Couple Things with Shawn and Andrew - 145 | Recapping our 2022

Episode Date: January 12, 2023

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When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. What's up, everybody. Welcome back to Couple Things. With Sean and Andrew. A podcast all about couples. And the things they go through. I think my voice is still recovering from like four weeks ago. Yeah, this is wild.

That's the first time I've heard that little crack in your voice. But what an exciting episode this is, because we are going over the highlights from last year to tease all the wonderful things that are going to be happening this year on the show. Yeah. 2020. three can you believe it i can't i can't wait for this year there's so many exciting things especially as we look back on last year so let's hit some highlights of what happened in 2022 uh we went on tour for a couple things does that seem like ages ago it seems like seven years ago i don't believe that was last year we did six stops over like a 10 day period yes it was our first tour we saw thousands of you it was a blast honestly that was one of the highlights of my year personally

just because we could talk to a camera all day and to see the faces, hear the stories live from you, was a real treat. I think I'd like to do that again this year. Wow. Hot take. We have not discussed this. We haven't discussed that. That's my blood sugar. Andrew's blood sugar is spiking. Okay. Are you feeling okay? That's good to know. Okay. Yes. Okay. I would like to do it again. I think it was so much fun. And I loved being able to meet you guys and do it in person. And I thought it was really cool to do it for a couple things. I think there would be some things about the program that we would change and add and adjust. I'm up for doing it again if you are.

Me too. Not six shows in 10 days, though. That was a little hectic. That was a little crazy. Maybe like once a week. That'd be fun. For the whole year? That sounds wild.

That was a massive assumption. We should think about this. Yeah. Next. We expanded the network. Yeah. We launched the network. By a lot.

So our whole mission when we launched our show was to start conversations based off of Sean and I's experience, dating, getting engaged, getting married, and raising young kids. And we realized that, my gosh, we can only tell one side of this story. We can only tell one small story. And that's based off our experience. So how cool would it be if we welcomed other people into this network and use our production and use our studio and use all these different resources that we have

so that they could tell their stories in hopes that some of you who have different experiences like adopting kids or have special needs kids or whatever maybe can relate their stories and hopefully get some good conversation started there. So with that, we welcomed about seven new shows, seven new families into the Family Made Network, and we are obsessed with every single one of them. We love their stories. We love their foundations and who they are and their character and everything that they're going to share.

And it's just really cool. And let me just say this. If your top priority is to make millions of dollars or make a lot of money, this is this. this is not the place for you. If your top priority is to like spend all your time working and waste your life that way, this is not the place for you. If your top priority is family though

and you want to have a fulfilling marriage, you want to have kids that you invest a lot of time in and are thoughtful with, this is a place for you. And all the shows that we have have these same values and have these same principles. So our goal here is to celebrate families through entertaining and encouraging content.

We do that with podcasts. We do that with YouTube. We do that with Instagram. That's our whole mission. And so we hope that you experience that and also share with us your experience of family as well. Okay, we're rambling on family made. Other cool things you did this here.

We got an official studio. We finished the build. We finished the official studio for the podcast. We finished our official office. And it has been awesome. That's right. Other people are using the studio. This isn't just us.

We have not only the show's in network. but there's we've rented out like multiple times a month people are coming in i mean casually taylor lotner and his wife taylor lotner were sitting in these chairs last week i did not know that taylottner is now married to tay it's really confusing yeah tay it's tay and taylor there you go and that was really fun so uh not to brag but ben rector came in here one of our favorite musicians and was like the audio quality in here is crisp and it's fun to welcome other people uh into the studio. So that was the third big thing. Fourth, we climbed? Yes, to number one on the charts. That's right. Did we hit number one? Yes. No, we hit number two. We hit one. We hit number one.

I didn't freaking know this. Sick. Sick. Who? I did not know this. Lexi, if you don't have a screenshot, we got a lot of conversations. That was in December, early December. Well, and we hit one? We hit one. Do you know this? Caroline's like, I don't know. But in doing that and climbing to number, I do know we climbed to number one on our category. Yes. I don't know if we climbed to number one overall.

