Answering The Fan's Questions!

Summary

Chrisley Confessions 2.0 – June 17, 2026
Episode Title: Answering The Fan's Questions!
Hosts: Todd and Julie Chrisley
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Episode Overview

In this heartfelt and characteristically candid episode, Todd and Julie Chrisley return to their signature format, diving deep into fan-submitted questions about family, parenting, marriage, faith, and personal growth. The couple reflects on lessons learned from raising teenagers, maintaining friendships through adversity, navigating personal change post-incarceration, and what they value most in their relationship. With characteristic Chrisley banter, honesty, and humor, they explore life transitions, evolving perspectives, and offer insightful advice to listeners of all backgrounds.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Summer, Family, and Keeping It Real

• The Chrisleys share excitement about the summer: Chloe is out of school, vacations are planned, and the family is enjoying time together ([03:00]-[03:55])
  • Julie jokes about the relief of no more early mornings or school projects.
  • Todd cheekily laments the supposed exhaustion of school routines—despite not being the one handling them.

2. Parenting and Raising Teenagers

Fan Question (Brittany_Ann): “Handling teenagers, how to keep the balance?”

• Todd: Each child has been raised differently. “I hope that I was more educated with each child... Now at 58 years old... I’m just not going to spend the next 20 years of my life trying to let you know I know you’re lying. The answer is no.” ([07:08])
• Julie and Todd reflect on mistakes: acknowledging that giving their kids too much and not enough responsibility was “the greatest mistake we ever made.” ([10:57])
• They discuss generational differences and the importance of teaching self-sufficiency, recalling that as parents, they lacked patience but also overcompensated for their humble beginnings.

“What we're really doing is stripping away from them their desires to have those things on their own, or to work for and to have any appreciation for it.” — Todd ([11:23])

3. The Charleston Question and Embracing Change

Fan Question: Are you still planning to open a hotel in Charleston and possibly move there?

• Julie confirms Charleston remains a dream, but with family transitions underway, plans are uncertain ([11:47]-[13:59]).
• Todd emphasizes boundaries:

“It’s not our job to be where one child wants us to be. It’s our job to be where we are. Because their home is where we are.” ([13:44])

4. Nanny Faye’s Story – Should She Write a Book?

Fan Question (Tanya 26552): “Will Nanny write a book? I love when she talks about her childhood memories.”

• Todd: Insists his mother (Nanny Faye) “is a lifetime treasure... The greatest gift the show ever gave was that it gave my mother a voice.” ([19:07]-[20:27])
• The couple reminisces about Nanny’s resilience, her nontraditional spirit, and the deep bond between Nanny and Julie.

5. Friendship, Loyalty, and Shrinking Circles

Fan Question (KimmeWing 2016): “Did you have full support and communication from your friends when incarcerated?”

• Todd: “The ones that are my friends, yeah.” ([33:38])
• Julie: Circles get smaller as you age, especially after hardship. Partnership and shared old friendships are a blessing.
• Todd spotlights lifelong friend Stephanie, promising a future podcast appearance, and highlights their enduring friendship across political divides.

“Stephanie will go down as being my ride and die.” — Todd ([39:28])

6. Marriage, Intimacy, and ‘Defined Roles’

Fan Question (Haley R. 19): “What is your favorite way to spend time with each other despite busy schedules?”

• Todd quips with suggestive humor, but the serious answer is: the couple enjoys riding around together looking at real estate, going out to eat, and sharing dreams for the future. ([40:00]-[41:19])
• Julie emphasizes that their long marriage is grounded in communication, shared goals, and giving each other space—never being “clingy” but providing mutual support.

“We share so many things in common... I think we laugh a lot more.” — Todd ([41:16])

7. Advice for High School Graduates in 2026

Fan Question: “What advice would you give to the high school graduate today in 2026?”

• Todd: “You’re going to be okay... The things you worry about now will not matter five years from now... 95% of all the things we fear the most never happen anyway.” ([47:29])
• Julie: “Find something that you truly love to do, that you feel passionate about... Give yourself grace... you're not going to have it all figured out right now, and it’s okay.”
• Both stress not feeling entitled early in life and the importance of hard work.

“You get the same opportunity that your mom and dad did, which was to go out here and to earn that, to work hard and to work hard for that.” — Todd ([50:54])

8. Social Media, Authenticity, and Living ‘Free’

• The Chrisleys warn against the false narratives of social media and urge listeners to value authenticity over appearance. ([53:05]-[55:53])

“If everything on their feed is perfect, it's curated... Pray for them, because... they have literally decided my life is so bad that I'm going to create this false narrative.” — Todd ([53:32])

• They reflect on how prison changed them, making them less materialistic and more focused on genuine human connection.

“I think I love differently today. The things I care most about are really the same things... I want to be that person that is going to show up in my pajamas if you need me.” — Todd ([56:34])

“It took being—going to freedom, being taken from you—in order for you to feel free.” — Todd ([58:13])

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• Megan Thee Stallion Apology
  Todd addresses a previous quip: “For all of you people that I offended by Megan’s pinky toe being gone, I just wanted to say that I apologize. And Megan and I are very good. Me and the Stallion are good.” ([05:36])
• On Defined Roles in Marriage
  “We always had defined roles... which, in turn, we always had something to do. But it also—we didn’t find... we had to be with each other all the time.” — Julie ([42:00]-[42:59])
• Post-Prison Perspective
  “It is the most rebellious child that I have ever raised is my 82-year-old mother.” — Todd on Nanny Faye ([22:09])
• On Friendship Across Divides
  “Our relationship and our friendship should show the world that we have never allowed politics to come in the middle of us.” — Todd ([38:45])
• On Parenting Mistakes
  “It was the greatest mistake that we ever made. It really was. It was the biggest injustice that we did for them.” — Julie ([10:57])

