Can't Put A Price On Peace (feat. Chase Chrisley)

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So, ladies and gentlemen, welcome Extra Chase. Yeah. It's coming from the most extra person in the entire family. Mine's special extra. You're special. So, how's it going? Just trying to survive the cold. This is terrible. I mean, how bad is it here? I mean, we don't have power. I mean, like 300,000 people don't have power. So, I mean, it's terrible. The roads are bad. I'm ready to move. It has been so bad. I mean, we came in this morning to do the podcast. And when we, I was texting with Erin to make sure that she had power for us to do the podcast. And we are staying with my mother. Because we don't have power. Nanny Faye, because we don't have power. But she has power. And she also has protein shakes from 2024. We'll get into that in a second. So it is so bad here, folks. It's like in a movie. It's like apocalypse. I mean, the trees are all down in the streets. The power lines are down. Right. 300,000 people without power. And, you know, we knew that the power was going to be an issue. So we left and we went to a hotel, which we should have stayed at. We went to the Four Seasons here and then my mother's power came on. So I thought, you know what, let's get out of the hotel, go to mama's. At least it's a house, you know, we can spread out or whatever, because it was me and you and Chloe and your mom. And so we go out to my mother's yesterday and she was so happy, you know, that we were going to be at her house because, you know, she wants to be in her own environment. And it's like grandma's attic. This old hag, she has got, I don't care what state we move to, she can find a tea set in every color. She's going to find plates decorative that you can't touch. They're on her table and she's got her table set where you don't touch those. You just look at them. and a million towels, none of which match, but they will all have lace on them because that's pretty. And Chase gets up this morning and goes in the refrigerator. First off, whenever I wake up, I wake up peacefully. I don't have screaming and yelling. I wake up to my dad yelling, nanny yelling, my mom just staring into the blank abyss. And I was like, oh, my God, I've got to get out of here. I've got to get out of here. So I go to the fridge, and I'm like, there's one of the protein shakes that I drink every morning. I go, and I was like, oh, maybe it's not going to be a shit day. There's my protein shake. I go to drink it, and it tastes just sour and awful. And, of course, I had to spit it out, and I checked the expiration date, and it's May of 24. Now, folks, this was a yogurt protein drink. And she says, well, she goes, well, you brought it over here to my dad. And I was like, really? Well, he was at his summer camp. In May of 24, I was a guest at the Bureau, at the Federal Bureau of Prisons. So I could not have been involved in that. Contrary to what she says or what the former prosecutor said, I could not have been involved. And I said, Mama, she said, that's it doesn't say that. I took the lid off and it clearly says May 7th, 2024. Did she argue about it? A hundred percent. And then turns around and said, well, it's yogurt anyway. She said, it's ruined when you buy it. I was like, I got to get the hell out of here. I'm getting ready to go to work for NES clearing lines because I'd rather do that than have to deal with the shit I'm dealing with right now. But with that being said, I am grateful that we do are in a place that is warm, that we have power and that we have protein, whatever it is that you were drinking that was ruined. And we're all safe. I mean, we are grateful for that. I'm on the verge of getting a tent and starting a fire. It's I have never I was saying to you this morning as we were going down the streets. I don't remember ever being involved in an ice storm like this. my entire life except when I was 12 years old living in South Carolina and we had a really bad ice storm there. But this is worse than you've never lived to see anything like this. This is your first time. Yeah. So it's bad here in Tennessee and it's bad all over the country. Tennessee is still every night when I'm watching the news is still the number one state that seems to be hit the hardest with the number of power outages. I just think we were less prepared. Yeah, but I mean, people's generators aren't even working because the gas has been shut off because of a gas leak. So you can't prepare when you think you've got, you know, a seventy thousand dollar generator and you can't get it cranked up because the gas lines have been shut off. So it's it's insane right now what's going on here. But we're all safe, like I said, and we're blessed. I was talking to my friend Dwayne this morning, who was a former. Well, he's still my friend, but he I met him at summer camp and I was talking to him. at him this morning, actually sitting here texting with him prior to this podcast, talking about how sad it is that now I'm grateful, you know, we had one tree that had fallen. I was able, I had someone out there yesterday cleaning up the front yard, getting the tree taken down, um, and was grateful to be able to do that. But I got to thinking last night, laying there, I was worried about having a tree cleaned up in my yard, but yet there's people that are homeless, hungry, poor health. And it's times like these that you see the disparity amongst mankind in times of