A Horse Off The Hinges

Summary

The Read – "A Horse Off The Hinges" (June 18, 2026)

Episode Overview

In this high-energy episode, Kid Fury and Crissle West dive into the joy and exhaustion of June: Pride Month, the Knicks’ historic championship win, celebrity privacy, headline gossip, and several hot listener letter messes. Their irreverent humor, biting cultural critique, and deeply personal tangents make for an episode that’s as cathartic as it is sharp.

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Main Topics & Insights

Pride Month: Joy vs. Corporate Co-option

• [02:24] Kid Fury talks about the fatigue at the start of June, tired of the “capitalization of Pride Month,” referencing “Dr. Bonner's head gay soap” as particularly cringe.
• Crissle laments the decreasing presence of shallow Pride marketing and speculates if society is getting “more homophobic or what.”
• Both agree things feel different (“vibes are happier”) but still tongue-in-cheek side-eye at corporate America.
  • Quote: “[Pride’s] time for joy. It’s time for acceptance. … But the capitalization of Pride Month? Is so cringe.” – Kid Fury [02:24]

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Black Excellence & Knicks Championship

• [03:40] Kid Fury congratulates Jalen Brunson, NBA Finals MVP, for finally bringing a ring to the Knicks.
• Crissle describes the party atmosphere in NYC, people being weirdly "nice," and her dog Lainey’s mini dog jersey for the parade.
• They riff on how new New Yorkers are suddenly friendly: “Getting up for pregnant women on the train.”
  • Quote: “New York is really up a couple notches… people are just being nice.” – Crissle [05:04]
• Discussion about the city’s parade, crowd craziness, taking care of pets, and Doggist meetups.

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Hot Topics & Pop Culture

Tom/Zendaya Wedding Speculation

• [08:35] Rumors confirmed: Tom Holland implies he and Zendaya are secretly married after an Esquire UK Q&A.
• Both hosts admire the couple's privacy: “We don’t get paid to share our lives with you. We get paid to act and that's all we gonna do.” – Crissle [12:32]
• Law Roach's playful secrecy about the wedding referenced; contrast drawn with influencer overshare.
• Both express a healthy respect for celebrity boundaries: “What happened to imagination? … If they don't share [the pics], that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned.” – Crissle [13:52]

Drewski’s New Role & Tyra Banks Lawsuit

• [15:16] Drewski starring alongside Emma Stone and Chris Pine in "The Catch" as her security—hosts predict he’ll steal the show.
• [17:13] Kid Fury updates on Tyra Banks suing Netflix, alleging defamation/edit manipulation regarding the "America’s Next Top Model" doc, in which she's accused of facilitating a contestant’s assault. Both hosts express cautious skepticism and curiosity about how much the doc’s production twisted things.
  • Quote: “So they're saying, basically... blame it on the edit. You didn't have to do that.” – Kid Fury [18:32]

Movie Reviews

• Quick reviews: RuPaul’s “Stop That Train” gets praise for being campy and fun (“so goofy and so stupid but I had a great time”), while “Scary Movie” and “I Love Boosters” get panned for clunky humor or being “a step too far” in surrealist absurdity [21:11].
• Crissle reflects on her general dislike for surrealist films.

Laverne Cox’s MAGA Ex-Boyfriend Mess

• [25:37] Laverne Cox opens up about her breakup with a 22-years-younger, MAGA cop boyfriend. Both hosts spend several minutes discussing why someone like Laverne would “fight” for relationship with a Trump voter.
• Kid Fury is blunt: “How do I feel about this as a Black queer person—this is my trans sister… but then I’m like, Laverne, first of all you started dating, you was 48 and he was 26.” [27:41]
• Crissle: “You let a young white Republican finesse you emotionally. Why did you want this man so bad that you were willing to entertain it for this long?” [28:21]
• The hosts ultimately land in an empathetic “do your soul searching, sis.”

Northwest Going on Tour

• [36:43] News that North West (now 13) is going on a full music tour with up-and-coming rapper Molly Santana. Both hosts are instantly skeptical about the safety, appropriateness, and intensity of such young celebrity touring.
• Crissle: “Who’s going to be with this child? I don’t like this. I do not like that.” [40:19]
• Kid Fury: “Touring is exhausting… the only thing you need to be touring is your geography class.” [39:51]

Brief Gossip Updates

• Mystikal sentenced to 20 years for repeated sexual assaults – “That’s not long enough.” [33:10]
• Mourning the passing of Davie Chase (Lilo from “Lilo and Stitch”, Samara from “The Ring”). [35:12]
• Jay-Z’s exclusive partnership with Target for a Reasonable Doubt reissue: Both are unimpressed, expecting capitalists to prioritize money over community boycotts. [70:47]

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Listener Letters (Advice & Commentary)

Animal Crossing Tips

• [48:34] Listener “Tom Nook’s side piece, Isabelle” (51) is obsessed with Animal Crossing—asks for tips, if time-traveling is cheating, and if hosts will ever offer island tours.
• Both affirm the joy of “no competition” games. Crissle—“Technically time traveling is cheating but who cares, you’re not in competition.” [50:30]

Relationship: The Hinge Horse Fiasco

• [56:06] Listener Tara discovers her not-quite-official boyfriend updated his Hinge profile with a video from their “romantic” trip.
• Both agree the boyfriend doesn’t owe her loyalty but was inconsiderate: “Why don’t you just spit in my face next time? Really?” – Crissle [60:03]
• Rec: Tara should “unpause Hinge” herself and start dating others.

The Co-Worker Grill Dilemma

• [62:13] “Kayonce” disturbed her boyfriend’s flirtatious co-worker gifted him an expensive grill for Father’s Day. He dismisses her reaction as jealousy.
• Both call the boyfriend’s deflection a major red flag—“That’s not the behavior of someone who wants the flirtation to stop…” [65:52]
  • Quote: “Are you dizzy, bitch?” – Kid Fury [63:44]
• Advice: Her feelings are valid; his response is a cue to move on.

Jay-Z × Target: Principal or Profit?

• [70:17] Both express disappointment but not surprise at capitalist moves. “I don't expect capitalists to prioritize anything over money, and that includes community, Black or otherwise.” – Crissle [73:45]

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The Read(s) – Rants & Realness

UFC Fighter’s Michelle Obama “Joke”

• [81:30] Kid Fury rails against UFC fighter Josh Hokut, who randomly yells "Michelle Obama is a man!" at a post-fight White House event.
• Both hosts find it not just offensive and bigoted but embarrassingly juvenile—“Y’all are so stupid on the right… Why are you even talking about the former first lady?” – Kid Fury [83:35]
• Dana White (UFC pres.) even called Hokut’s comments “nonsense.”
• Crissle: “Michelle Obama is a man is just so stupid. It’s just… such a dumb statement.” [87:48]

UK’s Social Media Ban for Under 16s

• [90:57] Mixed reactions: Both agree kids need to “touch grass” and regulate consumption—but suspect that the real motive behind government bans is to prevent young people from being “too informed, too radical, too anti-capitalist.”
• Crissle: “They don’t want these kids to all of a sudden be like, why do we have a royal family?” [96:30]

LAPD Shoots Black Woman’s Dog

• [101:39] Both express absolute horror and fury at the LAPD shooting a two-year-old doodle named Jameson during a celebratory KNICKS win in LA—after a neighbor called in a noise complaint.
• Crissle is visceral: “If you shot and killed my dog—unfortunately, I’m now John Wick on your ass, baby. I’m finding the neighbor who called the police. And the cop who shot my dog. And I’m not stopping till I kill your children. …You shot and killed my dog right in front of me.” [103:39]
• Kid Fury: “That would change me as a person. …I would no longer have a basic respect for human life.” [116:30]
• Deep empathy for the victim, calls for donations, and a collective side-eye at LAPD and anyone complicit in the incident.
• Reflections on how deeply people love their dogs and the violence of police culture.

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Notable Quotes & Moments (by Timestamp)

• [02:24] Kid Fury: “The capitalization of Pride Month is so cringe…”
• [05:04] Crissle: “It is feeling very good in the city. The vibe is happier… People are just being nice.”
• [12:32] Crissle: “We don’t get paid to share our lives with you. We get paid to act and that's all we gonna do.”
• [13:52] Crissle: “What happened to imagination? ... If they don't share it [wedding pics], that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned.”
• [18:32] Kid Fury: “So they're saying, basically... blame it on the edit. You didn't have to do that.”
• [27:41] Kid Fury: “How do I feel about this as a Black queer person... but then I’m like, Laverne, you started dating, you was 48 and he was 26. How did this take place?”
• [28:21] Crissle: “You let a young white Republican finesse you emotionally. Why did you want this man so bad?”
• [39:51] Kid Fury: “The only thing you need to be touring will be in your geography class.”
• [60:03] Crissle: “Why don’t you just spit in my face next time? Really?”
• [63:44] Kid Fury: “Are you dizzy, bitch? Do you need some electrolytes?”
• [73:45] Crissle: “I don't expect capitalists to prioritize anything over money, and that includes community, Black or otherwise.”
• [83:35] Kid Fury: “Y’all are so stupid on the right… Why are you even talking about the former first lady?”
• [87:48] Crissle: “Michelle Obama is a man is just so stupid. Like, what are you even trying to say?”
• [103:39] Crissle: “[If you killed my dog] I’m not stopping till I kill your children… You shot and killed my dog right in front of me.”
• [116:30] Kid Fury: “That would change me as a person. …I would no longer have a basic respect for human life.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Pride/NYC Vibes: 02:24–07:09
• Hot Toppies: 08:09–47:29
• Listener Letters: 48:34–76:42
• The Read: 81:30–119:35 (includes rants on the UFC/White House mess, social media bans, LAPD/dog shooting, racism, and more)

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The Show’s Language and Tone

• Playful, irreverent humor with “Black auntie and messy cousin” energy
• Quick-witted, often sarcastic (especially about celebrity news and political headlines)
• Fiercely empathetic when discussing personal loss, police brutality, and queer Black experiences
• Comfortable with explicit language, creative insults, and shade-throwing
• Generous with advice to listeners, even when that advice is “date around” or “break up with that clown”

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Final Notes

This episode of The Read is a perfect capsule of Crissle and Kid Fury’s appeal: they don’t just “cover the news” but make space for collective joy, catharsis, and righteous rage—especially when Black joy or community is threatened. Whether it’s the open wound of police violence, the messiness of pop culture, or personal relationship dilemmas, no topic is too sacred, and no one is safe from the read—unless your name is Beyoncé (or Blue Ivy).

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Transcript

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

That sounds nice.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Unbelievable.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Welcome to paradise.

[Kid Fury]

Same family.

[Crissle West]

That's all that matters to me.

[Kid Fury]

Your BET favorites are now on Paramount plus subscribe now. Happy day, happy day.

[Crissle West]

Happy.

[Kid Fury]

Well, celebrate good times. Come on. I am Flip Wilson.

[Crissle West]

And I am Ms. Tina Knowles Lawson. Not sure which all name she's using, but that icon in particular. And yes. And. And this is the read. Thank you all for joining us.

[Kid Fury]

It is. It is the Read. And we're still in Pride Month. And I will say that I had to take A deep sigh June 1st because I was already tired and I was tired because, you know, the capitalization of Pride Month.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Is so cringe. I saw Dr. Bonner's head gay soap and that's when I was like, all right, I have to. I have to just stay in the house. But that has been really minimal.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

For whatever reason on my. Maybe it's because I don't go out the house and I don't watch TV commercials. But I've mostly seen. Been seeing the girls having a good time.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Yeah. I think there's less of it than usual, actually. I don't know if we're getting more homophobic or what, but yeah, it could be that.

[Kid Fury]

It could be that. Maybe the the interns are telling corporate

[Crissle West]

America it's too much.

[Kid Fury]

Hey, they hate it.

[Crissle West]

Nobody gay is buying that. It's just their mom.

