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Maybe I'm just, like, weird. Maybe I'm crunchy. This is the Southern Tea with Lindsay Chrisley. I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these people write their children's accomplishments on the back. I don't love them. A Southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life while staying.
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True to her roots.
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I am a functioning, non functioning human being right now. Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea, and nothing but the tea.
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Tea, that is the tea.
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Here's Lindsay. Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Southern Tea. How are we doing?
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Good morning, Lindsay Chrisley. Boy, do I have some updates for you from this weekend and past week.
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Oh, are these surprising updates?
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These are just day in my life updates.
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Okay, okay.
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One, you asked me what my hair looks like naturally dried. Looks like this. Literally. It's air dried.
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Okay, interesting.
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Okay, so you got that now. Two, went out to my pool yesterday. Okay. I just wanted to get in for, like, two hours because Saturday was sucky weather. We had, like, clouds and sun yesterday. But it was hot enough to get in the pool. And I was like, I don't care. Go outside. I've got my Stanley. I have all my sunscreens. Like, my face, my body, Corey's body, Corey's face. I got both hands full, right? My big dogs are outside. My neighbor next door lets her dog out at the same time that I go outside, and they're on this side of the yard and her house is that way. So they come darting across. Take me the fuck out.
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Oh, my God.
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Heard something crack in my ankle. Not sure if it's broken. I don't have an ankle currently. It looks you have a cankle down into my foot. Um, and it shakes when I try to move it on its own.
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So the way that I would come unglued if somebody else's dog took me out.
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I mean, it was my own dog taking me out. I sat there, I laid there. Literally, just literally. I could not imagine what had just occurred to me. I had no idea. So, nope. Sat there in the grass. And then Corey was like, I think we should go to the hospital or urgent care, because he heard it. And I said, no, I'm getting in the pool.
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Oh, my God. You were that committed?
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Yes. So I sat my ass in that pool for three hours, and it felt fine until I got out of the pool.
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Oh. Well, we had very different weekends after all of the media charade and all the shit that's been transpiring over the last couple of weeks. I decided I was going to fully disassociate. Okay, so when I tell you from Saturday until Sunday at like 4 o' clock in the afternoon, bedrotted.
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You know, sometimes you need a good bedrock. Truly, it's. I know it's sometimes frowned upon. I'm a big proponent of it. When I'm going through it, you will find me in my bed.
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You know what? There's something to be said for just sitting in your own silence, finding a good show, whether that be Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime. Have you watched that series? I think it's called we are Liars.
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No, but I've seen, like, commercials for it, and it looks so good.
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Okay, well, I also made David start watching We Are Liars with me.
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Yeah.
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So I think we're on episode four, and there is nothing better than bed rotting and watching an episode of a show, falling asleep, waking up, watching another episode, and just, like, repeating. I ate more protein bars over the weekend than I would like to admit.
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So you were surviving?
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I was. But on Friday, I was actually very productive. Like, my garages are completely cleaned out, which have not been the case since the whole hot tub saga began. So the garages are completely cleaned out. I also had a flooding issue on my bottom porch, and so I needed to wait for. For extreme rains to come before I started putting my furniture down there, because they had to come and, like, cut into the concrete, do all that crazy. So needless to say, my hot tub still does not have water in it because I was waiting to hear back from the manufacturer if they were going to actually replace the entire hot tub or if they were going to just send panels. Now that we have the answer to that, as soon as I get off this recording, the water will start going into that hot tub.
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I love that. So you could finally use it.
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So I can finally rot somewhere other than my bed.
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Well, now you're gonna need, like, an iPad or your computer and a little table to, like, rot and watch your show.
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Oh, no. I had a conversation with Kale over the weekend.
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Okay.
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And I think I'm gonna order a Kindle. Oh, I have become that much of a book, girly.
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I am impressed. I am impressed.
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I feel so much smarter.
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Your. Your vocabulary definitely changes when you, like, start reading again.
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No, I. I really think that it does. Like, there are certain times that I'll be reading, and I'm like, wait, what's that word mean? And it's like, we need to start having Words of the week of things that we pick up on when we read words that we don't use.
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I love that. I love that.
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I know that we briefly discuss this on coffee combos, but we've also very much talked about, talked in depth about Brian Coburger and the Idaho four. And this came via Amazon yesterday. So can't wait to bust into this bad boy. It's called the Idaho four. An American Tragedy, James Patterson, Vicky Ward Kayl and I are going to be covering that. I guess someone coffee combos and some on book club. So I'm excited about that. I also finished the last episode of the new documentary on the Idaho 4 that it was on Amazon prime and I will repeat what I have already said. Like the level of realness that it brought, just seeing the families speak, insane.
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That's what got me really. It was the family, the friends, the people who were there. You know, just having you look at it from a completely different perspective than just like an observer from the media.
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And I think that we get so wrapped up in just like grasping onto everything that the media has to say about stuff that that's the only information that we're getting. But the real life aspects that were brought in that documentary crazy to just think that they had friends, that their apartments like faced King Road and they could see it like all boarded up. Remember how we went through the whole thing? Like, they should not destroy the house. They should not destroy the house. Yes. Now after watching that and the trauma that it inflicted to people who were close to those k, I'm like, absolutely, the house should have been destroyed.
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I feel like I'm in agreement that the house should have been destroyed. I just think that it should have waited until after the trial, personally. But I definitely could see why people would be like, take it down immediately.
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It also was so eerie in that documentary, the pulling over, like on the highway leaving from Washington, going back to Pennsylvania. I always thought it was a little eerie, but now watching it back, I'm like, who gets pulled over for tailgating two different times within mile spans?
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Right. Well, they were obviously, in my opinion.
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Tracking him, you know, 1000% like it was an operation.
