Abigail: Love Without Range

Summary

The Read – Episode Summary

Episode Title: Abigail: Love Without Range
Date: July 30, 2026
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle
Podcast: The Read (Loud Speakers Network)

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Read delivers the pod’s signature blend of pop culture tea, irreverent humor, and personal therapy. Kid Fury and Crissle catch up on the week’s messiest headlines — from Black pop culture triumphs and TV/film updates to viral WNBA drama and the latest in celebrity foolishness. The duo also dive into listener letters, ranging from game night etiquette to an unfortunate poultry tragedy. The tone, as always, is shaded, hilarious, and always a bit unfiltered.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Black Excellence: Nehemiah Turner, Reading to Shelter Animals

[03:04–06:23]

• Kid Fury spotlights 11-year-old Nehemiah Turner from Florida, who clocked over 100 hours reading to animals at Jacksonville Humane Society as part of their “PAWSitive Reading Program.”
• The hosts praise the power of Black kids and the healing, soothing impact of reading to animals.

Kid Fury [05:33]: "Nehemiah said, 'I step into the room, and the girls know what time it is. Like, my energy brings—'" Crissle [05:39]: "Sounds like a little icon."

2. Pop Culture Catch-up & “Hot Tops”

[07:24–26:28]

• Black Panther 3 Casting: Ryan Coogler working on Black Panther 3 confirmed at SDCC. Audience discourse about fan casting and nepotism is roasted.
• Children of Blood and Bone Adaptation:
  • Kid Fury on the newly-released trailer: delighted at the budget, cast, and Black fantasy representation, while acknowledging the author’s public distancing from the adaptation.
  • Crissle isn’t a fantasy fan but perks up at the Yoruba/magic/African lens.

Kid Fury [10:45]: "It's giving. The effects are affecting." Crissle [12:49]: "The author did say, I don't mind if y'all go see it. I just am separating my name from it."

• Nintendo Switch 2 Games:
  • Games like Splatoon Raiders, Donkey Kong Bonanza, and Pokémon Pokopia discussed, with Crissle admitting to being a lapsed gamer.

Kid Fury [19:10]: "If you want something a little bit more adventurous and fun and carefree and decompressing...Donkey Kong Bonanza!"

• Other Shows & Movies:
  • Toy Story 5 (Crissle saw it, enjoyed it; commentary on the need for play in kids’ lives in the age of tablets).
  • Inside Out 2 (both affected by its emotional portrayal of anxiety).

Kid Fury [29:12]: "When that was…and then Joy just hugs it—"

3. WNBA All-Star Weekend & "Stud Buds" Chaos

[32:05–36:08]

• Crissle unpacks the “stud buds” livestream drama — lesbians livestreaming the chaotic All Star parties; players’ breakups and “messy” aftermath splashed all over social media.

Crissle [34:19]: "Dijonay got on threads and said, since y'all want to be funny, I'mma be hilarious...chew on that, bitch. And I said, oh, God!"

• Host reflections on the soap-opera level storylines in the women's league.

4. Celebrity & Retail Mess

[37:07–44:47]

• Ice Spice’s Fragrance Launch (“In Her Mood”)
  • Both hosts question the trend of ordering fragrances online without smelling them.

Crissle [40:17]: "I do not like rose scent or flavor."

• Beyoncé and Sir Davis Whiskey
  • Quick update on Beyoncé buying Moet-Hennessy's stake in her whiskey brand.

Kid Fury [44:08]: “Beyoncé has said in terms of Sir Davis…I'll be taking that, thank you.”

5. Messy Men: DJ Envy and Ass Hygiene

[47:00–59:03]

• A viral Breakfast Club clip: DJ Envy reveals he didn’t properly wash himself until his wife taught him how in adulthood.
• The hosts are in disbelief, using the story as a jumping-off point to explore “straight man hygiene” and gender dynamics.

Crissle [53:00]: "Women don’t get together and be like, girl, did you rent your pussy out today? I’m working under the assumption that everybody rinsed their pussy today." Kid Fury [55:14]: "What I refuse to do as an adult is educate another able-bodied adult how to do the basics of washing oneself."

6. Legal Updates: Kanye West’s Lawsuit Settles

[60:03–62:06]

• Kanye West settles sexual assault lawsuit with former assistant Lauren Piotta, terms undisclosed.

7. Bumps and Bruises Tour (“Usher and Chris Brown Drama”)

[63:00–71:26]

• A viral video from the tour shows Usher dismissing a visibly uncomfortable fan from the stage.
• The fan’s social media response (“pretty privilege,” VIP seating, etc.) is dissected and playfully ridiculed.

Kid Fury [67:29]: "Me and my mama have floor seats. Hilarious...Pretty privilege is something you hoes will never know about." Kid Fury [69:36]: "If you had pretty privilege, you would have been sucking Chris Brown’s dick that night."

8. Board Game & Card Game Hot Takes

[83:36–96:12]

• In response to a listener letter, the hosts deliver their “subway takes”:
  • Audiobooks ≠ Reading:
    • Crissle and Fury both assert that listening to audiobooks is not the same thing as reading; reading requires eyes (or Braille).

    Crissle [85:07]: “Audiobooks do not count as reading.” Kid Fury [85:45]: "The first thing I said...You didn't read that."

  • Monopoly/Uno House Rules:
    • Black family game night chaos: disputes over rules prolong Monopoly, and Uno stacking sins.

9. Listener Letters (Advice Segment)

[76:38–108:43]

• Angry Cat Lady follow-up: boyfriend finally neutered his cats, resulting in improved behavior.
• Chicken Baddie: Her friend failed to water her pet chicken Abigail, leading to the chicken's death. The hosts are empathetic and suggest that the friendship might not be salvageable.

Kid Fury [100:38]: “I think I would...have to let the friendship die.”

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On WNBA All-Star Mess:

  Crissle [34:19]: “Dijonay got on threads and said, since y'all want to be funny, I'mma be hilarious...chew on that, bitch. And I said, oh, God!"

• On DJ Envy’s Hygiene Confession:

  Kid Fury [55:05]: "Why are you not calling these niggas’ mammys and saying ‘take him, re-raise this nigga’?...The main themes are not downloaded into this one’s psyche."

• On Usher Kicking Fan Offstage:

  Kid Fury [67:29]: "Pretty privilege is something you hoes will never know about."

• Audiobook Discourse:

  Crissle [85:07]: "Audiobooks do not count as reading."

• Chicken Baddie’s Saga:

  Crissle [98:48]: “The chickens helped maintain normalcy for my girls. They brought joy...this feels really unforgivable.”

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Other Notable Segments

• TV/Movies:
  • Latest on Project Runway, Widow’s Bay, Avatar, and Tina Fey’s new Netflix show.
• Games/Tech:
  • Nintendo Sleep Alarm “Lifelike” Mario/Link ambient music
• Fragrance Talk:
  • Both hosts are skeptical about buying perfume/cologne online, especially “rose” notes.

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Important Timestamps

• [03:04]: Black Excellence: Nehemiah and Humane Society Reading
• [07:24]: Hot Tops segment launch
• [10:45]: Children of Blood and Bone movie breakdown
• [19:09]: Switch 2 game recs, Animal Crossing, Donkey Kong
• [26:34]: Inside Out 2 and Toy Story 5 reviews
• [34:19]: WNBA All-Star drama (Dijonay Carrington/Stud Buds)
• [40:17]: Ice Spice fragrance talk
• [47:00]: DJ Envy’s hygiene story
• [60:03]: Kanye West lawsuit settlement
• [63:00]: Bumps and Bruises Tour, Usher/Chris Brown fan moment
• [76:38]: Listener Letters begin (Angry Cat Lady, Chicken Baddie)
• [85:07]: Audiobooks “not reading” hot take
• [100:38]: Chicken Baddie: advice on ending the friendship

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Tone & Language

The conversation remains true to the show’s frank, shaded, and deeply humorous tone. Commentary is often biting (“Socialists crawling out from every crevice,” “Leave that beloved, innocent character out of your hateful bullshit”), but always relatable and thoughtful when it comes to issues of mental health, gender norms, friendship, and Black pop culture representation.

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Wrap-Up

As always, The Read delivers pop culture shade, heartfelt listener advice, and plenty to laugh about (or scream in horror over, depending on the week's mess). From Black fantasy at the box office to chickens and children grieving in Vegas, Kid Fury and Crissle effortlessly combine deep commentary with comic timing, making every topic — even deceased poultry — feel vital and hilarious.

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Transcript

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

Welcome back, you fucking slur. Thank you for joining us. My name is Rudy Raymore.

[Crissle West]

And I'm Aja Wilson. And this is the Read. Thank you for joining us.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you for joining us. Summer isn't over yet. Zara Larson. Yes. Here we are still in Lamdani's July. Wrapping it up here. And every clip, every clip that I get from Big Donnie, I'm just like, how much more can I love him?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, he's pretty great.

[Kid Fury]

He's pretty fucking great. And again, got the girlies shook. Shook. Socialists are crawling out from every crevice and saying, see, what if people had things.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And not just in New York.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Exactly.

[Crissle West]

We can do this in Texas if y' all really wanted to.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah. Urine. Conservative piss everywhere. Welcome Back. Let's get things started with our usual judge. We're gonna do some black excellence really quickly this week. Black excellence goes to an amazing young boy in Florida. You guys know I love. You know, I love when good stories come out of that place. Need as many as miracles. This week it goes to an 11 year old named Nehemiah. Nehemiah Turner. Quick pause. Love the name immediately. Love it. Great name. Biblical name, classic name.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Love the name Nehemiah.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Starting off strong, he's been able to rack up 100 hours of reading two animals at the Jacksonville Humane Society Shout Out, Duval County. Okay, so the JHS has something they call the positive reading program. Pause. And I think it's a relatively new program, but Nehemiah has been there reading to pets for the past two years. He is a straight A student.

[Crissle West]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

And I kind of had to shake off a bit of energy here. I'm reading this on people.com and they have these two photos right under the headline of him reading. And it. It's just this little black boy on the ground, dog behind glass. And they just looking like. Cause you know what pets at a shelter want.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Company.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

They just want to hang out, if not an actual adoption.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So here he is reading these books, and there's even one dog in this picture that's, like, looking at the book, like. And then girl. What?

[Crissle West]

Katniss.

[Kid Fury]

No, Katniss. Hot. Like the dog is. So I was like, okay, let me scroll real quickly, because feelings. There's things I love. Happy, safe, black children and dogs.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Nice.

[Kid Fury]

So I thought this was an amazing story. He was interviewed by local news outlets, and they asked him how it felt. He said, soothing, feels good. Calm, comforted animals. It's not like a whole bunch of barking is happening. So Nehemiah said, I step into the room, and the girls know what time it is. Like, my energy brings.

[Crissle West]

Okay, right, right, right. Exactly. Sounds like a little icon.

[Kid Fury]

When asked what's next, he said, well, 110 hours, 150 hours, 200 hours. As if, like, well, what did you. What did you think? Was that. I'm just gonna keep reading to the dogs because it's fierce.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I have straight A's. Like, don't at me. Why are you screaming? The folks obviously over at the Jacksonville Humane Society love it. This white man in a clip I watched was like, two years, a hundred hours. May wonders never cease. This is so great. So shout out to one Florida Nehemiah Turner, a name with power.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I agree, because I. You Said it with that Turner. And I was like, oh, it's giving Ike, period, a revolutionary for the people, for the. For the innocence, for the vulnerable. I. I do honestly love that. And now I need to look up, like, who is reading to dogs in New York City? And when can I drop off Lainey? You just let me know.

[Kid Fury]

Why Ike before Nat.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God. I was thinking that. Oh, why would I be short?

[Kid Fury]

Said I. I was like, well.

[Crissle West]

Oh, no, Wrong Turner. Goddamn. Sorry. I meant that. Well. Cause what, brother?

[Kid Fury]

There's a story. I don't know.

[Crissle West]

Wrong Turner.

[Kid Fury]

Leaked, right?

[Crissle West]

Never mind. And you just let me talk.

[Kid Fury]

I was waiting for a part.

[Crissle West]

Nat Turner.

[Kid Fury]

My bad.

[Crissle West]

Slow your fingers down, y'. All. I meant Nat.

[Kid Fury]

Of course. The people listening to this were like, girl, she meant Nat. It's bristle.

[Crissle West]

My bad.

[Kid Fury]

Um, so let's get things started with our pop culture segment that we call Hot Tops. Before I get into the fuckery, I want to talk about some more individual fun interest.

[Crissle West]

That was great.

[Kid Fury]

What is a good name for that? Like the Hot Top section where we talk about things we want to talk about. Yeah, I came up with some whack ass name with it a couple months ago, but I forgot what it was.

[Crissle West]

Oh, damn.

[Kid Fury]

Like hot. Hot Tops and in life. Banana.

[Crissle West]

What? Who knows? No, no, no, no, no. That's not it.

[Kid Fury]

We'll think of something. Have you. Okay, first of all, shout out to David Johnson. Ryan Coogler over there working on Black Panther 3.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes, we did. We did. We did. See that. That was announced.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Over there at San Diego Comic Con. I don't understand why I still have not been to sccc. SDCC when San Diego, like two hours away.

[Crissle West]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Next year maybe. Also, though, comic conventions, musty Over. Okay, I was gonna say overwhelming. Oh, but sorry. You know, that can be overwhelming too, right?

[Crissle West]

That would be what got me out of there. It's only so much funk I can stand.

[Kid Fury]

But, yes, I am very excited about that. I'm very, very thrilled. I will discuss more of that in another segment of the show.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Have you seen a trailer for Children of Blood and Bone?

[Crissle West]

I have not. I've only seen the drama around it.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, let's skip forward to the trailer. That's yesterday, I think. Oh, I'm going.

[Crissle West]

Okay. You said, I don't care who ain't involved no more. I will be seated for this movie.

[Kid Fury]

That lady says she's not going to see that movie. Right. And let me say this. I feel her and I feel for her. Now I'm Dead ass. Because I'm being so serious.

[Crissle West]

Cause you really finna set up. Why you still going? So. Yeah, she.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, let me do it then. I want to see if you still think it's funny. I feel hurt because the end. That's just kind of how it is. You could write a book. You could write a screenplay for it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Once you sell it to a studio or what have you, they could do whatever the fuck they want to it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, they can.

[Kid Fury]

And you're not directing it either. They could do whatever the fuck they want to with the movie. So I understand the frustration that can come with that, and it likely does. I don't know if I. If there's been more to it, if she's kind of, like, expanded on her frustrations, but I immediately assumed that they were creative.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So I feel her on that respect. At the same time, I'm gonna go see the movie because it looks fantastic, and I want to support this because I want to see more of it. And it's very, very clear that they put a hefty. A hefty amount of cash into this bitch.

[Crissle West]

Oh, no.

[Kid Fury]

Because it's giving.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

The effects are affecting everybody. Name my mother might be in this movie. Like, everybody is in it. Cynthia Erivo. Idris Elba. Viola Davis Damson. Idris Amandla Stenberg. Regina King is in it. Everybody's in this movie. So budget for the cast alone.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Big. But then I'm looking at the hair, then I'm looking at the production design, I'm looking at the costuming, then I'm looking at the special effects. And then I know what the book series is about. I'm going to go see this movie because I. Unless the author is saying, look, I was groped or something against my moral compass, I really want to support this movie because I think we need to support this movie the same way I wanted the girls to go out and see one of them days. I love boosters. Sinners.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

What was the big black. There was one right before. I love boosters that we all went to go see. I feel like I'm forgetting another black movie that dropped.