[Kid Fury]

Well, it is time now for this week's Black Excellence. As always, dedicated to black folk out there doing great things. And this week, I'm going to give Black excellence to a young man named Jalen Brunson. Boy, MVP of the NBA Finals. Helping the New York Knicks finally get this. This ring. The first one since like, what, Lincoln was in office. So that's lovely. Shout outs to Jalen and apparently just like the spurs just shit the bed.

[Crissle West]

They did. I don't know what it is about that fourth quarter, but they just kind of give up. And yep, they let the Knicks come back in an elimination game. It was really wild. And it's been nonstop insanity in mom. Danistan, I cannot lie.

[Kid Fury]

You got a p. I'm so happy for y'.

[Crissle West]

All.

[Kid Fury]

I'm so happy for y'. All. I said, I know y' all was outside butt naked, sweating and trouble.

[Crissle West]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Kid Fury]

And that's what you deserve. That's what you deserve. New York is really up a couple notches.

[Crissle West]

It is feeling very good in the city. The vibe is happier. Like, I thought the city was going to melt down. But n are just being nice. Like people are just being nice.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine, right, New York and it's summertime,

[Crissle West]

warm outside, saying hello to people they not attracted to. And like I'm so, you know, holding doors open, getting up for pregnant women on the train.

[Kid Fury]

It's like to the south. Is this a simulation? Am I in the Matrix?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it has been. It's really been nice.

[Kid Fury]

The.

[Crissle West]

The whole city is on a hunt at the World cup is here. So Happy Juneteenth is this weekend.

[Kid Fury]

The.

[Crissle West]

The parade is tomorrow. I was gonna take Lainey, but no pets. They. They said no pets, no strollers, no nothing actually stinks. People are already. It is. I mean, and I have. I have a carrier that I would wear her in so she wouldn't get trampled or nothing.

[Kid Fury]

But I've seen it.

[Crissle West]

I try not to break the rule. It is. It's a Baby Bjorn. And she. And she went to the Liberty Parade in it. So I'm thinking, oh, of course you can go to the Knicks Parade in it. But it is also going to be 300,000 people in that tiny little part of Manhattan. And so n are already spending the night down there. They are already camped out. So I think it's for the best that we not go. But she does have a jersey and you know, as a native New Yorker, she insisted on having her thing, so I did get her a jersey and a T shirt and all that, so she's part of the festivities.

[Kid Fury]

I told Link that New York won because she's from Harlem, and she said, what does that have to do with me? So.

[Crissle West]

And the Doggist is doing a dog meetup later that night, like, Thursday night, for the dogs to take being up.

[Kid Fury]

For the doggy nick fence.

[Crissle West]

Yes, for the doggy nick fence. So we might go to that.

[Kid Fury]

I love every portion of this. I just love it. I love that everybody's excited. I love that everyone's in their blue and orange. I am so incredibly happy for y'.

[Crissle West]

All.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm also happy because that fucking wacky inflatable arm flailing tube, man, that felt the need and the opportunity. No, the right. Yeah, he did like to put his hands on a number of people, but to, like, toss Jalen Brunson. Laugh about it.

[Crissle West]

All right.

[Kid Fury]

That's why you're going home pissed, diva.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, he was mad.

[Kid Fury]

Parlay vu. No Fonce, bitch.

[Crissle West]

Did you see him in that press conference after being like, of course. All right, guys. See you never like, boy. You'll see them in five months. Calm down. Like, are you okay, sis? You're so mad. And I get it. You just lost. But you just gonna have to get over that. Like, I think Wimby still has some maturing to do, but the vibes are impeccable in New York right now. It's never felt like this.

[Kid Fury]

Love it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Let's get in some hot toppies.

[Crissle West]

They also all over the city right now.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I bet they are.

[Crissle West]

This is their season.

[Kid Fury]

Mm. Whole tri state Fire Island. I forgot that was the place. Um, speaking of. None of my business. Let's start with some nice things.

[Crissle West]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Apparently, Tom Holland has all but confirmed that he and Zendaya are married. I didn't know this was still a secret.

[Crissle West]

Yes, I think I saw that too. Something about his grandma was like, why I'm not invited or why I didn't get to go to the wedding or something like that.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, well, someone from Esquire UK asked him if he felt like he had to reassure his family members that the. The AI images. Like that. The.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, those.

[Kid Fury]

Those pictures from, you know, they were AI or whatever. Like, he had to reassure them about it.

[Crissle West]

Got you.

[Kid Fury]

And Tom reportedly replied, no, because they were all there, and that's all you get.

[Crissle West]

I love that I don't have to reassure niggas who was in the room. They know that shit was fake.

[Kid Fury]

Like, and I see where you're going with this.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

I'm gonna give you, like, a cute, concise, curt little response, and we go about your business.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

I knew that neither one of them had openly talked about it, but I thought that everybody had seen them with their ring on and stuff.

[Crissle West]

Yes. I hadn't seen Thom and Daya's been wearing hers. But, you know, women typically do wear their engagement ring before they get married, so.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, right, right, right, so.

[Crissle West]

But I also 100% expected that we would not see one fucking thing. Didn't Law Roach just get on whatever red carpet that was a couple months ago and laugh in our faces about how the wedding was beautiful and we'll never know it?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah. Yes, he did, right? That was so kind.

[Crissle West]

It really was. So it's kind of like y' all keep dropping these hints, and it's like, we. Everybody around you, around this couple keeps telling you that them niggas are married and y' all simply were not invited. And that's all there is to it. Babes.

[Kid Fury]

Tough. I mean, Tom Holland for a while has given me. Spider man wore this young man out. He's not interested.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You know, I think he wants to just have a personal life, you know, calm down in terms of the public eye a bit, have some babies, do all that whole thing. So I wouldn't even be surprised if that was a huge part of the reason why they're like, this wedding is ours, the end. They don't even know about anything about that. But Zendaya's also not like, here, go all my business. That lady show up someplace, be fine, be funny, relatable, act her ass off and go home.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, she. I. I'm. I feel like she had a few good conversations with Beyonce, who was like, get off of that social media. Get off of it right now. Get off of it right now, girl. Post it to your stories for what? And she took that shit to heart. Yep, yep.

[Kid Fury]

Did you see her in Amber?

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Singing Dreamgirls?

[Crissle West]

Yes, I did.

[Kid Fury]

At the party. That was so fun.

[Crissle West]

I said, oh, okay. I did have a pinch of jealousy for Los Angele that y' all get to have moments like that where you just never know who might be at a house party and decide to sing.

[Kid Fury]

And New York doesn't.

[Crissle West]

No, I mean, we do, but Just saying. Just saying. Yeah, good times.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that looks very, very cute. And also, like, if they are like, yeah, we are married and so happy, and the wedding was lovely. Then what we get. I get a car. Do I. Is there?

[Crissle West]

Yeah. No. These niggas want the pictures and the video and you're not getting it. You're just not. Sorry. Then people do not. I don't even think it's like desperation for the world's approval or anything like that. I think they just want to see the stuff they just. Right. And Zendaya and Tom Holland, I think you found two very famous, young, beautiful actors who are like, we don't care. Like y'.

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crissle West]

We don't get paid to share our lives with you. We get paid to act and that's all we gonna do.

[Kid Fury]

I understand.

[Crissle West]

I love that.

[Kid Fury]

I understand wanting to see what they were wearing. I wanna see it specifically. Zendaya, right? Cause Zendaya can't help but look amazing. So I get the intrigue there. And being like, ooh, what was our wedding dress like? But she don't owe none of us anything, right? Like, sketch it out, have a good time, bitch. What happened to imagination? Yeah, like, maybe one day she will share what the dress look like when they feel like it. But I don't understand, especially an interviewer being like, huh, huh, what's up? You talked a little bit. Shut your ass up.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, they're not influencers. And I. Influencers would have sold every post. They would have. They would have had sponsored shit all over that wedding. Which is fine, you know, if you can get somebody else to pay for it, great. But they are not that. And I mean, I get the desire. I very much want to know what Zendaya wore. Cause I know she looked incredible, but I also recognize that it's not my business. And if they don't share it, then that's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.

[Kid Fury]

I also wanted to know what Beyonce wore to her wedding. Tough. And eventually that lady was like, all

[Crissle West]

right, here, right Here go a 10 second clip of me marrying that nigga the first time. Are you happy now? Speaking of, before you move on, Blue. Not blue. Ruby and Sergis turned nine this past week. I said, actually, let me get off the train. Time is going by way too fast. What do you mean? Them niggas are nine.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I know, I know. We're gonna sneeze and they'll be double digit. And I feel like, yeah, my nephew just turned 14. That is insane.

[Crissle West]

It is, it is. I called him and he was like, hello? I said, actually, with my little baby on the phone, right?

[Kid Fury]

That is insane.

[Crissle West]

I know. He's 14. Yeah. I said, you don't want no toys or nothing? Like, he was like, no, I guess I'm too grown for that. I'm like, oh, get off my phone. What do you mean?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think I want Jordans at Cologne now.

[Crissle West]

He said, oh, you sent cash and a card. Great. Thank you, Amy. That's all I was looking for.

[Kid Fury]

That'll do it.

[Crissle West]

That'll do.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, back to some good news. So I don't feel like an old, ashy ankle.

[Crissle West]

That's really it.

[Kid Fury]

Drewski is apparently going to be in an upcoming rom com alongside Chris Pine and Emma Stone. It's apparently gonna be called the Catch. It's apparently gonna be a baseball rom com of some sort. And I'm reading that Drewski will be playing Emma Stone's security guard.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Of course he is. Why would he be the romantic lead?

[Kid Fury]

I'm assuming Chris Pine is the romantic leader now.

[Crissle West]

Let me Google Chris Pine. I do know that other one, though.

[Kid Fury]

I wish I could tell you something he was in. You'll know his face.

[Crissle West]

I do know his face. It looked like a lot of other white men's faces, though.

[Kid Fury]

Mm.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes. He was Captain Kirk in the Star Trek reboot.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say Star Trek, but I was like, why would she.

[Crissle West]

I. God, I would not have thought this. He looked like the man that died that played on. Was it ER or Gray?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, from Grayson.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, he looked like that.

[Kid Fury]

Kind of looked like him a little bit.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense, actually. But Drew Ski. I can see Drew Ski. Absolutely stealing the show.

[Kid Fury]

Crushing it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's.

[Kid Fury]

He's gonna be hilarious just off reading that. It gave me L'. Rell.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

In, get out.

[Crissle West]

In get out. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

It feels like that's what's gonna happen here, but I think that's awesome for him. Emma Stone. Multiple Academy Awards, big rom com, sir. Especially, you know, after absolutely decimating Erica Kirk and everybody she knows.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was great.

[Kid Fury]

Good for him, hosting the BET Awards. Good for you.

[Crissle West]

It's all up for Drisky.

[Kid Fury]

Tara Banks is suing Netflix. She's filed a defamation lawsuit against them. This past Saturday, she's accusing Netflix of manipulating her into taking part in the documentary Reality check Inside America's Next Top Model.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I'm gonna need more. More information.

[Kid Fury]

Mission. She and her attorney claim that her confessionals were, quote, stripped of context and reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed. The lawsuit says the false narrative the producers constructed through Selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of contin Continuous footage, including that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexual, sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant's trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked. That narrative about Ms. Banks is a complete fabrication. One that Netflix streamed to a global audience of millions.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well,

[Kid Fury]

so they're saying that when they. First of all, they're saying, blame it on the edit. Blame it on the edit.

[Crissle West]

You didn't have to do that.

[Kid Fury]

You the one who said it. Blame it on the edit.

[Crissle West]

Did you? Okay, never mind. I don't wanna get distracted.

[Kid Fury]

Did I?

[Crissle West]

What if you saw the new RuPaul movie, stop that Train?

[Kid Fury]

No, I forgot that it's out, but I have to go watch it, baby.

[Crissle West]

It is so goofy and fun.