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• [03:00] – Reflections on summer and family routines
• [06:26] – Handling teenagers and giving them responsibility
• [11:47] – Charleston plans and family transitions
• [18:33] – Nanny Faye’s legacy and voice
• [33:38] – Friendship during incarceration
• [40:00] – Favorite ways the Chrisleys spend time together
• [47:29] – Advice to 2026 high school graduates
• [53:05] – Social media, authenticity, and Chrisleys’ evolved values
• [58:13] – Lessons on freedom, perspective after prison

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Recurring Themes & Tone

• Unfiltered honesty—humor interwoven with vulnerability
• Strong family values, self-reflection on mistakes and parenting
• Resilience and embracing personal growth after adversity
• Practical, faith-infused advice on living authentically
• Warm, relatable marital banter

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Final Reflection

The Chrisleys close with a powerful insight born from their journey: losing their freedom through incarceration ultimately led them to learn how to live freely and authentically. The episode balances laughter and earnest advice, making it a rich listen for anyone navigating family life, transitions, or looking for inspiration on authenticity and perseverance.

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For new listeners: This episode is filled with real talk, self-deprecating humor, and substantial insight—offering both longtime fans and newcomers a heartfelt glimpse into the Chrisley family’s ongoing journey.

Transcript

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[Todd Chrisley]

Welcome to Christly Confessions 2.0. I'm Todd and this is my better half, the love of my life. Yes, Formerly known as a federal judge offend defender. How are you today?

[Julie Chrisley]

I'm doing okay.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay, good.

[Julie Chrisley]

But I need you to bring it down a little bit. I think we need some yoga mats up in here because you are not. Namaste.

[Todd Chrisley]

The only time we've ever used a yoke.

[Julie Chrisley]

Todd. See, there you go. There you go. There you go.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Okay.

[Julie Chrisley]

There you go. There you go.

[Todd Chrisley]

What was it? Downward dog?

[Julie Chrisley]

Todd. Okay, See, you always go there.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay. I'm sorry.

[Julie Chrisley]

I'm sorry.

[Todd Chrisley]

Forgive me.

[Julie Chrisley]

All right, so summer is about to be in full swing.

[Apartments.com Advertiser]

Mm.

[Julie Chrisley]

We have a trip coming up.

[Todd Chrisley]

We have multiple trips coming up.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, we got one that's coming up that I'm excited for. Chloe's going, Gray's going. And we haven't really had a. Like, a vacation kind of trip with them. The two of them.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, we have, but not with. It was just me and you, right?

[Julie Chrisley]

We haven't had one with them.

[Todd Chrisley]

I liked it when it was just me and you.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, I know, but I like it that it's going to be Grayson and Chloe, too.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm kind of past all that. I kind of like it was just menu.

[Julie Chrisley]

You're so bad.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I'm just. I'm just at a place now.

[Julie Chrisley]

I'm excited. I'm excited Chloe's out of school. That's a good thing. For any of you who are watching this podcast if you have children that are within school age, you know my feeling. You are probably so grateful, but it's the beginning of summer, so we're so grateful right now that school's out.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right?

[Julie Chrisley]

No more tests, no more projects, no more having to get up early to get to school. No more making lunches.

[Todd Chrisley]

And folks, I cannot. When I tell you I'm exhausted from all of that.

[Julie Chrisley]

And he does none of that.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I have to hear about.

[Julie Chrisley]

He will pick up on occasion, and I'm grateful for that. Thank you. So, you know, as the summer progresses, sometimes we're like, okay, when are they going back to school? But I am super happy to have her out right now. We've been just kind of hanging out, doing things that, you know, she wants to do. And she's so good. She really is so good.

[Todd Chrisley]

Chloe is. Chloe is just a sweet child. And she's not high maintenance.

[Julie Chrisley]

She is not high maintenance. I will. No, she is not at all. And it's. Well, now, I did take her. She did go to the mall with me yesterday. And, you know, when she gets into Sephora, it's like she comes alive. Mom, Mom, I really need this for my face. Then I really need this for my lips. Well, can I get this for my eyes? And I'm like, girl, we came in here to look around and waste time to go get your ears re pierced.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes. Because we've only done that three times now.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, yeah, but so we did that. But so she did pick up little things.

[Todd Chrisley]

Speaking of that, I don't know why I'm segueing into Megan Thee stallion from Sephora. But, you know, I've done all this research on her now, and I actually do like her. But so many people were offended when I said she got her toe blowed off. Well, you know, all I knew. That's all I knew. About her was whatever that situation was.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

But she really is a lot deeper than what. I mean, I was kind of like,

[Julie Chrisley]

well, I'm so glad that you did that. Yes. Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I like, I do like. I mean, I do like the fact that she netted a Bentley. I do like that. And I do like the fact that she did not let somebody make an ass out of her like that ballplayer was trying to do. So I like that she took control of that. So for all of you people that I offended by Megan's pinky toe being gone, I just wanted to say that I apologize. And Megan and I are very good. Go ahead.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, you're very good.

[Todd Chrisley]

We're very good. Me and the stallion are good.

[Julie Chrisley]

Okay. Okay. So today, you know, people all the time ask us questions. They, you know, whether they're following the podcast or just the social media. And we don't always get a chance to answer those questions. So today we're going to take a few minutes and we're going to answer. Spit it out. We're going to answer some of the questions that have been posed to us.

[Todd Chrisley]

But you always give me lame ass questions that you think I, that is just does nothing for me. Give me the real shit.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, there are questions. I don't create these questions to ask you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right.