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Yeah, definitely think that it was tracking. I also found it very interesting to me that right after he did the murdering, allegedly. Well, no, I don't have to say alleged anymore. He confessed. So, yeah, right after he did the murders, he called his dad for 45 minutes.
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You also cannot convince me that the parents had no inkling of anything.
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No. So I'm just kind of Wondering, you know, how with the Brian Laundrie case and Gabby Petito and the parents, Roberta and I forget the dad's name. Laundrie. That's a thing now, like, of what was their involvement. And there had to have been some involvement in things. So I just wonder if that is going to come next. I don't know.
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I don't know. But I also saw something about that where it's being alleged that the parents actually killed him.
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Yes.
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And that would make sense to me considering the fact that they knew exactly like where to go.
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I've said that from the jump. That he did not do it himself cannot convince me.
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But I'm just like, what the fuck is wrong with these people? I just don't understand it. And it was very interesting to me to watch people who went through the exact same situation, but to process those things and handle themselves so differently.
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Yeah. It shows that it is always going to be like everyone's connected. Can everybody can witness the same situation and walk away with a completely different perspective out of the same thing. And I think that that is the. A prime example.
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Yep. Was interesting because all of the families except the Chapin at the end of the documentary, it was talking about these nonprofits and stuff that was set up. And it was interesting to me that I believe it was three of the families were a part of one and then the Chapins were separate from that.
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I definitely feel like Ithan's family has been very separated this entire time. From the beginning. I think that they have done that. They've handled it extremely differently than the other families have. Really focusing on his legacy and moving forward and not giving the time of day to day. All of the Brian Co Burger stuff. I don't know how they do it, but I give them so much credit.
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I would love to know if in the situation, would you be the parent that did not want to go and face your child's killer in court or would you want to show up?
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No, I would absolutely want to show up.
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I would too. I think that extreme strength to remove yourself from that situation, to not show up and face that person, even just.
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Things that were being said by his family of like, it doesn't change the outcome. That was said several times. It doesn't change the outcome. And the strength to know that is remarkable. I could not ever. I don't think. I don't think, you know, until you're in the situation.
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But I know we've said that before, like until you're in the situation, you can't really Say, but in a hypothetical situation, if face with that, there is no way that I would not be at absolutely every hearing.
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I just feel like knowing myself, like I would need to. I would need to. I just, I think there's something to be said for making that person look you in the face, but also looking at it from Brian Coburg, like he doesn't give a who's there. Like he truly doesn't care.
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I saw an interview of one of the parents. I can't remember who it was. It might have been Kaylee's mom. And she was talking about the hearing where he pled guilty. And she said, you know, thankful that he did that so that they can kind of put it behind them, but at the same time he should have been made to say the victim's names.
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Which I agreed with.
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And the interviewer, I can't remember who it was that was interviewing them, but the interviewer asked her why she felt that way. And I thought that was very insensitive too. Like, because my child is a person. Yeah, like, what the do you mean? Like, why do you feel that way?
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Well, and also just I had a big issue and I said this to you. I had a big issue with the fact that the judge kept continuously mispronouncing Zanna's name.
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Oh, I know. It's like, please verse yourself at least if you could do nothing else, at least verse yourself on the pronunciation of the kids names.
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Yeah, I just feel like there's a lot of things that should be a requirement. I'm also, and I don't know if you followed this this weekend because I know you were disconnected, but did you hear what the judge said at the hearing regarding the gag order?
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No, I did not. But when I tell you I maybe picked up my phone three times over the entire weekend, like that might be a stretch.
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So the judge lifted the gag order, but only for certain people, not everyone. And his reasoning was something in regards to until his ability to appeal is.
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Over, which is thought that we were made to believe. And again could just be another. Could just be another media circus. It was my understanding that there would be no right to appeal.
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Well, and this was my argument the whole time because I never freaking believed it. And come to find out, you know, you legally cannot actually cancel out anybody's ability to appeal for all reasons. He still has several things that give him the ability to appeal even after signing that.
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Do you feel like appeals should be allowed? I'm going to give two different scenarios. Should an appeal be allowed when someone has an open court admitted the fact that they did it and they're guilty. And do you feel that an appeal should be allowed after the fact of being convicted by a jury of your peers of a complete guilty verdict? Do you think that that should remove the appeal process?
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I don't think getting convicted by a jury should ever remove the ability to appeal. And I say that because the amount of times that we find out that there was a jury member, like, paid off or somehow connected or whatever, I just, I don't believe in that. But I think at the point where he was within his right, deemed to be within his right mind, and this goes for anybody, so not just him, but, like, if you're within your right mind and you know what, you are signing away, absolutely should not have the ability to appeal. I don't care, because here's where I'm at. I don't care if somebody gets found down the road, oh, it's actually this person that did it. You're still stupid because you said that you were guilty. So you should go away with the whole. The plea deal that you signed. And then that person should also go away, not thousand percent. Like, what? I'm just not. You can't. I know I will never get behind that. But I thought it was weird from the beginning. I remember I told you that there was something fishy about like, Ann Taylor and him and they're like freaking smiling at each other and just like, weird shit. And I get that people get awkward in serious moments and stuff like that, but something feels weird. Something felt weird about the whole thing. So for the judge to say that and then to lift the gag for some but not others and say what he said, like, it's not over, in my opinion.
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What I read this morning regarding the gag order was that stuff, stuff would slowly start rolling out from the beginning of the case until present, but it would take an extreme amount of time for all of that information to be rolled out.
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Oh, the judge said that. He literally said, I will be looking document by document and determining what is being released, what is not, what is being released, redacted, what is not. He said this. We're not talking days, weeks, like months. I think it's going to be yours.
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I just think that that is absolutely crazy. Speaking of jury, guess who got a summons for the first week of August jury duty?
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They're back. They are back.
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Oh, I got it to my right address this time.
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They made sure to update that real quick.
