Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - special forces LIVE Q&A! | episode 4 and more

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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We're doing it big today. Let me just answer a question to start, because this really confused me too. We did already film a recap for episode four. However, it is not going to go live now until next week. Instead, we are doing the live Q&A right now to answer any and all of your special forces questions. And we already have some questions that we got from Instagram last night. we're also going to be answering live chat questions so please send them in you know what i love about doing live streams something always goes wrong yeah but we're doing it so i have enjoyed watching the show

as well and it's fun because we had shows on the we had friends on the show previously yes and one of the questions we got was what advice do we get from some of those friends who are on the show about the show so much advice who sent in that question let's make sure we say names for the people who kindly submitted questions. Raw and oak. Raw and oak. There you go. Um, advice we got from friends. We had so many friends who have done the show, Bodie Miller, Nostia Lucan, Jordan Weber, Jojo Siwa, um, Hannah Brown. I was thinking of her, her married name. Wait, yeah, she probably does have a name, don't she? Wow. Um, Hannah Brown, uh, so many. And, oh, um, well, yeah.

the overwhelming piece of advice or just information we were given was one it is so much harder than the show even shows and every time we heard that we're like it can't be it can't be and two we heard this from multiple people but it was just get to the next meal like only focus on making it to the next meal however long that might be but yeah And you don't know how long it's going to be, but just like make your milestones not in days or challenges or like whatever, but just make it to the next meal. And that like helps you kind of frame your mind into chugging along. Because it is difficult. Jess has a question and it's based on their performances, which celebrities in past seasons were your favorites? Carrie Hart. He was hands down my favorite. He was a boss.

It's interesting because the performances don't really inform my opinions of people. It's how they go about the performances and then like the interviews, I think, also before my opinions. That's one thing I love about the show is I feel like they do a great job at telling people's stories in the background and what experiences they've had that, you know, are the reasons that people are the way they are today. And, you know, like Bode Miller's stories, incredible. But just the way they ask the questions And the whole context of being in the uncomfortable environment And just to see a totally different side of people

And I think it really allows you to respect everyone in a new way I something that they don't show This answers another question about When the DS bring us into the interviews A lot of you guys keep asking like is it actually that intense and that scary Not really what you don't see is like when you first sit down

in those interrogation rooms with the DS they're basically like calm down you're fine we truly want to get to know you so we can help you in any area of weakness

that we see like so they don't really show that part it does look more like an interrogation but they're truly trying to like get to know us and I will say that those interviews though they're short on the show when you watch I'd say the quickest

interview anybody did was like 30 minutes. Some of them went up to like two hours. Yeah. We have Ian Chenelli here with us. What's up, Ian? All I want to know is who is your favorite Navy SEAL. Our favorite Navy SEAL is Ian Chenelli. Ian is a real Navy SEAL that I get to train with every Saturday morning at Datterdays. Shout out Datter Day's squad. And, you know, I get a hard time from the Real Navy SEALs about doing this Special Forces show because it's me being a pretend Navy SEAL. but Ian is one of the few courageous people who actually stepped up and did the actual thing. Ian, thank you for your service. We love you.

Also, congratulations, bro. This guy got engaged, dude. Let's go. We're so excited us. Also, can you come on the show? We need to talk about his bachelor party. Oh, gosh. No, Ian, your bachelor party is going to terrify me.

You're going to go jumping out airplanes and going to some mysterious guys. country. We have a lot of people asking questions about the meals that we ate. So Christy Shreve and let's see, I think Allison asked about what were the meals like or did you enjoy MREs for meals? Let me tell you this. The food was so bad that one of the penalty meals was like the losing team had to eat an MRE and that ended up being a way better meal than the actual food they served. So I wish we got to eat MREs because the food we had was garbage. We had carrot soup. We had some oatmeal. We had these nasty chicken sausage lights. Let me clarify. The food didn't hear me out for a second. The food didn't taste bad. It wasn't like you're eating some mysterious like lots of flavor that gross food.

It just had no flavor. And the texture was weird. Yeah, it was just always dry. Like the worst fruit that you could imagine. Evelyn wanted to clarify on that. Could you eat as much as you wanted? or were the portions limited? So the portions were limited. They weren't pre-portioned, but like if you ever went into the food area where we ate and the food was already out, whatever food was out was all we got. And so that had to be shared amongst the whole cast.