[Julie Chrisley]

They're from actual people. So.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay, then go ahead. Go ahead and say their name. And if it's a lame question, you have outed them. So go ahead.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's not a lame question. Brittany, underscore. Ann, underscore. Handling teenagers, how to keep the balance. And I think this is a good thing because A, we have a teenager. We now have just one teenager.

[Todd Chrisley]

Chloe, I know which one you're talking

[Julie Chrisley]

about, and I think that you are handling this teenager differently than you've handled other teenagers that we've had.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I've handled raising each child somewhat differently because I hope that I was more educated. I know that's a far fetch for some people to believe I was more educated with each child.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I think that now at 58 years old and going through everything that we've gone through, I mean, we raised a house full of liars. All of our kids were liars and still are.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes, we have.

[Todd Chrisley]

You can't get the truth out of them. So I'm just not going to spend the next 20 years of my life, or 30, whatever I'm going to have, trying to let you know that I know that you're lying or that you're not doing what you're supposed to be doing Chloe. The answer is no. It's just that simple. The answer is no. No, you're not going to somebody's house. I did that. The same with all the other ones. They didn't go.

[Julie Chrisley]

We have let her go to a few friends. She has.

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No.

[Todd Chrisley]

There was no way to.

[Julie Chrisley]

You do it.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I have.

[Julie Chrisley]

I have. You did it. Yes, I have. I have. She doesn't ask a lot.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I don't understand this whole sleepover thing. I've never done that in my life.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right, you haven't.

[Todd Chrisley]

When I was hoeing around, I did it.

[Julie Chrisley]

But kids like to. So when they have their friends.

[Todd Chrisley]

I just think that when kids are saying, oh, I want to go over to this house and to this house, y' all are forming a cartel.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's not true.

[Todd Chrisley]

So I'm not going to participate in. No.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

In any.

[Julie Chrisley]

But I do think keeping a balance, and we've talked about this many, many times, how things we should have done differently with our kids. I definitely think that regardless, your kids need to have some responsibilities. They need to be able to be self sufficient to a certain degree. They need to learn normal everyday things.

[Todd Chrisley]

I just saw on Instagram the other day, not to cut you off. It was from a psychologist who said that the greatest gift you will give your children is from the age of 4 on by giving them a task that they are responsible for. Because that teaches them responsibility. It teaches them pride in the accomplishment of doing it. And that. And that you keep elevating that. You know, you go from a small task to a bigger one to a big one. And it's building self esteem in your child. We didn't do that.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, we didn't.

[Todd Chrisley]

We had, we had so many people helping us. And you know how people cleaned our

[Julie Chrisley]

houses and a lot of times I would be like, I want it done a certain way, so I'll just do it myself.

[Todd Chrisley]

And then you turn around and you're bitter over that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right, right. And I think that was a mistake I made. Now at 53, I can't.

[Todd Chrisley]

She's 59.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, no, I can acknowledge that, yes, that was a mistake I made. I should have just taken the time to say, no, honey, that's not the way we do it. This is how we do it. Walk them through and be a little more patient with them. And it would have been maybe a different outcome.

[Todd Chrisley]

So I don't. I think that that's one of the things that you and I, neither one brought to the table was patience. No, we didn't because we knew how. And the reason, I think that we didn't come to the table with patience is because we had been taught those things from our parents.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And we just came into this parenthood thinking, well, I didn't lick windows. I didn't ride the short bus. I didn't wear a helmet. So none of my kids are doing that. So they'll know how to do this.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. And they don't.

[Todd Chrisley]

And. And they didn't. And I mean, you know, Savannah's not a great housekeeper. You know, I get onto her all the time, but she has help.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. And I say that we also came from a different place, different generation, different time where. And we wanted to feed that inner child in us that didn't have certain things. So we wanted to make sure our kids had it in abundance.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes.

[Julie Chrisley]

And we.

[Todd Chrisley]

It was the greatest mistake that we ever made.

[Julie Chrisley]

It really was. It was the biggest injustice that we did for them.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I say that people like myself and you and so many others that come from, you know, middle class or, you know, middle class or humble beginnings, and then God blesses you and you do so well that you're like, oh, my God, I'm going to make sure that my child never feels this or that they. That they get to go do this or they have the best of this.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And what we're really doing is stripping away from them their desires to have those things on their own.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. And.

[Todd Chrisley]

Or to work for and to have any appreciation for it.

[Julie Chrisley]

It's so true. It's so true. So thank you. That's my take on the teenager right now. Somebody. And we've had a few questions about Charleston because we did say that we.

[Todd Chrisley]

And we still are, but we're not, you know, what our plans are and

[Julie Chrisley]

that we were wanting to open a hotel in Charleston, that we wanted to do all these things. Right. So South Carolina is where we're both from, for those of you who don't know. And we both love Charleston. So that is still something that down

[Todd Chrisley]

the road three years, I say that

[Julie Chrisley]

we may do or that we. We feel like we will. Maybe we won't live there permanently or full time, but maybe we'll have a place or.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm willing to do that. You're not. You know, so let's just be very clear.

[Julie Chrisley]

I feel like we are experiencing a lots of change and transition in our family right now, and I don't really know where we're going to end up. Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I know what you're referencing.

[Julie Chrisley]

You Know.

[Todd Chrisley]

And the rest of the world doesn't. But, you know, I have been very clear on where I stand on things at this particular phase of our life. And our kids. We have raised our children.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

We have done our job.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

You can still be a. You will be a parent, as my mother says, till the day that you die and beyond.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

My mother says she's a parent till God takes her last breath, and then she becomes a parent in prayer after that.

[Child/Family Member]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

So for me, I feel like that my responsibility at this juncture of my life is to be a good, solid, faithful husband to you and to make sure that I'm leading in a way that you're proud of and that you. That you feel good about doing.

