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Todd Chrisley
Welcome to Chrisley Confessions.
Julie Chrisley
I'm Todd and Julie.
Todd Chrisley
Nice to see you again.
Julie Chrisley
Yes.
Todd Chrisley
So you look lovely today again.
Julie Chrisley
Thank you.
Todd Chrisley
So you've kind of, like, started turning things up again. You try to get pregnant.
Julie Chrisley
No, I'm not. No, I'm not. Not even if I could.
Todd Chrisley
So it's been another crazy week. I mean, every week is crazy for us, folks. Crazy for us. It's gotten to the point now to where you're messaging me saying, do you know where you are on this week? Or I've got to go do this. Which is kind of a little bit crazier than what we're used to.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
Because we're normally all together doing stuff.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
And now you're leaving to go out of the country with Savannah to do a show.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
I'm leaving. Going to do another show in England.
Julie Chrisley
Yes.
Todd Chrisley
And so we're going to be apart from each other for, like, 21 days
Julie Chrisley
and filming and filming independently. So that's not something that we've really I mean, Savannah's filmed a few things, you know, on her own, but we really haven't ventured out that way.
Todd Chrisley
Giving me some anxiety, because I know how bad you're going to miss me.
Julie Chrisley
Well, sure I will.
Todd Chrisley
Yes.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
And I'll miss you.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
I mean, but you'll hold the fort
Julie Chrisley
down, you and Chloe.
Todd Chrisley
I'll be in London.
Julie Chrisley
You'll be back by the time we get Ali.
Todd Chrisley
I don't know. I may not.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah, you got to take care of her, get her to school every day.
Todd Chrisley
Well, but I kind of feel like that it's going to come out in the news that I'm a member of the royal family.
Julie Chrisley
Okay, Well, I don't think so. So I got Nanny Faye on speed dial, though, just in case.
Todd Chrisley
But, I mean, I do want her
Julie Chrisley
to go to school for 21 days, not be out every day.
Todd Chrisley
And the chance if I was here for 21 days, we missing some of them days, but. So that is going to be a big deal, because, I mean, we're going to be away from each other for 21 days.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah. Yeah. So I am already kind of getting into that planning mode.
Todd Chrisley
Like, because you have to do wardrobe,
Julie Chrisley
they sent a kind of a, you know, packing list to go by, you know, just like a rough list. So. Yeah. So that gives me anxiety.
Todd Chrisley
Yeah. Because you actually have to have. What is it, 66 outfits or. Or what is it, three outfits a day and you're gone for 21 days?
Julie Chrisley
No, I don't know that I have to have that, but I've got to have a lot. So I don't know, three a day, but.
Todd Chrisley
Well, you have a. You have dinner every night.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah. And then a daytime.
Todd Chrisley
And a daytime. And then you have an activity.
Julie Chrisley
Well, yeah, I guess you're right. So.
Todd Chrisley
Yeah, so it's like 66. I calculated 60 outfits.
Julie Chrisley
Well, probably not gonna happen, but it'll be close.
Todd Chrisley
You can't duplicate.
Julie Chrisley
Well, you know, it is what it is.
Todd Chrisley
Well, you'll. She'll be with Savannah, so it'll be.
Julie Chrisley
It'll be fine. It'll be fine. But I. That does make me a little nervous because, you know, we're used to filming in our home close by to our home that we can, like, run in and change clothes or do whatever if something goes awry, you know, So, I mean, not that we haven't filmed on locations because we've been on trips and. And things with Chrisley Knows Best.
Todd Chrisley
Right.
Julie Chrisley
But this is a whole different ball game. I got a feeling it is.
Todd Chrisley
I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to take Chase with me or if I'm going to take Grayson with me, because Grayson's in school. But Grayson said. But I can miss those days. You know, I can zoom into my class or whatever and chase that. But I can go. I mean that. I will go. You and I'll hang out together.
Julie Chrisley
So maybe you split it up based off of how long you're going to be there and what Grayson can do. And he'll go, come for a few days, and then Chase will come for a few days or vice versa.
