Ain't That A Pitch?!

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read - "Ain't That A Pitch?!"

Release Date: December 13, 2024

Introduction and Personal Updates

In this episode of The Read, hosts Kid Fury and Crissle open up about their personal lives as transplants to New York City. Crissle shares her struggles, mentioning a particularly rough week and her frustration with her psychiatrist. She vents, saying, “[03:08] Crystal: I don't give a fuck what that said. He's crazy. Why should I trust him?” Kid Fury empathizes, highlighting the challenges of adjusting to life in a big city while balancing personal responsibilities like motherhood.

Pets and Motherhood

The conversation shifts to their pets, with Crissle humorously detailing the antics of her puppy, Laney. She explains, “[06:47] Crystal: She just wants to go outside. And she does not actually have to potty at all. I'm tired of saying the word potty.” The hosts laugh over their experiences with their dogs, reflecting on the joys and frustrations of pet ownership. Kid Fury adds, “[08:15] Kid Fury: It's a puppy stage that does not last forever,” emphasizing the temporary yet impactful nature of raising a puppy.

Feature Segment: Hot Tops - Jay Z Lawsuit

The hosts move into their feature segment, Hot Tops, discussing a significant lawsuit involving Jay Z. Crissle introduces the topic, “[14:27] Kid Fury: Jay Z's name's been added to this bad boy lawsuit,” and delves into the details. They analyze Jay Z's public denial of the allegations, with Kid Fury commenting, “[15:55] Kid Fury: I expect that there's probably going to be a lot more information.” The discussion highlights skepticism about the authenticity of Jay Z's defense, with Crissle observing, “[15:55] Crystal: Should face consequences of some more.”

Ain’t That A Pitch? - Crissle’s Creative Ideas

Transitioning to the Ain’t That A Pitch? segment, Crissle presents her creative ideas:

1. Live-Action Sitcom Adaptation of The Proud Family
   Crissle pitches a limited-series live-action sitcom, “[32:14] Crystal: The Proud Family as a live-action multi camera sitcom.” She envisions casting new young black talent and maintaining the grounded, comedic essence of the original animated series.

2. Disney's Wakanda Land in Africa
   She suggests Disney create a "Wakanda Land," “[41:43] Crystal: Disney World in Africa must come along. Selling point: We've built Wakanda.” The idea includes Black Panther-themed rides and cultural attractions, drawing parallels to Universal Studios' Harry Potter World.

3. Game Idea: "Mind Yours" App
   Crissle introduces an app designed to help users prioritize tasks by sending stern notifications. Kid Fury critiques the practicality, “[50:27] Kid Fury: I do not think the people who need it the most will use it.”

4. Controversial Game Concept: "Off Yourself"
   Crissle proposes a slapstick video game where players find humorous ways for a character to commit suicide while NPCs attempt to prevent it. Kid Fury vehemently opposes the idea, stating, “[59:47] Kid Fury: It is an absolute no. The mental illness needs to be the villain here, not the person suffering from it.”

Listener Letters

The Read incorporates letters from listeners seeking advice:

1. Letter from Gretchen
   Gretchen describes an incident where her boyfriend's 17-year-old sister entered their apartment unannounced and engaged in intimate behavior. She struggles with whether to inform her boyfriend, fearing the loss of trust and strain on relationships. Crissle advises a compassionate yet firm approach, “[85:56] Crystal: I think your approach is way more mature than mine.”

2. Letter from CK
   CK contemplates attending a costly Bali trip with friends despite his wife's reluctance due to financial and logistical reasons. He seeks guidance on how to discuss this with his wife without causing friction. Crissle recommends respecting his wife's decision and exploring alternative plans, “[95:41] Crystal: I think your approach is way more mature than mine.”

Discussion on Healthcare and Conspiracy Theories

Kid Fury introduces a controversial topic involving the alleged assassination of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, by Luigi Mangione. The hosts question the professionalism of the shooter and critique the American healthcare system, “[103:39] Kid Fury: The US has the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we Rank roughly number 42 in life expectancy.” They express frustration with profit-driven healthcare models and speculate on systemic issues leading to public discontent and potential violence.

Additional Content: Bluey and Concluding Remarks

Kid Fury shares his experience as a guest on another podcast discussing "Bluey," a favorite animated series. He praises the show’s portrayal of parenting, “[127:10] Kid Fury: I think bluey really gets right as far as parenting is concerned.” The episode concludes with brief sponsor messages promoting services like NetCredit and Kia, which the hosts quickly acknowledge before officially wrapping up the episode.

Notable Quotes:

• “[03:08] Crystal: I don't give a fuck what that said. He's crazy. Why should I trust him?”

• “[06:47] Crystal: She just wants to go outside. And she does not actually have to potty at all. I'm tired of saying the word potty.”

• “[14:27] Kid Fury: Jay Z's name's been added to this bad boy lawsuit.”

• “[59:47] Kid Fury: It is an absolute no. The mental illness needs to be the villain here, not the person suffering from it.”

Conclusion

In "Ain't That A Pitch?!", The Read hosts Kid Fury and Crissle blend personal anecdotes with sharp cultural critiques and creative brainstorming. The episode navigates through personal challenges, pop culture controversies, innovative pitch ideas, and heartfelt listener advice, all while maintaining their signature humorous and unfiltered tone. Highlights include a deep dive into the Jay Z lawsuit, innovative yet contentious game concepts, and thoughtful responses to listeners' dilemmas, showcasing the hosts' ability to engage with a variety of topics authentically and entertainingly.

Transcript

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

Happy day, happy day, happy day.

[Crystal]

Hey, y'all. Happy holidays is. I mean, it's. Tis the season or what the ever. My name is.

[Kid Fury]

Myles Mitchell and I'm Nikki Giovanni's niece. And this is the read. Thanks for coming back.

[Crystal]

Thank you indeed for coming back. Well, here we are.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, it's been quite the week.

[Crystal]

It's been a rough one for me personally. Don't feel like discussing the ins and outs of it, but it's been another, oh, let's make sure we stay alive.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it gets like that.

[Crystal]

So I had to take a minute and I'm still figuring that. My poor psychiatrist. I talked to therapy yesterday and, you know, he did this whole thing where he, like, took notes I don't know how many months ago when I was in a really good place. And it was like, what would you tell yourself in, like, moments when you're, like, really, really depressed and nothing, you know, you're not here. What would you tell yourself in those and those moments? And I did this whole, like, spiel, this encouraging thing. So yesterday he pulls this notes out and he reads to me what I said or whatever. I was like, I don't give a fuck what that said. He's crazy. Why should I trust him? Like, I don't. Like, that bitch is like, yeah, sure, she has mental health issues. I don't give a fuck. That hoe was talking about, Fuck her.

[Kid Fury]

Nice.

[Crystal]

Okay, I'm sure that was frustrating for my medical standpoint, but here we are.

[Kid Fury]

Probably not. Actually. He probably was anticipating something like that or at least aware that you might have that reaction, but didn't seem that way. Oh, okay. Anyways, I was trying.

[Crystal]

I'm here, I have my stress wig on or one of my stress wigs and, you know, keep on moving because that's what the earth does. How are you feeling? True.

[Kid Fury]

I'm fine.

[Crystal]

Motherhood.

[Kid Fury]

I'm Good.

[Crystal]

You've learned that your dog will, in fact, trick you into, you know, the whole. Oh, my God, I have my bowels, please. And then they go outside and run. Do eight backflips. Simone Biles.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Just. Yeah, they lie. They lie.

[Kid Fury]

It turns out very frequently she just wants to go outside. And she does not actually have to potty at all. I'm tired of saying the word potty. I feel like I went 15, 20 years without ever saying it. And now I say it every day. As soon as I wake up, you ready to party? Did you go potty? Oh, Lenny. Did you party? Let Mommy see. Oh, potty. Big girl. Big potty. Like, I just parties a lot. Yeah, it is. But, you know, we're. We're really in it. We're in. It's just so, you know, there's just a lot of. She's. She's quite a bit of work, but I'm just so. She's a puppy obsessed. Yeah, I really get it. Like, I used to think people were so crazy when they were like, no, my kids have changed my life for the worse in so many ways, but I just adore them, and I wouldn't go back to life without them. I used to be like, you niggas are out of your mind. But I fully get it now.

[Crystal]

I understand that so fiercely. And it used to actually be, as someone on the outside, kind of frustrating. Although it's none of my business, I would see some moms, mom bloggers, creators, saying, my life has been absolutely demolished in terms of things like peace, sleep, comfort, motivation, even.

[Kid Fury]

Sure.

[Crystal]

Because of this child. Now, that one's yours. That one is yours.

[Kid Fury]

Well, she's not at school today because we're recording on a different date. Lainey. Laney. Laney. It's that damn dog talking about her now. She hears the dog across the hall come home, and now they are beefing. She just 20. Laney. Mommy has to work. You wanna live outside? Do you wanna live outside?

[Crystal]

Been there. No, she wants to understand why the bitch next door keeps coming over with her stank ass attitude. Like, first of all, what you're not gonna do is come to my house and then be, like, acting like you run shit over here. I understand that. That's fine. Laney has to work, too. And the fact is that ain't nobody gonna come over here and feel like they can say whatever the fuck they want to. Cause this is my building now. This is my house now. I do what I want. Oh, my God, can you please work, Lane, so that's right, Lane.

[Kid Fury]

No, it's not. Don't encourage that. Twenty minutes ago, she was cussing out the bitch in the mirror, not realizing it was her. I'm over here. Like, lainey, you are. You're yelling at the other dog, and the other dog is you. Like, is you notice how every time you open your mouth, that bitch open her mouth.

[Crystal]

Because one day, I don't know what it is, but one day, if you watch them, something clicks when they go, oh, shit, wait, that's me. Like, it. It is like. It's like for the longest time, they're just like, why is this dog staring at me like this? And now the dog is copying me. Oh, I'm gonna beat this whole ass. And then one day, I don't know what it is, one day, something clicks in them. You might even see if they're like, wait a minute, bitch, that is me. Oh, that's me this whole time. Well, what the fuck kind of witchcraft. What is this? They don't know what the fuck a mirror is.

[Kid Fury]

We literally just went through that. So every time there's an animal on t, she has a conniption. The. The new Lion King trailer came on. Yeah. How old? The entire time, I'm like, girl, those are literally your little cousins. What big cousins? Ancestral something like, what?

[Crystal]

Thankfully, LinkedIn do that.

[Kid Fury]

What are you.

[Crystal]

Link would always stop if she heard barking on tv. Like, if there's a dog on TV and it barked. Cartoon, even.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crystal]

She would be like, but. And then that's kind of it.

[Kid Fury]

No, Laney, Laney. Any other animal, she's like, how dare you be in my home?

