by themselves I said people would pee at this one spot the rules where you could never be by yourself and I did that but I went like 10 yards. It doesn't matter. I just was, okay, it was a dumb move.

And then Rudy yells at me. He's like, you can't be by yourself. Broke the rules. So he says, drop and give me 50. 50 push-ups. By the way, I was toasted after those 50 because my body was so depleted. And then it was fascinating.

I think the DS wanted in a certain capacity to push us harder, like even have more opportunities to penalize people. Yes. But because of the heat, in the extreme conditions. They had to, like, rain it back. Like, the producers stepped in and were, like, you can't do this.

They're already getting taxed too much. And you're like, frick, thank good. There were doctors watching the whole time. They weren't intervening ever. But the doctors would, like, at some point, whisper to the producers, like, it's getting, we're getting to a level where, like. It's dangerous. They could.

We've already had several medical withdrawals. But I still had to do my 50 pushups. I think they just took that for, for, future now. Okay. So we finish this carry one by one on the teams go by. We do the punishment five minute plank and push-ups because of you saying bags. We get back in the cars. The whole challenge, by the way, too, was like you have to move that you're in the hostile village. They find, they find you out. And so you have to get out of the village and not leave a trace. Yeah. And then a helicopter's going to come pick you up. So like the organization, the boxes and

that little net that you'll see in the episode is like supposed to hide the kit from people being able to see it so obviously so that it buys you time for a helicopter to come pick you up anyway just kind of an interesting side note so we get back in the cars we go back we have lunch yeah and this is where the candy thing happens so we're having lunch the freaking candy thing I cannot believe we got rope adoped in the most classic way we have to be careful here because like we ate the candy so long story short Chanel goes for her interview She comes back Randall goes for his interview

He comes back We've eaten lunch We're waiting around And all of a sudden Randall brings us this box We're sitting there chit-chat And like drying our gear What we didn't realize

But we had We kind of figured out later And now got confirmation Of from the show Is that there was a legit conversation that happened Between Chanel, Gia and Randall Like should we do this

And Chanel So clearly is like We should not touch this. So it's the three of them in this mess hall and it's like us in the courtyard totally doing a different thing. We're like moving, we're like raking rocks, totally or we're cleaning bathrooms, totally separate vibe. Yeah. So then Randall brings the box out. They somehow decide as the three of them that like it's a good idea. And I'm not throwing anyone under the bus, but I'm like, yeah, they decide it's a good idea. They bring it out

and they just like, tell us this is for us. The behind the, the scenes was this. One, Nick had left that morning. And every day he was on the show, he was talking about, man, all I want is a Coca-Cola. All I want is a Coke. Give me a Coke. So Nick leaves, like I said, the tone was super somber. Everyone, like, shifted. And the other part of the back story is they had this conversation in the mess hall. Enter our point in this story where the box comes out. People are like, oh, y'all, we got candy. And we got a Coke. And we were dying laughing. I wish they showed this. part. At one point, all of us took a group picture at one of the, like, security cameras

that was there. And we were like, hey, Nick, everybody say cheese. We're all huddled up around this Coca-Cola. It's like, Nick, we finally got the Coke the day you left. We thought it was like a DS saying, keep going, you got this. Yeah. Like a gift from them saying, pick up the morale. Which, and looking back is like so stupid. So dumb. They would never have done that. So dumb. Like, we just we took the bait so hilarious we ate it all but fast forward later on when they bring us out in the middle of the night to do our beasting for it the thing that got me was they singled all of us out and they said did anybody like have an inkling or know about this now rewind to the footage where you saw chenelle say i don't think we should do this i think it's a bad idea she never said

that to us. She never came out and said, I don't think this is a good idea. It does show her saying, no, I don't want candy. But remember, she's like, I don't eat candy. I remember asking her, whatever. I was just like, you should have spoke up. I was frustrated. That's part of her story, how she felt like she'd never had the opportunity.

So, oh, honestly, we all got hilarious giggles. And the candy, honestly, in some ways it was worth it because here we are five days of eating the blandest food you could imagine. And there was twicks in there, Snickers. They had some local candy. They had a Coke that we all shared. We didn't eat at all, though. We each had like three bites of these candies.