[Kid Fury]

It's good.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Me and Sydney went last night. Yes, it is like an extended version. You know on Drag Race when they do like a little play or movie or something.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Crissle West]

It's like an extended version of that. It's so goofy and so stupid. But I had a great time. I loved it.

[Kid Fury]

Did you ever watch Airplane?

[Crissle West]

That old ass movie?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Oh, God.

[Crissle West]

I've seen clips of it. I don't know that I've ever seen

[Kid Fury]

the whole from Naked Gun. Oh, shit. I want to just remember it off the top of my head. I feel so bad. Whatever. White people. Y' all don't remember us either.

[Crissle West]

Naked actor Leslie Nielsen.

[Kid Fury]

Fuck me. Well, that guy.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, it seemed like it was inspired by Airplane and.

[Crissle West]

Okay, yeah, yeah, yep.

[Kid Fury]

Films.

[Crissle West]

It's very silly, but it's a good time.

[Kid Fury]

There's one bit that RuPaul says in the trailer. I feel like it's at the end of the trailer and she in like the Oval Office or something and says something and start cracking up and everybody start laughing too. I have to go watch it. I forgot that it came out. I'll probably go this weekend. Scary movie.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Oh, I did not hear good reviews for that, girl. Oh, you saw it, girl.

[Kid Fury]

There was a lot going on.

[Crissle West]

Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Damn. I can't say I liked Damn.

[Crissle West]

That's the same thing Sydney said.

[Kid Fury]

It was like. It was like, yeah, like your uncles and them trying to tell edgy jokes.

[Crissle West]

Damn.

[Kid Fury]

And it was like, less. I mean, it was vulgar, a lot of it, but it was less, like upsetting or offensive or edgy than it was just, like, kind of cheesy. And some of the jokes were just like, okay, girl. But it was nice to see them all again together.

[Crissle West]

Again, well, speaking of movies we did not like, I love Boosters. Did you see that one?

[Kid Fury]

I didn't see that one.

[Crissle West]

I get the message behind it, and I like the message behind it of, like, you know, capitalism and greed and all of that. I think I'm just not a fan of the absurd surrealist genre.

[Kid Fury]

Boots.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Which is what he does. But, yeah. Yeah. I think I'm just. It's a thin line between camp and surrealism. You know, absurdity. That. Because I was thinking to myself, like, why did I like the RuPaul movie but not. I love Boosters? And I'm like, I just. Whatever that thin line is between those genres, it's a step too far for me. And then I went and looked up a list of surrealist movies, and most of them I had not seen, but the ones I had, I did not like. So I was like, okay, it's just the genre then.

[Kid Fury]

And it might be just.

[Crissle West]

It definitely is.

[Kid Fury]

So did you see Sorry to Bother your.

[Crissle West]

I did.

[Kid Fury]

And you didn't like that one either.

[Crissle West]

I tried, but the end when they

[Kid Fury]

just turned into most of the people who I've spoken to who didn't like it. That is exactly why. And I never argue with it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Cause all of them are like, girl. What?

[Crissle West]

Right. There's a couple of moments like that in I Love Boosters, too, where it's like, I'm kind of enjoying this story. Like, I'm seeing where it goes, and it gets a little ridiculous, and that's fine. But then it gets super wild, and it's like, why was that choice made? But I guess that's the point. And I'm like, okay, I just don't like it, dear. And that's fine.

[Kid Fury]

The one bit that I have seen of it, which feels like it's the only clip they keep posting is the one with Robin Thede in it. And that's really funny.

[Crissle West]

It is funny because Kiki Carrie was like, damn. They treating her like a regular black girl.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Like, they. Because the.

[Kid Fury]

It was really fun.

[Crissle West]

Anyway, I'm not going. There's probably. I don't want to spoil it for the people who still want to go watch it, but if you're into that, then you're probably going to like the movie because like I said, it does have a great message behind it, but it's just a little too weird for me, bro.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I feel like that's the common reaction that Boots Riley gets from his projects. But, yeah, I say keep going with her brother. You know what? I'm saying it's for you, it's for some people, you know. Yeah, but I haven't seen that yet for a couple of different reasons. It don't matter. But when it comes to streaming or whatever, probably tomorrow, I'll watch it. Tyra Banks, you know, her lawyers are basically saying that when. They were. When. Like the part where she kind of dismissed the Shandi situation.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Or Shandy. I'm sorry, Shandi Sullivan situation. That she and her attorney are claiming that that's not what they asked her about. Like, they never directly asked her about Shandy. And then they used this clip during that part to make it seem like that was a response to Shandy's situation, but she wasn't responsible.

[Crissle West]

I see. Hmm. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

So that said, because there were a few things about that documentary that she said that pissed me off.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

That was the thing that really pissed me off. So I'm very interested to see where this lawsuit goes. Because if that is true.

[Crissle West]

Yeah,

[Kid Fury]

yeah, if that is true, ma', am, I might owe you. No, I might owe you a taste of it.

[Crissle West]

I'll.

[Kid Fury]

I'll. I'll address it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's real. Because my first thought was, girl, I mean, if you said what you said, then you said what you said. But I'm also not putting it past Netflix or whoever produced this to manipulate certain content to make it look more salacious. So I guess, you know, the judge or whoever will be asking for the unedited sit down with Tyra to see whether they did this deliberately. Because if so, then, yeah, that's fucked up. Cause N's been dragging Tyra for months since that documentary came out. So, yeah, I guess we'll see what happens.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I'm very interested to see what happens.

[Crissle West]

Thanks.

[Kid Fury]

Ooh, Laverne Cox. So life on the other side of Maga.

[Crissle West]

Okay, I saw this. TikTok. I saw it.

[Kid Fury]

So Laverne Cox, like, a few years ago. Why am I already tired? Laverne Cox, a couple years ago, came forward and said that she was in this relationship with a cop and that they have, like, differing political views. Now she's got a new book coming out, a memoir called Transcendent. Pretty good name. And she's now discussing her ex boyfriend and how, you know, their political differences put this strain on the relationship that was just impossible to ignore. And she said, I think on the View, she said, people show you who they are eventually. And I was like, well, if you. If you tell me that you're a maggot.

[Crissle West]

Right, right.

[Kid Fury]

I feel Like, I know who you are immediately.

[Crissle West]

Yep, yep.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know who.

[Crissle West]

Yep, you right about that. Trixie, please. Every time you do that, I think of Trixie Mattel.

[Kid Fury]

I was just like, yeah, first of all, this is ours.

[Crissle West]

No, I know. But when I see it.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, they obsessed with that. Yeah, we didn't plan to. We didn't plan to fall in love, but we did, yada, yada. And I'm just like, okay, so how do I feel like, about this as a black queer person? And this is my trans sister. She's black, she's a femme. I don't, you know, I want to make space okay for you know what I mean?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, make that space.

[Kid Fury]

But then I'm like, laverne,

[Crissle West]

first of

[Kid Fury]

all, y' all started dating. You was 48 and he was 26. How did this even take place?

[Crissle West]

Yuck. Yuck. Oh, girl, you let a young white Republican finesse you emotionally. Well, it's not even that much of a finesse. He was open about who he was from the beginning, and you just wanted to believe the best anyway. You was just that attracted to this white man, this young white man. I mean, girl, okay, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Apparently she said she felt like she was betraying herself in the relationship or some shit like that. He's a blonde, blue eyed MAGA Republican voter. But she says, you know, she never voted for Trump. Her commitment to trans rights and her advocacy for. For trans people like that never wavered. That never changed. And apparently, like, she was fighting for the relationship and ultimately their differences broke them up.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, okay, so you were really fighting to stay in a relationship with this blonde, blue eyed, make America ghetto again. Donald Trump voting white boy, 22 years younger than you. So I feel like I'm trying to decide the portions, like, the percentages of me here. Right. Cause there's one part of me that's like, okay, girl, don't let the doorknob hit you. Like, we don't.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, no, right.

[Kid Fury]

Like in Alice in Waterli are my favorite movie where Alice comes to the Mad Hatter and the Arch Hare to their tee. When they first see her, they're like, no room. No room. No. No room. No room. We have no room over here, girl. And another part of me is like, what? I'm. I'm curious to what Laverne Cox's relationship with love has looked like.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes, that's a good point. That. Mm. That is really something to think. But like, for me, this is not necessarily something to, you know, cancel Laverne Cox or throw her away for. It's more like. I think you have some questions, Laverne, to ask yourself, like, why is it that you were willing to. To try to make it work with this man? So, like, if you wanted a fine white man, you could find one that wasn't a maga cop, girl. Like, they're out there, especially in la. Like, I know you can find one, so. Or New York, wherever you live.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, you could have. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

So that I think she really has some soul searching to do. But, you know, she talked about being so brokenhearted over this relationship ending and the fact that she did never, you know, turn into a Trump. Like, she was never swayed by what he had to say, and her trans advocacy never stopped, and that was why it ended up, you know, they ended up not working out. It's kind of like you could have saved yourself a lot of heartache by taking this man at his word from the very beginning. What about him was so alluring? Or what about you was so. I don't want to say desperate, because that's probably not the right word, but why did you want this man so bad that you were willing to entertain it for this long? That's. I think those are the questions she needs to ask herself, and she probably already has or is working through that with a therapist. But, I mean, I remember when it came out, I was just like, oh, girl, this won't end well. But, you know, as long when she first said it, right? As long as you don't start saying nothing stupid or, you know, start bringing this white man around, like, he's supposed to be in our spaces or something like that. Like, I let y' all work your shit out for yourselves. We all got something going on, really. Well, for the most part. Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

That rabbit's name is the March Hare. Did I say the Arch Hare?

[Crissle West]

Oh, the way I said that pattern.

[Kid Fury]

The March Hare. I'm pretty sure it's the March. Whatever. You're right.

[Crissle West]

I don't know either way, so.

[Kid Fury]

Because I think she. She said that he was, like, so sweet and treated her better than anyone before, and he was so attentive and also 26.

[Crissle West]

So, you know, I don't like that.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just like, what has love looked like for you?

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

[Kid Fury]

And so my heart is open. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

You know, I do very much appreciate that she never switched up her messaging, that she understood that. I think she thought she could legitimately get him to see how he was wrong. Sorry, girl, but A white man. I'm sorry. I just would not have put that effort towards a white man.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine. I just would not do that.

[Crissle West]

Of all people. Like, yikes. But you got a sister.

[Kid Fury]

I'm actually skipping over this Dame Dash thing because that was already. I'm already exhausted from the Lavern of it all, so. Okay, Dave, God bless. Like, you have to. You have to go somewhere. I don't know exactly where that summer is, but away from Jesus. Jesus keep you.

[Crissle West]

Yep. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Mystical is going to prison for 20 years. I don't feel like that's long enough.

[Crissle West]

Nope, it's not.

[Kid Fury]

Let me see how old he is. And make sure to see if he'll die.

[Crissle West]

I want to. Oh, no, he's like 48.

[Kid Fury]

I'm guessing he's 55.

[Crissle West]

55. Damn. Okay. Shut me up.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, he might still ain't long enough for me.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, no. Considering the number of times he's been in trouble for sexual assault and related crimes and the fact that he seems to be a habitual rapist and an extremely violent one on top of that. Yeah. Yeah, they can go. Then people can go on and keep you. I will not be my marching in

[Kid Fury]

the streets for your ass at all.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, so.

[Kid Fury]

So apparently he pled guilty at first, and then at the last minute, he tried to, like, strike that. That plea from the record.

[Crissle West]

Can you do that?

[Kid Fury]

No, not according to the judge, baby. So I guess he and his representation said that he didn't have the sufficient opportunity to fully consider the consequences, which. What? Okay, but just said, girl, clink, clink. I'm not even trying to hear that bullshit.

[Crissle West]

First day in court. What you mean not time to consider the concept. Did you, his attorney, not talk to him about the consequences of pleading guilty? Like, what y' all just be saying?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, not to mention.

[Crissle West]

What?