[Julie Chrisley]

Absolutely. Me too. I feel the same.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I don't feel like that we owe our children the rest of our days.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, I don't.

[Todd Chrisley]

And so what? She's trying. She's trying not to tell y' all something, and I'm not gonna tell it, but it's not our job to be where one child wants us to be.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. You're right.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's our job to be where we are.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. You're right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because their home is where we are.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

So regardless of where they scatter to, our home is where is their home.

[Julie Chrisley]

I agree. I agree. That's. We'll leave it at that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes.

[Julie Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

The next question. You mentioned your mother. This is funny. Tanya 26552 says, Will nanny write a book? I love when she talks about her childhood memories.

[Todd Chrisley]

Tanya, you know that me and mama are. Every day I'm goading her along.

[Pluto TV Announcer]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

But the shit that she says she should do an audiobook. I think mama should do an audiobook because then people are going to. Then there's going to be a second version of that, of where someone has dissected what she actually said and put it in terms that you can actually understand. I think that Mama, for me, she's a lifetime treasure.

[Julie Chrisley]

Absolutely.

[Todd Chrisley]

To the world, she's become a national treasure because people love her so much. And I cannot say this enough. Chrisley Knows Best was the first time that my mother ever had what I would say is a true voice to where she was heard Right.

[Julie Chrisley]

And seen.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes. She did not come from a generation that women were looked at to given, you know, that their opinions mattered. They had very defined roles. And my mother was just never of that norm. I mean, she was not going to do that. You were not going to talk down to her.

[Julie Chrisley]

But your mother was also just a. She was a worker and she was a provider and she forced her own power. She just kind of kept her head down and kept doing what she had to do. It was never about her. She never led a selfish life.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

No.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I feel like people just, I don't want to say took advantage of her, but they did.

[Todd Chrisley]

She was taking advantage of her.

[Julie Chrisley]

Advantage of just, you know, whether it was like she was always the one to cook and she was always the one to open her house up and she was always the one to just do and just take and take. So I love too that the show gave her that voice that she didn't have.

[Todd Chrisley]

I say it's the greatest gift that the show ever gave was that it gave my mother a voice and it allowed the world to see what kind of mother I have had my whole life, what kind of woman she is at her heart. And also to really showcase the relationship that you two have. Because, you know, I poke at her about that all the time. And, you know, a prime example was this past week, took her to the Casino.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

And y' all didn't tell me until literally the day before.

[Julie Chrisley]

So we left and we went and visited two of my friends and we had lunch with them and had a great time. Nanny had a great.

[Todd Chrisley]

This is Josie, who does my honey.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes. And then we went to. Then we. I took her to the casino after and we spent the night at the casino and then we got up and

[Todd Chrisley]

came home the next morning and. But she had already started laying the groundwork. She had not even been out of the house and on the highway for 40 minutes.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And she had you to call and she said, todd, I think I'm going to stay four days and y' all come back and get me. No one's doing that.

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[Todd Chrisley]

I don't have the time to run up and down the highway and you don't either.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right, right.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I have hired someone, once we get moved that will now take her wherever she wants to go. They will stay with her. If she wants to stay in the casino for a week or a month, they will stay there in that. In that hotel with her in their own room and make sure that she's going down for food, make sure that she's doing whatever she's supposed to be doing. She's not stripping or whatever. And of course she's fighting back on that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because she said, I'm not having nobody tell me what to do. It is the most rebellious child that I have ever raised is my 82 year old mother. She'll be 82 in Sept.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

But going back to what the show did of highlighting the relationship that y' all have, she literally likes it when it's just the two of you.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

She really likes it when it's just you and her.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

And like, I will say, well, I'll get. Oh, God, Julie, I told you not to tell him.

[Child/Family Member]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And so it's. I love that. I love and I say that it's one of the greatest gifts that a man will ever have is to marry a woman that loves their mother the way you love their. The way that man loves his mother. That's the greatest gift. And I have got to witness that. I watched that because daddy worshiped the ground you walked on. And I look back on so many things, Julie, and I think about over the course of my, you know, journey with my faith and my spiritual journey, that so many things in my life that I have prayed for have actually happened because I used to pray, God, let me have a. Let me have. I want to marry a Woman that does all the things that my mama does. And you let this. It went over your head the other day because you never grabbed a hold of it. But I did not miss it. I prayed to have a wife that was going to be as good a wife to me as what my mother had been to my daddy, as good a mother as what my mother had been to me and my brother. And I got all that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Thank you.

[Todd Chrisley]

But then Grayson says to you, mom, I want my wife to be just like you. I want her to be just like you.

[Julie Chrisley]

Tracy said that.

[Todd Chrisley]

And so think about that. The things that I prayed for back in the 70s, my boys are praying for today. It's the same. I don't believe that. I don't believe that the mess. I believe the message is the same. The delivery is off. The delivery differs today. But at the core of every man, I believe that a man wants to have a loyal, faithful wife that is going to be an excellent mother. She's going to run, run their lives the way that they should be ran. Because ultimately, women do run the lives or that's experience that I have come to learn. And I think that men, in order for women to want to step into those roles, men have to be able to do what generations before me did, which was to make that woman feel safe, to give her a home to run, to make sure that the. That he's providing everything that she needs in order for her to do what he wants her to do and hopefully what is feeding her.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I got all of that. And I do think. I do sometimes think my heart aches sometimes for my boys because I don't see girls today that were like the girls of my day.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And the girls of my day. I mean, you know, I think about, you know, all the people that I went to high school with in elementary school and middle school, and, you know, and all the girls were just very clean and wholesome and friendly and. Well, I said back in, I found

[Julie Chrisley]

some of them that were, well, listen,

[Todd Chrisley]

there's a purpose for everyone, darling. If it hadn't have been for them, I wouldn't have been as good as what I was when you got. But at the end of the day, I think about all the people that I went to school with, and I think that, you know, as I get older, I start to reminisce more. Back to that. And I think we were really good kids. We really were good kids. So, you know, was I out hoeing around at 14? I was. I was just trying to help the community I was in the community service very early.

