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Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

294 | holiday chaos is over.. now what?

Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5.039.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.

0:02.2

With Sean and Andrew.

0:03.9

Today, we're going to talk about returning to school post-holiday chaos.

0:09.6

Oh, baby, baby. Is it chaos?

0:13.0

Is it chaos? And we're going to talk about the controversial, controversial idea of, is it a good thing? Do we like when they go back to school

0:23.2

after the holidays? Or like, are we ready or not? I tell you what, everyone's already sick now.

0:28.4

Everyone's already sick. I know. And I feel like, well, the theme of this episode really is

0:33.8

getting back into the groove after the holidays.

0:38.1

Pressing the reset button, new routines, early mornings, trying to find rhythms again.

0:42.3

I don't know about you, babe.

0:44.1

Do you feel like your routine gets messed up and mixed up during the holidays?

0:49.4

Are you serious?

0:51.1

I mean, what routine, first of all?

0:53.2

I would say, there is some. We decided to do something sick and twisted this year.

0:58.7

We decided to throw a move into it as well.

1:01.7

So, like, we literally moved houses.

1:03.2

We had to move out of our house.

1:05.7

We had a month period of time before we could move into the new house.

1:09.7

Yeah.

1:10.0

We threw in a December birthday, a week-long vacation trip, which is just a distraction

1:15.7

for the kids, a move, and then Christmas.

1:19.2

And maintain the holiday travel.

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