Todd Chrisley
Right. So we've got all that going on. Then you've got to jump straight into your cooking segments.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
We've got to get those finished.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
And then Chase and I go straight into the show that he and I are doing. So it's just going to be a crazy. It's going to be a crazy summer and spring.
Julie Chrisley
Yep.
Todd Chrisley
So. But listen, we're not complaining. No, we're blessed to be. We're blessed to be stressed. So. So much stuff is going on in the country right now. And have you been getting DMs about the fact that we're not coming out speaking about ice or not defending.
Julie Chrisley
I did. I hadn't seen them. I don't really.
Todd Chrisley
Well, you know, I do spend, you know, at least an hour, so. A day. Yeah, you do, you know, scrolling check and respond to people. Because I'm thinking it's about the prisons or whatever.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
But I have gotten several messages saying I'm unfollowing you because your silence is deafening. Okay, unfollow me. I don't have to comment.
Julie Chrisley
Well, I think it's damned if you do. Damn, damned if you don't situation.
Todd Chrisley
And I don't need to comment on everything that you think I need to comment on.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And you know where I stand with this whole situation and you know the conversations that I have on the phone with people in D.C. and all over the country. Country about where I stand on certain things. But I don't need to tell you unless I want.
Julie Chrisley
Right. And at the end of the day, it's your social media. It's my social media. What I choose to discuss and put out there is just that, what I choose.
Todd Chrisley
Right.
Julie Chrisley
I'm not going to be held hostage for anybody for the world to think, well, she needs to discuss this or she needs to talk about this or not talk about that. It's irrelevant. We don't even need to be talking about it here. Because if we're not talking about it. We're not talking about it. Right.
Todd Chrisley
But. But I think I am going to talk about it today because that is. I brought up that I'm getting these messages. You know, I feel like that I've already talked about it on the podcast and in other things where I have said that I don't believe. I don't believe in children being separated from their families. I don't believe in abuse. I don't believe that in any. I don't like to see any of that.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
Do I think that ICE could be handled differently and could be done in a. In a way that is more compassionate? Yes, I do.
Julie Chrisley
Do I think it's like what people say, if you are arguing with a crazy person, the person on the outside, they don't know who the crazy one is.
Todd Chrisley
That's right.
Julie Chrisley
You know what I'm saying? It kind of goes back to that whole thing. If you are on the outside looking in and you are as aggressive and you're as loud and you're whatever as the other person, I'm on the outside. I don't know which one of you is crazy and which one of you is not.
Todd Chrisley
Right. And, you know, my thing is, is that, you know, do I think that we should abolish ICE? No, I don't. It's been here since 9, 11. Do I believe in free borders? No, I don't. There is a. We have immigration laws in place. Do I believe that immigrants should be allowed to come into the United States of America if done so the right way? The. To me, I guess that where I have a lot of issue is the hypocrisy of it, because you and I went to prison and we went to prison for tax. Tax evasion, which now has been proven that there was no tax evasion, and for bank fraud. Now that's what we were convicted of. Even though we've now been pardoned, even though the investigation has now shown that that didn' happen. Everyone was so quick, and I should say everyone, but a lot of people were so quick. You're convicted. You did this wrong. So you're this. It's just baffling to me that the
Julie Chrisley
same people that would nail us to the cross are the same ones that think that.
Todd Chrisley
Think it's okay.
Julie Chrisley
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Todd Chrisley
Now, is it okay for ICE to harm someone physically? No, it's not. And you know, you know where we were when that went down and what was the first thing I say?
Julie Chrisley
Yeah, that's not right.
Todd Chrisley
I said, this is not right. This. We're way off and where we need to be with this. And you know, I think it's tragic that anyone has lost a life and there's not an excuse for it. You know, there really just isn't because I feel like that the thing with the mother in the car. Good.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
I forget what her first name is, but good, you know, don't paint it. For what? It's not right, you know, your right to protest. You don't have a right to block the streets in your car and you don't have the right to use your vehicle. Whether you. You've got something. Oh, it was not going to happen. She was, she was trying to accelerate. And then you've got the video that shows that the vehicle lunged at him.
