Figuring Out Our Future (feat. Todd Chrisley)

Summary

Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley

Episode: "Figuring Out Our Future" (feat. Todd Chrisley)

Original Airdate: April 14, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this candid and wide-ranging episode, Savannah Chrisley welcomes Todd Chrisley (aka Dad) for a heartfelt and often humorous discussion centered on family transitions, personal growth, fertility, generational worries, politics, and the evolving future they are all navigating together. The episode features reflections on Savannah's egg-freezing journey, parent-child and grandparent dynamics, political divides, and the importance of respecting differing views—even within families. With signature wit, open vulnerability, and occasional generational clashes, the Chrisleys explore what it means to plan for their family’s future in a turbulent world.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Family Updates and Fertility Journey

• Savannah shares her experience freezing her eggs and the support—and comic anxiety—she gets from Todd.
  • Quote, Todd, 02:36: “I was nervous. I wanted to know every step of everything that was going on.”
  • Humorous exchange about both parents being emotionally involved (“I feel all your symptoms, Daddy” - Todd, 02:53).
• The Chrisleys discuss generational differences in approaching fertility and how modern challenges are different.
  • Julie, 04:19: "When I was growing up, you screwed and got pregnant and had no problem with it. I never had a problem getting someone pregnant."

2. Health, Food, and Societal Concerns

• Discussion on unhealthy changes in modern food supply, links to broader health issues, and skepticism around “healthier” labeling.
  • Savannah, 04:35: "It's the stuff that's in our food… it is stuff that is in our foods, like wholeheartedly, 100%."
  • Both express concerns about the “Make America Healthy Again” act and differences in how the two generations see activism and solutions.

3. Prison Reform and Empathy for the Incarcerated

• Julie shares passion for prison reform, highlighting the poor quality of food provided to inmates and the systemic neglect.
  • Julie, 06:26: “Imagine those poor men and women that are eating food that comes out of boxes that says not for human consumption."

4. Politics, Division, and International Crisis

• Timely talk about U.S. foreign policy (particularly regarding Iran), the invasion, and its effects on Americans with personal ties to overseas events.
  • Personalizing world events through the story of a producer whose Iranian family was directly impacted.
  • The conversation turns to political polarization in the U.S.
  • Julie, 11:16: "I don't recall our country ever being this divided… I've never seen the kind of vitriol and the hatred that I see on a day to day basis."

5. Family Dynamics in Politics

• Todd and Julie break down their own disagreements and generational divides:
  • Julie, 09:07: “You ride the fence… you’re in the middle lane and cruise on down the road… you play bumper cars all the time.”
  • Both acknowledge their conservative leanings but emphasize mutual respect and the futility of political promises.
  • Julie, 18:02: “Don’t promise that you’re going to do nothing… You’re not going to fulfill all of the things that need to be done in one administration.”

6. Values, Respect, and Boundaries

• Candid discussion on respecting personal beliefs, even in disagreement.
  • Todd, 22:17: “I've said everyone's viewpoints and political beliefs come based off their own life experience…”
  • Julie, 22:06: “You don’t have to agree with me, but you do have to agree that I have the right to believe the way that I believe.”

7. Abortion, Pro-Life/Pro-Choice: Shades of Gray

• They touch on nuanced positions on abortion, highlighting hidden diversity within their own political affiliations.
  • Todd, 25:00: “I am very pro-life, but I believe in cases of incest, rape… she should have the option.”
  • Discussion about Democratic and Republican diversity in beliefs regarding abortion and government support systems.

8. Upcoming Generations and Grandparenting

• Todd and Julie share their dreams and anxieties about becoming grandparents, the different relationships with Chloe and Jackson, and what defines "real" grandparent status.
  • Julie, 31:44: “…How can I not love a child that is an extension of one of the greatest loves of my life?”
• Reflections on the importance of proximity in family love and longing for close relationships.

9. Transitions and Letting Go

• The family’s plans to move, and Savannah’s desire for stability after a childhood of frequent moves.
  • Savannah, 34:21: “All we did was move. There was so much back and forth that now I think…I want to stay still until I know for a fact…”
  • Todd and Julie embrace the upcoming chapter of doing life “for us” after years of raising kids and managing extended family.

10. Health Scares and Family Reliance

• Updates on Todd’s recent health scare (kidney stones) and the unreliable, if endearing, support from Chase during the ordeal.
  • Julie, 37:46: “Terrence, bless his heart. He was checking on me every day...Did he go eat today?”
• All agree on the power of family bonds through both sickness and health.