[Kid Fury]

When his victim came and she, you know, she gave her testimony and talked about what happened to her in the courtroom, Mystica responded saying, if I did that to you, I deserve the max sentence. So that's what they gave me, actually, for that. If I did that to you.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, okay, just go on and hit him in the back of her head with a baseball bat.

[Kid Fury]

Actually, I'm fine with it.

[Crissle West]

If I did that, you nigga. You know you did that to me. What do you mean, if you did it to me? Wait, what? What's wrong?

[Kid Fury]

The little. The. The girl from the ring who voiced Lilo and Stitch died. I mean, who voiced Lilo?

[Crissle West]

Oh, What? She's like, 35. I was about to say that's a young girl, but obviously not that young, but. Oh, no.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, that hurt my heart.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God. I did not know she was the same girl from the Ring.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I just said the Ring and Lilo.

[Crissle West]

I didn't. My brain skipped right over that.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes. She played the little. The haunted girl.

[Crissle West]

Oh, you're one hell of an actress, baby. Oh, meningitis. Damn. Poor thing. Oh, rest in peace, early pops. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And on the heels of that, we'll just say, Fuck mystical, girl. 20 years ain't long enough.

[Crissle West]

It's really not.

[Kid Fury]

And I hope they take you through there. Take you through there? I'm talking about in it.

[Crissle West]

They should have gave him another 50 for that if I did it. Bullshit, bitch.

[Kid Fury]

You did it.

[Crissle West]

Okay, O.J. get out of my fucking face. You know you did it, you dumb cunt. I love calling men cunts.

[Kid Fury]

Me, too.

[Crissle West]

It's great. They get so mad.

[Kid Fury]

Cunt. Ho.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But, girl, not like sis you. Girl, you call these niggas sis, and it's like you fired an ar.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah. They get a irate yes.

[Kid Fury]

Love it. They're so sensitive. Straight men are so fragile. Northwest is going on tour, girl.

[Crissle West]

To. With what? To do what? She got music? Like, multiple songs.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I don't know about multiple songs, but I know she has music. I don't know how much of it, because I'm 38. Northwest turned 13 three days ago.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And she going on tour with 13 dates with somebody. 14 dates.

[Crissle West]

Molly Santana.

[Kid Fury]

Molly Santana?

[Crissle West]

Who the fuck?

[Kid Fury]

I just learned about her a week ago.

[Crissle West]

Oh, that's a girl. Okay. Mm. I thought it was a nigga named Santana that do Molly. Oh, that's my bad.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, it could be a girl that named Santana that is Molly.

[Crissle West]

Why is a. Why is Northwest going on tour?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know, Krystal. I really don't. I'm so tired. Like, when I first read this, that's exactly what I said to myself, because north birthday was Monday.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She was 12 on Sunday, right? So when I saw this, I'm like, okay, maybe Kim had the sense to make it. Like, she'll do a little show in August in la, and maybe she'll do another show in, like, October. Or she has 14 dates insane in the show in the full month of August in August with this girl, Molly Santana. Who? Molly Santana is what I think in her early 20s.

[Crissle West]

No.

[Kid Fury]

And probably does do Molly. So I'm like, what does her crowd look like?

[Crissle West]

So she does have an ep. North Forever.

[Kid Fury]

I think that's cute. I Have no problem with this little girl making music. I loved. Whipped my hair.

[Crissle West]

Right, Right. I don't know about her co headlining a tour, though. That just doesn't. Well, you know what? I'm gonna say that I would really hope, and I'll even say I expect that between Kanye and Kim, this child is going to be very well protected on tour. I really hope, but it just does not seem like a good idea. Like, y' all don't need the money. What are we doing having Northwest perform at Terminal 5? And the Norvo and House of Blues and the Eastern and the. Bitch, we were at the Eastern. What do you mean, the Fillmore? This is insane. Okay. All right. Y' all got it.

[Kid Fury]

What's her name? I feel like Kim is really just on this, you know, she's so creative, and I'm so proud of her, and I want her to explore her creativities. And I'm like, if I were a parent, right? And y' all could hold your breath. I know I'm not. Whatever. Shut the fuck up. I'm saying if I were a parent. Right?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like I would probably like to toe the line between, yeah, get your creativity around and let's explore it. And then moments where I'm like, you need to sit your ass down somewhere.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

The only thing you need to be touring will be in your geography class.

[Crissle West]

Right. And I think I would be very much that same way. Like, maybe you can do a show or here. A show or two here in la.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

But is Kim going to cancel her August to go on tour with North? Nobody trusts Kanye to be the sole guardian or anything for that. And I doubt he would clear his schedule to do it either. So who exactly is gonna be with this child?

[Kid Fury]

I can see.

[Crissle West]

I don't like this. I don't.

[Kid Fury]

I can see Kim taking August off. What the fuck is she doing? Well, I don't know. Pay attention to now.

[Crissle West]

I don't. I don't know. I don't know what she's doing, but she always talks about how much she's working. And I just even. I just don't. This does not. For all of the headlines about Northwest over the past couple years, I've said, that's a child. You know, let her have blue hair, let her have nails, let her put spikes in her wig. Who cares? This feels like a step too far. And I'm not even sure that I can articulate exactly why. It just doesn't seem like a good idea.

[Kid Fury]

I will say it the same way. That I said the same way that I mentioned touring when we talked about Cardi having that fresh baby.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes.

[Kid Fury]

To me, this is twice. This is two things. One, yeah. What is the space for a 13 year old in a rage rap crowd? Like, I would assume that she will be protected from fuckery for a number of reasons.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But you still performing to a rage rap crowd. You still in a space where niggas love to throw things, love to climb up on stages. It's a lot. You turned 13, right, three days ago. And I'm sure this was all put together when your ass was 12.

[Crissle West]

Right? That's what I'm saying. I just don't like it. I really do not like that.

[Kid Fury]

That's one part of it. But the cardio of it all is it's touring is exhausting, right?

[Crissle West]

It very much is. What are y' all doing?

[Kid Fury]

It's exhausting.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That's why, like when you said. When I first read this, I had the same thought as you. If she had a show or two in LA here where she stay. Yeah, okay.

[Crissle West]

Right. And not co headlining, but like 14 days. Yeah. Maybe an opener or something. Co headlining a tour just seems like a lot for a little girl.

[Kid Fury]

But this is almost every day she got a show. 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 21.

[Crissle West]

Sorry.

[Kid Fury]

It's a lot.

[Crissle West]

I don't get sorry, that's my bad.

[Kid Fury]

No, we all do it. I can't imagine it. Even if her mama is there with her the whole time and three of her best friends and her manicurist and her hairstylist and you know, she FaceTime my daddy. Whatever it is, it's a lot of energy. It takes a lot of energy to pack up all your shit and put it on a bus or put it on whatever vehicle and then unpack it. They'll get. Go get dressed and then go, you get your makeup and hair done and do it and. But, oh, we're running low on time and oh, this person's late, and then the actual expectation and pressure of performing and then you gotta do it all over again the next day. It's a lot.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So just because this little girl probably was like, I want to go on tour, doesn't mean you needed to say yes.

[Crissle West]

Right? It's not even her daddy's tour. Like, it's just some other thank you young art. Like, I just don't. I don't like it. But all right. I bet them ticket prices immediately shot up and probably gonna be sold out. And that's another thing. I would just think if I was Kim or Kanye that like, I do not want a bunch of pedophiles buying tickets to hopefully see my 13 year old daughter on stage. Like, the safety issue is what really sticks out to me. I didn't think about to me about this, like, who's gonna be in that crowd making gestures at north, saying things to north. Like these aren't giant arenas where she's insulated from that. So I just don't.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, this one worries me. I agree. Blue hair, spiky, but I didn't even care when she put the piercing in her finger or whatever.

[Crissle West]

Right, right.

[Kid Fury]

But touring to me actually concerns me for a number of reasons. She's so young and it is exhausting.

[Crissle West]

I will pray that baby safety because I just don't like that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's it for me and my hot tops today.

[Crissle West]

Alrighty.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

We're back. Slurs. It's time for your listener letters indeed.

[Crissle West]

My goodness. If you have a question for us? Send it to asktheread gmail.com. there's a chance that we will read it aloud on the show. We're going to start off with a cute little short letter this week. Who from someone who calls herself Tom Nook's side piece, Isabelle, which love that she says,

[Kid Fury]

do not do my bitch Isabelle.

[Crissle West]

Like, I mean I see it, I do see it because Isabelle, where do you live and how many bills you pay for your house?

[Kid Fury]

But anyway, I mean, what's the tea, Izzy?

[Crissle West]

Dear Crystal and Kid Fury, for my 51st birthday I received a switch 2. I have heard you two talk about animal Crossing. So I couldn't wait to play and now I'm obsessed. This game has me not wanting to leave the house and declining calls because I'm having so much fun. When I'm at work. I'm thinking about my island design and what I can accomplish when I get home, not work. While to some this may seem crazy, this game has really helped calm my anxiety ridden brain and helps me channel my creativity. My questions are, what are some things you wish you knew or did when you started playing? Do you consider time traveling or treasure islands to be cheating? And would you all ever give tours of your islands? Thank you both for always bringing the joy in a up world. I appreciate you. Thanks. Tim Nook's side piece, Isabelle, work him right. Fuck him, he's exploitative.

[Kid Fury]

What are some things that we wish we remembered or wish we knew when we first started playing? Yes. Think of anything I haven't played in a minute.

[Crissle West]

No. It's been a long time since I've played Animal Crossing. I do remember this feeling though, like six years ago when the pandemic was running through this bitch and I would not leave my house. Yeah, I think I probably would have tried. I probably would have joined like the online communities where people are like, come to my island and see what we have over here. People in different hemispheres, stuff like that. You can go fishing, things like that. I probably would have done that sooner, I think. I mean technically time traveling is cheating, but you're also not playing against anybody, so who cares, right? I didn't.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I was gonna say. It's not cheating because.

[Crissle West]

Right, because it's. You're not in competition, like it's not competing.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Right. So it's not really. Che, just don't fuck it up. I'll say that. Don't fuck it up. But if you're not really hurting anybody by doing that, learn how to play the stonks, the turnips, or whatever.

[Kid Fury]

That was wild.

[Crissle West]

You can get so rich off of them turnips.

[Kid Fury]

That was wild. Maybe that. Maybe that's what I would say. I wish I knew earlier, because girls were out here like a Gabor bitch, and I was like, I don't know.

[Crissle West]

Yes. I made so much money eventually that, like, I would just set out bags of it for people to pick up when they came to my island. Like, y' all could just have this money at a certain point. I was just so rich on that game. Don't forget, you can also sell the fruit. So try to plant all the different fruit trees. And, I mean, as far as tours of the island, girl, I would have to reboot that game at this point. My island probably got roaches now. You know when you don't play for a certain amount of time, they put roaches on your shit. They put roaches in your house. It's really disgusting.

[Kid Fury]

And everybody on the island be like, oh, interesting. Got an attitude.

[Crissle West]

They do. They'd be like, haven't seen you in three fucking years. Like, okay, mind your business, bitch. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

This is why I play tomodachi life now. Because y' all hoes rude, right? No, I. Now I kind of want to boot

[Crissle West]

it up right now. I'm like, maybe I will go play again for. It's kind of like, once you've done everything, all the big shit, it's kind of like, you know, what am I still here for? Right? Right. And when. When outside wasn't an option, that was really nice.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, true.

[Crissle West]

But I'm glad you're finding so much joy in it. You're so excited about it, and it reminds me of how excited I was when I first started playing all those years ago. So keep having fun. Keep looking up different ways to, like, be creative with the island. You can do all kind of shit, baby. Uploading your own patterns and making like that was fun. Oh, yes. I had. I had a 28 and 3 path leading up to one of the houses.

[Kid Fury]

You are so diabolical.

[Crissle West]

I really am. I really am. You could put, like, I had uploaded the Reed logo, and we had, like, a little the Reed flag. It's all kind of stuff you can do. So, yeah, just get into it and have a good time. I'm glad you're having fun with it, babes.