And of course, like, I'm a lot smaller than a lot of the guys. And so we were very, I felt like everyone was very respectful about portioning their plates out to be respectful of making sure everyone had enough food. Oh, we have like a top fans scoreboard. I did not know this. Hannah Vincent, who's number two top fan. Dude, Hannah Vincent, you're one of the OGs. I see your comments on every single reel we ever post, and they are my favorite.

They, like, make me feel really... Let's give a round of applause for Hannah Vincent. Thank you, Hannah. I just know she's going to be there, and it's almost like, in my mind I'm having a conversation with you, girl. Because I'm like, she's there. I like her commentary, everything. We're going to have to have a big celebration because in December, we're having our 10-year anniversary on YouTube. Oh, wow.

And I was reflecting on the past 10 years and how wonderful a group of people we have online here with us. Honestly, people like Hannah or Tyler or Will, some of these people have been ride or dies. It's been so fun. We've met many of you in person. Stay tuned for more live events next year. I think Sean and I are going to be back at. it. So that'll be fun to reengage with you guys in that way. You have a question. I'm just like going through. Okay, Hannah, let's answer her a question. She said, was it difficult

sleeping, but the camera monitors everywhere? No, you didn't even know they were there. Like, you could, you could see them, but they were so inconspicuous and like tucked back in corners and stuff. You truly forgot. Also, we get this question a lot. What is like the black little necklace, handkerchief thing that we were wearing the whole time? time, that's a mic. So you can see it on me quite a bit because of the way my clothes fit. So around my stomach, we had these like mic pack bands that we wore with like a full mic pack and then it attached to the necklace. So we wore those all the time. The only time that we would not wear them is like right before you fell asleep, you could take it off. But then like in the middle of the

night some sound person would come in and change it out and it was funny yeah that's how you kind of knew the day was over is uh they would shut off the lights in the barracks and then someone would ask for you to take your mic off they'd come in it was the only time really someone would speak to you yeah but the cameras imagine just like little ring cameras like little white cameras in the corners and every now and then you'd see them rotating yeah which is crazy because I think they have someone watching these cameras 24-7 they had day chef night shift people so they're just in there like the truman show just monitoring you but one of my small gripes of the show was that little battery pack band it was what's the fabric i don't know it was like like a shirt yeah it was like a shirt

fabric but when it got wet it would take three hours to dry out yeah your whole like torso would just be damp and cold wrinkly and yeah it was weird Kelly asked if you were contacts how did that work since you could only bring a few belongings they did have medical exemptions so people I actually don't know the full kind of contact hygiene thing but people were able to if they had medical things like any prescriptions you would you would have an expanded list of things that were allowed and for girls a lot of questions are asking about like feminine hygiene yes we could bring feminine products um you weren't catered to by any means but you were allowed to bring them but some people

did gamify and said they needed medical things which we didn't realize that we could do or actually we were just nervous to do because we didn't know if they were going to like we also don't like to do any cut like any yeah shortcut we wanted to have the full experience and we actually figured out a way that we could call our kids back at home yeah and Sean and I kind of pow out and said, actually, if we're going to do this, let's just go all in and try to immerse ourselves as deeply as possible in this experience. Two questions that goes hand in hand. Did anyone go hungry? You guys from Christina and from Emily Fuller. How much weight did you guys lose and how much muscle did you gain? Did anyone go hungry? Yeah. I mean, a lot of people were

hungry. We weren't starving. We were given food. I lost 17 pounds in the show, though. I was almost constantly hungry. I went into the show 225, came back 208. I think I lost like five pounds, but I'll post this picture at some point. When you see me get off the show, I will show you my like after picture, which was insane. What with the bruises and the cuts and the bruises and just like, yeah, I just look crazy, look different. What time. Morgan asked, was there a particular embarrassing moment that made you cringe inside? Love hearing. how people move past its appointments and set pride aside. Honestly, one of mine was on day one.

I'll try to keep this as like, you know, PG as possible. But I had pretty much not gone to the restroom number two for like three days because I was just nervous and traveling and all this stuff happening. Like you have to sit down for these interviews that you see when we're all dressed up for like six. And there's no like port-a-potty fluid in these bathrooms. It's literally just, and there's no like port-a-potty fluid in these bathrooms. bathrooms, it's literally just a metal can. So you can kind of see everything in there for all its glory. And she came in, she came in the barracks with everybody there and just totally roasted