11. Reflections on Public Life and Media

• Both voice fatigue with reality TV and discuss continuing on-screen careers only for business leverage.
  • Todd, 40:18: “At the end of the day, neither of us want to do TV, but… if it gives us a mechanism to promote our other businesses, we're doing it.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Modern Motherhood:
  • Todd (02:53): “If you're sick, I'm sick. Or if you need me to be sick, I'll be sick.”
• On Division & Generational Change:
  • Julie (11:16): “I've never seen the kind of vitriol and the hatred that I see on a day to day basis, whether it be on social media or out in just general public. People have gotten too comfortable and opening their mouth.”
• On Policy & Democracy:
  • Julie (18:02): “Don't promise that you're going to do nothing...You need to say, this is how I believe, this is how I feel. And if you feel the same way, then vote for me. And I'm going to fight for what we believe in. Don't promise that you're going to do nothing.”
• On Family Expansion:
  • Julie (31:44): “…How can I not love a child that is an extension of one of the greatest loves of my life?”
• On Reality TV Fatigue:
  • Todd (40:18): “…Neither of us want to do tv, but we're not going to be stupid either. If it gives us a mechanism to promote our other businesses, we're doing it.”

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Key Timestamps

• 01:16: Episode begins, Todd jokes about not being the favorite guest.
• 02:36: Description of supporting Savannah’s medical journey and comical parental anxiety.
• 04:19: Generational contrasts on fertility and health.
• 06:26: Prison reform and systemic food issues for inmates.
• 08:13–11:16: Iran invasion, personal stories, political division in the US, social media vitriol.
• 18:02: Discussion of empty political promises.
• 22:06: The foundation of respecting disagreeing viewpoints in families.
• 25:00: Nuanced chat about abortion, life experience, and personal beliefs.
• 31:44: Grandparenting dreams and the difference between being present and being legal guardian.
• 34:21: Savannah explains her resistance to moving again and need for stability.
• 37:46: Todd recounts health scare and family’s comic support system dynamic.
• 40:18: Brief wrap on TV, business, and the next episode tease.

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Tone & Style

The conversation is equal parts loving, humorous, and blunt—true to the Chrisley family’s reality TV roots and Southern candidness. Both Savannah and Todd balance real affection with sharp wit, reflect openly on familial vulnerability, and don’t shy away from strong political and generational statements.

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a rich testimony to the Chrisleys’ evolution beyond reality TV caricature—leaning into real-life uncertainties, transitions, and the broader issues that shape American family life today. It will resonate with listeners navigating generational family relationships, changing life stages, or grappling with today’s polarized landscape—whether through politics or the modern realities of starting a family.

Transcript

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[Todd Chrisley]

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[Todd Chrisley]

Welcome back to this week's episode of Unlocked. I have a guest on today, and I know that this isn't your favorite guest. I know that I. I know that mom is your favorite guest.

[Julie Chrisley]

Lies.

[Todd Chrisley]

But we have on Todd Chrisley, AKA Dad.

[Julie Chrisley]

Thank you for having me on.

[Todd Chrisley]

People do dad. People love Mom.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, they should.

[Todd Chrisley]

I have good taste, like her episodes do so well.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, that's wonderful, honey, because she allows you to do all the talking. That's why you like her.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I.

[Julie Chrisley]

Hey, she doesn't have me on because she does not want to have any kind of direct competition.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, that's it. You caught me. That's exactly what it is. Thank you for coming on.

[Julie Chrisley]

You're welcome.

[Todd Chrisley]

We're kind of stockpiling some episodes because I am.

[Julie Chrisley]

We're freezing our eggs.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, I am freezing my eggs. Yes.

[Julie Chrisley]

If you do it. I do it because we do everything together.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah. So he's calling me during my first appointment yesterday, and the ultrasound tech, she was, like, a huge fan. Loves us. She's so sweet.

[Julie Chrisley]

And.

[Todd Chrisley]

And she asked about you, and I said, oh, he's blown. He's blowing my phone up like 15 times today already. And she goes, tell him to leave. When you called me, she goes, tell him to leave you alone. And that's whenever I told you, hey, my text said for you to leave me alone. You said, okay, I'm sorry. Bye.

[Julie Chrisley]

Because I was nervous. I wanted to know every step of everything that was going on. And then you told me that you had a cyst on one of your ovaries. And I feel like I have one on my testicle because you said you were having abdominal pains. And I felt it the night before. I think there's something to that, cuz I, like, feel all your symptoms, Daddy.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because you talk yourself into it. If I say something's wrong with me, then if y'. All. If you ever need to get out of anything, dad is your guy. Cuz he'll say, if you're sick, I'm sick. Or if you need me to be sick, I'll be sick.

[Julie Chrisley]

What did I tell you last week? She. We were texting, and I said, do you. Do you need me to be sick?

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, literally. I was like. And too. Even when it comes now to, like, booking stuff, I tell him, you can't be sick. Like, this is something that you're not pulling one of your. Oh, I'm sick. I don't feel good.