[Kid Fury]

There's a Nintendo Switch 2 edition now, too. I have.

[Crissle West]

Okay, I'm gonna go see now. I'm not buying a Switch, too. I'm not doing that. Damn it. I'M not. I'm gonna rip you.

[Kid Fury]

One of these girls are gonna get you.

[Crissle West]

They are.

[Kid Fury]

They already announced Ocarina. Legend of Zelda. Ocarina time.

[Crissle West]

And is that gonna be a switch to exclusive?

[Kid Fury]

Probably.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well then that'll be when they get me. That'll be when they get me. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Comes out this year apparently. Probably Christmas. I'm so excited. I have to finish Tears of the Kingdom before it comes out. I have to.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you do.

[Kid Fury]

Because I won't feel good about starting this game knowing I'm gonna. Okay, I'll update you because I'm gonna blast through this bitch and I'm gonna finish her. And if I have to fortnite through it. Fine. Oh my goodness. They want you to build a fucking F150 in a motherfucking.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes you do.

[Kid Fury]

You gotta be a flying log cabin.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Golly. Oh,

[Crissle West]

it is.

[Kid Fury]

Watching people make really cool things is awesome.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Other people, not me, other. I don't have the patience for that.

[Kid Fury]

And now they have, like through the app somehow you can like download other people's creators.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, Yeah. I like fusing the weapons. I love making new fancy ass weapons. That's great.

[Kid Fury]

That is very fun.

[Crissle West]

And double loading the shields. Oh, so good. Yeah. Okay. I'm glad you're having fun, babe. Keep having a good time on that game. Our next letter comes from Tara, who says, I'm a 30 year old woman and I've been dating a 35 year old man since December of last year. And we started seeing each other exclusively, quote unquote, since February of this year. Now, we weren't officially in a relationship, but my hinge profile was paused and I hadn't been actively pursuing or sleeping with anyone else for the past four months. We decided to take a road trip from LA to Mexico to spend three nights there for Memorial Day weekend. And the trip was phenomenal. We got along really well and it was the most romantic experience that I've had in a while. So I was feeling very strongly about where this could go. He also had a really good time and even said to me that this was the best trip he had ever been on with someone else. Which seemed like a defining milestone since he's been married before.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, now we still just stop bracing myself.

[Crissle West]

We still didn't define our relationship on the trip, but we had conversations about how we were getting closer to being solidified. Now, I don't know why I went searching, but when you're looking, you'll find what you're looking for. Two Weeks after our trip, I saw that he updated his hinge profile with a solo video of him riding a horse. A video from the trip, mind you, with the.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, damn.

[Crissle West]

With the prompt. Me in the wild.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, okay.

[Crissle West]

When I confronted him about it, he said, oh, you're still the only person I'm dating and seeing. I just wanted to get a cringe photo off my profile. You could have just deleted that. You didn't have to replace it. Anyway, this trip felt so real, and I have strong feelings after the past six plus months of us growing together, but I feel really betrayed that he basically. That he basically took content from our quality time together to lure in someone new to date. Do y' all think I'm overreacting? What would you do in this situation? I feel like I can't expect loyalty when we're not official, but it still feels inconsiderate in a dating context. Thank you so much for reading Kid Fury. Your show at the Roxy was so great. Thank you both for all that you do. Tara. Ter.

[Kid Fury]

What is up with overseas? Oh, that's not really overseas, but, like, out of.

[Crissle West]

Across that border.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Damn.

[Kid Fury]

What do you think here? Cuz I have a couple things. Like, men.

[Crissle West]

I mean, I think when you say. I think she's right when she says I can't expect loyalty because we're not official, but this still feels inconsiderate, like.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, yes, yes, it does.

[Crissle West]

It does. Especially because you didn't just replace it with some video of you, you know, playing catch with your nephew. It's a video from our romantic trip we took together for Memorial Day weekend. Why is that on your hinge profile? This solo video of you on a horse, like, talking about, I needed to get something cringe off my profile. Well, did you know you never had to upload something cringe in the first place? Did you know you could have just deleted it? You didn't. There was no mandate to replace it with something else. Like, I. That man is. I think he likes you, but he's keeping his options open.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And that's why y' all are not having this conversation about, like, being official. Like, he's not. He's not ready to lock in with you just yet. That's. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But I completely agree with everything single thing that you just said. Why would you replace it with this picture that you know is from this trip that we went on or this time that we spent together and we were both like, oh, my God, this is so great. We're having such a good time. Like, yeah, if you wanted to replace something. Cringe. You could have replaced it with a number.

[Crissle West]

Anything else. Right. Why would it be. That does feel disrespectful. And considered is an even better word. But, yeah, it really does. It. It's like he doesn't care whether that would hurt your feelings, so.

[Kid Fury]

And did he even go, like, I understand where you're coming from. Apology's not my intention. Because, sure, he doesn't owe you commitment or whatever, but that was a fucked thing to do.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. He said no. I mean, you still my only hoe. I just.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

Like, Okay. I think maybe I. I would. I don't think you're overreacting because you haven't actually said that you've done anything. These are just feelings you're having. And I completely understand the feelings, but I would also just start dating other people, baby.

[Kid Fury]

I. Yep.

[Crissle West]

I would not be exclusively seeing or sleeping with this man anymore.

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Cause that is. Nigga. Like, why don't you just spit in my face next time? Really?

[Kid Fury]

Hello.

[Crissle West]

A video that I probably took of you on a horse, Right? Like, okay, all right. If you don't want me to be your girlfriend, just say that.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm sorry. I don't know how dumb n gotta be. Like, you took that video, right? Right from the trip you know, we was on together. Like, that I probably took.

[Crissle West]

Right? Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And nothing went through your head like, oh, when I post this on hinge like I'm posting. Lord, I don't know. I don't know about men. Sometimes I don't know about them. Sometimes I don't know about them. Sometimes it just seems. I agree. I would just start getting. I would unpause hands, which I didn't even know you could pause it or whatever. Right. And, yeah, I would be looking for options, too.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Not necessarily even cutting this nigga off either. But just let me add more niggas to my rotation because we clearly not as. We not heading in the same direction at the same speed like I thought we were.

[Kid Fury]

Right. So. Right.

[Crissle West]

Let me go on and find something else to do with my time. But, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, keep him in the pocket, too. Like he doing you.

[Crissle West]

That does suck, babe. All right.

[Kid Fury]

What the Is wrong.

[Crissle West]

No, it was so stupid. And speaking of stupid, we have another letter from Kiance, who says, hey, y', all, I need to know if my feelings are valid. I've been with my boyfriend for about a year, and he's a dad, so I was planning on doing something special for him for Father's Day. He's expressed to me that he really wants to start grilling. So I bought him a grill from Amazon that cost a pretty penny. I was planning on giving giving it to him the day before father's day, but when we went to his house to watch the NBA finals, there was a large box waiting for him. He opened it, and it was a grill that didn't necessarily have to be a big deal. But then he told me that this grill is a gift from his co worker. The same co worker that he has said flirts with him at work.

[Kid Fury]

It's this.

[Crissle West]

It was a very nice grill. So I know she also spent a pretty penny. I became visibly irritated and went home. During halftime, he told me to stop being jealous and it's not that serious. But to me, it was that serious. Because that's not just a gift you give a co worker. Feel free to read me if you think I'm being dramatic, but I do not feel like I am. I'm more angry because I think he has dismissed my feelings by calling me jealous. Please let me know what you both think. Thanks, Kayonce.

[Kid Fury]

It feels like the girls are in.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

A good little emotional awareness tip here today.

[Crissle West]

They're like, I'm not. I feel like this nigga is spitting in my face and saying, fuck your dead mom. But I don't know, what do y' all think? And it's like, yeah, girl, how you gonna tell? Okay, sorry. But, like, it's not that big of a deal. Nigga grills be hundreds of dollars.

[Kid Fury]

You don't think it's a big deal that your co worker, right. That allegedly flirts with you.

[Crissle West]

Right, Right.

[Kid Fury]

Sent you an expensive gift for your birthday.

[Crissle West]

Interesting. Interesting. And then told me to not be jealous.

[Kid Fury]

This is what I'm saying. Like, I like that Yonce was at least, like, I think I'm more upset by the fact that this nigga tried me saying, stop acting jealous.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Are you dizzy, bitch? Do you need some electrolytes or something, ho? Cause it feels like you're. There's something wrong.

[Crissle West]

Right? So if my male co worker bought me, like, a 500 red light therapy mask and, you know, paid for me to have, like, an all inclusive spa day or something at, like, the nice ass Korean spy or something, you. How would you feel about that? My co worker that I told you flirts with me at work.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

Probably calls me her work husband or whatever.

[Kid Fury]

Like, right?

[Crissle West]

How? Okay, that is playing in your face. Sorry, baby. I really do think he is, like, this seems ridiculous to me because why would Your co worker be spending hundreds of dollars on you for Father's Day. Why would she be doing. Is she the mother of your baby? Because if not, there's no reason for her to be doing that. She clearly is making. I think it's obvious. The co worker is making it clear that she wants. Wants something deeper with you than workplace flirtation. And you over here blowing it off in my face. But God only knows what you said when you go to work. I'm not privy to those conversations. Like it, but this so messy.

[Kid Fury]

He couldn't be establishing boundaries because then why the would she expect spend this large amount of money, right? Father's day gift?

[Crissle West]

Or if he did, if, let's say he didn't realize that this co worker was being messy like this or had these feelings for him, his reaction would have been totally different. It would have been, oh my goodness, I cannot believe she bought, you know, a fifteen hundred dollar grill for me. This is so inappropriate. I'm gonna have to return it and let her know I have a girlfriend and I can't accept a gift that is, you know, so expensive. Blah, blah, blah. Like it just. This is not the behavior of somebody who wants the flirtation to stop. It's not that big of a deal. Bitch, are you joking?

[Kid Fury]

Am I wild? I feel like I would feel strange if I started grilling food on a, on a grill that my coworker that liked me got for me. Am I wild for saying it?

[Crissle West]

I mean, I wouldn't feel strange, but that's because I'm single. And so if you want to buy me a present, go right ahead.

[Kid Fury]

Right? Like, like if I were. But I'm saying, like, yeah, no, if I had, if I was in a relationship, right?

[Crissle West]

It's like I wouldn't be trying to. If my partner was like, it's a little strange to me that your coworker is spending all this money on a grill for you. I would be like, facts, it is, but what you think? Should we keep it anyway? Like, like.

[Kid Fury]

And that might have had a different reaction, right?

[Crissle West]

But to invalidate her feelings, like, oh, you just being jealous. Mm, mm. That's what I don't like.

[Kid Fury]

Now I. Yeah, my antennas is up.

[Crissle West]

Yep, now my antennas is up. Cause you acting like I'm being weird. Nigga, I'm not being weird. Why is she buying you grills? Why is she buying you a grill?

[Kid Fury]

And K said that, you know, my boyfriend is a father or has a child.

[Crissle West]

Mm mm.

[Kid Fury]

So you already buying a Father's day gift for him? And his funky ass, baby bitch. And, like, so. And I don't have to do that. It's not you trying to play in my face.

[Crissle West]

If he. If. If this nigga was, like, doing right by you, kiance, I think he would have been like, damn, babe. I do see what you saying. That is very weird. And then you could have been like, that's just crazy because, like, I was gonna buy you. I bought you a grill. It was so nice. And now I have to, like, baby retire. Now we spend that money, go on a trip. Like, she being weird. I don't know what's wrong with her. I mean, even that. But actually, I think anything short of him being like, I'm gonna nip this in the bud. You know, let me send her an email or a text or something and be like, I'm in a relationship. This is inappropriate. I can't accept this. It's just strange. Like, I would not trust this man. And the fact that he is like, well, you're just being jealous to me is a sign that I don't need to be your girlfriend no more.