[Crystal]

So, yeah, figure out.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's. Yep. Right? That's what I keep telling myself. This puppy stage does not last forever. I'm trying to enjoy these days while they're here, because.

[Crystal]

It does. It does.

[Kid Fury]

I love when other parents keep it real. You try to scrounge up a little bit of hope and optimism, and they're like, no, no, no.

[Crystal]

Well, no, you're in it for the long haul.

[Kid Fury]

She's only five and a half months. You have a long way to go, mama.

[Crystal]

Link is 9. And I tell him, I'm telling you two things that, like, now she'll hear other dogs or other people in the hallway or whatever, and she pays it. But if they're, like, out there, like, chilling, let's say somebody's like, you know, just out there chit chatting in front of the door before someone leaves, Link is like, like, just one cute one. Like, all right, that's enough. Please get out of my hallway.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, your hallway.

[Crystal]

If they're out there cleaning, making too much machinery, that's when she's like, oh no.

[Kid Fury]

Oh my God.

[Crystal]

But you know, she grew out of the. Anytime I hear anything, I bark. Well, that Laney will too.

[Kid Fury]

Well, you know, one day I'm feeling like we need to move. Honestly, we need to leave the city and buy a house. A proper standalone structure where nobody.

[Crystal]

Okay. I've been supporting you in this. In this pretty much the entire time. I'm going to have to ask you to calm down.

[Kid Fury]

No, I can move out there with Kia and buy a house and have a yard and she can have like a. A cute little life where she can holler all damn day and not bother everybody else. That's my thing. I don't want to disrupt everybody else in the building. Everybody else on the floor when she gets the.

[Crystal]

Don't nobody give a fuck about this. Damn. You live in New York City in an apart building, girl. Don't nobody care. Furthermore, Laney's barks are not even that disruptive. She's a puppy. You can barely hear them shits. You lucky she's not a bass and pound or some.

[Kid Fury]

It's me. Cause I'm her mom.

[Crystal]

It is you out here talking about living off the fat of the land like a man and. Cause you got a three month old puppy. You need to calm your black ass down.

[Kid Fury]

She needs a field. She can go run around here.

[Crystal]

You can literally go on like sniff spot or something like that, one of those things and just go rent a yard for an hour and let her run around. I do that shit all the time.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I'll think about it. But things are, you know, going fine. I'm just a working mom and everything that that entails, but you know, otherwise keeping it pushing. So what do we have this week?

[Crystal]

Buying a house. Because the puppy.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, renting one. Something. But living in a house and not an apartment so she don't disturb the whole fucking world.

[Crystal]

Living in an apartment building.

[Kid Fury]

Somebody else is trying to work somebody.

[Crystal]

Out with the expectation that there is going to be a dog in the building that hates everybody. I've never lived in an apartment building in my life where there was not at least one dog that does this very thing. All you can do is hope that the apartment you live in is not right next door.

[Kid Fury]

Well, it is to that motherfucker.

[Crystal]

But guess what? You too live right next door to them. So why don't we just all hold hands together and just get through black excellence today is going to a brother by the name of Brad Edwards. He's the founder of Dads to Doulas. It is a program that aims to equip black men and expectant fathers with the knowledge and skills to advocate for their families from pregnancy through infancy.

[Kid Fury]

Yep, that is what that is.

[Crystal]

He founded the program after experiencing loss in 2017. He was expecting twin boys, but complications resulted in both of them being stillborn. My condolences. Brad created Dad's to Doulas to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates. I think this is awesome. Everybody knows, unless this is your first episode, that I believe pregnancy, human gestation and childbirth and all of these things to be magic. I'll just use the word magic. And I think the way that the world sets people who give birth up, especially in the west, is evil. I'll just use the word evil.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

And so anyone like Mr. Brad Edwards who's like, hey, how can I. Someone who isn't physically a part of this whole bringing people into the world process, but I mean, yeah, you know, beyond the initial. Yeah. Beyond conception. How can I. Yeah, that's beautiful. Get into the space, in the room, do some studying, do some learning. Use the hands, use the mind community to make this a healthy and prosperous experience. Shout out to Dad's to do list. Hope they have some. What do you call them, chapters and things across the. Oh, yeah, the globe.

[Kid Fury]

More men getting involved like this. For real?

[Crystal]

Yeah, please. Instead of just being like what you want to eat, I mean, do that too. Right?

[Kid Fury]

Don't stop that one.

[Crystal]

Don't stop that. But there can be more.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you could. You could do better.

[Crystal]

Okay, so typically following next, we do our hot tops where we talk about pop culture. To be very honest with you, I don't give a fuck about none of the pop tops. Hot tops this week that I looked at, it was giving me I don't give a shit. Part of that could probably be because I'm viciously depressed and suicidal, but a lot of this I'm just like, eh. The only thing that really stood out the most is Jay Z's name being added to this bad boy lawsuit, which is like, well, here we go. Let's see how this turns out.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you know, I was thinking about it and I think most of the stuff when I'm thinking of, oh, it's been a busy week. I'm thinking of actual news and not really or entertainment shit, but like the real news that United Healthcare CEO.

[Crystal]

So what should I say? I meant to say, I meant to introduce myself by saying it's a me, Mario. Fuck.

[Kid Fury]

I just now got it.

[Crystal]

Oh, oh, well, whatever.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, so, girl.

[Crystal]

Okay, so wait a minute. Jay Z's name's been added to this Puff Daddy lawsuit. Apparently so far he's being accused of, with Puffy, I guess, raping a 13 year old girl at an after party over 20 years ago. Jay Z, of course, denies this vehemently. I read that they want like, you know, names so that they can do whatever, whatever. But obviously he is denying it and we'll see what comes out of it. I expect that there's probably going to be a lot more information whether it's attached to specific people or just incidents or whatever. I feel like there's probably a lot more that they're gonna be gathering from this lawsuit anyway. But that was kind of the only thing in Hot Tops that really stuck out to me. I was like, well, lord, here we go.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I mean, I don't think people have kind of been hinting around like, oh, other big names is next, Other giant celebrities is next. So I won't say. Shocking, really. I mean, I, it is horrendous. And if he actually did it, he should absolutely be, I don't know, punished, drawn and quartered, strung up.

[Crystal]

Should face consequences of some more.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, like, yeah, sure. But I don't know, at this point it's like there's not. It's kind of like when the. Well, no, because the Diddy stuff came from Cassie first. So that was different because we knew the name, we knew the person, the video and stuff came out. So I guess we'll just see what unfolds. But it looks like the lawyer hit him up a few months ago talking about this girl and wanting to have a meeting from mediation. And he was like, you tried to shake me down then and now you're doing this and you shady and this other client says the same thing about you and all this other, you know, I guess it's. Right now it's just a bunch of legal back and forth. What I don't understand is why he or somebody typed up that response. Did you see his. That initial statement that didn't come from the attorneys. It was just something it. Honestly, I don't even think a human wrote it. I think. Well, I don't think a human wrote all of it. I think chat GPT has something to do with some of it because it just was very sloppy and messy and it was written like he had just found out about these allegations and not that it was like, very hastily seemed typed up and published. So it just seemed weird. And I was like, you know, I get defending yourself, you know, if somebody reached out to me and was like, hey, I have a client that I'm representing because she says that you sexually assaulted her and she wants to sit down for mediation. I wouldn't go to mediation either, because I know I've never sexually assaulted nobody, but I don't know what Jay Z has done, so I'm not, you know, please don't mistake that for me, you know, providing excuses for him and, you know, we'll see how this shakes out legally. But, yeah, I'm not shocked he defended himself. I'm not shocked that he still went to the Mufasa premiere with Blue and Beyonce, because of course he did. That's his daughter.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She probably wanted him there.

[Crystal]

Movie.

[Kid Fury]

Why wouldn't he go, Yeah, I just thought that.

[Crystal]

That Ms. Tina was there.

[Kid Fury]

That statement that they put out, by.

[Crystal]

The way, I was invited to that premiere as a plus one and didn't go because I wanted to kill myself. Could have seen Bly being on the red carpet. Watch their new movie. And I was like, oh, I won't enjoy it, so.

[Kid Fury]

Well, that is. That is too bad. You know, what if Blue had waved.

[Crystal]

Him in, like, life is just so full of everything. Yeah. She would have seen me and been like, oh, my gosh, yes, you're here.

[Kid Fury]

Homosexual. That was there at the Sacred.

[Crystal]

Yes, obviously, that's exactly what happened when it didn't go.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, I guess we'll just see how. How this goes. I'm not. He. One of the things he put. Or somebody whoever wrote this put in that statement was that, you know, he's from Brooklyn, and in Brooklyn, we don't do shit like that. Which I don't need to lie, sweetie.

[Crystal]

What does that mean?

[Kid Fury]

I mean, you know, I'm a young. Well, he.

[Crystal]

No one in Brooklyn assaults anyone sexually.

[Kid Fury]

Right. That's what I'm like, sir. I wouldn't. I wouldn't have said that. But he said, you know, basically, we have a strict code of honor. We protect children. We don't. I would never. I'm absolutely, completely innocent. All this.

[Crystal]

Okay. No shade to Brooklyn. I love Brooklyn. I have family.

[Kid Fury]

Same. But be serious.

[Crystal]

Where. When does this. Is there, like, a monthly Brooklyn Coalition meeting? Where? Like, where. What are you talking about?

[Kid Fury]

You can't even say. Well, in the 60s and 70s, that was true. Because little girls have been getting exploited by their community. Oh, man. Since the invention of communities. Really?

[Crystal]

So, yeah, I'M done. This is. I feel like the same I did when I read it, which is. I'm gonna just go ahead and let the people who are reading books, who read books, who are reading documents, who are interviewing people involved. I'm gonna wait to hear what they have to say about this. And not just Blue sky, because that's where.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I'm reading. I'm reading Megan the Bob. I'm not reading social media. I'm on her website. Yes. Yeah, because she, you know, same thing with Tori and Meg. She lays it out as the facts go and not, you know, biased towards or against anybody.

[Crystal]

So she probably has one of those things that Hermione has a little necklace that makes her travel in time.

[Kid Fury]

Wait a minute.

[Crystal]

You read the books, so leave me the fuck alone. They are in the books.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, all right, I want to.

[Crystal]

Say was Azkaban where. Do you remember the book where. The one where Hermione, where Ronan and Harry were like, how the fuck is she always like, oh, yeah, like she wasn't here just two seconds ago. How is she making it to class all the time or whatever? Where is she coming up from?

[Kid Fury]

That's right. That's how she was up. She was upgrading her bad bitch abilities. Yes.

[Crystal]

That's how she was able to like get all. Go to extra classes and do all that stuff. Because she was using the Time Turner.