me. She was like, the amount of crap that just came out of this guy. I was like, yeah. That was embarrassing to you? Yes. What do you mean? It's like, yeah. I think guys don't care about that. Just the way that it was in, honestly, it kind of broke the ice where I was like, I guess we're doing this. So. I feel like the only time I felt somewhat like, embarrassment was again first day you're just kind of getting acclimated all these people are strangers to you you don't know them everything's co-ed we're standing up on the side of the mountain I had to pee and there's no bathrooms especially when you're out on challenges and so you just got kind of go find somewhere guys you at least can stay somewhat covered up while you're peeing

girls not so much so I go off to the side of the mountain like pants to my ankles popping a squat to pee and all of a sudden the helicopter flies over me low with like the DS hanging out and I was like

cool what's up guys there it is so that was kind of a but other than that I didn't feel like embarrassed by challenges I've miserably failed

at a lot of them but someone asked I think we're back all right someone asked is it harder mentally physically

or what's the other question question. Let me see if I can find it. Is it harder mentally, physically, or emotionally? GA 015 asked that. And I would say, so it's hard physically because I do put you through some tough fitness tests. So episode 5, which is aired tomorrow, is crazy in the sense that like they're throwing the situation. Again, you don't get a warm up.

You don't know when it's going to end. That was a really tough challenge. And then you also have the injure physical difficulty. So like episode six, you'll see we play murder ball. And I thought it broke a rib, thought I broke a nose. Well, yeah, I'll just see. I got concussed. Yeah, you're doing very perilous things.

But I would say towards the end, it got really. It's out again. Was it mentally or emotionally tough? I mean, the physical side doesn't get any easier as the show goes on, but the mental is rough. Things get weird, to say the least. You get a question. You got the next one? I'm looking for one.

Cassidy asks, when you VW, do you, VW, do you mean? immediately leave, or did you have to stay and do interviews? No, you immediately leave. Like, they literally put you in a car. The bags are, like, ready and you, like, go to the airport. It's a very quick turnaround. Yeah, which is kind of sad because, like, you have all this bonding with people and you'd like to give them a hug goodbye, but that's not how it works. What was – Amanda asked, what was your toughest challenge, or is it coming up? I love watching you guys. I tell my husband that I have to cheer on my friends every Thursday. Thank you for watching Amanda. Tuffest challenge for you. Tuffest challenge. There's one coming up where I think

I was just emotionally and physically tired and done. You'll see. It was my, I felt the most mentally weak. Other than that, the panic that set in after the crawling was rough for me. What about you? Murder Ball was the most injurious, I feel like. Tunnels was the most frightening. The dam repel, which I know didn't phase you at all, was the most, like, hype, like make your palm sweat. And then, oh, geez, the relay race wrecked me.

But then also this kick carry that it's going to be on tomorrow's episode was brutal. The kick carry was brutal. I don't feel like it was much different than the ones. that I really struggled with, but I think I was just checked out. Vicky asked, who snored the most? I will say, I was so shocked, but nobody snored. I'm surprised. I didn't snore. I'm very surprised.

And we were all worried about that. Ravi brought earplugs for everybody, which is very generous as a medical exemption item. And, yeah, I did not have any trouble sleeping. Jesse said she couldn't sleep in a wink. Yeah. But we were out. How was the first shower and first night in a real bed after? The first shower was unreal.

Yeah. That was a luxury. I don't even, I have never been able to use enough soap. But the first night in a real bed, I don't feel like it was really nice, but it wasn't such a luxury, like a shower. Like, I felt like even sleeping, you're still decompressing and trying to process it all. Yeah. Yeah. The shower was amazing because, like, you have all this disgusting stuff on your fingernails and your hair.

And there's water pressure and there's water temperature. it was like so nice because the shower on camp was it was just like a little hose they pretty much hooked a shower head too and it worked okay it was really nice like after the tunnels to get all the dirt off but yeah it did take a couple weeks of decompressing what was more nerve-wracking doing the challenges yourself or watching each other do it hmm I think I have them flowed Like, there's some that I did have personal fears with, like the dam. You, like, know it's going to be okay because you have the rope. But my palm, I'm just, I just have the heights thing.

And then there was other ones, like the tunnel that I was really scared about you going through. Because I was like, I barely made it through that. And I don't know how Sean's going to do. So, yeah, it was kind of depending. Yeah. Ebden Flood. We were so nervous about. Seeing each other leave.

Yeah. So I think it was more so nerve-wracking to watch each other. Someone who says, please tell us about the tunnels. Who said that? Beth C. Please tell us about the tunnels. So you can see, they actually did a good job of capturing it. And it starts off, the tunnels pretty wide and open.