Julie Chrisley
Him.
Todd Chrisley
I hate for the children that their mother is not here.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
Because I read where the shit that the father of her child had died the year before. So now this child has no parents now. No living parents. So where is the win there?
Julie Chrisley
She does. She was. Because she was married to a woman.
Todd Chrisley
She was not married to the woman they identified as. As being married, but they had not legally married. Okay, she. Wrong again. This is twice. I got her. So they were not married.
Julie Chrisley
Gotcha.
Todd Chrisley
They identified as partners. But either way, this child now has no living parent.
Julie Chrisley
Right? Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
And for what? Yeah, and for what? You can't expect the country to be more sympathetic to your child if you're not.
Julie Chrisley
Right. Well, because it's just like when you have children, you have to. Or. I know for me, I'm just going to speak for myself. When I made that conscious decision to have children at that point, it was no longer about me, it was about them. And I had to make sure that I was doing the very best by them, that I was keeping them safe, that I was also keeping myself safe so that I was in a position to be able to take care of them. So I think you have to. I think people just make such irrational.
Todd Chrisley
Well, I think people make emotional decisions.
Julie Chrisley
Yes.
Todd Chrisley
Because I Think that the people that protest for the right reasons, I think that they. They do it because they're emotional about something, they feel a certain way about something.
Julie Chrisley
Things that you're passionate, Right?
Todd Chrisley
Yeah.
Julie Chrisley
Tends to. To cloud your judgment.
Todd Chrisley
Right, Exactly. And that's. And that's not just. That's not a political thing.
Julie Chrisley
No, that's an everyday life.
Todd Chrisley
That's a. That's a human thing.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
But so now this child has no biological appearance. It's alive, all because of something that could have been prevented on both sides.
Julie Chrisley
Yes.
Todd Chrisley
Then you've got this. Is it pretty. Pretty or whatever. The nurse that was shot all these times, we were there lying on the bed when this whole thing hit the news. And folks, it hit me so hard, I looked at you and I said, this is wrong. We can't be doing this now. Did it take that many to take one man down? No.
Julie Chrisley
Right?
Todd Chrisley
I mean, to me, I grew up in South Carolina, a fair fight's a fair fight. I mean, you put two guys together and beat the shit, one's going to get shit beat out of them. And that guy wasn't big enough to where it took all these guys to be on him. The one ICE guy should have just put him on the ground, put handcuffs on him and threw his ass in the car. But that should have happened a week before when he was kicking out the tail light of a government vehicle that your tax dollars pay for and spitting at an ICE officer. He should, at that point, had he been arrested that day, he would have been in jail. It may have saved his life.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
So, you know, I look at the hypocrisy on both sides because how are we going to say, as an American, because you and I were born here, I have said for 20 years that this country has benefited off of the labor of immigrants.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
It was built off of the back of the. Of immigrants.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And it's just hard for me. It's just hypocritical that, you know, if we're going to a Mexican restaurant, but we're saying that Mexicans can't be here. We're not saying Mexicans can't be here. We're saying. Or I'm not. Not we. We're not saying shit. But what's the message is you can come here legally, you can't come here illegally.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
How does the left side argue with all of these men and these violent offenders that have flooded our country, that ICE is detaining now and shipping them out of this country?
Julie Chrisley
Right. You know, and it was I saw in the news where all these children had been rescued, like missing and exploited children. It was.
Todd Chrisley
It was like over 150 something thousand.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah. It was like so many. And like, okay, that's a positive now listen.
Todd Chrisley
But what have they gone through?
Julie Chrisley
The other one does. You know, loss of life is loss of life. And just because it's helped in this way and then we have the loss of life, it doesn't.
Todd Chrisley
Because.
Julie Chrisley
Because it is still a bad thing. But I think it goes back to. And we've talked about this so many times just with our situation, how the system is just broken.
Todd Chrisley
You know, everything about everything about it
Julie Chrisley
maybe have good intentions or the right but it just. The follow through and it just either it just sends to go completely left or completely right.