[Crissle West]

Oh, is God is right?

[Kid Fury]

Right. That's how I feel about this. Unless someone's gonna come forward and be like, let me tell you about this fucking nightmare and who belongs in jail.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

It looks fantastic. I love the books. I really want for this to have a payoff, especially if the movie actually deserves it. I want the box office to show it. I want niggas to understand by Niggas. I mean, crackers, to understand.

[Crissle West]

And I knew that.

[Kid Fury]

Right? We see each other. We do move around. But, yeah, girl, watch the trailer. The movie looks really fierce.

[Crissle West]

Well, so the author did say, I don't mind if y' all go see it. I just am separating my name from it. So I just googled it and found it. So she don't have no problem with y'. All. She probably still getting a cut of the box office, of course. So she said, yeah, why you think that? Go see it, y'.

[Kid Fury]

All. Why you think Joanne K. Won't shut her ass up? Cause every time you buy Harry Potter gummies at the.

[Crissle West]

She'll be responsible.

[Kid Fury]

Unfortunately, she cashes in. Right.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I'm sure she was gonna get super paid, too.

[Crissle West]

But this might be one of them ones where I buy a ticket and don't go because.

[Kid Fury]

And don't go.

[Crissle West]

Children of Blood and Bones sound like it's gonna have a lot of blood and bones in it.

[Kid Fury]

It's actually like a young adult novel. It's more about, like, magic and Yoruba culture.

[Crissle West]

And there's no violence.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, well, people fight, but it's not gonna be bloody.

[Crissle West]

Oh, really?

[Kid Fury]

I don't imagine it's gonna be too bloody. Hmm.

[Crissle West]

Interesting. I've also not read the book, so I don't know what happens. See, right now you're just saying you should read the book.

[Kid Fury]

Read the first book. I think you'd like it.

[Crissle West]

You know the book. I'm looking. I'm skimming it on Wikipedia, and the book actually does sound good.

[Kid Fury]

It's really good. It's hugely popular.

[Crissle West]

And I don't know how. No, I've had years to read this and just never have, so. But a lot of people compared it to other fantasy type stuff.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

You know, the Hunger Games. And that's what. I'm really not a fan of fantasy. I'm really not. What was that one TV show? Was it hbo? And everybody just loved it. And I was like, Lovecraft country.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I could not. Sure. Wasn't really fantasy. It was like a horror thriller.

[Crissle West]

Oh, supernatural. Yeah. Okay, maybe that's it then. That I didn't.

[Kid Fury]

But I think fantasy, I think of, like, Game of Thrones, like, magic and dragons and maybe elves and stuff like that. That's kind of what this is, but in an Africa. African lens.

[Crissle West]

Got you. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So like, Orishas and all of these different elements of Yoruba culture. And then it's like magic was taken away from us, but now you can bring the Magic bit. Oh, yeah, I think you'd like it. Read the book.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Yeah. And then y' all let me know about this movie if. If I can handle it.

[Kid Fury]

But let me see if the rating is Children of. I'm sure it's gonna be like PG13.

[Crissle West]

I don't know that sound like.

[Kid Fury]

Well, we all have blood, don't we?

[Crissle West]

And it needs to stay on the inside. That's where it belongs and it needs to remain in there.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know if the rating comes out, but I guarantee you it's going to be PG13. I highly. In fact, if it was R, I feel like I'd have heard by now if it was going to be R.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, well, it does not have a rating yet, so we'll see.

[Kid Fury]

I am certain this movie is going to be PG13. I think.

[Crissle West]

I think that makes sense.

[Kid Fury]

Check the book out.

[Crissle West]

I mean it's young. It's. It's ya. So. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Well, you let me know what you think. I love the books. And that's another thing. It deserves to get all of it. Here goes the next one. Here goes the next movie. Bitch. What's his name? James Cameron can have 18 blue Pocahontas movies. Shut your ass and open your wallet.

[Crissle West]

Can and do. That's right.

[Kid Fury]

The owners of a Switch, I think Switch two. Splatoon Raiders. That's all I'm gonna say. Worth the bucket. And at this point you can go ahead and get the Nintendo Switch 2. I told you girls I was gonna be honest with you. Listen, ain't nobody got time for no motherfucking games and splurging and too much treat yourself. Especially not for no $500 game.

[Crissle West]

Right? And it's still $500. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

So I wasn't. I'm not gonna tell you girls to go pick it up. Pokemon Pokopia was where I was like, okay, niece. Okay, niece, we might be cooking. Was this Splatoon Raiders and Donkey Kong and Pokemon Poke Up. You might as well just go ahead and grab one when you can. Gamers. Oh, also, I think you would get a kick out of Tomodachi Life Animal crossing as a Switch 2 update. But I think you would get a kick out of Tomodachi Life too.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well, I just Google Splatoon Raiders and it looks like if the you won't like that one if the LOL dolls were doing fighting games. So I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

So Splatoon is like a long standing Nintendo ip. And your little Squidlings. Squidlings, Sinklings. I think they're called inklings. Whatever. They're little people. They look like little, you know, LOL dolls, but they also, like have the ability to turn into little squids. When they turn, they like paint stuff. They spray paint all over the place and then they can swim through the paint. And it's typically like a competitive game. Like a team of maybe four. Try to have the most paint on a map. I could never get into it.

[Crissle West]

Got you. So splatoon of paint, I guess.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, gotcha. Or ink, whatever.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

It's very, very cute. Kids like it. I could never get into it outside of really liking the art direction and thinking they're cute. This is a game that's single player where you take your little inkling squid man Bob Squeeze, you dress them up and you go out into these little worlds and you get loot and you collect stuff and you kill these little fish monster thingies. You get loot and they use the loot and you make new weapons. It's really cute game. Lots of fun. So nerds out there, if you're interested in like on the fence for the switch to maybe have a little in your pocket waiting for the right time. She's up right now.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

She's kind of up right now. Just saying.

[Crissle West]

Okay. I mean, they do it is 500, but they do give you a download code and you can pick one of these games out of Mario Kart World. Donkey Kong Bonanza, Procopia. Yeah, you can pick one of those three.

[Kid Fury]

Pocopia, Donkey Kong, one of the two, depending on what you want. If you want one of those Animal Crossing style things where you just kick back and it's like, I forgot I have to turn this off because my Pokemon center is built and I just moved in. You know all of that other shit that we did with Animal Crossing during quarantine.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

If you want something a little bit more adventurous and fun and carefree and decompressing. Yeah, why not Donkey Kong Bonanza. Super cute, great music, lovely story, Adorable. Sometimes tear jerky. Great gameplay. Mario Kart World can you can have a V8. That one. And I believe that bitch is still like 79.99 on the E shot.

[Crissle West]

See?

[Kid Fury]

So, Miyamoto, who do you think you are, Anyway? Games. What's the last game you played? The Bluey Draw. Bluey man, probably.

[Crissle West]

Honestly, my switch is over there collecting dust. I have not turned that on in so long and I don't know why. I go in and out of like being super into games for a while and then I fall off for a little bit. That's why I'm like, if I get this switch too, I know I'm gonna be back in. I'm gonna be locked in. And I have other stuff I need to focus on right now. I tend to go too hard. I am, I am. We remember every. Literally. Aurok, I have 100% completion on breath of the Wild. Like, bitch, who do you know with this kind of power? Like, hello, it's just me. Who else would find all 800 Koroks to assign?

[Kid Fury]

I have one more bitch in tears of the kingdom. I've done the water one.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I just have to go to. What's the desert called?

[Crissle West]

Oh, fuck. I don't remember.

[Kid Fury]

I have to go over there.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I did the water. I did the air with the birds. I did the. I just did the fire one. I have to go do her.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I'm wrapping her up. I can't wait to finish it a. Because, my God, that game come out, what, three years ago?

[Crissle West]

Gerudo Desert. Gerudo Desert.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. My favorite, actually. I just. I saved it for last because that's where the cunties are. Yeah, that's where the dolls are.

[Crissle West]

The baddies are over there. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Save the best for the last. But, yeah, I want to finish it because also, I mentioned this a couple months ago somewhere I read someone was like, if you haven't finished Tears of the Kingdom, finish it. The end is fierce. That's all I'm going to say. Yeah, like, fucking fine. Plus, there's that sequel spinoff game I really want to play, so whatever.

[Crissle West]

You gotta do it.

[Kid Fury]

Avatar. I haven't watched Avatar Aang yet. That's all I have to say about it. Haven't watched it yet. Figured somebody might say, hey, Fury, have you watched Avatar Aang yet? And can you pester Krystal about watching Avatar again? The answer is no. The answer is probably not.

[Crissle West]

I do think somebody emailed about that, actually. Like, I just want to know if Kim Fury watched something. It probably.

[Kid Fury]

Here are my taters and everything that they know this.

[Crissle West]

Wait, this is the show that I got bullied about at our live show?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Okay. No, I'm not looking at it.

[Kid Fury]

Where that lady brought a consultation.

[Crissle West]

She had a damn.

[Kid Fury]

So now you're not gonna watch it out of school?

[Crissle West]

I have a notebook, right?

[Kid Fury]

It's a fierce show. I just started to piss y' all off. I just started all over and this really good fighting game came out for her, too. It's really good. I am interested in seeing the movie, but I kind of want to watch the whole series over again. It's not that long anyway. That answers that question. I've seen it. I mean, I haven't seen it, but I have seen the trailer for the new one that's coming out the end of the year with the little black girl, Avatar. Very excited to see that. And most Avatar fans are not absolutely hopeless and shiftless morons.

[Crissle West]

Oh, damn.

[Kid Fury]

So I don't expect that there's gonna be this huge pushback about the new character being a girl in black. Maybe her being a girl, because the last one was. But, like.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so y' all are doing too much.

[Kid Fury]

Avatar is also openly gay, and fans love it, so I can't.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yep, we love that.

[Kid Fury]

Last but not least, on a little personal thing, I haven't seen the Odyssey either. I. It's still sold out.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God. What?

[Kid Fury]

Full. At least imax, because that's where I want to go see it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Oh, right, the 70 millimeter. All that.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That's what.

[Crissle West]

Right. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It's been out for, what, like two

[Crissle West]

weeks in Los Angeles? You're not getting no tickets.

[Kid Fury]

Zendaya already over here doing press for. For Spider Man.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah, right?

[Kid Fury]

You are still okay.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Adam saw it. Adam went to see Odyssey for his birthday. He just turned 30, which is crazy. My brother. Yes. He just turned 30. And I was like, well, what you do for your birthday? And he said, went to see the Odyssey in 75 millimeter extravaganza, or whatever it's called. And he said it was great.

[Kid Fury]

So I haven't heard a single bad thing about it. Me either.

[Crissle West]

But you know what I went to go see this week? Toy Story 5. How was she? It is so good. It is.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, y', all, did you cry?

[Crissle West]

No, but it was very. I mean, I got a little teary. You know, there's some. There's some elements like that in it, but cry. No, I did enjoy.

[Kid Fury]

Everyone was weeping after three. Like, that one is famous for making you cry.

[Crissle West]

Well, because three, I think, is where. If you grew up with this franchise, and you're like, God damn.

[Kid Fury]

At this point, Andy's all grown and.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, at this point, Andy's kids don't want toys no more. That's how old Andy is. So. Fuck. All the millennials died a little bit when they heard that.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no.

[Crissle West]

Oh. But yes, Toy Story 5 was really cute, and I'm glad I went and saw that. But as I'm not doing The Odyssey. I'm not going to.

[Kid Fury]

So I was gonna ask for spoilers. I guess we should just watch it

[Crissle West]

for Toy Story 5.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Because all the promo is. Has that big, like, leapfrog or whatever. Like the tablet.

[Crissle West]

The tablet, yeah. It's just about how do we balance technology, which is here, obviously, and a huge part of our lives with what children need, which is, you know, play. Kids actually do need to play. It's. It's important for them developmentally. And no, games on the iPad do not count. Like, and. And you get some shots into, like, what happens when these kids let their imagination take over and the stories they come up with, which is so cute.

[Kid Fury]

But I love that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah. I love when they just get ridiculous with it. So it is.

[Kid Fury]

I love that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And it comes to a nice, reasonable conclusion. And, you know, nothing else.

[Kid Fury]

The iPad's not the bad guy.

[Crissle West]

Well, it just needs to be used in moderation, which. Yeah. You know, we should be introducing kids to these things slowly and at much older ages than we currently are.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

This sounds to you.

[Crissle West]

It's good. It's really good. I enjoyed it. I did.

[Kid Fury]

Because I never saw the fourth one.

[Crissle West]

Was that the one where Tim Allen wouldn't do it? Cause it was woke. Maybe.

[Kid Fury]

Cause that's how slightly familiar. And what the else is Tim Allen doing, Right? Probably.

[Crissle West]

I think that's the one where Tim Allen was like, yeah, I'm not. Or was it the other one? I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

I definitely have not seen the fourth one. I don't even know what that one's about.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Well, it is. Toy Story 5 was very. I really did enjoy it.

[Kid Fury]

So all of that sounds really.

[Crissle West]

You. You will probably cry because I got a little theories.

[Kid Fury]

Those things surprise me.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Because a lot of times I will cry and be the only one in the theater crying.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And then sometimes, like, the whole theater is beeping and I'm like, yeah, I guess this is emotional, but I'm fine. Remember when we went to go see what the fuck was that movie called? And everybody was crying. A grown up movie. Sequel to the Wedding. The Wedding. The Wedding. The Wedding Acrimony. Best man. The Best man.

[Crissle West]

Oh, the best man reunion. The Best man feels.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Like the last one where Holiday died.

[Crissle West]

The best man Holiday.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Oh, oh. When Old girl died. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

The entire theater. No. Was inconsolable. And I was sitting there like, yeah, I guess this sucks. I mean, but that was the last thing I watched that made me cry. I don't know.

[Crissle West]

I know it wasn't Inside out too, but that's the first one that came to mind. But I know that wasn't.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I was big weeping.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, yeah. But that got everybody. That got everybody.

[Kid Fury]

That still makes me cry.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Every adult was like, God damn.

[Kid Fury]

Oh.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

The anxiety attack. Like, the actual representation of it with the characters. But then seeing her, Riley, having it in, you know, real time, the way her friends came, you know what I mean, and checked on her. The way that Joy pops in when the anxiety is breaking down. Even though anxiety was taking her through them. Joy. Joy's character arc brought her back to a place where she saw her as an emotion that was also, you know, important and valid and necessary and just loved on her. Bitch. What was the little thing that has all her, like, feelings in it? The little thing that they pulled out.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

When that was. And then Joy just hugs it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah. Really loved inside out too. Those movies are.

[Kid Fury]

It's a fantastic movie. So necessary. I can't wait for more of them. I can't wait for more of them.

[Crissle West]

Same.

[Kid Fury]

I think that's probably the most important. Quote, unquote. I was gonna say children, but like family movies I've seen in I don't even know how long.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I agree.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Oh, well, it was All Star weekend. My God.