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But I have to tell you this story. So I go in to have my hair done the week before last. And, you know, just like the regular salon talk, just talking about that you probably shouldn't even be talking about. And I was like, oh, I've got jury duty the first week of August. And my hair stylist was like, oh, my God, I just got summoned for it, too. And she was giving me the rundown on all the things that I need. And she told me. She was like, there's absolutely zero way that you're going to get out of it. Make sure that you show up on time on that first day. I think she was there for, like, I want to say, anywhere from eight to 12 hours.
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When I have been to jury duty one time. I've only been summoned one time. And I went and I was there for 12 hours and was not selected to be on the jury.
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Okay, that'll piss me off even more if I go and give the state 12 hours of my time and they don't select me. But her. Her situation was my local Walmart. Some man had assaulted a young girl in the parking lot of the Walmart. And she said that they were very vague on the information that they were giving about the case, but they had to ask certain questions to start eliminating people. And it seemed very different. The jury selection for the state sounds very different than what I recall the jury selection for federal sounds like. I guess the perpetrator is in the courtroom when the jury is being selected with their counsel.
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Okay. Okay. That must be.
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And I saw on the news, must have been sometime last week, that there has been online stings for pen pedophiles trying to meet up with minors.
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Yeah.
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In my county specifically. And they caught 12 different people. So I'm like, is this type of situation that I'm gonna be in? Because I don't know if I'm cut out to do something like this. Also part of a federal trial from the past. And I do know that that was a question that my hair stylist said was asked if you've ever been, like, part of any court case or if you've ever been convicted of anything. She said the questions were really wild, and they basically give you, like, a popsicle stick. And everybody's in there, and when they ask the question, you, like, either hold up one or the other.
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Oh.
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And I'm like, okay, so everybody also knows your business.
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Oh, my God. Like, are you. Obviously they're not blindfolding the jury, but are you closing your eyeballs? Like, why wouldn't you just verbally say it?
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Then at that point, I don't know. Why are we doing. Apparently you're allowed to. You're allowed to request for it to be like an anonymous answer. So basically, if you choose to do that, everybody gets pissed off at you because they have to all leave the courtroom and then you give your answer and they all have to come back. So I'm like, no, everybody's just gonna know everything.
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I mean, thank God you haven't done. But I'm just like, can you imagine.
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Though, me on a jury?
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I would love it. I can't wait to see how this goes.
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I told you. I was like, can you please just send them the clips from all of the podcasts where we talk about true crime and I say, guilty for everybody.
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Yeah. You're like, if you're here, you're guilty.
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I'm like, there is no way a defense attorney is going to select me. I promise you that'll be.
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I will laugh if you end up. If your ass ends up on a jury.
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Speaking of crazy that's been going on in my area. Did you see that case? It was all over Tik Tok about the girl that was accused of fatally shooting her mom and stepdad in Georgia.
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No.
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Holy. So this is from a USA Today article. It says a teen girl in Georgia is facing murder charges in connection with the nearly six month old killings of her mother and stepfather. Her name was Sarah Grace Patrick, 17 years old. She was arrested, I believe, the week before last and was arrested on two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault. This. These murders took place on February 20th. And it says that they do not typically name minors charged with that crime. But since she's being charged as an adult in the case, they have given all of her information. I watched the live stream of the press conference from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, which is the county that Will grew up in.
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Oh, wow.
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Isn't that crazy? And it says, according to the spokesperson for the sheriff's office, she said that on the morning of February 20, they had responded to the scene where they discovered the victim's bodies, both dead from apparent gunshot wounds. The residence in the county is roughly about 45 minutes from Atlanta, which is not far from the Alabama state line. And at the time of the killings, the couple lived in the home with Sarah Grace Patrick, which was the older daughter, and then she had a younger sibling. And it says the youngest child was at home at the time of the slayings. So she was actually the one that found the parent. So I don't know if the older Daughter like did this and went somewhere like I don't know. But she went six months without being charged and apparently was all over tick tock trying to get true crimers to cover the case. Like she was messaging them from her account trying to get true crime people on TikTok to cover the case to catch her. I don't know if she thought she was just like never going to get caught.
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What is wrong with people?
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I don't know. But she was sending them private messages to try to get like national coverage for it.
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But if you know that you're guilty, how are you so in 2025, how are you so certain that you're not getting caught to go ask people, people to cover the case?
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Kristen, I think it is state of delusion that people live in, honestly. Maybe because it went on for so long that no one had been arrested. You know, could that have been part of law enforcement's plan to watch her moves before arresting her?
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I mean, maybe. Or do you think that they just like couldn't get enough evidence?
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Well, it said that the evidence was obtained through their crime scene investigations lab, like DNA. Okay, so they do have that. And it was also said that there was no sign of like forcible breaking and entering either. So I mean it was very messy on a 17 year old's part. I mean at least like stage it.
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But she was so sure. Let me go get these true crime people. What the hell.
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Yeah, so in this other article that I found, it says the Tik Tok videos posted by the teen after the murders appeared to be heartfelt pleas for support. It says the Tik Tok post may seem innocent and even draw sympathy, but the dark reality is that it was created just over a week after she was 16 at the time that she did this, just over a week after she shot her mother and stepfather to death as they slept. So like she did this in their sleep.
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Do you think that maybe her angle was to like get famous and that's why she wanted more attention from like the true crime community? Because then if they were talking about it, then people would like when she did get caught, she thinks that she's gonna get something at like a book deal or something.
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I don't know. But she also spoke, spoke at their funeral. Oh, that's investigators were saying. Or the spokesperson for the sheriff's department said that that made them zone in too.
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Because she spoke at the funeral.
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Yeah, apparently based off of like the things that she was saying. Oh yeah.
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Now I want to, now I want to hear the eulogy, like what were you saying that was so crazy that made the cops suspect you for murder from that eulogy?