How exciting is that? Anyways, in doing that giveaway, though, because we got to number one, we did our largest giveaway ever, which is $10,000 cash. How fun is that? That was incredible. And now on.

Are you ready for this? To the coup d'etat. That's not the right word. to the magnus opus to the peak the pinnacle the biggest giveaway we've ever done yeah $10,000 cash I'm gonna let you announce it okay these are all randomly chosen they are so many of you participate in this thank you we've already talked about doing another one soon probably focus around the newsletter so keep an eye on that um this was really fun this is like the best part of what we do am i just prefacing are you ready I'm just going to keep talking until

Sean's ready. I'm just excited. I really wish we could talk to this person in person. But we'll be reaching out to you. The $10,000 cash giveaway goes to Sam Eileen. Sam Eileen. Do we have a handle for that? Or like a, let's see.

We don't. Congratulations, Sam. You know what, in a world of like all this flagrant, divisive, promiscuous content, how cool is it that this show where you know Sean will drop the casual F-bomb no I'm kidding okay I'm kidding we don't really use profanity and that's nice we don't it's like you know we're not we're not out here mudsling in either it's just it's just mudsling can I did not know that we were number one Lexington confirm that was the whole thing I

know it was top three remember this is huge what the fringe what the fringe okay Okay, last two things. We interviewed Drew for the first time. I have watched that interview probably 100 times and it is the sweetest, it's the sweetest thing ever. What do you want to be when you grow up? Um, Elsa. That's what you want to be? Yeah. I think that's a great goal, Drew. You would be a beautiful Elsa. Yeah. Do you know how much daddy loves you? Yeah. How much? Does not? No, more than that. That's what? More than that. That's what? More than that. More than that.

No, I love you more than that. Yes, my. Come on, I love you more. There you go. I love you this much. Are you ticklish? No. Are you sure?

Mm-mm. Are you sure? Mm-hmm. What's your favorite toy? Oh, sir. Yeah, the doll. Mm-hmm. If you had $20 to spend...

Oh, there we go. What would you buy if you had $20? Yo-yo. Yo-yo's? No, Ariel. Ariel is what you would buy? Yeah. Hey, Drew.

Uh-huh. What are you thinking about? Um, life. You're thinking about life? The last thing that was a highlight that we launched was a newsletter. Yeah. And so we realized, like, man, we can only film so much content. We hired a writer that now sends out two newsletters a week.

It's really fun content. A lot of Q&A, a lot of you guys, participate and it's just another fun way for us to connect with you so overall the last 365 days were fantastic if you ask me I'm glad very exciting and if you think you think about the next 365 days I'm also excited there's a lot of fun things to come yes I think one of my favorite episodes that we did last year is we explained in depth what our goal setting process looks like and I was thinking now that it's 2023 we just did our goal setting last week It took us four and a half hours, but I feel like we should do another episode and actually

share what a lot of our goals are. And we have this whole system. We'll tell you how we do it. But we wrote out all of our goals for life. And back then when we wrote out our goals as it pertained to like finances and family and where we wanted to live and how we wanted to see our life, we noticed that we weren't living our life how any of our goals were written out. And that sounds dramatic. But it was basically like there were so many drastic changes we wanted to make in our life because we weren't necessarily not happy, but we just weren't living the life that we wanted. And now fast forward five years, it's cool. We go back and we read like our goals every year and they're getting more nuanced

and more specific and they're actually reflecting what our life looks like. And we're able to do that because we've, the first year, we set some wildly different goals in what we're living. So we were way off but then when we revisited our goals the next year we were able to be like hey you know what hanging out with friends five days a week was realistic but I do think that one or two times a week is something that we're interested in and so you're able to just kind of tweak and do maintenance on those goals after you already have a foundation set well and I think something we have learned over the past five years and doing the goals is that you we everyone you're offered so many opportunities on a daily basis do you want to go hang out with your friends do you