[Kid Fury]

That's the red flag for me, too. Yeah, you're so right. It's so, so down to the response of it.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Because if she flirting with him, she like him. It's wild. It's pick me as hell.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Especially because she probably knows that he has a girlfriend.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, damn. That's true.

[Kid Fury]

But it would have been different if he would have been like, yeah, she wilding. I don't even know what the fuck she got this shit for. Like, you want me to make some steaks? Cause if not, I'll just. Cause, you know what I mean? Cause I feel like you would have at least felt better about the situation, at least with him. But his dismissal of it is so strange.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I agree. I agree.

[Kid Fury]

Whatever happened to being like, I can't possibly. It's too much.

[Crissle West]

Right? Instead of, that nigga probably got so excited. Oh, that's crazy. Blah, blah, blah. Read the little card. No way. From Tiffany and HR wow, wow, wow. He just excited. And you over here with an attitude like, what's your issue? Jealous ass. Like, okay, it's not that serious. You're right. It's not that serious. Because actually, you're single and you can do whatever you want to do. Actually. Just kidding. Wow. Niggas will play in your face, man,

[Kid Fury]

and laugh about it and expect that demand that you live with it and make sure their dinner is hot.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

A thousand cuts. One thousand cuts.

[Crissle West]

You know, I'm Picturing him going to work after this and being like, you know, you really pissed my girlfriend off.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

Yes. She was so in her feelings. Oh, my God. She went home and everything. Girl, you play too much.

[Kid Fury]

And she like anybody.

[Crissle West]

Even that feeling. Tell her. She got like. I just knew, like, oh, my God. You said you wanted to grill. I can't have friends.

[Kid Fury]

You can't have friends.

[Crissle West]

I will put you on the screen, both of you.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Suits on.

[Crissle West]

Play too much. Yeah. I would break up with this. Sorry, girl. He got you same.

[Kid Fury]

That's weird.

[Crissle West]

All right, we kind of zoomed through those. Our last letter comes from Flo, who says, hey, y'.

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crissle West]

A couple months back, you spoke about Jay Z's interview with gq, specifically when it comes to his thoughts on wealth in the current sociopolitical climate. I was wondering if you think this partnership with Target is in poor taste, judgment, or culturally irresponsible. Do you think celebrities who have made social and cultural causes a part of their brand have any responsibility to the public to make an attempt to avoid partnerships that violate, threaten, or contradict a community boycott? We'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks, Flo.

[Kid Fury]

Um, so I heard about this Target thing yesterday.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. I was about to say, what are we talking about? But I think it's like a special collector's edition of Reasonable Doubt that is only going to be at Target. Pretty sure. So. Okay. Yeah, I think so.

[Kid Fury]

And that's all we got. There's no.

[Crissle West]

No, I think it's just, you know, partnering with Target for this exclusive release.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I'm not a fan.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I. I saw that. And I was like, well, you know, Jay Z is a capitalist first and foremost, baby. Like, I see what you're saying, Flo. As far as, like, do I think it's in poor taste or poor judgment? Yes, I do, because the Target boycott is very well known. I'm also not a fan of holding celebrities accountable for things that I don't hold other people accountable for. And I know quite a few people who are still shopping at Target or supporting Target. There are influences I follow who are still, you know, shopping at Target, showing off things they bought at Target. So I think I just saw this and was like, well, yeah, one thing Jay Z is gonna do is get to the money above anything else. So. Does he have a responsibility to the public to avoid this partnership? I don't know about responsibility. I would think he would want to, because, you know, it's like, y' all are billionaires. It's not like you. You Know, need the money in any way. So I don't understand. I guess me as a regular person and not some super rich, super famous person. I just can't really understand why you would like. It just kind of seems like you could do anything else. Like you're Jay Z. You could sell probably direct on your website and cut Target out entirely. You know, it just seems like there are so many other options. But I don't know. We're also. I don't feel like we the people are that unified around this boycott either. I'm not shopping there.

[Kid Fury]

That's true.

[Crissle West]

And I'm not going even to get a Jay Z album. But, yeah,

[Kid Fury]

I just needed like a laundry bag or something sent over here real quick yesterday. And the Target, that's like a 15 minute walk from here, was like the only place around here who had like those type of shit that I was looking for. And I was like, well, damn, I guess I'll just head out to North Hollywood or to the Valley or something and see. Because I'm not me myself, I'm not shy.

[Crissle West]

I'm not doing it right. Right.

[Kid Fury]

But I agree there's. It's not like that has been a largely unified response amongst black people, Black Americans. So I get the, the criticism. Oh, yeah, because.

[Crissle West]

And I agree with it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, same. I agree with it.

[Crissle West]

Agree with it. But I don't expect capitalists to prioritize anything over money, and that includes community, black or otherwise.

[Kid Fury]

So I will say I didn't know that it was. I didn't know what it was for until just now when you tell me. So when I heard about it yesterday, I think I saw like an Instagram reel where somebody was, you know, someone was giving a reaction, criticizing. And I was like, well, hopefully when I read this, read about this, there will be some statement made from either him or his publicist or whoever who will be. Who will kind of give context to it. Maybe it's like an NFL thing where he's going in there and he's like, all right, you want black people to come back in here? Here's what you're gonna do.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So to see now that it's like, oh, 30th anniversary or whatever of this album and it's only gonna be sold at Target. I'm also like, okay, why?

[Crissle West]

Right? But JC has a history of doing this when everybody, everybody is in big air quotes, was boycotting the NFL behind that Colin Kaepernick thing. He turned right around and partnered with the NFL to do the. To produce the halftime Show. So, yeah, it's. Yeah, it's one of those things where it's like, if this goes. If this violates your ethics or morals to that degree, to where you don't want to support him as an artist or anything like that anymore. I completely understand that. For me, I think it's more like this is not enough for me to stop listening to his music. It's just more of like, I. This is what I expect of Jay Z, honestly. And I expect it of most extremely rich, extremely successful people in this world, unfortunately.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, same.

[Crissle West]

So, yeah, I hope that answers. I'm looking through here to see if there's another question in here that we maybe missed. Cortes. Yeah. Judgment. Yeah. It's just kind of like you're already rich, brother. Why do this? I don't.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Especially do people see. Buy CDs.

[Crissle West]

Well, it's vinyl. It's not even a CD.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, okay. Which do buy that.

[Crissle West]

Right do. Right. Which is even older tech, but yeah, extremely popular. I got the Steven Universe. Not even the soundtrack, but the score. You got the score on vinyl? Yeah. Yes. It just came another day and I

[Kid Fury]

was like, well, I got Renaissance on vinyl.

[Crissle West]

Same. All of Beyonce's albums on vinyl. Actually, I got it all. So, yeah. Disappointed but not surprised is basically how I feel about that and how I feel about Nate Bargazzi. But we'll get there in the next segment, so hope that answers your question. We're gonna wrap up the letters right there this week. Again, if you have a question for us, send us an email. Asktheread gmail.com. we'll be right back.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

we are back folks and it is now time for the read. I'll try to get these two things over and done with as quickly as possible. Number one to that big face Hokut man, whatever your name is. Josh Hokut, John Hokut, I never pay you no mind, honestly didn't give a shit about you. Even as someone who follows mixed martial arts. I was never going to watch this UFC fight at the White House because why would I ever do that, right? Why would I ever do that? That's like asking me to watch like the VMAs at at Jeffrey Epstein house or something. Like I'm not, I can skip that one or just stop watching ufc, Dana. But if you haven't heard, I don't know where you were. This burly half dead white man won a fight at the UFC White House game show fight card. And after his win, what's the man name? Joe Rogan is up there getting like the post fight commentary and he out of nowhere and for no reason other than being in Donald Trump's White House in presence, decided to scream into the microphone, Michelle Obama is a man. And not just Michelle Obama is a man. But that followed by am I right America?

[Crissle West]

I was like, no, what's the relevance to what's going on right now? Like why would you even. How is that Even on your mind

[Kid Fury]

shouldn't. Y' all are so stupid on the right, right. That this should be a situation where you do go, hey, why don't we fight? Why don't we throw the entertainment and then just be like, aren't we just this cool, hot, hot country that's the hottest we've ever been or whatever fuck his dumb ass be saying and leave it at that. Why are you even talking about the former first lady? You don't do shit. That's one too.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Is it like super on the nose to the point where it's cheesy sometimes As a creative, as someone who's, you know, communicates for a living, I'm like the expected low hanging fruit. No, can't go there.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Can't go there. So UFC match at the White House. You were like, you know what? All right, let's McDonald's this shit up. And let me just find the dumbest slack jawed, inbred fuckery thing to say while I have the opportunity to say it. You should be humiliated, but not as humiliated as the fact that you had to literally resort to a career in fighting because your true passion of playing football professionally never actually took place or materialized. In fact, you celebrated becoming a UFC fighter and called the NFL a liberal snowflake.

[Crissle West]

Lead,

[Kid Fury]

bitter and burdened are not strong enough words. And I would argue who is the snowflake as far as the NFL goes, when you never sniff the field bitch, like, you didn't even sniff the bench hoe. You were in practice. Squats twice, bitch. You were the nigga who take fill in extra bodies when the motherfuckers who actually played needed them during practice. You're a nobody bitch who's half dead. You have like, how you never actually played a regular season of football and clearly suffering signs of CTE and dementia and. And whatever the fuck else is going on. You are the primary example of why certain athletes just shouldn't speak.

[Crissle West]

Yep. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And you are also the primary example of why I was never gonna watch that fight. I was never gonna watch that fight because it was already stupid. Crystal just asked, what does that even have to do with the event? I would ask that. And I would also place forward the question of what does this event have to do with the White House? Why are we even here? Ballrooms in N out. Ufc, child.

[Crissle West]

Tesla's on the fucking lawn and shit. Just ridiculous.

[Kid Fury]

Is Natalie Nunn performing there this month?

[Crissle West]

Baddies.

[Kid Fury]

She's a rapper now. Is Donald Trump getting his baddies chained on the lawn?

[Crissle West]

Do not give them no ideas.

[Kid Fury]

You know the fucking dude.

[Crissle West]

Do not do it.

[Kid Fury]

You know the fucking dude.

[Crissle West]

And it'll be live on fucking tubi.

[Kid Fury]

Fuck that, man. Fuck your. Your little make America ghetto again ass attitude and your stupid ass United States flag bandana or whatever the fuck you had on and hoorah to absolutely nothing, bitch. You're an idiot. Even the president and CEO of the organization that you're a part of, who is a Donald Trump supporter, called your statement nonsense. Disgusting. Like, he fully admons your behavior.

[Crissle West]

This is what I'm saying. Like, okay, all right. Michelle Obama is a man is just so stupid. Like, it's just. It's just such a dumb statement. There's. What are you even trying to say? Like, this is. God, it was just so dumb. I. I watched that video and I was just like, what is the point of this? What are you trying to do here? Are you mad because they just got that portrait done for the Obama presidential center in Chicago. So they're in the news, but they're always gonna be in the news cuz they're black and beautiful. And the former president and first lady, like, I'm not even sure how you just won this fight and the Obamas were on your mind like goddamn condos in your bitch ass head. Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Rent free.

[Crissle West]

Rent free. But like, it's so stupid that it's not even worth arguing.

[Kid Fury]

Like, it really is.

[Crissle West]

It's not even a real thing to say. Like, what are you. It's like a. It's like, what? Like, like I'm not taking a three year old seriously.

[Kid Fury]

It's almost like I felt less offended than I did embarrass. Like, it was like secondhand embarrassment.

[Crissle West]

Right? It really was. Like, what is wrong with you? For real? Why would you say this?

[Kid Fury]

This fight is the White House. Half the audience booed you.

[Crissle West]

And that's another thing. Like, wow, the people. I was actually shocked. There was that many boos. People were like, all right, now we came here for regular MAGA bullshit. Okay? We came to see white men kicking each other's teeth out that even though

[Kid Fury]

Obama's too far, even some folks on Fox News were like, who is this idiot?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Now there were a couple of Republicans and MAGA folk who tried to twist it into, well, look at the things that they say about the. The current first lady and how people on the left like to call her, you know, an escort. She.