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But it's like did she do this to like become famous? And you and I have talked about this before regarding these high profile cases that people are so mentally ill that they want their name in the media. So like was it that?
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That's what I was just asking. Like who the hell truly, who knows?
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But so apparently it says that TikTok page called allegedly reportedly had said, why would you ask me to cover a case where you are going to get arrested for taking your parents lives?
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That's the shit that I'm like what were you thinking?
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Yeah. So apparently the messages said. And these are quotes from this tiktoker. The messages said she messaged me on June 3rd and said search up Brock case. So I said brock Turner. Brock who? She said, kristen and James Brock. Hold on. They're my parents. And out of nowhere, a random Thursday night in February, someone came in the house with me and my 5 year old sister and left my parents and me and my 5 year old sister to wake up to this.
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She's not well.
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Like who does that?
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I don't know. I mean it has to be their attention. It has to be.
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But then if you look back on that documentary, the Amazon prime one that they went into, the Papper Rogers situation on Facebook, they say that kind of behavior is very common.
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So because they want people talking about.
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It, they want people talking about it and want to know what other people know.
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I but 17 years old, like I.
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Just think about if I was speeding past like you know, like those random cameras that are like set up on the side of the road and it's like monitoring speed and they'll send you like a E ticket or whatever.
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I think they do that. I think the closest state that that is done in to me is Virginia.
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Yeah, so they have one here. Okay, I'm using that as an example. Never would I ever like want anybody to know that I did that.
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Right. You're not like emailing being like hey, you might want to check that. I don't know if it works. Oh my God. I sped past it doing 90. Can you imagine though, people really tell on themselves if you give them the opportunity to like, if you, what is that saying? You like give them rope long enough they will hang themselves with it 1000%.
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Do you think that a child who committed this kind of act at 16 years old, now caught at 17 should be charged as an adult?
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Yes, I do. At the point where you can go out yourself and, like, try to get the attention, you absolutely should be charged as an adult. And also, I think because she is a minor or was a minor at the time of the crime, they should not be allowed to speak her name because that would piss her off even more for sure.
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Like, I do think that a lot of people who commit crimes like this do it so that they can. Most of them are probably a narcissist or have narcissist, narcissistic tendencies. I would venture to believe that the thrill of seeing their name in the news is, like, hype for them.
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Yeah. Which is insane.
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Literally pisses me off.
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Somebody mentions me, mentions me in a Facebook comment and I want to cry. Wait, what? I don't, like, like, I can't, I can't, I cannot. I don't understand why people, like, want themselves talked about really badly.
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Welcome to my life.
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I. More power to y', all because I have no interest.
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Wait, so over the weekend, my phone was blowing up because apparently there were comments that were made in regards to what I said on the Southern tea last week. And they were like, did you see this? Did you see this? Do you see this?
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Like, every.
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And I'm like, first of all, that's my face. Like, why? Why are they doing that? Number one. Number two, I don't really care about the response. Yeah, it's like, so, no, in fact, I didn't see it. And in fact, I'm committing to myself that I'm not reading it. And someone that you and I both know very well text me and said, and that's on boundaries, my queen.
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I love that, truly.
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In more light hearted news, did you see where it says that open kitchens are on the way out?
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Oh, my God. No way.
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Yeah, it says that open kitchens are undeniably popular but have been falling out of fashion in recent years. While open spaces promote togetherness by combining the hub of the house with adjacent living and or dining areas, they also present challenges and drawbacks. From noise to smells and clutter.
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Okay, first of all, let me back up here. I thought when you said open kitchen, you were referring to, like, shared kitchens. Like, as far as, like, uber eats, how they have, like, the restaurants that aren't restaurants. We're talking about open concept housing.
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Yes.
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It's funny because my mom hates the open concept. Like, we have it. She hates it. She's like, I do not need to walk in my front door and see everyone's business. I don't. I don't like that.
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Okay. But are you more of like an open layout or you like the closed offness of rooms and spaces?
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I like semi open. Like, that's my vibe is semi open.
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I am completely open. I feel like my house is completely open. Right?
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It is, but that makes sense to me because you keep everything, like, exactly where it should be. I think open concept does not lend itself well to anybody that like, anybody that works a ton of hours and like, has to wait until a weekend to, like, house reset. I feel like open concept, really? You.
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I mean, I could see that an open concept would definitely not work for my mom's parents because the clutter that goes on in the kitchen is just like, not. It's not it.
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Why do I feel like older people have an issue with clutter?
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You know, I asked somebody this not too terribly long ago, and how this even came up was. I'll just tell you who I asked. It was Will. I was like, when something happens to your parents, like, the clean out that's going to have to transpire is absolutely insane. The amount of clutter and just like, random. It's like, why do you have that? That was literally from like 1995.
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See, my dad's mom was definitely like a. I would say closet hoarder, but, like, everything had a place, but there was a lot of crap in said places. So, like, it wasn't out in the open. And I have never been more thankful that we were not on speaking terms when she passed away, because I was an adult and I absolutely would have been tasked with helping and I was not doing that. So it actually worked out that I was written out of the will and shit. It was great.
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Wait, have you ever known anyone that they have so much clutter in their house that they just start putting other buildings on their property?
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Absolutely not.
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Okay, well, number one, that's my mom's parents, and number two, that is Will's parents.
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You said other buildings. Like, I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, okay, so I got some sheds, like extra sheds, but, like, they have their designated usages, right? So I'm like, this shed that I bought is going to be for the lawnmower and the lawn tools. Because I don't want them in the big shed. Like, I want. The big shed is like a workspace and like storage, not like lawn stuff and whatever. Like, I have designated usage. And I'm like, this one's gonna be for the pool equipment.
