Do Parents Ever Let Go

Summary

Podcast Summary: Two Sons & Me — "Do Parents Ever Let Go"

Host: Todd Chrisley
Guests: Chase Chrisley, Grayson Chrisley
Release Date: June 19, 2026
Episode Theme:
A raw, comedic, and unfiltered family roundtable where Todd, Chase, and Grayson Chrisley tackle parental boundaries, father-son relationships, family roles, and the challenge of growing up in (and beyond) the Chrisley limelight. This episode is all about whether parents ever truly "let go"—and what it means to find your own lane when your dad is steering the ship.

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Main Segments & Key Discussion Points

1. Family Dynamics and the "Favorite Child" Debate

• Sibling Banter: The episode opens with the siblings joking about being Todd's favorite.
  • Chase laments, "I don't talk to Chase. I love Savannah more. I mean, I know y'all are sick of hearing this shit because I'm sick of hearing it." (Todd, 02:43)
  • Grayson quips, "We don't need a poll. I can just say, yes, he does love us more." (Grayson, 04:03)
• Todd's Rebuttal: Todd vehemently denies having a favorite but admits to different relationships with each child: "There is no such thing as me loving him more than I love you. I like him better." (Todd, 04:47)
• Recurring Theme: Jokes, feigned jealousy, and confessions lay bare the family’s signature blend of affection and roasting.

2. The Challenge of Letting Go

• Parental Control: Todd discusses “letting go” and how he tries to use leverage (like Grayson’s check) to get his sons to visit.
  • "It's the only thing that I can use to get you to come home because your check is here." (Todd, 01:58)
• Doing Less for Kids: Todd questions whether giving too much has impacted his children’s growth and sense of responsibility:
  • “If you have any trauma from me, it's because I responded to the trauma you've given me.” (Todd, 06:09)
  • Later, Todd regrets not making his kids earn more of what they received growing up. (35:06–36:40)
• Chase’s Reflection: "I think you probably should have made us work for what we wanted... I think that probably would have been better for me at least." (Chase, 36:41)

3. The Pressure of Growing Up Chrisley

• On Fame and Family: The sons reflect on their unique upbringing in the public eye.
  • Grayson: "I've been around adults since I was 6 years old every day of my life... there's a difference in being around your sibling that's 10 years older than you and being around professionals every single day of your life." (Grayson, 39:25)
  • Both agree that the experience forced them to grow up faster, with positives and negatives.
• Could They Have Done Without TV?: Todd wonders if they should have stayed private; Chase and Grayson both say no, believing TV taught them lessons life otherwise wouldn’t have.

4. Father-Son Tension & Humor as Armor

• Chase’s Comedy as Defense: Chase acknowledges that his comedic persona comes from "childhood trauma" and tough love:
  • "Do you know how much childhood trauma it took for me to become this funny?" (Chase, 05:56)
  • Todd: "You might be sober, but you're still crazy." (Todd, 04:29)
• Jabs and Jokes: The playful but pointed exchanges illustrate both real wounds and the family’s unique way of coping.
  • "Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Well, in your case, it did and rolled." (Todd, 04:31–04:35)
• Chase’s Ongoing Battle for Approval:
  • "I swear to God, I could create a Fortune 500 company, sell it for billions. Might I be like, it was because of me? It was because of me." (Chase, 17:19)

5. Serious Reflections: Safety, Love, and Boundaries

• Safety & Parental Duty: Todd grapples with the concept of having created so much safety, perhaps to the point of coddling.
  • "If it was that safe, why did you step out of it? Because then I also created that safety for myself to make sure y'all were always safe." (Todd, 45:11)
• Children Asserting Independence: Chase and Grayson discuss making mistakes, learning the hard way, yet always feeling that Todd would be there for them.
  • "I can say for me, Savannah, and Grayson, we've never gone out here and tried to do anything malicious to hurt anybody." (Chase, 47:15)

6. Therapy, Self-Awareness, and Generational Clashes

• Views on Therapy: There’s a tongue-in-cheek recurring bit about therapy.
  • "You need to go to therapy. Not just for that. I did. It didn't work then." (Todd & Chase, 04:21–04:25)
  • Todd resists therapy for himself: "I don't need therapy. Because I know when people's acting stupid." (Todd, 16:19)
• Generational Differences: The debate on how much parents should share with their kids and whether being overly protective was helpful or harmful frames much of the second half.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Sibling Sarcasm: "He is so extra. I mean, really so extra. Chase is literally the funniest child that I have for television." (Todd, 05:12)
• Therapy Zingers: "I would recommend you go into the therapy that I went to, but if you went, they'd probably shut it down." (Chase, 15:56)
• Parent as Pimp:
  • "You know how pimps, they have girls and they pimp them out to make money? I'm just... I'm a girl. Dad's a pimp." (Chase, 05:25)
  • Todd: "You are the least amount on return that I have ever had." (Todd, 05:32)
• Musings on Cruise Ships & Being Trapped:
  • "You're on the water on a boat that you cannot get off of. That right there, folks, is enough reason for me to not get on one. I have already been in a situation where I could not get off the boat." (Todd, 27:00)
• Comparing Trauma:
  • "I went to jail."
  • Todd: "You sat in a room. You did not go into general population."
  • Chase: "I can't go into general population because I'm a superstar." (Todd & Chase, 08:06–08:14)
• Reflections on Public Life:
  • "Everything that our family has had to go through is no different than what 90% of the rest of the families go through. Ours was just on television." (Todd, 41:01)
• On Making Mistakes:
  • "Not every child that goes out here and says, you know what? I'm going to try drugs for the first time. Not every child survives that for sure." (Todd, 46:29)

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Highlighted Timestamps

• [03:01] — Grayson: “It’s kind of impressive how much sometimes you act like he’s just not there.”
• [04:15] — Todd, deadpan: “I do like you more.”
• [05:25] — Chase on their TV roles: "Dad's a pimp."
• [09:47] — Todd tries to move them forward: “Let's move on with the show, because the first 10 minutes is you have now done exactly what you tend to do...”
• [14:27] — Hypothetical family scenarios on handling public pranks.
• [15:47] — Therapy jokes and being “everyone’s degenerate uncle.”
• [22:07] — Todd admits: "I'm getting my fix without having to endure all the bullshit that comes along with it."
• [32:13] — Grayson notes Todd has never had a filter during his lifetime.
• [36:41] — Chase: “I think you probably should have made us work for what we wanted...”
• [40:47] — Grayson on growing up too fast because of fame.
• [43:28] — Todd admits sheltering the kids from negativity and doubts if that was best.
• [47:15] — Chase: “We've never gone out here and tried to do anything malicious to hurt anybody... the safety is knowing that my dad still is gonna be there and has my back.”