to hang out with your family. Do you want to go to the movies? Do you want to have a date night or cook in? Do you want your kids to go to preschool or not? Do you want to, like there's so many choices that you can make on a daily basis. And you can get so lost so easily in saying yes to things that don't really suit you. But in the moment, you don't know why you should say yes or why you should say no. And something we've noticed in doing our goals as a family is that it's made those daily choices a lot easier for us because even though it might seem like a really small choice if you make a small choice every single day of the year it ends up changing your entire lifestyle this episode is brought to you by defender with its 626 horsepower twin

turbo v8 engine the defender octa is taking on the decar rally the ultimate offroad challenge learn more at landrover dot cae Yeah, a lot of things have changed. So we did, we're going to do an episode on grief. There's, it's been a wild couple of weeks with just a lot of stuff happening personally. You may or may not know my dad passed away suddenly two weeks ago, two weeks and a day ago. And so we're going to be walking through that. But in light of all these kind of personal experiences, I feel like our goals, our approach

to goals, just our general perspective on what's important in life is as clear as it's ever been and would like to share that with you if there's interest. So if you would like to hear that episode, let us know. And also, if you listen to last year's goal setting episode and you reach some of these goals, we would love to hear these success. Should we do like interviews and like hear? Because we got a lot of feedback on that goal episode. We should like get some people on the horn and be like, yo, Bob, how to go?

On the horn. Your lingo today, fringe horn? I know, I agree. Did you read Urban Dictionary? I'm pulling out words from, I don't know, even know where they're coming from. Are you trying to be like cool dad or something? No, it's the first word that comes to mine, but... French.

No, I said French. What the French. Oh, that's even weirder. Okay, anyway. Let's review another episode on top of the goal setting. Yes. Another one of the most popular episodes was things we wish we knew before getting married. Here's my thought.

And this is my thought on Andrew and I's relationship and marriage because we got married young. My thought is when you're dating someone, you're constantly trying to impress them. You're holding out. little details and little parts of you because you always kind of want to have that impression and you always want to have that guard up a little bit just in case you get broken up with that you didn't fully give yourself to that person and then you get engaged and I feel like it's a little bit the same thing you aren't quite married but you're more than dating so you might get a little bit more raw and real and a little bit more vulnerable but you're still

saving up that impress like impressing each other to where you aren't really giving your whole self to them but then you get married and you spend the rest of your life together and there's no break time you're living together you're sharing a household you're sharing kids like all these things and you get to see qualities good bad and ugly of your hard times your good times and there's none of that like impression anymore it's just you and i feel like our premarital counselor tried to give us a window into that which helped yeah and but that's what's so beautiful about marriage is that there there is the the foundation for you to be fully you and that's unlike any other relationship structure out there which is why we're like marriage heightment um so we're big fans if you are

engaged or in that process of like vetting a spouse premarital counseling is extremely useful and Sean and I talk about it all the time about how big of an impact it made for us to really know how to be sensitive with each other, to understand each other in like a deeper way and to have discussions and arguments in a productive, healthy way. Because arguments, I feel like as I've gotten older, I've realized that, hey, if we're arguing, that means that there's like an outcome that we want changed. And, you know, all these things like just dramatic emotions and and whatever unhealthy arguing habits that we all bring into a relationship, a lot of times we can do away with all those,

but you have to identify them first. So the highlight of that was that conflict is not a bad thing. The way you resolve conflict does matter. It does make a difference. Premarital counseling and just marital counseling in general is highly, highly encouraged and recommended. It was actually in our goals this year is we wanted to find, like a marriage counselor that we can go to consistently.

Yeah. just to like help the maintenance costs are going to be lower than you know full damage control so also i actually had my cousin told me that investing in his marriage is by far the greatest ROI he has in any aspect of life such a business analytical guy well he's he's started a couple companies himself and it's like the best ROI why are you laughing at that i think it's a good I just think it's a good perspective. Like, oh, you're like worried about these other things. What I think is funny is within our marriage,

it's just becoming more and more apparent every year. How not, how you just don't like to even use words that describe feelings. But if you were to say, you know what, I'm vested in my marriage. And it is the greatest R-O-I. It's your way of being like, you know what? That made me feel good. What you're trying to say is, you love me? I love you.