Todd Chrisley
Well, that. I think that's. I think that the reason for largely a lot of the reason for that is. Is the incessant need on both sides to be right and to have upmanship.
Julie Chrisley
Yes. Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
I love you.
Julie Chrisley
This is full of one uppers.
Todd Chrisley
Yes.
Julie Chrisley
Everybody wants to one up somebody and it is. It's crazy.
Todd Chrisley
I mean I look at it that I love you for who you are. Now if you just look at our friend group, I mean we cover just about. I mean our friend group could be a Benetton ad. We don't have these kind of. Now all of us, all of none. All of us don't agree on everything.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
But we all still sit down at a table and have a dinner.
Julie Chrisley
Right. We have conversations, had, relationships that have suffered and relationships that are no more that have largely been due to a political divide. Whether it's just a separation, whether it's just a, you know, a little more distance.
Todd Chrisley
Those relationships was not due to anything we said or done and did. It was over the fact that Savannah and President Trump. Trump signed our pardon.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And therefore. Okay, well, they're maga. We're staying away from that.
Julie Chrisley
Right?
Todd Chrisley
Yes, we've had some of that.
Julie Chrisley
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Todd Chrisley
Subject to change.
Julie Chrisley
And again, I had this conversation literally with someone yesterday. And I said, and this person had been in prison, too. I said, listen, you were in prison with the same people I was in prison with. Every walk of life. We had people from Mexico, we had people from Puerto Rico, we had people from Africa, like Africans. We had Americans, we had African Americans. We, I mean, you name it, they were there, right? Asians, Europeans, everywhere. Every walk of life. We had people that were as left as you could possibly get to the left and as right as you could possibly get to the right. But if I lined every one of Those women, roughly 200 women up, and they were offered a pardon either way, if it had been Biden that gave them the pardon and they were as right wing as could be, or if it was Trump that gave him the pardon and they was left as over here, right, they would have taken it with joy.
Todd Chrisley
Absolutely.
Julie Chrisley
And it did. Would not have mattered.
Todd Chrisley
Absolutely.
Julie Chrisley
You can sit and say whatever, but until you're in that position, till you have walked in the shoes of these people, you can't say that. I mean, it's just crazy.
Todd Chrisley
Well, listen, I. I'm grateful to President Trump for everything that he did for us and for restoring our family. You don't have to agree with him in order to acknowledge that he is your president. Just like I didn't agree with Biden, but he was my president. I didn't come out here and talk about it, nor would I be disrespectful, because.
Julie Chrisley
Or Obama or Clinton or Bush or whoever. I mean, I've just never. I don't know. And maybe it's because we did grow up in a different time where we were talking a respect level. It's just like the American flag, the Bible, the president. You have certain things police you just have respect for whether you agree 100% or not. And nobody ever agrees 100%. But I think there's a level of respect that's just supposed to be there.
Todd Chrisley
But don't you think that the reason that that respect has waned is due to all of those things you just said outside of the Bible and the flag? The Oval Office has been. Has exhibited disrespect from Blow jobs of Bill Clinton to, you know, Biden being asleep at the wheel to, you know, whatever people are saying that Kennedy, Trump Center, Trump and Kennedy center to, you know, all of these things, we have to look at each other as if we are brothers and sisters. And until we can do that, I listen. You can have a brother and a sister. Not like them, but they steal your brother and sister.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And you have to be able to show kindness and generosity.
Julie Chrisley
I do think it starts at the top, and it just, with everything starts at the top and works its way down. And when you see this, when you watch, like, the hearings and when they're in Congress and they're so disrespectful to each other. Disrespectful to each other. They are just nasty. And I mean, hollering and screaming and getting up and being dismissive and like, you are running the country because, yes, it's the president, but it's all these other branches of government and these people that make up these branches of government that really run the country. And you can't even have a rational, respectful conversations with different political views or different ideas is crazy.