need. It is the haves and the have nots. It is those that have money that are going to be able to get to the front of the line. It's those that have money that are going to be able to get their houses cleaned up and their damages repaired and whatever, while so many more American people are sitting on the sidelines waiting. And those things, they've always bothered me, but the older that I get, the harder it becomes for me. And I talk about that with y'all all the time, that to whom much is given, much is required. You have to be grateful for what you have. And when you look, I mean, when we get off the exit, there's always that lady standing there, you know, getting off of Harding Place or whatever. And you said to me a week ago, you said, that is so sad. That is so sad. And I looked at you and I said, and that is someone's child. So by the grace of God, go you and I. So if you have and you can help, then God calls on you to do that. I did want to talk about a little bit about because I get a lot of messages about you every day. I got one yesterday. He was in a foul mood yesterday, so I didn't even address it with him. But I got one yesterday about you and you always have the haters, always have haters. And so this hater said, oh, so he's clean and sober now. He's working out. He's with daddy. 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No, but I mean, the help is still there. But I don't give a shit what somebody says. I really don't. Where are you on your path to recovery right now? What do you mean? Like, where are you emotionally on this path, on your journey to being sober and living your life and seeing things more clearly today? I mean, you have ups and downs that that doesn't stop. I mean, cause that's just life. But I mean, as far as being sober, I haven't like, I'm not tempted to go and to drink or do anything like that. I mean, you know, I was out with one of my friends the other night and they were, we were in a bar and there's people drinking and doing all that, but I wasn't tempted at all. Do you think that for someone that has been sober for, cause you've been sober now for eight months, Do you think that a bar environment is something that you would recommend for someone that struggles with alcohol? I think, well, obviously not. But I mean, I think everybody's journey with it is different. Like some people cannot be around it. If you cannot be around it, definitely don't go into a bar. With me, it doesn't, I mean, I'm fine to be around it. It doesn't affect me at all. So what would you say to people that have struggled with alcoholism their entire life? cannot be around it, who call bullshit when you say that you've been sober for eight months and that. I mean, I think you can look at me and tell. Well, I mean, I know because I'm with you every day. Yeah. I'm with you every day, all day. So I know. Yeah. But what do you say when people hear you say, I'm sober eight months and I'm cool to go to a bar. I'm cool to be around drinking. I'm cool to be around my buddies who are drinking because it doesn't affect me. What do you say when they call bullshit on that? because you know historically that is not the case yeah i mean i don't know like everybody's journey with it is different not everybody can do that for me it doesn't bother me but i think it's because of the progress that i've made and i've seen my life like go from down here to straight up and i just don't want to do anything to jeopardize that right so it it doesn't bother me and and correct me if i'm wrong don't you think that that when you're able to identify why you drinking or why you taking drugs or whatever that that also helps Yeah getting to the root of the issue Right Because like whenever the place that I went to they said that it wasn't really like a drugs and alcohol problem. I had a trauma problem. Right. And I had just never addressed any of my trauma. Right. Like I just buried it down. And then I would, like I started off drinking to have fun and do all that. And then once you bury enough trauma, it's going to come up eventually. And then the way I coped with it was to go and drink and do stuff. So that's just, once I got to the root of the things that were bothering me and was able to let go of a lot of trauma, just like put it to bed and be at peace with it, I didn't have anything to run from. Right. Right. Because you you started drinking early. 17, 16, 16, 15, 16. And you kept it hidden for a while until you and I until I was like 18. Right. And that's when you and I had the first real major blow up. Yeah. And you moved out. And that's when I said, you're not you will not drink. There'll be no drugs in my house or not drinking. We're not all this party and shit's not happening here. You felt like that at 18, you were free to do whatever you wanted to do. Looking back on that and on the conflict that it caused and the heartache that it caused in the family, what would you say to a young 16, 17 year old that is starting out experimenting, drinking and whatever? What would you say to that individual about the damage that it can cause, not just physically, but emotionally and psychologically in every aspect of your life? I mean, I'd like to tell people just not to do it, but I mean, that's just not the reality that we live in. So, I mean, if you're going to do it, try to be as responsible as possible. But for me, if I could go back, I wouldn't have done it because of the heartache that it caused. And then it