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

• Candid, Playful, and Introspective: The Chrisley family’s signature blend of sharp wit, raw honesty, and sibling rivalry takes center stage. Beneath the jokes and jabs, the episode exposes real anxieties about boundaries, love, and generational differences in parenting.
• Self-Deprecation and Vulnerability: Both father and sons poke fun at their own traumas, therapy woes, and the messiness of family, but ultimately affirm their love for each other.
• A Real Portrait of Growing Up (and Parenting) in the Public Eye: They trade stories of mistakes, regrets about overindulgence, and hard-earned wisdom, conveying that the journey to “letting go” is as complicated and comical as their lives have always been.

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“I think as a parent, we don’t want our children knowing certain things in our life, certain things we’ve gone through, certain things we’ve had to deal with because we want children, our children to never have to deal with those things.”
– Todd, [42:37]

“It’s not a bad thing to be sensitive… that just means that I’m in touch.”
– Chase, [19:54]

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For Listeners New and Old

If you’re curious about what it takes for a parent to let go—or why every Chrisley conversation is a circus of comedy and confessions—this episode delivers front row seats to family tumult, transparency, and tenderness, seasoned with sarcasm and a dash of Southern drama.

Transcript

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[Todd Chrisley]

Potential savings will vary welcome to Two Sons and Me. I'm Todd Chase Grayson. How are you guys doing?

[Grayson Chrisley]

I'm doing good.

[Todd Chrisley]

Good, good. Glad to see that you could join us because you've been fighting so hard to keep your ass in Alabama and do this on Zoom because you have a much busier schedule than what what

[Chase Chrisley]

everyone else knows in the summer.

[Todd Chrisley]

Actually, in the summertime. Exactly. Making it even worse.

[Chase Chrisley]

He's taking classes right now.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I have not complained. I've not complained one time.

[Todd Chrisley]

You haven't. You haven't.

[Grayson Chrisley]

But I've not complained. But all I have asked. Didn't even ask you this. Asked them this. Didn't we say after the first three or four that we were going virtual? Well, then they told me the last one was the last one and then we were virtual. Now this one's the last one and then.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, that's because I told them. Well, because it's the only thing that I can use to get you to come home because your check is here. So you will come to get your check, but you will not come to take your day.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You're acting like I complain.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I'm just saying, you know, you could have come home for the summer. Instead you.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I get told on a Wednesday that I need to be there Thursday night.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, that's okay because you have a very fluid schedule.

[Chase Chrisley]

Well, I'm happy to be here in person filming because this is the only time dad really talks to me.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, listen, we have been singing this same song since season one.

[Chase Chrisley]

You should back up. You're trying to deep throat the mic. You can sit back.

[Todd Chrisley]

We have been doing this same thing since season one.

[Chase Chrisley]

Listen, this is Grace.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't talk to Chase. I love Savannah more. I mean, I know y' all are sick of hearing this shit because I'm sick of hearing it.

[Chase Chrisley]

But dad, you. What you don't realize is that everybody agrees.

[Todd Chrisley]

Do you agree, Grayson? Grace.

[Chase Chrisley]

Come on, Grace.

[Todd Chrisley]

Jason, speak your truth. Yes. This is a safe zone.

[Grayson Chrisley]

This is where I will tell you the other day. It's kind of impressive how much sometimes you act like he's just not there.

[Todd Chrisley]

I do not want to be involved with any. I have.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm. There is no.

[Todd Chrisley]

This is the irony, folks of this is that I, at 58 years old, am too old to be dealing with.

[Chase Chrisley]

There's no. I don't have Shade.

[Todd Chrisley]

You have literally just like Elon has cornered the market on rockets, you have cornered the market on me.

[Commercial Announcer]

You.

[Chase Chrisley]

Dad. That's the pot calling the kettle black.

[Todd Chrisley]

Folks, I want you to write in next week because we're going to talk about this.

[Chase Chrisley]

Let me stop you. We're going to do a poll. If. Can we. Can you add a poll in here? We're gonna do a poll. Does any. Do the people think that my dad has more love for Savannah and Grayson and does he treat them differently than he treats.

[Grayson Chrisley]

We don't need a poll. I can just say, yes, he does love us more.

[Chase Chrisley]

Thank you.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's not true.

[Chase Chrisley]

Thank you.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's not true. It is not true. And stop that. Because it's not true.

[Chase Chrisley]

It may not be honest with you like this more. No, no.

[Todd Chrisley]

I do like you more.

[Chase Chrisley]

Not. Not for any not being extra. Being dead serious. I genuinely do not believe you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Then you need to go to therapy. Not just for that. I did. It didn't work then.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, it worked. I'm great. I'm sober. I'm great. I'm not interacting.

[Todd Chrisley]

You might be sober, but you're still crazy.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm. Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, in your case, it did enrolled. So.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah, because you kicked it down the road.

[Todd Chrisley]

He is so just non. Stop. Will not stop.

[Commercial Voice]

Stop.

[Todd Chrisley]

There is no such thing as me loving him more than I love you. I like him better.

[Chase Chrisley]

Can we get a lie detector test in here? Can we like we need to do that.

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[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, I. I need to put this On a lie detector. I'm on it because at the end of the day, I have. I give you your flowers.

[Chase Chrisley]

You. I got to get up again.

[Todd Chrisley]

He is so extra. I mean, really so extra. Chase is literally the funniest child that I have for television. But if you go and do research, I'm basically.

[Chase Chrisley]

You know how pimps, they have girls and they pimp them out to make money? I'm. I'm just. I'm a girl. Dad's a pimp.

[Todd Chrisley]

But you are the least amount on return that I have ever had.

[Chase Chrisley]

You better go check. You better go check the numbers.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, you call.

[Chase Chrisley]

You better go check the numbers now. What were you saying? Run that back. What were you just saying?

[Todd Chrisley]

I was just saying that you are the funny. That I believe that you are the funniest child. And do you know also the darkest child.

[Chase Chrisley]

Do you know how much childhood trauma it took for me to become this funny?

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, my God. Here we go with this. You do understand that the more you

[Chase Chrisley]

say that or not even childhood. I have adult trauma from you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Do you understand? If you have any trauma from me, it's because I responded to the trauma you've given me.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, I'm not intentionally trying to do things.