[Kid Fury]

Take it. Go on ahead. Go for it.

[Crissle West]

Have you. Have you. Do you know anything about what happened during All Star?

[Kid Fury]

I am a sports girl, so take it away. And not provide my notes out.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so. So who was MVP of the All Star game?

[Kid Fury]

I said take it away. You see how I ran my mouth about my interest?

[Crissle West]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

You got started.

[Crissle West]

Exactly like I said you started. You know, here's the thing. We, the stud buds, can't be allowed to continue. We. I'm sorry, we can't. You're the sports ball diva and you don't know who the stud buds are?

[Kid Fury]

Okay, the stud buds. They're the ones with the fucking thing.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, exactly. And they. It can't. It can't be allowed to continue. I'm sorry, y'. All.

[Kid Fury]

And why is that The.

[Crissle West]

So for you and the one other person who doesn't know, the stud buds are too. I mean, stud is a strong word, but I'll leave it alone. And they go live at WNBA All Star. They started this last year. They went live for, like, the entire three days of All Star weekend. So all the partying that everybody was doing, all the drinks, even at the events at the game, somebody was live the whole time. So they did it again this year, and drunk people said things on camera that they should not have said. It has caused controversy. Yes, yes, yes. One of the stud buds leaked that another couple had Broken up, even though that was not public knowledge yet.

[Kid Fury]

Why would they do that?

[Crissle West]

But what? The star of All Star Weekend is Dijonay Carrington. Because after everything wrapped up in the wee hours of the morning, Dijonay got on threads and said, since y' all want to be funny, I'mma be hilarious. Melissa did cheat on me. Yes, she did. With Aaliyah, Nye, Daija Kelly, and many, many more. So chew on that, bitch. And I said, oh, God,

[Kid Fury]

I love it.

[Crissle West]

What's crazy is that Dijonay is dating Jackie Young, who plays for the Aces.

[Kid Fury]

Oh. So it's all a mess.

[Crissle West]

And Melissa also plays for the Aces, and Deja Kelly was on the Aces, and the Aces are playing Dijonay's new team, Chicago, on Saturday. And Dijonay is finally, like, I think she's getting off the injured list this week. So it might be not for long. Well, I mean, not. Not for long.

[Kid Fury]

Who dies first?

[Crissle West]

It has been so messy. Oh, God, I. I do love it. I do. But I'll start. Yeah, that's. Yeah, that's been a great deal of my entertainment over this past week. And watching that Tina Fey show on Netflix, four seasons I have yet.

[Kid Fury]

I heard it's good.

[Crissle West]

Like it? I do. They're very. You know, it's just Gen X people getting older and trying to. Well, it's. It's a friend group, and one of the couples gets a divorce. And I'm only like, four episodes in, but so far it's great.

[Kid Fury]

Was it like, 10 episodes?

[Crissle West]

Not even sure, but. Oh, I'm having a good time. Colman Domingo has an Italian husband, but they have an open relationship, of course. But it still gets messy.

[Kid Fury]

Is this like a doc reality show?

[Crissle West]

Oh, no, it might be. It might be, but, yeah, it's good.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I'll check that out, too. Somewhere in the mix of all this shit just wrapped up. Jonasi and Friends.

[Crissle West]

Oh, wow. And how was that?

[Kid Fury]

I'm saving that for a piece of footage.

[Crissle West]

Lovely.

[Kid Fury]

Where I will compile all my thoughts.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Wow. Right? Also trying to watch Avatar. The new Project Runway. Has been flicking my titties. Love it. Also been trying to. What is the other thing that I'm watching at the same fucking time? Widow's Bay.

[Crissle West]

And

[Kid Fury]

fuck. There's another show I keep jumping into, and I can't think of what it is right now, but I'm, like, literally watching two or three or four things at the same fucking time, and things just keep coming out.

[Crissle West]

Oh, that damn Apple tv. Another highly rated show. I've never heard of.

[Kid Fury]

They're all good.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God, they are. They are.

[Kid Fury]

All of their shows are so good.

[Crissle West]

Damn it. Apple.

[Kid Fury]

Because the one with Javier Bardem and what's her name, Amy Adams. That one's good too. Anyway, Ice Spice has a fragrance coming out or it's out.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Have you heard it's called In Her Mood?

[Crissle West]

I had no idea. But if it's really called In Her Mood.

[Kid Fury]

It is.

[Crissle West]

Oh, it is.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, it really is. Ha.

[Crissle West]

In her mood on TikTok shop. Wow. Oh. So this is for a very specific. This is for a very specific fan, and I am not that person. I have never bought off a Tick Tock baby. It's just something. I just cannot do that. I'm sorry.

[Kid Fury]

Tick Tock shopping is huge, isn't it?

[Crissle West]

It is. No, it is. And. And so many people sell legit stuff on Tick Tock.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

It's just something about it. It feels, like, weird. I can't, I can't. That's just a step too far. I just cannot do it. It don't feel right. I bought something off of Instagram once

[Kid Fury]

I've done that, and I was disgusted.

[Crissle West]

I did not.

[Kid Fury]

Like, with yourself or with the product.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, myself. What am I doing? Why is Instagram populating my address? Oh, I'm not doing this no more. So I said, no, I can't.

[Kid Fury]

That's how I felt the first time I bought something from Instagram too.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But then Instagram was like, I got something for your bitch ass and kept after that showing me. That was my. Like, I want this too.

[Crissle West]

No, I'm not doing it.

[Kid Fury]

Shop is probably like that. My question, though was, how does buying a new fragrance online work? I don't think I've ever bought a fragrance. I didn't smell right.

[Crissle West]

Is it not in Ultas for people to go sniff it?

[Kid Fury]

Well, it says it's online right now. Like, she went on TikTok live to, I guess, do like, a launch via Ulta's TikTok shop. But it says it's gonna have a wider release on Ulta's website at the end of August. So it doesn't say anything here about it also being in stores. I'm assuming that either it will be in stores when it goes live on the website or they're working towards trying to get it in stores.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, this is really an issue with fragrance. Like, you know, Beyonce maybe can do this. I don't know that that Ice Spikes can get away with this. Somebody say, what was the last time I bought a Fragrance without smelling it. That Creole witch. And I don't think anybody else could get me to do that. I just don't.

[Kid Fury]

So the celebrity fragrances, that's how a lot of them.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Right. They're leaning on that name.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Billy Eilish just announced a new one that's probably gonna sell out, you know,

[Crissle West]

and I've never smelled that, but I know the fans be going crazy for it. And it might even just be the bottle, but they go crazy for that. Oh, yeah. Cologne or whatever it is. Yeah. So, I mean, it doesn't sound bad, but it doesn't sound like I would like it. It says notes include raspberry, pear, rose immediately. No, with the rose.

[Kid Fury]

The rose part.

[Crissle West]

I do not like rose scent or flavor. And magnolia up top, vanilla and amber round things out underneath. It might be okay if it didn't have that rose.

[Kid Fury]

You know something? I was thinking about this too when I'm trying to put this together in my head earlier, like. Well, you know, I know on websites they'll typically tell you, like, what the notes of it are or this, that, and the third. But how do we know all that shit? Let me smell it.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

It still can't give me, like, a good idea of A, what it smells like and B, what it'll smell like on my skin.

[Crissle West]

Right, right. I. You can tell me what the notes are. That doesn't mean. I know what those things mean, especially all mixed together, bitch. I don't. I'm not a perfumier or whatever that. That job is. Shit, I don't know what this means. I need to be able to go sniff the sample and spray it on me and then walk around the altar and see how it smells after 15 minutes. Like, I. That's what I need. So, yeah, for $80, I'm not risking it, but good luck.

[Kid Fury]

Travel size is 28 US, sweetie.

[Crissle West]

Okay. All right, all right. I mean, you. You do what you gotta do, okay? The economy's bad.

[Kid Fury]

You know what? It's for the baddie baddies. I'm feeling nasty. I'm trying to see. I'm trying to find me a toothy or whatever the fuck is.

[Crissle West]

It's for the girls who. Going out and looking for that Don Julio, which I'm not judging. I'm not judging.

[Kid Fury]

With a hookah in a back pocket. The whole pipe. The whole. The whole thing. Just the whole thing?

[Crissle West]

Yes. This for these kids who grew up thinking vaping was healthier than smoking cigarettes. And so now they lungs is chopped

[Kid Fury]

from that, right, sweetie? It's giving. A dog's tongue is cleaner than a human.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yikes.

[Kid Fury]

You know it's giving. Like, if it falls on the floor, you have three seconds, girl.

[Crissle West]

Sweetie, why did we believe that? But, yeah,

[Kid Fury]

you know what used to take me out when I was like, I think I had to be in no more than first grade. And other kids in class would say, if you got marker on your hand, it would seep through your hands and poison you.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And that's why we had to buy non toxic, which, I mean, I don't know how true it even is. Listen, I assume, you know, that was for the niggas who be chewing on markers. I was never that depraved not to chew on the felt pin part. I might chew on the plastic, but I'm not gonna chew on the felt part.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, we have class, right?

[Crissle West]

I have standards. Come on.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crissle West]

The.

[Kid Fury]

You think this is actual be for real? I did used to put Elmo's glue in my hand and let it dry.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Since re seeking children do that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It's nice when they can, like, grow up and have peace and get good grades because people care about them and then they go read books to dogs. Ice Spice has a Revlon deal. So I guess that's what this is coming from. It says, oh, but yeah, okay, you folks out here who listen to this podcast, who in your early and mid-20s and be like, I've been listening to your show since I was eight.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Disrespectful ass. That sounds like. This is for you.

[Crissle West]

This is for people age 18 to 27. I'm going to give it up to 27.

[Kid Fury]

Gracious.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She's not wrong.

[Crissle West]

Yes. That elder Gen Z.

[Kid Fury]

Get your coin, Isis. So Beyonce has said in terms of Sir Davis. I'll be taking that. Thank you.

[Crissle West]

Another one. Thank you.

[Kid Fury]

It was cute. It was very cute. You're welcome.

[Crissle West]

Thank you, Moet Hennessy.

[Kid Fury]

And I'll be taking this now. So, yeah, Beyonce bought out Moet Hennessy steak in her increasingly popular whiskey brand Sir Davis built and distilled right here in the United States.

[Crissle West]

No fucking idea.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, I read about this yesterday, I believe. And I read about this this morning when I got it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And according to several different reports on websites that I guess, like, report news on spirits and wine.

[Crissle West]

Yep. It's actually a lot of websites that do that. Who knew that it was like, a real business?

[Kid Fury]

Like, and I want to go, okay. Like, there are people who are, like, legitimate wine connoisseurs like people who go wine tasting. But I'm like, do you go and check a website to see what the new option is hitting the street?

[Crissle West]

The people who are deep in it? Yeah, I guess so.

[Kid Fury]

You know what? Probably rich.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think this is like executives in the.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

In the alcohol and wine industry.

[Kid Fury]

So they have like a cellar.

[Crissle West]

Right, Right. A temperature controlled room for all of their spirits.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

They pull one out and be like, this bottle is from 1781. It's a. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, she bought out her. Her whiskey brand. It was actually doing very, very well for Moet Hennessy. It isn't like a. This company that was housing the brand that's like, well, this ain't doing shit or moving shit. So here you go. How much you want for it? The company actually stepped forward. The spokesperson at least was like, no, did great thing for us. Super happy for her. Dap Dap. Go for it, babes. So.

[Crissle West]

Oh, and I love that.

[Kid Fury]

It is really good.

[Crissle West]

It is.

[Kid Fury]

I need to go get a bottle. But I said I was going to take a break from drinking. And every time I say I'm taking a break from drinking, I get blackout. Like, I don't even. I don't know what it is about it, because I don't get drunk when I am just drinking.

[Crissle West]

What?

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I don't get drunk when I'm like, outside of the times I tell myself I'm not going to.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

Like, only drink socially.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But in those times, I'll just be like, go home just fine. Whenever I'm like, I'm not drinking anything. I'm gonna take a break from drinking. I get wasted.

[Crissle West]

Hmm. Well, maybe just tell yourself that you are gonna drink. Like, I am gonna get fucking loaded. And then see, does it work in the opposite for that?

[Kid Fury]

I had that idea.

[Crissle West]

Did it work?

[Kid Fury]

But I was like, what if it's just worse?

[Crissle West]

Oh. Ooh. Damn. Yeah. That is a risk.

[Kid Fury]

I don't like waking up and still feeling drunk.

[Crissle West]

Right. That is not fun. That is not a fun feeling.

[Kid Fury]

Woman's game. It is.

[Crissle West]

I am leaving that to the young hoes who just got their license in the right direction.

[Kid Fury]

Right. They don't have to have them vertical

[Crissle West]

children's licenses no more. I'm not. Yeah. No, that's for those of you who just got old enough to go to the club, baby. Annie is out of that game. For real, Unc.

[Kid Fury]

T had her time.

[Crissle West]

I did. And it was fun.

[Kid Fury]

I'm fresh out the game.

[Crissle West]

No, I Had some sangria two days ago. I said, goddamn me.

[Kid Fury]

That's how you know.

[Crissle West]

Y' all can't be taking the champ out like this. Not me.

[Kid Fury]

I'll do one shot and be like,

[Crissle West]

you know how I didn't get d.

[Kid Fury]

I'm gonna go sit down.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I'm gonna just go sit down. Where's my water at? Actually, let me just.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Hydration.

[Crissle West]

I need a minute.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, I'm probably gonna grab one of these bottles somewhere, because right now, my empty Sir Davis bottle is just on the lining the. Like, the patio. Oh, no, this door over by the patio that goes. I have, like, a whole bunch of empty liquor bottles that I actually like up there. Like, my Hennessy white bottles are up there in the window next to the Sir Davis next to, like, what do you call it? Casa Azul? Or is it class?

[Crissle West]

I think it's Casa you and your college student aesthetic.

[Kid Fury]

It is, isn't it classy, Azul?

[Crissle West]

Yes, except we used to put bottles of any thing up there, child. Mad Dog 2020.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

We would put bottles of any. Anything.

[Kid Fury]

So it's grad school. No Crown Royal this time.

[Crissle West]

Bye. You said this is a PhD home, not no fucking bachelor's in communications, bitch. Don't disrespect me.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. Moving forward, I. This one is rough, figuratively and literally. Did you hear about DJ Envy admitting unsolicited without request?

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God. Bro.

[Kid Fury]

Telling the world that it was in fact his wife who taught him how to wash his literal ass. Okay, I'm gonna read the quote, and I'm just. You know what? We made it through Smell and Taste. We did.

[Crissle West]

And that was grosser.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it was worse.

[Crissle West]

It was actually worse.

[Kid Fury]

So Eric Brene had a clip that went a little viral not long ago where he, like, in a tub or some shit, and he's talking about men not washing their ass because they think it's gay. Something I've said I think my whole life also. See? Brushing their tongue. We're going to stay focused, though, on this.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

So they discuss this on a Breakfast Club. DJ Envy says, all right. Confession. Confession. I tell too much up here. My wife hates it, but it's all good. So do you want to stop there? Do you want to highlight anything you feel like? No, I'm asking if you want to pause right here to address what she just said.

