From NFL Scandal to Ambulance Birth to an Unlikely Love Story

Headlines can turn a life into a single sentence—until you slow down and hear the human story inside. We open with the Indianapolis alley confrontation involving former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez: a late-night bar scene, a 69-year-old grease truck driver on shift, an alleged drunken approach, and a sudden escalation that ends with injuries, hospitalization, and charges. We walk through the affidavit details and the hard questions about alcohol, blackout memory, and public accountability, balancing empathy with the reality of harm and consequence.

Then the ground shifts: a 26-year-old in the UK thinks she has appendicitis, vomits blood, and gets rushed to the hospital; minutes later, a scan reveals a baby on the way. The ambulance becomes a delivery room, the infant arrives blue, and medics sprint to revive him before mother and child land in NICU with sepsis. We unpack how cryptic pregnancies happen, why even clinicians can be caught off guard, and how emergency teams pivot when diagnostics upend the plan. It’s messy, miraculous, and a vivid reminder that not every “obvious” sign is obvious in real time.

Finally, we sit with a story the internet thought it knew: a Tennessee woman who fled a violent home as a teen reconnects years later—unknowingly at first—with one of the officers who once searched for her. Their adult relationship sparks viral suspicion, followed by careful clarification of timelines, consent, and the trauma she endured. We talk about reading beyond the comments, respecting survivor agency, and holding space for complicated love.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open & Weekly Setup
• 0:48 Mark Sanchez Incident Unfolds
• 3:15 Affidavit Details and Aftermath
• 6:47 New Angle and Charges
• 9:35 Pivot to Surprise Birth Story
• 12:16 Emergency Turns Into Delivery
• 16:20 Recovery and Unanswered Questions