[Kid Fury]

Only Hermione would use that to. Hermione Beer only she would use it to learn more. Everybody else would be like, how can I have like a 18 hour session?

[Crystal]

Oh, literally, Literally. How can I like actually like skip this class to go to Birdie Bots? Or like not Birdie Bots. The. What's the candy place called? Zonkos is the toy place. Candy place is called Gringotts. No, that's the bank. What's the candy place called?

[Kid Fury]

You're so close.

[Crystal]

Gringotts is the bank. They buy clothes. No, they buy toys from like Zonkos or something. Honey Duke is called Honeydukes.

[Kid Fury]

I saw you. You were so close to it. You were circling.

[Crystal]

Yeah, the rest of them would have been like, let me just skip and go. Honey Dukes.

[Kid Fury]

Absolutely, they would have.

[Crystal]

And this was just like, I need to take every class I can.

[Kid Fury]

Hermione said if I use this right, I can finish this school with a PhD.

[Crystal]

I'm gonna be a valedictorian. No, I'm gonna be the valedictorian.

[Kid Fury]

Like, yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

But anyways, that's what Meghan, Megan, the Bob uses. That's how she's at everything all the time, has all the information. She just.

[Kid Fury]

Cause as soon as I saw the allegations, I said, I'm absolutely not engaging with social media. Know how y'all finna be. I'm going to wait until Megan the Bob tweets out or skits out a link so I can click that and read that I'm not going off of the rest of y'all. And I mean, this.

[Crystal]

It.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, the complaint is pretty disturbing that Jay Z went first, basically, and Diddy went second and there was some other celebrity there, a woman who name is not revealed. We don't know who. So. Yeah, but what I was saying is in this statement, Jay Z or whoever was like, you know, file a criminal complaint. Like this is some type of shit. Somebody need to go to jail. Behind which I also agree. But, you know, we'll. We again, we will see how this unfolds publicly and legally. But yikes. I just felt for Blue, really, because, you know, this is the same day or maybe the day before this huge moment for her.

[Crystal]

And I want to believe that this is not. I mean, she's of a certain age, she has a phone, I'm sure, and stuff like that. But I want to believe that she's chilling.

[Kid Fury]

Well, in her little friend, you know, she has. Her friends are maybe more connected to what's going on. And because she said. Didn't Blue say. Or Beyonce said that Blue said that. Blue didn't realize that people were like, criticizing her so much for her performance at the Renaissance Tour until a classmate or somebody said something.

[Crystal]

I do vaguely remember that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. So, you know, she. She is getting old. She's less than a month away from 13, which is the same age as this girl, you know, when she was assaulted. So it is. I just. My heart really broke for the both of them, actually. But, you know, it's this idea that no matter what your parents do as a celebrity child especially, it's just like their mess clouding over your giant shining moment that I was, you know, a little sad for her, but she looked.

[Crystal]

At her mom get emotional.

[Kid Fury]

And I did the Today show or somebody the next day was showing the behind the scenes from it. And maybe today or one of those Good Morning America. Yeah, something like that. One of those morning shows. And Blue was like, can you please stop looking at me?

[Crystal]

She's at the preteen. Like, y'all embarrassing.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Kind of era. It's really, really cute. But also like, so well spoken. And Sweden, like, can tell that she's like, like Was having a good time.

[Kid Fury]

With it and taller than a mama.

[Crystal]

I mean, we always knew she was gonna be tall. Her daddy tall. And she was pretty. She was shooting up.

[Kid Fury]

She was tall right as a little one.

[Crystal]

Itty bitty. But it's so exciting that she got to do this thing. Also, I'm familiar with the character Kiara from watching all these Disney sequels that were straight to video and stuff when I was a kid. So knowing that she's voicing Kiara is cool. And, yeah, I thought it was cute that her mom was like, wait, I actually need a minute. I can't do my job right now because that is my baby's life.

[Kid Fury]

Right? That was.

[Crystal]

I don't know what I need to address. And then Lil Rumi was like, but not without me. We won't be doing a press junket.

[Kid Fury]

It was just like, no.

[Crystal]

But Rumi was like, I won't be deterred right now. Like. And I know she was just like, we're working, baby. Because her energy is always big sis down. Like, you could tell she is. She like. She is always, like, very. She seems very protective of the young girl ones. So it seemed very much like, oh, you know, professionalism. But Mr. Me was like, that's my mama, and I want a hug, and I do what I want. And then it was like, girl, she's so cute.

[Kid Fury]

And I wouldn't be surprised if she got that from her family. Her mama, her grandma, her daddy, her auntie. The whole protectiveness, especially given the just the sheer amount of celebrity and scrutiny surrounding blue eyes.

[Crystal]

Look at Ms. Tina. Ms. Tina, apparently, no, she don't play accidentally liked or she was half. Or some shit like that or something.

[Kid Fury]

She stay accidentally liking something.

[Crystal]

She left a comment and was like, you know, I don't play about my family, so keep it cute.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know why y'all was surprised about that. She be liking shit that's shady about Beyonce all the time. She just be liking shit. You gotta be like, and your mama.

[Crystal]

Be liking shady shit about you, too. The difference is we not sure.

[Kid Fury]

Anyway, went from. Went from talking about Jay Z to picking blue Ivy apart. Talking about she looked too grown and she had on too much makeup and her dress was inappropriate for a 12.

[Crystal]

What? I said, this is why I don't engage. So what the fuck are y'all talking about? She had, like, a ball gown. She looked like talking. The Princess of Belgravia or wherever.

[Kid Fury]

It was literally a ball gown. And when I tell you hating ass hoes was pulling out they school pictures from when they was 12 and comparing it to Blue Ivy on this red carpet, sweetie, okay, nobody's talking about you. And the very nicest things at 5, 7, 9 and 9 West that your mommy picked up for you. This is not even Blue's first record.

[Crystal]

To go to like, sweetie, your eighth grade prom to go to like your eighth grade promise.

[Kid Fury]

That dress your mama got out of pennies for 27.35.

[Crystal]

She's going to a red carpet premiere for a film that she's starring in.

[Kid Fury]

A giant movie that is a prequel.

[Crystal]

And adaptation of a film that is one of the biggest films, all Disney movies in cinematic history.

[Kid Fury]

So comparing what, what you wore to this is just. She has, yes, she has a little figure, she has breasts. It's called adolescence. She is growing up. Y'all are gonna have to let her develop into a young woman.

[Crystal]

Also, I'm not entertaining none of this shit because if she would have came out that motherfucker on a burqa, it would have been like, oh my goodness, what's the problem if she would have had on short shorts, oh my goodness, what's the problem if she would have been dressed handmade, if she would have had on a full pet like floor length skirt, it'd still be something. It doesn't matter because girls, women can't ever do nothing right. It's always a problem. Y'all always gonna pick them apart. Not interested.

[Kid Fury]

She ate good night did she was really beautiful. So yeah, go Blue. I hope your daddy didn't do that shit.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Really quick this Luigi. Matter of fact. Okay, so instead of hot tops.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, wait, no, we got into the hot tops. They're going one. Is there another?

[Crystal]

Yeah, that was. I was gonna say it was all really gay.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

It was the only thing that kind of like stuck out to me. Everything else was just like, I don't really care to talk about this. So I have a different sort of idea for down.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Fun.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, let's do that.

[Crystal]

I have a segment that I'm gonna read doing on Patreon soon and then YouTube that I'm calling Ain't that a pitch? And it's just like a bunch of, I don't know, pitches, ideas for things that are in my head all of the time that are probably nonsense and maybe don't ever need to be made. Some of them, who knows? Could be a good idea. And I think that it would just be fun to play it with you today because I didn't want to do hot tops and I'm very, very depressed. So why not just do something different then talk about other people in their business? All right, first One. Hmm. Where should I start some of these? I feel like a lot of these. Okay. I'm gonna speak to the ones that might speak to you first. Okay. Ain't this a pitch, Lord? The Proud Family as a live action multi camera sitcom. Limited series, maybe eight episodes, but the Proud Family starring a new young black talent as Penny Proud and others as her friends. We can get one of the kids from Abbott or something.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes. Okay.

[Crystal]

And we do love those kids. Cause here's the. Here's. And I'm gonna. I'll be honest, one of my friends once sent me a TikTok of like those AI videos that are just like live action interpretations of animated characters. Like he's. It'll just be like a 30 second video with lo fi and it's just a mont of, let's say, Steven Universe characters, but AI made them to look like what they'd look if it were live action.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

And it's almost always incredibly creepy. It's almost like always very scary and unnerving. But I just saw one, I think yesterday that was based on the Proud Family and it actually looked. First of all, I didn't look creepy because it looks like people instead of like weird computer versions of what the person should look like. The deshaunad did look exactly like jt, but. Well, that's. I think it works.

[Kid Fury]

That makes sense.

[Crystal]

But I was like, this could actually work because Prop Family in itself is pretty much just a black sitcom. It wasn't super cartoony. Sometimes it did cartoony stuff in its animation to invoke certain emotions or gag and stuff. But it was a pretty grounded a comedy that really just relied on the characters, the story and the writing, like the jokes. And I think it could be really cool. It could absolutely work. Live action without being too off putting because of how grounded it is. And I think it would be cool if they did it in the style of a 90s multicam sitcom. So like multicam meaning, you know, Fresh Prince, Family Matters, Living Single, where there's a set, sometimes a live audience and then you work like classic old school sitcom stuff. Maybe even a laugh track and a low. Maybe even do some color grading and filtering so it even looks kind of vintage. I don't think it should last very long. They've already done a Proud Family sequel, I think, called Louder and Prouder, something like that.

[Kid Fury]

I watched it, it was on Disney.

[Crystal]

Which is actually pretty good.

[Kid Fury]

It's pretty good. Yeah, it actually is.

[Crystal]

But I think that this could be like a cool little limited thing for Us Also, Disney has already dabbled in sort of tributing old school sitcom in WandaVision, which is one of their most successful original programs, if not the. Maybe not as a success because X Men 97 got amazing reviews. But WandaVision, like is probably one of their biggest shows, if not the biggest. And half of that, pretty much the bulk of that show was actually like sitcom references to things like I Love Lucy, Modern Family and all of these different sitcoms to the era. I think Proud Family, limited live action sitcom that looks kind of like Family Matters, but sounds like Proud Family could be cool. What do you think? Oh yeah. So this is like let's do Shark Tank style where you're just like, okay, no.

[Kid Fury]

So what is the plot of this limited series? What happens?

[Crystal]

I think it would just be an adaptation of the original show. I don't know that like I haven't thought of like a. A separate, like larger overarching thing. I think I would want it to kind of start from the inception of the original animated show and kind of be about this young black girl who's maybe just turned. I don't remember how old penny was, like 13 or something like that.