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[Chase Chrisley]

I'm not intentionally trying to.

[Todd Chrisley]

Let me ask you something. If you stick a cord into an outlet and you paid your power bill.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

You expect that damn light to come on or that cord to be bring power, right?

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

So then if you stick your dick in something, you expect a result, right? Exactly. So what I'm saying to you is, is that you know what you're doing and if you continue to happen before.

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[Chase Chrisley]

So I didn't think I could even do that.

[Todd Chrisley]

You a lie. You've been a horse since she's 15,

[Grayson Chrisley]

but I didn't think you could either.

[Chase Chrisley]

I didn't either because of how much.

[Todd Chrisley]

But at the end of the day, I love you. I just don't agree with you. And I think that you and I are at a place to where at 30, because you are now dirty 30. That you have your life to live and you need to live your life. You need to live your life from the standpoint of experiencing what real life is on your terms. You have been living your life on your terms so since you was 18 years old, but somebody else, I. E. Me was cleaning it up. Now you get to live your life on your terms and you get to clean up the mess.

[Chase Chrisley]

I've cleaned up a lot of my messes when I Got arrested. Did I call?

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, yeah, because I just found out that my friend Victor Hill is the one who called the sheriff's department to make sure that you didn't go anywhere except that one room.

[Chase Chrisley]

He's coming on my podcast, Savannah, that did that.

[Todd Chrisley]

And.

[Chase Chrisley]

And Savannah and I will here die for Savannah. Savannah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Wait, he's riding and dying for Savannah today, y'.

[Commercial Voice]

All.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, I love Savannah today. What do you mean, didn't go anywhere? I went to jail.

[Todd Chrisley]

You sat in a room. You did not go into general population. That.

[Chase Chrisley]

I can't go into general population because I'm a superstar.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, my God.

[Chase Chrisley]

They don't let superstars go into general population.

[Todd Chrisley]

They do. I did.

[Chase Chrisley]

Would that. That. I mean, I'm not going to say the elephant in the room. That just means you're not a superstar.

[Todd Chrisley]

Whatever you want to call it.

[Chase Chrisley]

You might just be a bitch.

[Todd Chrisley]

Whatever you want to call it.

[Chase Chrisley]

But listen, I. And I don't. I've been. I'm fine, dude. I'm fine. And, you know, you're mean. You're mean, you're rude, and you make everyone feel uncomfortable whenever you ask me out and don't talk to me, and it's bullshit because tomorrow's not promised, and I could die tomorrow.

[Todd Chrisley]

You could die tomorrow.

[Chase Chrisley]

And guess what? If I died tomorrow, you would feel like a scumbag.

[Todd Chrisley]

And if I died tomorrow, you would have to look down at me and say, I wish that I had not put him through the shit I put him through.

[Chase Chrisley]

I agree. I'll say that with you alive, I've made mistakes. But if you did die tomorrow, I'd be like, I won. See, I'm just kidding.

[Todd Chrisley]

Until the wheel was red.

[Chase Chrisley]

Oh, let me tell you something that's. I'm not surprised by that. I know. I'm cut out. We know who's getting excited.

[Todd Chrisley]

I am leaving everything I have to one person.

[Chase Chrisley]

Savannah. Savannah.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm not saying Savannah. At the end of the day, it's

[Grayson Chrisley]

okay if something happens.

[Chase Chrisley]

I love you, and you help me.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know that I love you, and you know that.

[Chase Chrisley]

I don't know that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Do you question if I love you? You don't question it. Exactly. And he doesn't either. So let's move on with the show, because the first 10 minutes is you have now done exactly what you tend to do, which is to literally and.

[Chase Chrisley]

And make everybody else more famous and entertain the masses and make everyone laugh and chuckle, and then I get to go home, be iced out and ignored, and cry.

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[Chase Chrisley]

But you know what?

[Grayson Chrisley]

You know, you can remind me of me.

[Chase Chrisley]

You can't say that, but frick me.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You know, you kind of remind me of Shia LaBeouf. But, like, right now, kill you say,

[Todd Chrisley]

do we have a trash bag? Can we put a trash bag over his head? Because isn't that what Shia LaBeouf did?

[Grayson Chrisley]

He walked around with the trash him in New Orleans. That's. I'm sober, got in a fight and went to jail and went back to

[Chase Chrisley]

Bourbon street, whatever you guys are. So I'm changing my last name to Musk. Maybe I'll get in that will probably forget.

[Grayson Chrisley]

He'd forget which one you were.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm trying to get in a will.

[Todd Chrisley]

Who you say I'm trying to get. I said, maybe you could just be. Go to Chase Hughes. He goes, I'm trying to actually get in a wheel. At the end of the day, folks, I love all of my children. I like some of them more than I like others. And that shifts like seasons, too.

[Chase Chrisley]

How can you not like someone that's hysterical and funny and make. And brings joy and laughter to the world?

[Todd Chrisley]

You don't. You don't bring joy and laughter all the time.

[Chase Chrisley]

Well, I'm not perfect.

[Todd Chrisley]

On a lighter note, I was watching on Instagram this thing about this escalator trend. Have you seen it? I laughed. Your mama said, what are you laughing at? I said, look, it is. You know, your mom don't have the same sense of humor. That's so dumb.

[Grayson Chrisley]

She thinks it's stupid.

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[Todd Chrisley]

That's so dumb.

[Chase Chrisley]

Just because she doesn't get it.

[Todd Chrisley]

No. And so this girl and her boyfriend was coming down the escalator, and then this hot girl was coming up. So this guy was like a big bodybuilder. And so when this girl is coming up and his hand is on the escalator thing, she takes her hand and runs it up his arm as she's going up. And his girlfriend, she goes and grabs those her bags down, throws her purse down. She runs up that escalator, and she literally grabbed that girl and slung her down. And she said, it's a joke. It's a joke. See, he's filming. He's filming. And so many people were commenting under that, where it said, I bet you'll think next time how. How funny it is put your hands on somebody.

[Chase Chrisley]

But people do those kind of trends all the time, not realizing, like, there's people out here that they don't care if you're filming or not. They'll kill you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I mean, you can't really, like, touch people like that.

[Chase Chrisley]

Could you imagine if. If somebody did that boyfriend, Savannah would drag them down this escalator.

[Todd Chrisley]

Savannah would look at them and she'd be like,

[Grayson Chrisley]

Savannah is that.

