A 90s Kinda Drunk

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read – Episode "A 90s Kinda Drunk"

Release Date: July 17, 2025
Hosts: Kid Fury and Crissle (Crystal)
Platform: LoudSpeakers Network

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1. Celebrating Black Excellence: Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr.

Timestamp: 01:00 – 03:37

Kid Fury kicks off the episode by honoring Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr., the first Black astronaut to conduct a spacewalk in 1995. He highlights Harris's historic achievements and his recent induction into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Notable Quote:
Kid Fury: "Forever and always we shall know the name of Texas born Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. And being one of the few black people alive brave enough to not only go to space." [02:45]

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2. Hot Thoughts: Pop Culture Commentary

Timestamp: 03:37 – 18:22

a. Blackpink's Reunion and Solo Ventures

Kid Fury expresses excitement over Blackpink's latest song and their return together, comparing their dynamic to the Pussycat Dolls. He emphasizes the strength and synergy of the group, discouraging solo pursuits unless necessary.

Notable Quote:
Kid Fury: "There's a specific wonder and fascination and entertainment factor that exists with you all as a group." [04:05]

b. Beyoncé's Emmy Nominations and Atlanta Incident

The hosts discuss Beyoncé's four Emmy nominations for her Netflix special and her recent Atlanta tour. They delve into a security breach where Beyoncé's choreographer's vehicle was broken into, resulting in stolen items like jump drives and unreleased music.

Notable Quote:
Kid Fury: "I don't give a fuck. That's that on top of the fact that... I hope the lady never comes back." [10:53]

c. Nicki Minaj's Controversial Behavior

A significant portion of the segment critiques Nicki Minaj's recent actions, including perceived erratic behavior and questionable public statements. The hosts debate her credibility and the impact of her actions on her fanbase and public image.

Notable Quote:
Kid Fury: "If you don't have any additional dolls with you, you can take this right where you found it." [06:17]

d. Drake's Performances and Social Media Activity

Discussion shifts to Drake's recent performances, including his set at the Wireless Festival in London and his mixed messaging on social media regarding new releases and personal life updates.

Notable Quote:
Kid Fury: "He just wrapped up three days of performing at Wireless Festival in London... All Drake all weekend." [44:35]

e. Superman Movie Commentary

The hosts review the new Superman film directed by James Gunn, appreciating its straightforward portrayal of Superman without an elaborate origin story. They critique Dean Cain's backlash against Gunn's interpretation of Superman as an immigrant.

Notable Quote:
Kid Fury: "He literally said, I don't like that he made that last political comment. It isn't a political concept. It's lore." [103:46]

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3. Listener Letters

Timestamp: 62:39 – 95:56

a. Therapist at a Poetry Event

Letter from Poetry Princess:
A 26-year-old poet questions the appropriateness of a therapist handing out business cards selectively at a poetry event, fearing it undermines the non-judgmental space of the venue.

Hosts’ Response:
Kid Fury finds the situation confusing and intrusive, while Crystal empathizes with the discomfort, suggesting the therapist should have distributed cards more universally or coordinated with event organizers.

Notable Quote:
Crystal: "It's so rude. Girl, you got a lot of nerve." [68:39]

b. Alcoholism Concerns Among Friends

Letter from Living Single:
A 30-year-old grapples with her friends' differing opinions on whether their drinking habits classify them as alcoholics. They debate motivations behind drinking and the fine line between social drinking and alcoholism.

Hosts’ Response:
Kid Fury advises seeking professional help and evaluating drinking patterns against clinical guidelines. Crystal emphasizes self-honesty and recognizing the signs of binge drinking.

Notable Quote:
Kid Fury: "I didn't know where it was going. Thank God." [83:07]

c. Evicting a Friend with a Child

Letter from FedUp:
A friend faces the dilemma of evicting her best friend, who is a single mother struggling to pay rent despite initial good intentions. The friend seeks advice on balancing compassion with responsibility.

Hosts’ Response:
Kid Fury initially recommends eviction but softens to suggest setting clear boundaries and encouraging her friend to seek employment and support. Crystal underscores the importance of empathy while maintaining necessary boundaries.

Notable Quote:
Crystal: "She doesn't sound lazy. She sounds depressed as fuck." [89:37]

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4. Final Segment: Quick News and Closing Remarks

Timestamp: 95:56 – End

Kid Fury briefly touches upon upcoming HBO Max releases and wraps up the episode with final thoughts, reaffirming their comedic and candid approach to discussing pop culture and personal issues.

Notable Quote:
Crystal: "If you don't like the reception you get on Twitter? There's lots of other social apps. Pick another one and go over there." [121:04]

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Conclusion:
In "A 90s Kinda Drunk," Kid Fury and Crystal navigate a blend of celebrating Black pioneers, dissecting current pop culture phenomena, and addressing listener concerns with their signature blend of humor and blunt honesty. The episode underscores their commitment to providing unfiltered commentary on both personal and public matters, maintaining the essence of "The Read."

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Transcript

[Crystal]

Happy.

[Kid Fury]

Welcome back, everyone. Welcome to another episode of this very old talking program. I'm the dyke from Rent.

[Crystal]

And I'm Gabby Williams and this is the Read. Thanks for coming back.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. Welcome once again to the program. It's time for some black X. Oh, she's coming back for Devil Rose Prado too.

[Crystal]

Oh, is she?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay, good. Good for her.

[Kid Fury]

She looks great. Black excellence this week is going to an icon, a legend, a moment. Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. Oh, you don't know who that is? It's fine. I'm going to tell you, okay. He became history as the first black astronaut to a spacewalk in 1995. He was a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery and made this achievement and gagged because he said that when he came back inside, you know, he was. He didn't know he was first African American until he got back inside of the spacecraft and got a call that President Clinton wanted to speak to him. He said, I kind of went like, what for? Well, because you're a legend. Icon. The spacewalk was part of. I'm reading this one because of them. We can says that spacewalk part of the STS 63 mission, originally intended to rehearse docking with the Russian space station elevated Harris into the stratosphere of history makers. Only one chapter in a career marked with. Marked by firsts, vision and quiet determination. Now, three decades later, his groundbreaking legacy has been officially etched into the annals of space exploration because he will be joining the US Astronaut hall of Fame. Well, he already has it's past May 31st.

[Crystal]

Congrats.

[Kid Fury]

He was inducted into the US Astronaut hall of Fame at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. So forever and always we shall know the name of Texas born Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. And being one of the few black people alive brave enough to not only go to space.

[Crystal]

For.

[Kid Fury]

Real because we walk around.

[Crystal]

Don't do that.

[Kid Fury]

Not interested.

[Crystal]

We do not do that.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, just him and Gail, I guess.

[Crystal]

Please. Gayle touched the stratosphere and said, take me back home.

[Kid Fury]

That's enough. Yeah, thanks.

[Crystal]

This man is a real scientist who deserved to be there. So congrats to him.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, let's get into pop culture segment that I call Hot Thoughts. And this is where I talk about whatever the fuck it is that I feel like talking about. Like the fact that blackpink is back together. Oh yeah, they have a new song out that I'm addicted to that I think Link actually enjoys as well, which is rare because she doesn't like most of the songs I play. And also, it revitalizes Assassination of Mine, where the girlies feel like, because they're in a successful group, that they can be like, oh, I'm fun, festive, and have fans as an individual. Let me be a solo act. No, you don't have to do that. In fact, most of you shouldn't. There's a reason that groups are groups, and there's a specific wonder and fascination and entertainment factor that exists with you all as a group. So, with all due respect, I'm happy to see the four of them together again because I wasn't interested in what's Ms. Mama's name that was at the Oscars because she has a man.

[Crystal]

Oh, Lisa.

[Kid Fury]

Lisa.

[Crystal]

Mm. I didn't know they broke up.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't know they were together in the first place.

[Crystal]

No, I mean Blackpink. I didn't know Blackpink broke up.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, they didn't. They were just, like, doing the typical K pop is a machine. It's for sure. Audition. Audition. Blood, sweat, tears. Like signing. Boot camp. Single release. Boot camp. Okay. Success. Everyone gets a solo. So it was. It was just. Here's the solo part now. Because More money.

[Crystal]

Gotcha.

[Kid Fury]

And because. Global fame. So they didn't really break up. I think they just kind of, like, took a hiatus to go and make individual money. That part I wasn't interested in. But this song's great. It's great to see them together again. That is fun. It kind of reminded me of the Pussycat Dolls.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

When Nicole Schweppes Ginger Ale was like, I write all the music and I can sing. And, like, really? The rest of these girls are chops, so. And we were like, well, anyway, it's my time. We do not care to be a solo musician. And we was like, bitch, you can.

[Crystal]

Pack that right back up.

[Kid Fury]

If you don't have any additional dolls with you, you can take this right where you found it.

[Crystal]

Cause I cannot name if she had any solo music. I cannot name one song or album. Like, girl, you better go loosen up them, Bo.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crystal]

Cause the rest of that, we do not give a fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Sure didn't.

[Crystal]

So. But okay. Good for them.

[Kid Fury]

She's a Tony winner now. I guess so.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I don't like to talk about that or think about that. I truly didn't feel like she deserved it, but.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, well, she has a nice voice.

[Crystal]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Did you see Sunset Balloon?

[Crystal]

I did not.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

But still.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

It was the Trump shit for me that. Them little comments she made on Instagram, that was enough for me to Be like, yeah, you don't deserve shit ever, especially from an artistic community. Especially that. So. But you got it anyway. You know how things go.

[Kid Fury]

A lot of people who pick those things agree, you know, which she had to say anyway.

[Crystal]

Or they just tired of black people winning. They don't want to see a black icon be awarded for the umpteenth time. They'd rather give it to this person. So, you know, I, as somebody who is on the outside of theater but desperately wishes she could be a part of it, I don't appreciate that that bitch with those politics, those beliefs gets to have that kind of access. But that's just me being jealous.

[Kid Fury]

So I'll start with some. Some fun parts of. Of this lady's life. At the moment, Beyonce has four Emmy nominations for a halftime show. Four Emmy nomination, correct. For the Beyonce ball that took place via Netflix late last year. Outstanding variety special of the live, outstanding or directing for a variety special, standing, production design and outstanding choreography for variety of reality programming for a halftime show. Also, I believe Kendrick Lamar is Emmy up for his super bowl performance. Oh, yes, he is.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

So congrats to them for that. Looking forward to seeing how that turns out. I did definitely enjoy both of those performances quite a bit. And I love that they're getting Emmy nominations for those things. It'd be nice to see them go home with some stuff. But like you said, black people, excellent. Black people being awarded things right in this America. We'll see, right? Also. Hmm. You know what? I'll say that for the. Read Beyonce, though. You know, she was just in Atlanta for the Cowboy Carter tour, and some of you out there decided that it would be a delicious idea to, I don't know, break into the SUV of Beyonce's choreographer and one of her dancers and pilfer all the things that you could get your grubby little mitts on, such as jump drives with unreleased music, clothes, tour plans, set lists.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

Spokesperson for Atlanta police said that this happened just after 8pm inside of street market parking deck.

[Crystal]

Really insane.

[Kid Fury]

There was 911 audio, I think the choreographer calling police behind it. There are also reports of stolen sunglasses, laptops, AirPods, headphones, clothes, just, I guess, whatever they could.

[Crystal]

Those suitcases. They just took them.

[Kid Fury]

Suitcases. Investigators said they used Apple's find my, which led them to an undisclosed location where headphones were pinging, according to the incident report. People have been questioned. Fingerprint dusting, I believe. I believe you're going to jail, girl. But outside of that, personally, you know, if it were up to me and I had the choice. She wouldn't be back. She wouldn't be back. She wouldn't go back. And that's that. I don't give a fuck. That's that on top of the fact that. No, I'm gonna say it now. On top of the fact that when she did that little dumb ass dance, and yet now I feel like it is a little dumb ass dance.

[Crystal]

Oh, you meant.

[Kid Fury]

When she did a little dumb ass dance and y' all got all in your, you know, excitable bag about it. And I asked, hey, guys, what is this? One or two of you decided to get really cute about it. And I don't really understand why at this stage in communication, y' all feel like everybody is on TikTok and knows everything and a grown person can't just ask a question. So, boom. I hope the lady never comes back. I hope she blocks all of her music from the city of Atlanta. And if you don't like it, come fight me.

[Crystal]

Okay, well, I mean, I.

[Kid Fury]

Talking about in it. No, now you're out of it. You're out of it. You're out. Let's start the process, shall we?