We did an episode called I've been married to three different people, which is a fun one. Well, wait, we haven't launched that one. We haven't? No, I don't think so. I don't think we've launched it. That was funny. But it's the whole concept of like, you know, marriage, if you do it right, you're supposed to end up a different person than what you walked in being. And the responsibility is to make sure that that person,

who's at the end of the line is better, more well-rounded, more caring, thoughtful, respectful than you were when you started. So that's kind of the M.O. there. What was the episode we did where we were in a fight live on air? I think it was arguments. It was literally, isn't that what it was? Today we're talking about the most common things we fight about. And, well, as fate would have it, we're hot and heavy right in the middle of one.

I think this is the first broad stroke, what we often argue about. Sean and I both get really excited about things. And I tend to commit to things. And when I commit to things, I'm a bad... Communicator. In the sense that, like, hey,

it's three days from now and we could easily change the time for this. But I don't really communicate that. And you book like 10 things in the same hour And you're like, it's fine We can easily make all of them And we can never make all of them So we always look bad

Let's talk about Sean's issues for a little bit now Let's do it I don't have any I'm perfectionists I have very high expectations And I get very frustrated When we don't fulfill them The great thing is I do think we're getting better at arguing

Don't you? No I feel like this morning was a huge win I said something that was out of line and then we were like what did you say that was out of line um oh I was like hey let's be precise

in our speech and then I proceeded to use the word mud mud flaps when I really meant just the general idea it doesn't matter it doesn't matter it doesn't matter Andrew tends to argue factually and if you ever misspeak

it's like no that's not the fact and then today he didn't want me to use his own facts like against him and he was like oh that's interesting so I do think though it's a good policy and we talk about blanket statements all the time to try to be as precise in speech as possible yeah anyway but we do feel like marriage is the best thing ever despite all the conflict that may occur another episode we did was the intergram episode with susan drum yes it's fun because I even know there's been times like within our marriage where I'll bring something up And it'll be like small and small and small until it gets to a point where I'm like, no, this is an issue that we have to work on.

And he's like, where did this come from? This is like nothing. Like I, there's, yeah, it just sounds right. Good. This is good. This is really helpful. It's honestly, it reminds me of like marriage counseling where you go on and like maybe they're not spot on, but it doesn't, like the main point is not to get it 100% correct as much it is. is like, hey, well, it sparked interesting conversations.

And then also it gives you the vocabulary or like the grid to actually understand like, oh, maybe I am being, you know, a little bit more like this quality than this quality. And Sean needs that quality. And so anyway. Are you just not wanting to be boxed in, babe? Don't box me in. I get me out of here, man. Yeah.

I was a lot of fun. I felt like it was interesting hearing from her because she went down this whole. route of like compatible and not compatible enneagrams and there was a slight moment there where we're like oh no we're not compatible yeah but like we're seven we're seven years into this thing so like you know like oil and water you know no she did not say that but it was we we heard from a profession some people are super into an eargram i would say i'm not one of those people but it was interesting uh just to put vocabulary to certain personality traits and patterns that people have uh so anyway should we should we take these tests or explore more of these personality tests we did that with

our premarral counseling like took all the Myers briggs we took the enneagram we took like four or five different ones would be curious to hear your perspective it'd be interesting to take just for the heck of it yeah why not what else we don't yeah so our best performing episode of the year not no shock there was third baby talk yeah okay babe third baby What are your thoughts? So first of all, let me just start with saying, I'm in favor. I know. Would love it.

I love babies. Never thought that I would like babies this much. But my gosh, it's my favorite. I adore babies. I adore our children. I love the whole, I love being able to be a parent. So I would say before we start unpacking everything, yeah, I'm in favor too. Oh, my gosh.

You know this. No, I didn't. Yeah, oh my gosh, you know this. Well, you go back and forth because it's more taxing on you, to be honest, than it is on me. So this is probably going to be more of an episode of me just giving you the honest opinion of myself and pregnancy and babies. But let me start with a laundry list of reasons why I am on the fence and I'm 50-50. Okay. So after we had Drew, or let's back it up even further, when we had our miscarriage.