[Kid Fury]

I think so 13 or 14 maybe.

[Crystal]

Maybe she's just starting high school or something. Same friends, you know, Dad. I feel like her dad sold cars or something. And her mom was a vet.

[Kid Fury]

I do think that Trudy was a vet.

[Crystal]

Her mom was definitely a vet, but I don't remember what her dad. Her dad sold.

[Kid Fury]

Didn't he order. He sold snacks. Snacks, yes. Proud snacks. Duh. He sold proud snacks. Yeah. I was about to say, I think he had vending machines. That nigga sold.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And they were all proud snacks.

[Kid Fury]

Right. But they were nasty.

[Crystal]

I think that's it. I think it could be like bit by bit, you know, maybe the episodes could kind of be more relevant to what 13 year old black girls are giving in school today. Cause that was a lot of. It was like I have a crush on this boy that just this new boy at school and he downloads music illegally or something, you know? Yeah, but like just, I don't know, day in the life of a young black girl who's hilarious and her friends and stuff like that. I don't think it needs to have like a big overarching story, but maybe it does. Well, yeah, not all of these are super fleshed out. It's fine.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I.

[Crystal]

And also I wrote all of these down yesterday because I just didn't.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not, I. I'm interested.

[Crystal]

No, you need to Be vicious, short tank.

[Kid Fury]

Well, so I'm interested in the premise. I think it could work, but without a plot, I'm out.

[Crystal]

Got it.

[Kid Fury]

Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.

[Crystal]

Okay. No funding for that one.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, well, I actually.

[Crystal]

Oh, but sometimes you can come back, like, another season, right? And be like, I heard you. So like, sometimes they have people come back on Shark's head. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

And they're like, I adjusted, you know, this little thing or whatever, and they still like, no.

[Crystal]

But I feel like Law Rose with this wig on. Okay. All right. So that's a chop.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, it is. That is a chop for me. Sorry. Yeah. I just need. I would need more information, and I would need to know who's writing in order for me to put my money behind it. But I'm not opposed to concept, so you just keep working on it.

[Crystal]

And Quinta Brunson's the showrunner.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, the showrunner. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, if Quinta is signed on, that's definitely a huge plus. Still gonna need that plot, though.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Sorry.

[Crystal]

All right, we'll work on that. I have another live action one, but I'll push that one back because I don't believe you ever watched this. Here's one.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. I'm excited.

[Crystal]

I don't believe that there is a Disney World park in Africa.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I don't think so.

[Crystal]

Huge continent. Lots of gorgeous, beautiful countries that probably have space from an amusement park of the Disney variety. And what a perfect opportunity, with Disney owning Marvel, to create a Wakanda Land. Hmm.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Disney, famous for its. Oh, here we have Avengers Campus, and it's all themed of Rhonda Ventures. Here we have Fantasyland and this land, and you walk in and it's. Oh, my goodness. I've been transported to a completely different place. Disney World. Pick the country.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

I don't know what country would be best.

[Kid Fury]

My first thought is Nigeria. But if it's Disney World, they'll probably go to South Africa.

[Crystal]

And I feel like everybody likes.

[Kid Fury]

You know what I mean? We know. There's so many other countries. Sorry, Sorry.

[Crystal]

I kind of thought South Africa, too. No shirt.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I mean, isn't that where most of the white people are? So that's probably where they'll put it. So. So are you asking me if Disney should invest in a Wakanda Land? A Disney World?

[Crystal]

I think I'm asking. Okay, so the pitch is Disney World in Africa must come along. Selling point. We've built a Wakanda. It has two Black Panther rides. Okay. One of them is one of those like the ones you like, sit in the moving sort of car type thing. You have glasses on and you're racing through. It's 3D screens inside, but you're like racing through the streets of Wakanda chasing Klaa who's stolen a precious vibranium artifact. Very much the first movie where they're like on a high speed chase, remember? And T'Challa like jumped when he used the new suit and powered on the kinetic energy and blew the cars up and all that stuff. So this would be kind of like you maybe in a car and you're hearing Shuri's voice and you're like the ride is you basically trying to assist Okoye and Black Panther stop Klaa who's on the run. And then the other ride is a coaster. It's a roller coaster. Nothing too intense, you know, just anyone above this height. No flips and stuff. Just really fast through the. It's a roller coaster that is kind of space mountainy. It's an indoor. It's in the dark roller coaster. It's in the dark esque. But it's a roller coaster that goes through that ancestral plane. Oh. Ooh. Indoors. And you hear the ancestors speaking to you and all of that stuff. It's very, very dim. But you get sort of that purple glow of the savannah or whatever the fuck riding through the trees and stuff. Also many shops, many restaurant. The Full Dora Milage.

[Kid Fury]

Oh yeah.

[Crystal]

They have an act where they come out and perform. They already do that in Disneyland here. But yeah, that's my second pitch. I don't really care what else happens inside out world. But yeah, Disneyland and Africa. They honestly would probably call it Disneyland Africa. Regardless of which.

[Kid Fury]

Regardless of whichever country. Right.

[Crystal]

They probably with an actual Wakanda that we can go and visit.

[Kid Fury]

This actually sounds a lot like Harry Potter. The Harry Potter World at Universal Studio.

[Crystal]

There you go.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. Where you can like, you can get a wand and it unlocks little bullshit around Harry Potter World. And they have the rollercoaster where you go through the bank and all that. It's so fun. So this. I'm.

[Crystal]

They're opening a new one.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I'm Bob Iger and I say yes, I'm fully on board with this. I think it's a great idea.

[Crystal]

They're opening the Ministry of Magic in one of them, I think in Orlando.

[Kid Fury]

God help me. I need to look up how much money that wench gets from the sales of Harry Potter stuff because I don't wanna put another dime in her pocket. But the world she created is so fun.

[Crystal]

It's really, really, really, really, really touching. And as I've said, it's so much bigger than her and that's like the only piece that I can take from it. She gets on my nerves further because she's like, she's like, acted as if like she sort of, what's the word? Like salty or like over the Harry Potter legacy. Like, yeah. But is still involved whenever it means caking up her pockets and stuff like that. Cause I saw them say, I think I saw the showrunner or somebody from the HBO show saying that she will likely be somewhat involved in the production. Like, she'll probably have some say overcasting. And so like even this show, which we'll likely be good because although I love the movies, grew up on the movies.

[Kid Fury]

Terrible.

[Crystal]

It has far more room to do what you want it to do as a series than as a, as a set of movies anyway. Each season being based on a book, you have so much more room to kind of get into the stuff that you can't in a, you know, 90, 110 minute flick or whatever. And they've allegedly saw over like 30,000 kids for the first three roles already. So that movie is gonna be a huge, I mean, that show, that series is gonna be a huge deal. But I feel the same way where I'm just like, I, I really don't like that lady.

[Kid Fury]

I don't. And I do not want to give her one dime. You know how many people are like, oh my God, are you playing the Harry Potter game? Are you playing? Are you playing? It' Cool. It's this. It's that I'm like, I am not Legacy. Yes. I am not playing Hogwarts Legacy. I did not purchase it.

[Crystal]

Remember when we heard about.

[Kid Fury]

So left out about it. I'm so jealous when it leaked and.

[Crystal]

We talked about it on the podcast, like, oh my goodness, can't wait for this game to come out.

[Kid Fury]

Hate her. Hate her though. So she sucks. She does suck. Well, I also have a list of project ideas. When I get high, I just write them down. So if you want me to do a couple, I can see what you think about. Sure.

[Crystal]

I have some more. Okay, I'll do a couple more. Okay. Apps.

[Kid Fury]

Apps.

[Crystal]

1. This app is called Mind Yours.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, I'm already in Bankroll.

[Crystal]

It's spelled U R S. Oh, no, I don't think apps are allowed to be spelled correctly. Okay, we'll just call it Mind Yours. Like, aren't apps all. It would have to be like M, Y, N, D. Like apps are never just spelled like the word is.

[Kid Fury]

Well, that's because people want to be hashtag cute, not because they're not allowed. You lost me a little with the urs, but I'm still okay.

[Crystal]

No, I'm taking back. It's mine. Yours left the work. I don't code, so I don't know how to get this to work.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

But. Okay, the idea is download the app, you put your business in there. Your business being, oh, my baby, get out of pre, out of aftercare or aftercare ends at whatever time. I have to season that meat that's in the freezer. I have to balance my checkbooks, I have to pay child support. I have to save up for this. I haven't been to, you know, you put your business in there.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

All your business. Let's see business. You can prioritize it, put it in calendar, all of that fun. Now the magic is that it is synced to your other social media apps and it works the way that it works. See where this is going is that when notifications are set are on and they need to be for the app to work. It recognizes when you are going to leave a comment on a social media post and it sends you a notification that says, hey, look at some business that's yours. What about this instead? That's all I have. And after a certain amount of times where you like ignore it, it locks you out of there. If you're using like, let's say you use like you ignore it like three times in a row.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, the app is like, did you forget that your baseboards look the way they do? Why are you. Why are you talking about Blue Ivy's lipstick? You have a job. Go get to it.

[Crystal]

And it gives you a chance. It's like, okay, well maybe, you know, you're on the toilet or whatever, but after like two or three of them in the same day, it's like, okay, well, you don't get to use this app for the next two hours.

[Kid Fury]

I like it, but I do not think the people who need it the most will use it.

[Crystal]

That's fair.

[Kid Fury]

It's kind of like there's lots of apps that restrict you from. They kind of have this already with time limit where you can set 30 minutes for Instagram, but if you're in charge of, you can just say ignore that for the rest of the day and scroll as much as you.

[Crystal]

Yeah, this is what it reminds me of. But like real Petty.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, it needs to be mean.

[Crystal]

Yeah. In fact, I would like in the beta version to add. What do you call it? Voice assist. The voice being mine and yours. You know, you're the shark here. If you're like, you know, we can give you a kick off this app. And so you also have a voice.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

That comes in and says, hey, girl, mind your business. Something to that effect. But you make a good point. You make a good point. Something to think about.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I'm not mad at it, though. I feel, especially if the messages get increasingly more bitchy the more you ignore them. If they include, like a picture of your kitchen, the state of your kitchen right now.

[Crystal]

Absolutely. And they're like 1000%.

[Kid Fury]

You really want to be on Twitter right now going back and forth about Real Housewives of Salt Lake City when your dishes look the way they do? Do you, sweetie? It's 9:30pm do you know where your children are? Have they had their baths?

[Crystal]

Exactly. You're getting it. They got.

[Kid Fury]

The problem is people who are already on top of their shit are going to be the ones to download it to get a good laugh out of what you come up with to clown them. The people who really do need to get things done are never going to download this app.