And we were like, oh, you know how your body doesn't respond well if you've been eating a certain way? And then you inject all these flavors. We were so dumb. So dumb. So dumb. We all knew, too. You could like, you knew it. You're like, this is too good to be true.

I'm sure. So then. Oh, yeah, we also were tasked with cleaning up the court. yard so like we had to rake rocks which is a joke because the whole the whole courtyard was nothing but rock they just said clean up the courtyard so you don't know what their expectations are we're picking up any rock bigger than this okay fine that sounds good we were like um we're like carving we made a little path around the bee sting area that you could follow we were like polishing off the metal picking up any you know how hard it is to rake rocks it doesn't work it all

felt extremely pointless and we're like I think we all kind of knew that but we were like we better do it and then we didn't know how long to do it for oh my gosh yeah yeah yeah we didn't we kept going we're like okay okay so fast forward now after all of this has happened we get back in the cars and we go to the trust fall whatever again reversed in the show but we get paired up i'm with decker you're with randall um my little side of it was Decker and I were athlete mindset. It was easy to just have like a system and follow it.

We're very like robotic. But you found this very difficult. I found it so difficult. My entire nature, my entire background in gymnastics and flipping is like I can be in very precarious situations upside down and know how to save myself and land on my feet. for them to say

trust fall like let gravity do its thing and let rotation do its thing and just land where you land and don't break form is like counterintuitive to every single thing

I've done my whole life so I did I like I was like you want me to flip off of a five story building great I will do that and I will land in the water on my feet moving backwards in any capacity is counterintuitive to anything I'd done my life well it's scary but like that whole thing I would be like no don't do it like this like look for the water

and tuck your feet in save yourself so you don't face play it because you know what happened Andrew you face I broke my freaking face yeah the reason Sean feels this way is because if you don't do it like she had been trained to you can get injured and do it the way that I did which is the way they told you to do which is don't break for me you know what physics didn't work in my favor i think you could see that night when we got in the parade square for the beasting shan's face is still red and it's swollen it's like her like lips are purple drooping and like kind of like this my i have never felt that kind of pain i we trust fell and uh eric and i and it was we did a good job but like I didn't break form

because you weren't supposed to so you know what hit first my face from three stories up I didn't realize how flush you hit that with your face and all I remember is it took so much air away from me

like I could not breathe it hurt I thought I literally shattered every bone in my face that's how bad it hurt and I came out of the water and I couldn't catch my breath and I hear Rudy screaming

10 you good 10 you good and I I'm like like I couldn't catch a breath and I evidently was underwater for a split second too long it made Eric nervous I don't know so he grabs my um yeah life jacket and he starts swimming because I still can't like catch my breath because it it hurt so bad and I was able to keep my composure so I like we got up to Rudy Rudy's like are you good and I'm like yeah I think so Then we go to the guy who helps you take your harness off and stuff. And he was kind of my buddy on the show. He's the only one who would be like... Yeah, give subtle, subtle, hence eye contact. And I remember he looked at me and he's like, are you okay? And my eyes welled up because it was like, it's the first comfort you feel, you know? Yeah.

And my eyes welled up so bad. And I was so close to going completely off an edge and just bawling. because it hurt, babe, so bad. We spent some time with Nick Viall yesterday. I think we'll be on his show and maybe we'll have him on our show. Nick had done the show in a previous season. And he was talking about at the end of it, all he wanted was like a hug.