[Crissle West]

She literally was.

[Kid Fury]

She was a literal escort. Like, that's, That's a true statement. People are talking about history, right?

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Like, it's not even derogatory. It's just a fact.

[Crissle West]

It's just right. That lady is a former sex worker. That's not. You can find her nude images on the Internet. That's not.

[Kid Fury]

Well, people are always saying that she's. She was connected to Jeffrey Epstein or she was friends with Jeffrey Epstein. She was. That's how she and her husband.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. You don't get to be mad when it's true.

[Kid Fury]

Those are true things.

[Crissle West]

Lord God.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I'm sure that that man feels incredibly empowered and badass about it or whatever because A, he's obviously A l dumbass and B, people are talking about him. Cuz like I said, I followed the game, never cared, never knew. You're not somebody that was on my list. You weren't even the main event girl. Shut the fuck up.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Britain is apparently working on banning social media for people 16 ages and younger. Oh, 16 ages. 16 years. 16.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And younger. Okay, well on one hand, right, because, you know, it's all about, oh, the mental health and the safety of our young people and they're too roped into this and this and that. And so, yeah, on one hand, I absolutely think the children need to touch grass. Fully 1000% need believe that the children need to go outside and they need to touch grass. They need to take it back to the days of us, remember when we would race, Remember we'd go outside and see who's faster than that.

[Crissle West]

We race into the light pole. Whoever make it first, you know, you get the most smashed potatoes at dinner or whatever. Just dumb shit. Just being outside. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

N. Yes.

[Crissle West]

Let the mosquitoes eat your ass up.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Now sure, I do think that children's children should have like regulated time on, on apps or whatever, but I think that it should be regulated. I don't think it should be removed. Like, I think that it should be. I think it should just be like controlled in a different way. I think that it should and I think that that should be really on. Not even just like the government, but I think it should be more so a connection with these different companies with like a Snapchat with it. Because first of all, how are you going to do this, Right?

[Crissle West]

Because I think, think even when they do try to do this, the kids be getting around it.

[Kid Fury]

They know how to do everything, so shut up. But I think it would make more sense to do something where, you know, through this law in the, you know, UK or whatever, you know, Snapchat for people under a certain age, it just shuts off after a certain time or. You know what I mean? Or you have, like, credits, like, we had minutes, something where you aren't banned from using it, but you can only use it sometimes or a certain amount of time. And the reason I say that is because, girl, you don't give a fuck about these kids, just like nobody else. Don't give a fuck about kids. What you're interested in. You don't like that children 16 years, any younger are having access to information, to truths.

[Crissle West]

Ooh, yeah, that's what it is that

[Kid Fury]

you don't want them to have access to. They're now going a free Palestine. A transgender people are people. Protect the dolls.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

A. Why are there so many billionaires? And how does that work? The children are learning about socialism and that Mamdani is hot and cool.

[Crissle West]

Big, like, yeah, they get it. They get it. They in France talk about my mayor. So.

[Kid Fury]

So this is really as far as I'm concerned, and I am, like, incredibly certain. It's a way to sort of keep children ignorant from the things or of the things that. That these different apps are teaching them. Like, Yeah, I opened TikTok like I did yesterday. Yesterday and saw an AI video of a turtle dancing to spin that by young, Young Miami. And I was like, okay, two things. TikTok, why does this exist and why are you showing it to me? Like, how many of these things do I have to like for you to understand?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, get this.

[Kid Fury]

That I don't like this.

[Crissle West]

Get this out of here.

[Kid Fury]

But past the AI turtle dancing, the hood rat shit, there's a lot of really good information and a lot of young people are talking back and knowing better and wanting to know better and challenging, foolish, antiquated, violent, unnecessary behavior, specifically from different offices and governing countries, nations, places like that. And so I know that's why they're trying to ban young people from using social media apps isn't cause you give a fuck about their mind or anything like that, because if you did, you'd be doing a hell of a lot more than just saying, hey, don't use TikTok. You don't want these motherfuckers to use social media because you don't want to want them to know the things that they know. You want to continue to try and indoctrinate them with whatever bullshit that it is that you're trying to do so you can keep the world running the way you want it to run. But God forbid they hop on this app and realize that, you know, the real United States of America, the Real president of the United States of America is Benjamin Enya.

[Crissle West]

Oh, they don't want you talking about that. Okay. They don't want these kids to all of a sudden be like, why do we have a royal family? Actually, it's kind of right. They're like, wait a minute now. The children are asking too many questions we don't want to answer. So I do think, obviously, the safety of children online is very important, but I think it is a. It's supposed to be a group effort between the government, the parents, and the. The social media apps themselves.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

To make sure that these kids are protected. A lot of y' all let your kids get on social media, even though they're not technically old enough for it. So part of this is a parenting issue. But I also do think this is a excellent point of, like, I can. My first thought when you say ban social media for people under 16 is like, actually, you know, cut it off at 2am for all of us. Just cut it off.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

And just like, TV used to go off, social media goes off.

[Kid Fury]

I thought the same, Chris. I said the same thing yesterday.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah. That's my favorite.

[Kid Fury]

TV would be like, well, we're done.

[Crissle West]

That's it. Guess it's time to read a book or color a picture, drink some tea and go to bed. Like, do something else

[Kid Fury]

that was teased.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. But I. But I do see the. The. The. It's not just about protecting kids. It's also about the kids are. The kids are like, oh, this world's kind of up, actually, and learning things that y' all will never teach them in history class.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Interesting, Interesting. We'll see how that goes over there.

[Kid Fury]

And then they shut off Tik Tok period over here.

[Crissle West]

I mean, Tik Tok has been weird ever since that whole thing where Trump bandit it and then, you know, China did whatever he said to get it back online. It's been a little strange since then, so I don't know, but I. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting to see, because this is not the first country to try to enact these kind of bands. And I think it was Switzerland or somewhere that was like, yeah, the kids just get around it, y'. All.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

They're smarter than their parents. They figured it out.

[Kid Fury]

The whole reason you want to do this.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Is because they're 10 steps ahead.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And it's not like you have to show ID to sign up. Them kids know how to fake a birthday. They know how to scroll back to the 1900s.

[Kid Fury]

Lord. Anyway, I'M done.

[Crissle West]

All right. Well, as I mentioned earlier, of course I talked about. I just mentioned Nate Bargazzi very casually on this show, like, maybe two weeks ago and said that I was a fan of his, you know, dry comedy, his, you know, punchlines and the way he delivers his jokes, that sort of thing. And of course, he had to turn right around and embarrass me by going to whatever this Freedom250 thing. I think it was the same as the UFC event. I'm really not sure it was.

[Kid Fury]

I think it was the same.

[Crissle West]

It was. Right. It was like, allegedly an America thing. But it's also on Trump's birthday. Was it on Trump's birthday?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I. I don't.

[Kid Fury]

I don't give a fuck when his birthday is.

[Crissle West]

Right. Yeah. So it was like, it was actually a birthday party for Trump, but just at the White House and very messy. And, I mean, there were a lot of people there. The Pope's brother was there. Kevin James. Shane.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Shane Gillis, who I expected. Honestly, I don't expect much. Alexis Ohanian, which actually did shock me, like, oh, you, sir, Mr. Black Girl Magic, Mr. Serena Williams has been, like, interesting.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no.

[Crissle West]

Yes. But Nate was one of the rich white people to carry his ass on over there, too. And it's like, it's nothing for me to leave his comedy behind. And no, I'm not shocked that a rich white American man is MAGA or a Trump supporter or would go to. To this kind of event. No, I'm not shocked, but it is disappointing because you. I actually did enjoy your comedy, but it's also very easy for me to leave your ass exactly where you at because, bitch, you got me fucked up. Like, I don't have space for that in my life.

[Kid Fury]

Moving on to what actually matters, Shane Gillis, real quick. Oh, I was surprised that because someone asked him after that fight where he thought about that white man's comment on Michelle Obama, and I was like, oh, God. And Shankeel was like, no, I didn't like that.

[Crissle West]

Oh, really?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. He was like, that was not necessary. Something like that.

[Crissle West]

Well, I mean, again, if you got a group of the dumbest people in the world saying, this is pretty stupid.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, then

[Crissle West]

I'm really having trouble understanding what motivated you to say that, you weird bitch.

[Kid Fury]

But anyway, sorry, go ahead.

[Crissle West]

Did you hear about LAPD shooting this woman's dog?

[Kid Fury]

What?

[Crissle West]

So, Marie Marcella, who, I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing. Your last name, is a New York Native moved to LA a few years ago. She had a two year old dog named Jameson. Marie and her family. Oh my God. Were celebrating, right? So they were celebrating the fact that the Knicks won the championship as New York natives. A neighbor called the cops about the noise because of course a neighbor did. The cops come and knock on the door, right? She opens the door, the cops say, oh, can you. The dog is excited and happy. It's like a golden doodle or something. It's a giant, sweet, curly baby, some kind of doodle. And so they ask her to secure the dog. And apparently the dog was like that. I'm running out in the hallway anyway. And so a cop, first of all, why is it like 20 cops there. Cop just shot the dog dead right there in the hallway. There's a video online. I do. I do not suggest you go look at it because you can see him, he's wearing a nick shirt. Like they were just so happy, so excited. If he's anything like Lainey, then he was excited to see the cops. Because Lainey be excited to see anybody. If you come by this house, she is excited to see you. She's gonna turn flips over you being here. She would run out the door to go jump on you and try to lick all over you and be your best friend. Because that's the kind of dog she is. So yeah, LAPD was apparently scared of this dog, Intimidated by this dog. Saw a black woman being loud and was like that. Whatever, you can pick whatever excuse you want to out the bag. They shot and killed this dog right there because they were celebrating the Knicks winning the championship. And so I saw a clip of this lady Marie on TV in tears. Obviously in the video from the incident. She's like laying over the dog's body and sobbing. And all these fuck ass cops are just standing around looking. And it's like there was a point in time that I would have thought there's no way the police would shoot a dog. But I guess a black dog is exempt. Like I guess a black person's dog doesn't get that same consideration. I cannot imagine this happening to me and Laney if you shot and killed my dog. Unfortunately, I'm now. I'm now. What's that one? That whole movie is about him getting revenge on people who killed his dog. I'm going John Wick on your ass, baby. Unfortunately, I'm finding the neighbor who called the police. Police. And the cop who shot my dog. And I'm not stopping till I kill your children. Unfortunately, you're gonna have to suffer and be in pain the way I was. You shot my dog multiple times. Because we were excited and yelling and loud over the Knicks. When. Are you kidding? Shot and killed my dog right in front of me.

[Kid Fury]

I just posted maybe like Sunday or Monday a clip with me and Link where I was like. I literally was like, I will die about this dog.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't even know about this.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I just. That's how I am. That's how I feel.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

I'm everything you just said. I'm hunting you down.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

I'm hunting every. First of all, I'm not even going to start with your death. I'm going to make you live through every one of your loved ones. Bloodied, bruised, and bludgeoned.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Before I come for you.

