263 | What Happens at the Olympics Off-Camera

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In today’s episode we dove into all of your questions about the Olympics! We know this isn’t an olympic year but we get so many questions from you guys asking about the ins and outs of how the olympics work we wanted to answer them! From the food in the Olympic village and how kid-friendly of an environment it is to translators, tie breakers, coaches and more! We felt so grateful to attend the 2024 Olympic Games as a family and truly made memories we’ll never forget. Hope you learn something in this episode! Love you guys, Shawn and Andrew Beam Kids is now available online at https://www.shopbeam.com/COUPLETHINGS Take advantage of our exclusive discount of up to 40% off using code COUPLETHINGS Follow our podcast Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/shawnandandrewpods/ Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter 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=enng=en (00:00) why are we talking about the olympics? (02:14) how kid-friendly is the olympics? (04:24) what are the languages like? (06:49) how do they design the usa uniforms? (10:50) do family members get in for free? (14:46) food and drinks at the olympics (16:00) how do you get tickets? (17:48) staying for the paralympics and olympics (18:33) if you could add another sport to the olympics... (19:26) being a former olympian and my view of the games (22:01) has the food at the olympics improved over the years? (22:56) do the athletes actually eat in the village or prep their own food? (25:22) how do the coaches work in gymnastics? (28:24) my favorite event to watch at the olympics (28:43) does being shorter help in gymnastics? (30:13) when do olympians usually get their olympic ring tattoos? (30:25) are there “bad seats” at the olympics? (30:45) why aren’t all medal ceremonies broadcast? (31:25) are there tie-breakers? (32:00) when you’re done competing, do you have to move out right away? (32:24) do alternates get medals? (34:28) does anyone get paid to go to the olympics? (37:00) snoop dogg at the olympics (37:17) do you feel safe at the olympics? (38:09) what’s in the medal box? (39:10) will you be going to the la olympics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.4	With Sean and Andrew.
0:03.5	Today, we're going to be answering a lot of questions about the Olympics.
0:07.4	Yeah, there's a lot of people that want us to do this episode.
0:09.5	I first came across this concept and I was like, this feels old and irrelevant.
0:14.9	Here we are almost a year out from the Olympics.
0:17.6	What are we doing?
0:18.5	Yeah.
0:19.0	But the questions we are going to answer, actually, I imagine this will probably be your episode.
0:25.0	The questions I'm going to be asking Sean about the Olympics are timeless, I would say.
0:30.4	If you guys don't know, if you're new here, let me give you a little bit, two little background things.
0:36.8	One, I competed in the Olympics.
0:38.8	Casual flex.
0:39.9	Casual flex.
0:40.6	One of the reasons why we're going to talk about a lot of this.
0:42.2	I was a gymnast.
0:43.5	I competed in 2008.
0:45.6	But most recently, last year at the Paris Olympics,
0:51.0	Andrew and I took our three babies who were at the time five three and one or was just still two
0:57.7	five three and one yeah five three and one and we did a month in europe and it was absolutely
1:03.4	incredible we did everything you could possibly imagine and because of that we've had so, like a huge influx of questions about other people
1:13.3	wanting to take their kids and how to navigate it and just curiosity that has, I don't know,
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