Todd Chrisley
And, you know, and you and I both know that, you know, there are things that I get sideways with Savannah about, you know, that she believes one way and I believe another way on certain things. But that's my daughter, and I love her.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And we're gonna. And we're gonna always have that open dialogue to have this communication for me to be able to say what I believe and she says what she believes and go from there. And that I feel that that's the way it should be in business. It should be that way as a neighbor, it should be that way as a congregant in a church. It should be that way with anyone you're having this dialogue with. It should be maintained as respectful. Now, if you were a Democrat, I'm a Republican, or vice versa, and we're having this conversation, how do you ever reach me or I reach you if I'm constantly hurling insults?
Julie Chrisley
Right. Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
It's just not going to happen.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
You know, you can sit on a talk show and, you know, you can talk about things that you don't know what the hell you're talking about, but you need a talking point, and you want to. You want to align yourself with a certain demographic because that's what's watching your show, then that's what you feed into.
Julie Chrisley
Kind of. Kind of like what happened at the Grammys. For sure.
Todd Chrisley
I didn't watch it.
Julie Chrisley
I mean it was, it was crazy.
Todd Chrisley
I mean our friend Jelly Roll was on there, so I did see that clip on Instagram.
Julie Chrisley
It was crazy, you know, because just, first of all, it's the Grammys and there are. I will not, I will not take away from the fact that there are so many talented people that were in that room, you know, music that we've loved forever, new music that we've just been introduced to, whatever it may be. But why do they have to bring politics into it? Well, I mean, this, like, what is the purpose of bringing politics into. You know, it's like, I mean, I just don't understand, you know, there was one and she, you know, was talking about it, whatever, and it's like, okay, but girl, you're living in a fourteen million dollar house on land.
Todd Chrisley
Is this the weird eyed looking girl?
Julie Chrisley
It was cat or whatever said is stolen land. Okay. That property you're on. Yep, same, same. They determined it belonged to some native American tribe, whatever. I guarantee you in that $14 million home that you have staff. Do you treat them well? Are they all legal? You know, it's just, it's just the hypocrisy of it. And you feel so strongly about helping somebody sell your $14 million and donate. Imagine how many people you can take off the streets in L. A.
Todd Chrisley
Well, I don't know. I don't know if it would work in L. A because Gavin was given $200 million to handle the homeless and it's got a larger homeless population. That's ever.
Julie Chrisley
It's just hypocrisy because I just think
Todd Chrisley
that from, you know, for me, and I'm, when I'm looking at it, that I don't want all of this divide. I don't.
Julie Chrisley
But anyway, I think, I think because we all talk about it so much more. I didn't grow up really talking about politics like that. You didn't grow up talking about politics? Talked about now, no. And I don't necessarily know that that was a good thing. I think again, there's a happy medium with everything, but I think it's now just because. And I think it's because of the media, you know, it's because of the news, it's because of all that. It seems like that's all that's piped in. That's all you hear. And there's so much more to this world than that.
Todd Chrisley
Well, yeah, and I mean, my thing is, is that we need to be looking at these men and women in Congress, you know, that are sitting there that are acting this way and being belligerent and disrespectful and screaming and calling each other names and whatever. And when they started, when they started,
Julie Chrisley
they were, their net worth was minus 12,500 and that's 30. 30 million.
Todd Chrisley
Yeah.
Julie Chrisley
Okay.
Todd Chrisley
My thing is, is that we're going to get nowhere there doing this. It's like throwing kids into a room. And if you're going to sit there and let them fight, nothing's going to be resolved.
Julie Chrisley
Right. Well. And now the way that we're so divided is that, you know, everyone's talking about the midterms. If it flips, then all the work that's been done is going to flip to the complete opposite sides because we're at such a divide. Whereas if we had that gap a
Todd Chrisley
little bit, which is what I've said
Julie Chrisley
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Todd Chrisley
We need to be electing people that are of. That are good hearted, good people.
Julie Chrisley
But that's really not what's happening on both sides.
Todd Chrisley
I just said we need to be doing this.
Julie Chrisley
It's either they are so far here or so far here. It's, it's really crazy.
Todd Chrisley
And you know, my level of help for someone is not governed off of what, how you vote. My level of help. If I'm going to give you a hand in something, it's because, well, you're a human being.