[Chase Chrisley]

I've seen Savannah get mad where she's ready to square up.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I've seen Savannah get riled up at base.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, if somebody were to literally touch me like that coming up an escalator, I would literally. You'd be like, it's not free 100%. I would have negotiated. I'd have said, bitch, what made you think that I looked like I would do this for free?

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[Todd Chrisley]

I mean, no, if somebody did that

[Chase Chrisley]

to Mama, you would be beating ass.

[Todd Chrisley]

I would bust out laughing because I would be looking at your mama's face and she would be such, like, lost in the, in the wilderness.

[Chase Chrisley]

She'd be like, but would you attack them?

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I probably wouldn't attack them unless they tried to get, you know, lippy. And if they got lippy, then I'd probably head button.

[Chase Chrisley]

Okay, so caressing Mom's arm doesn't trigger you, but if they talk to you, then you're gone.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well I know that. Him. Someone touching her arm. You're the funny. I would pay for that. Watch your mother.

[Chase Chrisley]

We should set that up, because she

[Todd Chrisley]

would literally be like, todd, that's. I'm gonna beat him. No, you're not. Todd, let's go. Let's go. They're crazy, Todd, they're crazy. Come on.

[Chase Chrisley]

And we're so sane.

[Todd Chrisley]

Exactly. Exactly. So many people have literally. I laughed so hard the other night reading comments under the Two Sons episode of Them say and I. When I said something about I throw my backpack or something, whatever was saying. So many people were commenting on that, saying, I swear to God, I know that he's my uncle. I know that's my uncle. So I've literally become everyone's degenerate uncle at this point.

[Chase Chrisley]

Well, I mean, so there's more to unpack, but we'll just leave it.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, my. There's nothing left to unpack. They have literally aired all of my dirty laundry. There's nothing else that you need to know.

[Chase Chrisley]

I would recommend you go into the therapy that I went to, but it's helped so many people, and if you went, they'd probably shut it down.

[Todd Chrisley]

I have no desire to put somebody out of business. I'm not about to go to therapy. I don't want to send a professional to therapy.

[Chase Chrisley]

And he has therapy. Therapy. Therapy for everybody. But.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, but not for me.

[Chase Chrisley]

You don't need therapy.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't need therapy.

[Chase Chrisley]

Really?

[Todd Chrisley]

Because I know when people's acting stupid.

[Chase Chrisley]

But you don't. You genuinely don't think you need therapy.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I don't. I have got enough tools in my toolbox from all the therapy that I have done that lets me know that.

[Chase Chrisley]

But you lost the tools.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I haven't.

[Chase Chrisley]

You left them in someone else's garage.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I still know. Danger, Danger. And unfortunately, sometimes.

[Chase Chrisley]

Danger, danger. Who was your therapist? A kindergarten teacher.

[Todd Chrisley]

I know that you are Danger, Danger.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm not Danger.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah. See?

[Chase Chrisley]

Another jab. Let's also keep a tally of how many times my dad is mean or throws a jab at me.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's just not true. He's such a crybaby.

[Chase Chrisley]

Run it back through all the episodes that have came out and y' all let me know. I think it's in the comments. Is it not? Aaron, we pro. I mean, look at Sean.

[Todd Chrisley]

He not talked to me.

[Chase Chrisley]

Is it in the comments? I mean, Chase gets the most love in the comments.

[Todd Chrisley]

I set him up for that.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yeah. Okay.

[Todd Chrisley]

Since he's allowed to lie and say he doesn't get Any from his family.

[Chase Chrisley]

I. I swear to God, I could create a Fortune 500 company, sell it for billions. Might I be like, it was because of me? It was because of me.

[Todd Chrisley]

That is not true. I've never said that to you. I've never said.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah, you said.

[Todd Chrisley]

You're not.

[Chase Chrisley]

We don't have to worry about that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Depends on how much you share when we don't.

[Chase Chrisley]

Dude. See, like. And you wonder why. Could be a challenge, though. Chase, just do it. Prove him wrong. Aaron, let me. Let me tell you something I've learned. He's a master of manipulation. And I'm. Guess what. I'm getting off of the wheel. I'm off the wheel.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You're changing your life around.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's a good thing. Today when you.

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I.

[Chase Chrisley]

But my therapist said I should no longer listen to the toxic manipulation because it was coming after that comment, after what you're saying. After what you're about to say something.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I wasn't. I was going to say that. I think that that's healthy. I think it's healthy for both of us.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Watching y' all is like watching an episode of House.

[Chase Chrisley]

What do you mean it's healthy for both of us? You are the wheel.

[Todd Chrisley]

No. Well, then the wheel's going out of business.

[Chase Chrisley]

You promise?

[Todd Chrisley]

I promise you. You already know I am. The wheel is out of business.

[Chase Chrisley]

Dad, we get. Everyone knows we get it. You don't talk to me. Yeah, but.

[Grayson Chrisley]

But how can he beat you down so much if he don't talk?

[Todd Chrisley]

Right. Exactly.

[Chase Chrisley]

Because Grayson, I've always been tight with him. Doesn't talk to me. It does. It does hurt my heart.

[Todd Chrisley]

But here's the thing, son. Me not talking to you does not mean that I don't love you. My love for you will never change. Your decisions that you make are not going to be my consequences.

[Chase Chrisley]

They're not. No one's trying to put a consequence on you. That's the thing. That's what you don't understand. No one's asking you to do anything. No one's asking you for anything. That doesn't mean you have to stop talking.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I think you take what he says too much to heart.

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And.

[Todd Chrisley]

What?

[Chase Chrisley]

He's my father.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, but he.

[Grayson Chrisley]

He says some, and I'm like, okay.

[Todd Chrisley]

Such as.

[Chase Chrisley]

But he doesn't say the to you that he says to me.

[Todd Chrisley]

How do you know when I said him?

[Chase Chrisley]

Because he's soft as Charmin.

[Todd Chrisley]

He better not.

[Chase Chrisley]

In a good way. In a good way. I wish I still had that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Did he hurt your fence? Because if he did, I'll hurt his.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, I did. I don't mean that, and I don't mean that in a mean way. Like, you have that. Like, you've.

[Commercial Announcer]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

You are very sensitive.

[Chase Chrisley]

You've been loved properly.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You think I'm as sensitive as he is?

[Todd Chrisley]

I think that my boys are the most sensitive children that I have.

[Grayson Chrisley]

He is one of the most emotional

[Todd Chrisley]

people I've ever met in my housewife. He is a housewife.

