# Season 31 Kickoff: We Had a Plan… Then Cousin Seth Showed Up

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Podcast: [Christmas Cousins](https://stenobird.com/podcast/christmas-cousins-6597420)
Published: 2026-08-12T09:11:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/christmascousinspod/episodes/Season-31-Kickoff-We-Had-a-Plan-Then-Cousin-Seth-Showed-Up-e3n9pm4
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## Resource

Season 31 is here , Christmas Cousins (yes, 31, Seth even triple checked out math)! We arrived with an agenda, an outline and the almost-professional intention of previewing our upcoming fall episodes while laying out Cousin Seth’s next seasonal semester: what exactly must our former Jolly Junior accomplish to advance from Kringle Kindergarten to Festive First Grade on his long and winding road toward Christmas High School? It was an excellent plan. It lasted approximately three minutes...until Cousin Seth started talking. One life update led to another, and suddenly our carefully constructed fall preview was tossed aside as we discussed Seth's love life. And because this is the Christmas Cousins and apparently boundaries are merely suggestions, before long we were meeting Lindsay herself—live on the show. So forget the syllabus. Forget the lesson plan. Today we’re talking Seth, Lindsay, life updates, love and whatever else happened once we completely surrendered control of the episode. It’s the quintessential Christmas Cousins show: we came prepared with a topic and discovered reality was considerably more entertaining. We promise the fall festivities, seasonal education and Cousin Seth’s matriculation toward Festive First Grade will resume shortly. But some breaking Cousin news simply demands the floor.

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