[Julie Chrisley]

You do say that to me all the time. You're like, dad, now I'm telling you right now, we have to do this.

[Todd Chrisley]

We can't be sick.

[Julie Chrisley]

We cannot be sick. And I said, I don't. I'm not sick today. And you said, no, but you tend to. The closer it gets to doing something, you start baiting me up with like, oh, you. My. My head's hurting, my stomach's hurting.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, you do. And then we have to cancel, and it's embarrassing.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, I'm trying to get better at that. I'm trying to not cancel anymore.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay, well, that's good, because you have a pattern.

[Julie Chrisley]

I'm getting kind of a reputation of being a recluse.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm dying. So, yeah. So I am going through this whole process of freezing my eggs, and y' all have been great with it, but you're like, why do you have to do this?

[Julie Chrisley]

I just never heard of such as this. Because, you know, when I was growing up, you screwed and got pregnant and had no problem with it. I never had problem getting somebody pregnant. I mean, I got people pregnant that I didn't want to get pregnant. But, I mean, I don't understand all that. I'm telling you, it's the chicken.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's the Chicken. I will say it is stuff that is in our foods, like wholeheartedly, 100%, even labeling. They try to make you believe it's one thing. In reality, it's something totally different. The carcinogens that are in all the food that we eat, it is horrible.

[Julie Chrisley]

It. I have started getting involved in all that, you know, you know, the Make America Healthy Again act and our program that's going on right now because, you know, I don't believe in everything you believe in. You don't believe in everything I believe in. You're a little bit more extreme than what I am. But when I start reading stuff that you give me, I'm not going to lie to your mom. This chick is onto something.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, look. Look at the thing I did in the Washington Times with the deli meat.

[Julie Chrisley]

Savannah. I saw that the article and folks, I was so dumb. I had seen the article and had meant to say something to you about it. And then you sent it to me. And she goes, look in the. Look, I just said, zoom in, zoom in. Well, I zoomed in and I saw a skull. And I went back to. And I said, it's a skull. And she goes, what? I said, you told me to zoom in.

[Todd Chrisley]

And it was like the art graphic that was in the center of the article.

[Julie Chrisley]

I didn't realize that if I looked to the left, it would have said article by Savannah Chrisley, AKA Todd's daughter.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, exactly. They. They forgot to put that part.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's why I'm not. That's why I don't subscribe to them.

[Todd Chrisley]

I know, I know it's sad.

[Julie Chrisley]

I.

[Todd Chrisley]

But it is. It's the stuff that's in our food. It is totally different than it was 20, 30 years ago.

[Julie Chrisley]

Absolutely.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because they want the cheaper option. And at the end of the day, they just want to keep us sicker.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, you know, that's. Listen, you know that everything that in my life these days circulates around prison reform. Yes, but imagine the men and women, what they're eating and they don't. They have no choice. At least we have a choice now.

[Todd Chrisley]

Mm.

[Julie Chrisley]

You always have. And I always had it. You know, except for that 28 month sabbatical. But imagine those poor men and women that are eating food that comes out of boxes that says not for human consumption. Yeah, imagine that. Yeah, but yet here we are worrying about, you know, what's going on in Iran and Somalia and whatever. But we ain't worried about our own people here. I'm not even get started on that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, let's not get started on that, because what is happening there is absolutely amaz. It's uncomfortable for people here.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, shut up. Suck it up. Pay the extra damn $50 cents a gallon for a minute to secure your children and your grandchildren's future. Let him blow them out of the sand over there and be done with that shit and stop with all the damn bullying.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I also think, though, it's different because we have people who have been personally impacted absolutely. By what's going on over there. One of the producers, showrunners at the production company.

[Julie Chrisley]

Amazing woman.

[Todd Chrisley]

She is amazing. Her. She's from Iran and her family. She sent me photos. She was like, look, this was like my mother back in the 70s on

[Julie Chrisley]

the beach in a bathing suit.

[Todd Chrisley]

In a bathing suit. It literally looked like. It looked like a hot spot to go to, to travel to, that we would go to. It kind of would remind you of, you know, what you're seeing in Dubai or what you're just.

[Julie Chrisley]

It was. It was a great cultural mecca back in that time.

[Todd Chrisley]

And now you women can't show their hair, they can't show their faces, they can't be in a bikini. They. It's absolutely insane. And she was literally sobbing when we.

[Julie Chrisley]

When we invaded.

[Todd Chrisley]

When we invaded Iran, she was sobbing and she was like, he just. He can't just take out Ayatollah. He has to take out the whole regime. The whole regime. If not over half the regime is taken out, then it's just going to happen again.

[Julie Chrisley]

Absolutely.

