278 | WE’RE ON SPECIAL FORCES!

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, we’re finally spilling a secret we kept for far too long.. which is all about our time on SPECIAL FORCES!! We take you through the experience day by day- what it was really like to be on the show, how we tackled it together as a couple, the ways it pushed us to our absolute limits, and how it broke us down (in the best way possible). Tune in tomorrow at 9PM Eastern on FOX (and every Thursday after that!)- and if you miss it live, you can catch it streaming the next day on Hulu. We’ll be recapping each episode here on the podcast, so we hope you watch along with us, share your thoughts, and join the conversation :) This was truly the most incredible journey we’ve ever been on, and we’re beyond honored to have been chosen. We are SO excited to relive it with you all, let’s do this! @RealityClubFox Love you guys! Shawn & Andrew ▶ Head to https://www.HomeChef.com/EASTFAM for 50% off your first box and free dessert for life ▶ Guys. https://www.Dupe.com really is that simple. No account, no signup. Just type “dupe.com/” before any product URL and watch the magic happen. ▶ You’ve never tasted strawberry like this. Go to https://www.kachava.com and use code EASTFAM for 15% off your next order. ▶ Click https://www.BranchBasics.com to shop their Premium Starter Kit and use our code EASTFAM for 15% off. ▶ Try the new GoGURT protein we talked about, it’s amazing! ▶ https://bit.ly/3HCC0BY Subscribe to our newsletter ▶ https://www.familymade.com/newsletter Follow 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 (00:00) we have a secret! (01:36) the strength it gave me and the confidence it gave me (02:15) what is special forces? (06:30) what we mean when we say “it was hard” (16:24) the beauty in the hard (19:20) the timing of keeping this secret (21:00) day one (26:50) adjusting to being back (28:30) day two (29:08) day three (29:50) day four (30:22) day five (31:06) day six (31:26) day seven (32:00) last days (34:08) takeaways from the show (36:13) being discharged and reflections moving forward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody?
0:01.5	Welcome back to a couple things.
0:02.7	What's Sean and Andrew?
0:04.2	This is going to be an interesting one.
0:05.8	I don't know how many parts this will be cut up into.
0:10.4	We have a secret that we've been keeping for a while.
0:14.3	In real time, we are filming this on June 20th.
0:19.9	I have no idea when this will air.
0:22.1	And we return from this excursion on June 18th, the night of June 18th.
0:27.9	So we're about 18 hours removed from this.
0:30.1	But we have alluded to this for quite a while.
0:34.6	But the adventure that we just went on was a TV show.
0:38.0	We did the Fox TV show together called Special Forces.
0:42.9	World's Toughest Challenge.
0:45.0	And that is a proper tagline.
0:48.3	Yeah.
0:49.0	That was the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life.
0:53.1	Yeah.
0:53.6	It was fun until it wasn't.
0:55.3	Yeah.
0:55.9	But we're able to finally tell you now,
0:58.3	and we wanted to kind of give you the live debrief
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