[Crystal]

I mean, I, I, I, I see what you're saying, and I low key agree, like, at really don't deserve the extra she be giving y'. All. But I mean, I. This is just so. It would be Atlanta. It just would be Atlanta because. What do you mean? I'm sure they didn't have, like, Beyonce's laptop and external hard drives just laying out all over the front seat of the car with a big sign that said, here go Beyonce's shit. Like, they had this shit in suitcases in a locked car that was parked in a parking garage. And you niggas still, like. Unless they were under, like, strict orders to keep all of this on their person or whatever, then I can't blame them for this happening. This is just so Atlanta. Yeah, it's just really, really crazy that you niggas are breaking into cars that are in parking garages and, like, where is safe to park your car? Actually in Atlanta. Cause that. What. What else was they supposed to do? Like, it's just crazy to me. But yes, y', all. Atlanta Night three. Y' all really did she. She showed out for y' all the kid Blue Ivy. And, And Rumi had conspired a couple of days before to do the little I'm so ATL on stage. And yeah, it. It seems that Atlanta and Paris are her favorite cities. And it's been Very fun to watch.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know what that is. Yeah, I don't care.

[Crystal]

Like this. It's been fun to watch. Y' all react very similarly to that about it. Cause I can see why those of us in other cities would feel maybe a little slighted. But, you know, she has her. And the thing is, y' all gonna plan everything around Act 3, and then she gonna switch it up completely. And Milwaukee and Tampa Bay gonna get the best shows. So I wouldn't even.

[Kid Fury]

Is the best show the fact that she did the cleared out portion of the chicken noodle soup.

[Crystal]

Well, it' just that her husband came out as well. The golden horse came out in Atlanta.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Right. So, you know, people are like, oh. And she did, I think, before I let go as well. So it was like some songs that had been cut from other cities that she did in Atlanta. So there's been this general idea of like, I'm forgetting.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even remember the damn concert.

[Crystal]

She loves y' all so much.

[Kid Fury]

I guess that's just.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I mean, it was Asante called me after night three, weeping literally in tears from that show. So everybody I know who went had an incredible time. But, yeah, if I were y', all, I would not be plotting on Atlanta next year or two years, three years.

[Kid Fury]

Whenever she talks, everybody I know had a great time.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Except I guess everyone else was the word. I would have.

[Crystal]

Well, I said Atlanta. I don't think you went in Atlanta.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Who else? Oh, I don't care about candy verse. Oh, he also has four Emmys. I think Jay Z has an Emmy. A nomination too. I might have said that.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah. They going up against each other for this little Emmy thing.

[Kid Fury]

But Puffy is going to rehab, girl.

[Crystal]

In wait before he gets sentenced, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. While he's awaiting sentencing, I bet.

[Crystal]

Trying to look good. Trying to look good.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't care in the slightest.

[Crystal]

I hope they give you every minute they possibly can. I hope. I saw Megan. The Bob posted about prosecutors looking at somewhere between eight to 10 years.

[Kid Fury]

I have no idea who you were talking about. For about a second and a half. I was so confused. Cause I'm like, I just saw Megan and she didn't have a bomb.

[Crystal]

Yeah. No, white Megan.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She posted also an icon.

[Crystal]

Something about eight to 10 years. I just hope he gets every minute of the maximum that he possibly can.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, thank you for trying to share us at me. Yeah, you tried.

[Crystal]

You did, girl. You right. Right. But for those of us who want to hold onto a shred of hope. That's what we got.

[Kid Fury]

So I don't want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore.

[Crystal]

I was going to bring her up during the read, but I don't have to. It's just.

[Kid Fury]

No, you can, because I won't be talking.

[Crystal]

Being so weird. It's so weird.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I have no idea what's going on.

[Crystal]

What are you doing?

[Kid Fury]

I don't think we will for anytime soon. But like I said before, it's a baby over there. And I believe Papa Bear is right, right, right. Damn show is probably big enough at this point to be like, okay, everybody has to calm down because I can actually comprehend this. A lot of weird energy.

[Crystal]

Everybody's being very bizarre.

[Kid Fury]

We could just play with blocks. You could color slime. Probably just slime now your mommy age.

[Crystal]

Slime is all on stagehand or whatever the it's called all over Twitch and.

[Kid Fury]

Whatever that shit is called.

[Crystal]

Oh, grow up, Nicki. It's really weird, but, you know, I.

[Kid Fury]

Don'T understand where it's coming from.

[Crystal]

She sounds drunk in some of these clips that I've heard. She really does. But she's also.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I didn't bother listening to her because I couldn't handle it.

[Crystal]

Well, she sounds.

[Kid Fury]

I read enough, that's fair. Enough.

[Crystal]

That's fair. That's what I did with Drake's single last week. I was like, I'm just going to read the lyrics to this. I actually cannot press play.

[Kid Fury]

I actually didn't even get too deep into the SZA back and forth because the way that I saw that start was the issue for me before it even got to sza. Before she entered the chat, I saw this lady post a very unflattering photo of Punch or Top Dog or one of them niggas from tde. And the first sentence that she posted with the photo was, me when I suck good zck or something like that. Why would you say that about performing fellatio? Why would you use this photo to talk about yourself performing fellatio? Why do you spell dick with a Z?

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

What's going on?

[Crystal]

Great questions.

[Kid Fury]

Really, that, like, before it even got to, oh, I'm arguing with another musician. That's. That was the issue for me. I. That was the story. Me when I suck good Z. What? What do you mean? What? What?

[Crystal]

Why do you speak that way? Why are you saying this?

[Kid Fury]

I don't. And why is td? Yeah, if we get an answer, I feel like it's going to be a while and I'm not going to go searching for it. I think it will just kind of come. I think it'll just end up in the gallows in Times Square, and we'll all just walk by it when we're headed to go get our fruit.

[Crystal]

And it'll just be there like, ooh, y' all remember her? She's out of it. Yeah, it.

[Kid Fury]

I don't.

[Crystal]

It was. So she was coming after, like, you said punch, and then she tweeted, tiny dick executive, I guess standing for tde.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I saw that too.

[Crystal]

Right, right, right. And then.

[Kid Fury]

What are you. Is it Papa Bear? There was a part where I was reading it yesterday, too. There was something I was reading where I was like, is this her? Is this her? But then I saw that she was on Station Ahead, and so I was.

[Crystal]

Like, it is her. It is.

[Kid Fury]

I ain't listening to that, though. I couldn't. I couldn't bother.

[Crystal]

Well, SZA logged on and said, mercury retrograde. Don't take the bait. Lol. Silly goose. Nikki decided that this was about her.

[Kid Fury]

I also thought, I'm glad you said that. Cause I was like. I mean, it probably is, but, like, this is a reach.

[Crystal]

Who knows? Who knows if this is actually about you? Like, SZA is one of them weirdo, spiritual, astrological bitches. She is one of them ones like her logging onto any social platform and talking about retrograde and the moon and all that. That is so why you would take that statement and immediately, again, even if you think it's about you, why would you jump all the way out of the window about it?

[Kid Fury]

I agree.

[Crystal]

Go draw your freckles back on. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Making fun of her voice in that station head clip. She was actually like, you know, I'm not one to body shame. I'm not one to surgery shame. And I actually had to pause it and guffaw because you shouldn't be. You really should be the absolute last bitch to be talking about anybody's body, anybody's surgery. Like, I don't even know why you brought that up.

[Kid Fury]

Shouldn't even be last. She shouldn't not be in the line.

[Crystal]

Were you right? You just literally shouldn't even be in the conversation talking about Sza. Look, fat, obese, fat, chubby.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't even know she's talking about. I was already chopping when she said, shut up, ugly. I'm like, okay, Biggie, Nikki, Onika, Tanya, Sweets. That lady ain't ugly. Like, that lady is not ugly. I don't understand what we're talking about. She wasn't ugly. She's not ugly. Then she wasn't ugly before. That lady is not ugly right at all. And even if you felt like she was ugly and got her face done. Da, da, da, da, da, whatever. And she ain't ugly. And it like if she went and got surgery to change something about herself that she wanted to, how is that any different than the surgeries that you got to change the stuff that you didn't like about you?

[Crystal]

And hers looks better. Her BBO looks way better than yours.

[Kid Fury]

So I just don't know why we're here.

[Crystal]

And said I'm in a meeting. So I don't know if you was talking shit or not. So if you didn't, I'll delete later. Ho. All right.

[Kid Fury]

You're 42.

[Crystal]

You're 42. You're42, though. Why wouldn't you make sure that she was talking shit about you before you started all this? Why? It's just really not making sense. Talking about her numbers. And then the scissorites or whatever they call themselves was like, now wait a minute. Cause SOS is how done everything you've ever done. I don't know if that's true or not, but she. And then she.

[Kid Fury]

She's incredibly successful.

[Crystal]

Sure.

[Kid Fury]

Sz and don't do the same thing as you. So the two things lining them up together, when that lady Sza wouldn't even talk about that, it's like, what's Ariel? What is the root?

[Crystal]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

We need Cicely Tyson do a third act monologue.

[Crystal]

Something. Cause it's not making sense. And then of course, she brought up how you women who come against her when she's talking about the abuse she's gone through in the industry.

[Kid Fury]

And you know, she loves.

[Crystal]

She loves pulling out the y' all don't protect black women cards like you that either you are coming for nothing but black women. It's all you do. The rap girls just won't entertain you no more. Sza over here probably high as fuck, getting ready to go on stage in Amsterdam or some shit.

[Kid Fury]

Tweet about the literally said, I have a sold out John Paris tonight. Let me go about my business.

[Crystal]

And you said, here go a tweet I don't like. What if I make this about me? What? You're so fucking weird, girl.

[Kid Fury]

I. I think she's severely going through.

[Crystal]

I mean, for sure this is a.

[Kid Fury]

Major psychological deflection, just toxic coping mechanism. That ain't gonna.

[Crystal]

I agree. I agree.

[Kid Fury]

You don't know what you're coping with specifically, but I. This Is. And. But. And it's like, girl, get some gay friends or something.

[Crystal]

Sweet.

[Kid Fury]

Because you're walking all down all the wrong roads in an intent to read the whole life in their bed. Oh, protecting women and justice for these people, these women, and stuff like this. But it's like, sweetie, what about the lady who your. Your husband raped?

[Crystal]

Well, and it turns out y' all gonna have to come up with that.

[Kid Fury]

Lady, have you even apologized?

[Crystal]

Oh, no, that won't happen to that.

[Kid Fury]

Lady for the shit that you put her through. That won't happen on behalf of your husband while we're talking about justice for victims. We can't, ma'. Am. Not because you feel like you can't. You can't. Not in this manner.

[Crystal]

Yeah. It really don't make sense, the choices that she's making. That's why I agree. I think it's partly some sort of. I don't know if it's a mental health breakdown or, you know, the house of cards is falling down around you. Break down. Cause, of course, all these reports have come out of, oh, Nikki owes so much money. All of the money from her tour is going to her debtors. All of the money from her streaming is going. So there's a lot of that.

[Kid Fury]

You know, I don't know how true it is.

[Crystal]

Right. Me either. But. So there's those allegations. And so then people are like, well, that's why she pressing jay Z for $100 million or whatever to help her pay these fucking bills. I don't know if it. So I don't know if it's mental health. I don't know if. If you're broke and spiraling because of that. I don't know if you realize you in too deep with a rapist. You done had his child. Y' all legally joined together, so you're gonna have to pay for his crimes. Sure you could. Sure you could. But some people, the absolute last thing they want to do is publicly admit that everybody else was right.

[Kid Fury]

My mama down. Well, not my mother, but my mother used to say this.

[Crystal]

I was about to say that, you're dragging her.

[Kid Fury]

My mother used to say this all the time. And God rest her soul, my mom used to reference Whitney Houston because she said I was very young. But she said that when Whitney and Bobby Brown started to date, that a lot of people like, Whitney, girl, why are you dating Bobby Brown? Like, yeah, like, a lot of people were kind of on her dick, like, you shouldn't be with them type tease or whatever. And Whitney was like, girl, I'M be with whoever I want to be and stay with them maybe longer than she should have.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And so my mother would be like, oh, you know, she's got that Whitney. Or he's got that Whitney. So she would just be like the person who was very stubborn about staying with someone because people are telling them they should leave them and they're like, no, I'm grown. I do what I want.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So maybe they're like, I probably should leave, but these bitches don't tell me what to do. Yep, that's what my mom would say all the time.

[Crystal]

That's like, rasheeda, have you seen this clip of Rasheeda performing her new song, I Won't Rasheeda.

[Kid Fury]

He did that to me.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Well, Rasheeda, in this new song, she said, you know, so I'm out here whipping work, y' all run y' all mouth, but I'm not leaving Kirk ever. It's like.

[Kid Fury]

Rasheeda, after all of this time, after all of this time and the two and a half songs you have heard about, you decided to come back after everything that still runs back to back on Pluto TV and say.

[Crystal]

That we've seen the way that man has dogged you out and spent your money for the past several years. Like, I don't even watch love and hip Hop Atlanta no more. And y' all still on there being embarrassing. It was decade ago.

[Kid Fury]

I warned you were going to say that she, you know, this is the song where she talks about leaving and foxy.