[Todd Chrisley]

So I think instead of what sat back and I listened more on what was going on over there, because, let's face it, we don't know anything about this, you know, policy internationally and war and all that, that's not our thing. But when you sit and hear people who have been impacted by it, who may not have been Trump supporters, but are like, thank you so much. We may get our life back.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, you know, listen, you know, because I get. I get a lot of messages just like you do. And, you know, I had said something to you the other day, maybe a month ago, and I talked about it on our podcast, Chris, at Confessions 2.0. And I had said that. I said, savannah, wonder why people give you more hate than they give me. And you said, because you ride the fence. Yes, And I thought about that, and I don't agree with that anymore because I just think that you and I agree differently on a lot of things. Now, yes, we are conservative, we're Republicans, and we have. We agree in more than what we don't agree in. Yes, but you do sometimes get a little fucked up and riding off north to the, to the right wing. And I try to literally stay in the middle lane, you know, and cruise on down the road to where, you know, you're playing bumper cars all the time. But for me, I want to live in a world that is peaceful because you're going to have children.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And you know what, what we're doing in Iran right now is liberating a whole country. And you see them marching in the streets, you see them celebrating. You hear for Naz saying to us, oh my God, this is the greatest thing. I just hope that he sees it all the way through. And this is an Iranian woman whose family fled the country and came here with nothing. And now. And her cousins are still there that she's worrying about. So.

[Todd Chrisley]

And even in the midst of worrying about them, you know, she celebrating that we have invaded this country.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

But in one hand and then the other, she's worried to death because she hasn't heard from her family.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, there's. I couldn't imagine living in that.

[Julie Chrisley]

No. And, and I just think that it's so easy today and this, in this social climate that we, that we're in to hate.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes, it is that.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I say this out of experience of 57, soon to be 58 years old. So I've got a longer life experience than you do.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

I don't recall our country ever being this divided. Well, I know it has never been. And I've never seen the kind of vitriol and the hatred that I see on a day to day basis, whether it be on social media or out in just general public, people have gotten too comfortable and opening their mouth.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Because in my generation, you come at somebody in a restaurant with some stupid. They knocked your ass out, we flipped a few tables and then we got up, went home.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah. Now all you got is police callers, right?

[Julie Chrisley]

Cop callers.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And then. And what gets me is that you got half the damn country that don't want police, but they're the damn ones who's wanting to run their mouth and wanting to call them when they, when somebody beats the shit out of them.

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[Unidentified Parent 2]

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[Unidentified Parent 1]

At a playground?

[Unidentified Parent 2]

Yeah, really. Look at these listings from dealers.

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[Unidentified Parent 2]

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[Unidentified Parent 2]

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[Unidentified Parent 2]

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[Todd Chrisley]

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[Todd Chrisley]

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[Julie Chrisley]

You know, I think that for me and I, and this is kind of like it's been on my mind now for about two weeks, you know, with you getting ready to do what you're doing, you know, with your egg retrieval and you know, your mother and I kind of in our mind internalizing that, you know, we're actually going to have. You're going to have a baby.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And, and so, you know, with that

[Todd Chrisley]

too, I want you to finish your thought and then let's come back to that.

[Julie Chrisley]

I think that for me, that I think about, you know, I have, I have Chloe, you know, I have Jackson. These are, you know, for all intents and purposes, my grandchildren, but Chloe has now been adopted and is my legal child. But I think about their future. What does their future hold? And if we don't speak up now, what does the future hold for your children? Yeah, and I don't want, I mean, when you look at the amount of debt that your children will inherit that they will have to pay in taxes every year to pay off debt that they never incurred. And I just think that, you know, this whole thing with, with what's going on in our country right now in the division that President Trump, he, There could be 100 babies drowning and he could save 99, but he would only be talked about, about losing the one.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And you know, I can't say anything good about Joe Biden. There just wasn't really anything good to say. I mean, you can't fault him either because hell, he wasn't running the country.

[Todd Chrisley]

No.

[Julie Chrisley]

So you can't really fault him and say he was a fuck up because he wasn't up there running it.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

But he surrounded himself with a bunch of ass clowns that did. I'm not sitting here. And you and I, we can agree to disagree because you, you are who you are. I don't agree with everything that any administration does.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

I have to decide what works for me and mine and then that's how I vote. Yes, I want to vote for a common, for a common good for all. And if you're in politics, we already know that you have performed. You have perfected the, you have perfected the art of bullshit that you're going to say, vote for me and I'm going to do this.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, you're not. No, you're not. Cause there's 400 other people in fucking Congress and you're not going to override them other 399 or whatever the number is right now. You need to say, this is how I believe, this is how I feel. And if you feel the same way, then vote for me. And I'm going to fight for what we believe in. Don't promise that you're going to do nothing.