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Yep. See, I just don't like things everywhere. Yeah, the level of minimalist, like, I'm Looking around my house right now, like, I. I really don't have. Like, if somebody came to rob me, like, you're fucked. There's nothing here. I also never keep cash. Wait, how freaky is this? So we were sleeping the night before last, and then somehow got on this. Do you know, like, when you watch previews, like, you're trying to, like, find something that you want to put on your queue to watch, and you come across something, like, really creepy, like, late at night. And this was. Mind you, this was right after I finished the fourth episode of the Idaho four. And Ryan was coming for you.
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Yeah.
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Yep. And so I was like, you know what? Because I am so versed on this case, it doesn't. It freaks me out. But because I've heard about it for so long and know so much information, it's kind of, like, part of my life now. Then we get onto some, like, CSI shit where they're doing, like, brain scans on people. And I told him. I got up to go to the bathroom, and I said, david, you need to find something else. Like, I do not want to come back in this room and start hearing that, because it's freaking me out, you know, that he has the audacity to tell me that he thought he heard something in the house the night before last.
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Oh, my God.
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And he sat straight up in the bed and walked around the house. And I said, you know what? Absolutely not. Thank you for ruining the rest of my night's sleep. And immediately after, an entire year of living here, this place will be locked down like Fort Knox come next week.
B
I literally, like, I'll go through phases like that. But what pisses me off the most. Corey used to work nights, right? So, like, I would be the investigator.
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Oh, no.
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And if I wasn't the investigator, I'd be hiding one of the two.
A
Corey, is it? But is the rule. Because my granddaddy always said, like, if you hear noise in your house at night and there's a possible intruder, you let them come find you. You don't go looking for them. Is that the actual rule?
B
I mean, it probably is. That makes sense, right? Because, like, they have to figure out their way around your house. But, like, I have a lot of animals that I got to protect that are in different locales here. And I also have my mom, so I'm like, it's not just me. I'm like, she's. She could be screwed and I could be fine vibe. So I'm like, no, no, not gonna do that. So I used to be the investigator. Okay. And I would scare the. Out of myself. And everything was fine. Typically, it was Zeus. Zeus. Cats do some wild ass at nighttime. Okay. Sleeps all day. He's freaking insane at night. Time literally will make it sound like there are multiple people ransacking your entire home. It's just him playing with his toys. Okay.
A
No.
B
So a little bit insane. But then Corey got home, got off, night shift. Awesome. Why is it that I'll be like, corey, I think I heard something. And this man doesn't give two. And I'm like, I really have a false sense of security with you being here because I still have to investigate. Or he gets up and he's like, like, so annoyed.
A
That's. That's me, though. It's like, don't tell me if you hear something in this house actually, do not open the door that I'm in. Please don't do it. And then he goes, you know what? I think that we should get, like, a metal pole to sleep with up here.
B
I'm like, a metal pole, not a baseball bat. A metal. A metal pole.
A
And I'm like, sir, now you've really freaked me the fuck out because now I really think that somebody was in this fucking house.
B
You ever been at, like, a real low point of your life and you think you hear something at night and you're like, just fucking do it. Just take me. I don't care. Because I've been there.
A
Oh, yeah, it's called the last, like, two months.
B
Yeah, I'm just like, if I hear something, I'll. I'll literally, like. Because I like to sleep on my right side and I'll look at the door and I'm like, just do it. I don't care.
A
I swear to you, if I hear something, I am not coming out of my bedroom.
B
I mean, valid.
A
Like, I will beat them with a TV remote. Like, there will be something that happens, but I will not be leaving my bedroom. Speaking of my bedroom, you know what I got, and I'm so excited about it? I got the shark, like, cleaner thing for upholstery.
B
Oh, yeah, you're gonna. This is gonna become your interior power washing.
A
Yes, Yes. I am so excited about it. I'm gonna pop that bad boy loose this afternoon. I also have now become a Trader Joe's girlie.
B
Okay, you're going to do a Trader Joe's haul and, like, tell us what you get.
A
Yeah, so I'm going there this afternoon as well. I just have a great deal of plans. Like, I'm going to Start reading this book. I'm going to Trader Joe's. I'm going to bust out the shark. I'm going to put water in the hot tub. Probably half of that is not getting done. But the reason behind Trader Joe's is because I've gotten on this extreme health kick of where I'm trying to. And when I say extreme health kick, trying to find alternatives of things that like, might not be necessarily healthy, but healthier. Talking like Easy Mac, for example. Both our kids like pasta noodles with butter and parmesan. There's like protein pastas out there that we can try where it's not just like the other kind that's unhealthy. So that's why I'm going to Trader Joe's to start finding all of these alternatives and share those with people that have children or just want to make better choices for their life.
B
I love that I don't have a Trader Joe's. That's like super close by. But if it's worth it, I will drive. So I'll be. I'll be watching. You want to hear about my bedroom scenario? Okay, so my closet. I'm like a walk in closet in my bedroom. This actually pairs well with noises in bedrooms. Okay. I hear a noise. I'm working the other day. Corey was off. I hear a bang. I said, are you going to go investigate, like what that was? I said, I know it wasn't a murderer, but like something definitely broke or fell. He's like, no, it was probably Zeus. Zeus was sleeping right next to us on the couch. I said, don't think it was him. But okay. He does not get up. I go into the bedroom. And you have to pass like they designed it. Very odd. So it's. You walk in my room. We have like the bed and stuff, like straight in front of you. If you go to the right, you can go straight. There's like a sitting area and then there's the walk in and then there's the bathroom. So there's just like space in between. So I walk in, I go to go into the bathroom and I. Something catches my vision out the corner of my eye. And I was like, why is this picture frame on the floor? And like this was at the top shelf of the closet. So I go to pick it up and grab it. And as I'm standing up, I look up and the entire one side of the closet is ripped out of the wall. Like the. The wire rack thing ripped out of the wall. My clothes are all over the floor. My purses on the floor. And I called Cory. I said, I found out what the bang was. I don't know what the sound was.