[Crystal]

No, she said she's not ever. So y' all can shut up about it. Cause that's her, man. Like, okay, girl, that's half of Atlanta, man. But all right, you wanna be the dumb bitch to claim him, you go for it.

[Kid Fury]

I can't say I was rooting for it. So my heart ain't broken, but it's disheartening somewhere.

[Crystal]

It's.

[Kid Fury]

What do you mean? That man sucks, right?

[Crystal]

It's always a shame when a beautiful woman don't see better for herself. Like, I just, I.

[Kid Fury]

It breaks my heart when an ugly bitch dies, right?

[Crystal]

So Rasheeda, you can't say she's talented. You can't say she's a good rapper, but she's gorgeous and always has been. And you could do so much better than Kirk. But not if you don't believe it. Leagues.

[Kid Fury]

It don't make sense to like, outside of cheating. Just the way he would speak to her. Remember, I feel like one of the on like the first season or first one of the first seasons of. Of Love Hip Hop Atlanta. She was pregnant and they were working on music and shit like that. And I think at first he didn't want her to have the baby because he was like, oh, you're about to go do music. Stuff like that. And then he was. He wanted her to, like. He wanted, like, a DNA test done to make sure it was his baby. Talking about some rappers. You rappers.

[Crystal]

A nigga who's actively cheating.

[Kid Fury]

Actively cheating.

[Crystal]

Boy, they got the gun.

[Kid Fury]

And later had a baby on you that you now helping raise.

[Crystal]

Yep. And bragging about how you not leave.

[Kid Fury]

And you're boasting about not leaving him on your first song in 38 years. I just. I really don't know what Earth is.

[Crystal]

Mm. Cause we just want this bitch to have a teaspoon of self worth. And she said no, actually, just a bit. I literally won't do it, so.

[Kid Fury]

Or at least go find another fuck nigga. Like, at least if you was just like, oh, I left that nigga behind, or whatever, you got caught up in another nigga. That sucks. I'd be like, God damn. Well, she tried the same wound cheetah. Okay.

[Crystal]

And talking to us like, we weird for pointing it out. Girl, get off tv. If you don't want people to talk about your relationship, get off tv.

[Kid Fury]

Say what you want. We don't even say it no more. We been told that you want to go leave him. We stopped caring ages ago.

[Crystal]

Yeah. So that's what Nicki Minaj is doing. I just refreshed her Twitter. She's online right now talking about how Sza paid for her streams. And now she bragging about her. So I guess this leads me to believe.

[Kid Fury]

When I heard about this yesterday, I refreshed my thing before I went to go to bed for, like, an insurance email. And I clicked back over to the tab that had Twitter open, and it was like eight minutes ago. She was still talking. I'm talking about the story was hours old. Hours old. And I refreshed my back to Twitter. It was like eight minutes ago. She was like, does Sza think that she's better than me or something? I'm like, girl, what?

[Crystal]

What does she does? What if she does? What if she does? So what are you gonna do about it? She's being so, so weird. And I, you know, I won't say broke. Cause I'm sure she has more money than I do. But it is quite strange that you're behaving this way. Coming after Jay Z, trying to link with Kaiser, not And teach you how to twitch and, you know, little dumb young face of making money. This is what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying. She heard Kaiser not was making millions off of this and said, show Amy how to do it. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, she must really have.

[Crystal]

That's what I'm saying.

[Kid Fury]

Like having money problems.

[Crystal]

It sounds like you're pinching pennies over there. And if you have to pay off whatever debt to whoever this is who lent you money and you may have to pay off your husband's victim, you might have to come up off some ducking. Well, at this point. Oh, well, I was about to. I thought you was going to say, don't pay that lady. But at this point, you part of the problem with that lady. So you can't get away from that. You jumped in and involved yourself in that business.

[Kid Fury]

Which T. That's what I'm saying. Like all these hashtag just ma' am.

[Crystal]

Too pretty damn too smart. I actually do think when she's in her right mind, Nicki Minaj is a very smart person.

[Kid Fury]

She's incredibly smart.

[Crystal]

So what's this dumbfuckery? What's this?

[Kid Fury]

Niggas can make you underground stupid. They really can. Well, niggas can fuck up your whole life and perspective. Then it'll be eight years later and he will be like, who was that bitch? Now, I don't know Nicki Minaj. So that could she know. I don't know. I think this is a mixture of things. I do. I really, really do. And you can't.

[Crystal]

I agree.

[Kid Fury]

Want more for a bad bitch than they want for themselves.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Any bitch. I just the tw. Yeah, I think.

[Crystal]

But she's chronic. She's giving chronically online. Cause why was your last tweet at 1am and then your first one was at 11am? Like, is this all you knew?

[Kid Fury]

You're Nikki, baby.

[Crystal]

You have to have something to do outside. Like there has to be something for you to do offline.

[Kid Fury]

Numerous things. Especially with a kid. Yeah, that's when you go and like revisit all the shit you haven't done in decades. Because you get to see it through a child's eyes.

[Crystal]

Well, think of how many places Papa Bear's daddy can go.

[Kid Fury]

I hate it.

[Crystal]

Just think about that.

[Kid Fury]

There's so many things I wasn't thinking. Taking him too. That name hit me. Really wasn't.

[Crystal]

You said, well, that means they.

[Kid Fury]

Huh. Mop, washcloth, dish rag, like fabric softener. He's got chores. Yeah, he can be at the house. I'm thinking about you. A nanny?

[Crystal]

Lord God, go.

[Kid Fury]

You know what I'm saying?

[Crystal]

Yeah, I do.

[Kid Fury]

Pumpkin patches. Animal petting zoo. I don't know. SeaWorld.

[Crystal]

So many things.

[Kid Fury]

Aquarium.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Ooh, I wonder where the aquarium is. Here. Summer. Nice one.

[Crystal]

They have to. Or you're Nicki Minaj. Surely you have famous friends who have a little private zoo or something in their fucking backyard. If you would just stop being weird. If you would just stop being weird.

[Kid Fury]

Friends with kids that like other kids. Friends that have kids that probably also had kids with niggas they shouldn't have had kids with. So the kids can be together and play in the little kiddie pool or on the slide or in the bouncy house and y' all can sit around, drink wine, cry, and plan, you know, murders. Yeah, not the last part, but just.

[Crystal]

Just for jokes, you know, Imagine murderers.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine murdering men. Anything but this.

[Crystal]

This is all because Punch decided to promote a song called Broken Barbies.

[Kid Fury]

Wait, he did?

[Crystal]

Yeah, he tweeted Broken. I guess there's an artist signed to TDE who has a single out called Broken Barbies. And so he tweeted Broken Barbies. And even though if you listen to. If you press play on this song, the very first line is like, I couldn't afford a Ken doll, so I made my Barbies. Fuck. So it's not like Broken Barbies was even a diss track about Nicki.

[Kid Fury]

It's just, yeah, it.

[Crystal]

She hears Barbie and assumes it's about her.

[Kid Fury]

Here's the thing about that. If we can. Barbie is like 100 years old, right? There is also another black woman in this genre who has famously called himself a Barbie. Now, I say that to say I'm not discounting Nikki's entry in the Barbie culture or impact on it, right? I say that to say piggybacking off of Crystal's statement. You see, the word Barbie can automatically think, hey, this must be related to Nicki Minaj. There's a whole fucking Oscar nominated movie starring Margot Robbie called Barbie. It isn't always gonna be about you, love.

[Crystal]

I dare say it isn't mostly about you, baby girl. When you hear Barbie, first thing you should think is Mattel.

[Kid Fury]

You should think it's just because that's their shit. Because it's theirs. It belongs to them.

[Crystal]

She belongs to them. She doesn't belong to. So.

[Kid Fury]

So it's just really.

[Crystal]

And that you saw this and you didn't even bother to press play on the song.

[Kid Fury]

Why would you. Broken Barbies to me too, is not Even something I would immediately think when I hear the song, oh, this is a diss track to me. I feel like if I was Nicki Minaj or someone in that position, right? You think, here's this really, really old property that has taken on lots of meanings even today. Maybe breaking a Barbie could just symbolize rebelling against a certain aesthetic. Maybe this person is a butch lesbian.

[Crystal]

I broke that Barbie down. Broke her ass down.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, to your point, now I have to listen to this. But I didn't know that's what it was. Yeah, that's why she was like, I'm glad I have this evidence of a music executive bullying me in public. I was like, what the fuck are you talking about?

[Crystal]

You're talking about this, and I'm assuming.

[Kid Fury]

That this phone is not about you.

[Crystal]

It's just really like, hold on. That's what I said. You get a suspicion about something and you jump out the window with it. It's giving paranoia delusions. You got to. You gotta log off. Actually, at this point, somebody. Somebody needs to take her telephone and just, you know, log her out of every electronic device. I'm hoping that she doesn't need to speak to the rest of us no more.

[Kid Fury]

I'm hoping that someone is gonna go over there, they're gonna grab that phone, they're gonna tell that nigga to get out, and then they're gonna be like, they're gonna sit, they're gonna put crystals, they're gonna light an incense, they're gonna pray, they're gonna to cry. We're gonna enter a program. We're going to remember that we're that girl. We're going to be confident. We're going to pay the haters dust, and we're going to release a new album. Eventually, when we're getting and feeling better, that is going to be real and talk about niggas not to fuck with and be historic and great and continue a proper Nicki Minaj like this.

[Crystal]

See, no, no, it's not going to happen.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine things. Oh, my goodness. Speaking. Maybe it's a young money thing. Because, you see, Drake posted something about not being number one prisoner song he called. He said the suppressor is number one. I don't know what that means.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

He said, okay. So I mentioned. Well, you just did too. His new single, what Did I Miss, which is about the heartbreaking story of LeBron James's betrayal. And yeah, the song currently sits at number two on Billboard's Hot 100. It follows a song called Ordinary by one Alex Warren. A white man who I've never heard of in my life. Now, Drake responded to this via Instagram story where he said, suppressor on the one spot. I'm taking that soon. Don't worry. One song or another, rules change and all.

[Crystal]

Okay? I don't think anybody cares about the number one spot but you, bro.

[Kid Fury]

What is a suppressor? Like, does he mean suppressed or does he mean, like, the suppressor of a gun? I don't think either one makes sense.

[Crystal]

Well, I assumed he meant the suppressor of his song. Like, I don't know, I just. I guess I'm not really looking to Drake to make a lot of sense, but I just assumed that was what he meant. Suppress her on the number one spot, I guess. I don't.

[Kid Fury]

I don't get it.

[Crystal]

No, it doesn't. It isn't gonna make, you know, a lot of sense or anything.

[Kid Fury]

Cause I don't think he spelled suppressor right.

[Crystal]

Is that even the cont? Like, I don't. I just don't even. I didn't even assume that this was, like, the correct context or anything. I just know that, like, Drake is not trying to make sense, so I wasn't really expecting him to do it. What he did that pissed me off was cover up this LeBron tattoo with a Shay Gildrich Alexander tattoo. That.

[Kid Fury]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Crystal]

That is what actually made me sick. If you Google it, you will see that where his LeBron tattoo was. He has.

[Kid Fury]

I don't think I can.

[Crystal]

He has tattooed the word thunder and the numeral two right underneath it. Of course, SGA plays for the Thunder, wears jersey number two and is from Canada. It is really horrible. Like, it. It looks. It literally looks bad. But why wouldn't. If you wanted to get rid of it, why wouldn't you just laser the LeBron tattoo off as opposed to throwing this on top of it? Like, this just looks shitty.

[Kid Fury]

His lasering hurts more.

[Crystal]

Well, I'm gonna. It can't hurt more than getting them abs installed. So you need to go be a big boy and sit through them 12 sessions while then people, delete, delete, delete your upper arm. Anyway, that was what pissed me off about Drake. I couldn't believe that shit.

[Kid Fury]

I have no idea what you're talking about. And I mean, I'm looking at it and I still don't know what you're talking about.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Don't come to no Thunder games. Do not bring your weirdo strange energy to our team, to our player. We don't need none of that. Stay wherever the you at rooting for whoever the you do. Leave us alone. And I'm so for real.

[Kid Fury]

He just wrapped up three days of performing at wireless festival in. In London. And, oh, it was the 20th anniversary and it was all Drake all weekend. He did R B Drake day one. All the dogs Drake day two.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

And Jamaican Drake day three.

[Crystal]

I was just about to say where's the Afro beats? Because, you know, he.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you knew it was coming.

[Crystal]

I did.

[Kid Fury]

He was doing. Saving the best for last, I hope.

[Crystal]

Well, I hope he brought his baby out for that. You know, Adonis is the Jamaican. Yeah. The Jamaican king. Right. So Adonis needed to be on stage for all that. Right up there with vibes cartel as far as I'm concerned. Lord, here we go.

[Kid Fury]

He closed out the set with I will always love you by Whitney Houston.