[Child/Family Member]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes, you were.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I just feel like that, that this society today, they don't have. They're not raising their daughters to be like you. And there is something that parents need to be paying attention to. And I'm going to say this because I know that it's how so many parents feel who are raising sons. A mother that is raising a son today wants the same thing for their adult son that I wanted when I married you. They can sit out here and burn their bras and have their. Have their champagne and then, you know, nine glasses of wine, you know, and bitch about your husband's on girls night and whatever. But at the end of the day, when it comes time for their son to pick someone, the first thing that every woman does that we know of. Can you believe how she dresses? She doesn't do his laundry. Oh, no, they don't. She doesn't cook. Julie, they have to go out to dinner. How many of our friends have said that about the girls that their sons are bringing home?

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, it's true.

[Todd Chrisley]

And it's true. You just are not going to until we get to a place to where we all understand you can still be created equal. Man and woman can be equal.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, they are.

[Todd Chrisley]

But there's a different equal. If you want to be equal as a man, come change the tires on that truck. Come chop that wood. Come put the roof on that house. Well, now, again, you got to be careful when you start talking about equality.

[Julie Chrisley]

You do. But people bring different things to the table.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's what I'm saying. That's when you're equals.

[Julie Chrisley]

Equals make the whole.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's right. But don't diminish a man and what he does.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

If you can't do what you're saying that you're complaining about him doing.

[Julie Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

Okay, this is from KimmeWing 2016. Did you.

[Todd Chrisley]

These are fake names.

[Julie Chrisley]

Did you have. Well, I've not created them.

[Todd Chrisley]

Did you have what Judge Ross said?

[Julie Chrisley]

Did you have full support and communication from your friends when incarcerated?

[Todd Chrisley]

The ones that are my friends, yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I had a lot of. I received so many letters.

[Julie Chrisley]

Me too.

[Todd Chrisley]

That they would not bring them to me anymore because they said it was a security risk and they would make me come up to R D. And I had these bags of mail. Yeah, I was not, you know, I wasn't going through all that.

[Julie Chrisley]

I had. We, we did, we got lots of mail from just random people. But I got, got, I got mail from friends from, I got emails from people that I corresponded with that checked

[Todd Chrisley]

in on me,

[Julie Chrisley]

you know, and the people that really mattered, you know, I

[Todd Chrisley]

just talked to all of mine.

[Julie Chrisley]

I continued, well, I didn't do that. I didn't have that privilege.

[Todd Chrisley]

She had it. She just chose to follow.

[Julie Chrisley]

But, you know, I would say I did not have it. Don't even, don't even put that out there.

[Todd Chrisley]

You had the opportunity.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, I did not. I didn't try to go out here and have that opportunity.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, you were not as entrepreneurial as I was.

[Julie Chrisley]

No.

[Todd Chrisley]

What? Entrepreneurial?

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah. Okay. No, I was just doing the right thing. But, you know, I was actually listening to a podcast this morning, and it was with Gayle King was on the podcast, and she said, you know, that the older you get, the smaller that your circle gets. And really, if you just have one true friend, that's a lot. Just one.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't have just one true friend,

[Julie Chrisley]

but I feel like your circle does get very small, and I think when you go through something like this that we've gone through, your circle gets even smaller.

[Todd Chrisley]

Do you feel that way, though? Do you really feel that? Because our circle was so small to begin with.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. I don't know. I think maybe my circle just changed a little bit, you know?

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, some people are in your life for a season.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And some are going to finish the journey with you.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I have held on to those that are going to finish the journey with me.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right? Absolutely.

[Todd Chrisley]

And absolutely.

[Julie Chrisley]

Me, too.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, and you've talked about that with me a lot.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

Todd is still friends with the same people that he's been friends with his entire life.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right, Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And. And you have become friends with those people.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes, yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

And we cut up and laugh, and, you know, I can be on the phone, and then I just put it on speaker, and then you pick up and start talking. And that's another blessing, because you love the same friends that I have loved my whole life. Now, you know, folks, you. You hear me talk about my friend Stephanie all the time. Stephanie and I have been friends forever. Well, you know, forever. And I love her with all of my heart and soul. She's the only Ginger that I've ever loved. I've slept with a lot of them, but I didn't love them. But she has been loyal and steadfast and true.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I'm going to have her on the podcast, you know, sometime this summer, late summer, early fall, because I begged her to come to Nashville. And I want to start this journey with her on, because I feel like that she's given her whole life to raising her girls, and she did that as a single mother. And I just can't say enough about her as a woman, as a female, as a friend, because she has always just been so steadfast. And I want to follow this. I want to join this journey with her because she's losing weight. She's doing good girl. Rx and, you know, I want to. If she wants to have a facelift, I want to give her a facelift. If she wants to do something, you know, regarding dental work, I want to give her that dental work. I want to be the kind of friend. I feel like I am that friend. But I don't feel like that we, as friends, should ever be thinking that we're something to someone that we're not. You know, I want her to feel that I am to her what I believe she is to me.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And so that she really has always been my circle.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

She's always been the person that I ran to when we talked about everything from having kids. You know, she had. You know, she had Tiffany, and then I had Lindsay, and, you know, and then I had Kyle, and then, you know, she had Jordan, and then years later, she had Alicia. And, you know, now we're going through this whole process of her. She's got a. She's like, you know, literally Old Mother Hubbard in the shoe, you know, with all of her grandbabies, and that's. And she'll come. She'll say, oh, my God, did you see my grandson? I said, stephanie, that's the ugliest. But you go to hell. You done lost your mind.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I can't wait. It'll be good for her to come on the podcast.