You get yelled at and reprimanded and just like mother effed the whole time. And you're like, I just want someone to be there for me and comfort me. Like, I think that's kind of what you're... It was this same guy in a future challenge you'll see. when we were jumping off like the little cliffs into the water being so short I was like free falling and so he would kind of like peek around and then he just take my backpack and grab me and put me down and I'm like thank you. This was honestly the water was so nice because it's extremely hot outside and just to swim I mean I was chilling as soon as I hit the water I was like enjoying every stroke I had in my 10 yards

swim back to shore but ran all I got to do it and we were like we were pretty dialed in honestly it was sweet because we just came up with the system executed like you said right foot back left foot back cross your arms go very athlete mindset though it's very like you could kind of tell especially in this one the difference between former athletes and not because not former athletes were like trying to talk through do you feel good how do you do that whereas like you saw all the athletes like put a system to it yeah one two yeah a couple things just to like try to put you there in the situation as much as possible one the platform was like this metal grate held up by just two cords um and so it shook a lot and there was windy that day

it was so windy and keep in mind you have to you have to hang your heels off the platform for a certain amount of time and so like you're kind of balancing on the shaky platform and you're falling backwards yeah to me was insane like and you're not jumping they said literally just like let momentum or like let gravity fall so you're not like pushing off in previous seasons i think savanna chrisley and a couple people tapped out on this challenge because it is a thrill is one way to describe it i would probably do it again now that i understand the sensation of it but it was very nerve-wracking in the moment um so rannel and i i guess maybe i miss some of the behind the scenes in real life but

But I feel like Rana and I actually executed it really well. And I don't remember. I know we failed still because I think I split my legs and maybe we were slightly off rotation in sync with each other. I remember being so proud of you for doing it. Because having tried to teach you how to flip, you don't like going backwards. I don't know how to flip, period. I'm the worst flipper you ever seen.

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no it was after we got back like during the lunch time they had this cage you're like oh no what is this for yeah uh and they ended up having i feel like that i don't remember that part panning out like the show displayed it whereas like raise your hand if you think you should be in the cage that's how the show showed it yeah i kind of remember it that way because they were like that was when they were asking over and over and over did anybody have any inkling or like no but why did brie gia and randall then ended up in the cage brie had to go in first because um they brought chanelle out and said now it's your turn to choose a person she she elected Who do you want to go in the cage?

Gotcha, gotcha. Which is also savage. So then Chanel chooses Bree. Brie goes in the cage and then that's when they're like, is anybody else feel like they should go in the cage? Did you know about it? That's when Randall and Gia went. Yeah.

And then they had us, again, this is another thing where you're like, I don't want to freaking do this. Why are you having me do this mean thing to this person? I'm not bonded with. But outside the cage was like this 55-gallon drum of disgusting water. There was like toilet paper. It wasn't actually toilet water, but they made it look like it. And whatever it was in there, it doesn't matter.

It's like gross water. So they were like, you got to take a bucket and toss it on them. And we did laps of doing that. And then they sat in the cage for a long time. They probably came in a half hour or an hour later. And they didn't show that. They just sat there. Again, this is where mind games start being played in crazy ways.

Because they're also testing, like, can we all go through this, the people in the cage and not, and like bounce back from it? Can we forgive each other? Can we, like, it gets wild. Yeah, the relational damics start coming to a head. I will say the slow mo on the backflip was sick. Was so sick. Yeah. And the whole setting just looks so cool.

Setting you guys up for next. week should be a good one i think it might be my favorite episode we'll see how it's like edited but we do two things we do postman's walk which is like this walk across to they string a wire across to mountain tops pretty much we also have to do one of the worst be stingings from the whole season right after that this was a big day huge because we did a huge hike going into the postman's walk did the postman's walk it wasn't a hike remember the run The like three-mile run? Yes.

Bro. This is where they tried to weed out the most people and they succeeded. So run, postman's walk, beasting, and then murder ball. Murder ball. So they showed some teaser highlights at the end. I think five people got hurt. Get ready. Yeah, it gets wild.

So anyway, hope that answered some of your behind-the-scenes questions. We might have been the most close to the chest in just. sharing all the nitty-degree details for this episode just because I don't know there's some things not worth sharing and we want to protect uh and respect other people can share it they'd like yeah but anyway so we'll we'll try to move past that and just share all the all the goodies next time but yeah thanks for watching glad you all are enjoying these episodes please keep commenting and liking the video and if you uh if you want to hear more from shot and i go ahead and subscribe to the channel as well. But that's all until next time. I'm Andrew. I'm Sean.

Sorry, we should be saying I'm number 11. I'm number 10. Out.