Julie Chrisley
Said this, you know, the, the, the work that you've done through the, through the Bureau of Prisons, which has been unbelievable. I've never one time heard you say, was this person a Republican or a
Todd Chrisley
Democrat or black or white or Mexican or.
Julie Chrisley
No, Hispanic or whatever you are. You never, you have. I've never heard you ask any of those questions. Because you don't care?
Todd Chrisley
No, because I sat there with, with men of every nationality and I watched them shed tears, just like I shed tears.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
I watched their heart break every day just like my heart was breaking. I watched how they longed for their children the way I longed for my children or their spouse. And none of us. I never. The, the racism and the disparity and the mistreatment within the Bureau of Prisons. That was. That was there.
Julie Chrisley
Right? Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
But it wasn't amongst the. It wasn't amongst the inmates.
Julie Chrisley
Right, Right.
Todd Chrisley
It was amongst the staff. I mean, I. I had every nationality that I became friends with.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
But that was really no different than what I was before I went there.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And so it was easy to transition into that.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
But I just think that. Stop covering it up. Stop sweeping it under the rug. Stop sitting out. Stop going out here and using race and race baiting as an excuse for bad behavior.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
Because I didn't see that.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And you know, when you're sitting here, you're talking about slavery. I have never, ever made light of that.
Julie Chrisley
No.
Todd Chrisley
I have. A child is a child of color. And for all intents and purposes, this country that we live in, this world that we live in, will view her as a black female.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah. Yes.
Todd Chrisley
So when we start talking about ice and grabbing this person because they're brown or this person because they're black or whatever, those things we hear.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
Those are things we see that we pay attention to. And, you know, my. It just comes down to a common sense and common courtesy.
Julie Chrisley
Well, that's what we have.
Todd Chrisley
We have none of either one. No. And so. So I want the world to be a better place as a whole.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
Not just for us, because we've got less time on this earth to enjoy that than our children and our grandchildren. It's f. It's left up to our generation to be able to lay that groundwork for a better world. And a better world consists of. Of all human beings not being hungry, of all human beings being able to have a fair shot at a good life. A better world consists of all of us coming together to lift each other up until we can get past this upmanship of, oh, I live over here and you live over there, and my house costs this and yours cost that, or my car costs this or that, or your clothes is better than my clothes. Until we get to a place. Place to where you find as much joy in clothing the homeless as you do clothing yourself.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
We will continue to have this divide.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And I don't want that. I don't want to be a part of that.
Julie Chrisley
Well. And to know that this world is big enough for every place.
Todd Chrisley
That's. Right.
Julie Chrisley
And to everyone to have space. And. And I have always said this, and I've lived by this my entire life, and I don't believe there's anybody that will ever say any different about me, but I can honestly tell you I. I want the best for people, like I want, that is true, to succeed. I want people to, to have and be and grow and like I don't ever look and say, well, I don't want them to have that because I don't have that. Or I don't want them to be happy because I'm sad today. That's. I've just never. And that's, that's caused a lot of heartache for me. And you've said that because you're like, Julie, quit looking at things through rose colored glasses. People, all people aren't good. You know, and Savannah had this saying in her house, something about when you expect people to have the same kind of. You can't expect something of people when they don't have the same heart as you. Something like that. That's a paraphrase of it, but it really is so true. But even though it has caused me heartache in my life, I wouldn't change it. I wouldn't change that.
Todd Chrisley
That's a great thing because that means you committed in who you are.
Julie Chrisley
You know, I want, I truly. Even, even somebody that I don't have any, you know, say, maybe you say all the time, what, you don't like her, you don't, whatever, that's not who you want with your kids or whatever. But I don't want anything bad for them. I want.
Todd Chrisley
You just want them gone.
Julie Chrisley
I want God to bless them and move them on and let them prosper and be happy and everything. And I don't, I don't, I can't sit here and say I wish ill will because I feel like that is such a, such a cancer.
Todd Chrisley
Well, it's something that just breathes and
Julie Chrisley
it, it breeds resentment, anger and just, it's not biblical.