You could crawl on your hands and knees. but then they get smaller and smaller and smaller and you're climbing over sandbags and around tight corners and your face is, you have to like at one point just army crawl, you can't even have your arms by your side because it's so small so you have your arms ahead of you army crawling

with your cheek to the dirt and so you're literally breathing in dirt and so that's panicky because you can't breathe and it's panicky because you can't really look ahead and so you don't know where you're going and it's so tight. And then if you're the line leader, the group leader, you had people yelling at you behind you to like, you know, keep going.

And then you're like, I'm trying to. It was the closest to a panic attack I've ever had. And I almost just, when they pulled Johnny, the lid off of the tunnel where Johnny was, I like really wanted that. Yeah. Which I've never felt that desire to tap out like that. It was rough. It was really rough.

three-part question because it's all similar hakeem and angie who is our favorite ds and are you going to get a ds on the podcast that's a good idea that would be a great idea my i think we each bonded with different ones i think my favorite was foxy he was the one that in some ways drew the most out of me yeah and like was not the nicest by any means maybe in some ways he was the meanest but he also you and him had a bond yeah and we were just there'd be certain parts of the word giggle, and then, like, he'd yell at me, and I'm like, freak, okay, back at it, but it was yours.

You and Foxy bonded. I feel like each DS had, like, a different style and a different technique and could kind of, they were better suited to handle different issues and different types of people. So you could see which DS catered to certain cast members, if that makes sense. And it was almost like they became their project.

Foxy definitely drew to you. You guys were a bond a thing. Q was the one who singled me out, which was hysterical. Yeah. He scared me the most. We're now like very close afterwards with all of the DS. We talked to him a lot.

But on the show, I even told him at the end. I was like, you terrified me. And he was like laughing. He's like, me? I was like, yeah. so someone asks Melanie asked do you consider the DS is your friends

I would say yes it really started changing when we had the fewer and fewer people that were there the relationship with the DS started changing and then after the show like we got all their contacts we took them the dinner when we're in LA

doing a bunch of press days by the way we have a whole media tour YouTube video going up on the main channel, which would be fun because we've been all over the place. It's been keeping us busy doing all the media for this. Yeah. So anyway, we got to meet up with the DS and do a couple events with them, which has been great. But also, if you're watching, please hit the thumbs up on the video right now.

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Andrew, this is by Rania. Andrew, in another life, could you see yourself going into the Special Forces route as a career? Your leadership is so incredible. I appreciate that. I feel like as a football player, you look at, you kind of think, what's the hardest thing I can do physically? And then you hear about buds. And I think it's a common sentiment among football players that you want to go into special forces because it's honorable. I think, you know, there's a lot of involvement with the military in the football world.

Just there's like salute service and all those things. So I did. And I remember we had conversations about that as I was navigating the NFL and it wasn't going smoothly. I was like, maybe I should just sign up to do this. And there was a little hesitation. You talked about it a lot. Yeah. So I'm shocked you're answering it like this. You talked about trying to go into the special forces route many, many, many times. Yeah. Over the course of years, you talked about this. Honestly, I kind of unintentionally straight away from it, though, like just as I like stumbled into business school at Vanderbilt

and I stumbled into the NFL and the military was always kind of something that I figured I could do at any moment and I just kind of lost sight of it. So I do admire those guys a lot, super appreciative of everyone who makes that choice. And it was really cool to kind of get to build a form of empathy for those people through this experience. Someone had asked Kaylee, whose career prepared them better for this? Gymnastics or the NFL? I have an answer. I'm curious what you would say. Kaylee's our number one top fan. Shout out Kaylee.

I would say, I think the team aspect of football prepared me well for this show. I think the discomfort that was. so common back in my day in gymnastics on the national team prepared me way better. That's the football kind of vibe where you're about to practice you get yelled at? I feel like that prepared me. Being degraded, not being able to talk. Prepared you. Being put in horrible conditions with no food.

And yeah. I think the physical preparation for football correlated really well to the show with like lifting heavy things. So, like, it's almost different pieces. Football probably prepared me better physically. Gymnastics, maybe prepared Sean better emotionally. Yeah. I think, like, the reality TV show stars were prepared in a totally different way with navigating the relational dynamics.

I remember Nostia talking about that, though. It being such a harsh trigger back to training camp that she was, like, hated it. We have reality club box here with us live. What? They asked, what was your first meal after finishing the show? Oh, my gosh. So we're staying in this. I just remembered it.