just sets you back so much further from like where, because like whenever you're drinking and or partying or abusing something like you're not and you're not thinking right. You're not in the right headspace. So like the things that you really want, you don't even realize that when you're doing that. So where you really want to be in life, it's definitely going to hinder that and it's going to slow that progression down. What would you say towards to people that have made statements in the press and in, you know, private messages and things that you have an entitlement, that you come from entitlement, that you come from money, that your parents have thrown money at you and that's why you're the way that you are and that I never set proper boundaries for you? I do think boundaries are something that we as a family do need to like work on and respect. From everybody. Having money, money was never thrown at me to fix a problem. I don't feel that way. But I mean, like, it's not like you were like an absent father that just threw money at it to fix it. That that was never the case. But you always had a boundary. There was going to be no drinking in our home. There was going to be I was not putting up with that. Yeah, for sure. So that was why you moved in with your grandparents at 18 years old, because we were not doing that. So there were boundaries that was in place. Well, that wasn't even really why I moved out. Why was it that you moved out? Well, me and Savannah got in that fight over that TV remote and you took her side. And then you told me to get my shit and go. So I was like, all right. Well, folks, I had had enough at that point. So at the end of the day, let's talk about boundaries. because you went to your program and you've brought up boundaries several times, that there needs to be boundaries. But understand that when you say there needs to be boundaries, that means that other people get to have boundaries and place them too. I just said that. Not just you. I just said that. I said everyone. Right. So what he said, everyone. So including Nanny Faye. Everyone. Okay. So what is it that you think in a family should be a proper boundary? um i think that once you get to a certain age like at the end of the day like if it's me or savannah like we're not like we're almost in our 30s so like if we make a decision that we want to do something i'm not talking about like drinking or doing anything like that but like you might not like it but i think that it there should be a level of respect there to where it doesn't cause complete chaos in the entire family and like you stop talking to one another and stuff like that i think that that's like a healthy boundary but you don't think that you don't see look at how defensive you are i'm not defensive that's yeah yeah yeah you don't think that i have pretty much washed my hands of you and savannah with y'all making decisions that you want to make no god no tell me in what way i've not tell me what way i have not because i don't meddle in your affairs I get no I tell you these are the pitfalls that you are getting ready to walk through oh you're a fortune teller now because I have done it we all have done a lot more dumb shit than what I've ever done but with that being said folks he's obviously referring to relationship advice no I appreciate the relationship advice I do and like I do agree that there's certain things that maybe you can't see whenever you're in it that you would be able to see from an As a parent or like someone looking in on the situation. But at the end of the day, I don't think that there should be like an ulterior motive. Well, there is no ulterior motive when I give y'all advice because I want you to be happy. And I have said to you, as I've said to Savannah and to the rest of my children, I don't have to lay down with them. I ain't got to wake up with them. I don't have to deal with them. That's y'all's. That's your bed. You made it. you lay in it. But when you say boundaries, if we know that y'all are with someone or you're doing something that you shouldn't be doing, we can say, go bust a gut and go to hell and do it. But don't bring it back to my front door. That's our boundary that we don't have to put up with. My thing is, is that with you, and this again goes back to not drinking and doing things that you're not supposed to be doing. I wish we could do one podcast where we didn't have to dwell on the fact that I was drinking. Well, the whole world knows at this point, but at any rate, I know they do, but I'm tired of talking about it. But, um, the difference in today, a hundred percent, the difference in today, eight months later after confronting the problem versus then we wouldn't be able to have this conversation. No, definitely not. Because like I said, you're not in the same headspace. Yeah. Right. Like your, your mindset's not clear. Right. And so for me at 57 years old, you know, your mother's 52, 53, mother's 53. We also have, we get to take our life back now and it's not worrying about whether or not you are with somebody that we don't want you to be with or Savannah's with somebody that we don't want her to be with. These are decisions adult. You just said it. You're almost 30. If you don't have consequences for your fuck ups today at almost 30, you never will. Yeah. So I can't shoulder those anymore, nor am I going to. Savannah, the same way I have for all intents and purposes, five adult children. All five of you will make adult decisions and you will have adult consequences that go with them. My love for you does not change regardless of who you're with. I don't have to love the person that you're with. I know, but it makes it a lot easier. You have to love the person that you're with. I don't have to love them. And a parent who is not in agreement to who their child is with. And I'm not in a relationship right now. So it's like, right. I'm just, I'm just, You're having the conversation. This episode is brought to you by Booking.com. Booking.com offers a wide array of hotels and vacation rentals across the U.S. so you can find exactly what you're booking for. There's something for everyone, even those who are impossible to please. 