[Crystal]

No, he didn't.

[Kid Fury]

I just. Okay, guys, can you just bury me? Can you just like. I don't even have to be there just for me, girl.

[Crystal]

Wait, is that a joke or did you.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God. I thought you were joking.

[Kid Fury]

It isn't a joke. He's on a Beyonce thing or he's floating on a. On a circle and they're playing Whitney Houston. Oh, my God.

[Crystal]

Oh, no, this isn't.

[Kid Fury]

What is this?

[Crystal]

That's actually weirder. That actually makes me look at you even crazier because why would you do that?

[Kid Fury]

You know, he does that all the time. Whitney Houston, the tlc, Aaliyah, Tamiya. He always plays, like, a classic R and B soul vocal featuring a voice that's never heard him, never met him.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

He loves doing that. Yeah, that's his thing. But again, it's like that part. I'm not going to act like he hasn't been doing that since, you know, I was a fan and all that other shit. I will take that over. Get rid of these niggas. I'm sick of these n. Take like. No, shut up.

[Crystal]

Big and bad. Tough. Drake is not that guy.

[Kid Fury]

And Jamaican Drake would end the night with Whitney Houston or Celine Dion.

[Crystal]

Or Celine Dion makes the most sense.

[Kid Fury]

Or Mariah Carey's Christmas album.

[Crystal]

There you go.

[Kid Fury]

That's just it.

[Crystal]

A Jamaican king would.

[Kid Fury]

As far as the number one thing, I again agree completely with you. I was a little fascinated with why he was so dedicated to getting number one spot. I could only assume that when you've had so many and you have everything you could want, that those are the types of things that kind of excite you.

[Crystal]

Sure.

[Kid Fury]

Cause I looked at him like it's not like this song had a huge promo thing. It's not like it had this huge. It's not like. I don't think it's the first single of anything. It isn't super dramatic. It's not like a actual diss record. It's just a. Okay. Record that's kind of shady about a certain someone. So the fact that it's even number two to me, would feel like an achievement. I don't know what the suppressor is.

[Crystal]

I really. I really. To me, this goes back to what I think is a larger issue of people not knowing how to be satisfied. And I think so good things not being enough. What do you mean? This song you just put out is number fucking two. And it's behind a song that's been number one for, like, six or seven weeks. So clearly it's having a moment. You went out the first week, you got up to number two. What? You have, like, 20 number one hits. Who the fuck is pressed?

[Kid Fury]

It's almost giving, like, a little taste of Nikki. Except Adonis is like, all right, we're playing Roblox. Turn on the 2K. That's enough of this shit.

[Crystal]

Yeah, Papa bear.

[Kid Fury]

Don't.

[Crystal]

He. Don't get Nikki together the way Adonis began Drake together. Adonis pop up with his little French accent like, no, papa. No, Papa. We mustn't. Better English than Drake. That's it. Sweet is crazy. Oh, God. But, yeah, you're right. The young money, it's really giving. Juvenile money. It's giving. Who's gonna grow up first? Y'. All. Y' all should race. See who gonna grow up first.

[Kid Fury]

Megan has a man.

[Crystal]

Yes, she. I like this for her. I do. I like Clay for her.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, y', all, please don't get upset with me. You're going to. I didn't know who she was dating at first because, you know, I'm in the ground, really. So the first thing that I saw. No, I didn't know that she was dating anybody new.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

So the first thing that I saw a couple days ago was her sitting in someone's lock.

[Crystal]

Mm. Rubbing on these thighs.

[Kid Fury]

Unboxing. Labubus. Which that's what they're called, Apparently.

[Crystal]

Yes. And they are horrific. Labubus are really terrifying. Those are so ugly. They're so ugly.

[Kid Fury]

I hate the name. I hate the product. I don't know.

[Crystal]

And I really don't have no space to talk because we had troll dolls. We had them little trolls.

[Kid Fury]

But trolls, no, they're not. Trolls are cute.

[Crystal]

No, they're not. Trolls are. Trolls are not cute. But they're not demonic. Labubus look possessed. They are really unfair.

[Kid Fury]

Some people have reasonable fears of troll dolls. Kind of like, yeah, they are a little creepy looking, but they're not demonic.

[Crystal]

They're not. Right.

[Kid Fury]

They are ugly.

[Crystal]

I don't think they're cute, but, you know, they had little gems in their bellies and fun hair.

[Kid Fury]

So it was the fun hair.

[Crystal]

Lil Boo Boos. Those teeth. No, I'm sorry. They're really. They're actually terrifying. But child Megan wants the other day price the order.

[Kid Fury]

The kids today like gross, ugly shit. They like slime. They like toys with fangs and, like, bleeding eyes. They think that stuff's really.

[Crystal]

Huh.

[Kid Fury]

I think so. They just like. Like, they're just like, a little different.

[Crystal]

It's not like it.

[Kid Fury]

It's not like, in a bad way. I'm more so just like, I think fascinated by it. Because, I mean, when I was a kid, we had, like, Garbage Pail Kids, like, a couple of things that were promoted as being gross. But they weren't super popular. Right, Right. Whereas I think kids today, they kind of just, like, wacky shit. They're not all that obsessed with their toys being cute.

[Crystal]

Well, are cute to us.

[Kid Fury]

They might be cute to them.

[Crystal]

Cause these. Not only are they hideous, they're expensive.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, they have to be. These don't look cheap.

[Crystal]

They're high as fuck. Like, I've seen them for $15 up to $60. Like, these little. They're. I mean, whatever. If y'. All. Y' all like it, I love it for you. They're not for me, though.

[Kid Fury]

Um, anyway, Megan is unboxing these labubus that she said her man got for her. And as she's doing that, I see that she's sitting in someone's lap. And then someone is romantically rubbing on her legs and thighs as she's sitting in her lap. Now, I said, don't get upset at me, because at first I thought this was a joke, or I hope this was a joke, because I thought that she was sitting in the lap of an old white man. Because I only saw his arm and I didn't know anything about that.

[Crystal]

Wow. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And I thought, you know what, Megan? I'll wait to hear more. With all you've been through, I can't.

[Crystal]

I'm trying to understand. Because you've been through a lot, right?

[Kid Fury]

Just wait. So then she unboxes the toys and all of that. I thought that the toys were horrible. And then I went to go get further information. And I found out that she and basketball star Clay Thomas. I was gonna say Thomas Thompson have been dating and that he even made it IG official recently. He posted, like, a little slideshow, including photos of him holding hands and kissing.

[Crystal]

Yes. Very cute.

[Kid Fury]

So Megan is chose once again this far, this time by a Dallas Maverick, and happily, not Joe Biden. So this is cute.

[Crystal]

Stunned that you thought it was gonna be that bad for my girl, but, I mean.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, look at the clip again.

[Crystal]

No, I mean, I knew it was Clay from the beginning, so I didn't even look at it like that, but I see what you mean.

[Kid Fury]

I went from, oh, this is the all white man. Oh, is this Jack Harlow?

[Crystal]

Jack Harlow don't have a lap big enough for her. Come on now. That had to be a real. A big. But I'm happy for her.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, they're cute.

[Crystal]

Yeah, they. He got a haircut. It looks good. Yes, the black girlfriend effect did cut his hair. It looks good. And, you know, I like. I like the way he holds her hand. I like his two hands covering her one. Like, that's real cutesy to me. I like that type of shit. And this is. Yeah. I mean, she said in the music she was tired of rappers and she was switching to athletes. So I don't know what happened to that one that she was with a few months ago. Who was that nigga?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I remember him, too. I don't remember his name.

[Crystal]

I don't remember. I almost said Stephan Diggs, but that's Cardi.

[Kid Fury]

Mm.

[Crystal]

And somebody posted a video of Cardi at Universal or Disney or something walking around, and she kind of.

[Kid Fury]

With the kids.

[Crystal]

Well, the kids weren't with her in the video I saw, but she kind of. Now I know she just had. Right. I know she just had Blossom, Buttercup, whatever that baby name is, like, a year ago or so.

[Kid Fury]

I just don't even know that.

[Crystal]

Maybe a year and a half. I think it is Blossom, literally, but. Or Bubbles. It's something like.

[Kid Fury]

No, that's what Bubbles is. Summer's.

[Crystal]

That's what Summer named her child. Right, right, right. What I will say is, Cardi, if you are pregnant, girl, I swear to God. I swear to God. I swear to God. Cardi B.

[Kid Fury]

If you are pregnant. I saw the rumor. The pregnancy rumor was a couple weeks ago, and it wasn't Disney.

[Crystal]

I will. I will be forced to no longer support you and your career. I will be forced. You will have forced my hand. I will not be able to support this type of Bullshit. I cannot do it. Girl, you better fucking anyway. It's your life. Do what you want to with your pussy, but I won't be able to co sign that. But yes. Megan and Clay, this is really cute. I like a nigga. A tall nigga with a job for her. I like that a lot. Cause, you know, it's the off season right now. We could play, have our good fun, and then you need to go to work for the next nine months. You need to go work very hard and be very busy. Don't be in my face all damn day.

[Kid Fury]

So, Tea.

[Crystal]

So, yeah, I'm rooting for them. As long as he treats her right. Or until she gets that.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, they have a one piece Labubu.

[Crystal]

One piece.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I kind of want this one. Oh, they have several one piece laboons.

[Crystal]

One piece swimsuit.

[Kid Fury]

Like the one piece the anime, but their characters are the little ugly monsters.

[Crystal]

I'm sorry, that smile is demonic. The mouth on the things. Okay, that's because they got it in one direction and you own it. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Well, what other crossovers do you have? Disney labanzams. What kind of Disney labans?

[Crystal]

In this is what you see in your nightmares. These. These things.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, wait, no. These are awful marbles and squares. Why are these cubes? I don't like that. Oh, baby Yoda. This one doesn't have sharp teeth. And the Stitch one doesn't either. But why is he crying?

[Crystal]

Stitch like Lilo and Stitch child don't show. Roomie, roomie gonna want it. Want it right now, actually.

[Kid Fury]

Hurry up, Rumi and I. Because Stitch is perfect and has never done anything incorrect.

[Crystal]

That's not how I remember the movie.

[Kid Fury]

Um.

[Crystal]

That is not how I feel.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, all of these Labubus aren't ugly because some of them are just little toys that don't have the big scary smile teeth.

[Crystal]

I have not seen none of those, but I'll take your word for it.

[Kid Fury]

Of course, they got J.K. rowling LabuBoos, too. Y' all ain't tired of giving that lady money? Cause I am.

[Crystal]

I mean, I'm just not doing it right.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just like.

[Crystal]

I'm tired of y' all doing it.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, some of these are just flat out action figures. Cool. Lots of stuff. But I guess the popular ones are the little monsters. Because it looks like that was the deal, was that she got to, like, open up the box and see which ones you get in it, which is also like.

[Crystal]

Oh, like the little surprise box.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's an old school thing, too. But I Was. I've never been. I don't think I was ever a fan of that.

[Crystal]

Except for she was so excited. Child. That was like a seven minute long video. I said, megan, I'm actually not finna sit here while you unbox all these demons. I was hoping at some point she was gonna, you like, turn around and show Clay or, you know, give him a little hug or something. That didn't happen before I exited out the video. No way. He don't care. Probably spent 500 on all this, on all them little gremlins. And I get to sit here.

[Kid Fury]

I did this. Good job. She's making a video.

[Crystal]

She's sitting here in her panties on my lap. Like, that's your. That's your. Thank you. That is your.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I get to play with.

[Crystal]

I win. Yes, you niggas. I. Y' all have been talking so crazy about Meg, asking why somebody like Klay Thompson would want anything to do with her. And I feel like you niggas, y' all have been. Have you in the comment section under podcast videos for so long that you've disconnected from reality. Have you seen that woman?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Have you seen her get a good look at her?

[Kid Fury]

Have you seen professional athlete get a good look at. I don't know why y' all think that because some of these athletes aren't openly deviant or maybe, you know, talk about guy when they win a ring or something like that, that you feel like they are not knee deep in bodily fluids every single day all the time. And she's like, what if I told you some of your favorite sage sports player are actually sexually destructive, but not like, Let me. Let me take the word destructive back, okay? Just sexually free.

[Crystal]

Destructive is a lot.

[Kid Fury]

So when you say, yeah, destructive is the wrong sexually popping. So when you say someone like Klay Thompson, that actually right in line.

[Crystal]

Extremely rich. Right?

[Kid Fury]

Why would he, what, date a beautiful, successful entertainer.

[Crystal]

Who is tall and stacked? So if you were interested in having your own children, who would maybe then be athletes? You want a bunch of basketball kids to follow in your footsteps? A 510 bitch with body would be ideal.

[Kid Fury]

Valid point. I didn't even think about that. Very valid point.

[Crystal]

Clay said, you know, I want sons to go to the league and I want. And so I'm gonna be with a tall, gorgeous woman. Like, why wouldn't you? Really?