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:15

Well, hello. Uh happy Monday. Here we go. We have a whole week ahead of us. Well, actually, we just have today. Wow. Um I have some stories here for you. You guys know who Mark Sanchez is? Ex-NFL player. Well, he's gotten himself into some trouble, let me tell you. The family of a Grease truck driver brutally bashed by Mark Sanchez. Give update on his condition. So here's the gist. Uh they were uh was this in Indianapolis? Yes, I think it was. Mark Sanchez, ex-NFL football player. I think he played for the Jets. But he's now working, well, maybe not anymore, for Fox News as a sports analyst. He was meant to go and I guess give uh color or commentary, whatever you call it, call the game. I anyway, he gets he goes and he the night before he goes out on the town, gets blackout drunk, I guess, and then attacks this delivery car driver, the delivery truck driver. Uh it's crazy. Mark Sanchez gets stabbed. The other guy gets stabbed, apparently. Oh, it's just terrible. Everything all around. Okay, let me read some of it. Indianapolis, Indiana. The family of a truck driver who was allegedly brutally assaulted by former football star Mark Sanchez outside an Indianapolis bar has given an update on his condition. He's okay, family members of the 69-year-old Grease truck driver, identified solely by his initials, P.T. told the post late Sunday. So this guy was out doing his job, parked in an alleyway, I guess getting grease uh offloaded from the restaurant into the truck or whatever. I don't know. I'm not a restaurant person, I don't know how all that works. And he's just minding his own business when Mark Sanchez comes up to him, and it's all on video too, by the way. Uh it is reported. We are talking to lawyers first. We want to be careful what said. We appreciate that, the family said, noting they were in shock that the former Jets quarterback attacked their loved one. Grizzly photos of the alleged victim showed him in a neck brace in the hospital bed with gnarly deep wounds to his cheek and jaw. His family says he was cut in the fight and it went through his cheek and hit his tongue. Um but let's see what here we go. The driver reportedly got into an altercation with Sanchez shortly after midnight on Saturday morning when he had parked his truck in an alley to collect cooking oil from a nearby hotel, according to an affidavit. Sanchez, who was 38 years old, allegedly approached him smelling of alcohol and slurring his speech according to the affidavit. Pete did not have his hearing aids in because the truck is loud, of course. So I guess Mark Sanchez approaches him. He can't hear him, so he leans in, and that's I don't know if that's when he attacks him. I don't know. Um, let's see. Pete did not have his hearing aids in because his truck is very loud when he is exchanging the frying oil for the hotel, so he had to lean in close to Mark Sanchez to hear him. Of course, he said when P. T leaned in, he he could smell that Mark Mark Sanchez smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred. Sanchez allegedly slammed the driver against the wall and threw him into threw him onto the ground before the driver stabbed the six foot two, two hundred and thirty-pound Fox sports analyst in self-defense. Yeah, Mom, I'd be bringing out something to protect myself too. The ex-Jets quarterback was initially hospitalized in critical condition, but has since been stabilized and released. He also was taken to jail, by the way. Sanchez was discharged from the hospital Sunday morning after being treated for stab wounds to the cest. He was promptly transferred to Central Booking at the Marion Jail. Yeah, we know that. Okay, so there's another article. Let's read the next one that I had listed here too, because it gives another update. Um let's see. Uh it says the former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez was acting erratically, reeked of booze, and was slurring his words when he body slammed the elderly. Yeah, we know that. I'm sorry, this is the second article that I thought went into more detail. The 69-year-old driver said he stabbed Sanchez several times in self-defense after the attack, telling cops, this guy is trying to kill me. Yeah, I guess he would be. Uh, because it would feel like that way. Grim photos show, yeah, his family. Yeah, we got that former stunk of alcohol. He didn't have his hearing aids in, leaned in. Sanchez okay, sorry, I'm trying to get to the part I wanted to get to. Um so Sanchez was charged with battery, resulting in injury, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle of his alleged role in the incident. Uh, Spence. Okay, sorry. And apparently, Mark Sanchez, he does he says he doesn't remember any of this. So he must have been in a blackout drunk might which means he had a lot of alcohol. Oh, well. I'm trying to see. They said they've oh, here we go. Here's the part I wanted. Prior to the dispute, Sanchez was doing wind sprints in the alley behind the loft miller's pub and eatery in downtown Indianapolis where he was drinking and acting erratically. The station reported citing sources. What in the world was he? Well, that's what I'll you know, don't treat consume alcohol and you do crazy stuff. Oh, I don't know. The man, he's in serious trouble. I don't know what's gonna happen. All right, moving on to the next story. This next one is so absurd to me. I don't understand how this happens. This oh no, no, no. Sorry. This is not okay. Let me go find it. Let me do that story first. Since I started talking about it, we'll do this one first. Um, this teenage oh, sorry, there's an advertisement pop-up. Okay. Here's the headline. I was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis, but I gave birth to a baby boy. This woman, teenage girl, I don't know how old she was, but I think it tells us later. She's 26 years old. Okay, she's 26 years old. Did not know she was pregnant. What? This can't be real. A British woman who believed she was suffering from appendicitis was stunned when she gave birth to a baby boy in the back of an ambulance. I was speechless. I couldn't believe what had just happened. New mom Megan Isherwood, twenty-six, told Southwest News Services I had no bump, no symptoms at all, and he just came out of nowhere. What do you mean you had no symptoms? You couldn't feel a baby moving inside of you? Did you not have your regular monthly visits from you know who? What? How do you not know that you're pregnant? Uh that this is insane. This is crazy. I don't even know if I believe they have pictures, but I don't know if it's real. I mean Isherwood, how do you not know you're pregnant? And it's not like the baby was tiny. Isherwood awoke in the morning on September 9th, suffering severe pains in her right side, and she soon began vomiting up blood. Realizing that her situation was serious, the bar manager called for an ambulance. Good thing she did. Paramedics arrived and checked Isherwood over, assuming she was suffering from