Ours were different, right? You ordered all the same things. Okay, good. Right? Good. Yeah, yeah. I was shook after the show. Honestly, I'm curious what they show.

I was, like, not in a good place. Not happy. I was angry, to be honest. They put you this whole discharge process. I want to do. Oh, sorry. We're giving away. Yeah.

We have to be careful. tread lightly here. But I was like just upset and honestly regretful. I was like, I never want to do that again. I'm done with this thing. And it took me probably a nap in 12 hours to get past that. But I go back to this little like bed and breakfast place that we got sent to. What was the name of the town? We're in this small town in Morocco. So there's just a little bed and breakfast And this lady who was the sweetest, she kind of ran the whole thing, had all this Moroccan food. And she was like, what do you want? And I was like, all right, well, I would love some pita and hummus.

It was so freaking good. She had gnawn with honey, delicious. And then I had chicken tahin, so good. I had some coffee. I honestly had a full spread for like five people. And I just sat there quiet in a bad place for two hours, just thinking about life. the mistakes I've made. What was yours?

Everything you just said. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Next question. Oh, someone asked, are we still going to be doing episode recaps? Sorry, I don't. It was from a while ago.

So I don't remember the person who asked. But yes, we are. We just wanted to do a mid-season live Q&A because we've been getting a lot of DMs. Obviously, like, there's a lot of excitement with people in our comments with reels that we post. So I just thought doing a live Q&A at this point would be great.

So the next week's couple things episode will be the episode four recap for Special Forces. Hakeem said if the show was a song, what would it be called? Another one bites the dust. Bum, bump, bump. Another one bites dust.

We play that song at my funeral. I think that's a good one. Wow. That went dark. okay someone asked are you able to share the exact dates of when this was filmed i think we finished june 18th so we pretty much went on our big family vacation which we posted videos about drop the kids off in nashville turned right around within 24 hours and flew back overseas to start the filming for this so wild times okay one more here one of our favorites you guys

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for 15% off I started using that stuff when I was training for American Ninja Warrior yeah and it was a game changer so anyway next question Question. Who surprised you the most, Gia wants to know? I can't answer that question. Yeah, that does feel like a spoiler. Everyone did. Everyone surprised me in one way or another. Either... Someone crossed the finish line and surprised me so much.

It's great. How about that? It's really fun. yeah that's that's all we can say about that um also Nicole thank you for saying this if you guys are having any buffering problems please just go out and come back it's on your side not on ours she's figured that out maybe um Jessica how did kids handle us being gone there was another question um did we do anything special for the kids while we're gone so like andrew said we went to japan Singapore and Dubai for three weeks right before this show we

literally came home for 24 hours, dropped the kids off and left. So the kids, their cups had been filled with like mommy and daddy really special intentional time. When they got home, there's a lot of decompression trying to get back on the time zones. But what we had was we had really fun like activities and camps planned for them that they were super excited. A ninja one for Jett and that lasted a couple of days. They were with my parents for a few days and then they went to Indiana, went to the lakehouse with Andrew's family and their favorite people in the whole entire world, which is their cousins. They had a jam-packed schedule. I know they noticed we were gone, obviously, but when we got back, there wasn't any indication that they

were, you know, missing us overly, you know, too much and they weren't traumatized. Brittany Sandoval asked, did the cast members who left early go home or did they stay in hotel there until the show finished? Went straight home. You do like a discharge, like I said, with a psychiatrist who says, hey, your body's going to take a couple weeks physically to decompress from this. Right or flight mode. And so just like navigate that. If you have kids or marriage, here are some helpful tools.

They do maybe like a five-minute exit interview. Yeah. Did you have that? Yeah. Where you're just like about to get in a van and they just have a camera come and ask you a couple questions. And then you go to a hotel. Like a five-hour car ride to go to Marrakesh or what was the other, or Casablanca to fly out of.

And then they sent you straight home. Let's see. You better tighten up. So the other question is, along those lines, Brittany asked. Were you able to stay the entire show to see who finished? Nope. You had to leave immediately. Angie asked what did you learn about yourself through this whole experience is interesting this was well-timed

we're in the middle like I don't know making big decisions it feels like we always kind of are we also finished up marriage counseling recently which had some overlapping feedback to what the DS told me which was like don't overthink things too much and I have been trying to get in the flow of, like, trusting my instincts. Yeah. And it's, yeah, it's like a little more intuitive. Just, like, trust, hey, if I have this opinion, I don't need to analyze that opinion 80 different ways before sharing it with you or pursuing a project or whatever. It's just like, trust yourself and then be honest in the process and adjust as necessary. So I feel like that's what I learned. I think a couple

things that I learned. I had an insecurity about like what I was capable of after having been out of my sport for so long, going through, you know, the roller coaster of like babies and just so many things. I didn't. And because of that, I had an insecurity about my ability to like protect my kids and be protect myself and just all this, all these things. And I think they really helped me see and reinforce this idea that like I can hold my own.