[Crissle West]

That would have been a great idea. As soon as you have that thought of, oh, you know what? I be telling too much, and my wife hates it, but, oh, well. That is when you should actually stop talking. You should be like. And so for once, I'm gonna just wrap it up. And that's it, guys.

[Kid Fury]

Considering what you're getting ready to say, Bitch

[Crissle West]

just dirty.

[Kid Fury]

So, yes, I used to be the type of guy that didn't get all up in there, but I never thought about it.

[Crissle West]

Okay, Crystal, I hate this, mind you. This is a grown man. This is an adult man.

[Kid Fury]

This is an adult man speaking.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

On what is likely the biggest. Biggest radio program.

[Crissle West]

It might be the biggest morning show, right? Radio show in the fucking country, period. Right. It really might be. And okay, all right.

[Kid Fury]

I never thought about it. She never.

[Crissle West]

Tonight, your cheeks were glued together and you just never thought about it. All right?

[Kid Fury]

It's not a conversation to have with the fellas at the barbershop when we out and about like, hey, fellas, did you ask for or wash your ass? Okay, so I have to pull over one again.

[Crissle West]

Got to. Got to

[Kid Fury]

it. It's.

[Crissle West]

It's the.

[Kid Fury]

The sexuality versus attraction thing again for me. It's the homosexuality versus homo attraction thing again for me. Why? When thinking about cleaning your ass and discussing it, you first go, well, it's not something that I talk to my niggas about. Why would you talk to your niggas about washing your asshole?

[Crissle West]

Like, that doesn't happen. Women don't get together and be like, girl, did you rent your pussy out today?

[Kid Fury]

We just assume it doesn't take place.

[Crissle West]

Assume that you did, right? I'm working under the assumption that everybody rents they pussy today. I'm not gonna ask why this doesn't come up. Jesus.

[Kid Fury]

Because you know who you should have had the conversation with? Whoever raised you right.

[Crissle West]

Where. Okay, Anyway, this. This.

[Kid Fury]

No, it's just.

[Crissle West]

It got worse. Like, I don't even know if I don't know how far away. The actual crazy bombshell.

[Kid Fury]

One day, me and Gia is literally the next slide.

[Crissle West]

Okay, okay.

[Kid Fury]

So there it goes. There it is. My heart will go on.

[Crissle West]

It's weird over there.

[Kid Fury]

One day, me and Gia. This is a long time ago. We take showers with each other. We wash each other. And one day, she got all in there, and I'm like, whoa. And then I realized I'm supposed to wash my ass thoroughly. Then is when he realized this. And correctly so. Ever since then, I'm like, I washed my ass, but you should get all up in there. You don't want stinky ass. Okay, I'm trying not to throw up in my mouth.

[Crissle West]

I mean, because. What do you mean? That's when you realize you're supposed to wash your ass thoroughly.

[Kid Fury]

What do you mean? What do you mean?

[Crissle West]

Like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Those come apart.

[Kid Fury]

So what did she claw out of there?

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

That made you go whoa.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Jesus Christ.

[Kid Fury]

Ladies, femmes. Male attracted individuals. I'm going to ask you again, what's happening? Why are you not calling these niggas mammys and saying take him re raise this nigga? Because what I refuse to do as an adult is educate another able bodied adult how to do the basic of washing oneself.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Call his daddy and be like, you're actually not done with this one. All the lessons haven't been taught.

[Kid Fury]

The.

[Crissle West]

The main themes are not downloaded into this one psyche. He. There's a lot that he's missing. So I'm dropping him off and I'm gonna let you take over from here because the. The job's not done. Job's not done.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. Ain't either.

[Crissle West]

You got.

[Kid Fury]

Because I didn't clean it.

[Crissle West]

You.

[Kid Fury]

Why would you tell us that?

[Crissle West]

And did she not look at you like until this very day? You mean we've been married for however long. We've been together for however long. And it wasn't until this moment that you thought, hmm, maybe this needs more than one or two swipes with the toilet paper. You know, once or twice a day. Like maybe I should actually be. Even if you don't get in your asshole, you don't wash between the cheeks even. Like you just never separated your cheeks and went in there. I know your paws are nasty. I know they are.

[Kid Fury]

What do you think your booty hole does?

[Crissle West]

That's none of his business. He don't even think about that area. Because, you know, he's so straight. The straightest. I don't even think about my body like that. I don't have a booty hole. That's gay. I swear to God. I bet you. I bet you the thought process is something like that.

[Kid Fury]

Just not even acknowledging.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Because if you did, then that's gay.

[Kid Fury]

It's a one way ticket. If they do acknowledge it. Just nothing goes up there. You don't touch it.

[Crissle West]

So. Wow, Gia, the money must be really nice. Like you just really don't want to get a job. Huh? Cause I would not.

[Kid Fury]

There's no reality.

[Crissle West]

Nope.

[Kid Fury]

In which that would take place.

[Crissle West]

Absolutely not. I have to leave.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not going to be late.

[Crissle West]

I have to get out of here right now.

[Kid Fury]

And with all of these other things considered, I also have to wash your ass. Think about how bad it must have been.

[Crissle West]

No, thank you. Actually, we won't.

[Kid Fury]

That week, the night before, whatever that g was like, okay, today's the day.

[Crissle West]

Let's do something fun.

[Kid Fury]

Just cough shut. Just.

[Crissle West]

Oh God. Do you have to sedate that man to get him to see the doctor? A lot of the girls like being ne man's little junior mama. They actually love it. So let me not take that. That thrill away from them. They love it. He can't do nothing for himself. Well, it's dangerous actually for men's self esteem to be too high.

[Kid Fury]

But why would he tell us that?

[Crissle West]

I guess it was part of whatever conversation they was having or. I don't know. I really don't. No shame about it. You know, men also do tend to have trouble feeling shame when they supposed to, so. But I don't get it.

[Kid Fury]

Ain't it that.

[Crissle West]

That's the gospel truth.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And men can get away with saying something stupid like that. Let a girl say she don't wash her ass or you know, Crystal. Exact same thing. Please. It would be every bit of. You dirty bitch. And all the. Let it just said that instead of envy. Oh, this would have trended. But you know, and it's like even

[Kid Fury]

if you were gonna assume that. Right. Cause I assume most straight men are terrible at cleaning hygiene.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

They not good at cleaning nothing. So why would any different.

[Kid Fury]

Ladies check that belly button. Check the back of them ears. No. Okay.

[Crissle West]

Tell them to floss a random back tooth and then smell that string. You'll get out of there. You'll. You'll actually be asking for doors.

[Kid Fury]

This is just a bridge too far. And I understand why. Like, even if you're going to share that, given the conversation, why couldn't it be something as simple as like. Yeah, I. I learned a little later than I probably should have. Full stop.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Well, let me name my wife again after all the goddamn public times I've embarrassed her ass.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Let me also name her and how the cleaning of my ass worked with her. And also the exclamation that I let out.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

After she came from spelunking through my. My rectum. Yeah. Yeah, yuck.

[Crissle West]

And he probably said all this with a big smile and a laugh and haha, everybody's just having jokes and this is so fun and so funny to just be nasty. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Kai west has settled a sex. Sexual assault, sex trafficking lawsuit that came up just about two years ago, June 2024. One Lauren Piotta, who was his former assistant, accused him of sexual Harassment, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and a hostile work environment. She accused him of sending her sexually explicit text messages, some of them where.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

Some of those alleged messages were posted, shared. She also accused him of masturbating in front of her, touching her vagina, drugging her at a studio session with Puffy.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

These are, you know, widely publicized, crazy, alarming accusations. Well, as of July, I think, 23rd, it's a couple of days ago, it's reported that both sides, attorneys came to some sort of a settlement. Apparently, Kanye and his people have 45 days to like, file or request the dismissal of the case. And, yeah, no word on what that settlement looks like. Whether it's, you know, a big money number, something else. Like, we have no idea what the terms or whatever of the settlement are, at least not at the moment. And what we do know is that we ain't gonna know really too much about what happened since there won't be a trial as of right now.

[Crissle West]

Right. Settled.

[Kid Fury]

Well, something to know if you remember those. If you remember that lawsuit or those accusations. Wanted to know what happened. I guess we might not.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Because Kanye incorporated went ahead and said, how much you want? It's too much going on.

[Crissle West]

What we got to do? What we got to do? Let's figure this out.

[Kid Fury]

He still got this white walking around in a G string and pasties. It's wild over here. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And, you know, every time I see a picture of them, I just be like, what the Is really going on in that relationship? Like, what are y'? All. What did you do before you let Kanye west play dress up with you for a living? Like, what I. It's confusing. Whatever they got going on over there.

[Kid Fury]

You never know.

[Crissle West]

You don't. Let's. We never know what's going on in somebody else's house.

[Kid Fury]

It gives, like.

[Crissle West]

But it's weird.

[Kid Fury]

Psychological thriller.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it's weird over there. It's weird over there. It is weird over there, indeed.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, let's talk about the Bumps and Bruises tour and how it's already off to a fantastic start.

[Crissle West]

I was about to say, is it gonna. Is it going to finish up? Cause. Who knows? I guess we'll just have to see, won't we?

[Kid Fury]

I already saw some big ass fight, some huge brawl during one of the first shows on the tour when these niggas was on stage performing. It's a song called New Flame. So you just hear them singing in the background. Never even heard Wild the Baddies. You gotta be my favorite.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. I have heard that okay,

[Kid Fury]

then what really hit the social media webs was this clip of Usher trying to do his sexy, shirtless on stage seduction of an audience member.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

And noticing, along with the entire stadium or arena, I should say, let's be

[Crissle West]

clear

[Kid Fury]

that that young lady was. Was not here for it. She wasn't interested. She seemed uncomfortable.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So Usher not so politely requested that she get her ass off the stage.

[Crissle West]

Off you go.

[Kid Fury]

He just did, like, a dashing hand with this motion.

[Crissle West]

Like, girl, all right, you're not feeling it. Please go. Please.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, since then, it's been this big hubbub between this girl and the Internet.

[Crissle West]

And. Okay, I felt like this was. I mean, what else. What else was supposed to happen? She got pulled up. She wasn't really feeling it, you know, And I think she said off or later that, like, she was really there for Chris Brown. If it had been Chris to do it, then that would have been something else.

[Kid Fury]

But she said, like, three times.

[Crissle West]

Right. So she really meant it. Like, okay, girl, we get it. You came for bruises, not bumps. We get it. But what else was he supposed to do? Like, yeah, I get that it wasn't, you know, super gracious or whatever, but you don't want to be up here. The Usher, I'm sure, don't want no more allegations or whatever else. Everybody is recording, so go on and take your ass. Like, I just did not think this had to be that big of a deal. And if you go to. If you paid money to see this store, then you get whatever you get, and you deserve that. What? I don't feel bad for nobody going to see this damn tour.

[Kid Fury]

When I watched a clip of this girl talking about it and read something she posted on Facebook, I said out loud, this is, in my opinion, a shining example of who I expected to be at this concert.

[Crissle West]

Yes, 100%.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, I don't even need to hear the. To know you're a pigeon. Oh, yeah, it's right here.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

So she responded to people who were commenting on the clip. And at first I read this Facebook post. I think this might have came after the clip, but let me read what she said. First off, nobody is declining to go on stage. I looked good as fuck. You thought I was gonna let thousands. You thought I wasn't gonna let thousands of people see me on the big screen where you bitches will never be. My mom and I had floor seats, mind you.

[Crissle West]

Oh, you and your mama. Oh, you and your mommy. You really had no choice.

[Kid Fury]

Her mama was there for running.

[Crissle West]

Meanwhile, I'M thinking her mama there for. Cause you know, Usher bringing in the old birds and Chris bringing in the young birds. But nah, mama was probably like, this

[Kid Fury]

is an old bird now.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

She's like a year and a half younger than me.

[Crissle West]

No, you're right. No, you're right. And these girls are also now old. Like, y' all not 21 no more. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She's like, they sound 30 doing this.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah, okay. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Me and my mama have floor seats. Hilarious. Their team approached us and moved us to VIP before the show even started. Pretty privileges. Something you hoes will never know about.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

They don't say who you're going up there for. Y' all wanted me to get up there and fuck him. At this point, Chat folks aren't used to anything. That's the most exciting thing that would have happened in y' all little ass lives. Y' all, disrespectfully it's the most exciting

[Crissle West]

thing that happened in your little ass life. What do you mean? You'll never get this much attention for anything ever again,

[Kid Fury]

sweetie. Nobody knows who you are.

[Crissle West]

You're not anyone. This was your moment. Enjoy your 15 minutes.

[Kid Fury]

Do you like, you want a baddie's chain? And there's a whole other process to getting that.

[Crissle West]

And, you know, maybe Natalie Lynn will call you. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And maybe, probably at this point, you

[Crissle West]

will be so special.

[Kid Fury]

But if you want to speak like this, you go over Zeus and you get your ass beat for it like every other hard working guy.

[Crissle West]

You earn this shit, bitch.

[Kid Fury]

Pretty privileges. Did you think that you was the only bad bitch at that concert? Do you think you're the first pretty girl that's ever been seen?

[Crissle West]

The tone of this is so hard. Like, I got pulled up on stage in front of thousands of people. You bitches will never know what it's like. I actually do know what it's like, and I'm not impressed by you. This you did.

[Kid Fury]

We had floor seats and then we were in vip.

[Crissle West]

You did nothing. Babe, this was not an accomplishment, right? What?

[Kid Fury]

You act like she had an honorary doctorate back there.

[Crissle West]

Like Chris let you share his.

[Kid Fury]

Her name is Cheyenne.

[Crissle West]

You act like that man proposed to you on stage. They're not. You are one of hundreds, if not thousands of women who will be given upgrades for being pretty and asked to come on stage because they're pretty. You think you're the only cute hoe in this world? Okay. All right, sweetie.

[Kid Fury]

She must have got a text from Aaliyah Obama after she got off Stage. I need you to be in this picture, bitch. Don't know who the fuck you are or care.

[Crissle West]

I am just not like you regular hoes. How are you not you actually exactly like these regular hoes.

[Kid Fury]

If you had pretty privileges, you would have been sucking Chris Brown's dick that night. We didn't get that part of the situation.

[Crissle West]

If you was that privileged, you and your mama wouldn't have paid for the ticket.

[Kid Fury]

I just don't understand. But then, like I said, I watched a clip of her talking about it afterwards. When I watched the clip, I was like, oh, you're.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. You came by this honest. You're a generational bird.

[Kid Fury]

You were in maybe that class, you know, like, you.

[Crissle West]

Okay. You didn't have to. Like, you didn't have to do that

[Kid Fury]

because she said some shit like how y' all didn't know. I was just uncomfortable. Bitch, everybody knew you were uncom. He knew you were uncomfortable. That's why he kicked your ass off the stage. What are you talking about? Hello?

[Crissle West]

Not an issue. Right? This was.

[Kid Fury]

I had to flick my phone to be like, are you there?

[Crissle West]

Do you get it? You were asked to leave because you were visibly uncomfortable. Everyone.

[Kid Fury]

All the thousands of people that were. Everybody that you wanted to see you.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

On the screen, everyone could see that you were uncomfortable.