[Crystal]

That's true.

[Kid Fury]

But I do love the idea. I do. You know, in theory, it would be.

[Crystal]

Like the sister app to real friends.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I was going to say you've already had an incredible app idea and this is.

[Crystal]

I might actually.

[Kid Fury]

You are bullshitting.

[Crystal]

You need to.

[Kid Fury]

You need to call somebody who does app development.

[Crystal]

I need to, like, talk to one of these fucking.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. And then use your startup people, use your celebrity contacts to be like, hey, girl, let's. Let's shop this around everybody who really does need it. Okay.

[Crystal]

Okay. One more. I have a video game, two video game ideas and a live action cartoon.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, let's go with the video game.

[Crystal]

Okay. Have you ever played Untitled Goose Game?

[Kid Fury]

Untitled Goose Game. It's called Untitled Goose.

[Crystal]

It's called Untitled Goose Game.

[Kid Fury]

Untitled Goose Game. No.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Okay. It's really very simple. You're just a goose in a little town somewhere and your whole job is to just go around and cause chaos.

[Kid Fury]

I see. Oh, how cute is this goose?

[Crystal]

But it's really, really cute. It's not like. It's just like a cute little goose maybe goes and takes someone's hat, so.

[Kid Fury]

The goose bothers people. And you have to use the goose abilities to manipulate objects and NPCs to complete objectives. This sounds fun. I'M finna download this.

[Crystal]

It's really, really like. It's a really really. It's almost critically acclaimed. It's gotten. I see great reviews because it's cozy, but it's fun and it's funny. I want to. I'm thinking of a game sort of in the vein of Untitled Goose game called off yourself.

[Kid Fury]

Immediately.

[Crystal]

No. Immediately.

[Kid Fury]

No. Immediately. No. Immediately. No. Immediately.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kid Fury]

Immediately. No. No. Immediately. No. Immediately. No. No, no, no.

[Crystal]

It's gonna be so much fun.

[Kid Fury]

No, no, no. Paditou.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Absolutely not.

[Crystal]

He created an avatar.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

Animal crossing ass.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

You know, you have all kinds of custom. You can do skin color, hair, gender. No. You know, all these things. Instead of like an island, we, you know, nice big city town. No. All kinds of objects. Physics based. You can like build. You can put two things together. You like maybe pick up a rock and then like a two by four and then very Tears of the Kingdom. Like blend them together. You can do all kinds of stuff. Physics based world. This is a slapsticky, no comedy thing, right?

[Kid Fury]

Absolutely.

[Crystal]

The whole point.

[Kid Fury]

Nope.

[Crystal]

Not a game to create your cavitar.

[Kid Fury]

Nope.

[Crystal]

The whole point of the game is to complete these objectives. And the objectives are dozens and dozens and dozens of ways for you to kill yourself. And in like slapsticky, comedic, weird ways. Like you have to go and get this and go get that and then go do this. And then it's just this ridiculous slapsticky suicide animation. Now the NPCs in the world, it's also a stealth game because the NPCs in the world, they see you doing some shit that's sketchy.

[Kid Fury]

Oh my God.

[Crystal]

They will stop you. You know what I mean? And they also.

[Kid Fury]

Can she send you to the Grippy Sock Hotel?

[Crystal]

Well, that's the. That's the like, that's the outside story. Cause it is. I want it to be something you could literally like just pick up, play. No, it doesn't have to have like a thing. But there is like, okay, let me finish. You find like really silly slapsticky Looney Tunes like ways to off yourself, right? And you have all of these different objectives. Let's say there's like 50 different ways that you have to like find how to do it. And they have all these silly little sequences where you die. But the NPCs, the people in the city and the town, if they see you doing something that looks dangerous or sketchy or whatever, they will basically go into a mode where they'll come after you and stop you. Like, they'll Restrain you, and then that's essentially like your game over. Right?

[Kid Fury]

So you lose by staying alive.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

Isn't that fascinating? Because then it's like the NPCs. Just follow me. The NPCs. Then, like in a traditional game, they'd be your enemies, but these aren't enemies. You're the enemy. Serious. They're not your enemies, but they kind of are in the sense of the game, because they're stopping you from completing it. But they're actually trying to do the right thing, just keeping alive. And they're also. The AI has like, adaptive learning. So let's say, like. Let's say like one of the objectives is to, like, use a rope and something. Something to like, hang yourself. And you do it every time you die. You come back to life, Right? Cause it's video game, right? It's meant to be funny. But every time, like, let's say you hang yourself with a rope. No, like, let's not. The NPCs. Anytime on, like, your next playthrough, if they see you touch a rope, they immediately like. You know what I mean? They immediately react in a way that's like five stars gta, where they're just like, she's got a rope.

[Kid Fury]

Grab her.

[Crystal]

And you know what I mean? And so you have to kind of like stealthily also adapt to them learning wow. To like, watch out for you in certain ways or whatever.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crystal]

Wow, wow. But there's also. There's also like, let's say if there's 50 different objectives after you complete 10, there's like an interlude with a character that's your therapist.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

And like, there's like an interlude with a character that plays a therapist that then kind of gives very, like a sort of like, vague story or vague sort of explanation on what's going on in this character's head. Because it's not meant to be dark. Characters die in silly ways all the time. In fact, there are games where you kill your own character just because it's silly and looks fun. Like in the old school Tomb Raider, I used to have Lara just jump off a cliff and hit the ground because it was silly.

[Kid Fury]

Just because you can do it doesn't mean that's the objective.

[Crystal]

Yes. Also, just because I can, in gta, mow down, you know, a fleet of cops, doesn't mean I'm gonna do that either. So through, like, the interludes with a therapist and little collectibles around the world, you can get sort of. Cause I don't want. I'm not trying to make a game that encourages this behavior at all.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Like, in real life, I want it to be something that can, like, make light of the fact that this is like, suicidal ideation is sometimes like a lifelong struggle for people. And I want it to just kind of be like a way to laugh at it while also having. Without being in your face about it, having things in there that are kind of like, but girl, think about this. Like, yeah, this is a fun little silly game, but why is this character doing this? And every 10 challenges, you get a little peek into it. And by the end of the game, like when you beat the game, the character has to have a realization that they shouldn't have been doing any of this. And then the whole town is like, yay. And then you have an ending sequence where they all have brunch together or something. A Looney Tunes style game where you kill yourself over and over in a variety of slapsticky, cartoonish ways while NPCs try to keep you alive. I feel like I think it's great. Can't wait to go.

[Kid Fury]

Well, you would, you would, you would. I'm a little disturbed at how deeply you've thought this out and not your other ideas. I wish you would put more brain power into those.

[Crystal]

Well, you know, I love video games, so I'm just like. That one I think is. I mean, I could do the Sailor Moon rpg, but you super ain't gonna follow that.

[Kid Fury]

I would much rather prefer you develop a what's her name, Sailor Moon show or a game than this. It's.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I would too, actually. This was just the one I thought would have a better reaction from you.

[Kid Fury]

You thought this would have a better reaction from the therapist?

[Crystal]

Like an entertaining reaction for me. Like, I knew it would bother you. Whereas Sailor Moon, you're just gonna be like, I don't get it. Cause I don't watch this.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. It's still an immediate no. You're going. You and whoever develops and distributes this game is going to be sued immediately.

[Crystal]

For who?

[Kid Fury]

By whoever. The family of the first person to kill themselves from some idea they got from this game. So, no, I am extremely out. I could maybe, maybe see it under very, very close supervision in mental health facilities, inpatient care. I think maybe people currently struggling with suicidal ideations could see the joy or the benefit in this game. Maybe. But it also might just give them some ideas of things to do as soon as they get out or makeshift ways to make something happen, even in the facility. So it's an Event.

[Crystal]

But your character is always. It's a stealth comedy.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, but the problem is that the character is the enemy. The character is not supposed to be the villain. It needs. There needs to be a clearly defined villain here, not the person themselves.

[Crystal]

That's why it's. It's fascinating. It flips the game thing on its head. Like, you can't say. Like, even if you were to explain this game to your friends, you'd be like, oh, and then your enemies. Oh, wait, no, they're not your enemies. Cause they're not trying to hurt you. It's just. I feel like I hear what you're saying.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, I'm glad.

[Crystal]

As a suicidal person, I'm thinking, like, is it possible to make a game like this that's fun and silly and funny, but in a way that makes you think about suicide rather than encouraging you to go do it? Because, Noshe, there's plenty of video games where if I wanted to simulate suicide and then get an idea from it, I could do it right now.

[Kid Fury]

Well, sure, Breath of the Wild, you can set a bomb and blow yourself up, but the purpose of the game is not to kill yourself, unlike your game. And so it is a no. It's gonna be a no. Not just from me, but from literally anybody who could make this happen, happen. No one. No one will put forth their money, time, effort, energy into making this particular game happen. And I'm not. Sorry. I almost said I'm sorry. But this friend. No. It is a no. The. The mental. The mental illness needs to be the villain here, not the person suffering from the mental illness.

[Crystal]

Ooh. Okay, so then.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, okay, wonderful. I'm seeing some light bulbs flash.

[Crystal]

So the person who gives you the objectives is mental illness.

[Kid Fury]

So you serve an evil master, like Dr. Robotnik.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it's like, a little gross. Like, cute, but, like, obviously, like, in an evil way. Like the little coconut guys from Moana. What, like that just stack up and they give you, like. No, I just mean cute in that way. Like, cute, but, like, obviously menacing.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. Okay.

[Crystal]

And they are the ones that give you the objective. So, like, that's clearly the bad guy.

[Kid Fury]

But that will only work for the. That'll only work for the quote, unquote, cute mental illnesses. The more severe the mental illness, the more devastating the little character would need to be. Yeah, it's a no. It is an absolute no. I see why you came up with it, and I even see why in your mind, this was fun, but it is a no, friend. God, no. Jesus Christ, no.

[Crystal]

A sailor Moon game in the vein of Persona.

[Kid Fury]

Who's Persona?

[Crystal]

Persona is this RPG about, like, usually kids in high school who get magic powers and defeat spirits. But a main part of it is like, literally you have day to day tasks. Like it has a calendar through your whole school year. And every day you have like a different set of that you can go to. Well, you usually have to go to school. You have actual exams you have to take. You can go get a job, then go to work, you can go to movies, you can go on dates. And then at night, you save the world with your crew of high school superpower friends. So like a Sailor Moon game.

[Kid Fury]

But that, that is. I mean, I don't get it, but that is. I'm far more intrigued in the storyline how that would be developed.