amongst anybody, which I needed, which I liked. And they also didn't like how quiet I was. So they encouraged me. Something that I learned in gymnastics that was very stereotypical for back in the day when I was competing was we weren't allowed to show emotion and we weren't allowed to have a voice. And that's kind of how I operated on the show and you'll see that up until this point. and then they have some like intervention with me and they're like you you need to show people who you are like you I have to feel to know your personality and how I can help you and support you and trust you like you have to whatever this is you got to stop doing it so all right we have

about 700 people watching let's see if we can get 300 likes so I'll request everyone hit the thumbs up one more time and then I won't I won't mention that again um Jackie says Andrew I admired your honesty on the screen Sean is a boss and many women will feel less manly when their wife performing better athletically. Thank you, Jackie. We talk a lot about this on our episode four recap, which we're going to post this week today, but we'll just post it next week. Honestly, that was a good transition for me to go through. But ultimately, my takeaway from having such an amazing wife and also growing up with four amazing siblings, who my oldest brother was an Olympic cyclist, my second oldest brother was in the CrossFit Games, my third

third brother played college football. My sister is just a princess, amazing. You realize when the team wins, I win. And it doesn't need to be Andrew winning only. It's like share the love. And if Sean wins, I win. So the more energy I could put in that, the better. It's also really exciting from a marriage standpoint that

if I'm able to help Sean be the greatest Sean that she can be, Then I think the side effect of that will, is she'll help me be the greatest Andrew that I can be. So it's like, I don't know. It just like works out well. And I'm grateful to have a teammate like Sean. I'm tickled every day that I could call myself your husband. And what a right it's been. This episode, I loved.

I feel like Andrew had a harder time watching it. You'll listen to the episode next week and understand more about that. but Andrew's the most able, capable, amazing, humble, leader, father, friend, husband. And I think it was so telling and amazing to see the DS actually speak about that, about how amazing of a leader you were, and to catch on so quickly about how you don't give yourself enough credit that you need to learn that. and it just it was it's very special to see other people also see it as your wife thank you babe okay missy girl says yay love this series i'm so happy i made the live stream thanks for joining

honestly the series almost didn't happen but sean really fought for it i thought we'd do maybe like two recaps and and summarize every other episode and like do two for ones but sean was like no, let's just talk through it and it'd be special for her and I to relive these things and try to document all the little details that we're able to remember because the longer we get away from it, the more we're forgetting. So it's fun. Angie says, Andrew, do you not think if your football career would have gone forward, maybe your relationship with Sean would have suffered? I think God knows what he's saying. I think everything happened for a reason. And our lives look vastly different than we ever thought they would.

But I think God had a plan. I agree. And, yeah, it's just if football worked out, then we wouldn't be making YouTube videos. And this is so much more fun to me now than football really was at the professional level. I loved playing football at college at that level. But now I'm like, dude, I freaking love what we're going to do. So thank you all.

Whitney says, don't stop the recaps. We hear you loud and clear. M. Tabs B. said, are you guys able to stay in touch with any of the DS? Would you want to stay in contact? Yes, we all stay in touch. We stay in touch with the whole cast. We actually got to New York, got to go to New York and see the whole cast again and the DS. Got to have dinner as like normal human beings.

And we stay in touch with all of them. It is really special. Foxy and him are texting every day. Natalie said, I was so proud of Andrew when he said, no, we're a good team on the last episode when asking him he felt inferior to his wife. It's not just a line. It's how we both feel.

Like, it's the greatest feeling in the world of being just a really strong team. Yeah, I agree. Let's do three more questions. Okay. The sound good? Oh, John, Farrell. How accurate do you think the Fox production is portraying your experience in the others?

Very. Yeah, they do a good job. I think the only thing that is impossible to capture is how hard it is. Because they're simulating an emotion and like a reaction on the ground in Africa of such stress that is really hard to capture. Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. We did 12 hours of sit-down interviews probably and then rolling 24 hours a day cameras and the way they're able to distill storylines. And I think in my case, like pretty accurately, we'll see about how they do yours. But it's fascinating.