[Commercial Announcer]

That's rich.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes, he is. But you are very sensitive, and I thought you know that.

[Chase Chrisley]

But you. I'm not ashamed of being sensitive. That just means that I'm in touch with him.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I'm not to that level.

[Chase Chrisley]

It's not a bad thing to be sensitive. Grayson, do you want to be.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I'm talking about your level of.

[Chase Chrisley]

Do you want to be 57, 58 years old?

[Todd Chrisley]

Here it comes, folks. Here it goes.

[Chase Chrisley]

Everything's not about you.

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[Todd Chrisley]

Go ahead.

[Chase Chrisley]

Wow. Do you want to be 57? You got it.

[Progressive Insurance Advertiser]

You got it.

[Chase Chrisley]

Also, all the Chrisley kids are sensitive with different levels of showing it.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes.

[Chase Chrisley]

Grayson, do you want to be 57, 58 years old, bitter, angry at the world, angry at your. One of your prized possession children who makes everyone laugh and then try to. And then live your life every day ignoring that person and just trying to kill that funny spirit inside so you can build yourself up on a platform so you can look funnier even though you're not funnier? Do you want to be that person? You want to be almost 60 years old, so rich, but don't talk to your. Your prized possession son. Do you want to do that?

[Todd Chrisley]

What are we talking about?

[Chase Chrisley]

Just this asshole. I know. I'm on fire today.

[Todd Chrisley]

I got so many messages about the episode where we were talking about on Christy Confessions about when Judy asked me, if you could go back with our children, what would you do differently? That episode? Have you seen all the comments?

[Chase Chrisley]

If you go back, I would do less for them.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, you watched the episode. We appreciate the video.

[Chase Chrisley]

If I had. No. Well, you know what? That's the only time I get to hear your voice anymore.

[Todd Chrisley]

Lies. You hear me talking to your siblings, but.

[Chase Chrisley]

Everyone's laughing. Oh, was that. That was your drum moment. Yikes. Dude, thank God you have me, or this podcast would be canceled already. Jesus. Bada Bing. No.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, God.

[Chase Chrisley]

But, like, he's not really missing out on the relationship, because anytime he needs a laugh, he'll schedule a podcast shooting. So I get to come in here, make everybody laugh, then he's Like, I'll go back to the norm.

[Commercial Announcer]

Smart.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, that's what we call I'm getting

[Todd Chrisley]

my fix without having to endure all the bullshit that comes along with it. I'm getting my fix with no hangover.

[Grayson Chrisley]

That's just the best of both worlds.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes. I'm getting my fix with no hangover. That's how we're gonna call it, getting my fix.

[Chase Chrisley]

You know what you remind me of? Have you all seen that movie Little Man? It's an old movie. It's Marlon Wayans and his brother. Or no, it might not be Little Man. But anyways, he goes. He shows up to his baby mama's house. He goes, I'm here to pick up my son. He walks in, picks him up. Hey, son. Puts him back down. He goes, all right, I'll be back next week to pick up my son. That's dad.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Chase Chrisley]

Can you pull the clip up?

[Grayson Chrisley]

But it's like. It's like me living in Bama.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm here to pick up my son. Yeah, but he talks to you on the phone.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Yeah, but I still get to talk to everybody. But I'm not here to actually be in the drama.

[Chase Chrisley]

But that was. That's good. That's a healthy way. This is not healthy way. This is bad way. Not good.

[Progressive Insurance Advertiser 2]

Terrible.

[Todd Chrisley]

What?

[Chase Chrisley]

I mean, I mean, dude, it's a nice jail, but I'm in jail.

[Grayson Chrisley]

This is the nicest job I've ever seen.

[Commercial Announcer]

You.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Your jail has a pool.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm not allowed.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right?

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm not allowed to go in it.

[Todd Chrisley]

He lies.

[Chase Chrisley]

Do you know what happened this morning? I was out on the phone and I was walking around the pool. There was a baby bird drowning in the pool.

[Todd Chrisley]

Did you save it?

[Commercial Voice]

I did.

[Chase Chrisley]

I did. Maybe you probably would have held her out of the water.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Maybe you do have a little bit of hope.

[Todd Chrisley]

Eight ducks. I want that pole.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm kind of.

[Grayson Chrisley]

No, I saved eight ducks.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I caught everyone and put them in that cooler. And then we had to have that wildlife people come and get them and take them to the sanctuary. Yeah. Since I came home.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm moving out.

[Todd Chrisley]

When? Because I need to win the rhyme.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Good. Next week I'll have a bad night.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, that's gonna. Listen, I am gonna miss you terribly and think and think of you often. I promise you.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah. And I'm a billionaire.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I'll have a bed now, so.

[Todd Chrisley]

You have what?

[Grayson Chrisley]

I'll have a bed now, so. Thank you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I'm gonna miss you terribly. I really am.

[Chase Chrisley]

I can tell you this with a straight face, not 1% of me believes that.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You act like you're the only one hated on Grayson.

[Todd Chrisley]

I. I hate on you?

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Grayson Chrisley]

No, not really.

[Chase Chrisley]

Grayson. Has he ever gone three months without speaking to you?

[Todd Chrisley]

Three months? I haven't gone to three months. What are you talking about?

[Chase Chrisley]

You haven't spoken to me in three months, Chase.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, my God. It's been four weeks, dad. No. Yes, it is. It is.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You must have a different concept of time, right?

[Chase Chrisley]

All I know is I have a tracker and I know.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you're tracking.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Keep up with the days. Then you're letting somebody have too much power over you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You have to jot down.

[Todd Chrisley]

At the end of the day, there's nothing for me to say. Hey, I've said it all. There's nothing to say. There's nothing to talk about. You have created your situation. I'm not a party to that situation. I'm not being a party of that situation. That's your situation.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I don't know why you complain about it.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, because when you're here's the Irish. Y' all have wanted me out of your life for so long, and then

[Chase Chrisley]

you were out of our lives, and it was terrible, and we never wanted to go back to that. We know nobody wanted you out of our lives. We just didn't want you breathing down our necks. Oh, but that. You can't say that like our relationship is not deeply, deeply impacted.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, our relationship has been deeply impacted. Absolutely.

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[Todd Chrisley]

[e-mail] on another note, let's talk about cruise ships, cuz your sister just came back from a cruise.

[Chase Chrisley]

I wouldn't call that a cruise, but

[Grayson Chrisley]

I wouldn't call it a cruise either.

[Todd Chrisley]

But why?