[Todd Chrisley]

I mean, there have been a lot of promises that have been made in Cap.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, promises made, promises kept. And you know, yes, we have a wall. Yes, we're throwing people out of the country. Yes, we don't blow the sand off the damn shores over there in Iran. Yeah, I get all that. But we still got a lot of promises to keep. But you're not going to. You're not going to fulfill all of the things that need to be done in one administration.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, you're not.

[Julie Chrisley]

You got four years. And if those four years, whether it's a Democrat or a Republican, if the Democrat, when they have the White House, the Republicans need to respect that. Okay, we got our ass handed to us this time. We got to do better in the next election. But what we got to do now is focus on this election. And this is where we went wrong. And this is why the Democrats have the White House or they have the House or they have the Senate or whatever. Let's work together for the common good of all people. If the Republicans are in the White House, the Democrats should say, you know, I don't know. I don't believe in this bullshit, but I believe in my constituents. I believe in the people that voted to put me here. And I'm going to fight and work together for the common good of the people.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Until. Until we can acknowledge.

[Todd Chrisley]

But this is the thing though, is Democrats, they will sit there and you know, these Democrat politicians have seen it firsthand. They will sit there, they will, you know, disagree with each other. They'll. But when it comes to the public, they're standing by each other. Unfortunately, Republicans do that too. But no, unfortunately, we've had some Republicans go absolutely haywire and that just are turning, going off the rails, fighting publicly amongst one another and doing nothing like that is not doing anything to strengthen us. All that is doing is hurting us.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I have said for years, and I've taught you this, the thing that the Democrats do better Than what we do is they stick together. Yeah, they can. The Democrats are really a lot like the Chris's in the household because we will fight like hell amongst each other, but out in public.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Oh, I love you. So good. That looks so good. And you know, we'll, we'll do it that way. So really we live democratically because we fight like Democrats do.

[Todd Chrisley]

We do.

[Julie Chrisley]

But, you know, from the outside perspective of the world, we live like Republicans. And I think the whole thing is a farce. I think that we, you know, when you, when you start looking at, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene, when you start looking at some of the Massey and a few of these others out here, you're standing on a soapbox. That is not going to, it's not going to, it's not going to bode well for you in the midterms. And you're going against what your constituents won't.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I don't know how you think that that saves you, but what I have Learned Being in D.C. so much lately is that it is a bartering game. Okay, so you got three pedos on your side, we got one on ours. But ours really only did this much. Yours did that. But we can't afford to lose a seat in there, so we can lose a seat in that. So we're going to kind of not focus on that. You know, we're not, we're not going to focus on the fact that Ilhan Stolt, you know, was contributed to bringing all her people from Somalia over here to Minnesota and still $19 billion, we'll put that under the rug right now because we had a few Republicans over here in Florida in the house that embezzled $5 million and bought herself a damn yellow diamond. You know, so they're all up there doing this crooked shit. So just call it what it is. I choose not to. I'm not going to allow politics to divide me from people that I love.

[Todd Chrisley]

Without a doubt.

[Julie Chrisley]

And from people that I have respect for. Now, I don't. You don't have to agree with me, but you do have to agree that I have the right to believe the way that I believe.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes, without a doubt.

[Julie Chrisley]

And then treat it respectfully after that.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I've said everyone's viewpoints and political beliefs come based off their own life experience.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's exactly right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Own life experience and traumas. So to them, that is valid.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And we have to respect that.

[Julie Chrisley]

And, you know, that is something that you said to me years ago about a topic that I Thought felt differently on that. You felt really differently on which people would really be shocked by this argument that we had. You said in the kitchen, dad, what are you talking about? I said, I don't believe in that.

[Todd Chrisley]

What was it?

[Julie Chrisley]

I'm not going to get into it. And you don't want me to get into it. I said, I don't believe in that. And I said, you need to stop all that too. Co signing it. And you got really mad and said if they heard you say that, they would be offended by that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I said, then don't go tell them I'm talking to you as my child.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

But you fought really hard against that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Which would be shocking to the world based on the fact that, you know, you're this Maha, this Maga. Mag. What is it? Maga. Maggot.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, that. But I really identify as Maga Barbie. Well, I mean, you know, I'll take that.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I didn't. Well, we're not going to talk about how I identify. But.

[Todd Chrisley]

But also too. It also goes back to, for instance, like me on the View. Right. When. And conversations.

[Julie Chrisley]

By the way, let me just say to you, not to cut you off. I was so proud of you.

[Todd Chrisley]

Thank you.

[Julie Chrisley]

I would have really liked for you to have been a little bit stronger in that last episode because you kind of caved a little bit. And I'd have liked for you to follow hard on.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah. But there are things that I just can't talk about or I can't defend or there's just. I will try my.