[Kid Fury]

She's playing with labuboos. He's playing with her thighs. You playing with your own time.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like you could do something different.

[Crystal]

And that's really It. And that's really the long and short of it. Y' all doing all this and they rubbing on each other in mansions in private villas, eating grapes and drinking champagne and enjoying the fuck out of their rich ass lives. And you.

[Kid Fury]

Neither one of them would ever fuck you. None of. Neither them or anybody they know would ever fuck you.

[Crystal]

You are furiously typing away on a smartphone with a cracked screen about how Megan don't deserve a NBA player. That's what you're doing. While they're living their wealthy life, while.

[Kid Fury]

An actual NBA player says she deserves one and a box of laboonsies.

[Crystal]

And whatever the fuck else she want. They go out to dinner. You think he like, you got the truffle scalloped potato. So it's. Your part is 208. And then I got the rest. You think he's doing that?

[Kid Fury]

No. He says, I rented out the entire restaurant for the two of us. So clearly you can have whatever the.

[Crystal]

Get whatever you want to gobble that steak, baby. Eat it up. Whatever you want, girl. Get seconds.

[Kid Fury]

Why don't you just watch Easy A on Tubi like the rest of goddamn America and just shut your living ass. That's it for Hot Tops. I'm finished. Hello, folks. It's time for your listener letters.

[Crystal]

Yes. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. If you'll remember, a few weeks ago, we read a letter from Pam, who is 29 and works at a nature center, and her white boss is hitting on her. And she was like, mm, I don't know what to do. I'm feeling him.

[Kid Fury]

But I kind of remember this vaguely.

[Crystal]

Yes. And we told her, girl, that's a white man at your good nature job. You probably ain't got but one nature job in the whole city, so don't play with your job.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay. Well, Pam hit us back and said, after a lot of reflection and some back and forth between logic and desire, I have decided that y'.

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crystal]

Y' all are right. I don't need to plant that flag.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't know where it was going. Thank God.

[Crystal]

I have worked at the nature center for three years. It was supposed to just be a stepping stone for my career, but as you guessed, I haven't had luck getting another job in my field. Despite my efforts, my boss knows I am currently looking for another position and supports that. As for the NSFW combo we had, he had confided in me that he has a specific kink that I also have. For context. We are Both lovers of romance novels and will give each other recommendations and read a lot of the same books.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I think gets you bitches.

[Crystal]

You said, wait, he reads. I'm in love.

[Kid Fury]

No, that's not what I meant. I meant the romance novels be getting y' all into these king pigs.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So it's become black when Fifty Shades came out.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay. No, you're right. Cause that was absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

Even though that was all it was a moment.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

So it's become common for us to discuss intimate details about ourselves. He's a decent guy and one of the first I found since my last relationship. I almost never go out, so work is usually the only place I interact with people. But I have decided to actively work to change that. Thanks y' all so much for the advice. I feel like it gave me the clarity I very much needed. Love you guys. Pam. Well, I'm glad to hear it, baby girl. It is you, right? When you only go.

[Kid Fury]

Almost gotcha.

[Crystal]

When you don't go nowhere but home and work, you start thinking work is where you need to find your spouse. Then I would try outside first though. You know, just try outdoors.

[Kid Fury]

Just especially if you like the job.

[Crystal]

Right, Especially that. But I think it's always a good idea to, you know, not shit where you eat.

[Kid Fury]

Basically, like every time.

[Crystal]

Cause it gets bad, it gets really, really rough.

[Kid Fury]

But I wouldn't start a food truck with a nigga I've been with. But I don't want to do this at all.

[Crystal]

No type of commercial business with somebody. No, none of that. But sometimes y' all be thinking that a nigga is just gonna show up. Amazon, Amazon prime, two day delivery. And they not. You cannot build a nigga online and have him shipped to your house. If you want one, you are gonna have to go outside. So good luck, baby girl. Our first letter this week comes from poetry princess who says, I'm a 26 year old poet who occasionally shares my work from time to time at open mic events. I specifically go to bipoc spaces to let off some steam after my long, mentally challenging week. One night I decided to do a piece regarding the growth I'm doing as a person. After getting off the stage, a lady came up to me and handed me a business card because she's a therapist. At first I thought, oh, that's cool. She's offering a resource in the space. Then I began to feel judged about my poem and wondered how I was being perceived by the crowd. My next thought was, well, fuck it. She literally could have been handing these cards to everybody and I probably need a therapist anyway. However, as I continued to peep her from the corner of the room, I realized she was selectively handing out these cards to certain people and not to everyone. Luckily, my confidence allowed me to not harp over it too much. But I definitely became mindful that if I'm bold enough to share something, I have to be okay with whatever response comes with it. My question is, do y' all think it's appropriate for a therapist to sit at a poetry venue and seek out people who are being vulnerable on stage? I just became a doctor myself and I know how crucial it is to destigmatize the need for therapy in bipoc communities. However, do actions like this jeopardize the safety of those sharing their art in what is supposed to be a non judgmental space? Would love to know what you guys think. Sincerely, Poetry princess.

[Kid Fury]

Great letter in question, poetry princess. I mean, I don't know myself about like the do's and don'ts of that sort of thing. I can say that I would obviously probably be doing the same gymnastics in my head if I had just finished doing comedy and somebody passed a card for therapy or something. Cause God bless you, you were even like, oh, mama probably passes out to everybody and lord knows I could probably use a therapist. And then it was like, nope, she's choosing the crazy ones.

[Crystal]

She's listening to the. She's listening to these poems and saying, not you, but her for sure client.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's for sure a client. Um, so yeah, I would say that your feelings, I mean, are definitely justified. I would feel the same way. And if I had to guess, I would say, I would guess that it is inappropriate. But I don't know. What do you know, Crystal?

[Crystal]

Well, I don't know, I think, I don't think, you know, ethically she's breaking any rules. But there's a lot of gray area when it comes to therapists and what they should or shouldn't do. I also think this is inappropriate. I think. Yeah, no, I'm sorry. Just picturing some fucking therapist. Well intentioned, but listening to people talk about their lives and being like, yeah, you need to call me. Like, it's just so rude. Girl.

[Kid Fury]

It is, okay.

[Crystal]

It's so rude. I think a much better tactic would be to either offer the cards to everybody or even better arrange something with the event organizers or whoever owns the space of like, hey, this person is a licensed therapist in the community. She offers, blah, blah, blah, sliding scale, like something like that. To where everybody knows listening to people's performances and then being like, you could use some help is so stank.

[Kid Fury]

That sucks. Like, it's.

[Crystal]

I understand. You know, you gotta get clients. Times are hard. But, baby, if somebody did that to.

[Kid Fury]

Me, if I got off stage, there are ways to do it.

[Crystal]

There are ways to do it, and that's not it. I feel like that is so. I would have laughed in her face. I would have liked. I get it. I do. And I'm sure you have the best of intentions, but, bitch, you got a lot of nerve. Like, why would you.

[Kid Fury]

The road to hell, you know?

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, the road to hell. So, no, I don't think it's appropriate. I think there's other ways to do this without making people feel singled out or like, damn, it's really something wrong with me. I'm talking about what's going on in my life. And professionals are like, bitch, come see me. Like, I think in an effort to reduce the stigma, you're kind of actually making people feel worse.

[Kid Fury]

So I wonder if she's. If she is a poet herself, you.

[Crystal]

Know, what would be, you know, I doubt it. Cause I think if you were, you would know not to do something like this.

[Kid Fury]

That makes sense. Cause I'm like, what inspired you to go to a poetry slam or night performance and be like, yeah, I'm gonna camp out here and look for people who need help.

[Crystal]

Like, she went once with her friends, like it was just a regular night out. And she realized, God damn, everybody here's depressed.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that makes that. That. That makes a lot of sense.

[Crystal]

I could. I see 8 co pays in this room right now.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think it's fucked up, girl.

[Crystal]

I do. I agree.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I agree. To her, unfortunately, I think she should have at least had the. The awareness to do something like Crystal said, where it's like, I would have maybe approached the promoter for the event and said, hey, I'm a therapist. Can I put some of my cards up here at the front? Or something like that so you're not singling people out. Because, hell, someone might actually really need a therapist. You might really save a life. But you might also turn people away from therapy. Yes, you might, because you might make them feel bad about themselves, feel attacked, ambushed. It's just not the way to go about it to me.

[Crystal]

And as the event organizer, I want to know who's promoting their professional services, because I need to vet you first.

[Kid Fury]

That's true.

[Crystal]

All therapists are not created equal. I don't care if you are Black. You could be a black therapist on some dumb shit. So I'mma need. I'm gonna need to vet you before I let you advertise your services to my audience or to my community.

[Kid Fury]

1,000%.

[Crystal]

So, yeah, you're not wrong for feeling away about this. I think most people would. And to any therapist who are. I mean, it's funny, but it is.

[Kid Fury]

It's. Look back on it funny for you.

[Crystal]

It's actually hilarious because I'm just picturing a therapist in her fucking cardigan.

[Kid Fury]

I am, too. And her tapered, wide leg pants.

[Crystal]

And her fucking flats. Yes. Them woven flats they all wear.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Being like that was really disturbing. You should email me tomorrow.

[Kid Fury]

I was really heavy. Here's my number. What?

[Crystal]

Good luck. Let us know if she comes back. Confront her. Say something. If you see her again, say something to her like, girl, this actually made me not want to go to therapy. Read.

[Kid Fury]

I would confront her too.

[Crystal]

Or tell the people who are organizing the event so they can keep an eye out for her.

[Kid Fury]

I agree.

[Crystal]

Okay, Our next letter comes from Living Single, who's calling herself that even though herself and all of her friends are married with children. But she says, I mean well. Well, I'm currently on a rewatch of.

[Kid Fury]

Living Single married people with children who are living single. Well.

[Crystal]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

We'Re being honest.

[Crystal]

I'm not gonna start naming names, but anyway.

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crystal]

So this question is kind of for Crystal, but it's for both of you, Crystal, because you've been open about your relationship with alcohol and you got that degree and you know every fucking thing.

[Kid Fury]

Stupid bitch.

[Crystal]

Like what?

[Kid Fury]

Why?

[Crystal]

I love that line. That'll never get old.

[Kid Fury]

It's really funny.

[Crystal]

Oh, Monique. We speak your name. Okay. My friends and I have been going over and. Oh, for real. Over and over this question in the group chat. We're in cities where people drink constantly, like New Orleans, Martha's Vineyard, Vegas, and Miami. We all started drinking before college, and we're 30 now. Our group chat is at odds about whether we're alcoholics. Maxine says we're not drunk because we go to work. We don't drink at work, and we don't drink because we're sad. But shit, the world is in flames right now, and the last thing anyone wants is to be sober. And we all need an escape, but Sinclair says it's why you're drinking. Do you drink to escape? Do you drink to cope? And if you're an addictive personality, you'll get hooked on anything.

[Kid Fury]

This is great casting so far.

[Crystal]

Regine says you're only a drunk if you're constantly losing things and messing up your life. When you get drunk, maybe ending up in the bed of somebody you don't know or if you black out, that.

[Kid Fury]

Sound like Khadijah, don't forget.

[Crystal]

And Khadijah, well, she's been in therapy, so she'll say whatever her therapist said. Like, can you stop after one drink? Do you anticipate drinking? Et cetera, et cetera. She's been in AA before, so I figure she knows best. But like. But, like, what is the truth? I thought we were fine because we're all black Catholics, so we do Lent and we give up drinking for those 40 days. And all of us have been pregnant and we gave it up then, of course. But then they say just because you take breaks don't mean shit. And when you're rationalizing your drinking, you're probably in need to stop. But, like, what is the truth for real? I don't know. Thanks for all your help. Peace, love and light. Living, single.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, the 90s, kind of. All right, so we are living. I'm gonna say first. My first thought would be if I was curious whether or not I was an alcoholic. I wouldn't go to a group of other people questioning whether they're alcoholics for an answer. I'd probably ask a doctor. I'd probably ask someone who's been open with actually being a diagnosed alcoholic or being an AA or something. I'm sure you could watch some video essays, read a book, look at an article or something for more concrete information. Now, I can't define it myself, but I have alcoholics in my family. I've seen it before, and I've always processed it as an illness and not one that I believe most alcoholics have control over. So some of the stuff that you're describing to me would make me go, hmm, sounds like I like to drink. I think there's liking to drink. I think there's being an alcoholic. I think there's having a drinking problem. I think you can have a drinking problem and not necessarily being an alcoholic. Both of those. You should still have to do something about that. But I guess I would just take it to the point where, like, if this is a thing where it's worrying you, if it's causing concern, cut back on the drinking, stop drinking. Put things in place to cut back on the drinking and stop drinking. And there you go. Now, if that becomes hard to do or impossible to do, you might actually have an alcoholic issue. Yes, but just kind of you know, drinking a Pinot Grigio with your homegirls and being like, do we have issues where the babies are tucked asleep and you did your work for the day and cooked and cleaned?