[Crissle West]

Absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

Because you don't need suffering about, you

[Crissle West]

know, because you need to suffer. Killing you is too merciful. You won't. You won't be in pain the way I'm in pain. This dog was two years old.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Y' all are going to have to die. Actually, they set up a GoFundMe to help cover the cost of, you know, cremation or whatever for the dog. It has gone, I think, well over a hundred thousand dollars at this point, which. Yes, keep running it up because not only would I be devastated, I'm not going to be in no position to work or do else after the police murder my dog. So I hope y' all continue to donate to this ladies gofundme for whatever legal action they'll need to take against the police. I hope y' all sue. I hope y' all take every. Like, get all of the money you possibly can. But all the money in the world won't make up for losing my baby. You could give me millions of dollars, and it will not make up for you shooting Laney in the fucking chest. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? Like, what? Lainey is turning two next month. What do you mean you would shoot and kill my dog? Because we were screw, bitch. Now, granted, I live in New York City, but we were all screaming when the Knicks won the championship. Imagine being the bitch ass neighbor to call the cops about that in the first place. Imagine being that weird bitch. Actually, go ahead and release that 911 call footage so I know which one of you hoes it was. So I know who I'm targeting first. And I'm finding that cop. And I'm doing unspeakable things to the people you love before I take you out as well, oh, what y' all gonna do? Put me in prison for the rest of my life? You killed my damn baby. This woman is on. On the news, crying, talking about, that was my baby. Yes, that was my baby. And she has a human child. And she was like, that is my baby. That is how we

[Kid Fury]

people love their dogs.

[Crissle West]

Obviously.

[Kid Fury]

Like their people.

[Crissle West]

Right? And y' all know that.

[Kid Fury]

Puff, I don't give a fuck how y' all feel about it.

[Crissle West]

It.

[Kid Fury]

It is what it is.

[Crissle West]

Right? You don't have to like it. There's a civil rights group asking for the release of the body cam footage. But you not going to convince me that this doodle was a threat to these cops. Like, did you even give him a chance? He's a fucking.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, nobody believes that.

[Crissle West]

I don't.

[Kid Fury]

That dog. Because you wanted to.

[Crissle West]

You saw black people. Yep. You saw black people. And honestly, if it wasn't the dog, it probably would have been her. As sick as that is to say. As sick as that is to say, Jameson probably died so that his mama didn't. But God damn lapd. Really?

[Kid Fury]

I knew y' all wasn't shit, but wow. Let's just take it further. Like Crystal just said, I thought no Shade the buck would stop at shooting the dog. Even when we watch movies or anything like that, it could be this person died. This person died. This person when they killed it. There's a website called does the dog die.com in movies?

[Crissle West]

Yep. Yep. That's the whole point.

[Kid Fury]

So I would think, especially white people.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Killing my dog.

[Crissle West]

Right. That. That would be the line. That. That would be the line.

[Kid Fury]

Natural causes. I'm gonna be in bed for an extended amount, murdering my dog.

[Crissle West]

No, don't ask me about shit. I'm not doing Christmas couch. I'm not doing the read. I'm not going outside. Don' me about. I'm plotting my revenge. I'm actually going to prison. I'm going to prison after I execute this plan. Right?

[Kid Fury]

Everything's done.

[Crissle West]

My baby. My sweetheart dog who has never hurt anybody a day in her fucking life.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, and you're right. I am starting with the neighbor. Cuz you just the closest one here. And I'm talking about. I'm talking about Freddy Krueger. I'm talking about Jason for he baby. Y'. All horror fans at home. Horror fans at home. Y' all seen in a violent nature. You know the kill I'm talking about. I'm pinning you to the wall with knives. And then, like, I'm. Because that hurt.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Will Be So Link is the same way. You know, she. Anybody that come in the house, excited, excited, jump on you. Pick me up, pick me up. I'm your friend now. If they sit down, I'm all over you. Link wants to be in the lab.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I'm all over you.

[Kid Fury]

And I'll be like, link, get down. Come down, sit over here. And she'll get down for like, two seconds, look at me with a side eye, and then slowly go right back to the lab. She just. She loves people.

[Crissle West]

She does. Yeah. Yeah, I get it.

[Kid Fury]

So you shoot my dog that is unconditionally loving and happy, and then, on a personal note, has, like, just always been there and been, like, an emotional backbone in a sense. I don't know what this woman, what her life is like, but I can imagine that that dog is supportive of her emotionally.

[Crissle West]

I think she's a nurse, which is all the more like. There's no way. There's no way.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

A cross between a golden St. Bernard and a poodle.

[Kid Fury]

Jameson, beautiful dog. Beautiful dog. I don't know.

[Crissle West]

A sweetheart, a sweet face. You shot this dog multiple times.

[Kid Fury]

I would have been so traumatized. At least they didn't kill your actual human child, but.

[Crissle West]

Oh, and she was on FaceTime with her actual human child when it happened.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, great.

[Crissle West]

Right? It's like, it does not get. Every detail is worse. Every detail is worse. Wearing his little Nick shirt. You can see. Don't find the video because it's. He's just laying there in his.

[Kid Fury]

No, unfortunately, I looked it up. I saw a screenshot of him dead in her Crime.

[Crissle West]

It is. And you. So you saw 40 cops hanging out, like, standing there. Why was it this many cops come in for a noise complaint? That's why I said, release the 911 call. What was said? Why is it this many of y' all here for? I hear screaming next door, bitch. What did anybody say? Girl, are they Knicks fans? Right? Why was a gun even drawn? Y' all don't care about black people.

[Kid Fury]

Nothing and that. Except our dogs.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

The SWAT team, right? Could end the bloodshed.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

I'm talking about running through the streets.

[Crissle West]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Kid Fury]

I'm talking about. I'm talking about Elevator Full. The Shining.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Evil Dead. The Strangers.

[Crissle West]

Evil Dead.

[Kid Fury]

Scream like I wouldn't stop killing.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, y', all.

[Kid Fury]

This is.

[Crissle West]

You're gonna have to take me into custody immediately because I'm gonna lose it. I'm going to lose it. And she's just screaming. We were so happy. We were just celebrating the next Sobbing like you were just so happy. And now you're having the worst ten minutes after that game is over. You're having the worst day of your life.

[Kid Fury]

I'd never watch the Knicks game again, so you've taken that away from me as well.

[Crissle West]

Those of you responsible for this. If I was you, I would move and maybe see if you can change your name or something, because I would scrub the earth. Earth to find you and take your life. But not before I made you absolutely miserable in the process.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crissle West]

There's not. I. Nobody could stop me. Nobody could stop me. That's my daughter that you killed. Because somebody said they heard yelling from the next apartment. Did none of you say where the NBA finals are on right now? Girl, in addition to the World cup and probably other sports as well, they can be watching a w. Anything could be going on. Anything could be going on. Why is a gun being drawn? And now the dog is dead. And now the dog is dead. Yeah. Okay, Well, I tell you what. The deaths won't end with my dog. And I don't care how you fucking feel about it. That is my baby.

[Kid Fury]

Chainsaw. Machete.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Glove made of knives.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

What are they called? The cattail weapons.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Cat, nine tails. I'm. I am lighting you n up.

[Kid Fury]

And they definitely left a comment in that TikTok thing that I posted referencing John Wick. And I was like, yes, absolutely, that the first John Wick, they killed the dog and stole his car, and he went out into his, like, garage or something with a sledgehammer, and he just started hitting the ground. And underneath the concrete was, like, these huge, huge trunks full of guns and not, like, all his weapons.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

He was like, I guess I'm coming out of retirement.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

I wanted to just be happy with my puppy and live my life and mind my business. But you just decided to senselessly murder it.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So now everyone dies.

[Crissle West]

Right. And don't talk to me about what I have to lose. You took the thing I love the most in this world.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. So the body's piled up and piled up. He finally cornered the nigga who shot him. He just shot him in the head. And then just. He was like, okay, I'm going home. It wasn't even, like, dramatic, like, back and forth or read or. He got him finally up close, and the dude said something or tried to beg for his life. He just clipped him and turned around.

[Crissle West]

I did what I came to do do. I found the. I came to. Pew, pew. And now it's Over. Yeah, you. I. So again, if you feel so moved, go donate to that GoFundMe because they deserve it. But there is no dollar amount that can replace my child. You could give me tens of millions and it would not stop me from being so patient as I plot my revenge. Oh baby, I have all the patience in the world. When I want to get somebody back. I will begin immediately my plan to destroy the people who did this to me. Because you destroyed me.

[Kid Fury]

And it can't be impulsive. Right? It has to be right.

[Crissle West]

Because that's sloppy. You gotta be. You gotta be meticulous.

[Kid Fury]

And it also has to be detailed enough so that I really, I like, I really come up with the adequate level and methods of destruction and suffering.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Like I have to really plan out how awful and miserable and blood soaked that revenge would be because I do

[Crissle West]

think that if that happened to me, it would change me as a person.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And I would no longer have a basic respect for human life, you know, especially kids. Kids. I don't feel that way about kids. But I think that would change me as a human being. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

I really think that would permanently fuck me up. And I don't know that there would be anything anybody could do to stop me from becoming the most evil bitch that this planet has ever seen. At least as far as them niggas are concerned. Because I'm enacting every time I've seen

[Kid Fury]

parents whose kids are killed by the police or anything like that, I'm like, they know they're going up against the biggest, baddest, oldest gang.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So maybe that is part of it. But just going up there and crying, I'm like, I would. I'm completely shattered. And there won't be anything that can really make me whole again. You have completely stripped like an organ. You've like plucked out one of my vital organs for my body. I don't care about shit anymore.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So everyone has to die. Right?

[Crissle West]

It's bad enough when dogs die of natural causes. You shot my baby. Because we were celebrating. Oh my. Every time I think about it, I get more angry. So a massive you to LAPD for taking sweet two year old Jameson's. Like this kind of. Anyway, I'm not even going to get started on that cuz I don't even know all the details of the story but I just saw something on threads earlier about a. A woman who was suspected of stealing diapers from Walmart. Somebody called the police and the police was firing into her car and killed her one year old but then she wasn't even stealing the diapers. She had, like, a receipt for the. But it's like, even if she did steal the diapers, why the. Would you shoot at somebody's car for that? Are you bitches okay? No. She could have stole everything in Walmart. Why would you shoot at the car?

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

Things do not matter more than life. That dog had a life. He was loved deeply. And y', all, it didn't. It didn't matter to you. You just took him like it didn't mean shit.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, girl have K9 units that actually attack people.

[Crissle West]

And my dog wasn't a fucking cop.

[Kid Fury]

Right? And every time I see that too, I'm like, leap. No, no, leave this shit. Why are you putting them in danger, right?

[Crissle West]

You got them in this bullshit. So. Yeah, rest in peace, Jameson. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. And I am sending your mama and your whole family all my love. Because that level of heartbreak is. I really do think I would snap. And I'm not exaggerating. I'm not. I do not think I would be the same. Fuck all this book learning. Fuck all this therapy. I do not think I would be the same after that shit.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I would give up everything. And I would.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I really think I would. I do think I would, so. And on that note, that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Check us out on social media at. This is the Read. Our website is. This is the read.com. you can find my advice show Crystal's Couch on all podcasting platforms crystalscouch.com for all the links and details. Any news from you this week if you're in interested. I'm still like, yeah, no, it's bad, it's bad.

[Kid Fury]

And my baby is at daycare, so I can't even go.

[Crissle West]

So is mine and grab her. When I saw that news, I immediately was like, you coming to cuddle with me? And Laney was like, I was actually just chewing my spongebob. And I was like, no, you're coming to cuddle with Mommy.

[Kid Fury]

Because SpongeBob can come too, bitch.

[Crissle West]

Right? This is happening, cuz I just got the worst new. I just saw the worst thing I've ever seen. What do you mean? Yeah, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Anyway, if I go out of town for three days, I'm like, give me. Where's my daughter?

[Crissle West]

As soon as I drop her off.

[Kid Fury]

I miss my child.

[Crissle West]

My baby, my baby. Right?

[Kid Fury]

You can check out my podcast, Furious thoughts over on YouTube as well as on all of your plot podcasting platforms this week. I'm talking about drums versus flats. I'm talking about about incels and why they should not be allowed to play video games and much more. So go check us out. Give us a like, subscribe and smash the notification bell. I hate when they say that. Smash it. Like why can't you just say click that notification. Smash it.

[Crissle West]

Smash it. Rub it.

[Kid Fury]

Does it affect analytics? Rub it.

[Crissle West]

Stroke that notification bell girl.

[Kid Fury]

Oh my goodness. Do something good for yourself this weekend.

[Crissle West]

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