[Julie Chrisley]

It was. That last part is a certain. There's only so much you can defend.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah. I'll. There was just. I just had to take a backseat for a minute.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I had conversations off camera and one of those conversations was with Sonny. And really, we have a lot in common. We have a lot that's different, but we do. But she said she was like, this would shock you. And we were talking about being pro life and Sunny is more pro life than I am. Which is. Which is. Which would make people be like, holy.

[Julie Chrisley]

But it doesn't mean that because you're a Democrat that you can't be pro life.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

It doesn't mean that because you're a Republican that you can't believe in an alternative to a bad situation.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Now, you and I have talked about

[Todd Chrisley]

this, but that's what I've said is. And even in that situation, I was like, what do you mean? And we're talking and I'm like, I am very pro Life. But I believe in cases of incest, rape, like, no, you shouldn't have to keep that child. Why do you want, you know, if it's not good for that woman and if she doesn't want that reminder, then she should have the option.

[Julie Chrisley]

But now that's a Democratic view.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, a Democratic view is you can be 37 weeks and get an abortion.

[Julie Chrisley]

I don't believe that. I don't believe that. That is all Democrats.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, it's not all views. I believe policy wise, there's a lot of policies that believe you can be very late term.

[Julie Chrisley]

And we're very clear. We've. We've made it very clear that we don't believe in that. But I raised you.

[Todd Chrisley]

But like Sonny, Sonny believes not even in the case of things.

[Julie Chrisley]

And that's a huge. That's a huge thing. So she's relying on her faith to be her shield of knowledge to. That has governed her decision making. But then she turned around and said yesterday, the day before, she said that was. They were going after this woman that had talked about, you know, that at

[Todd Chrisley]

CPAC about, you know, being a mother, like, have more kids than you can afford. And that was honestly, that was a Charlie Kirk statement, first off, that she just kind of regurgitated. And I love Charlie and I love the pro family movement. But I have also said, when it comes to the conservative party, you're going out here and saying, have more kids than you can afford, but then you're bashing people who are on food stamps and welfare.

[Julie Chrisley]

Y', all, she's getting ready to come more to the center where I drive. But, you know, Sunny said, you know, you're sitting here saying, have more children. Have more children, but yet you've got a president that's cutting all these subsidies. Well, guess what? We don't want. We don't love your children like you love your children. I want to pay for my children. So have what you can afford.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes, that's.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's how I feel about that. It's not a Democratic view. That's not a Republican view. That's a fiscally responsible.

[Todd Chrisley]

When there are people who go out here and have children to get more benefits.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes. And which is the craziest thing in the world, because, listen, having more children just so you can get an extra loaf of bread or, you know, a steak or whatever. Nah, it ain't worth that. No, it ain't worth the. That you got to put up with it with them kids. It is just not.

[Todd Chrisley]

It was a walking up in the park to deal with me.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, it wasn't. You were. You were a. You have always been a very good child, but you were not a walk in the park. You were a car thief. You stole my car. And you and chase and drove it out of the yard and went around to your friends with it. You've lied about where you've been. You've smoked. Well, yeah, you smoked, then you drank. So, no, you ain't been all that. Well, you know, but, you know, and that's. Right. And listen, if you can live in that space and nobody else opens the door, then that's fine.

[Todd Chrisley]

But also, going back to the, you know, me doing the whole IVF thing and then grandkids, and I want to set the record straight. You have never said that you do not have grandchildren. You have said you haven't been able to be a grandparent.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Which is very accurate.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's true.

[Todd Chrisley]

Like, Chloe is your child.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

So that's totally different. Jackson, we have not been able to have a relationship with him. That doesn't mean he doesn't exist.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because he does that.

[Julie Chrisley]

I don't love him. Yes, because I do love him. But, you know, you can only the love will always be different. And, you know, and my grandmother used to say this Mama Chrisley, she used to say, well, I said, but who do you love the most? She said, well, you and Cindy, because y' all are the prettiest. And that always made me feel so wonderful. But then when I was like 12 years old and I was helping her, you know, get dressed to go to bed and whatever, she said, you were

[Todd Chrisley]

there, you were present.