appendicitis due to the pain on the right side of her body as well as her high heart rate and nausea. She was taken to her local hospital for further examination, but the situation quickly escalated. They were preparing to be she was preparing to be seen by a doctor when blood began gushing out of her, soaking the bed. Fifteen doctors were crowded around her trying to find out what was wrong. They ordered a CT scan as well as an ultrasound to rule out pregnancy, but that was when they found a head and a foot. What do you mean they found a head and a foot? They then blew a they blue light at me to nearby hospital as they have a midwifery. But the baby wasn't waiting on the when she was being transferred. This is when she had this is when she gave birth, was on the ambulance. She said, I just needed to push, she stated. However, Isherwood's amazement turned to panic when medics realized the tiny baby was blue and had stopped breathing. Thankfully, they managed to resuscitate the premature infant, who Isherwood has named Jackson, spelled with an X, before they arrived at the hospital. The mom and son were taken to the neonato intensive care unit where they were both diagnosed with sepsis. Thankfully, they made a full recovery recovery. Finally, on September 25th, Isherwood was able to return home with her surprise baby boy. What in the world? The new the new believes the father is a man she is not in relationship with. I struggle to get my head around what had happened. I was thinking to myself, where have you come from? You don't know the birds and the bees? Wow, that's crazy. And that's kind of where the story ends. That is insane. I can't believe that she did not know she was pregnant. How do you not know you're pregnant? Alright, moving on to this the last story here. I don't know how I feel about this. It's kind of weird. But once you read through it, let me just tell you what happened. Here's the headline. But once you read through it, then you realize, okay, it's not as creepy as it sounds. Missing tin missing Tennessee teen gets engaged to cop who searched for her 15 years later. Okay, so this teen this woman she ran away from her home when she was a teenager. I think she was 13, 14, 15, something like that. And then one of this, you know, of course, everybody went out searching for a missing teenager. Everybody started searching for her, and this cop was one of them. Uh but then I guess 15 years later, she's a grown adult now. She finds a job at this police officer precinct, and then they they kind of meet, but they didn't know who each other were, and they fall in love. Okay, so so so you see it's not as bad as it sounds. Let's let's read through it. She went missing and found her heart. A Tennessee woman who ran away as a teenager fell in love with a cop who went searching for her fifteen years ago. Roshan Allie was thirteen when she fled from her Jackson, Tennessee home. Oh, that was just here. Out of fear her father would kill her. Tyler Shrupp was one of the police officers assigned to find her. She returned a day later, and Shrupp never met her. Fast forward twelve years when a grown up Allie lands a job at the sheriff's department. Shrupp didn't know who she was, but he was immediately drawn to her. He wouldn't stop staring at me, but literally wouldn't say a word at all. Uh I thought she was very beautiful, which is why I was kind of nervous to talk to her. Once and there's they're ten years apart in age, so uh once they began talking, they felt an immediate connection which led to Allie opening up about the trauma of her youth. We started putting the dates together and then she described the area, Shruck recalled. That's when I started to be like, okay, I was part of that. It's crazy that back when I was looking for you, and now we're sitting here talking. That is kind of weird, isn't it? The pair got engaged uh of August of last year, and they share a five-month-old son. In July, Allie went viral with her story, racking up five million views for a TikTok video where she shakes hands with Shrubb describing him as an officer who went searching for me while missing. Allie who goes by Roro Nicole on social media needed to set the record straight after TikTok jumped to the wrong conclusions. I guess so. Some of the comments were that he's grooming me. Uh he kidnapped me and I've been with him this whole time, kept me in the basement, she said. In a four-part video series, she detailed the true and harrowing harrowing ordeal. In 2010 Oh, her gambling addict her okay, in 2010, her gambling addict father, who didn't allow his kids outside the house, came home one day after losing all of his money and threatened to kill Allie and her siblings after he caught them outside. We immediately ran into our bedroom because we were afraid that he was going to start beating on us like he normally does whenever he comes home upset. His sister stood with her back against the bedroom wall and feet on the wall to hold the door shut so their dad didn't get inside. Wow. And she is a pretty little thing. So then uh So then he told my mom to go get a knife and then he began to try stab her through the door. What? So the so the wife and mother was gave him a oh my god. When her father eventually was able to open the door, I didn't know the story was gonna take this turn. Sorry, y'all. So when the her father eventually was able to open the door, he grabbed her sister by the hair and dragged her into the bedroom where he began beating her with a cable wire. Goodness gracious, we can literally hear her begging him not to kill her. Well I didn't know the story was gonna take this dark of a turn. He duct taped her hands together and her legs together and then placed duct taped on her mouth so nobody could hear her screaming. Then my mom walks into our room and she looks at us and she goes, Y'all are next. Oh my god, what the hell? What was what's wrong with this m mother too? That's when Allie and her brother jumped out their bedroom window and ran to the nearest park. Her father called the cops to report them missing. When the police arrived, Allie's sister reported she was assaulted and the cops took their parents into custody and where they spent only a couple of days in jail. Wow. Allie and her brother, who was twelve, were found the next day and placed in foster care along with their two siblings who are fifteen and sixteen. Well, thank goodness. I truly truly believe it was not me running away from the house that day and officers being involved, I don't think that we'd still be here alive. Allie and Shrupp, who were who will wed next year, said people are touched by their story. Alright, I know I went long and ho long over my time on this, so I apologize. We need to get to the question of the day. Okay, just totally random out of the blue. What was the last purchase you made online? Mine was a bathing suit bottoms and dry mouth lozenges. That's what I recently purchased online. Okay, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Bye.