[Chase Chrisley]

It's a Four Seasons yacht. That's not a cruise.

[Todd Chrisley]

Same difference. You're on the water, it's not marketed as. You're on the water on a boat that you cannot get off of. That right there, folks, is enough reason for me to not get on one. I have already been in a situation where I could not get off the boat.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I mean, you could have caught you, huh? I mean, you could have, but they would have called.

[Chase Chrisley]

So you're, you're comparing being in prison to being on the Four Seasons? Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Did you not see on TV where they were all those people's on that cruise ship all over themselves, throwing up everything saying they had Hanover. What? What? Some kind of that was going on and that one got crying, said, I just want to get home, I want to get out of here.

[Grainger Advertiser]

And.

[Todd Chrisley]

Dude, shut up. You're a grown ass man yourself. Do not be on making reels and shit telling the people in this country that you're locked on a ship with this virus or whatever and you're crying about it. But your sister, even on this Four Seasons cruise that she did, she was like, after three days and she. They were pulling into all the different ports like in Turkey and Greece and wherever, and she had a great. It was. If you're gonna go on one, I guess that's the best one to go on. But I don't even. Yeah, she had a good time, but I mean, like, that's a long time for any of us to be on something that we cannot get off.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I'm not getting on a bed I can't get off of.

[Chase Chrisley]

Well, let me take something. It's on my bucket list. I'm getting on a yacht, I'm parking in international waters and throw my phone in the water. And then dad doesn't have to worry about talking to me ever again.

[Todd Chrisley]

Your phone away to have that.

[Chase Chrisley]

You have to now.

[Todd Chrisley]

And he already told me, don't worry, right? I don't do that anymore. God, give all that I gave all my children back to God. I don't worry anymore. I gave them all back to God.

[Chase Chrisley]

How. How is that? How is your relationship with God?

[Todd Chrisley]

My relationship with God is the best it has ever been. Because God has given me an inner peace and told me to walk in faith, not fear.

[Chase Chrisley]

I didn't know he still talked to you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, he does, because you were his fallen angel, you know, with God's fallen angel. What happens? He lifts them back up.

[Chase Chrisley]

God's fallen angel is Satan, Dad.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yep. And that was his best friend. Kind of like you used to be mine used to be.

[Chase Chrisley]

That's heartbreaking.

[Progressive Insurance Advertiser]

Used to be.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Past tense.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm. Well, Grayson, I know I'm pretty good with grammar. Thank you for clarifying that.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I'm just letting you know.

[Todd Chrisley]

As he tells me, when I used to text him, he would send me. I'd send a text message and he'd say, wont you dumbass. W O n T aposta fee to you. And then stupid. And then I'll put a comma or something. He'll go, there's no comma there.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, he puts us. He used to put a space between his comments. And I'm like,

[Todd Chrisley]

well, that's because of Molly Nicholson at West Oak High School. So there you go.

[Chase Chrisley]

Great. Now we're trashing educators.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, but I did see one. I think I would have sent it to you if I was talking to you, but I sent everyone else. It was this meme and it said, school is overrated. It said, how are you going to take business classes from someone who never owned a business and then take PE from someone who's fat?

[Grayson Chrisley]

Yeah, that's what I never understood.

[Chase Chrisley]

Just like you just said that you just. You sent that. Everyone but me did it wasn't it last episode. He said he wasn't petty. Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm not. I just don't engage. But speaking of, I have one other one that I'm getting ready to post.

[Chase Chrisley]

We're good.

[Todd Chrisley]

That I think is going to be a good one for everyone that that follows me.

[Chase Chrisley]

I have to unfollow you. I forgot.

[Todd Chrisley]

You don't have to because I don't bother you.

[Chase Chrisley]

Oh, you do. In more ways than you know.

[Todd Chrisley]

I loved this comment the other day. It says, controlling my mouth is the easy effing part. It's the subtitles on my face that caused the problem. Because no matter how quiet I stay, my expressions expose every thought with zero reg for consequences. I could say, that's nice. While my face is screaming, what the actual F is wrong with you. My mouth has filters. My face that freelances don't post sex.

[Grayson Chrisley]

That would be a lie. You have no filter.

[Chase Chrisley]

Exactly.

[Todd Chrisley]

I do try to have a filter.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You have zero filter. You are the least filtered person I've ever met in my life.

[Todd Chrisley]

Do you really think? Yes. And give me an example.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You will literally tell people to golf

[Todd Chrisley]

and just keep talking.

[Chase Chrisley]

You'll set the example.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You have no filter at all.

[Todd Chrisley]

I just don't know that at 58 years old, I need to have a filter.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I don't think you've ever had one.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I did. I'll tell you something.

[Chase Chrisley]

When

[Todd Chrisley]

I had a filter my whole life until I went through that first nasty divorce, and then when I realized I had to get up in front of that judge and fight for my children, that's the first time that I ever spoke in public and could ever and could literally ever fight back. And after that, I have just been on a tear.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Yeah. So you've never had a filter while I've been alive?

[Chase Chrisley]

No.

[Todd Chrisley]

I was already desensitized for you before you came along. But let me ask you something. Do you think because a lot of people are tuning into this podcast because they love.

[Chase Chrisley]

You're welcome.

[Todd Chrisley]

I know, I know. And we give you your flowers for that.

[Grayson Chrisley]

When.

[Chase Chrisley]

Where? Where are my flowers? When have they been given? All I get is ignored. And then it's like, hey, we need more money. Chase, come here. The hell?

[Grayson Chrisley]

Well, at least you know your role.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's. Everyone has a role.

[Chase Chrisley]

So I am a whore and you are the pimp.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes, but you don't bring any return.

[Chase Chrisley]

Really? Check the numbers, bitch. Check the comments. I'm gonna invoice him.

[Todd Chrisley]

People tune in to this podcast because they are. The podcast is getting a lot of great reviews.

[Chase Chrisley]

And another poll, everyone. We're gonna do a poll. Tell us why and who you tune in for. Me, my lovely admirable brother here, Grayson. Admirable or.

[Todd Chrisley]

Come on, you got it in there. I got. I have faith that you've got so much in there. Exactly. Exactly. Your douchebag dad.

[Chase Chrisley]

Oh, how ye of little faith. It was much more articulate, well thought out, and far more offensive. Or.

[Todd Chrisley]

Todd, People tune into this podcast and they do like the banter back and forth, but they like the things that we talk about when it comes to parent child relationships.