[Todd Chrisley]

I want her to come on the podcast, and I believe that I'd like to do a podcast with her, you know, just me and her, because we have such great chemistry, and she's just such a good, decent soul, but she's so direct and so honest about how she feels. And listen, she's a Democrat.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And she's always been a Democrat. I've always been a Republican. And we folks, our relationship and our friendship should show the world that we have never allowed politics to come in the middle of us.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And she does not. She's. She doesn't love our president.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. And, you know, she says, I love what he did.

[Todd Chrisley]

She said, but I love what he did for you. And so, you know, I think that when you go back to, you know, your. As you get older, your circle gets smaller. Mine has really stayed the same. You know, I have. I have Stephanie and I have Terrence, and I have Jay and. And, you know, Jason and. Yeah, I have a lot of. I have a lot of guys that, you know, that I talk to and that I'd message with. But Stephanie will go down as being. I'm sorry, Terrence. Stephanie will go down as being yeah. My ride and die.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. And I know this next one. Haley R. 19. Do not. I don't want you to be ugly.

[Todd Chrisley]

That means she's prepping me for some right now.

[Julie Chrisley]

What is your favorite way to spend time with each other despite busy schedules?

[Todd Chrisley]

You know what it is? See, that's what you asked me to be honest. You know what it is. What do you constantly say to me? Tide. Tide. Todd, stop.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, but. No, I'm. No, but what do we like to do?

[Todd Chrisley]

Then she says, okay, what do we

[Julie Chrisley]

like to do other than Todd,

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm sorry. My lips were dry. What do we like to do? Do you want me to say, really, or you want me to say some. A G Version?

[Julie Chrisley]

No, I want you to be honest with what we like to do. Things we like to do together.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, we go out to eat. We shop. Mostly she shops.

[Julie Chrisley]

We like to just get out and ride around.

[Todd Chrisley]

We ride around, and we look at real estate.

[Julie Chrisley]

And we've done that our whole life, I think all of our kids. I mean, from Lindsay, not so much Chloe, but pretty much between Lindsay and Grayson. They will tell you, our whole life, we would get out and we'd look at houses and we'd dream, right? And we'd. About what we wanted next and where we wanted to live and. And, oh, well, maybe we could buy this and redo it or whatever. That was part of our dreams together. And I think that is one of the reasons that we have been together this long.

[Todd Chrisley]

I think that you and I.

[Julie Chrisley]

Because we.

[Todd Chrisley]

We share so many things in common. We have so many things in common.

[Julie Chrisley]

We're a good balance. But we share a lot of things in common, too.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes. And I think that at this phase in my life, I think we laugh a lot more. Yeah, I think we laugh a lot more.

[Julie Chrisley]

I think we do. And I think we give each other space because, like, sometimes you don't really want to do anything, right?

[Todd Chrisley]

And I'm like, I ain't never not wanted to do without.

[Julie Chrisley]

I'm like, okay. I'm like, okay, I'm calling Isabel or I'm calling Shawna or I'm calling, you know, whatever. And you're fine with that because a. Where I am and what I'm doing well.

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[Todd Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

Shawn, and, you know, that, you know, like, we give each other that space that we need. We're not.

[Todd Chrisley]

So we're not. Clingy.

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Clingy.

[Todd Chrisley]

We're not.

[Julie Chrisley]

And we've never been that way.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I think that the reason that we're not clingy is because we're in a safe space.

[Julie Chrisley]

We are. But I do think our whole marriage, though, really, we always. And you've said this before, we had defined roles.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Yes.

[Julie Chrisley]

Of what? What.

[Todd Chrisley]

Responsible for what?

[Julie Chrisley]

We were kind of our. We tried to stay in our lane. Right. And so we didn't have time to really be clingy, you know, like, we've always come together, like, at night, and like, some people say, like, they don't watch TV in their bedroom or whatever, but we would come together. We'd watch our shows in our t. In our bedroom or that was kind of our place after we put the kids to bed and whatever. But during the day, we kind of had our own thing, you know, whether I was working, you were working, or I was taking care of the kids or whatever it was. And we kind of kept those defined roles, which, in turn, we always had something to do. But it also. We didn't find our. Like, we had to be with each other all the time.

[Todd Chrisley]

But, you know, we also. We also communicate. I think that we. I think that we talk to each other. We have conversations. And you and I, for the most part, are always on the same page until you start getting a little shaky and weak with one of the kids that kind of pull you to the side.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Mom.

[Todd Chrisley]

He's not talking to me.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Mom.

[Todd Chrisley]

Dad said no. You know, and then you end up melting down a little bit, and I have to snap you out of it.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's okay.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I feel like that. I feel like that we have a lot in common, and I think that that's what has sustained us for 30 years.

[Julie Chrisley]

Absolutely. Absolutely. What was the. This is from Haley. R1. Nine again. Another Haley. What was the last thing you two did together the night before you left for prison? I don't even remember. It was.

[Todd Chrisley]

It wasn't that good, Todd. Well, you know, I mean, I do

[Julie Chrisley]

think if we're being honest, but let

[Todd Chrisley]

me ask you something.

[Child/Family Member]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And then we'll go back to that. What is it that causes you to be so guarded over the world, knowing that you screw your husband?

[Julie Chrisley]

That's just all you want to talk about?