It's also so weird to see how people see you. So like that's what for when they did my whatever piece, it was like, huh, huh. That's fascinating. Like, I'm just going about my everyday life, just being me, and then someone else is like analyzing who you are on your behalf. It's out-of-body experience. C-FAM asks, if they did an all-star season, would you do it again? An all-star season for special forces?

World's toughest test? Oh, it was so bad. It was so hard. I want to say no. Do it again? I don't know if I would do it again. It's so agonizing because it's all once-in-a-lifetime experiences. It's epic.

Obviously, it's fun. That's on TV. And there's a lot of excitement about that. And you get to jump out of helicopters. Would they do an all-star season? But then, like, you get seriously injured on the show. And it sucks. So it's like two weeks of suffering is, it's not an insane amount, but it's a lot.

Also, if they didn't also, actually, now my mind is running. if they didn't start seasons, that means they would have to up the stakes. No, thank you. That's brutal. Everyone in the room was shaking their head. Love Flip 24 asks, why did people show up with makeup, nails, hair down, and jewelry? The first day, you're, like, getting captured, so you're able to, like, prepare and get ready in the morning, which is why people have Rolexes on and fancy shoes and their own clothes.

and then like an hour into it you do a workout get all that muddy and wrecked and then they make you put on your your uniform and I don't think anyone had any personal flair from that point forward maybe a bracelet or two well Eva was decked out in her Rolex the whole time no just the first day yeah do we have Brittany asked do you have any friends that you'd recommend go on the show Caitlin Bristow really good thing to like go through once that's why I don't want to do it again because like you do learn something about yourself and I feel like we had a lot of positive takeaways from it which is why we want to do this series because as the events happen you're like oh my gosh this is what I learn

from that or this is what I grew to appreciate about this person it's really fun we just there's someone in our circle I'm trying to remember name I'll have to ask you how do you think the DS would do on other reality competition shows like dancing at the start? I don't know. I think it was Haley that asked, was there any cast member that you were excited to meet?

For me, it was Johnny Mansell. I just grew up playing football and he was one of the greatest to play in college. And you also, for me, I hear a story like that and I'm like, man, I'd like to get to know that guy

and hear what he's going through and just be a friend for him in a way that, I don't know, he probably has good friends, but if he doesn't, I can, like, just be an encouragement, maybe. I would say, Brie, Bri, Briana La Paglia, or Christy Rampone. I was excited to meet. I know we said we were going to be three, but I'll just keep ripping for another five minutes or so.

You know who else would be great on the show? Nate. Bargatsy He should do it Wow that would be hilarious It would be hilarious John Christ John Chris would be great

John Chris would die Comedians are tough though Because they don't have the athlete background of like Who's an athlete that you would nominate Cody Zeller How about that? Dang I got a 13, 14 year NFL NBA guy

About like Lindsay Vaughn That'd be dope are Michaela Shiffran You listen to this reality club box You still hear with us Brittany asked Did you have an idea of whom I get pulled in For interrogation

You knew they were going to do everybody So they did like one or two a day And they kind of just circled through it I was really anxious about that experience Because they call you in They yell at you, recruits Recruit 11

So you have to run in there Then they put it back on your head You don't know where you're going You see, you know, we watch a couple the episodes before so you kind of understand the context you're in, but they throw you down on a chair, close the door, you hear it slam behind you, and they pull the bag off your head. And then I was like halfway smiling the whole way through mine because I was so nervous. Same. And you also know that this is something they're going to use on TV. Like that's the rest of the time

on base, you're like, I don't know if this will make it, but you know they will use parts of that. We give interviews for a living. Like we are so comfortable talking and I didn't feel like I could form words in that interview. Yeah. They would ask a question. I'd be like, uh, I don't know. I know. Hakeem said, asked if you could do the show again, what would you do differently?