[Chase Chrisley]

That this is two sons of Me, not Chris, the Confessions. That's not. They tune in here to get a good laugh.

[Grayson Chrisley]

They don't tune in here for therapy.

[Todd Chrisley]

You actually should be doing yalls research instead of worrying about when your checks come in.

[Chase Chrisley]

Dad, let me tell you something. I read the comments and you should really complain too. You should go on YouTube and read the comments.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't read no comments. Well, you.

[Chase Chrisley]

You should.

[Todd Chrisley]

You should. You're not giving strangers rent if you

[Grayson Chrisley]

don't read comments about nothing. How. You know what?

[Chase Chrisley]

All these comments, they're gas me because

[Todd Chrisley]

I get emails I can't help that

[Grayson Chrisley]

I don't get those emails. How are you going to tell me?

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you wouldn't check them if you did.

[Grainger Advertiser]

That's.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I don't even know you check my email. Try again.

[Todd Chrisley]

People tune into this podcast because they like the back and forth, but one of the things that this past week that was said was. And these were messages that I was sending to Aaron that. That parents talking about dealing with adult children and how that it had really resonated in the comments that your mother and I were having in our conversation on Chris at Confessions 2.0. When we started earlier, you said. Oh, let me guess. He said he would have done less. That is what I said. But you obviously watched the podcast.

[Chase Chrisley]

I didn't watch it.

[Grayson Chrisley]

No, you just said it to us before.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay, but when I say I should have done less, how do you receive that?

[Chase Chrisley]

I don't know.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Probably made us do more.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right, but does that. But do you.

[Chase Chrisley]

You would have given less.

[Todd Chrisley]

I would have given materially less. Yes, but how do you internalize that? Do you think I should have given materially less?

[Chase Chrisley]

Absolutely not. I think that you should have given more, and you probably should still give more. I do agree with that. But I think that you should also show up and be present and have a relationship and speak and have conversations several times a day with everyone in your family. Well, not everyone but me with you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Do you believe that because I gave y' all so much is why y' all had so much disregard for where it came from or how hard I had to work to give it to you, that you did not respect it or take care of it or never even thought about what it was going to cost to replace whatever it was that you were shitting on at that moment.

[Chase Chrisley]

I think that when you grow up, the way we did it, I think it was just very hard. We couldn't comprehend the value of a dollar then. And I do think that probably was a mistake.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay.

[Chase Chrisley]

And I probably would. Yeah. I think you probably should have made us work for what we wanted. Like, even. Even if we couldn't have, like, work.

[Todd Chrisley]

There you have it.

[Grainger Advertiser]

If you.

[Chase Chrisley]

If we couldn't have worked to. Obviously we couldn't have made enough money to buy whatever we wanted, but if we would have had to work and then. And then you go and buy it, I think that probably would have been better for me at least.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right, You.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I mean, yeah, the same thing that's what I said is make us do more so then.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because there's still time with you.

[Chase Chrisley]

He's 20, and he's.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I spent my last teenage years without you. I ain't doing that.

[Todd Chrisley]

I feel like that. I feel like that when I look back on it. And I said this on Chris the Confessions that I gave so much, because I don't know that I was really giving it to y'.

[Commercial Announcer]

All.

[Todd Chrisley]

I think I was giving it to my. To my younger version of me that didn't have it and that I thought, okay, if I. If I didn't have it when I was younger, then I'm going to make sure y' all have it. And then in return, I feel like that I created an injustice for y' all because I stripped away all of the. All of the fire in your belly to. To make you want to go. And I hear you that you don't agree with that.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, because, like, he wants. He wants to go and accomplish things and has goals and things that he wants. I have the same thing. Savannah has the same thing. So. No, I don't think it did that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay.

[Chase Chrisley]

I really. I don't. But I don't think he's in a lot better place than I was in at his age. But I think that has to do with tv, because, like, when I was. When I was growing up in that position, like, it. That was. I mean, Well, I was 15. Charming age. And then you add money and fame into that. I don't think it can create a

[Grayson Chrisley]

monster reason, because that's still the same thing. There's still fame, there's still money. There's still dealing with all of that.

[Todd Chrisley]

We're still.

[Chase Chrisley]

But. But you've been able to adjust to it because you were so.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I didn't know anything different.

[Chase Chrisley]

Exactly.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right. I think that. Well, let me ask you something, because

[Chase Chrisley]

I wasn't taking a jab.

[Todd Chrisley]

No. I know you already know how I feel about this question, but do you feel like that if we had our time to go over, we should have stayed off of television?

[Chase Chrisley]

No.

[Todd Chrisley]

You don't?

[Chase Chrisley]

I don't. I think that it was a great. It was a great opportunity for us. I think that a lot of people got a lot of joy and entertainment out of it, and it was a great job. It was a great experience for all of us, at least for me. It was also taught a lot of stuff, but I think if we taught

[Grayson Chrisley]

a lot of stuff, that it was impossible for you to teach.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay. Such as?

[Grayson Chrisley]

I mean, I've been around adults since I was 6 years old every day of my life.

[Chase Chrisley]

Mm.

[Grayson Chrisley]

How would you have taught that?

[Todd Chrisley]

I think that well, you were gonna be that way anyway because you were the baby and everyone was 10 years older than you.

[Grayson Chrisley]

No, but I mean, I was around, like, 40 year olds every day of my life. Difference in being around your sibling that's 10 years older than you and being around professionals every single day of your life, I think that's a big difference.

[Chase Chrisley]

But I think. Yeah, and I think that I had to learn. I learned a lot of valuable lessons. Like, I think lessons that people don't learn until they're in their 30s and 40s. I got to learn those at a very young age. Like the mistakes that I've made in my early 20s, mid-20s, or I'm 30, in my 20s in general. I'll never make those mistakes again. And I'm so grateful that I made those mistakes. I was able to learn from them and come back, and I'm just so much more, like, so much wiser than I would have been.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Yeah, I feel the same way.

[Todd Chrisley]

If I had my time to go

[Grayson Chrisley]

over, I feel like it forced me to grow up.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I don't know that you needed to grow up so fast. I mean, because in a way, I feel like that because you were doing it and around all these adults and whatever that. That forced you to speed up.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Yeah. And I think it has. I mean, just like everything. It has positive and negatives, though.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I think it's a good thing. I think it's a positive and a negative. I mean, the negative, I feel like it affects, like, relationships with. With people my age.