[Julie Chrisley]

She said, I love you so much, she said, because you've always been right by my side. And that creates a bond that is unbreakable. And, you know, look at. Look at Mama. Mama's with me every day. She's with your mother every day. And that I literally. I literally think about more every day as. As your nanny ages. God, how much longer do I have with her? Because I know that will be the greatest loss of my life. And so for me to see her sitting in her recliner when I come down the stairs every morning and hear her rattling around with those pots and pans in the morning at 4:30, you know, fixing her some coffee from her Taster's Choice jar when she's got a machine up there, all she's got to do is put the thing in and press the button now. But she said, I like instant. You know, you have that bond. And I've been with My mother, my whole entire life. You don't know. A life without me and my mama.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And so it does create that bind. And, you know, we're. We're moving. You're here in Tennessee, and. And that is. I mean, I never thought that that was going to happen, but God has. God gave me the weirdest piece about it. And I'm like, okay, so then I will be a grandparent based on. I'm going to. I'll call, I'll talk, I'll show up for every event, I'll get on a plane, I'll do whatever I need to do because I want to have that relationship to be special.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

But I think that, you know, when I'm scrolling all the time, because I send you stuff all the time. And, you know, you look at these grandparents with their grandchildren, and the one that I've sent you over and over and over, you know where the dad's holding the little boy and he's kicking his feet when they're coming through the airport, and the grandma comes out first and he runs right past her to the papa.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

I love that so much. I just play it all the time, folks. I play it all the time. And I shook you myself. That's gonna be mine. That's gonna be mine. But you know, it is. I know that it's gonna be a different love because I'm. Now it's going to be that. It's just going to be a special relationship because you're the mama and this is an extension of you. And how can I not love a child that is an extension of one of the greatest loves of my life?

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

So I already know how I'm going to feel. Well, you know, I talk to you every day.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm like, oh, yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Because, you know, I have tried to get her, you know, to have twins and the name of. And she won't do it.

[Todd Chrisley]

Stop. Don't bleep out those names. Make sure y' all bleep out those names in case I do name my child that.

[Julie Chrisley]

I was in Dallas and I saw these little twins. Well, they were not twins. They were like 15 months apart or whatever.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay.

[Julie Chrisley]

Oh, my God. They were the prettiest babies I have seen since Instagram. And. And I turned around and I said, oh, my God, they are beautiful. And the mother was a stunning woman. Very put together. It was over at Highland Park Village.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And that little boy and girl, they were holding each other's hand as they was walking down that sidewalk. And they had their little. He had his own. His little boat shoes. And I thought, oh, my God, please let me just have that. Let me just have that. And so I asked her, how old are your kids? And she said, I think she said 15 months apart. I said, oh. I said, savannah and Chase, she said, are 14 months apart.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, that's fine.

[Julie Chrisley]

So she knew who I was. And I said, I can't hardly wait. And I said, are you happy that you had them, you know, this close together? She said, it wasn't planned. She says, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, well, see, I look at it as like, I can't wait to have kids because what a blessing it is to have as many people in their life that love them and want to show up for them and want to be a part of their life. Like, it doesn't take away from me. It only makes their life better.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, that's a healthy way of looking at it. Because Chase says all the time. He's like, God, I can't wait. He said, dude, how long you think it'll be for? Savannah has one. He said, because I'm telling you right now, I'm going to love that baby. He said, I'm. He said, she's going to be so pissed off when it loves me more than her. And I said, yeah, okay.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, ok. No, it was literally a video on Instagram, and it was this baby saying, nona, Nona, Nona. And it was the picking up the phone, and the baby was just now starting to talk, and all she wanted to do was talk to her grandmother, and she's like, no, mama, mama. The mama's saying, mama, Mama. She goes, nona, Nona. It was hilarious. But that's the thing is just because you're going to have more grandkids does not mean that you haven't had them before. It's just a difference in relationship and what you're allowed to have versus what you're not allowed to have. So it's as simple as that. And when it comes to the moving aspect, I don't think you and I have talked about this, but y' all are moving. I'm staying here for the time being. And it's because my entire life, all we did was move.

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We moved.

[Todd Chrisley]

There was so much back and forth that now I think.

[Julie Chrisley]

But you went. Every house that we moved to was a step up.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

So it was a way of bettering your life.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I'm saying, like, Atlanta to la to Atlanta. I know, but I'm just saying because I had all that movement. I want to stay still until I know for a fact. All right, you're staying in this place, but you've got, like, this nine year itch, like you got nine years somewhere, and then you want to move.

[Julie Chrisley]

You know, that really has. You know, in the beginning, you know, I had to because I. I started out with very little.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I made money on the first house, so I sold that and then bought the next house, and it made more money, and then that's how I made my money. Now I don't have to do that. I'm excited about this new chapter of my life. I'm excited for the business opportunities that I have, and I'm excited to be a grandfather. I'm really thrilled about that. That is probably the highlight of my life right now.

[Todd Chrisley]

And again, we're just at, like, an egg retrieval, guys.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, but I already told. I've already told her how many eggs she's gonna have. But at any rate, I. I'm not good with being away from you, but I know that I can survive that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, we did for.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah. And. And I know that I can do that. And. And, you know, your mother and I have never really had a time to where it was just me and her. It's not going to be just me and her because it's Chloe. And then we've got mama, and mama does her own thing, and Chloe, for most part, does her own thing. But it's the first time that your. That your mother and I will do a house that's really for us.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And for the way we want to live and the lifestyle that we have, that we want to have, we will have there. And. And I'm okay. I am at a good place.