[Crissle West]

No.

[Kid Fury]

Hang. The gag is. Who would you have been more uncomfortable with on stage? Usher bumps or.

[Crissle West]

Well, I don't think Chris would've let me up there. So tease. Chris would've been like, first of all, darker than a paper bag and big as fuck. Please move around legit. The Jill Scott show is down the street.

[Kid Fury]

He would have told somebody to bring his Colt 40 from the back of the stage so he could hold the bag up to you.

[Crissle West]

Be like, no, no, no, no.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not 100% sure.

[Crissle West]

The eyeball test is not. Is not pliable, but somebody bring me a bag. He got an app on his phone, the paper bag app, so he could just check right there at the door, bitch, slow down, darkie. Yeah, it's not happening.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. When I absorbed all the information from her side of the conversation, I was like, this is a good Chris Brown fan at a Chris Brown concert. Like, I'm. I really can't say that I'm all too surprised, flabbergasted, or moved by this output from this individual considering how she feels and where she was at.

[Crissle West]

Right. This is what you're supposed to do.

[Kid Fury]

Chris Brown then had another concert. They both had another concert.

[Crissle West]

In

[Kid Fury]

Birmingham. No, Nashville. Okay. They had Another concert after that somewhere. I think it was in Alabama. And during the section, the same part of the concert, Usher says, no, don't bring your ass up here if you don't want to bring. If you don't want to be up here. And it feels like that would have gone without saying.

[Crissle West]

I mean,

[Kid Fury]

also, go ahead.

[Crissle West]

I mean, you would think that. But then we did also just have somebody say, like, yeah, I didn't give a fuck about Usher or whatever, but y' all had to see me. So maybe you do have to spell it out.

[Kid Fury]

True.

[Crissle West]

Maybe you do have to spell it out. Cause one of these hoes, one of these hoes just did something very stupid.

[Kid Fury]

So maybe you do and proud and proud saying she was privileged to do so. It stinks up here.

[Crissle West]

Like, fucking sucks.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, everybody's stupid and proud. I'm not clearing.

[Crissle West]

I'm proud.

[Kid Fury]

I'm SpongeBob. No, you're.

[Crissle West]

Let him have it. But I gotta let y' all have it.

[Kid Fury]

What are we supposed to do about it?

[Crissle West]

The girls are going to bird.

[Kid Fury]

I heard a white man on a newscase called white people would sense over educated again yesterday. I'm just like, over overage.

[Crissle West]

They do that anytime a white person not racist, they're like, oh, you go to college? Actually, I did go to college.

[Kid Fury]

You know, you're on tv.

[Crissle West]

You could live in a major metropolitan area.

[Kid Fury]

Lord. Oh, look at that. I'm finished. Okay, so I hope that you girlies got something out of this situation.

[Crissle West]

Amazing.

[Kid Fury]

If anything, Sir Davis and Children of Blood and Bone. I can't wait to see that fucking movie. Okay, that's it. Hey, y'. All. It is pride. That means it's time for joy. It's time for acceptance. It's time for standing 10 toes down in us. It's time for community. And if you're looking for a community of playful, open minded people, then come and get you some proud on at Field. Field is not just a queer app. It is a queer app built by and for the community. And just like pride, Field isn't just for people who are certain of what they got going on. It's also for people who are questioning, evolving, experimenting and discovering. So Pride girlies, some of your favorite people. Introduce them to something new. And if you're on that other side, come be curious, proud and felt at fyld. Download FYLD today, that is F E E L D pronounced like field on the App Store or Google Play and tell me all about the fun. Write letters into us and tell us all about the friends that you made over on field.

[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

It's time for your listener letters indeed.

[Crissle West]

Please send your Letters to AskTheRead Gmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. We do have an update this week from Angry Cat Lady. If you'll remember, Angry Cat Lady's boyfriend has these cats that were pissing all over the place.

[Kid Fury]

How could I forget?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, and it's somebody else, right?

[Kid Fury]

Back in our past three. It did.

[Crissle West]

It did. Okay, so Angry Cat lady wrote back and said the same week the episode came out, my boyfriend finally decided to get the cats neutered. I wanted to wait though, to give y' all an update just in case the neutering didn't fix the peeing and everywhere. To make a long story short, in the tub was my boyfriend's final straw with them cats and that Monday he called and made an appointment to get them both neutered. On Wednesday, however, the cats must have heard him making the appointment because the night before the neutering, they decided to unlock his room, unlock his bathroom, take a in front of the bathroom and inside of the bathroom and then went in his room, pissed on his drawers and knocked over his dirty clothes hamper. Those cats are incredibly smart. They do know how to open and unlock doors and can even turn on faucets. Yep, dangerous.

[Kid Fury]

They really can.

[Crissle West]

After that, he swore on everything that if neutering did not fix their behavior, he would not be keeping them. It's been a few weeks and the cats have officially not peed or on anything. They are definitely more chill, but they still have their same quirky personalities that he was afraid Neutering would take from them. Do the cats look at me like, this is all my fault? Yes. Did one of the cats push my afro pic, hair ties and shower cap into the sink and then turn the faucet on also? Yes. But they're not shitting everywhere anymore. And my man is happy, so I'm happy. Thanks, Angry Cat Lady. I'm glad it worked, girl. Cause y' all was gonna have to

[Kid Fury]

break up without question. And also, cats just do that. If anything, they probably blame their dad. I think it is fierce that they might have overheard him and be like, okay, we got something for this kid.

[Crissle West]

That's what's funny to me. They said, all right, we got one more night. Let me tell you what we gonna do on that Tuesday night.

[Kid Fury]

Let's make it count.

[Crissle West]

Twin bitch shitting in front of the bathroom and inside the bathroom and of the tag team, like, all right, I'mma shit on us on this side.

[Kid Fury]

Double your pleasure, double your fun, bitch. But outside of that, I feel like them cats will be knocking over your afro pig and laundry hamper and all that shit anyway. Because cats just do what the fuck they want to. They're curious.

[Crissle West]

So they're still troublemakers, but way more under control now. So I'm glad it worked out times. I'm glad your boyfriend had a lot took. Enough is enough. I got to step up and start being a damn dad.

[Kid Fury]

Men are so funny. Like, they're just weird.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Lord.

[Kid Fury]

Especially the straight ones.

[Crissle West]

Okay, thank you, Angry Cat lady, for the update. There's a question for you here from Skull Kid, who said, I was really excited to hear Kid Fury talk about Other Mommy and Coraline, which is my wife's favorite movie. Fun fact. Henry Selick also directed Nightmare Before Christmas.

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crissle West]

Okay, my question is, what other horror novels would you guys recommend? Would you recommend, you know, better. And have you ever read Strange Pictures by Yuketsu?

[Kid Fury]

I have not. I'm not even sure.

[Crissle West]

Love Skull Kid. Do you any other horror novels? You know, look at that. Stephen King. That's what I got for horror novel. That's how long it's been since I read one.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like the one I read before that was probably it. I was reading that one again.

[Crissle West]

Scary.

[Kid Fury]

The Haunting of Hill House book is good. What's that one called? There's one that's kind of like it's a post apocalyptic story where men are like, not zombies, but they're like, oh, fuck. What is that book called? It's so good. I think it's a trans woman who wrote it?

[Crissle West]

Manhunt.

[Kid Fury]

Manhunt. Manhunt. That one's really good.

[Crissle West]

You gave enough details for Google to figure it out. Did you know? I didn't know that.

[Kid Fury]

Those are the only ones I could think of right now. I've been reading after. I mean, before I read Incidents around the House, I was reading a lot of Stephen King stuff because his shit is just like, woo. It's so picturesque. It's very vivid. And it's also like, all bets are off. So his stuff is good. But the Incidents Around Our House is probably the best horror novel I've read in a long time. Might end up being one of my favorites again, because it's just the way it's written and delivered is very scary.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that Stephen King got a weird mind and we might just have to leave it at that. Like something weird's going on over there, brother. Like how you come up with all is thinner and. And thinner is some of the creepiest I've ever read in my life.

[Kid Fury]

I don't think I read that one.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God, you have to. You have to read thinner. It is. I'm. Anyway, anyway, yeah, they are. They are. And I had no business reading Stephen King when I did. It was one summer.

[Kid Fury]

I checked out Be a Body Horror. Yeah, it is.

[Crissle West]

It is. It is.

[Kid Fury]

Lawyer who accidentally kills a Romani woman who is cursed by the woman. Okay, Stephen. Yeah, yeah, A Romani woman cursed him.

[Crissle West]

Right. You know, they called it gypsy back in because this was written in like 80s, so it's not politically correct or anything, but I remember as a child that book me up, I said, oh,

[Kid Fury]

cursed by the woman's father to rapidly lose weight. Okay, that one's going on the list.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it's good. All right. Thank you, Skull kid. Our next letter comes from kj, who says, hey, y'. All. Love the show. Day One listener. A few episodes ago you mentioned the short form video show Subway Takes. I am curious what each of you would pick as your subway take if you were actually on the show, on the train, sitting across from that dude. What would your take be? Love you guys. Thanks for reading kj.

[Kid Fury]

He asked him about hot takes about New York, right?

[Crissle West]

No, it could be about anything. Oh, so mine would be. And I know this is controversial. Okay? That's the point. It's supposed to be controversial.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And so I say mine and you either say 100% agree or 100% disagree. Okay, so my subway take is. Audiobooks do not count as reading Crissal Crissle. I don't Care. I don't care. Listen. No, I know it's gonna piss the girls off. Listen. Just listen. This is not about physical books or ebooks being superior to audiobooks. Like, it's not about that at all. I don't feel that way. Consume the literature however you need to consume it, okay? Because not enough people are engaging with books no more. So if you need audiobooks, then please. And if you want to call it reading, you can. But if you ask me, I'm going to say no. That's called listening. Because that's what it is. It's called listening. We have a word for when you learn a story or book or novel because somebody else read it to you, and it's called listening. Yeah, that's it. That's it. It's nothing about which one is better or which one is real or whatever it is about the word and what the word means. We have a word for that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

So that's my subway take. I know the girls are mad. I know they're mad.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say 100 agree or 100.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's what you said as the hostess.

[Kid Fury]

100% agree. To the point where I have a podcast called Furious Thought.

[Crissle West]

You do.

[Kid Fury]

I go on the podcast, I say whatever comes to my mind. An episode of it came out yesterday. The first. The intro to the episode. I literally said, I'mma hold y' all hand on this one.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Lord.

[Kid Fury]

You didn't read an audiobook. It came out yesterday.

[Crissle West]

Wow. Alignment.

[Kid Fury]

The first thing I said, wow. You didn't read that.

[Crissle West]

You didn't.

[Kid Fury]

You heard it.

[Crissle West]

You did. Somebody read it to you, and that's fine.

[Kid Fury]

And it's okay.

[Crissle West]

You still learned the book. You have acquired the knowledge from the book. You can call it reading if you want to, but don't ask me to call it reading, because I'm not gonna do that.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not gonna do that.

[Crissle West]

I'm not. You listen to the book, and that's fine.

[Kid Fury]

And you know what? From what I hear, I don't really do audiobooks that often. Unless it's like, I'm really into, like, I'll probably listen to the incidents around the house. Oh, yeah, audiobook. But I already read the physical books.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

The only reason I say that is because my attention span or my attention disorder.

[Crissle West]

Mm. Yeah, it'd be disorderant. Right.

[Kid Fury]

So. But audiobooks can be fierce, like, depending on who's reading them, and they add, like, effects and ambient stuff to make you feel like you're in it. So there's no Shady audiobooks. It's like what you just said.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Reading has a meaning and a definition to it.

[Crissle West]

Yes. We do that with our eyes or our fingers if we are blind and reading with braille. But we do not read by listening. That's. It's listening. It is literally you're listening. You are listening to the story being told. And that's great. Do whatever you have to do. I know a lot of people who buy audiobooks to go along with the physical book because they also have adhd. And hearing somebody read it helps them. It's like they are reading along with it, like they're reading it together and that. Let me tell you something. When you have adhd, you do whatever you have to do in order to function.

[Kid Fury]

If you love a cute bitch, just make it over, girl.

[Crissle West]

Whatever work. Like for me, I have to turn on sleep stories at night because my mind will not shut up and I can lay in the pitch black, no phones, no screens for hours, and my mind will just keep coming up with new things to think about. But if I turn on a sleep story, I'm gonna be out in 20 minutes tops. So it's just something about it. And I. I'm just going with whatever works. So that would be my subway take. You could be mad if you want to, but I did say what I said.

[Kid Fury]

Well, some. Of course there are gonna be people that are pissed.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I mean.

[Crissle West]

And that's.

[Kid Fury]

I mean.

[Crissle West]

Well, I didn't say you couldn't call it that, but I'm not gonna call it that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, agreed. I'm not be pissed at the dictionary, I guess.

[Crissle West]

Mirror. We have a word for that.

[Kid Fury]

Anyway, speaking of the sleepy thing to Game G A Y Gamer Nerd. Again, for the sleepy thing, I have the Nintendo Alarmo clock. And this sounds crazy. It's like a motion tracking clock. You put it by your bed and it has like all these different Nintendo songs and music.

[Crissle West]

A hundred dollars.

[Kid Fury]

Let me finish, Let me finish.

[Crissle West]

I'm sorry.

[Kid Fury]

Has all these different songs and sounds. Like Breath of the Wild has a whole thing on there. Animal Crossing. They just added Donkey Kong Bonanza. It has a motion tracking thing on it. So in the morning, let's say you pick Breath of the Wild. It'll have sounds that kind of. It's an alarm.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

But like the sounds will moderately grow and grow and it can sort of track when you're moving around in the bed. And so it will sort of. The sounds might intensify the more that it tracks that you're moving until you finally get out of bed. And when it senses that you're out of the bed, it'll make, like, a victory noise.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

But it can track if you get back in that bed, and it will start all over.

[Crissle West]

Okay, that's actually very cute, but I

[Kid Fury]

brought it up because it has something called sleepy sounds. So you can, like, set your bedtime or whatever, and then it'll track when you're in the bed, and then. And they'll start playing these really cute sounds based on, like, ambient sounds.

[Crissle West]

Got you. So that's why it's $100. Cause I was like, this looks right. But now I see it is a

[Kid Fury]

real thing, so it's effective as fuck.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

When you hear Mario going like, get yourself out of bed.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you did that.

[Kid Fury]

And then when I do get out of bed, it goes, dun, dun, dun, dun. No, what's the one that.

[Crissle West]

No, no, whatever.

[Kid Fury]

It gives you the Mario I got a star thing.

[Crissle West]

Oh, oh, oh, no. That's the mushroom.

[Kid Fury]

That's Mario Kart. Where you get a star. Yeah, I'm talking about, like, when you get a star in Mario. Like, when you beat a level.

[Crissle West]

Oh,

[Kid Fury]

yes. That one.

[Crissle West]

That one.

[Kid Fury]

That one. That one.

[Crissle West]

That one.

[Kid Fury]

That one.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And then you get back into bed, and Bowser is like, hold on. Like, I'm dead. So serious.

[Crissle West]

Okay, that's really cute.

[Kid Fury]

It's really cute, but.

