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Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5 • 39.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode, we’re answering your questions LIVE about the season and sharing a few thoughts on Special Forces episode 4! (more to hear about next week!) We wanted to get to as many of your questions as we could and chat with you all in real time about this season :) Let us know what you think and tell us your favorite parts! So excited to be watching alongside all of you :) We’ll be doing this every week, so keep an eye on my Instagram for the question box with all your questions. See you for the next episode! Love you guys! Shawn & Andrew Kachava ▶ Go to https://www.kachava.com and use code EASTFAM for 15% off your next order. Nurture Life ▶ if you want to make mealtime easier, head to https://www.NurtureLife.com/EASTFAM and use code EASTFAM for 55% off your first order — plus free shipping! 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) why a live q&a? (00:45) advice from friends who were previously on special forces (02:12) favorite recruits and the integrations (04:52) the meals we ate (07:23) how it felt to be recorded all day long (09:19) medical exemption items (10:24) did we lose weight on the show? (11:11) any embarrassing moments from the show? (13:20) was it harder physically or mentally? (14:40) when people vw, do people leave right away? (15:05) our toughest challenge (16:15) was there a lot of snoring? (16:50) our first shower and sleep after being on the show (17:55) how it was watching each other vs doing it ourselves (18:42) how the tunnels went… (20:00) all about the ds (24:10) would i join the special forces in real life? (25:45) did gymnastics or football prepare us better? (27:11) our first meals after the show (29:25) another one bites the dust (29:44) when we filmed special forces (31:40) who surprised us the most from the cast (32:26) how our kids navigated us being gone (33:30) do we say bye to people who leave the show? (34:35) what we learned from this experience (36:50) navigating being on the show married (39:27) everything happens for a reason (40:20) staying in touch with the cast (41:21) how accurate are the shows vs what we experienced in real life (42:27) an all-star season? (44:03) who we think should be on next season (46:12) how the integrations worked (47:13) if we could do it again, what would we do differently? (48:14) how did this improve our marriage? (51:50) new respect for military couples Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're doing it big today.
0:01.4	Let me just answer a question to start because this really confused me too.
0:06.2	We did already film a recap for episode four.
0:11.7	However, it is not going to go live now until next week.
0:15.5	Instead, we are doing the live Q&A right now to answer any and all of your special forces questions.
0:23.3	And we already have some questions that we got from Instagram last night.
0:28.1	We're also going to be answering live chat questions. So please send them in.
0:32.3	You know what I love about doing live streams? Something always goes wrong.
0:36.9	Yeah, but we're doing it.
0:38.6	So I have enjoyed watching the show as well.
0:41.1	And it's fun because we had shows on the, we had friends on the show previously.
0:45.4	Yes.
0:46.1	And one of the questions we got was what advice do we get from some of those friends who
0:50.3	are on the show about the show?
0:51.7	So much advice.
0:52.3	Who's sitting in that question?
0:53.8	Let's make sure we say names for the people who kindly submitted questions.
0:58.7	Raw and oak.
0:59.9	Raw and oak.
1:00.8	There you go.
1:03.4	Advice we got from friends.
1:05.5	We had so many friends who have done the show.
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