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But a parent who has a child that's with someone that the parent doesn't agree with sometimes can soften towards that situation. if they see that their child is happy and whole and healthy, prospering in everyday life and every aspect of life, that parent can say, you know what? I don't like them, but I can see that they're good for my child. And then the parent at that point has to step back and say, listen, they don't bother me. They're not interfering with my the way my rhythm is every day in my house. My child's happy. God bless them. And don't stand in the way of it. Don't do anything. You don't have to help. You don't have to help nurture it if you don't want to, but you can't hinder it either. And I feel like that I have made that very clear to you. Now you're sitting here trying to be animated and don't sit here and lie. I have been very clear to you that I want you to be happy, but you don't, your happiness can't be at the expense of everyone else's around you. I'm not like that. Oh my God. You are so full of shit. folks we'll continue this i'm gonna do a trail i'm gonna do a three-part series no because i'm done doing this shit for free i'm doing three-part series of everyone in the family because if chase now if you want to i'm not no i'm not i'm entitled to have a fucking bad day everybody else is that everybody else can be like fucking regina george coming in here mean as hell and in a bad mood Everybody else can do that. But the moment that I'm in a bad mood, God forbid, all hell. But your bad mood makes everyone else in the room's mood bad. So does yours, brother. Yes, it does. But you feel good about, do you feel good about where you are in your life at this moment and the decisions that you have made and that you are making that's going to elevate you and move you forward? Yes. You're good with that? Yeah, for sure. Well, then I'll move off of that. We'll get away from that. We're not going to talk about the drinking anymore. I'm sure y'all will. Not unless you're here. Nobody wants it. Not unless you're here. I swear I can't wait for one of y'all to fuck up again. We're talking about it on the podcast three times a week. I talk about all of mine, so I ain't got to worry about it. How are you and your relationship with your sister, Savannah? Because everyone wants to know that. We are in a great place. I love Savannah. that and so yeah and savannah loves you um it is so good to be able to sit down at a table with everyone sitting there no hostility everyone's laughing having a good time um because i have said this before and i'll say it forever chase is the funniest child that i have um he is savannah's sneaky funny too though you just have to have a really dry sense of humor Savannah is funny, but Savannah is funny kind of like the dumb shit she does that you just look at. But no, she's got a side to her that is like, like we can be in a room and somebody can say some just off the wall shit that we both know is like, did they really just say that? And I can just look at Savannah and it'll make me laugh. But watching you two together again is like the greatest gift that a parent can have. It really is. I think that's probably the best thing that I've gotten out of my sobriety. Really? Yeah. Is my relationship with Savannah. But don you I think that all of your relationships have gotten Yeah for sure But I mean that was definitely one of the more hindered ones Well because she because basically she had put up a wall Yeah There was no the door was locked She wasn't allowing you back in. You didn't experience that from anyone else in the family. No. That was the only one. Yeah. So obviously that one means more because now the door is completely wide open and you two are together and talking and texting all day long. So, so that is a blessing. Yeah. But it is from a parent's perspective to see that it allows us to sleep again because there's peace. I mean, that that is a sign of peace. Yeah. You can't put a price on peace. Not at all. And so tell me right now, the Seltzer brand is doing really well. I sent you some data that came out the other day that says that your generation, that drinking has dropped. Was it 32 percent? Yeah, like almost nine hundred billion dollars. Yes, almost 30 percent. And because there your generation is actually seeing the ramifications of all this drinking and what it's doing. so if you will remember back on chrisley knows best we started this whole non-alcohol drink of you know seltzers and and this that and the other because you were going through that phase again then you were i wasn't really going through i was i was part in right but the goal was that you had said to me that you drank