[Crystal]

Why are we busting down these bottles?

[Kid Fury]

Like, yeah, it's like, are we alcoholics? Are we, are we good? I don't know if that's where you're gonna get the answer.

[Crystal]

Right. Well, so I, I mean, I think I agree with just about all of that, if not all of it. I think if you wanna, if you really wanna ask, like, are we drunks? Then you can. There, there are like numbers that the mental health field has come up with to describe or to quantify. What is binge drinking? I think it's more than four drinks a day for men or three, two or three drinks a day for women, and then something like 14 drinks a week, 10 drinks a week for men, 10 for women. Something like that. 7. Some numbers like that you can Google. So if you, if you're drinking like that, then you're probably going to be diagnosed with some sort of binge drinking disorder. And if you're doing that and you have, like you said you wanna quit, or you say to yourself, I'm gonna quit or I'm gonna slow down, but you can't. Or if you get started drinking and you can't stop, you just feel like, I gotta keep the good times going, gotta keep the party going. Drinking more than you plan to, if it's getting in the way of work or your interpersonal relationships, social stuff, that sort of thing, that's when it can turn into like, okay, we're looking at alcohol use. And you know, you probably won't be called an alcoholic by a professional, but that's the word for people who struggle with that. So based off of, you know, those clinical guidelines, I don't know whether you're not saying how much y' all drink. And this is really sort of a question that you have to answer for yourself. You have to be really honest with yourself. But you all seem to think that it's the motivation behind it that's just part of it. It's also how much are you drinking and how regularly are you drinking that much? So I actually think Khadijah, even though Khadijah, who is parroting her therapist, is the closest to being right here. Like, can you, can you say, I'm gonna go out, have one drink and stop? Do you understand? A drink is like one can of beer. It's one four or six ounce glass of Wine, it's one shot. It's extremely easy to have a night of binge drinking. That's why it's like, oh, well, more than three drinks in a day. It's like, oh. But then we understand that people go out, they have parties or whatever, and so we extend it to that week. Like, yeah, okay, you had one night of binge drinking, but do you do that multiple times a week, or do you do that once or twice a month? So I. Yeah, I think I'm going to agree with Khadijah here. I think she's the closest to being accurate about it. But also, I do think there's a lot of validity in if you think you have a problem and you going back and forth with yourself about it, try telling yourself, I'm gonna drink less and see can you stick to it. And if you still feel compelled to drink, then I would. Yeah, it's time to call somebody. It is. It's time to. It's time to figure out why that coping mechanism. I mean, as for me, I know why drinking. I. I fully know why I turned to alcohol to cope with the stuff I was going through, because it felt great and it took me right out of my problems. Now did it make everything worse? For sure. Oh, that's another thing. If you know that alcohol is having a negative effect on your life, your relationships, your health. Like, you've gone to the doctor. They're like, girl, every. You got four things that's really wrong. And if you would stop drinking, they would go away within a few months, and you still can't do it. That's another sign that you need some more advanced, intense, professional help. But there are plenty of drunks who don't drink at work, keep a job, and still drink like crazy when they get home. Plenty of. Plenty of people who like a lot. Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. If you actually look at the guidelines for binge drinking disorder, a lot of you would be shocked at how close you are to qualifying for it or that you actually do. So, yeah, take a look at that. And then do I get it? I get it, because alcohol's everywhere and it is extremely effective. But, yeah, only you can really answer that question for yourself. But good luck as y' all try to figure it out.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that sucks, because when you're grown, it's so baked into being social, too. Yeah, you can't even go to the fucking park without there being wine.

[Crystal]

Right. Spirits. But, you know, if you and your girls are getting together for a zoom you know, once a week and y' all are having a couple of glasses and you don't drink outside of that, I would not call that a problem. And probably nobody would, but.

[Kid Fury]

And if you're all together, like, are we doing the most? Then maybe we can all be like, you know what? Sober. Pass. Travel with the pants instead. Yeah.

[Crystal]

Good luck, babes. Our last letter comes from FedUp, who says, hey, Chris, LinkedIn Fury. I would like to start off with saying, I know I fucked up my best friend.

[Kid Fury]

It's always a great start.

[Crystal]

It is. My best friend and I are on the outs. It started when she got pregnant by her ain't shit baby daddy, who then quit his job and had her taking care of both him and the baby. Her sister and I both told her that he wasn't shit from the beginning. And after two years, she finally decided to leave his bum abusive ass. She couldn't keep up with the rent and everything by herself, so their landlord kicked them out. How a nigga could not work and put his hands on a woman, I will never understand. But anyway, this is where I fucked up. Oh, there's so many like that. I have several rental properties and I decided to let her live in one at a very discounted rate so she can get on her feet. I just wanted a place for her and my goddaughter to be safe. The first couple of months went fine until she started paying late one month, it was a couple of days, so I wasn't tripping. Then the next month, it was a couple weeks. Finally she was paying on the last day of the month and sometimes going into the next month. I had several conversations with her about it, but then she would start crying, telling me how hard it is to be a single mom and that she really didn't have any help from her family. At first I felt bad because I grew up with a single mom, so I understood. Then I started getting more info. I hooked her up at my cousin's daycare so she wouldn't have to pay as much for childcare. Apparently they got really cool and she started telling my cousin about how much she hates working. It wasn't until I complained about her sss. It wasn't till I complained about her that my cousin let me know, what's tea? This heifer would take days off from work to just sit at home chilling. When I called to ask her about her rent, she would lie and come up with excuses as to why she didn't have it. Like, oh, I had to take the baby to the Doctor, I had to pay this ticket off. I thought I was gonna have it at this point. I'm pissed. And I told her she has to end her lease and find another place again. She hit me with the waterworks about how she can't afford another place and her credit isn't good and that she and my goddaughter are gonna be homeless and I don't even really need the money cause my husband and I are doing fine. I'm really not sure what I wanna do. Of course I don't wanna see my godbaby living on the street, but I'm tired of her lazy ass mama taking advantage of me. What should I do? Thanks. Fed up.

[Kid Fury]

This blows dicks. Like.

[Crystal]

That'S one way to put it.

[Kid Fury]

If it wasn't for the goddaughter, I would have zero struggle here. Yeah, zero struggle.

[Crystal]

I think that's most people.

[Kid Fury]

And I, I don't even feel like it's gonna change my answer. It would just take me longer to get to the. You need to leave. I think though. Wait, you said you're wrong.

[Crystal]

You're wrong.

[Kid Fury]

Did she say I. Oh yeah.

[Crystal]

She said, I know I fucked up by letting her move into the.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I know I fucked up. Okay, got it. I was like, what did you do wrong?

[Crystal]

Not wrong, you're fucked up.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I think unless I miss something, I would have to say. All right, look, I think we've suggested this in similar situations. This is the game plan, okay? Here are the guidelines and here are the rules, okay? Under a normal, normal American capitalist, capitalistic society and circumstance, I would just throw your black ass right directly out on.

[Crystal]

Oh, this is her best friend.

[Kid Fury]

But you are my best friend. I know what you've been through. I love that baby. I'm good. We good. However, I can't in good conscience as a hard working adult who knows that you're a capable adult, allow you to sit here and do nothing instead of getting up, getting out into the world again and taking care of your responsibilities and your child. I can't. Yeah, I can't. You're not my children. We're friends. So I've come up with a little spreadsheet here. We have.

[Crystal]

I look like so.

[Kid Fury]

Date ranges on the milestones that we need to meet. Here's the rant over in this corner. There's you. I'm joking, rambling. Now you get the point. I think I would just, just say to her, hey, I. Look, I know what's going on. I'm not gonna treat you like a landlord because you're my best friend. I know what you're going through. But girl, please go to work, do something. Like I don't. I. Because. But you said that she said to, to whoever she like bragged about or she said something that she don't like to work.

[Crystal]

Yeah, to her cousin who runs the daycare.

[Kid Fury]

Which is bold.

[Crystal]

Like why would you say that to.

[Kid Fury]

That girl, why would you say that?

[Crystal]

And you getting a discount on rent and daycare.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even think I'll say that to the Lord.

[Crystal]

To the Lord?

[Kid Fury]

Like why would you.

[Crystal]

I might only say it to the Lord. Just can't picture this.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, I think that that would be probably my course of action is just being like, not even just because. Yeah, you're like, my husband and I are fine. We don't really need the money. It's like a principal thing. Outside of that, like, girl, for your own sanity, I feel like Nicki Minaj for having the bold say this. You need to get up out into the world for your own sanity and you need to be a part of society again so that you meet good and feel good and set a good example for your kid. So what are we gonna do about that? Cause if that's an issue, we can start making plans for you to live somewhere else. But you can't stay here for nothing. That just, that wasn't the agreement. Woo hoo.

[Crystal]

Woo. Yeah, this is hard because you. Nobody wants to evict their friend and their friend's baby. Like no, nobody wants to be in that position. But I, I would. I don't know her obviously, but to me reading this letter, she doesn't sound lazy. She sounds depressed as fuck. She sounds depressed as fuck.

[Kid Fury]

I thought it was just me.

[Crystal]

No, no, it's. To me it sounds like she's probably not been doing great mentally for a while. She maybe is just now starting to feel a little safe in this discounted apartment. And this discount, like you, this is, I mean a huge, A huge blessing that she has had this housing through you and the discounted daycare. Right. Cause you know how many people looking for discounted rent and daycare, that's like niggas biggest bills. So. Yes, yes, so I, I get that. But sometimes when you have been through a lot. She was obviously abused by her ex. Like you said that this man put hands on her in addition to everything. El, sometimes when you start feeling a little safe, you just kind of fall apart. And so I would not be surprised. Girl, I would not be surprised if that's what's going on? However, we do live in a capitalistic hellscape. And even depressed people have to pay their bills. And so what I would do, I. God, this is hard. Cause she probably don't have the money for therapy, but I also don't. I think it would. It would take. Unfortunately, it would take a lot for me to really put this girl out. Like, I would.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I do agree though. Cause that's why I'm thinking, like, my approach wouldn't even be like, oh, you need to be paying this rent. I'm thinking you need to get outside. You need to be at work, running errands, having coworkers, going on a lunch break to Starbucks. You know, like, you need to be a part of the world to be outside. Because in my mind, I'm thinking you leaving a situation with someone who was abusive, oppressive, and you're now, like Chris was saying, in a safe situation where you're kind of free to make sense of that and move with like, autonomy and in your own direction. And that can be overwhelming. So I. I don't really take this as you just being like, you know, lazy. I don't want to work as much as maybe broken.

[Crystal]

Yeah, so. So yes, there's that. I do think she needs to. Your friend needs to go rejoin the land of the living because you taking days off, like, you know, you have a child, you know, you have bills to pay, and you taking days off to just sit at home and stare. That sounds like depression to me. Me too. And honestly, talking about how much you don't wanna work. Most people don't wanna work. They just do it anyway because they have to pay these bills. It's. You know, if we had the option, most people would not probably go clock in on a regular basis. So I think I would if I were you. As long as I'm not taking a loss on the property. As long as she is taking care of it, like, it's not, you know, she's not destroying my home and I'm not actually having to take a loss on it. Then I would really try to work with her under the condition that she begins to tighten up. Cause like, you don't want to get to a place where you are being taken advantage of and you have no boundaries with this person and they're just running all over you and doing whatever. But then obviously, of course, you don't wanna kick them out and have your friend and her baby be homeless. So again, you probably are already doing this. But the minimum amount to pay to keep the apartment going, like, or whatever it is. If it's a house you own, you have rental properties. I'm assuming you carry mortgages on those. I would take it as, you know, I'm already a landlord. Morally, I feel kind of iffy about whether I should be a landlord. So the way I'm gonna make myself feel better about that is providing this discounted housing for my friend. But she does have to do something. She can't just. She obviously can't just sit back and do nothing to take care of herself and her child. So I would try to work with her within those parameters. But, yeah, like, I, I think if I talk to her, when I go to talk to her about it, it'd be like, I want you. I, I, I want to communicate that I have a lot of empathy for you. I feel like you've been through a lot, and, you know, maybe you need some kind of help to sort through your feelings, you know, the kind of help and support that I'm not qualified to give. But I do need you to work with me so that you and your child don't end up in a worse position. And hopefully she takes that with the loving intention behind it and can start to adjust the way she moves.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Cause this could be incredibly worse. Like, at least you, like you said, are not struggling with the property as a result of this. Sounds like you have the space and opportunity to be there for her as a friend while she figures this out. And, you know, luckily, she and her kid have a voice to say.

[Crystal]

Right. So that's what I would.

[Kid Fury]

I think you really fucked up.

