Podcast Summary: The Southern Tea
Episode: Straight vs. Lesbian Dynamics
Host: Lindsie Chrisley (PodcastOne)
Date: March 25, 2026

Overview

This episode of The Southern Tea centers on the contrasts and comedies of straight and lesbian relationship dynamics, co-parenting challenges, and the shared struggles of adulthood and homeownership. Lindsie Chrisley and guest Becky Hater (joined occasionally by Madison via chat) dive into deeply personal anecdotes, unfiltered listener voicemails, and lighthearted banter about everything from dating norms to laundry habits. The conversation is honest, conversational, and often hilarious, with major segments focused on relationship norms, home management mishaps, and the realities of modern parenting.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Southern Girl Life & Parenting Realities

• Technology Mishaps and Mom Life
  • Lindsie shares her ongoing struggles with technology, including lost TikTok passwords and charger saga with her son Jackson:
    • "He thinks he’s slick. He puts them in my bedroom to make me think I’ve got a stack of chargers and every single one that ends up in there, it’s because he's broke the cord." ([05:12])
  • Balancing career travel and parenting: "I don't like to lose my parenting time. So that means I have 48 hours to do something." ([06:51])

2. Co-Parenting & Exes

• The Ex-Husband Chronicles

  • Lindsie recounts a frustrating incident with her ex-husband Will about last-minute parenting schedule changes and travel plans:
    • "Ex-husbands are not advisable." ([12:16])
    • "I have a shared calendar... Why did you not put it on said shared calendar? What if I had a coochie wax on Monday that didn’t coordinate with the times I would need to be getting a kid out of school?" ([17:13])
  • Discussion on flexibility vs. strict adherence to co-parenting plans:
    • "We've kind of always just deviated from it. If it gets bad, we'll go back exactly to what it is." ([19:35])

• Co-Parenting Pets

  • The logistics and frustrations of sharing pet custody post-divorce:
    • "I'm not your wife anymore, so I'm not like, they're your dogs every other day until you need to go do something, and then you think I'm watching them." ([20:52])

3. Adulting & Homeownership Woes

• Home Maintenance Comedy

  • Losing the internet router, pressure washing disasters, and why everyone should get a homeownership manual:
    • "I cannot find my Internet router and he cannot find my Internet router. Is there a way to like ping it?" ([25:52])
    • "I almost severed a toe off. And then... I started spraying the wall because it had spider webs... Why did it make all my paint bubble on the wall and come off?" ([36:42])
  • Dreaming of living in a doorman-managed apartment like “Sex and the City”: ([32:22])

• DIY Mishaps

  • Lindsie’s adventures in “maintenance” include power-washing drywall and swapping home care stories with Becky, who admits she doesn’t know much more.

4. Relationships & Dating: Straight vs. Lesbian Dynamics

• Lesbian First Dates & The U-Haul Trope

  • Becky explains how lesbian first dates happen and why the infamous "U-Haul" stereotype exists:
    • "Let's start out by saying they probably know a lot about each other going into that first date. Because right after that first little swipe... they're texting 24/7 until the first date in 24 hours." ([56:00])
    • "First dates are long... it could start out with dinner and then sitting in a car for four hours or five hours afterwards." ([56:44])
    • "That's why the joke is like you bring a U-Haul to the second date." ([57:35])
  • Lindsie: "That is wild to me... I don't feel like straight people text like that, that early on because it's kind of like cat and mouse." ([56:44])

• Coming Out & Fluidity

  • Open, empathetic commentary about switching relationship orientations and societal pressures:
    • Becky: "I think it's easy to get caught up in what we think society expects from us... it's just all about people." ([63:42], [64:50])

5. Banter & Memorable Moments

• Showering & Personal Hygiene Habits

  • The contrast between Lindsie's luxury showers and Becky's five-minute “rinsey rinse”:
    • Lindsie: "My showers are insane. There's different kinds of showers." ([43:38])
    • Becky: "I use Old Spice as a three in one... I could settle with just using Old Spice." ([48:34])

• Perfume Overload & Teenage Scent Disasters

  • Lindsie describes her son overdoing cologne and her own adolescent perfume mishaps:
    • "You need to tell him that he cannot be putting on all this stuff. He smells like a nightclub." ([51:27])

• Laundry Division of Labor

  • The pain points of folding laundry and the joy of “master folders”:
    • "I sorted... and he folded. He's a master folder. I miss that laundry system." ([38:39])

Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• On U-Haul Lesbians:

  • Becky Hater: “That’s why the joke is like you bring a U-Haul to the second date.” ([57:35])

• On Co-Parenting Frustrations:

  • Lindsie: “Ex-husbands are not advisable.” ([12:16])

• On Lesbian Dating Intensity:

  • Becky Hater: “They're texting 24/7 until the first date in 24 hours.” ([56:00])

• On Homeownership & Adulting:

  • Lindsie: “I had what I dubbed the divorce house. And then once I got comfortable with being divorced, then I moved here.” ([41:48])

• On Personal Hygiene:

  • Lindsie: “If anybody thinks they're getting in my bed dusty and crusty...” ([54:59])

• Listener Story (Voicemail):

  • AJ: “Every other night we would sneak to a park behind the school where we’d get it on in the back of this 2006 Volvo... Not only are me and hot hookup guy married now, but we also have a 10 month old baby girl.” ([66:22])

Listener Voicemails: Stories & Solidarity

1. College Car Hookup Gone Right:

   • AJ shares a lighthearted and ultimately heartwarming story of sneaking around strict university rules only to get caught by the police—her hookup turned husband, and now they have a daughter. ([66:22])

2. Single Motherhood Through Crisis:

   • A South Carolina nurse recounts unexpectedly becoming a single mom when her husband went to prison, expressing empathy for Lindsie’s co-parenting journey and the different ways parenthood can be “single.”
     • "There’s all kinds of ways of being a single parent and ways of getting here." ([71:13])

Practical Tips & Lighthearted Recommendations

• Dermaplaning is the Budget Beauty Secret:

  • Lindsie: “If I told people one service to go and get... the dermaplaning is the best like exfoliator.” ([74:15])

• Meal Prepping is More Fun with Friends:

  • Lindsie “mostly” lets her new assistant Hunter do the meal prep, and they share “anal talk” during the process. ([23:18], [43:43])

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [05:12] – Charger/tech woes as a mom
• [12:16] – On ex-husbands & co-parenting
• [17:13] – Shared calendar & parenting logistics
• [19:35] – Parenting plan flexibility
• [20:52] – Co-parenting dogs
• [25:52] – Losing the internet router
• [36:42] – Pressure-washing mishaps
• [41:48] – Divorce house story
• [43:38] – Shower routines
• [48:34] – Minimalist shower products
• [51:27] – Teenage cologne overload
• [56:00] – Lesbian texting/dating dynamics
• [57:35] – “Bring a U-Haul to the second date”
• [63:42] – On relationship switching and societal expectations
• [66:22] – College car hookup voicemail story
• [71:13] – “There’s all kinds of ways to be a single parent” voicemail

Tone & Style

The episode is raw, southern, and punctuated with humor even as it covers the realities of divorce, dating norms, co-parenting struggles, and the evolving definition of family and adulthood. The interplay between Lindsie and Becky is both friendly and teasing, offering comic relief and candid insight in equal measure. Listener stories provide moments of solidarity and inspiration, rounding out a show that feels like a lively group chat among friends who've seen it all.

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