because it was a social thing and and social anxiety and you needed something in your hand that's when we started talking about that today it's way deeper than that now right but because i'm being honest about it right exactly but do you feel that it is still a social issue for so many people that they need to have a drink in their hand for sure absolutely but it's like such a fine line because like you can have a couple drinks but then it's really quick that you've gone overboard. Right. Yeah. I was watching a thing the other day. It was a documentary on a guy. He was an attorney. He had a. He had invested in some some company was worth 300 something million dollars. He and his wife, she got was an alcoholic. He was an alcoholic. She got cirrhosis of the liver and he had to take care of her until she died. and he's like in his like I think 49 or 50. I think I know who you're talking about. And he got on his boat and started living on his boat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And now it's like he's healed his liver because of the way that he eats and whatever. And he talks about that he had everything, but that everything that he had obtained in his life, had he addressed issues that he had had from his childhood and from things that had happened to him in college, if he had sought help for those things, he would have never, he may still have his wife, he may still have his company, he may still have all the money that he made because it was all gone now. Because he had made such bad decisions because of the alcohol. So when you see things like that, how does that make you feel? I mean, I'm grateful that I haven't had to go through that. but I mean I'm just that's sad I mean that's really sad but I mean you have to thank God for the fact that he made it to the other side of it and I do know from the things that you send me now listen he can be a devout Christian and his I am a devout Christian his what's the things the DMs what's the reels I am a devout Christian but I will slap the shit out of someone The reels that he sends me will literally make you think that he is Pentecostal sometimes. And then the next reel will let you know that he is still street thug. So you literally go from one thing to the other. You do too. I'm like, okay, he just prayed for so-and-so, but here he just slit somebody's throat. Yeah. So I'm like, okay, he's still there. Chase is still there. Yeah, it's still in there. But that's just who I am. That's not going anywhere. So what do you hope that 30 looks like for you? because he will be 30 June the 1st. I don't know. I just hope that God continues to bless me and blesses my family with good health and keeps us all safe and close to one another. And hopefully my businesses take off and continue to do well. Well, I think that the seltzer has already taken off. I mean, it's clear that it's doing its thing. Yeah, but you know I have where I want it to go. Right. But maybe God is going to temper that for you so that you can. I've had enough of being humbled. No, God says God will tell you when you've had enough. Maybe God wants you to celebrate each win. And in order for you to celebrate each win, you have to sit with it for a minute. Yeah. You can't say, wow, I just sold 25,000 cases and then turn around and say, well, I only sold 25,000 cases. You know, I really want to sell 50,000. God wants you to celebrate the 25 that he just allowed you to sell. I do. And I do. And I'm thankful. I am very thankful for that. But I'm not. I am. You're not content. I'm not content. God does. And listen. I'm appreciative, but I'm not satisfied. Well, I think that. Which I don't think that's a bad thing. I mean, you can be appreciative of something, but still want to do better. I think that we should always be raising the bar to do better. But there also comes a time in life to where enough is enough and to where you can sit still and give God the glory for what you have. And once you get to that place, there is a peace that I will not be able to ever explain to you. But I hope that by the way that I live going forward, you will see that there is a peace and less being more. There is a peace in that. And I think that changes with age, too, because a lot of things that like I used to want, I don't really care about now. Right. Because at the end of the day, what matters the most is your walk with Christ, where you truly stand with your Lord and Savior. That is the thing that matters the most. Um, and then you, are you whole? Do you feel good about where you are in your life? Does God, do you have a peace that God has instilled in you that only God can do? Yeah. And then if you have that, then your wife, then your children, then your siblings and your parents, because that lineup changes as you age. first and foremost, the most important thing in your life should always be your Lord and Savior. And if you, if, if God is here and you're right under him, you're closer to God. And God's love will pour over into you and fill you to where you can pour over into your wife. Yeah. Who will pour over and feed into your children. Your children will, will always love me more than anyone else. But, you know, I, it is, it is a understanding and it was hard for me to, you know, I learned that in my therapy that I always placed y'all first. Now, you know, your whole life, if someone would say, who do you love them? You know, Savannah stop people with you would people you've heard people or you've