[Crystal]

Yeah. You. You have a heart. I was about to say, you have a big heart. But I feel like most people, if they had the space and a homeless friend, they would do this. It's just, you care about her, and that's great. That's.

[Kid Fury]

You would be the fuck up if your friend was, like, convicted of arson twice.

[Crystal]

And you knew that, right?

[Kid Fury]

Like, oh, hey, and then she burns filthy.

[Crystal]

Here's an extremely flammable home you can live in all by yourself with no supervision. Right.

[Kid Fury]

This is just you being a good.

[Crystal]

Person and times are really fucking hard. It sounds like you are extremely privileged to not only have a home, but to have other homes that you rent out to other people. Right. Several rental properties. So, again, I would work with her as much as I could while. Because if nothing else, you need to keep a job and go to work so that you continue to be part of the world. Sitting at home is gonna make the depression worse.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, that's why I was like the Nicki Minaj and me.

[Crystal]

You need a job and you need to go to job. You need to go to your job so you can. It actually does. It can help a lot with your mental health to have a routine and get out of the house and do things every day.

[Kid Fury]

So I'm not taking good advice. I'm putting positivity out the world. That doesn't apply to me.

[Crystal]

Oh, good luck to you, though. Fed up with this conversation. Let us know how it goes. That's going to wrap up our letters this week. Again, if you have a question for us, send that on over to AskTheRead gmail.com. we'll be right back.

[Kid Fury]

We're back. And it is now time for the read. Mine shouldn't take too long, so I will just get it out of the way. First of all, I've been looking at this Labubu website.

[Crystal]

No, not this whole time.

[Kid Fury]

Pretty much all of this time. And where do y' all get off? I guess this really was some fancy. Ooh, my man got me. Whatever. Cause these things are truly expensive.

[Crystal]

I told you, they're high and ugly.

[Kid Fury]

Why is this blind box? $33.

[Crystal]

Can I tell you? For a little tiny doll that you clip onto your bag or purse or whatever. Like, it's small.

[Kid Fury]

They're very small. This one, this one piece, this, this, this. They have some called Megas that are actually like a little bit bigger. And there's one of Tony. Tony Chopper from. From one piece. $300. And they have another one that's mega. 1,000% $1,200.

[Crystal]

Oh, no, y' all play too much.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, these doesn't have anything to do.

[Crystal]

Fully ridiculous.

[Kid Fury]

But good for Klay Thompson and. And his rich girlfriend.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I saw the new Superman film that James Gunn directed and I think helped write it. Came out just about a week ago now. I enjoyed it quite a bit, thank God. I was hoping that that would be the case. It was fun. It was bright, it was colorful. It was a good time in the theater. What I did not enjoy was that I read that an actor by the name of Dean Cain was upset when he heard that James Gunn referred to the Superman story as an immigrant story. Now, Dean Cain is mostly famous for playing Superman in the 80s.

[Crystal]

That's what I thought.

[Kid Fury]

Soap opera Lois and Clark on abc. Now, James Gunn, I don't know, not too long ago, was talking about this, about Superman and referred to. Referred to Superman and his story in America as an immigrant that Came from other places. Well, and that's kind of a bit of a thread in the film and it shouldn't shock anyone because it's always been that it apparently upset Dean Cain very much for whatever reason. I guess because he played Superman once, you feel like you need to ask.

[Crystal]

Him his 30 fucking years ago.

[Kid Fury]

And that also his opinion should fucking matter. I don't even know where. Anyways, he says, I think that was a mistake by James Gunn to say it's an immigrant thing. And I think it's going to hurt the numbers on the movie. I was excited for the film. I'm excited to see what it is. I'm rooting for it to be a success. But I don't like that last political comment. Now I have thought about Dean Cain since I would accidentally see this TV show on screen when I was a baby. But I guess if I needed an update, this update would be I voted for Donald Trump. Um, mm, A maga. I don't care about that. I'm gonna say this. Are you cool?

[Crystal]

Nope.

[Kid Fury]

Are you cool? Cause Superman has been Superman since forever. Actually, one of my favorite things about this new Superman movie is that it doesn't waste any time with an origin story of this kid that landed here and oh my goodness, I have to go step into this phone booth and twister. It's just the man being Superman. He's Superman. That's Lois. All right, go like they're dating already. Let's just go. We know it. We've been here for a hundred years. Let's do this. With that said, it has been said numerous times that Superman is an immigrant. It's an immigrant.

[Crystal]

I was about to say, isn't he from a whole nother planet?

[Kid Fury]

He's from a whole other planet. He's an alien. And in fact, here on this actual real world planet, people who live outside of this country are often referred to as legal aliens.

[Crystal]

They are.

[Kid Fury]

So this story, this very old story that has always been about an alien who's here illegally.

[Crystal]

Oh boy.

[Kid Fury]

One could say it's has to do with with immigration. Also, one of Superman's largest rivals, nemeses enemies is one Lex Luthor, who we could describe as Elon Musk was smart. Oh, and Lex Luthor in nearly every depiction, but specifically this one cannot stand this man for being other and celebrated. Anyway, he's a very, very tiny minded, insecure, egomaniacal man, baby. Like a lot of the politicians that y' all love, serve and vote for. And I think that's what's plucking. You guys. Because other than that, it's pretty much a guy in panties and a cape beating stuff up and saving the world. It's not really saying, hey, maybe be nice to Mexicans. Hey, you know, a black woman invented the hot comfort. It's like. It's not. It is like, it's a man and his superpower dog being fun. But baked into it, there are just like an end. Bitch. If I'm watching Scream, if I'm watching A bug's Life, there are going to be themes in it that I can attribute to myself. That is how stories are written. That's. That's just. It is what it is. But you coming with your red hat instead of a cape to be like, well, I don't think that he should have called the immigrant an immigrant. Because I played the least popular Superman of all time, bitch. Ho, you played Superman in a show called Lois and Clark.

[Crystal]

Well, don't nobody give a about what you think, ho.

[Kid Fury]

Go back to obscurity. Go host Hollywood Squares or something. You can't find nothing better to do? Where to even find you to talk about this?

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Jack in a box.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Talk about. I think it's going to hurt the numbers on the movie. Movie's doing great. It's Superman. Are you stupid? Are you stupid? The movie, it would have probably done numbers if it was Snoopy. It's Superman. Are you bitches dumb?

[Crystal]

How woke is this gonna get.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, girl, it's the.

[Crystal]

Hasn't he always been this. Are we wrong for saying he's an immigrant even though he's always been an immigrant?

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Straight like that.

[Kid Fury]

Actually, no, that's exactly what it is. He literally said, I don't like that he made that last political comment. It isn't a political concept.

[Crystal]

It's just a fact.

[Kid Fury]

It's lore.

[Crystal]

It's just. It's canon. I had to Google it. Like, where is Superman from? Like, am I tweaking? I thought that nigga was from Kryptonite. Krypton. Cryptocronicronalite. Yeah, something like, how could you be mad that somebody said what the. What is? Actually, this is what is.

[Kid Fury]

This is the movie and his, like, his major. Superman is physically, like, compared to a God all the time. The only thing that can, like, physically really fuck him up usually is this incredibly rare glowing rock. So the thing that usually fucks with him, his weakness is humanity and trying to fit in. In almost every Superman story, you were talking about a kid who grew up on a farm in Kansas but is an Alien.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So he is trying to be accepted in a world who's just like, ew, get away from here much. Like, Anyway, I enjoyed the movie. It was a good movie. I liked it. Really? Well, I liked it a lot. I'm hoping that the follow ups are great. We're getting Aaron Pierre. That's Mufasa and Green Lantern.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

We're getting a Supergirl movie where she's drunk as fuck, which is also comic book accurate. Where you girls start finding some reason for her to piss you off.

[Crystal]

She gonna be googling, am I an alcoholic?

[Kid Fury]

So I enjoy that. And I just wanted to say that as well as the fact that that Superman film, Immigrant or not, eclipsed everything you have ever done with the property Dee. Everything. Don't nobody give a fuck about that damn show that she was in. I don't even know if it's streaming anywhere. Bitch, shut up.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Shut up. Yeah, shut up. If Christopher Reeve said this, we'd read him into the ground, he's still alive stuff. I don't think so.

[Crystal]

Oh, that's right.

[Kid Fury]

But if he did.

[Crystal]

Right? Right. No, the point stands.

[Kid Fury]

Who the do you think you are and why can't just go see Superman without you having to remind them that hates in the world. James Gunn also said that the point of the movie was kindness. Like, that was the theme.

[Crystal]

Oh, wow.

[Kid Fury]

Y' all said because the guy really just wants to help people. He wants to use his. His power to like do good and then conflict. Like, it's bright, it's colorful, it's sweet, it has an amazing dog in it. And here you are like, yeah, but those dirty brown people crossing that border. It just plucks me that y' all get to be this stupid and also in power.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Well, not you. You ain't doing shit. But, like, you know what I mean, right?

[Crystal]

That you even have a voice that anybody is willing to listen to.

[Kid Fury]

Really crazy and a ridiculous one.

[Crystal]

He is an immigrant girl. Very literally an illegal alien. Like, very literally that.

[Kid Fury]

It's like if Wakanda Forever came out and fucking, I don't know, insert black comedian or black actor was like, gosh, I don't understand why Ryan Coogler had to just mention them being African. And she's like, I don't.

[Crystal]

Oh, because they are.

[Kid Fury]

Well, because they are. It's like a whole thing. But why does that bother you, right?

[Crystal]

Stop being weird.

[Kid Fury]

That's it. La Boo boos are too expensive. And DK ain't a lost his damn item.

[Crystal]

And so has Robert Griffin iii. Now Look, a here you.

[Kid Fury]

I thought you were talking about family guy who's.

[Crystal]

Not Peter. Not Peter Griffin.

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crystal]

Robert Griffin iii, a former professional athlete, current talking head, and person who wastes too much time online the other day, decided to post on Twitter and wrote, all right, this has got to stop. There's no place for racism in this world. Whether you like a player or not, Angel Reese should never be called or depicted as a monkey. And this is in response to some rando, like literally some nobody with a Twitter account.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I know.

[Crystal]

This is posting this photo of Angel Reese, who was just selected for the WNBA cover of 2K, and they photoshopped angel out of it and just put a monkey in a jersey, you know, as if this monkey is angel, and posted it. Now, this probably got spread around through the Caitlin Clark stands and ended up coming across his for your page or whatever. And so he takes a screenshot of this image and the person who posted it and includes it in this long ass tweet talking about how he's been quiet about Angel Reese because she shared a video that aided in his wife and kids receiving death threats and threats of harm to his family. And that's not okay with him because he never attacked her or her family. And all I said is white lady. No, he's talking about Angel Reese. That Angel Reese shared a.

[Kid Fury]

And his wife.

[Crystal]

I. Whether they actually.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just looking. I'm looking them up, so I know who you're.

[Crystal]

Yes, right. Whether they actually received. His wife received any death threats or whatever, I have no idea. But he basically spends two paragraphs talking about how he normally don't stick up for this bitch because she shared a video he didn't like, so fuck her. But now y' all have gone too far in depicting her as a monkey, and it's too much racism. But literally, he's like, whether you like a player or not, Angel Reese should never be called or depicted as a monkey. The next three paragraphs are about how he don't like angel because of how she played his family. And all he ever said was that angel hates Caitlin Clark, and everybody knows that. And people in Angel's inner circle called and said, yeah, you right. Angel hates Caitlyn because of the media and other people made it about race. And I never will. I just stayed out of it. But all that being said, no black person should ever be depicted as a monkey. Stop it. If you hate her because she's black, you're the problem. And then included this picture of the 2K monkey in the Tweet.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, and then he posted it and.

[Crystal]

Then posted all of that together. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

That's wise, right?

[Crystal]

It isn't. It isn't. Actually.

[Kid Fury]

It's not.