[Crystal]

K for Mario. I love Paper Mario had an element where you do all that fighting and questing stuff during the night and during the day you wake up, go make breakfast with Peach, go hang out with Yoshi and go to the movies if you want to. Just have a regular day. And then you go and save the world at night in turn based fights and then that's it.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, sure. That is Paper Mario. That's what Paper Mario does anyway.

[Crystal]

So yeah, yeah, it's just Paper Mario, but with Sailor Moon, a calendar with dykes, and you're a high school. Yeah. Okay. They're not less. Well, aren't they? Most of them aren't.

[Kid Fury]

Who are they? Was it Saturn and Neptune or something? It was two of them that was absolutely. There we go.

[Crystal]

1,000% in a relationship. And they came to America and Western producers were like, absolutely. Oh, no, we're not doing that. So they're cousins. They're gonna be cousins. And me like 10 watching this show where they changed nothing. But the English dub that calls them cousins. I'm like, this is not. So these cousins are fucking. Cause these.

[Kid Fury]

These bitches that's holding names sitting on each other's laps.

[Crystal]

They'Re fucking.

[Kid Fury]

This was fun. And yeah. What a journey into your mind and its process. Yeah, you're welcome.

[Crystal]

Did you ever watch Courage, the hourly dog?

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

Live action. Courage.

[Kid Fury]

Don't know. Don't get that reference.

[Crystal]

So Courage is just a cute little dog who lived in the middle of nowhere.

[Kid Fury]

But didn't it talk crazy?

[Crystal]

He didn't speak much.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, why did I think it was voiced by like some white comedian?

[Crystal]

Probably was. But he didn't speak very much.

[Kid Fury]

Courage. Oh, it came right up.

[Crystal]

He speaks, but he doesn't speak much.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no. In 99. I had a job. I wasn't watching. No courage.

[Crystal]

It's kind of like a. He's a scary cat, scaredy cat dog. He's, like, scared of everything, but it's like, it had episodes that were really kind of scary for, like.

[Kid Fury]

Well, it does say dark humor, horror humor. I'm like, what?

[Crystal]

Yeah, horror films. It's like, some of them were actually pretty creepy, even for kids. And I don't understand why they haven't made a live action version of that yet.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

My friend was like, just find somebody. My friend was like, you know, they love turning niggas into animals. Just find a black person to voice the dog.

[Kid Fury]

And they will do that. Well, you know, I'm with you. When you write there it is not that. Off yourself.

[Crystal]

Voices, this dog, cash advance, nothing. It's like, nothing.

[Kid Fury]

Not that other one, though. Thanks for sharing.

[Crystal]

Okay, friends at home, I know, like, five of you are gonna be like, I see the vision here. You shouldn't make it. But I understand.

[Kid Fury]

And those five people, why you think it's fun have also been institutionalized. And we're like, I would really enjoy.

[Crystal]

No, I feel like some of you probably haven't, and you just still understand that it would be fun even though it shouldn't be made. Like, I know that some of y'all at home get the vision and also agree that it shouldn't be made because it's unhealthy.

[Kid Fury]

That's everybody. Actually. I think that was probably. Probably nobody. Nobody thinks you could play it in your mind whenever you want to. That's what Beyonce told us about.

[Crystal]

Just played in the Sims. Like, I don't know, whatever. Fuck you motherfuckers. Just kill your Sims all the time.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, people do do that.

[Crystal]

I don't even think you can do it anymore.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I mean, the thing is, I think this game could actually be wildly popular. It just would all. You would immediately be sued. And so a lot of the game retailers, like, the big game retailers, would not even sell it because of the possibility that they would be included in the lawsuit. But if not for that, I think it could be hugely popular. He'll probably be one of those kind of, like, I don't know, black market things where it's just hugely. Just a giant success, but not in a capitalistic way, but everybody loves it.

[Crystal]

Well, I'm proud of myself.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I mean, I'm proud of you as well. You're so great. And so we're just gonna keep working on those big feelings. All right?

[Crystal]

That's it for the whatever the break.

[Kid Fury]

For whatever that break was.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

Yes, it is. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. We do have an update from Quincy. If you remember a couple of months, I believe Quincy was trying to go see Mariah Carey and then his friend was, like, trying to jump in and be part of the Mariah Carey experience. Quincy was like, I feel like I'm gonna have to pay for all this. No, I want to. Okay, so he said. After hearing your advice, I spoke with Jess and told her that I wouldn't be able to guarantee paying for her accommodations to see Mariah since I was still working out the details and hadn't saved up all the money. She gave me some pushback for most of the conversation. But once I said I didn't want her planned to be solely dependent on me going, she says she understood and would figure something else out. A couple weeks later, she told me that she had some close friends in her city who were going to the Mariah concert. So they were going to call, put carpool together the day of the show, and another friend of hers paid for her ticket. Now, part of me feels like she could have just asked these friends in the first place instead of trying to put the financial burden solely on me. But I digress. We met up at the venue before the concert started, took a few pics, and went to our respective seats. The show was amazing. Oh, my God, I'm obsessed with Mariah. Words can't explain how much joy it bre it brought me to finally see her. I'm glad everything worked out in everyone's favor. Thanks again for all your advice and insight. Love y'all, Quincy. P.S. crystal, I did get my Mariah Carey merch and the T shirt was exactly $45. Of course, it is most popular merch price. And yeah, I'm glad it worked out. See, all you have to do most times, I'll say eight times out of 10 and all you really gotta do is just stick up for yourself. People might have something to say, but you just advocate for yourself and it really usually will be just fine.

[Crystal]

So, Yeah, I think eight times out of 10 is good.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Them other two, though, I don't know who you. We don't know who you dealing with.

[Crystal]

Might happen, but yeah, usually, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, glad that worked out for you babes. Let's get onto our letters this week. Our first one comes from Gretchen, who says My boyfriend and I just moved into our first apartment together and it's been a really good experience so far. We haven't had any visitors yet because we're still decorating and we both don't really like people in our space. But his 17 year old little sister has a key to our apartment. My boyfriend wanted to give her a space to come to if she wants to get away from home because she still lives at home with their verbally and emotionally abusive father. My boyfriend is very protective of his little sister and has basically furnished our second bedroom to be a room for her, which I'm fine with. Anyway, my boyfriend went out of town this week for our college friends bachelor party. I was also away for the bride's bachelorette party, but just for the weekend and in the next state over. Before I left, I scheduled somebody to feed and walk our dog named Gloria. I love when dogs have human names.

[Crystal]

I don't know why.

[Kid Fury]

Gloria is just great.

[Crystal]

Schedule somebody to feed and walk his little sister. Well, I mean, yeah, I'm Gloria.

[Kid Fury]

That's what high school is in the morning and afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. Sunday morning I'd noticed that I didn't receive a photo or behavior report from the dog walker in the Rover app. So I logged into our Furbo camera we have set up to make sure she was okay and give her some treats if need be. I'm totally this dog mom. I have all of this same shit. Okay.

[Crystal]

Anyway, I have one too.

[Kid Fury]

Lo and behold, I see my boyfriend's sister come into our apartment at 6pm on Saturday night. Which was weird because she usually texts us Texas text us when she's coming over. Especially if neither of us are home at the time. But I didn't, didn't think too much of it. She came in by herself, showered, made dinner, sat on the couch to watch tv. And I was about to get off the app to text her to make sure she was okay, but then I heard somebody knocking on our door. I kept watching because I was hoping it was the dog walker to come pick up Gloria, but in walks the boy she's been dating for a few months. When I tell y'all, I almost ran across the bridge in that moment to beat her ass. But I watched for a few more minutes. They talked, did some fondling, and then they went back into our guest bedroom and I just exited the app before I could crash out. Even without assuming that they had sex. Which, let's be for real, I mean, right? The one rule we had was no unexpected company. Especially if My boyfriend and I aren't home. She broke a huge amount of trust, and I'm shocked that she even had this much audacity. The problem is that she doesn't.

[Crystal]

She's 17, right?

[Kid Fury]

The problem is she doesn't know I know, and I haven't told my boyfriend yet. For context, their mother passed away about three years ago, and his sister has confided in me a lot, and we've become close in the last few years. My boyfriend is, of course, very sensitive about his relationship with his sister because he feels responsible for her, but he has really been trying to balance his role of brother and authority figure while also grieving. Grieving their mother. He also has a few other sisters from different moms who he doesn't really have a relationship with. So I'm sure the fact that he's closest with her adds another layer to it. I'm afraid to tell him because I know he will be furious, and I don't want to mess up the progress he's made, but I feel like he needs to know. I'm also still pissed, but I don't want to feel like a narc and lose all the trust that she and I have built over the years. Please help. What should I do? Xx Gretchen. P.S. gloria did get walked and fed. The dog walker just came later than he was supposed to and didn't take pics. Damn you, Leonard.

[Crystal]

Yeah, we needed to make sure.

[Kid Fury]

We needed to make sure Gloria was fine. Leonard just didn't take no pics and put them in the app like he was supposed to, so. God damn it, Leonard.

[Crystal]

Okay, so a couple things. I understand your frustration specifically in. I'd say simple rule being broken. That is incredibly frustrating, especially having strangers in your house when you know. Yeah, I get all of that same. I also get what you're saying about a lot of the stuff, you know, what your boyfriend's sister is dealing with, what they've both been dealing with. And I think, honestly, in your position, I would even frustrated. Give her some grace here. I definitely wouldn't tell my boyfriend just because I don't see how that would. Like, I feel like that's gonna make things worse for everybody. You know what I mean? He's obviously gonna be pissed at her. Then there's gonna be tension there, then she not. Then she gonna be mad at me and all this other stuff. And also, like, I don't even know what aspect of the confrontation to expect when your boyfriend knows that. Like, or she could just have her homegirl over here to, like, you Know, smoke or some shit like that. But like, she wrote a boy over here and very likely did a fuck with him. So, like, I don't know, man. I think it's. When you said that you guys have grown close and formed a bond, I think I sort of saw that as the left turn or right turn, the alternate route. I think I would privately speak to her and say, now listen, you know that this rule, this is the one rule we have, and we're actually very serious about this rule. I don't even need to break down the seriousness of why, because this is my damn house, not yours.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crystal]

The fact of the matter is, that's the rule. And I know that you broke it. I'm really disappointed. I'm actually really, really, really upset. But I care about you. I'm not gonna tell your brother about this because I just feel like it's gonna make everything worse. But I need you to know that, you know, you're getting older and I'm sure you feel like you know a lot. And I know you know that grownups, many grownups, don't know shit. But one thing I could promise you is that I'm always gonna find out. It don't matter. Like you ain't sticking to me. I'm always gonna find out. So let's. Let's put this behind us. Let us sit here while you make a vow that this will not take place again. Because if it does, you know that I have no other choice but to escalate the response to it. And I don't think that's a dumb thing that anybody wants. Right? So get it together, kid. Love you. And I'm gonna take this TV out of here for a week. I don't know. Whatever. You know what I mean? I don't know. That's.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I feel like your response is way more mature than mine, because I would be so. I have a very deep. It's probably something I need to investigate about myself, honestly, because the visceral reaction I have to the thought of somebody having sex in my house is just. It's so intense.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Do not have sex in my house.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Do not have sex in my house.