heard me and your mother say, you know, I love my children and then I love my, I love my wife. That's not what the Bible says. Your wife, then your children. That's right. And so, you know, once you understand that, and I learned that from my therapist, Steve, that you have to, in order for you to pour into someone else, you have to be pouring from a full cup. And I don't know that my cup was ever full. I don't think mine's full right now. I think that I kept pouring out anything that was poured into me, I poured it out and then some. But it's okay to keep some for you. That's right. And I never did that. And that builds resentment and anger and hostility. It's not healthy. But I want all of y'all to understand. And when I say y'all, I'm talking about the world and young people like you. and certainly in my children to understand that if you are full, that is when you will be the best husband that you can be. Because you came to that relationship a full grown man who has checked all the boxes. Yeah. And I think that like with the position that I'm in right now, I think that whatever relationship I get into next will probably be the last one. because that means you will be dating with intention yeah with purpose yeah that's right which i think i did that but i just wasn't in a place to to even offer that i thought i was but i wasn't well let's talk about you said you thought that you think that you did that but because you've had you've had you know you're 29 you have serviced the community um i don't think because i've always told y'all to date with a purpose look at this person here and think, am I going to be okay if she ends up being the mother of my children? Yeah. So I wouldn't say that you dated with purpose during that time because you wasn't really clear headed because you were drinking. That's what I said. I thought I was, but I wasn't like, I just, I wasn't able to even offer that or even really like comprehend how deep that actually goes. Right. Um, you know, a lot of people now I do. Right. Um, do you feel like that you made mistakes in your past relationships? Yes, for sure. Okay. And, and I'm, I'm definitely apologetic for those mistakes. I love that. Yeah. I love that. There's a lot of, a lot of stuff was my fault. Like, and I, I would never take accountability for it because of just, I get Ego. Ego, the state of mind I was in. I don't know. I'm just a totally different human being now. I'm not owed anything. I'm not any better than anybody else. Right. So then you acknowledge then that, and the frame of mind that you were in during the time that you were dating, you know from this person to this person this person those were not your healthiest years those were my probably my the worst unhealthy gotcha okay yeah but and so you acknowledge that that you had your role to play in those in the failures of those relationships yeah i mean looking back on it it was 90 my fault that's growth son yeah that's growth that's growth um who would have thought we'd be sitting here celebrating that we were the ones that were to blame. Um, but, um, you know, I, I'm super proud of you. You know what I mean? I, I thank God every day that I get to get up and see you, that I get to go work out with you, that I get to spend that time having lunch with you every day. Um, I thank God for that because I know what it's like to not have that for 28 months. Um, but to, but to be able to sit with you and have an open, honest conversation is truly one of the greatest gifts that I have ever been given because I don't have that with all of my children. Um, and that is a struggle that I deal with every day that I pray about every day and that I want all of us to be at peace. It's effort on, you can't do all the work. It's got to be. No, you can't do all the work. But at the end of the day, as a parent, a child can walk away, but a parent cannot walk away. And just because a parent is not sitting in the same room with you doesn't mean they've walked away. Yeah, for sure. Emotionally and spiritually, a parent that has ever loved a child is still with that child regardless of how far away they are. Even in death, they're still with that child. So I am proud of you. I am grateful for you. I love our time together. I love that you're where you are right now. There are so many things that's going on in our country right now that if we corrected at home, there wouldn't be a problem in public. Yeah, we're in a scary place. We're in a scary place. And I feel like it's too far gone. No, you can't say that because if it's too far gone, then God will shut it down. I would not be surprised. Do I believe that we are closer to the end of time than we've ever been? Yeah, I do. Because the Bible is very clear of looking for the signs and they're there. Right. When I get my shit together. Well, that would be great because if you're good when he, when he calls you, you've got an eternal life of glory. Um, but you know, I did want to talk about, um, I did want to talk about two things today that are very important to me. my fight for the incarcerated individuals within the Federal Bureau of Prisons but not just in the Federal Bureau of Prisons but in state prisons as well I get so many messages when I tell you hundreds and hundreds of messages a day. Facebook, last month, I got 1,187 messages on Facebook that involved someone's family member or someone that was currently incarcerated messaging me for help for inhumane conditions. lack