[Crystal]

Um, you know, I am the self appointed Angel Reese guardian. Like, she didn't ask for that. Um, and yet I probably don't need it. Yeah. And she. There's plenty of people, but there's lots of them. Let me tell you something. Angel Reese is having a much better season than Caitlin Clark. Much better. Some of that is injuries, but I also think some of that is the work put in over the off season. We're watching angel get better or watch Caitlyn throw a fucking tantrum and a fit and do shit on court that would get anybody else teed up and just gets her, you know, like a pat on the back and some kisses and hugs. So I wouldn't be surprised if angel or anybody else had a lot of disdain for her. I also don't care. This isn't America's next top best friend. This is the. This is the wnba. These are athletes playing at the highest level in this country. I don't give a fuck if there are rivals who hate each other. That actually would make the game so much more fun. Unfortunately, these two keep being professionals talking about how it don't have nothing to do with all that. I have a lot of respect for Caitlyn. I really like watching Angel. Like, these two are not even. Like, y' all are taking basketball, what happens on the basketball court and interpreting it in your own way. Again, it's kind of like Nikki, you take what you see and you apply your own meaning to it and decide that you're correct and your interpretation is the right one, even though it goes against what these people are out of their mouth telling you. Now, for the record, angel tweeted or something and said, yeah, none of my people ever contacted you. And we all know that, like, give a name. Cause it ain't no way. It ain't no way. Somebody in my inner circle who everybody knows, it ain't no way somebody hit you up and said that. I hate that girl. Because that's not true. But the real problem here, RG3, first of all, you made this about you. This tweet wasn't actually about defending Angel. This was about you letting it out and making sure to type in detail about how much you really don't like this girl and don't fuck with her. You wanted to get that out. You saw this picture of a monkey and said, you know what? I Could do post this and act like I'm against it, but also get out all my feelings about that black bitch that I don't like at the exact same time. That's fully what this is giving. If you really wanted to just offend angel, you would have said something. You would have put the first and last pair of lines here and that would have been it. This has to stop. No place for racism. Whether you like a player a lot or not, don't depict black people as monkeys. If you hate angel because she's black, you're the problem. That should have been the whole fucking tweet. You wouldn't have got into the trouble you had because you decided to share this image that the overwhelming majority of us would have never seen if not for your bitch ass. That's why you getting chewed up. This came from a nobody. Elon didn't tweet this. Trump didn't post this on Troops True Social or whatever. This was a fucking nobody who had this image going around. You're the one who shared it and made it a big ass deal to the point where Shaq had to get on TV and said, if you say something else about Angel Reese, he gonna pop you in your fucking mouth. And what I. What I personally consider to be the worst part of this, he tweeted, we need to. Because of course there was a lot of backlash after this. Later that day he tweeted, we need more people ready to build bridges between us and not walls to divide us. The only way to find unity is talking through our differences. RG3 the only way to find unity is talking through our differences in opinion and life experiences to find the best way forward. That's just really something somebody with a white wife would say.

[Kid Fury]

I was just gonna say that. That's really someone who was never challenged giving something never, never ever told, you need to shut the fuck up, child.

[Crystal]

Let me tell you what would have had me shutting the fuck up permanently and deleting my account. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther the King.

[Kid Fury]

You are good.

[Crystal]

Quoted this and quoted this and said, I agree. That's why I suggest you call Angel Reese and stop posting about her. Let me tell you something. If Dr. King's daughter chewed me up on Twitter for the way that I am putting a black woman in directly in harm's way, that would actually be my last day on Twitter.

[Kid Fury]

I think niggas really need to hold him. They hold him to that.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I think now it's law.

[Crystal]

Mm. Yeah. For real.

[Kid Fury]

After she says that and on Top of that. She's right. Yeah. I think there. There needs to be a public apology.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

After you call that lady and explain yourself.

[Crystal]

And I'm waiting. Give me the name of the person in my inner circle who called you and said, yeah, angel hates Caitlyn. Give me that person's name. I really want to hear it.

[Kid Fury]

Cow. Chicken. Dexter. Dee. Just name somebody from cartoon because you know that they're not. That never happened. And I'm sitting here wondering the same thing. Like, what tea is that? Anyway, let's say that she does hate old girl. It's.

[Crystal]

Who cares?

[Kid Fury]

They're on opposite. Like, you're. You never had another athlete that you couldn't stand.

[Crystal]

Y' all only do this about women, too. It's just weird. Like, these are, again, professionals. Two very successful, highly touted lot of hype and et cetera surrounding them. Professional athletes. I don't give a fuck if they hate each other. I would actually love to see them fight. I would actually love to see Angel Reese and Camila Cardoso versus Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. Oh, my nipples are hard just thinking about it. I would fucking love to see that shit. I think it's great. If they do hate each other, I don't actually have a problem with that. I think it's deeply weird that this man saw an opportunity to spread something hateful about this girl and talk about how much he don't like her and decided to jump on it. Don't you have something else to do? Like, do you even cover the W? Talk about foosball.

[Kid Fury]

Is there nothing?

[Crystal]

Okay, I'll wait for Andrea and Elle and Lachina and Chena. I'll wait for all of them to talk about the W. I don't need RG3 chiming in or honestly, anybody who didn't watch the WNBA before Caitlin Clark got into it. I don't need none of y' all's opinion on the WNBA ever. Is it.

[Kid Fury]

Do they. Is it. Do. Is it because they have nannies? Because I'm like, the children. There are children all over the place. Like, you have to have things to do.

[Crystal]

Yeah. They don't have to watch them kids. RG3 not watching them kids. You know, his wife probably not even watching them kids.

[Kid Fury]

I can't.

[Crystal]

Like, it's so weird.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not surprised about this taking place because I have been witnessing, you know, Angel Reese's treatment, especially behind that white lady. I was very excited when I saw her cover for 2K and was like, ooh, shit. I'm actually buy and play 2K for the first time. Um, so, yeah, it's like almost absent minded, but it's not. Cause you know what you're doing? Like you posting this thing again when you know it's gonna get a massive amount of attention and then being like, this isn't okay, guys, Even though I hate that black bitch and the fact that she had the nerve to endanger my Aryan queen and our offspring by posting something else one time because I had the nerve to say that that bitch was a hater. Well, guess what, America? That bitch is a hater. Because I talked to her cousin mama and her bishop and they all told me that the hoe don't like Caitlin Clark, but we shouldn't stoop to racism. Okay, guys.

[Crystal]

You guys, it's really wrong, you guys. This. This AI monkey that I screenshot and reposted. This is so wrong in me. You're part of the problem, you guys, for doing this. How dare you.

[Kid Fury]

Even when sometimes you hate a Negress for having the audacity to speak to you and your black man power and tell you how the fuck they feel about a Tuesday. Here's the photo. Enjoy.

[Crystal]

We would have never seen it had you just left it alone. I for sure wouldn't have. I would have never had the. I saw. Of course I saw it on TikTok. And then I had to go log into Twitter. Same with Nikki. I had to go log into Twitter to see it for myself. Because you never know when people are just making shit up. Everything's fake, blah, blah, blah. I had to go verify for myself. And I just thought, who would have seen this? It's almost like you wanted it to get out there, you know, it's almost like this whole post about how this is so wrong, you guys. It's almost like you don't really believe that and you just wanted an excuse to share that photo, but you knew you couldn't just share the photo, so you tried to dress it up 1000, tried to couch it in concern. And this is wrong. The racism is racism. You tried to do that, but the bulk of your message being, well, she shared a video that made my wife very upset. And we got death threats and threats of Bali haunt. You're on Twitter. I suggest you get off Twitter. Every other platform is better than that motherfucker. That's where the worst of the worst.

[Kid Fury]

Live and have such stunted fucking maturity that he don't even have the sense you still gonna get dragged because you're obviously doing something wrong and people ain't Stupid, right? But you won't even have the sense to be like, hey, guys, this isn't right. This. I just saw this photo, and this is really, really, really fucked up. Leave Angel Reese alone. People will still be like. Sensible folks like yourself would still be like, well, why did you just post it?

[Crystal]

Why? Right?

[Kid Fury]

But his dumb ass gonna be like, this reminds me of the time that I decided I hated that bitch as well.

[Crystal]

So this is about you then? Okay. How weird. I thought this was about. And at a time where we should be. Angel's having a great season. The sky had a great win against the Lynx the other day. They're starting to look better and better every week. She's got her. Her signature shoe. She had the COVID of 2K.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, this girl has done great things.

[Crystal]

She's got her foundation. You know, she retired her mama and bought her, like, there's just so many great. We could talk about how, you know, she's clearly been working with Lisa Leslie and seems to really be grown. Like, we could be excited about what Angel Reese is doing. And instead you are spreading bullshit about her to do what exactly? Bring more negative attention to somebody who already gets more than her fair share. I have every time I see a video about angel on TikTok. Now, don't get me wrong, the TikTok comments are rancid as well. I just know Twitter is where the worst people in the world camp out every day, so. But when I see angel videos on TikTok, I actually go in and say something. I deliberately go in and comment something positive because they're all terrible. It's all this bullshit racism. And when I do that, I get a bunch of replies like, shut your bitch ass up. Another black coon stupid bitch caping for other black bitches like you. That's one tiny piece of the type of hatred that Angel Reese gets every day. Why you as a black man, would want to add to that by sharing the photo? Can't care. I really can't understand it. And you know, not to be too heavy on Shaq. Cause he's for sure saying some shit I don't like. But. But that. But that threat. More of that. More of black men saying, open your mouth. Open your mouth about my girl. I appreciate it one more goddamn time and watch me rock your shit. I just went through all of his. Maybe I missed it. I don't see RG3 addressing Shaq nowhere on Twitter. I don't see it nowhere.

[Kid Fury]

Kazam Said, I got some wishes for you, bitch.

[Crystal]

It's a Bunch of.

[Kid Fury]

I'm talking about, I will beat your ass.

[Crystal]

It's a bunch of. You know what? Thank God for the life we live. I just thank God for my infinite blessing. Yeah, you stick to that bullshit. That's what you do. You stick to posting the casseroles that your wife made and, you know, the videos of your kids swimming and little jokey jokes.

[Kid Fury]

I don't think I've ever had a casserole.

[Crystal]

Oh, and you know white people, they gonna put cream of mushroom soup and green beans in it and then top it with some potato chips and shit like that. It's good casseroles, but not, not, not white. Not white people. Snow shade.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I don't think I've ever had anything besides green bean casserole in my life.

[Crystal]

Well, you know, casserole, I hear about.

[Kid Fury]

It all the time. I don't even think casserole is that. Is it.

[Crystal]

Well, casserole is a generic term for lots of, like, Mac and cheese is a casserole, so.

[Kid Fury]

Got it.

[Crystal]

Right. It's just anything made in. In that casserole pan, that kind of. So again, there's good ones, but not them mayonnaise jello salads that white people be making with the sliced up grapes and shit. Like, bitch, leave me alone.

[Kid Fury]

My aunt makes ambrosia salad.

[Crystal]

No. Okay, wait. Okay, well, now, hold on, because what did she put in it?

[Kid Fury]

Hell, I guess brimstone. Like, it's horrible.

[Crystal]

I actually do think it's disgusting. It's disgusting.

[Kid Fury]

It's marshmallows. She'll put, like, mandarin oranges, like coconut flakes.

[Crystal]

Mm. Oh. Making it worse.

[Kid Fury]

It. Honestly, I feel like there might be grapes in it. I couldn't. I've had that once in my life. And I remember looking at my aunt and being like, so was your plan to ruin the holiday? Like, did you want to come over and just be like, I know y' all wanted food to eat, so I just decided to destroy that.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And then no one else would eat it. And then she just keeps bringing it, and I'm like, nobody likes it.

[Crystal]

I don't know who made it. I don't know. I feel like I had this at my meemaw church. But I do remember sucking the whipped cream off of all of that fruit and then spitting the fruit back into the bowl.

[Kid Fury]

Like I said. I just was like, I would pick out the marshmallows. See?

[Crystal]

See? Cause you like that, right?

[Kid Fury]

And just eat that. But, like, once I started getting to the fruit and some other weird shit in there, I'M like, this is weird.

[Crystal]

I. Yeah, it's not good, but I keep getting that mixed up. There's like this ice cream whipped topping that my ain't he makes that goes in punch and it reminds me of ambrosia salad, but it isn't that.

[Kid Fury]

So I think I know what you're talking about. I don't know what it's called.

[Crystal]

I don't. I don't. I can't. You know, I don't know the word for whatever that thing is, but RG3 get you. Get you a fucking life. Find you something else. The NFL is around the corner. Lock in, lock in. It's plenty to talk about. Leave Angel Reese and the WNBA to people who aren't biased and don't hate the players. Why are you talking so much about Angel Hayden? Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn Hayden. Angel. You are the one with the hatred.

[Kid Fury]

So maybe you get on the COVID of madden instead of NCAA football 13.

[Crystal]

Back away from this conversation and stay in your goddamn lane for a big nigga. Have to come rearrange your face.

[Kid Fury]

That's him.

[Crystal]

Even in that one clip of Shaq, I was like, you can't let it play for too long. Cause he gonna start talking about females. He's like, okay, I gotta cut this off. But the part about I'm the one who told her not to respond to you and if you say shit else, I'mma knock you the fuck out. More of that. More of that.

[Kid Fury]

I love it. Why can't more of that please?

[Crystal]

All of it? Actually.

[Kid Fury]

Can we have some more of that?

[Crystal]

More. More protection for people being unfairly targeted. And yeah, that's it for me. You don't like the reception you get on Twitter? There's lots of other social apps. Pick another one and go over there. And that will wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Check us out on social media, including Twitter at this is the Read. You can find our website [e-mail] Any other news or announcements for you this week, Kiffury?

[Kid Fury]

HBO Max is back this summer. I guess that's a.

[Crystal]

Is that Enjoyer.

[Kid Fury]

Your week, folks. We'll see you on the next one.