Would you prepare differently, for example? No. There's not much you can do to prepare for that show except for be physically fit. I'm proud of how we did the show. Same. There's nothing I would change. Yeah, it was really fun. We do a, like, a charity event with some green berets every year,

and it was, like, a fun thing to bond over them with and, like, picked their brain about, ask for advice and wisdom. And they were, like, preparing us. Yeah. We did an event not, I mean, it was right before we left for Japan. So literally, like, Green Berets event, and then we left for Japan, and then we went straight on the show. And all of our Greenberry buddies were walking us through, like,

all of their training and the hazing and, like, everything they go through. they're giving us tips and tricks and things to say in your head and they're actually doing like watch farties it's funny yeah Zoe asks how do you feel like your marriage improved after the show man only positive really I grew a whole new respect for Sean and so there Sean is along with 17 other people that you're kind of like seeing the traits that make Sean so different and unique and it's so cool to like see that in such a clear way because we're in such a tight space and such close community with the other people it like highlighted what makes you amazing which is awesome and then I never got to see Sean compete in gymnastics so I got to see

her intensity and focus and discipline which was incredible and then I also think we like expanded our trust with each other um so Suffering together inevitably brings people closer together. And then lastly, I would say, like, the definition of love expanded for us in the sense of, like, it wasn't just a comfort coddling love. It was a look at each other in the eye when she's standing on the edge of the dam or whatever and saying, you got this. Step up and I'll see you on the other side. It's like a not a tough love, but like a go for it. I thought the coolest thing

I got to watch Andrew's football career from the sidelines which was the greatest honor and amazing to watch but being able to be in it with you and see up close that side it just kind of made me understand and respect Andrew even more and I didn't know that was possible

you were truly like everyone's rock on the whole show you were the steady eddie just like everybody could look at you at some point of like vulnerability or rock bottom

and feel okay again and you became that for everybody like you were Johnny's go-to man Jesse was saying if you're on our team I know I feel good and that's how I felt Being able to have you there was amazing, but I think it's also just a testament to, like, you were so strong and everything. That, like, you were so strong and excelled, and it was still, yet you still kept enough in your tank to, like, comfort every single person.

Thank you, yeah. You were still, like, asking Bree about her life story and Christy and then Cody and the Nick, and then everyone's, like, hanging on for dear life, and you're over there supporting the whole. cast. It just... Love you. You want me to stop talking? No. Oh.

No. Angie says, I love the ending of the last episode where we're... That was the most cuddling we got. But we say, are you okay? I'm okay. Is your body okay? My body is okay. And then it's your beast.

You're a beast. I like that, honestly, too. That was fun. Yeah, we went into the show saying... We are going to try to respect the process and not be like super PDA and not be like all lovey-dovey. Because normally I'd be like all over you and vice versa in the sense of just cuddly. But that was, after that one, we were a little traumatized. So it was like, you good.

We need it. Yeah. Bobby? Yeah. This will be my last one I answer and then you can do closing thoughts. But Allison asked, did this give you a new respect for military couples? Yes, 100%. what was really cool, one of my favorite parts of the show was when the DS would share their own

personal stories. And so Rudy shared his story on day like three or four. Billy shared his story about, I think he missed the birth of his daughter because he thought he was going to be away on like a two deployment and then ended up being six months. And you under, you grow to realize that the compartmentalization that you have to have to go into like this intense, fight or flight arena where your life is at stake. Sorry, ours was not, just to clarify, the real soldier, like that type of situation does not leave any room for soft, cuddly husband or gentle loving dad. It's like a totally different armor that you put on. And it just doesn't really mesh well. And so you realize that is such a sacrifice, you know? These people

want to be good dads and husbands. And it makes it so hard to try to carry the soldier personality with the loving father persona. And honestly, I just don't know if that's a choice that I can make. And so the courage and bravery they have to do that is amazing to me. So yes. Also seeing the dynamic and learning the dynamic of, do I think Andrew and I could have done this? Both of us, like solo, yes, I think we both would have done well. But the appreciation I have now for like military spouses and families is had we not done it together, there is no way we could have explained that experience to one another to a point where they could understand it fully.

And so I think that made me appreciate and understand almost like that that harsh disconnect. that like couples have to work through. Yeah. Well, you could never understand. I mean, we talk all the time about, oh, they show us doing the army crawl and you, you don't believe like the rocks that you're climbing over and there's shards of glass there. Yeah. And you're like, oh, yeah, okay.

It's like pebbles. And it's like there's. Yeah. It's a million little things, the little details that really color in the experience that are so hard to describe and capture unless you're there. that yeah it's crazy but that's all they have hey i'm gonna just continue complimenting you and until you learn how to accept it okay thanks babe i love you're amazing you know what's amazing is we pulled off a live stream today guys with little to no issues we had some little issues some little issues but shout out we had lexin caroline back here everyone's just so nervous every time

we do live streams but we did it we will be back to do another live stream as more episodes come and go. So compile all your questions and let us know. Thank you guys for joining us. We'll see you next week for the episode four recap. We will be a week behind. But that's all we got. If you haven't yet, hit the thumbs up button.

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