[Todd Chrisley]

I think that for me, looking back as a parent, that it would have been better had I never accepted the first offer that we had stayed private as a family. And because everything that our family has had to go through is no different than what 90% of the rest of the families go through in this country. Ours was just on television.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I don't think you should regret it, though.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah, you shouldn't. What's your best thing? I mean, think back whenever all that happened, right. Like, whenever we started, like, that was just God looking out for us, because you didn't. Weren't really that aware, or I guess you were aware. Like, you just gotten over all of that that marketed to you. And I feel like that was, like. That kind of saved your life in a way, because, like, that literally provided you with stability.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You also got to do what you're doing.

[Chase Chrisley]

It. Don't even sit here and try to stop. Just stop.

[Todd Chrisley]

You just say that. I. I really did, y'.

[Commercial Voice]

All.

[Todd Chrisley]

I didn't.

[Chase Chrisley]

Dad.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I Didn't every dad.

[Chase Chrisley]

You are like a 57 year old. There's not a version of Paris Hilton. You love the camera.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's not true, Chase.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

It is not. And I think that that's something that, that we are going to get into in the next episode is how well do children really know their parents? Because I had this conversation with Savannah Story the morning.

[Chase Chrisley]

Far, far, far too well.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't think so.

[Chase Chrisley]

I do. You're terrifying.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't think so. I think that as a parent. And then I'll wrap up on this episode. I think as a parent, we don't want our children knowing certain things in our life, certain things we've gone through, certain things we've had to deal with because we want children, our children to never have to deal with those things.

[Chase Chrisley]

But I think that is a mistake. I absolutely understand, like, your logic in that because, like, you want to protect them and shield them. But I think that whenever you are open and honest and like, you not saying you weren't honest, but like, you were just trying to shelter it, us from it like that. I feel like kids and children learn more from that, like, knowing those things and being like, look, this is what happened. This is what I did. And this is why you shouldn't do it, because this is what I had to deal with.

[Todd Chrisley]

And you know, on Christian Confessions 2.0 last week, I talked about the not not allowing y' all to ever see anything negative, anything that was going on, anything that happened in our lives.

[Chase Chrisley]

But we saw it.

[Todd Chrisley]

You didn't.

[Chase Chrisley]

You don't think we did, but we could tell. Like, we. We didn't. We might not have known, like, exactly what happened, but we knew.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you knew because of the pressure and the tension that was in the house, but you didn't know the stories that was behind all of that. And I think that which I do

[Chase Chrisley]

kind of understand depending on their age,

[Todd Chrisley]

I think for me, I look at it, that I raised all of y' all to know that you were my whole life. And I should have never done that because I think that I empowered y'. All.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I think that's the wrong wording.

[Chase Chrisley]

Why you think you empowered?

[Todd Chrisley]

You don't want to empower my children for them for y' all to use that against me.

[Chase Chrisley]

No, that's not true. That's not true. Dad. Do you know, like, doing that? Do you know, like, how safe that makes, like, us feel?

[Grayson Chrisley]

I think that was completely the wrong word.

[Todd Chrisley]

Do you also know how it makes the parent feel when the Child steps outside of that safety zone that you've created for them.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Him.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah, but every. I mean, that people grow and people make mistakes. Like, not everybody's gonna. You can't. No one on this. The face of this earth is going to live a life that doesn't have mistakes and downfalls.

[Todd Chrisley]

Your life is going to be filled

[Chase Chrisley]

with that, but it's like, it's different when it's done maliciously.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right? And I've had some of that. Not with me as a parent. When you. When you just said that the way I raised you made you feel safe

[Chase Chrisley]

to a certain extent.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's not funny. We're talking serious now. The. The safety that I tried to provide to my children, I look at it and think, if it was that safe, why did you step out of it? Because then I also created that safety for myself to make sure y' all were always safe.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You also say there's no better lesson

[Todd Chrisley]

than a bought lesson.

[Chase Chrisley]

But you're.

[Grayson Chrisley]

You want us to step out and learn these lessons, but you also say, if you did, if you made your kids feel safe, why would they step out?

[Todd Chrisley]

Don't you want us to step out and grow? But I want you to grow. But I want you to grow in the right way. Some lessons you don't need to buy. If I tell you don't cross this street because there's trucks coming down the highway and you don't listen to me, and you walk out in that street and you get clipped on the damn side, knocked up in the air, that. Do you need to buy that lesson? If I tell you don't do drugs and you end up doing drugs and you have your whole world falling in around you, did you really need that lesson?

[Chase Chrisley]

That it's not that simple, but now it's just not that simple.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I feel like, as a parent, you

[Todd Chrisley]

expect your kids, but you're blessed if you survive some of the things that you went out here and had to learn the hard way.

[Chase Chrisley]

Absolutely.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because not every child that goes out here and says, you know what? I'm going to try drugs for the first time. Not every child survives that for sure. Not every child who says, oh, you know what? I'm gonna. I'm just gonna have a beer with my buddies tonight, and then that kid all of a sudden is addicted to alcohol. Not a lesson that he had to learn.

[Chase Chrisley]

But you're. You're kind of like trying to play God in that sense.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I'm trying to get. I'm trying to give advice.

[Chase Chrisley]

I'm not saying that in, like, a negative way. Obviously, you want the best for your kids, but at the end of the day, some things are just out of your control. And, like, people there. People are gonna make mistakes. When I say, like, we felt safe, like.

[Grayson Chrisley]

Like we knew the one person that would always be there was you.

[Chase Chrisley]

Yeah. I can say for me, Savannah, and Grayson, we've never gone out here and tried to do anything malicious to hurt anybody. Have we all made mistakes? Yes. And I think the safety is knowing that no matter how. What the mistake is or how bad we mess up, like, you made us feel safe by knowing that. Okay, well, my dad still is gonna be there and has my back.

[Commercial Voice]

Mm.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I've never.

[Grayson Chrisley]

We've never gone out here and been like, oh, yeah, this is really gonna screw my dad if I do this.

[Chase Chrisley]

Like, never.

[Grayson Chrisley]

I've never done anything. I've never even had that thought, like, Thought like that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I'm glad that y' all feel that way. But, you know, I also read the other day that children that love their father the way y' all claim to love me give them their father lots of gifts. And I'm a college student.

[Grayson Chrisley]

What am I supposed to give you?

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you need to get a job and figure it out.

[Chase Chrisley]

Remember, you're not talking to me anymore. I don't give people gifts that don't talk to me.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you people get gifts all the time that they don't talk to. Try ups on that note, folks. Until next week, good luck and God

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