I knew while it was happening, while I was pregnant, while we were losing that baby, that I wanted to try again. Like, I knew I wanted to try to get pregnant and to have a baby if we could. We then got pregnant with Drew, and we had a little, a couple of scares throughout that pregnancy and through that delivery. But Drew came to us, and she's amazing. And I knew the second we had Drew, I was like, we're going to go again. I know this. And then we got pregnant with Jett. And it was great pregnancy, great birth.

He's the best in the entire world. But after Jett, for some reason, I just had this feeling. I was like, I don't know. I don't have that same feeling of like, I know we're going to try again. It is tough. I feel like in some ways we lucked out by having a boy and a girl. Yeah. So there's part of us.

Which we would have been perfectly just as happy. Yeah, yeah. But still the question of, oh, what would it be like to have a boy or a girl if we only had one of each is answered? Like now we have that iteration of a child in that version. Yeah. So that's one thing where we already have a boy and a girl. The other thing is just the terrifying process. Yeah.

The whole thing is. That's, I think. not to cut you off but I think that's what scares me the most is I have such incredible faith in the miracle of life and we're so strong in our faith and I learned how to get through the miscarriage I learned how to heal through that but we've been so incredibly blessed with two babies it's like finding that faith to be even stronger and go through that process again, I'm terrified of having another miscarriage. I'm terrified of complications in pregnancy.

I'm terrified of the complications in delivery. And even though I got through that with both Drew and Jet and everything turned out okay, like that really scares me. That really scares me. So just to unpack that a little more, You have the unknown of, are we able to get pregnant? Yes. The unknown of how long it will take to get pregnant.

Yes. The unknown of how healthy the pregnancy will be. The unknown of how healthy the baby will be. Then the unknown of parenting and who the child is is just like there's so much there. So much. There's so much that could go wrong. Yeah. But my perspective has changed recently where.

it's like oh it's all part of the story it's like it now to me having been a father twice over now it's like things are going to go wrong and it's just how what do you learn from that how do you have that change your perspective and decisions moving forward and how do you move forward from it so it's Like, because there's always going to be something that goes wrong. Yeah. So it's not, just like a useless exercise trying to mitigate all those. I'm excited. No announcement yet.

I'm freaked out. No baby yet, guys. But it is interesting just to think through and what we talked about. Like, how is that going to change our life? I'll tell you what. Kids are great. They make you put in work though. They do.

I just have accepted we'll never sleep again. That's not true. Dude, Jets had a great spot right now. That's at a great spot. He's wild. He, I don't know how a one-year-old does this, but we've traveled quite a bit in the past three weeks and seen a lot of different people just given life events.

And he has somehow been able to make like a very long-lasting reputation for himself within like the first couple hours of meeting people. Which is being just the most sweet, tender but wild kid wild around I'm excited to see I'm excited to get to know him better yeah anyway

we're excited to talk about growing our family and would love to have you along for that journey as well it was fun speaking of the tour we saw someone live who came up they pulled us off stage they didn't pull us off stage they pulled us aside after the show

they said hey I just want to let you know like you sharing your miscarriage story really resonated with me and helped me process mine she just had a miscarriage. We heard from her last week. She's pregnant. Again. And how exciting is that?

So we're doing this together. And I love it. I know. And it was really cool. I felt like to see her feel so comfortable and excited and feel connected enough with us to one, share her miscarriage. But then to be so excited to come back around until she was pregnant. It was really, really special.

It's good stuff, man. We also did the end of this channel, as you know it, which was kind of us. talking about how we're expanding the show. So we have, what are some of the shows? What's up beautiful people? We have never TMI. We have first class fatherhood. First class fatherhood. Ellie and Jared agree to disagree. And more coming soon. Yes. Again, with the hope and desire that some of you who maybe don't have the exact same story or experience as Sean and I can resonate with these other stories and so more to come feel like three years ago we made an announcement that we were

starting a podcast um and three years later we're going to make an announcement that we are starting family made that's right i am freaking pumped for today i feel prepared for this one i was not prepared for the podcast we have been stumbling through this whole process just kind of walking through the dark blind not really know what we're doing but i feel like there's a clear vision and we're excited to share it with you all because you all are the reason that we're doing it so Today is super special and exciting because it is about the project that we have been working on and building in one degree or another for the past like two and a half years. Yeah, it's a dream we had a long time ago when we started social media and we started kind of documenting our lives and kind of our whole mission with it and it's finally coming to light, which is really, really exciting. So we are going to spend this episode telling you about family made media, what it is, how it got started, and bringing on the current team of people.