of food, lack of medical care, physical and emotional and psychological abuse. And these things bother me to a level that it keeps me up at night. I want to be very clear on this because I've done a couple of podcasts now. I think the only ones that I've done are Candy Burroughs and Ian Bick. And I want to be very clear because I am very good at lacing or trying to find some kind of humor in every situation because that's how I have survived my life. I have tried to always find something funny in a situation that was bleak and dark because it helped to pull me out of it. So I want to be very clear when I say this to you. Prison life is hard, even if even if it's in the camp. Yes. Did I have these things to where I was able? Did I have money to where I could have food brought to me and things like that? Yes. But let me be very clear to you. Not everyone has that. And I took care of those that were around me. That's all I could do. Now, while I'm out, I'm going to try to take care of as many men and women that I can. Right now, I'm up to 116 guys that have come home since May the 28th. That is due to incorrect calculations of the FSA and the Second Chance Act, lack of compassion amongst staff members at the Bureau of Prisons, or just the simple fact that these men had no one to have a voice for them. So let's be very clear again, you comment on these podcasts of things that I say and talk about that I did not have a tough time. Tough time is relevant to what you're accustomed to, to what you know. And it may not have been tough to you when you're listening to it, but let me pluck you out of your situation, take you where I was and give you no money. And we'll find out if you still feel the same way. Um, do I think that the way I handled things with staff members of them bringing me what I wanted is that, was that the rules? No, it wasn't. But the rules that are in place are meant to break you. They're meant to break you spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. And I wasn't going to let that happen because God didn't send me there to be broken. God sent me there to build a foundation that men that had no foundation could step up on and use that as a stepping stool to get out and to be a better human being. And I'm going to continue to do that. I want to be very clear to each and every one of you that tune into Chrissy Confessions 2.0 every week that I try not to be political. I have my own views towards things. I have my own belief towards things. I am a Republican. I am a conservative. I believe that that we are all God's children and I believe that we should be lifting each other up. And what is going on in Minnesota today and what's been going on in Minnesota is tragic. It's heartbreaking. What went on? The deaths that have occurred. I can see video. I understand and can interpret what I see. So I want to be very I want my position to be very well understood when you listen to this. Being a Republican, being a Democrat, we can have a difference of opinion on where things stand socially, financially. But what we should not ever have a difference of opinion on is common decency in humanity. Those things we should not be so far apart on. As far as what happened with the lady who was shot, Ms. Good, it's tragic. It's heartbreaking. At the end of the day, all of this could have been all of this. None of this never had to happen. We're in a country that has a border. Illegal illegal immigration should not be an option. Now, if you're sitting here saying that I went to prison for a crime that you say that I committed and you want me punished. but yet you're not saying that you want people that are coming into our country illegally. You don't want them punished. That's a crime. So let's be very clear on where we stand. If it's one justice for all, let it be one justice for all. At the end of the day, we don't have the right to go out here and be putting our hands on police officers, spitting in their face, impeding their investigations. You have the right to protest. You have the right to video, but you have to do it in a respectful manner that's not impeding law enforcement. What happened with the death of this gentleman who was the nurse, my heart goes out to his mom and dad. I'm sitting here with my son right now, and I'm blessed and grateful to be able to do that. They won't have that option again. That situation is so tragic and so disturbing. His situation did not involve a car, you know, gearing up and placing, you know, an ICE officer in a situation to where they don't know if they're going to be ran over or not. His situation didn't have that. I've seen the videos. and that's problematic and we've got to deal with that. The Republican Party has to look at that situation and say, and I believe that President Trump is doing that right now based on the comments that I'm seeing in the press, that even President Trump is looking at that situation and acknowledging that there's a problem there. We should not be out here looting and burning buildings and and think that that's going to get us somewhere that gets us nowhere. We have to come together. And it's one thing to take, you know, to offer a meal to someone who's here illegally or whatever. But it's not OK when you've got the kind of theft that has occurred in Minnesota that it's mind-boggling to me that you guys watching this podcast will say that I should have gone to prison for tax evasion, even though the government has now acknowledged