[Todd Chrisley]

It's not what I want to talk about. They're asking a question. What do you do?

[Julie Chrisley]

Okay.

[Todd Chrisley]

I have always been honest. And coming on any show and saying.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes. She is a freak in the sheets.

[Julie Chrisley]

You are such a lie. Okay, okay. We're moving on from this one. Sorry, Haley, I can't even start. Will you ever do a live Podcast, Tour.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you know, we were. We were in the process of doing that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

And then all the other productions did not make sense. Then there was no schedule that would. It would work.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

So, I mean, probably. Yes. But, you know, I am also. I have an offer now to do a comedy routine that just came in. That offer just came in, and I don't know if I'm going to do that. I mean, you know what. You know, the kids, how they're pissed off right now because I won't do anything.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And they want me doing everything. And I kind of am that petulant child. Like, I complained about my mother that I don't want to do what I don't want to do.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't want to be out of my bed at night. I don't want to. I like my home. I like the privacy that I have inside my home, and I feel safe there.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

So I'm just not at a phase in my life right now to where I want to go and be on a plane, you know, at this location, in this location. And, you know, the. The bus tour that they wanted me to do or whatever it was around the country.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I got to thinking about me being on a tour bus for 20. Was it 26 weeks or something? For the. Out of the year for that tour?

[Julie Chrisley]

That was a lot.

[Todd Chrisley]

That was a lot for me. And I just. I. I just couldn't do that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

So will I do something at. At some point this year? Probably. But it's not going to be in every state.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, no, I think you just have to pick and choose.

[Todd Chrisley]

If you started out, it was going to be pick and choose.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And then every day, the agents was sending this over, we're adding this tour date, we're adding this. And then it became overwhelming to me.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah. Yeah. So I think we just have to figure out some logistics. And, you know, for us, I think we have hit the ground running so hard, and it's so hard for us to say no because we're like, we're so grateful.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's not hard for me to say,

[Julie Chrisley]

but it's grateful for us. You know, we feel so grateful for all the opportunities that have come our way, but we have to, like, say, okay, oh, we got to give ourselves a minute, and we got to make sure it makes sense and that, you know, logistically it's Right. Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I think that, you know, we have so much stuff that's going on that's behind the scenes.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

That is also going to. To Play a large part of. If I don't want to be gone now, I'm certainly not going to be gone then.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right, Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I just feel like that I'm in a good, safe space and I don't want to interrupt that right now.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't know that I ever want to interrupt it again.

[Julie Chrisley]

I guess there was another question. You know, summer just started, graduation. Lots of kids just graduated. What advice would you give to the high school graduate today in 2026?

[Todd Chrisley]

What advice would I give to a high school graduate today? Wrap it up. Outside of that, I would say that you're going to be okay. Everything is always going to be okay. That the things that you worry about now will not matter five years from now, 10 years from now, or 10, 10 years now, you won't even think about it.

[Pluto TV Announcer]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And 95% of all the things that we. That we fear the most never happen anyway.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I mean, think about this.

[Julie Chrisley]

You've been out of high school for 40 years this year.

[Todd Chrisley]

A lie, I tell you.

[Julie Chrisley]

44. 0. 40 years this year.

[Todd Chrisley]

And what are you, 51?

[Julie Chrisley]

No, but that's crazy, right? But, you know, 40 years. But, you know, I would also tell people, and you know that live your life and live it responsibly and respectfully. And respectfully. But also live your life and whatever that looks like, knowing that you got to take the good and the bad and that you got to suffer those consequences. Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

As Judge Ross said, there are consequences,

[Julie Chrisley]

but that everybody's path is different. And find something that you truly love to do, that you feel passionate about doing, because I do think that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Or find someone you're passionate about.

[Julie Chrisley]

There's so many people that are just, you know, they just exist. They just exist. They just find that job or they, you know, get into that career because it was either expected of them or it was just something. And. And they're just miserable every day. And I do think if. If our situation has taught me anything,

[Todd Chrisley]

it's to live your life. Live your life every day and understand what a blessing it is and not everyone. The sad part about it is, is that all of your friends that you've been friends with, that you grew up with, you're now going out into the adult world. You're now going to go into that second chapter of your life, and that chapter is going to be filled with all new experiences and all new people, and you'll eventually be like, well, I've got. I'm with so and so now, so I can't talk to you, even though we went to 12 years of school together.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And you will find that when you start entering into that chapter that I'm in right now, that you start having more contact with those that you grew up with. And that was, you know, that you had as a child.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I would say to stay close to your family.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

Stay close to your family.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I would also say give yourself grace. We talked about this in a. In a negative way where we said, our kids, you know, this generation, they want to be what it's taken us 30 years to get to.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

They want to start out.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Right.

[Julie Chrisley]

I would say to the kids just graduating, the young adults, to give yourself grace, you know, you should not have it all. You're not going to have it all figured out right now. I don't care if you're graduating high school, graduating college, whatever. You're not going to have it all figured out. And it's okay to not have it all figured out.

[Todd Chrisley]

And also remember that you're not entitled At 18 years old, getting a high school diploma to have the same car that your mom and daddy's driving or to own a home like what you grew up in.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

You're not entitled to that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

You get the same opportunity that your mom and dad did, which was to go out here and to earn that, to work hard and to work hard for that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

And have fun, laugh, cry. Because if. If it's bad enough for you to cry over it meant something.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

So feel that. Lean into that. Don't hide it. Don't run away from it. Lean into it.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

Because every bad situation that has ever happened in my life has prepared me for something greater coming down the road.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

And I do believe that what happened with us was just prep for God's glory that that's in front of us. And we've already seen that. I think that you have to be at a place to where because you're not at 18, you're not at peace with yourself. You don't even know who the hell you are.