Yeah. It's your first time getting to meet the people behind the camera. Look at these, why everyone's so nervous and also confused. They're like, why did we agree to be here? Oh, man. We did. Nobody agreed. Nobody knew.

I actually, reflecting on this one, I think one of my favorite episodes we did was our biggest flaws. Yeah? I do. Because we always talk about we love being reflective and stuff. And I felt like we were, we navigated that conversation well because I feel like that could have gone really bad really quickly. And yeah, I really enjoyed it. It felt like our monthly checkup. I've always been pretty aware of my like perfectionism issues, I would say.

but I do notice them at times within our marriage and being a parent I am way too hard on myself and when I get hard on myself I get down and when I get down I get defensive and it's just a perpetuating cycle and it never ends well

so I think working on that kind of going back to the beginning of this episode and we are saying you kind of have to be very self-reflective and work on yourself before you can never criticize someone else I think it makes it easier for me sometimes to be like oh if only he was doing this it would help or if only so-and-so did this better it would help when it's actually like a mean problem I think as we get older like the number of commitments that we have grows especially

as we have kids and those commitments like really expand the list of commitments grows Like I used to be able to overcommit us collectively and it not really be a problem like oh we could fly to New York today and then LA tomorrow and then this I think they might have still been a problem no it was but it but the problem yeah exposes itself way more when you have kids yeah yeah because someone's left at home with the kids for X amount of time or whatever this feels like a sore spot I didn't mean it like that I will say too a flaw that we both carry and we have to work at constantly is we're both very stubborn and

what are we speaking for each other or for yourself I'm speaking for it I don't see a list of our collective just speak for yourself bro no this is a collective thought collective flaw would you agree What just happened?

I touched you. I'm trying to give it back. I think a collective flaw for both of us is are stubborn. We both have very, very strong opinions. We're very independent. We're very driven. And are you speaking for me now? Did we transition to?

Let me finish. Use the pronoun I. I. You just say it. no are you are you serious no this is a perfect example you're out of out of balance oh my gosh

oh my case and point I'm too stubborn to say we he's too stubborn to accept it dude hey Andrew would you I'm crying

would you say you're stubborn let me speak for my let me speak for my own self I have tears of my eye okay so the next section says

think of something or a few things you view as a flaw and the other person Andrew I would say you are stubborn What I was going to say is we're both stubborn.

We have opinions. We're hot-headed, not hot-headed, strong-headed. Strong-willed. Strong-willed. Just like you witnessed. Hard-headed, strong-willed. There we go. Yeah.

I remember that episode. That's fun. What I learned was you're really hard on yourself, you know? Yeah. And that you're stubborn. We all knew that. Who are you? thank you so much thank you so much uh but it is this is one thing i had a revelation on

last year like self-reflection or prayer or meditation whatever you want to call it goes a long way so being aware of your flaws and helping your spouse with grace and a dose of truth work through their flaws and that's a that's a fun place to be not always fun it's an important place to be anyway speaking of that of lessons we've learned the episode about things we want to teach our daughter about body image yeah I feel like that resonated with a lot of people reading through the comments I think there is a systemic flaw in our entire world around asking for help because people think you have to have a problem before you go seek help and I think it should be the other way around we've talked about this with

marriage counseling it should be considered maintenance and education before it's ever considered like a lifeline. And I think there are a lot of people out there who are struggling deeply with some sort of relationship to food that's negative that need like emergency help or a lifeline when it comes to like a dietitian or a nutritionist or a psychologist or psychiatrist, whatever it is. But I truly think for anybody out there, the more education you have around nutrition in diet and psychology, the better. So whether it's doing a session a year

