Olympic star Shawn Johnson and Andrew East talk about struggles with retirement, Shawn's burnout on gymnastics at 20, and how they built a YouTube empire on Uncut with Jay Cutler

Uncut with Jay Cutler

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Society & Culture, Sports, Talk Radio

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Jay sits down with married couple and YouTube stars, Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson and her husband, former NFL long snapper Andrew East, to talk about their shared beginnings in Indiana, and Andrew's journey through the NFL as he bounced around from team to team and had to deal with being cut. Plus Shawn talks about her struggle with retiring from gymnastics at only 20 years old, and how she was completely done with her career at 20 and didn't want to compete anymore. Plus Shawn and Andrew joke about their disastrous first date, and how they actually waited nine months to go on a second date. And Shawn and Andrew tell Jay how they both fell into YouTube to create content and it took off and created an entirely new brand for them.

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome back. We've got Andrew East who proud to say is a Vannebert alum played football there
0:27.1	long snapper, not sure if that counts, but we're going to count today. Sean Johnson, not a lot of words need to explain her
0:36.4	multi Olympic medalist, dance with the stars, her Wikipedia goes on forever. I think probably a lot of you,
0:47.8	maybe not. I'm sure my kids might know more than I know. They have a YouTube channel which generates a
0:56.0	lot of, I'm sure revenue and people watching them. It's a family dynamic. It's interesting. I'm
1:03.8	interested in how much content they do daily, if this, what this encapsulates, how they, how they came about it,
1:12.0	how they met, I've heard rumors of how they met. It's kind of, I think it's a funny story. So
1:17.3	we're going to get into all that with them. They're coming in studio in person. It's going to be fun
1:22.7	and we're going to sit down and have a chat with them. I'm excited about it. They live here in Nashville.
1:29.0	So we're going to do it. As always, hit me up Instagram, Twitter. We'll keep trying to get better
1:37.0	and better each week. But let's bring them in. And if you don't like it, send all of your comments
1:43.0	to those two because they can handle a better weekend. But let's do this.
1:46.0	Okay, welcome, Andrew East, Sean Johnson. Thanks for coming in, guys. Thanks for having us. Pleasure.
2:00.1	You guys are, I've got a lot to talk about with you guys because you're both very different.
2:07.1	Yes. But you guys have come together and you've got this little empire going that is,
2:12.4	it's pretty, pretty fascinating. Thank you. I'm curious how you think we're different.
2:18.4	Okay. Well, I mean, your Wikipedia is this big. And Sean just keeps rolling and rolling and rolling
2:26.0	and rolling and rolling. You're from Indiana, right? Yeah. Dude, let's go. Do you get back often?
2:32.8	Probably like three times a year. I like it up there. Do you? I like it down here better.
2:37.2	Yeah, what do you like about it up there? I guess my family's up there. Sure. Santa Claus has a holiday world.
2:43.7	Have you been? Yeah, dude. Do you go as a kid?
2:47.9	We would go once a year and it's great. Yeah. It, uh, it's, I mean, I grew up there in that town. So
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