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Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew

Shawn Johnson + Andrew East

Society & Culture

5.0 • 39.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In this episode we dive into one of humanity’s oldest and biggest questions: faith. If thousands of religions exist, what does it really mean to choose a God? Is faith something we inherit, something we discover, or something we decide? This isn’t about winning an argument — it’s about exploring the deep questions that shape how we live our lives. Whether you're religious, spiritual, agnostic, or atheist, this conversation invites you to think critically about what gives life meaning. Join the discussion in the comments! Love you guys, Shawn & Andrew Check out www.https://covesmart.com/EASTFAM or use code EASTFAM at checkout for up to 60% off your first order! Sign up and get 10% off at www.https://BetterHelp.com/EASTFAM Join at www.https://RocketMoney.com/eastfam Head to www.https://Wayfair.com right now to shop all things home. (00:00:00) our why for this (00:02:45) how we broke down our thoughts on this (00:04:40) faith in the uncertain (00:18:08) the difference between faith, hope, and knowing it isn’t all “you” (00:26:25) what faith really means (00:28:46) the game you play in life is an indicator of what you serve (00:39:25) what comes to mind when we think about god (00:45:08) the christian definition of god and what it means to us (00:52:34) how everyone makes sense of faith differently (01:02:42) the benefits of daily practices and how we see faith 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. With Sean and Andrew. I think I'm really nervous for this
0:06.5	episode. I'm really excited, though I'm nervous that it won't be communicated well. I've been thinking about
0:14.5	this episode for literally three years. I have a Google Doc that I... Which he won't even give to me
0:19.6	because he's like, it's too much of a cluster.
0:21.4	What I've done over the last literal three years, almost like how we wrote our book, is just anytime I have a thought about this topic, I just throw it in there. And it's not necessarily organized yet. So I've gone through the last week and tried to segment it out. One of the main reasons, I know you've been thinking about it for three years,
0:38.7	but one of the main reasons you I know you've been thinking about it for three years, but one of the
0:39.1	main reasons you wanted to do this from what I am aware of is we did an episode with Caitlin
0:45.9	Bristow on her podcast.
0:47.4	That's right.
0:48.1	Where we were talking about special forces.
0:50.3	And for lack of a better way to say this, but we got derailed a little bit because we started talking about God and how Caitlin's kind of on this journey and she's like really curious. And she's like, but why believe it all? Yeah. Especially when you can't prove it to be right, which led you to want to do a podcast of our own, kind of talking about the same thing,
1:11.8	about our faith.
1:13.7	Well, you know, we did this whole press tour after the Special Forces show, and we're
1:18.4	getting ready to do a whole other press tour for our book.
1:22.2	And inevitably what happens is you talk about the same old subject, get asked the same questions. But in that
1:29.4	episode, Caitlin was talking about how she's very spiritual and she's exploring like what that
1:34.8	means for her, which then just got my wheels turning about what I think is a broader trend in
1:41.4	society. Because so that episode, by far,
1:45.1	the most popular portion of that episode
1:47.5	was not us talking about the TV show
1:49.4	as us talking about that spiritual topic.
1:55.0	Which then made me want to do this episode.
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