[Child/Family Member]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

So it's not. You can't say, I'm at peace with myself at 18. You don't even know who you're trying to make peace with.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

And you know, you're going to get to a place, I think, at 24, 25, because we've. We've been there at these phases that where you now all of a sudden, you know, you have forgotten more than your mom and daddy already now, right?

[Julie Chrisley]

And you still don't know.

[Todd Chrisley]

And you still know nothing.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

And the parents that you don't think you need are the same people that you run to when all the things you were doing when you didn't need them have fallen apart.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right, Right. And, and I think that you look at someone and you, you think, okay, you know, here we're in our 20s and they've got it figured out. They're doing amazing. They're just, you know, and here I am feeling horrible because I don't have this or I'm not at that place. Things are not what they appear.

[Todd Chrisley]

I said this to my friend Patrick yesterday because he was kind of down in the ruts. And I said, patrick, his statement was, I look at, I look at all these people and how their lives are going. And, and I'm like, babe, what are we doing wrong? Why is none of this ever trickling down to us? And I said, well, first of all, let me just stop you. I said, you are coveted. The Bible tells you not to covet thy neighbor's own goods. So if you are coveting someone else's life, that is their goods.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right? Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I said, so that life doesn't belong to you.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

If someone has a life and they're having blessings right now, be thrilled for that because your time is coming.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

But all that glitters is not gold.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's right. And I think that's a downfall of social media.

[Todd Chrisley]

All that glitters is not gold.

[Julie Chrisley]

You know, there's a snippet here and you don't see the other 23 hours and 50 minutes. So you're seeing a 10 minute sniper.

[Todd Chrisley]

People should really. And like I told him, I said, patrick, listen to me, if everything on their feed is perfect, it's curated, right? And I said, so pray for them. Because they have literally decided my life is so bad that I'm going to create this false narrative so that the rest of the world doesn't see how bad my life is. And I think that that has been one of the greatest injustices that, that social media has done because it has separated humanity, it has separated people from having a compassionate heart towards their fellow man. If I see you suffering, I want to help you. I want to be able to put my arm around you and say, it's going to be okay. But if I see you getting on a G7 and you know a Rolls Royce is picking you up when you land, and you know you're wearing gun Gucci or Prada or Louis Vuitton and you got 12 pieces, I praying for you, right?

[Narrator/Voiceover]

You Done.

[Todd Chrisley]

Got all the prayer you need. So. And yet none of this belonged to you.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

The G7 didn't belong to you. The car was rented. The luggage was a prop.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

So you are literally. You have put yourself in this gilded cage and locked it in to where now you got to keep creating this false content to create the narrative that your life is so great, but yet when you go to bed at night, you're. You're aware of the lie that you're living.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And don't do that. Let people love you and gravitate towards you because they find something relatable about you.

[Julie Chrisley]

Exactly.

[Todd Chrisley]

If you're gravitating towards someone because they have all of this stuff, you're not relating to them. You're relating to the same stuff, to the imagery of it.

[Julie Chrisley]

And stuff is what it is.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right. And you know yourself that I am so opposite today of what I have ever been. I'm still. Thank God. I'm still grateful that I can dress well and that I can go buy what I want to buy, but I don't do it that much anymore because those things just don't matter to me like they used to matter. I really don't give a if you think that I look 58 or if you think that I've gained 10 pounds or 15. Sometimes it might be 17, but I don't care.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because I'm not going to give the rest of my life to someone that I've never met.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. And I do think that prison, like, we learned that we could live way less. Way less. And that, you know, like, it just completely changes how you look at things. Not to. Not to say that we don't love nice things and that we don't know,

[Todd Chrisley]

because clearly you still love nice things.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I do. I love that.

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[Julie Chrisley]

And I'm. That. That Bible doesn't say that's wrong to want nice things and to work hard to have nice things. But we have learned that we can survive on way less than that.

[Todd Chrisley]

We have just chosen things. Yes.

[Julie Chrisley]

Things are just things.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I care more about people and more about the personal relationship than I do the superficial relationship. I just. I think I love differently today. I think that the way I love is different. The things I care most about are really the same things, minus all that I've been able to, because I love so deeply our children and you and my mother and the friends that we have that I want to be that person that is going to show up in my pajamas if you need me.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Me.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, And I. And I'm just being 100% honest.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

I would have never left the house if I was not dressed. You know that.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, you wouldn't.

[Todd Chrisley]

If every hair was not in place, if my clothes were not perfect, if my. My shoes didn't match the belt, I didn't leave.

[Julie Chrisley]

No.

[Todd Chrisley]

And now I will throw a ball cap on and go and do what I need to do.

[Child/Family Member]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I think that that 28 months helped me to get to that place that I had wanted to get to my whole life.

[Narrator/Voiceover]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

But was never able. Never had enough self confidence to do it.

[Julie Chrisley]

Crazy to think that you had to literally live that jail.

[Todd Chrisley]

I was free.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yourself.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I'm just at a summer camp.

[Julie Chrisley]

I'm just saying. I'm just saying from figuratively speaking, you had to be in jail to really learn how to be. How to live free.

[Todd Chrisley]

That it took us. Me going to jail, going to prison,

[Julie Chrisley]

to really learn how to live freely.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes.

[Julie Chrisley]

And that crazy. It.

[Todd Chrisley]

It is the. That is the best statement.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

It took being. Going to freedom, being taken from you in order for you to feel free

[Julie Chrisley]

to learn how to live freely.

[Todd Chrisley]

I mean, that, that is. That. That's where we close.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

That it took our freedom, being taken in order for us to finally feel free.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Thank you for that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Folks, until next week, good luck and God bless.

[Julie Chrisley]

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