[Crissle West]

So that's why it's 100 damn dollars. Okay. Yes. I was like, wow. Should be 20 max. But never mind. I get it now. That's real tech.

[Kid Fury]

Hot take.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

N can take a break from UNO.

[Crissle West]

100% agree. There are other games.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crissle West]

And you know what else? Monopoly wouldn't last so long if y' all played by the fucking rules.

[Kid Fury]

Say, 100% agree.

[Crissle West]

Monopoly would wrap up in 45 minutes tops if you niggas would play by the real rules.

[Kid Fury]

At most, it doesn't.

[Crissle West]

It goes on forever because y' all don't play by the fucking rules. Y' all borrow money from each other and from the bank and do all kind of nigga shit. And you want to build hotels when you don't have all the colors yet and all kind of shit. Y' all make the game hard.

[Kid Fury]

It's ruthless.

[Crissle West]

Cutthroat game.

[Kid Fury]

It really is. And that's when it's the most fun.

[Crissle West]

It's capitalism. It's supposed to be mean. Yeah. If you do, you know that when you land on a property and you can't afford it, it's supposed to go to auction. Niggas never.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

Auction. They never.

[Kid Fury]

That is fun.

[Crissle West]

Play with the auction.

[Kid Fury]

That is like, I can't. Like, why play it

[Crissle West]

anyway?

[Kid Fury]

That's why. No shade. I probably have racked up the most hours on Monopoly, on Nintendo.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, because you can play it with niggas.

[Kid Fury]

I can play Bison now. We've played Monopoly. Actually, we would play the. The game won with you.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. I have so many monopolies. Oh, yeah. I'm good at it. But that's because I pick which properties that I'm going to target and I don't spend a bunch of money. I know how to play the fucking game. Yeah, I completely agree. You niggas. Part of the reason uno turns into a problem is because you don't play by the rules. But that's fine. I'm not.

[Kid Fury]

You don't play by the rules.

[Crissle West]

I'm not against house rules. We can have house rules. We just gotta say that before we get started.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

We cannot be like, oh, yeah, you gotta draw until you get a card after we done already started. Cause that's not the rules.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crissle West]

So just say it. You gotta say it first.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. And y' all always want to take things too far. I'm not. You're not going to stack a draw two on a draw four. Are you okay, niggas? Are you okay? What are you talking about?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

What are you talking about?

[Kid Fury]

You're drawing that draw four. You're drawing that four, and we're changing that color, right? And honestly, it should start there, right?

[Crissle West]

And you don't get a turn if you had to draw.

[Kid Fury]

You don't get a turn if you had to draw. Like, we be letting shit slide. And then the girls just be like, well, two plus four. But also, I have another two, and I'm skipping you, girl.

[Crissle West]

You're not doing.

[Kid Fury]

We just played Jax. Who's up for some Mother May I? You niggas don't like rules, which is why you don't want to play new games. Because you don't want to learn, right? You don't want to play Uno with rules, and you also don't like. You have an issue with rules so much that you play another game and you don't want to tell nobody how to play it.

[Crissle West]

It right.

[Kid Fury]

Spades.

[Crissle West]

Spades.

[Kid Fury]

Niggas are not telling you how to. It's always just watch.

[Crissle West]

Just watch.

[Kid Fury]

You'll learn.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

You'll figure it out. Just watch.

[Crissle West]

Just sit and watch. And you have to sit and watch for approximately seven years before you'll Be ready to sit at the table but that's what niggas want and someone will

[Kid Fury]

still cut you and never speak to you again.

[Crissle West]

Oh, don't you be the one. Don't you be the one to renege. Woo.

[Kid Fury]

Then again, I did throw an uproarious tantrum when I lost space to 10.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, you did. Yeah. You are not good. You. You don't have the temperament for. For board games and card games and such. You for phase 10, you really overreacted.

[Kid Fury]

My first time playing that game.

[Crissle West]

Really overreacted.

[Kid Fury]

Phase 10 is brutal. Like, when you're playing by the rules, too.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it is, cuz. You watch other people go up to other phases. You like, I'm still on phase.

[Kid Fury]

I'm still on two. I want to play the game as well.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you did. You threw a tangent, that game.

[Kid Fury]

I was embarrassed eventually. Well, like, years later. Okay, well, so, yeah, I guess that would be my.

[Crissle West]

That's a great one.

[Kid Fury]

I think I shared it already. I'll also say, can we talk poison? And this is how we do it. Take a break. I'm not saying erase it from the culture.

[Crissle West]

Right. But let us miss it. Let us miss it.

[Kid Fury]

Right before I let go. I've already let go.

[Crissle West]

Oh, man.

[Kid Fury]

You know, I've already let go both versions. We could take a break.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Even the Beyonce one. It's fine. We can. We'll revisit it.

[Kid Fury]

We can revisit it.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Well, thank you for that question, kj. As you see, you got something started,

[Kid Fury]

right?

[Crissle West]

Oh, like, and another.

[Kid Fury]

Let's see what comes from that, Right? The girls are gonna be cracked. Well, I mean, would you feel like you better than me? Cause you actually read the thing.

[Crissle West]

Maybe. Maybe I do. But the thing is, I'll happily be the one to be the rules. I just need you niggas to listen. I'll tell you what the rules are, but y' all don't even wanna listen to somebody else tell you what the rules are. It's like, so then what are we supposed to do here? Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Anyway, a draw. Two on a floor is diabolical, y'.

[Crissle West]

All. You're not doing it.

[Kid Fury]

And it like. Okay.

[Crissle West]

All right. Our next letter comes from Chicken Baddie, who says, well, out of. While I was out of town this past weekend, my best friend of 13 years agreed to come by and make sure that my chicken Abigail had water since it's been over 100 degrees. Yeah. In Vegas.

[Kid Fury]

Damn.

[Crissle West]

It is. It is hot as out there.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, it's. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Imagine my Surprise. When I got home with my 9 year old daughter and found sweet Abigail dead in her run area. No Abby, mind you, her sister died last week. So now I'm down to zero chicken and two kids who are distraught about their mean ass pets passing away. Upon discovering Abigail, I texted my friend to ask if she had time to give her water. Her response was no, I forgot. I'm sorry. I responded, oh, Abigail's dead. She said, is she actually. No, it's fine. She said, is she actually. I said, yes. And she said, omg, I am sorry. I didn't respond after this. And she didn't reach out for the rest of the evening. No phone call or nothing. To put salt in the wound, she and her husband had stopped by my house earlier in that day to drop off the dog. But nobody went outside to check on Abigail. And to make it even worse, when she and her family went out of town for the 4th of July weekend, guess who checked on her chickens every day? She was gone. That's right. Me. So what the hell up?

[Kid Fury]

Y' all just got chilled.

[Crissle West]

They in Vegas. Well, you know, I actually cannot talk because my friends in Oklahoma got chickens, but I expect that out of Oklahoma, right? So. Yes. What the fuck do I do? I know people will say it's just a chicken, but that chicken was part of my family.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crissle West]

I'm going through a divorce and an awful custody battle because my baby daddy is my biggest hater. And the chickens helped maintain normalcy for my girls. They brought joy. And the kids found comfort in coming home to check for eggs and having conversations with the chickens. Oh, I don't have many friends where I live. I would consider this girl to be one of the most important people in my life, but this feels really unforgivable. Please help me process this and find a way to be more mature. I'm a retired crash out, but this situation is really testing me. Love you lot. Thanks. The chicken baddie who is now a saddie. Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, sorry to hear about that.

[Crissle West]

What do you do? I would be devastated.

[Kid Fury]

I don't think that there's a. This. This is a maturity thing. I think that you had a pet that you loved and cared about that your kids loved and cared about and negligence, right. Caused its. Its death and negligence from a friend who you trusted to look after it. You acknowledged, hey, it's Vegas. It's hot here at Christmas. We're literally going through a heat wave all across the west coast, right? Can you please give my pet water? I.

[Crissle West]

That's not how rape Is a maturity. It's unreasonable. Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You're. You've named the chicken.

[Crissle West]

It wasn't just right. It wasn't supposed to be dinner in four months. This was a pet. Like,

[Kid Fury]

and you gonna talk about this girl got chickens too, so it's not even like, right. You are. You would forget about your friend having chickens or not used to it.

[Crissle West]

The fact that you took care of her chickens when she was gone and she let yours die. I think I would have to let the friendship die.

[Kid Fury]

I think I. I don't know that that would be forgivable for me either. Like, oh, I forgot. Omg. I'm so sorry. Talk to you later.

[Crissle West]

Like, you didn't even call me. You caused the death of my chicken and you did not even call me. Like, it's like you don't give a shit.

[Kid Fury]

I would have called and I would have been sobbing.

[Crissle West]

Oh, I would never forgive myself. Ever, ever. Like, I'm bringing you two of my chickens and I'll never stop apologizing.

[Kid Fury]

Like, flat out, bare minimum.

[Crissle West]

Bare minimum. Yeah. Because this is fucked up.

[Kid Fury]

I would have tried to pull some Raven Baxter family magic and be like, okay, I'm just bringing over in the chicken and be like, oh, we found Abigail.

[Crissle West]

No, you didn't.

[Kid Fury]

No. That is really, really awful. I don't know. Outside of confronting her, maybe, like, in the best, calmest mood that I could muster, confronting her. And I would let her know why I was disappointed. Well, I don't think I be friends with her anymore.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But I agree. Your kid's pet chicken diet. I mean, you know, dogs tug at my heart. String heart strings in a specific way, but a pet is a pet is a pet.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

If I would have been like, hey, can you look after Link for me while I go, whoopi, Whoopi, whoop. And I come back and my dog is dead.

[Crissle West]

And do you know that almost happened to who? To you. Years ago? Oh, Chris is gonna beat my ass years ago. Not that she always.

[Kid Fury]

Don't tell me. I don't want to know. I legitimately don't want to know.

[Crissle West]

It wasn't.

[Kid Fury]

I don't want to.

[Crissle West]

It was. She wasn't actually in any danger. He just. She just, like, he was with her. She was with him for something, and she was trying to. She was about to, like, try to take off running, and he grabbed her just. Just in the nick of time before she, like, got out of his car. So it was really not that serious. But that's why I'm like, he probably Told you about that. But not like I did not know. Okay, well, so yeah. Imagine how she actually got away. Nah, nah. You, Chris would have been dead. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And that is my dog acting a fool and being a hood rat.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it was. You know, it's not like, oh, I

[Kid Fury]

forgot to take her out.

[Crissle West]

Right. It was Link's fault.

[Kid Fury]

Right. It was her being fast. Yeah. I don't. I. Yeah, I. I think I would for sure have to. To wrap that friendship up. Sucks that that's like the person she said she would is most important friend.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So you'll find new friends. Babe. You're not gonna just let my chicken die. My kids pets chicken.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

A pet that was also helping to bring some peace and normalcy. You know, settling into all of that dynamic with all of this. And you have chickens and I took care of your chickens while you were away. You let my kids chicken die. It's a rat. But not before I cuss you out. Yeah, try not to cuss her out. Try to try.

[Crissle West]

Do your best.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, do your best. But.

[Crissle West]

But I mean do your best if you actually want to still be friends with her. But I think I would be like, at this point, I don't care what I say to you because I don't care if we ever speak again.

[Kid Fury]

Like, fair.

[Crissle West]

So you only you can make that decision. But I fully understand and I agree with Kid Fury. Like. Like, maybe most people don't think of chickens as pets or like something to be attached to, but you can get attached to any living thing. You can get attached to non living things. As a child, I used to rotate my teddy bears so none of them would feel left out or like I didn't love them. Oh, I used to rotate who got to sleep next to me at night because I didn't want nobody's feelings to be hurt. So you could get attached to anything. Child.

[Kid Fury]

So true.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I mean if. If this was like a pet scorpion and this happened, I would be pissed off for you. And I don't understand why anybody wants even keeps those.

[Crissle West]

Right. Even. Why do you even do that? I had a living rat and I was like, rat. Not even mouse.

[Kid Fury]

That is. Yeah, mouse even. But a rat.

[Crissle West]

A pet rat.

[Kid Fury]

That's the thing.

[Crissle West]

I mean this was like 20 years ago, but I was just like, girl, who the. The. As a rat. Yuck. So yeah, I agree. This. We. We don't have a problem. It's. It's the way you act like you just don't give a. What happened. Like you didn't even call me.

[Kid Fury]

Sorry.

[Crissle West]

When I told you my chicken is dead. You didn't even call. If that doesn't make sense.

[Kid Fury]

The chicken you were supposed to take care of. Like, I would have called you if you were just. Just been. Like, I woke up this morning and Abigail was dead.

[Crissle West]

Right. Even if I didn't neglect. Right. Even if I didn't neglect your chicken, I still would have called. Wow. Wow. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she sucks.

[Crissle West]

I'm sorry. That really. That blows. But it would be hard for me to get over that one. I'm not going to lie. Woo.

[Kid Fury]

I hope that she. I hope the kids didn't see the chicken.

[Crissle West]

Oh, the nine year old probably did. Oh, poor baby. This is why Laney only goes with people who are licensed, bonded, insured, all that. Because if something happened to my child, you're getting sued,

[Kid Fury]

literally. I gotta scope the place out.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. No, I'm going on visits and she gotta go there for daycare a lot before I trust y' all to keep her overnight.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yes.

[Crissle West]

We feeling this out. Cause do she even like y'? All? Do she even like it over there?

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

So I'm gonna pay the five every

[Kid Fury]

time, but I get the videos. I get videos of her sitting up. Sitting up in the office in the. In this glade chair with a captions like. Well, Link's running the office today as usual. Coast to coast. It's like the same shit in Harlem.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She runs the place.

[Crissle West]

Ah.

[Kid Fury]

They sent me her ass killed when she was with Chris.

[Crissle West]

See, I. And I knew I shouldn't have said. She really didn't. It wasn't that bad, but, you know.

[Kid Fury]

I know it's not that bad. I thought it was like, bad as fits. No, it's fine.

[Crissle West]

No, Laney's daycare sent me a picture of her on her dog bed. And the worker was carrying around Lainey on sitting on her dog bed. And they were like, yeah, she's feeling like princess and the P today.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

So normally when I'm like, traveling and crying because she's not with me, they'll send me some pictures and she's having the time of her life. I'm like, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Carried her ass just cartwheeling Cleopatra.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Down the Nile.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

They all like, royalty. Sent you her sex tape. I mean, it's pretty wild.

[Crissle West]

Listen, she goes to daycare and she has a good time. Okay. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Sure does.

[Crissle West]

Y' all wish you could go check in somewhere that's full of baddies who want to eat your pussy and Then you get to go home to a full meal and a nice nap. See, y' all are just jealous of Lainey because you want her life.

[Kid Fury]

Pretty privileges. What an idiot.

[Crissle West]

Now, had it been Bluey to bring her up on that stage, it would have been totally different.

[Kid Fury]

Completely.