A
But how does that happen? How does stuff just, like.
B
Well, my walls. I think I had all my heavy, like, a lot of heavy stuff on that specific rack. From the holes that I can see, I think that when they installed it, this was pre me moving in. I think that somebody put the one bracket not into a stud. There either is no stud there, or they missed the stud because there's a gaping hole.
A
I know that, but what I'm saying is, like, on what day did the shelf just say, okay, today is the day that I give out?
B
It was that day. It was literally last Wednesday. Specifically, it decided it was out. So I have all those clothes hanging in one of my hall closets upstairs. My purses are on, like, a different shelf in the closet right now. And I'm taking this as a excuse to do a little project. I'm going to rip the rest of them out, and I'm going to DIY some type of closet organization.
A
Wait, so I have heard from multiple people who are, like, extreme diyers and, like, just know how to do and, like, can measure properly, which is not me. I have heard that the IKEA closet systems are where it's at.
B
Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.
A
That does take, like, extreme measuring skills, which, again, I do not have.
B
Mm.
A
But for anybody who wants, like, a more custom closet situation, I know that you can do that on, like, Ikea's website.
B
That's what I'm gonna attempt to do. That right there.
A
Do you hear all my laundry going off? It's like, I woke up today and chose violence.
B
You had a lot of plans for this specific Monday of all days?
A
I had a lot of plans. Oh, can we just about ex husbands for a second?
B
Sure. I don't have one, but I. I'll bitch about yours.
A
Okay, so I'm sending texts to our group chat, and I'm like, hey, Jackson, I need to set you up a lunch account because you're going to middle school. It's going to be a different lunch account than you had at elementary school. Do you want money on there? Last year, you only exclusively wanted to take packed lunch. Do you think that you might want to have money on there in case you want to get something that your friends have to eat? School lunch? Because I don't want to, like, you know, give you a bad childhood.
B
Okay. I love it.
A
Okay, so I set up this lunch account, put money into said launch account, send A text. And I'm like, actually, don't worry about answering the question. I've already set up the lunch account if you want it. Money's there, whatever. Then I send will attacks and I say, hey, you need to send a text to. You need to send a text to this number with the word subscribe so that you can get emergency and non emergency communications from the district. No fucking response. So then I'm scrolling like on a local page and I see where if you wear your pajamas to Chick Fil a this evening from 5 to 8, then you get a free kids meal with an adult meal purchase. So I send that. Still no response. Then I send open house dates, the day that Jackson's braces come off, dentist appointment, doctor's appointment, like all these things. I get a phone call 10 minutes before I'm supposed to be on this recording, which prompted me to send you a text to say, hey, I'm going to be running 15 minutes late because I'm dealing with an idiot. Mind you. Mind you, all of these dates, times, locations are in a shared Google Calendar.
B
We're so we're still not doing well using the joint calendar. I see.
A
On top of all of this, I now realize after this phone conversation that not only am I getting Jackson back on Wednesday and Thursday, I'm also getting Della and Georgia back on Wednesday and Thursday. And I have all this that I have to do. And I still need to find a place to get Jackson a perm because he's gonna lose his.
B
So you're gonna have three dogs, one kid, and a perm defined.
A
And a perm defined. And I'm just like, can you please just like, look at the Google calendar?
B
What's his reasoning?
A
Because like, when I'm giving him these dates and times, you can hear him click, clack, and on the computer it's like, what are you doing? Like, go to your Google Calendar.
B
What calendar does he live by? Because it's not that one.
A
None of us know. None of us know. I also don't think that he checks his personal email ever.
B
How does he live at the golf course?
A
I think, I mean, literally look at these text messages right now. Like, these are me. Okay? These are all me with just like. And he really said he just picked up the phone? No. After I send these text messages, he picks up the phone and the first thing he says on the phone was, hey, I saw you blast off a bunch of stuff. What is it? It's like again, the text messages, like, are you okay?
B
No one's okay.
A
And now I have to meet your ass at Dick's sporting goods at 6pm tomorrow to go back to school shopping. Because, you know, you just impromptu are going out of town on Wednesday and Thursday, which really got my week.
B
I really can't wait to see how this goes down. I hope you film it of like what this looks like when you're like shopping with your ex husband.
A
Okay, well, so Jackson told me when I told him we were going back to school shopping at Dick's because that's the only place that we go. He told me, dad's not coming because he's gonna make it a problem. And I'm like, there was actually no problem last year. We did it very seamlessly. The only person that was out of sorts was you, my guy. But okay, coming because I need to make sure that you have the same stuff there that you have here. Right.
B
Okay.
A
He's like, nope, because he's not going to let me get white Nike socks. And I said, oh, my God, are you.
B
Neither am I. Am I.
A
You will get black. You will get some version of dark color Nike socks. But I can promise you one thing, and unless you draw a check mark on a pair of white socks with a Sharpie, you will not. The amount of white socks that I've thrown away over this summer and just the absolute waste. And it just got to a point where it became so unbearable that I would just look at them in my garage where they were, they were taken off, and I'm like, you know what? It, like I said I was not doing this. And I'm for real. Not like full sand trash can.
B
I'm not going to lie. Listen, Corey has like 90,000 pairs of socks. Like, his biggest thing is if, if, if socks, if sock laundry is not done, that man buys another pack. Okay. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. So I start throwing shit away.
A
Okay, wait. This brought me to my next question. I have read before that every couple has one clutterbug and then one like uber organizer. And do you think that that's. I don't.
B
I think that a lot of the times, yes. But I also think that there's one person that's always worse than the other. So I think it makes the other one look more put together because somebody's got to deal with it.
A
You know, I can tell you the same people that I mentioned previously in this episode, both of those couples. Absolutely not. Same people. Oh, like organized clutter. And one's just full blown clutter.