Todd Chrisley
And you. And the Bible tells you that you are to not find joy in your enemy's downfall.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
So.
Julie Chrisley
And that's hard.
Todd Chrisley
It is hard. You know, you know, when you're, let's go back to talking about the people in Congress. When you have, have people in Congress, they are there for the people. Yeah, but folks, that's not what's happening. They are there for them. Yeah. Look at their net worth. Look at what they're doing for them.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
And they're using you as the catalyst for them.
Julie Chrisley
Yeah. It's crazy. And listen, and we're all for, we are entrepreneurs at heart. So we are all about you getting out here and you hustling and you doing what you, you know, doing the right thing to make a way for yourself and to successful and Everything. But some of this stuff is just so off kilter and so just makes no sense to me.
Todd Chrisley
And I mean, you know, like we
Julie Chrisley
know what it costs to live, we know we've made good salaries in our life and we know what it costs to live that way. And how you amass these hundred million dollar fortunes off of $150,000 a year. It just. The math ain't mathing right.
Todd Chrisley
And if you're doing that, you need to teach your constituents that voted to put you there, you need to te how to do it right and lift them up right. It's just insane when you, because you know, you know that I flip from one cable network to the other, you know, because I want different perspectives of what I'm watching. It's so bizarre to me that
Julie Chrisley
we
Todd Chrisley
can really go so deep within a philosophy that belongs to someone else. Yeah, I don't, I don't need to surrender my life to what you believe in. Yeah, I'm going to surrender my life to my Lord and savior.
Julie Chrisley
A lot of people, it's this, it's their own inadequacies or their own, they don't feel worthy or they don't feel like their story is worth it, so they kind of cling to somebody else's.
Todd Chrisley
You know, I do think that, that it's that there is a large part of the voting population that will cling to one side or the other. Not because they actually understand what they're voting for, but because the majority of the people, six people in a room, if five of them are voting red, you're the six that's going to vote red, Right? If you're five in here voting blue, the six is going to vote right. Rather than to stop and look at why would I vote for this, why would I vote for that? And I have voted, you know yourself, I have voted split tickets, right. I vote for who I believe is going to do the best job for that particular right, you know, appointment, position. And yeah, you know, I have voted for Democrats, I voted for Republicans.
Julie Chrisley
But I do think it goes back to a lot of time a people aren't educated so they just jump on a bandwagon and they really don't stop to, to take the time to understand what they're even voting for or what they believe in. Again, they're followers so they're just path of least resistance.
Todd Chrisley
Right.
Julie Chrisley
And it's just sometimes like they feel like it, they don't have that self assurance to just make a decision and ride with it, you know, like a Lot of people don't have that. They're. They're fearful of rejection or whatever. And listen, a lot of people do things. We've talked about it many times because of circumstances that have happened in life. So we're not saying we're not perfect. We. We know that there's all these different people that make this.
Todd Chrisley
I just said that to you the other day. We were standing in the living room when I said, but you don't know what that person's life experience has been that makes them view that situation the way they're viewed.
Julie Chrisley
Exactly, exactly. And I do think that's something that we don't talk about enough, you know?
Todd Chrisley
Well, we can't talk about it because no one cares about if someone's hurting.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
They only care about their agenda being furthered.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And using someone else's pain to fuel their agenda.
Julie Chrisley
Right.
Todd Chrisley
And, you know, I didn't want to go down this rabbit hole, but I did take us down it. But this is for all of you that send me messages saying that if you're not going to. If, you know, your silence is deafening. Okay? What did you gain by sending me that message? What did you do? What did you say? Because I went on your social media and you're baking a cake.
Julie Chrisley
Don't we talk about that now? Because I like to make a cake, too.
Todd Chrisley
I'm just saying that you're don't get to expect of me what you are not doing for yourself.
Julie Chrisley
Speaking of that, I had a new pound cake recipe that I tried last
Todd Chrisley
night, and it was amazing. It was this big.
Julie Chrisley
It was. It was so pretty, but it wasn't perfect, so I didn't post it. So I'm gonna.
Todd Chrisley
I thought it was it again.