[Crystal]

Yeah, that's fair.

[Kid Fury]

Don't bring strange and strangers in my house. I'm already finna move because too many people know where I live now. You brought some little dusty high school nigga, some little 17, 18 year old nigga to my home who could have done anything. What if he was one of these little crash dummies? Text his little friends and robbed all my shit. I think I would struggle so much with being angry that I don't know I would be able to be this measured and calm and thoughtful about my response.

[Crystal]

That's fair.

[Kid Fury]

I really don't. I think I would be right. I don't think, you know, either I'm telling your brother or I'm taking the key. You pick.

[Crystal]

I think that eats too, to be honest with you.

[Kid Fury]

No, yours was way better. Yours was far more empathetic and understanding and.

[Crystal]

But I don't think that's unfair. Cause you have every right to be furious. But I just. I'm thinking of, like, this girl is. This is essentially a safe haven from her only living parent that's abusive.

[Kid Fury]

Right, Right. See, that's the part I'm trying to fucking.17, right? Right.

[Crystal]

So there isn't a rule they're interested in following.

[Kid Fury]

She lost her mama at 14. Like the worst time to lose your mama.

[Crystal]

And we're cool, you know, like, she and I are actually cool. I think I would struggle even as pissed as I would be, I think I would just take the pisstivity out on her personally without escalating. Because once the brother gets involved and shit like that, then he might be so pissed that then you do lose the key too.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

You know what I mean? So.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

I don't know. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I don't necessarily think my way is the right way. I definitely think your approach is. Is more effective as far as, like.

[Crystal]

Does that fucking happen occasionally?

[Kid Fury]

This is just one of those things where I would not. It would take me a while to really. And I would be so disturbed by it that eventually my man would be like, okay, what's going on? Like, clearly something's going on. You been irritated. It would take me a while to work through it.

[Crystal]

And so you would be so affected by it that you're moving around in the space with it on you that you might as well just tell me. Yeah. Like, you shared a bed with this nigga and you can't even close your eyes. It's 12:30am and you just staring at the ceiling like, I can't believe this.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

You know what I mean?

[Kid Fury]

You were just in my house. Fucking, girl.

[Crystal]

What the fuck is. Why won't you go to sleep?

[Kid Fury]

It's just something.

[Crystal]

You can't even fuck your man. Cause now you think in unity, like, you might as well just go ahead and get it off.

[Kid Fury]

You was in here acting grown. Yeah, man, that really is probably something I need to sit down and investigate why it's probably some, you know, religious shit, church shit deep in there somewhere that I'm still holding on to subconsciously. But I. Gretchen, I gotta say, I would try so hard to keep all of these other factors in mind because they are excellent reasons for not going into this right with the mission of destroying your relationship with this girl. But I mean, there are consequences to our behaviors. You knew you weren't supposed to have nobody over here. Fucking or not, you weren't supposed to have nobody over here. I would have been mad if you brought somebody over here. Like I was mad when the little nigga walked through the door, period. Knowing that y'all then went and fucked in my room in my guest room is. But the guests would have been bad enough. So I think what you are realizing is that you cannot really trust a 17 year old with a key to an empty home knowing nobody's gonna be there all fucking weekend. Your brother is trying to balance between his role of authority figure and being a brother. And maybe he's being a little too permissive because of that.

[Crystal]

You ain't turn on that fucking furbo and see euphoria. They having a fucking rave.

[Kid Fury]

That's just what I'm saying. 17 year olds can get into all kind of shit. And depending on where you live, you might be tried as an adult girl. Like, I just don't want none of that associated with me in my home. I do not want my address in the news. Like, none of that. None of that. So yeah, I'm going to go with. I'm going to recommend that Gretchen take your advice, but this is something that I would struggle with a lot. I cannot, I cannot lie. Best of luck, babes. Our last letter comes from CK who says, Dear Crystal and Fury, my wife of 25 years and I have a friend of over 20 years who is planning a big birthday trip to Bali next May. After Covid, our friend group began doing big week long plus birthday trips in places like Vegas, Costa Rica, Enola instead parties. And they've been great. My wife and this woman were friends first and actually best friends at one point, even going so far as to introduce each other as sisters. She is auntie to our kids and godmother to one of them and we are the same to her kids. So she and I have become close as well. In recent years, my wife, my wife's and our friend's relationship has frayed. There's still love, but it's different and a little more distant from my wife's side of things. I think it started when my wife tried to mix her friend groups or when our friend got divorced four years ago. The problem is that my wife has absolutely no intention of going to Bali. She feels as though September is too short of notice to pay for this near $3,000 per person trip, even on a pay plan. And the 22 hour flight is too long for a short week of only five nights. I, on the other hand, would like to go. I've never been to Bali. This is someone who's supposed to be a close friend of ours. And at my age, I'm much more into experiences than anything else. Else. Is it. Is it my reality that I simply can't go because my wife is not going?

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Should I be trying to go? And if I do go, how do I broach this with wifey? I know you don't believe in being friends with your significant other's friends. I don't talking to you. Right. But I think this is a little different. FYI, there is nothing fishy going on with me and the friend or my wife and the friend that I'm aware of.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I don't think so.

[Kid Fury]

Just, you know, you have to throw that out there because you're a straight man.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So thanks. Thanks for letting us into your lives all these years. Okay. CK loyal hetero male listener of a certain age who did not find the read through a woman or a queer.

[Crystal]

Person work one of six.

[Kid Fury]

Right. And the rest of them founded through brilliant idiots. Which is, I don't know, worse.

[Crystal]

Oh yeah, I forgot that's how a lot of them. Yeah, they do. But you stayed.

[Kid Fury]

But you stayed. All six of y'all made wonders.

[Crystal]

Yeah. No, you're not going Tabali. Not on this strip, not in this relationship. How would you broker it to your girl if you go, this relationship has been so great. I understand that. It's over now. And like the fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

If she's not going, you're not going. And that's your girl. And first of all, there's so many elements to this sci fi. Hilarious. Because niggas like Bali ain't going nowhere. N. But also like, why wouldn't she wanna go to Bali with your girlfriend?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes. Why doesn't she wanna. So she's saying that eight months is not enough time to plan this trip. But it's.

[Crystal]

That's.

[Kid Fury]

This is quite a bit of time. Like.

[Crystal]

No, I'm saying to the. Is this his girlfriend or.

[Kid Fury]

No, they've been married for 25 years.

[Crystal]

Okay. I'm sorry, your wife?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Why the fuck Wouldn't she wanna go to Bali with your wife?

[Kid Fury]

Well, he does. The problem is she don't wanna go.

[Crystal]

So he's like, right, so. But I'm like. I feel like that would. That would be a big.

[Kid Fury]

You said it's part of what keeps.

[Crystal]

Me from going, not just because of allegiance. I know it's tons of shit, but it's like. Like if I'm married happily.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Crystal]

I'd want to experience those things with my partner.

[Kid Fury]

Sure. But if your partner don't want to go.

[Crystal]

But if your partner doesn't want to go and your partner doesn't want to go on this trip with someone that they kind of have a frayed relationship with, don't go. Say to your partner, okay, listen, I know that you and Trishell, y'all ain't cool no more or whatever. I really, really, really want to go to Bali. So let's plan a trip, a separate trip to Bali at a time that works for you. Me and you go. Maybe we invite some of our other friends, whatever, to, like, plan another Bali trip. It's not even like she don't want to go. She's saying the timing doesn't work for her. So don't go on this Bali trip. Go on a Bali trip with her. That works for her. Is there something happening in Bali, this specific trip that's like, what's her birthday we're going to miss?

[Kid Fury]

She's probably turning, like, 50 or something. You know, it's like a big birthday. His wife's birthday, his wife's friend's birthday.

[Crystal]

Who cares?

[Kid Fury]

Well, that's his friend, too. Now she's auntie to their kids. Your kids call her auntie? Why we can't go to Bali now we need to talk about why you really got beef with this lady on that level. Why is it that go if you want to. I mean, not saying you should go, but saying I would really need to understand why my wife was acting like if we can swing $6,000 over the next eight months, and this is somebody who used to be your best friend, somebody who our kids call each other cousins. I just not. I'm not saying I'm a go anyway, but I really, really want to understand why you don't. Is it that we can't afford it? Is it too much scrimping and saving and pension to afford the trip? If that's so, then okay. But otherwise, it's a long flight. Yes, it is a long flight. You write about that, you get. That's what's keeping Me, you're getting like two and a half, three days to really enjoy Bali. You might not feel like that's enough for a damn near 24 hour flight. Okay. But again, people do things for their extremely close friends. So it. For me, it would not be like, I'm going to Bali anyway. Suck it up. I would want to sit down with my wife and be like, what's really t. Like, why you hate her this much? You really want to miss her 50th birthday party or whatever. Behind. Whatever happened. Your wife tried to mix friend groups. She didn't get along with some other friend. Maybe they squabbled a little bit. Was it a little squabble squabble? Is it something to do with the friend's divorce? Like, what's. I would just want to understand. But ultimately, because she was my wife's friend first, if my wife didn't want to go, I would also just not go. We can go to Bali some other time. We can, the two of us. But I would love to understand.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I totally agree about, like, the needing more information. You know, your marriage and partnership is give and take and compromise on both ends. So if you're not going solely out of like, you know, loyalty and partner and all this stuff, even though you really want to go and things like that, I think at the very least you could have a conversation with your wife that's like, okay, what's. Really tea? Like, what's.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Cause I really, really wanna go on this trip real bad. And I will stay for you because that's what, you know, we do.

[Kid Fury]

Cause you my wife.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Us part or whatever the fuck. So, like, fine, but let's. Let's. What's going on here? I think that's, it's. That's fair.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. That sounds reasonable. But I think the question of, like, is it my reality that I simply can't go because my wife is not going? Yes. I think so. Yeah, I do think so.

[Crystal]

I think so.

[Kid Fury]

Yep. Shout out to. To you for getting married. But that is pretty much what that means.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Good luck with the conversation though. Hope it all works out. If you have a question for us, send it on over to AskTheRead gmail.com. we're going to take another and then be right back.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Sent you we're back and it's time for the read.

[Kid Fury]

It is. You want to talk about this nigga Luigi right quick?

[Crystal]

We might as well, because I don't.