B
Wow. Okay.
A
How do you live like that?
B
I don't know. I don't know.
A
Because David and I are both like throw awayers.
B
You throw away to a fault. Yeah.
A
Oh, like I can't find the other airpod. Probably never finding it. Trash.
B
Then you find it. You're like trash. Double trash.
A
All the way to the point that I swear to you, every one of my little fire detectors or smoke alarms, like whatever they are, are currently all down.
B
So did you my eye tremors?
A
No. They have been so problematic in this house that I'm just like, there's no fudgeing fire that's going on, so why do these things keep going off? And I've changed the battery so many times. There's got to be like a default wire like somewhere. If you just throw them away. You just throw them away. They're all down for Mr. David to get the new batteries in to put them all back up. Because one thing that you will know about me is I'm not doing this anymore. Like, they will all have the same year at time batteries.
B
That. That's the whole problem because you're changing one offs.
A
But who ever made the rule where they should just be going off?
B
Well, I just want you to know that here my shit is hardwired, so if one goes off, they all go off.
A
I know, but do you not think that somebody should have invented at some point, like where we don't have to have batteries?
B
That would be great. That would be amazing if it was just hardwired into your electric.
A
I mean, think of all of the women that are out here doing basically everything. Oh, probably a man made it for sure. Like, definitely a woman was not a part of any of that.
B
No.
A
No. My God. I have. I have a very taboo topic.
B
Okay, I'm ready.
A
Okay. So the source of this is the Truth After Dark. And it says Dr. Bryant explains why she will not get into a relationship with a man who already has kids. And I quote, she said, I want my own family. It's a form of. How do you say that? Polyamory.
B
Okay.
A
Okay. It's a form of polyamory. I want you to play this tick tock and I want you to tell me how you feel. Because basically sent me into a spiral for days after I watched it. Let me ask you this. Are you okay with a man who already has children? No.
C
No.
A
Okay. Why? Deal breaker, deal breaker for you.
B
Why?
C
Because I want my own family.
A
And you feel like you cannot have that with a man who already has children.
C
That is a form of polyamory.
A
Really?
B
Please.
A
Okay.
C
Polyamory. Doesn't have to do with us all living in a household together. And we're all doing the do. Polyamory is outside relationships that I'm okay with. So if I'm in a relationship with Paul, I have to be okay with him having a relationship with the mothers of his children. Yeah, I would hope he does, you know?
B
Yeah.
C
Right. So although he's not sleeping with them or we would want to think he's not, let's just take him as being a good man. He's just co parenting and doing it the right way. Well, when Christmas or holidays come around, or a birthday party or a wedding or graduation, Paul has every right to.
A
Spend time with his kids.
C
And if the mother is there, I mean, they procreate it together.
B
It's not a crime for her to.
C
Be in the same room as him. That's what co parenting is, healthy co parenting. Right. If I agree to that, I am now, or I should be attempting to be healthy with these women.
A
Right.
C
If I'm going to love him, I love Paul's kids. So now I'm in a polyamory relationship that I'm agreeing to be in. Because although you're not sleeping with this woman, we all are a family.
B
Okay. So, like, I never looked at it that way. I have always felt like you either know that you could do it or you know that you can't. I don't think there's anything wrong with someone who just, like, I don't want to sign up for additional people that I have to, like, account for in my relationship. Right. Whether it's someone else's children, their, you know, biological parent, like, other half, whatever that looks like. I could understand why some people wouldn't.
A
Want to do it.
B
I mean, I've said it to you. Like, I don't think that I personally could sign up for it. I've got enough shit.
A
Remember when I went through that phase after my last relationship and I was like, maybe I'll just, like, try dating somebody that doesn't have any children. And then I didn't.
B
Every time. Yep, every time.
A
Right?
B
Yeah.
A
But I so see this perspective and it makes so much sense to me. And spent me, like, sent me into a complete tailspin. Because I'm like, that is, in fact true.
B
Yes. Like, it's a perspective I've never thought through before.
A
And while I agree and understand with everything she's saying, like, okay, you procreated with this person. So if you want to spend time with your kids or like, holidays come around, then, you know, Obviously you would be subjected to that other person. It's like the only way I could get on board with that is if the other person isn't absolutely diabolical.
B
Yeah. And like it gets sticky. Right. So let's just think like marriage. Let's look at marriage first. So like marriage without having kids first. That is hard. Anyway, if you both have families, holidays are already hard and it's already some type of drama. Like somebody's always mad and it might not even be you two, but it's somebody in your extended family. Like, you cannot convince me. So you do that. Then you add kids in and everybody wants to see the kids. But then if you're in a relationship with somebody else who already has children, like, then there's a whole other set of grandparents that probably want to see them. No, the tree is crazy. And I can't.
A
No, I had absolutely zero issues with the way that to other relationships have done stuff. Like, was everything always hunky dory and I wasn't getting shit talked or whatever? Like, yeah, I was. But as far as like the custody stuff, that was pretty much civil and in stone. This latest Ma'. Am. Ma', Am, Ain't no way I'm being in a relationship with you. And that makes it very hard when you have worked so hard on your co parenting situation that it's like not an issue. Because typically on a Tuesday night, which we're recording this on a Monday, but on a Tuesday night I would be spending time with David after work. Jackson and Will have decided we're all going to Dick's at 6pm David can come or he can choose not to come. But Will's not a roadblock in mind David's relationship. Those things are not offered to me. And it's a constant issue. So, you know, I'm kind of at the point of you get what you give.
B
Yeah. I think you can only like one side can only try for so long and then it's like, okay, well this is the situation and I have to either accept it or I have to not be with you. Obviously you're not going to choose to not be with David because of whatever situation maybe. And you're like, this is. This is what I can control. This is what's here. This is what Will and I have. This is what I will extend to Will's partner in the future. This is what Will extends to my partner and you know, be happy in that regard. But I think it's still okay to like feel like you wish that it was reciprocated on the other end.