[Crissle West]

See you. Ah. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Sorry about the chicken love.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Sorry, chicken baddie. Good luck. Moving on. But, yeah, I get your anger here. All right, let's cut the letters right there. Again, if you have a question you'd like to ask us, send us an email. Ask the Read gmail dot com. We'll be right back. Hey, guys. You know how sometimes your morning is just so jam packed and busy where you like? Man, I really could use a solid breakfast, but I just do not have the time for it. Like me, this very morning, I overslept. I had so many meetings. I had to get ready to record this show. I had to take Laney to school. It was a lot going on, and I could have really used a Belveda Breakfast Biscuit. Okay, Starting your day with Belvita Breakfast Biscuits as a part of a balanced breakfast helps you make it through all of that morning chaos. From busy mornings on the go to slower mornings at home, Belvita Breakfast Biscuits are an easy way to kick off your day. They're baked with whole grains and come in delicious flavors like blueberry, cranberry, orange, cinnamon, brown sugar, and more. Plus, there's no artificial colors, sweeteners, or flavors for those of us who are trying to be mindful about what we're putting into our bodies. Okay, so when you pair it with a low fat dairy and a serving of fruit, Belvita Breakfast Biscuits provide steady morning energy for to do's and help you make up a balanced breakfast. It's exactly what we need to get our day started. You can find Belveda Breakfast Biscuits. It's at your local store today. Go pick some up, have something good for breakfast. All right, let's move on.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Oop.

[Kid Fury]

It isn't. Because your name's not Ryan Coogler and you don't work for the mcu. So your opinion, your demands are relevant now. I don't think there's anything wrong with being like, I really want to see this person play this character or this person be perfect for that role. I think that's fun, especially if you're talking about an existing IP or whatever. But when someone's catching and then you're like, well, that shit's gonna flop. Oh, yeah, because it really should have been Money Bag, yo. Or whatever. Like, girl, what are you.

[Crissle West]

I'm holding that.

[Kid Fury]

You don't know. Shut the up.

[Crissle West]

What movie have you cast ever? Pipe up.

[Kid Fury]

I don't hear you yourself in your tick tock skit

[Crissle West]

with the 30 views.

[Kid Fury]

Shut up.

[Crissle West]

And the three likes. I wouldn't be leaning on that.

[Kid Fury]

Shut up. Ryan Coogler has an Academy Award

[Crissle West]

and his movies are good.

[Kid Fury]

He has smashed the box.

[Crissle West]

Yes, they're good. They're Good.

[Kid Fury]

He doesn't miss babes.

[Crissle West]

He's fine. I trust Ryan Coogler over random Internet user. I do.

[Kid Fury]

It's just the incessant and unnecessary bitching. Of course, being like, this person would be cool or I thought this person would be cool or I'm looking forward to this. We do it all the time for whoever will be playing Storm. Right. But if they cast Lashana Lynch, I'm not gonna be like, well, should have been Cynthia Bailey. Like, what does that do? Especially as a black person talking about black art that I have no reason to believe will be terrible.

[Crissle West]

Right, Right.

[Kid Fury]

So I wanna also just nitpick at two specific things that I've been seeing spoken about as far as this one being the age of David Johnson, when three things. One being the age of David Johnson compared to Letitia Wright. They're both the same age. Two movies Letitia Wright's Shuri is playing would basically be the aunt of this character.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

So niggas are like, well, how the fuck is she gonna play his aunt when they're the same age?

[Crissle West]

Well, this, this is pretend.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, so there's a sitcom from just before my childhood. It's called the Golden Girls. My favorite sitcom.

[Crissle West]

Oh Lord.

[Kid Fury]

There's a character in the show named Sophia who plays the 80 something year old mother of one of the lead characters, Dorothy Spornac. In my head, I was just seeing Beatrice. Did you know that Estelle Getty who plays Sophia is younger, was actually younger than Bea Arthur and played her much older mama and many people didn't even realize that the lady wasn't older than her.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Was in fact younger. It's called acting. It's called makeup. It's called make believe. That's where I'm going to start, where I'm going to end is that we're talking about superhero make believe, fantasy magic shit. We're wrapping up a saga called Multiverse. You watched the last Avengers movie that heavily, heavily revolved around time travel. So is it out of the realm of possibilities that these niggas could act alongside each other and it just be a Multiverse time traveling situation where they the same age? But that's my uncle. Did you not watch Endgame where niggas got blipped back into the earth post Endgame when niggas got blipped back into the world after five years, Ant man going up to see his daughter who was 8 now the bitch like 15 or whatever. Like, why are we struggling? Why are we struggling? Why are you nitpicking? Oh, another British actor. Letitia Wright is. Letitia Wright is British.

[Crissle West]

I said another one. Wow. How dare you with the diaspora.

[Kid Fury]

And it's not even like, oh, why not an African actor? Why not? You don't even know what you want. You want them to hire like Young Miami or something. Like, you want somebody from here, which doesn't make any sense.

[Crissle West]

Lastly, they want somebody from Wakanda.

[Kid Fury]

Lots of people, lots of people were saying damn Syn Idris like they were dying to see this nigga play Black Panther. Oh, dam Sin Idris. British, right Dim San Idris, the lead male for Children of Blood and Bone, which again, I'm gonna encourage you to watch the trailer of Beautiful. Not incredibly unlike the imagery and tone of Black Panther lore. Very different basis. Very different.

[Crissle West]

Damn. A three minute trailer. God damn. Save something for the movie.

[Kid Fury]

They even put a Beyonce song in it.

[Crissle West]

That's how you got me.

[Kid Fury]

I was like, okay, energy did not need to go in here at the

[Crissle West]

beginning,

[Kid Fury]

like halfway through the trailer. But when you watch that trailer.

[Crissle West]

Are you coming Contacts? Oh, get me out of here. Sorry. Go ahead. Finish what you were saying. My bad.

[Kid Fury]

So you're not getting Damson as Black Panther, but you're getting him as Blood and Bone Panther? You hoes are ungrateful and you complain about any fucking thing, and I'm tired of it. We're getting another Black Panther through all of it. Through the tragedy of Chadwick Boseman passing through the MCU basically being tits right now to this other black man being ousted as the next Thanos because of a domestic assault case. We're getting a Black Panther 3 with a talented actor, with an award winning director that has never steered us wrong. And Denzel Washington is. And we know that because Washington didn't give a fuck to tell us. Why are you bitching? Talking about this person's not going to sell tickets. He's not going to pack out theaters. I guarantee you who he is. He is. Because there are more people who are happy, excited and supportive of this than niggas bitching about it than you. You're going to go watch it regardless. So I don't even know why you running your mouth. And Ryan Coogler is the director, so he's going to sell tickets regardless. And Denzel Washington is going to be in the movie. What are you talking about? What do you want? Does your boss know you wasting our time? There's a greater overarching conversation here about us, like, un. Like nitpicking at unnecessary things when it comes to our art. Yeah, yeah, Like Colored contacts in the. I'm joking.

[Crissle West]

I could not close that window fast enough. Oh, I couldn't get out that tab fast enough.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know why I forgot about that. I should have at least given you a discussion.

[Crissle West]

You should have because I. I'm supposed to look at that. I'm not looking at that.

[Kid Fury]

They're probably gonna give Storm color context in the mcu because her eyes are blue, right?

[Crissle West]

And Storm is a. A mutant. Are the children of blood and bone mutants.

[Kid Fury]

You ate that.

[Crissle West]

And you didn't think I knew that?

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

I'm not even human work.

[Kid Fury]

Lastly, I want to talk about the Anthony Joshua fight really quickly. And mostly specifically, I want to talk about. You also had the nerve to disrespect my baby father and act like it was. It was, like, rigged. Oh. So Anthony Joshua thought Christian Prenga was cute.

[Crissle West]

Oh, he is cute. I had to google him.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, we have children together. Calm down. Oh, okay. No, he's like my favorite boxer right now. Not just because he is fine, but also because he's black. He's incredibly good at what he does, and I don't know how he is with women, but outside of that, he seemed like a really good person.

[Crissle West]

Gotcha.

[Kid Fury]

He seemed like the type of person who know everybody name when he walk into a room, greets everyone. Great with kids, but he also can fight. And he got that, like, that, like, child of Tyson spirit in him. Cause Tyson, for me, at least in terms of boxing, goat, okay, not just because he had hands, but he had. He has that spirit where he could just look at his opponent and they'd be like, I don't know if I want to do this. As soon as your spirit is broken, I'm going to wreck you. Damn, if you fight scary, you likely to get your ass beat.

[Crissle West]

Got you.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, I'm a big fan of AJ Also, he hasn't fought anybody since he knocked out Logan Paul. And not long after that, he was in an accident that took the life of two of his very, very close friends. O.

[Crissle West]

That was him. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

So this is his first fight since then. Um, so I was very, very happy that he got that second round knockout of this giant man. Cause that first round was looking shaky. That first round was looking shaky. And this is how I know. I'm a sports fan. I was in here hollering like y' all bitches do at the final, like y' all hoes do at the Super Bowl. When he knocked that man out, I was afraid that someone was gonna send the Police here to shoot my dog. I'm so serious. Cause I was like. In fact, let me back up from the microphone so I can give you like a real time.

[Crissle West]

I see. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Like, it was one of those. Because first of all, I get excited when I see somebody beat somebody else's ass.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you do.

[Kid Fury]

I'm feral in that way, but also someone who deserves it. And underdog story, and it was looking weird. So specifically to the people who are saying oat was rigged for one restar or not. Do you watch fighting? Do you know anything about fighting? Do you understand how it works?

[Crissle West]

Nope.

[Kid Fury]

There have been countless. I might have just fucked my throat up for real. There have been countless fights where somebody is wrecking a bitch for 10, 11 rounds and then gets cold cocked at the end. And then that's that. So this wasn't even really that they had one round. It was looking real sketchy. AJ was doing a lot of hugging like that. Right. Is not coming over here again.

[Crissle West]

Damn. Got you.

[Kid Fury]

But by the end of that first round, I could tell Pranga was like, okay, okay. This nigga ain't going to. And a couple of them licks, I felt them came back. Second round. I don't even know how long we. The whole fight was like six minutes.

[Crissle West]

Oh, damn. Grand closing.

[Kid Fury]

I knew off rip, if he hits this nigga with a good cold, he's gonna shatter this man's spirit.

[Crissle West]

Oh, damn.

[Kid Fury]

And wrap this up. And that's exactly what fucking happens. Happened. Still walked away with a black eye. So I don't understand why y' all are hating on the father of my children so intensely. Like, they're professional fighters. This is how fighting works. Yeah. He won that fight because he trained very, very diligently for a very, very long time.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And because he was better at fighting.

[Crissle West]

And he does. He does do that.

[Kid Fury]

Get off his dick. That's my John. No, I really just. He's an amazing fighter and he's like, I think my favorite boxer right now. Okay, again, five minutes at least. I watched the whole card, girl. If there's anybody to clear that I'd be happy to clear up in two rounds, it's him. He could have knocked that nigga on 30 seconds and I would have been sharing. But were any of the other fights good? No, there was another fight that was really teased. I can't remember. Okay, that's it. Ain't nobody rigged no motherfucking fight. Okay. Prega's bat got rigged to the motherfucking floor in second round, babes. That's what happened? Cold cock. Three good ones. Wham. Wham. And another one. And another.

[Crissle West]

They just met the black man one. I don't know. Everybody could have been black. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

No, I don't get it. Really. He's like a celebrity. I think now Anthony Joshua is, he's like a, he's, I don't know. Yeah, he's one of the biggest boxers right now.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

So. But even just like in the fighting world, you, when you have someone that's just like beloved or whatever, I think that's just in most interesting industries, I guess if people just like, oh, gotta go straight one three times.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I hope that bitch just fall. I think that's what some of what it is.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

That's another part of the reason why I like fighting so much because, like, it's a place where shit talking is expected. It feels like it's a part of the experience regardless of how you do it. Because you're literally getting ready to beat each other up.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And it's individual. Right. Like you yourself have to back up the shit you talk.

[Crissle West]

Right? Yes.

[Kid Fury]

You know what I'm saying? So T. But you know, AND one we going to Tyson Fury next. Oh, and won. I said it.

[Crissle West]

And won.

[Kid Fury]

And won. What, like the shoes? No, what did AND one make? Didn't they make apparel?

[Crissle West]

Oh, and one. Okay, I, I, I was like, why

[Kid Fury]

are basketball terms in this basketball term? Okay, but isn't AND one also.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yes, it's athleisure.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. And, and it's a, and, and tournament.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I think what for the kids. And one festival or tournament or something where basketball players go, love that. And one lie. And, and one fast. And one first division.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And, and one no, that's not. Yep.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so love all that fighting. Jabby. Jab. Punch. Punch.

[Kid Fury]

Correct. Hook.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes, hook.

[Kid Fury]

Uppercut.

[Crissle West]

Uppercut. Okay. So this actually I was tagged on tik tok like 30 times and I was devastated to see this. So Dee Magno hall, who is the voice actor for Pearl of Steven.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I heard about this.

[Crissle West]

Somebody went through her following on Instagram and found out that she follows a lot of right wing maga accounts, including Turning Point USA and the Dead Charlie Kirk. And although she does not follow Donald Trump, I guess that's where she draws the line. She. Oh yeah, her whole Instagram is just Bible, American flag, white husband. You know, it's very giving. It's giving focus on the family type vibes, etc. And so this is what I'M saying, not only did you play a lesbian, and maybe you didn't think about it. Cause I, I, I, I was like, what is happening to my worldview? Like, everything I thought was real is crumbling. And somebody said that they had met her at a con or something. And first of all, she's saying, was it, it's over, isn't it? I think, yeah. So she sang that, but then she kept saying him instead of her. I was like, don't be that straight. That's so annoying. Like, just. So sing the fucking song, Diane. Just sing the goddamn song. So there's that. But like, girl, not only did you play a lesbian, you played like the dyke est lesbian. Like, this is the most lesbian. She was literally in love with this girl for like 5,000 fucking years. And even when she left her for a man and had that nigga baby and killed herself to do it, she was like, well, now I gotta raise her son. That is how deeply in love she was. That's how deeply in love she was with this woman. They were rock dykes for eons.

[Kid Fury]

Remember when she did her Drag King performance? Keep it on there, petticoats. Oh, my God, that tail coat.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Even in the episode when she went with Steven and his daddy to Empire City and they did the musical number, she had on a fucking suit with tails. Like, she's a dyke. How are you?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know.

[Crissle West]

How are you? This felt personal because a lot of people have said, crystal, you're kind of anal like Pearl. And I take that as a compliment because although Pearl, you know, she could be a bit much, they would have fell apart and died without her many, many times. Like, Virgos are annoying and necessary. I'm sorry. It is what it is. Y' all need us every. Y', all, Y'. All. Y' all be mad at the perfectionist until some shit need to be perfected. And then you wondered, you looking for me? Wandering around where I'm at, how the same bitch who trained Connie to help Stephen in battle is. How can that person be a fan of Charlie Kirk?

[Kid Fury]

I mean, Pearl has nothing to do with this wench.

[Crissle West]

You're right. But it feels. This is.

[Kid Fury]

It does.

[Crissle West]

This is like joke Rowling. Like, what do you mean? This is a beloved series that means a lot. I have a lot of Steven Universe shit in my home. I got the fucking soundtrack on vinyl. I got all the little animal. I got all the little figurines, bobbleheads and Funko Pops and all that I got assigned. I have an autograph poster. With your autographs probably fucking on the poster. Literally. I have all them little niggas. I have all them little funko pops everywhere.

