From Reality TV to Podcast Freedom feat. Tyler Baltierra
The Southern Tea
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4.3 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Lindsie welcomes Tyler Baltierra (of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom) to discuss the impact of his open adoption journey with his first daughter. Tyler shares his changed perspective on the adoption industry, advocating for reform and revealing lesser known details of open adoptions. The two also get candid about the dark side of reality TV, discussing the lack of legal and financial guidance they received when signing their first major contracts. Tyler also explains how their adoption served as a powerful catalyst for positive change in his marriage and parenting.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe I'm just like weird, maybe I'm crunchy. |
| 0:03.6 | This is the Southern Tea with Lindsay Crisley. |
| 0:06.2 | I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these people write their children's accomplishments on the back. |
| 0:12.6 | I don't love them. |
| 0:13.8 | A Southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life while staying true to her roots. |
| 0:18.7 | I am a functioning, non-functioning human being right now. |
| 0:22.7 | Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea, and nothing but the tea. |
| 0:28.6 | That is the tea. |
| 0:30.1 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 0:33.9 | Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Southern Tea. Super excited. Tyler, |
| 0:39.5 | I have not seen you on what feels like forever. It's been a while. Thanks for having me, |
| 0:43.8 | though. I'm doing great. How are you doing? Doing great. I mean, as great as I can be doing, |
| 0:49.7 | we've got a lot of life changes going on over here, but doing pretty well um how is the podcast world going |
| 0:56.3 | for you and kate the podcast world is great treating this really good uh we're having a blast doing it |
| 1:02.3 | uh i mean obviously we're still you know new at this whole thing but i love it i mean i enjoy it it's great |
| 1:07.8 | i you know it's freedom that i didn't have before being on TV. So, |
| 1:11.5 | you know how that is. It's so crazy. Well, I want to kind of jump right in. So the last time that I saw |
| 1:18.0 | you guys, I feel like you had maybe just wrapped up filming something teen mom related. Yeah. |
| 1:26.6 | Yep. And then what happened? |
| 1:28.8 | Are you allowed to talk about it? |
| 1:30.2 | I mean, listen, MTV, I mean, as far as MTV goes, we're just still kind of waiting for them to, you know, figure out their whole little thing they got going on because obviously they got bought out, sky dance, all that stuff. |
| 1:42.8 | So, I mean, there's a lot of talks happening right now, but it's all kind of up in the air still. But like I said, like, I feel like with the podcast, it's like I don't, I'm not mad if it stops. You know what I mean? I'm not mad if this is the end. It's the end. It's fine. So, I mean, it is what it is. Like I said, I'll ride the train until it stops. But, you know, hey, listen, I relate to that so much when I left Chris L. |
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