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self-confidence issues but i'm so i think about it every single day how to raise her in a way so she has such understanding and like confidence on ourselves um yeah it was i thought that was a really good episode that was fun if you guys haven't heard that one you have little girls or little boys i really feel like you should go back and listen to it sean's whole history with gymnastics and athletics and being in the limelight when she was 12 just a whole different uh viewpoint and i appreciate you sharing your perspective there my personal favorite episode though you alluded to earlier was interviewing drew so this idea we got from a friend where they interview their kids on their birthday every year,

and then you're able to reflect back on it. So we started that, and I wanted to formally interview Drew. She was into it. She was totally into it. She was, like, talking about how she's headed to work. She was talking about how she has to speak into the microphone and look into the camera. It was adorable.

I still can't get over the fact that you sat her down and he said, Drew, do you know what this is? And she's like, it's a microphone. And I was like, did you tell her that? And you said she, like, knew it. Actually, someone pointed to the fact that I did interview her when she was two. It was not in the studio, but maybe we should publish that at some point. That way we have it available.

Do you know what this is? What is it? Oh, my good phone. Do you know what that is? My grandma. Okay. I love you. A lot of giveaways.

We had some fun interviews with Stephen Curtis Chapman, with Ben Rector, with Alec Lace, with who else do we interview. Do you have a favorite interview? The Spellman's. I love doing interviews. There's no other experience like having a one-hour block where your only focus is conversation.

First of all, we have met once before. Do you remember this? I don't. Andrew, you don't put someone on the spot like that. No. Well, now I definitely... We're close to you. I thought he was going to say yes

that he did remember. Andrew Dean. But, no, anyway, it was on one of your Monday morning calls. I was dropping off Yes, I do remember that. And I said, Ben! No, I totally do remember that. A hundred percent. Okay. And I interrupted. So the awkward person you remember screaming at you while you're on a business call is my husband. No. Okay. So yeah, anyways. I've started answering that question honestly because I feel like I can always tell that people can tell if I try to like smooth it over. Like do you remember whatever? I'm always like, not always. Sometimes I'd be like, yeah. And I can see the wheel steering with like you don't. So I can see the wheel steering with like you don't. So I don't. So I don't. I just started just being like, straight up, I'm like, I don't remember that. Not that happens to me all the time. But I do totally remember now that you said that, you're driving

a truck, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I remember I have my, I think I had my headphones on and this guy like pulled over and I was like, what's about to happen right now? I was like, what's up? I because we had talked on Instagram and I was like, oh, awesome. Because the reason we had talked on Instagram was, I tried and I don't know how successful I was. I'll let you determine this to to write or sorry to sing one of your songs love like this which by the way for those listening if you have not heard this song we're going to link it it brings me to tears when I when I listen to it with my kids I played it on piano you didn't make that song easy to play it's it's not an easy song yeah not an easy song but anyway I recorded it or whatever I sang it and much anyway much

respect thank you and I think you said good job which I'll take and honestly anybody that's like I'm so bad at trying stuff that I'm not I don't feel like great about like anybody that's like hey check this out I'm like that's sick all right real quick how many times do you estimate we were asked over this break if I was going to do one thing this year to help me establish healthier routines what should I do how many times do you think we were asked that question uh in our DMs thousands thousands and in person a couple dozen yeah and our answer is always start taking AG1 on a daily basis. This is a part of our morning routine has been for several years now. I take it every morning with a glass of water. Sean, how do you do it? I throw it in a smoothie or a glass of water,

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anything that you want to see specifically in 2023, let us know topics you want us to cover, shows that you maybe want us to build up and produce from maybe some of your favorite TikTokers or whoever. But the other thing we talked about is maybe doing seasons.

So instead of every week doing like two blocks of 20 episodes or something, one now and then one in the fall, that way it's just maybe more digestible. But this community is large, this community is powerful and we could change the world. And I think we do it by focusing on the family.

And so that's responsibility to you, I, and you listening have. I'm excited for this year. Me too. Anyway, that's all we got. I'm Andrew. I'm Sean. And we're the East fan. Out.