[Kid Fury]

I only had to take three steps to pick this lesbian bitch up.

[Crissle West]

How? Why? Why?

[Kid Fury]

Ugh. To even take a Pearl song and straight it.

[Crissle West]

Oh, it's just girl.

[Kid Fury]

Like, leave that beloved, sweet, innocent character. Mostly innocent character out of your hateful bullshit.

[Crissle West]

The only way this could be worse if it. If it was Estelle. Cause.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. She cannot. Ruby and Sapphire's voice artists cannot be homophobic, cannot be maga, Cannot be like, I'm sorry. I just would not make sense. It don't. This don't make sense.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, but I don't know who she is outside of Pearl.

[Crissle West]

Even in the later seasons, when Bismuth came back and all of a sudden Pearl was tucking her hair behind her ears and showing a little puss. How is it that you can be this. I was so. I mean, when I say disappointed. I didn't even know I still had expectations for celebrities or actors or. I didn't even know I still had standards for these people until this came out. Sick.

[Kid Fury]

Like, what do you want?

[Crissle West]

Why Diddy? And then in the comments, the Filipinos was like, oh, y' all don't have no Filipino aunties in his shows. Unfortunately, this is how they do. I'm like, damn. Damn. I mean, I'm not gonna say it because I don't know y' all culture like that, but they said, yeah, I do have quite a few of them Gen X Filipino aunties, and they don't give a. About none of that. Like, they'll be. They'll act like, you know, like there's certain that don't bother them. Like, they. When they around your gay friends, they won't say nothing outwardly crazy or just like so hummus. Like they have. They know the lies. But, baby, in private, I'm like, this ain't even private. Did you know we could go through and see who you was following, who you was supporting?

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

Did you know you can be a Jesus follower without being a Charlie Kirk? Fo. That's the thing. If you were just religious, that would be fine, because nobody cares. But you tapped in with the hateful niggas. What is that about?

[Kid Fury]

Dee, I would love. I would have loved for you to. To do like a. A reaction. It was a reaction series where you and Charlie Kirk watched Steven Universe.

[Crissle West]

Charlie Kirk would have had a meltdown probably.

[Kid Fury]

And they're showing this to our children. He probably Would have anyways.

[Crissle West]

That man was a fierce advocate for Christian nationalism. He was a terrible person. This, this, really. And she ain't said nothing about it. Which leads me to believe this is not one of those, oh, well, you know, I just don't want my social media to be an echo chamber. You gotta be. You gotta follow the opposition to see what they say, blah, blah. You know, sometimes journalists will do things like that, for example. But you're not that. No, you're not that. And if somebody went through my following and saw something crazy like this, and now I'm trending on threads and tick tock because of it, I would have gotten on Instagram and said whatever I needed to say in order to clear it up if I wasn't a Charlie Kirk fan. But see, but see, it's been days and she ain't said nothing. Almost like, oh, I guess y' all just figured it out. Well, show's over, so kiss my ass. Like, damn. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

It's so fascinating to me, the people who, like, consider themselves, like, like, so religious or like, like in a radical sense that they will just hear things coming out of places, like turning point mouths like Charlie Kirk, Eric, who claim to, like, lead with Christian values first, and it's just like, oh, well, I love God. You don't love God. What's wrong with you? I'm gonna sit over here with these people.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And. But you like, do you just, like your water, your ears fill up with water when you hear all of the other things, right?

[Crissle West]

These don't matter all of a sudden. Like, what is it? What is it?

[Kid Fury]

I said not Pearl Child.

[Crissle West]

And, you know, it's worse than Sugar Light because I can just skip Nicki Minaj's episode. It was only one or two. Sugar Lite is. It's very easy to realize that this is a Sugarlight episode and keep going. Pearl is in every goddamn episode of this series.

[Kid Fury]

And Sugarlight only speaks in that one episode.

[Crissle West]

Right? Right. Pearl is an integral part of the program. I'm just glad this is not Rebecca Sugar. And it never would be.

[Kid Fury]

I think I would cry.

[Crissle West]

No, please.

[Kid Fury]

Because I think I would like.

[Crissle West]

No. Right. Because you're not gonna ruin my whole goddamn franchise. Okay? Like, right. I can still support Steven Universe because Dee Magno hall did not create Steven Universe. And and Rebecca Sugar, I'm sure, would literally would literally never. That that non binary is not going to do it. So I'm not even worried about that. But I know there is going to be. Every time I watch Steven Universe in The back of my head is going to be. Every time Pearl talk. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Damn, that stinks.

[Crissle West]

This bitch would it. This bitch would. Would actively fight against them like you. You would be. You would do everything you could to legislate them right out of existence. How. How dare you.

[Kid Fury]

I'm gonna do some little fury imagination shit and just tell myself that that voice is a. Is a girl from another.

[Crissle West]

Oh yeah.

[Kid Fury]

A lot of yourself actually hates that lady. Like this is the. The good. Got you whatever her name is. Because I don't even know what that lady looked like. No shade.

[Crissle West]

So yeah, I didn't until this. Right. I didn't until this. But yeah, this. It really hurt my feelings more than anything because Steven Universe is one of my top three programs of all time across all genres. And so to have a key character act like the actor, act like this is just. Yeah. Devastating.

[Kid Fury]

You always talk about how like wholesome the show is. Yeah. How it moves with such amazing intent. It's not overbearing in any way. It's very, very focused on the story that it's telling without feeling like it's trying to shove anyone ideas, thought, theme into your mouth or into your head and mind. But you can still feel the intent behind it.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Which is to me has always been to make people of all ages feel seen and heard and felt and comfortable and like open their mind to what it like fun accepted, imaginative things.

[Crissle West]

Oh man.

[Kid Fury]

And yes. And self acceptance that could. That is seen to me like that intent all the more in Steven Universe future.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Which just brings me right back to. How could you?

[Kid Fury]

How could you.

[Crissle West]

How could you.

[Kid Fury]

Pearl.

[Crissle West]

Pearl is such a dyke, bro.

[Kid Fury]

How.

[Crissle West]

How did you get through it? How did you even get through all of the scripts? I don't. Were you just sitting there like a check is a check.

[Kid Fury]

So on this earth, in this reality, Pearl, basically she didn't get Rose. And so what happened is that she developed internal homophobia, period. She turned to the dark side. Our Pearl as we know it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

From the Steven Universe.

[Crissle West]

There we go. There we go. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

That's the real Pearl.

[Crissle West]

This is the kind of lies and delusions that I can tell myself until I eventually forget that this even happened.

[Kid Fury]

It's the best we can do. Make some shit up, champ.

[Crissle West]

I'm just glad. Once again, I'm just glad it's not Rebecca because then I would have to cancel the program itself and that I would have to go in more and more. So let's just.

[Kid Fury]

And then. Right. And then scoop up all of our

[Crissle West]

Steven Universe oh, no. And then the read will be on hiatus. Cause. What do you mean?

[Kid Fury]

Because we have to take time off.

[Crissle West]

Because we have to cope.

[Kid Fury]

There is a Steven Universe art book right behind me on the wall.

[Crissle West]

You got a giant Garnet doing like a sexy phone right fucking there. Garnet's right there. It's like a life size poster.

[Kid Fury]

Asia, Barbie. Asia, Asia, Barbie.

[Crissle West]

Oh, can't do me like that.

[Kid Fury]

Garnet acrylic painting for me. Shout out to you, girl.

[Crissle West]

Man.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, Steven Universe matters. It does bigly.

[Crissle West]

A lot. A lot. So.

[Kid Fury]

How dare she?

[Crissle West]

I'm just trying to count my blessings that it's not Big Beck acting like this. But wow, Dee Dee. Wow.

[Kid Fury]

I couldn't see it.

[Crissle West]

No, no, no. Because Rebecca actually is queer. See?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. So.

[Crissle West]

So you know. You know.

[Kid Fury]

I know, I know. They often do group chat.

[Crissle West]

This bitch. Ugh.

[Kid Fury]

It further gives me the ick that she would sing that song and change the lyrics.

[Crissle West]

Right, Right.

[Kid Fury]

Pearl is not you. You are not Pearl. This is not your property.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

They were saying this is not a character you created.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And they were saying they didn't know if she was doing it on purpose. Like, she would say him and then correct it and be like her. But it's like, does that mean you went around singing it a different way to yourself? I would never say him if I was singing that song, because I never have. It's her. Those are the original lyrics. That's how it's recorded. That's how it's been. It's been her the whole time. So that leads me to believe that you sing it privately to yourself and you just put men in. You just change the pronouns. But why would you do that? That's so weird.

[Kid Fury]

She probably gay.

[Crissle West]

You know, she's probably gay.

[Kid Fury]

I hate to say it, but she's probably gay.

[Crissle West]

She's probably gay, but this ain't the way to express it, diva. You gotta do better than that. You gotta work through whatever.

[Kid Fury]

You're in Charlie Kirk,

[Crissle West]

So. Oh, she probably just liked him because he was Christian. Charlie Kirk is Christian. The same way that I'm an American. In name only. Please be for real. Please be for real.

[Kid Fury]

She was probably like, well, Sugilite is up on stage, so I don't understand why. I don't. No, she was booked. I'm just a fan, so what you mad at me for? Same with y'.

[Crissle West]

All. We coming off a lot, girl. Yes, exactly. Fuck both of y'. All. But you not gonna ruin this perfect show for me. Kiss my ass.

[Kid Fury]

Not at all.

[Crissle West]

Not my not my emotional support. Steven Universe.

[Kid Fury]

Not Steven Universe Universe.

[Crissle West]

No. The way I actually own gemstones now because of that show. Leave me alone, bro.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, I know them. I know them.

[Crissle West]

I know stones now because of that show.

[Kid Fury]

You won't take this away from me. I have the ste. Not only do I have the Steven Universe games, I'm pretty sure I came on here at one point and read the mobile company that made that game. Like, why isn't it on the switch?

[Crissle West]

Attack the light. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

That was such a fun game, too.

[Kid Fury]

It's really good.

[Crissle West]

It is.

[Kid Fury]

Lady, move around,

[Crissle West]

girl. You won't take this from us.

[Kid Fury]

One of the most loving character arcs in the show, too, because she comes off as just being super anal and judgmental and all this other stuff and too organized. And you get to know a bit more about her and you realize, oh, all of the things that she was dealing with at the time, how loyal she had been to the cause and to this person and feeling completely undervalued by her and the rest of the system. And then looking after her shit that she had with this human being.

[Crissle West]

Fucking ex girlfriend's child who is a menace. Like, he just be fucking shit up all the time and wanting them to eat. Like, they don't even have a purpose for eating and just want to tag along and all you like. Are you kidding me? Raising my ex girlfriend's baby that she had with this bum ass nigga.

[Kid Fury]

Like, and Pearl had the fiercest fusions.

[Crissle West]

Oh, dead did.

[Kid Fury]

She had something. All I want to do is see you turn into a giant woman.

[Crissle West]

A giant woman.

[Kid Fury]

Now imagine I'm thinking like a giant man.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, a giant man. Like, yuck, yuck.

[Kid Fury]

Boo.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you, Girl. J.K. rowling might have won with Harry Potter, but you won't win.

[Kid Fury]

You won't.

[Crissle West]

You won't win. Got to be quicker than that girl kiss.

[Kid Fury]

Probably fall out of my whole dead hands.

[Crissle West]

Remember that episode where Pearl had to go into her mind and then into her mind and into her mind and into her. One of the most fun episodes of the whole series. You're not taking it away from me. You're not.

[Kid Fury]

I think what we're saying here is if you guys haven't watched Steven, you got to. There's no reason to wait.

[Crissle West]

And especially if you haven't seen it. But you bothering me about Avatar or whatever it's called in the elements.

[Kid Fury]

See, now you're getting personal because it's definitely Aang. And the issue with that is that when M. Night Shyamalan made that Avatar Film that is legitimately still one of the worst films ever made. And I'm not saying that it's widespread opinion reaction to that film. He decided for absolutely no reason to had referred to that character as on.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Even though it's always been Aang, it's never been anything but.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

And so here you come, reopening old dream.

[Crissle West]

I didn't even know that. I had no idea.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crissle West]

That's never been my business.

[Kid Fury]

But see, I think one day you'll watch it and you'll be like, okay, this is cute, but you're not gonna like it as much as Steven Universe.

[Crissle West]

No, I'll watch it when I'm 75 and no one cares. Yeah, just to piss y' all off.

[Kid Fury]

That's fine. You're not gonna like it as much as Steven Universe. It's very good because it has, like, a lot of the same lovable, childlike. Steven is a lot like Aang because they're both very, very powerful, but they don't understand how powerful they are. And they're a little bit more occupied in being a child, even when a lot of times they have to take things more seriously. And people around them are like, girl, get up off that, girl. We have to save the world.

[Crissle West]

Like, so Steven's like, not without our together breakfast. Right.

[Kid Fury]

Like, okay, just let me grab a

[Crissle West]

cookie, catch if you don't get your. And that would be Pearl snatching his little dumb ass up. Come the on, Stephen, before you get blasted to smithereens.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, so the watermelon is you. What else is going on?

[Crissle West]

I don't know. The one where Stephen had cat fingers. I can't look at that. The one where the.

[Kid Fury]

That one was very strange.

[Crissle West]

That freaked me out.

[Kid Fury]

That one was.

[Crissle West]

What was the strain when you wrote this shit, girl?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my. I love the one where they all have the beach day with the. The family that has the pizza shop.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Reagan Gomez voices those. Yes, Those girls love that. Oh, yes. And I love the one where the pizza shop man gets into it with the fry shop man.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah,

[Crissle West]

this one's perfect. That one is so funny because that man was like, oh, you and you. You stepping on my terror. Oh, you selling fries. Oh, I'm gonna sell pizza. You don't sell good fries, and you don't sell good pizza. Everybody needs to. To stick to what the. They know. But yeah. Anyway, excellent show. And that lady, you ain't. You don't run over here.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Not that you name. Not that. That.

[Crissle West]

And that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Find us on social media at this is the Read. Any other news or announcements or whatever this week? Thank you for checking out Crystal's Couch, my advice show, available everywhere at Crystal Couch, on your favorite podcast platforms, etc. Anything from oh yes, you got 305 Live coming up.

[Kid Fury]

I do. 305 Live is coming up on August 9th here in Los Angeles. The return of the summer party series that everyone's talking about no one can stop talking about. The Hollywood Reporter says we've never heard of it. Riordan says what? No, it's gonna be a wang dang doodle. I'm very excited. I'm really excited about this. The DJs who are going to be there. Josh J Dar Jar My homie DJ Kid. It's going to be a good time. You can get tickets, link in my Instagram bio. Also, you can check out my new podcast viewers. Though my podcast is not a new anymore. Serious thoughts. This week we're over there talking about audiobooks and how you don't read them. We're talking.

[Crissle West]

That's really crazy. The timing is insane.

[Kid Fury]

Having your cake and eating it too. Zendaya should play a pop star in a movie. All of these things and more. So come on over, won't you? We're talking about the word moist. Join us at Furious thoughts on all your podcast platforms as well as YouTube.com kid fury TV, I think. Yep, that's it.

[Crissle West]

Oh, all right, y' all take care of yourselves and each other. We'll see you next week.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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