A
Yeah. And I think that that's just how. That's how I feel like at this point, I think Will and I are so past the back and forth, like, tit for tat shit. And just because my tit for tat shit's played out more publicly doesn't mean that he hasn't had his. If he had a girlfriend right now, I don't even know if he does. Like, not my business, but if he did, and he was like, hey, she's coming to, dicks. Okay, let's go. Yeah, like, what does it. What the. Does it matter?
B
Right?
A
I just thought that that was such an interesting perspective and have never heard of it like that, but have thought of it like that.
B
Right. So, like, hearing it spoken like your internal thoughts, you know, put into words is. I'm sure, like, whoa.
A
Absolutely. Wait, I need to know before we go, if you saw the. From the Coldplay concert.
B
Oh, my God, yes. Who hasn't?
A
What are your thoughts?
B
I think that first of all, first of all, if you are with somebody, if you are participating in cheating, whether you are the cheater or you are, like, the one being cheated with, don't go out in public. Why the are you doing that? That's number one. Number two, then proceed to get mad at the public because you went out there is crazy.
A
You know what's so wild to me is, like, everyone knows at sporting events, concerts, like, potential gonna be on a kiss cam. And if you have, like, really good seats, the likelihood of you getting on there is even greater.
B
Also. Also, a grown man hid behind a woman.
A
Okay, you know what? David and I were talking about this because we were just like, you know, nothing surprises either of us anymore. I said at the point that he got on there, he should have just wrote it out.
B
Yes. He dropped that faster and lower than I did in any club back in the college days. Like, I was like, holy.
A
But wait, what about the co worker girl that was there with them? Because I'm thinking of cheating situations, and I'm like, okay, was she the wing woman in the event that someone saw them so they could be like, oh, it was like a corporate thing.
B
Well, it went so wrong. And now there's literally multiple families in complete disarray. I saw the guy's daughter started Tick Tock.
A
Oh, wait, what?
B
Yeah, I saw her on Tick Tock and she was like, my, like, family was blown apart because my dad cheated. Like, whatever. People were literally commenting, and they're like, using that to launch your TikTok career is honestly goals.
A
So I was unsure if it was his business or if he was the CEO of a business and like part of building it and it not necessarily be like his business. But what I did read was it was a billion dollar company CEO. I think that she was an HR or there was like some type of promotion within such a short time.
B
Yeah, she was the head of hr.
A
And it's like the head of HR should know that you should not be going to a concert with your boss in an affair situation. Was her HR version of oh, we left the office.
B
I don't know. But it was truly the craziest thing. And I've seen people who are like, oh, like people should not be like, do like making parodies and stuff of it. It's not funny. It wrecked people's lives. And it's like, okay, in the world we live in, yes, family's lives are ruined 100%. Absolutely. It's sad. The shit played out on a kiss cam. If they didn't react the way they reacted and it wouldn't have been posted online. Nobody would have posted that thinking it was funny. And then Tik Tok wouldn't have done what TikTok did, which was fine. The people.
A
I'm like, at the point that you get on TikTok and you're being investigated, you're in trouble. Fudgeing.
B
Lay down like you are in trouble. Immediately trouble.
A
No, But I did read somewhere it said that he was placed on like administrative leave or something.
B
Not shocked.
A
I also hope that his wife takes him for everything that he has. I will ride that. And I hope that it truly does impact his relationship with his children because that is publicly humiliating. What's also publicly humiliating is the lack of apology in the public statement. It was like, basically, this should have been done in private.
B
It.
A
No, it shouldn't have been done at all.
B
He was so mad that he went to a public event, got caught.
A
Yes.
B
There was zero accountability.
A
You know what? I've dealt with a cheater like that before.
B
Yep.
A
They just got mad that they got caught.
B
Yeah.
A
The whole. The whole like moral part of what they did was just like complete miss.
B
Yeah.
A
It's like, no, bro, you're just a skis. And on that note, we have weekly devotional because I need the Lord. It says letting go is not giving up, it's giving it to God. It's tempting to want. It's tempting to want everything to happen. Now. We might feel the urgency to see our prayers answered immediately or to hold on to something we believe that is right for us. But remember, God sees what we cannot. His perspective is eternal, and his plans are higher than ours. Letting go is not the end. It's a. It's a step of faith into the arms of a loving father who knows exactly what you need. And after the last couple of weeks, I absolutely needed that. If you guys have not subscribed to the show, you can do that from any podcast app wherever you get your pods. Always first at Podcast one. And I also wanted to remind you guys before we go, the Southern T is up for nominations for the People's Choice Podcast Awards. Please vote for us in the Kids and Family category and People's Choice category voting is open now through July 31, so let's take this home. I hope you guys have a great week and we'll talk to you soon.
B
Bye.
D
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Host: Lindsie Chrisley
Date: July 23, 2025
Podcast: The Southern Tea / PodcastOne
In this episode, Lindsie Chrisley dives into a spirited and varied discussion, covering the immersion of true crime stories in the media, personal decluttering efforts, generational differences around “stuff,” the logistics and emotional weight of co-parenting, and current internet dramas. With honest, Southern candor and a sense of humor, Lindsie and her co-host (Kristen) explore how these life complexities collide in modern family dynamics, home life, and pop culture. The episode flows with personal anecdotes, discussion of recent true crime cases, practical decluttering woes, co-parenting realities, and observations on viral internet scandals.
Candid, humorous, and at times sharply honest, Lindsie’s Southern sensibility shines throughout the episode. The conversational flow and sharing of unfiltered opinions make for a relatable, engaging listen—especially for listeners juggling family, exes, too much stuff, and the constant hum of true crime headlines.