there was no taxes owed and that I have been given a refund. But you were so gung-ho to do that, but you're not okay, or rather, but you're okay with your tax dollars to the tune of billions of dollars in Minnesota alone being stolen and funneled through illegal immigrants and sent back to countries to fund wars against your own people. Folks, stop with that shit. Call it what it is. It is what it is. The theft occurred. Tim Walsh should step down. He should not be the governor of Minnesota. The mayor there in Minnesota, when I listen to him, what have they done to temper this? Now, some of you will say, well, what can they do when President Trump and the federal government is dumping ice in there? Well, I'll tell you that. I'll tell you what they can do. This theft has been going on for years and they turned a blind eye to it because it was corruption from the top down. And just as I've said about the Bureau of Prisons, in order to kill the snake, you've got to cut the head off. The head of the snake in the state of Minnesota is Tim Walsh. Fry, whatever his name is, the attorney general, the chief of police just made a statement that said he doesn't care what the outcome of this shooting is. It's not going to matter because people are tired of it. That's not the way the law works. Now I have my opinion on that shooting and, and it's, it's not favorable to ice when I, when I'm looking at this, but at the end of the day, whatever the verdict is, you guys made us live by it. They need to live by it too. So I want you to know that when you tune into Chrisley Confessions 2.0, you come here knowing that I'm going to be honest and open and transparent about how I feel. I genuinely love people. I want to make people laugh. I want people to feel lighthearted around me. I don't want people to feel heavy when I walk into a room. And I normally will take the heaviness out and carry it with me when I leave and process it myself. But you have to stop. We have to call it for what it is. And when we start doing that and we start looking to the left and to the right in front of us and behind us, and we see people for not political affiliation, not because of this color of their skin, not because of where they are socioeconomically. When we start seeing people as human beings, we become a better human being ourself. So with that being said, I'm going to get off of that one. The second one is Mr. Mosley at Tucson. You've been fucking with my people there. You have stopped. You interceded on visitations and made a young mother breastfeed in a bathroom because you would not give her a place for her to breastfeed her child in private where she could maintain a certain level of decorum and respect for herself and her child. you then sent a 60 year old woman who was there to see her child you made her leave because you didn't feel like her clothing was up to par for you now I don't know you Mr. Mosley but I know just from the simple fact that you working that you're working visitation and you work for the Bureau of Prison you have never been on the cover of Vanity Fair you have never been on Mr. Blackwell's best dress list and Prada is not something you could even spell let alone purchase So you critiquing someone's fashion attire is hypocrisy at its finest. But just so you know, I reported you. Stop running around Tucson in that camp over there trying to figure out who got you. I got you. I reported you to Josh Smith. The moment one of your own co-workers reported you to me over the abuse that you doled out at visitation. So I want you to know that I'm going to follow this through because you've now been reported to the Office of Internal Affairs. I want you terminated because you're not going to be better. Anyone that would do what you did and make these young kids not want to come see their dad because they're afraid of you, you should not be there. So Mr. Mosley, M-O-S-L-E-Y, a CO at the federal prison camp in Tucson, I want you to know that you need to be fired. You are one of the bad ones and you should be cut loose. Anyone else, because I know y'all listen to the podcast, all of the facilities in the country listen to this podcast because you're waiting to see if I'm going to get you next. I am. Right now, though, this week belongs to Tucson and Mr. Mosley. Keep your hands off of people. Stop abusing people verbally, emotionally and psychologically. Do your job. That means that per Billy Marshall, the director of the Bureau of Prisons, you will now handle individuals that are in the care of your custody with common decency and respect. And if you can't do that, he doesn't want you and neither do I. So with that being said, Mr. Mosley, I'll give an update on you as it comes in, but I will not let this fall silent. I will not let you get by with it. So, folks, with that being said, I'm going to go out here now and I'm going to do my best to be a better person today. We'll probably fall short a little bit later, but I'll try to climb back until I see you next week. So good luck and God bless. At Pluto TV, we're celebrating Black History Month with our free curated collection of Black entertainment. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. Catch award-winning films like Dreamgirls, Monsters Ball, and Selma. We must make a massive demonstration. Iconic hits like School Days and Set It Off. Plus full seasons of shows like Tyler Perry's Sisters and Power. 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