Julie Chrisley
I'm gonna try it again and post it, but that's totally off topic. He's talked about baking a cake and it took me down.
Todd Chrisley
You know, don't come to us wanting us to be your mouthpiece when you don't know where we stand on anything. I am going to go on the record today and say that you're. You need to get your math right, because you're sitting here saying that I voted for President Trump. I wasn't able to vote. I was incapacitated. But I did vote for him the first time, and we did not get to vote last election, and I voted for him the second time that he didn't win. Right? Yeah, yeah.
Julie Chrisley
You. Yeah.
Todd Chrisley
And. But don't construe or misconstrue what you believe I am or I Am not. Because you don't know what my heart consists of. You don't know the private conversations that I have or with whom. And I will say that I wish no harm on anyone. No, I don't wish ICE agents to be harmed. I don't wish protesters to be harmed. But what I will tell you, the same way I would tell my children, is that misery loves company. And you know why I have had no run ins with ice. My ass ain't been beat by ICE because I out there in the streets getting up in their faces, spit and whatever. Do you know why we're not having altercations with people in the press or in politics? Because we keep our business at home. We discuss what we want to discuss at home. We fund what we want to find. We donate to what we want to donate to. And I don't have to come out here and tell you when I've had sex with my wife or when I disciplined one of my children or the last time I went to church or who I voted for. Just know I'm doing all of those things and I'm keeping them private. I know that God has been so good to us. You know, do you find, and we've talked about this before. I find so many times a week that I have flashbacks to different scenarios when I was there at the camp, to where I questioned God, where are you? And now where I am today, I realize that he was right there with me the whole time. Do you ever have those moments?
Julie Chrisley
Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's hard to see it when you're in the middle of it, when you're in that fight. You feel like that fight every day of just getting through. But absolutely, I have. Absolutely.
Todd Chrisley
Well, I mean, you know, I, I look at, I was talking to another gentleman the other day and I told him, I said, let me tell you something, brother. I said, when you're, when you're in the battle, it's hard to see the other side. It's hard to see the wind. It's hard to see.
Julie Chrisley
That's not just a prison thing. That's. Anybody that you're in, it's hard to see. Okay, there is, there's light.
Todd Chrisley
That's right.
Julie Chrisley
Light at the end of that tunnel. I just got to find it.
Todd Chrisley
And, you know, as I've said for years, you know, then you've, you've picked this up as well. Every storm runs out of rain. The sun's going to shine again. It will come up and you will feel it on. You will feel that sun hit you again. And.
Julie Chrisley
And the flip side of that is Nanny Faye says the sun don't shine on the same dog's ass always.
Todd Chrisley
So, on that note right there, folks, I think that's a good way to close the sun don't shine on the same dog's ass always. So, until the next time, good luck and God bless.
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Chrisley Confessions 2.0 — “Blessed To Be Stressed”
Date: February 25, 2026
Hosts: Todd and Julie Chrisley
This week’s “Chrisley Confessions 2.0” is the definition of “candid.” Todd and Julie Chrisley dive into faith, family, work-life, and their return to the public eye, balancing the demands of filming apart for the first time, and their perspective on social and political divides in today’s America. It’s a classic Chrisley mix—funny, opinionated, occasionally feisty, and always heartfelt. Major topics include their busy production schedules, social media criticism, handling hot-button issues like ICE and immigration, political polarization, and the importance of respect, compassion, and personal faith.
[01:35–05:30]
[05:31–07:40]
[07:41–18:20]
[18:21–31:07]
[25:32–34:20]
[34:21–47:53]
[47:54–49:10]
On work-life balance and change:
On public expectations:
On ICE and immigration:
On hypocrisy and respect:
On community and compassion:
On faith during hard times:
A classic Chrisley closer:
In summary:
This episode is archetypal “Chrisley Confessions”—unfiltered family banter, hot takes on big issues, and a steady focus on faith and decency. Whether reflecting on packed suitcases, thorny headlines, or bigger questions of right and wrong, the Chrisleys invite listeners to think critically, love deeply, and try to bridge the divides that still linger in American life.