[Todd Chrisley]

You're okay now until you want to go have lunch and I'm not there.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, then you'll decide whether or not you want to move.

[Todd Chrisley]

I cannot.

[Julie Chrisley]

You see who my friends are.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, my God. I cannot with you.

[Julie Chrisley]

We match friends. Mine has a little more clout.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, whatever.

[Julie Chrisley]

But no, I mean, I am going to miss you. I'm going to miss you terribly. But, I mean, we'll talk all the time like we always do anyway. And I don't see you every day here anyway. I mean, you know, I see you like every dad.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes, you do. Up until I left for this trip.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, that seems like that was forever.

[Todd Chrisley]

That was.

[Julie Chrisley]

How did you survive, Savannah? You know how I survived. I got sick.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, you did. It was bad. Kidney stones.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Terrible.

[Julie Chrisley]

Six millimeter kidney stone with Five in the kidney.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's because you missed us so bad.

[Julie Chrisley]

If your mama goes away from. I can't be doing both. If your mom is doing something and you gone, too, then, folks, I do. I fall the hell apart. Terrence, bless his heart. He was checking on me every day, calling mom and said, did he. Did he go eat today? I mean, literally check. Checking to see if I'm eating. I eat fine. But, you know, it's.

[Todd Chrisley]

I was just afraid because Chase was here taking care of you.

[Julie Chrisley]

I was like, oh, God, Savannah, when I fell out in that kitchen with that damn kidney stone, I thought, he's going to shit all over himself. Because, you know, he's not. Chase panics.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

He's not. The cooler head prevail.

[Todd Chrisley]

No.

[Julie Chrisley]

Walking across the kitchen table to the. To the island, and it hit me, and I dropped to my knee, and he goes, dude, what the f. And I said, chase. And I couldn't breathe. And mom was sitting, and mom said, what's wrong? We. I said, oh, my God. You got to get me to the emergency room. I said, I've got a kidney stone. Chase goes, no way. No way. Not now. And I'm like. Like, do you mean. Not that. Like, I timed it.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And so. But he got me in the car, and he got me to the emergency room. And thank God for our friend Caroline.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Who.

[Todd Chrisley]

She's amazing.

[Julie Chrisley]

Made sure that everything was taken care of for me. And. And I will say that that. That hospital. Williamson Hospital, Williamson County Medical is the best hospital with the best staff, the best nurses.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

I didn't wait. I mean, I got great treatment, but. Yeah. You guys were gone. And I. I realized, like, two days before y' all were leaving is when it really hit me.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I'm like, we were going for almost a month. Yeah. And I'm like, they're both going to be gone. And then I feel like that I do have some ptsd.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Julie Chrisley]

Because then I started, like, really panicking about your mother being gone.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah. So Chloe. Chloe, her ptsd. Really?

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah. Because, I mean, she was having a. Every day she'd come, then get on the bed with me, and she said, how much longer? How many more days for Mom's back.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah. And I told Mom. I was like. Because the last time you left, you didn't come back. So this was her first time leaving her.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes. And Chloe says, I don't want to be on television. I don't want mom on television. And I said, I know, honey. I know. I says, but, you know, so when mom gets back, I says, maybe she's. If she doesn't want to do it, she's not going to do it anymore. And which I know is a big deal for y' all right now, because you and Chase are.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know me. I don't care. I. My life. I'm like, I would love not being on TV now.

[Julie Chrisley]

You ain't got threatened me, but you

[Todd Chrisley]

know my good girl stuff.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, but you turned around, said, dad, stop with the bullshit.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, let's. Okay, let's. Let's face it. At the end of the day, neither of us want to do tv, but we're not going to be stupid either. If it gives us. Us a mechanism to promote our other businesses, we're doing it.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, you are.

[Todd Chrisley]

Shut up. You stop playing that game. He's such a liar, y'.

[Julie Chrisley]

All.

[Todd Chrisley]

He wants to play all tough guy, he's the liar. But on that note, we're gonna wrap this episode because we're gonna do another episode that's gonna be all fun and Hot Topics and I can't wait.

[Julie Chrisley]

So can I just keep on what I have on?

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, you can. I'm gonna change, but. Doesn't matter. But it's gonna be great. We're gonna talk about Bonnie Blue. Have you heard of her? Oh, I can't wait. It's gonna be great.

[Julie Chrisley]

What is that? It's a person.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yeah, just. We're gonna talk about it. You're gonna love it. Can't wait to hear your viewpoints. It's been a very controversial thing happening, so, guys, tune in to the next episode. You will not want to miss it.

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