[Kid Fury]

We minus as well. So the CEO of United Healthcare, I don't know, some white named Brian got popped right here in good old New York City, right in Midtown. Like 56th and 8th on the street. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As he was going into a, I believe a hotel for their annual. Annual investors, you know, celebratory dick jerkin call or something where they all sit around and laugh about how they denied healthcare to your auntie so that they could buy another boat this fucking Christmas. So anyway, Brian. Yes, Brian Thompson was shot and killed allegedly by Luigi Mangione. Not sure that he is actually the shooter. I'm feeling a little conspiracy theory tinfoil hadish about whether he actually is the one who did it or if this is some.

[Crystal]

Really.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I just. That's where I tend to get involved in conspiracy theory because I'm like, you mean to tell me somebody who. This. This was carried out like a professional hit? Like you sat outside overnight waiting on this nigga, knew his comings and goings, knew exactly who you're looking for, shot him, and then when the gun jam, very calmly, quickly, collectively cleared the jam and kept right going. Like, it just seems strange to me that somebody who was that much of a professional could be caught in Pennsylvania a few days later at a fucking McDonald's. Like, I expected that n to be in the wind, you know? So I'm.

[Crystal]

That was the one part of it to me where I was like, that.

[Kid Fury]

Don'T really make sense, Luigi.

[Crystal]

What? Like, who. First of all, who in 2024 sits down and eats at McDonald's?

[Kid Fury]

26 year olds, I guess.

[Crystal]

Like, unless you at a truck stop or something.

[Kid Fury]

He's. But you know, he.

[Crystal]

If you just assassinated somebody else, can you get that shit to go?

[Kid Fury]

You did? So I was honestly shocked that he was still in America. But I did read his manifesto. It's very short, but it basically says, I wasn't working with nobody. I did this because I'm sick of y'all shit. The United States has that.

[Crystal]

Didn't it start off by him saying some shit like my bad, shout out to the feds. Y'all are like, actually kind of lit or whatever. Never. But it had to be done. It was like the weirdest thing.

[Kid Fury]

He said, I respect what y'all do for the country, but basically I did it because I needed to. Yeah, some very important stats here. The US has the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we Rank roughly number 42 in life expectancy. United is the fourth largest company in the US by market cap only, behind Apple, Google, and Walmart. And as this company has grown, our life expectancy has shrunk, and you people have gotten too powerful, too comfortable with killing us so that you can have more money. And so now it's time for y'all to die. And so the thing about this is that this guy is evidently kind of like an asshole. He's right wingish.

[Crystal]

And the Luigi.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. This Luigi guy, he's.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I'm not.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I was surprised. Right. I was never finna be.

[Crystal]

He apparently, like, comes from money. His parents own, like, living. Assisted living things or some shit like that. Like. Yeah, I don't know much about him. All I know is he killed, allegedly killed this, you know, a huge figurehead in one of the most corrupt systems in the world, really.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

And it doesn't help that he's also young and hot.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, y'all have been really horny for this boy. I mean, he's cute. I can't say that he makes me as, you know, flooded as he does for some of y'all. But for me, the issue has been the way mainstream media seems to be so shocked that everybody else, the American public in general.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Is like, girl, whatever.

[Crystal]

It's real shock.

[Kid Fury]

They're like, well, America is losing all sense of diplomacy, and we're no longer a civilized country, baby. The point here is that we stopped being a civilized country when y'all decided people should just suffer for all eternity instead of getting the healthcare they need.

[Crystal]

Why is it also the 6th of January's coming out now?

[Kid Fury]

You don't even have to bring up big, giant obvious things in the church today, but go on ahead then, in the room. This country has a massive and I mean unclockable list of crimes that it commits against its own people.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And healthcare is one of the biggest ones. Now, I did read that he had some sort of chronic illness, chronic injury, something, Right. Whether that's true or not, people with chronic illness, like, first of all, if you don't know what that's like, you really cannot empathize. But, baby, pain every day, you will lose your mind. You will lose your mind.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kid Fury]

The same pain, literally in the same place. Oh, no. Sometimes it's worse. Sometimes it's much worse. The people who are like, on a good day, I can just lay in bed all day, and here go United Healthcare denying a third of all claims, so you can't get your fucking meds or see your fucking doctor or whatever else. That's. If Your illness can even be treated. Think of the number of people who have needed some sort of medical attention in this country and not had it covered because of greedy health insurance providers. Think of how much you pay every month for just the premium that don't go towards the deductible. You got a 7 or $800 premium every fucking month on top of a $5,000 deductible. So you still paying out of pocket and shit just to go get a goddamn pap smear to have somebody check your sinuses. It is insane.

[Crystal]

I don't even know if this is related. I don't even know if this is related.

[Kid Fury]

True.

[Crystal]

But I was just thinking about, like I was watching rewatching Squid Game the first season because the new season comes out, I think Christmas or something. And there's this whole element to like this subplot in the first season where a lot of the people that work on the game, the ones with the pink suits, are taking like, losers, like dead bodies and harvesting their organs and selling them on the black market.

[Kid Fury]

Yikes.

[Crystal]

And I remember when I was rewatching it a couple of weeks ago, I was like, I see these black market organ things in movies all the time, but I'm like, who do they sell that stuff to? It makes sense to me. When you're trafficking weapons or even humans, I'm like, that makes sense to me. Where? But I'm like, who's buying organs? But then I was like, wait a minute. Junk you in many places. Like, you could need an organ to live and have like, let's say a couple months. And it's like, oh, you're 52nd on this list to get whoopty shoop. And that's if nigga number one can get. It's like, right?

[Kid Fury]

It's too much.

[Crystal]

Again, I don't even know if that's related. But I was just like. I found it interesting just a couple of weeks ago where I was just like, what is this black market organ shit? Like, doesn't even make sense. So I googled it and it's like, it's one of the leading forms of legal trafficking, of course, because so many people need organs and can't get them through healthcare. But also, yeah, it's just there are so many facets of it that just don't make no goddamn sense. And my hope, rather than people looking at this fucking Atreides, whatever, what a timite chalamet looking ass motherfucker intimate and being like, load up the Glock. Let's go hunting girls I'm hoping that. I'm hoping that we can. No, we won't. Never mind. My hope's gone. Like why healthcare shouldn't be a business. It shouldn't be for sale. Like none of the. It shouldn't. No one should even be profiting off of keeping people healthy and alive, much less. So much so that they're right behind Apple, Goog and Wally world.

[Kid Fury]

They made 22 billion in profits last.

[Crystal]

Year, yet our life expectancy is worse. The girls are still sick. The girls are still dying. The girls can't get a pill, can't get a surgery, a scalpel, floss round this bitch. Folks are tired. Even rich, possibly conservative, gross ones. Because I don't know nothing about Luigi, right, except for his mansion.

[Kid Fury]

That's the thing. This is.

[Crystal]

Well, there's a bar there.

[Kid Fury]

This has united people across political lines. Everybody is sick of the healthcare industry. Ultimately, capitalism is the problem. But I know y'all have no interest in getting rid of that. And I'm not saying. I know y'all are not interested in dismantling the system. And I know that doctors have to make money just like everybody else. And it's honestly, at least the doctors are doing the goddamn work. You mean to tell me, right, some pencil pushing nerd sitting in a fucking office makes $8 million a year off of denying your cousin's claims after they was hit by a fucking full job.

[Crystal]

Just telling you you can't have medicine or have healthcare because it makes you richer. That's all they do. That's all they do.

[Kid Fury]

Elizabeth Warren did an interview and then she had to walk it back the next day because she was like, you know, violence is never the answer. I don't condemn this. But you know, people have a breaking point and y'all need to be. And y'all need to take it as a. Take it as a warning that people are fed up with the American healthcare system.

[Crystal]

People are fed up.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. And now y'all taking down your CEOs and removing all of these names and profiles from these websites. If somebody wants to kill you. Do you understand?

[Crystal]

Mama. They kept her broad daylight in the middle of Manhattan, in Manhattan, on the street. You think that taking off a picture off of your website or some shit like that is going to stop motherfuckers from finding you at all? Not you need. No, you need to look at the recipe, you need to look at the dish and you need to say, okay, how are we going to prepare this motherfucker in the future?

[Kid Fury]

Because that plate just killed bitches Right, Right. Have you considered maybe y'all just make a normal salary? Maybe y'all just make regular, nice, good money, and then you can take all of that 22 billion in profits and start taking care of people, Just throwing it out there, just spitballing. Maybe you don't deserve to make millions and millions of dollars a year just because you lead a company. You're not even the one saving the lives. Give that money to the doctors, the nurses, the fucking EMTs.

[Crystal]

If I could piggyback off that theory. Yeah. Money goes into helping people. Healthier people, less likely, happier people, possibly more productive, happier people, possibly less violent. Frustrated.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crystal]

I'm just thinking, even though, like, overall ripple effects from your concept, this is an industry.

[Kid Fury]

People pay into a lot of fucking money to pay. Like people pay for this service. And y'all say, we're going to straight up deny a cool 32, 33% of them claims, and then you use bullshit AI services that get shit wrong 90% of the time. And you thought you was just going to be able to do this forever and ever. Amen. Somebody was going to get fed up. This was bound to happen. One of my friends in Texas texted me after that, talking about, are you scared? I mean, I know this is in Manhattan. Are you scared? Are you nervous? Said, bitch, they not looking for me. They not looking for me. Girl, hell no, I'm not scared. You know, I'm taking the train to midtown Manhattan right goddamn now. Nobody's looking for me.

[Crystal]

If you weren't scared after 12 years doing that shit, bitch, you ain't scared of nothing.

[Kid Fury]

Absolutely nothing.

[Crystal]

They ain't looking for nothing.

[Kid Fury]

I am not making my wealth off of denying nausea meds to pregnant patients.

[Crystal]

Nobody just buried Banana because you told her she can have a hip.

[Kid Fury]

I saw a post from a. All right. I saw a post from a woman who said that her child died and they made the decision to donate their child's organs to other kids. And they got a bill for, I think, just under $4,000 for keeping the body alive long enough or warm or whatever. Keeping the body in so that they can leave a thing there. Yes. Keeping the body in good enough condition for them to then take this deceased child's organs and charge other families to install them into their children.

[Crystal]

It's such a fucking rocket.

[Kid Fury]

You think I'm paying for, Drake?

[Crystal]

This who you need to be suing? Fuck is you suing UMG for?

[Kid Fury]

You think I'm paying for my dead baby's organs to be redistributed to Other people? Are you out of your godd.

[Crystal]

Four more money.

[Kid Fury]

This was bound to happen.

[Crystal]

I don't know what y'all thought.

[Kid Fury]

I suggest y'all stop being so fucking greedy. How about that?

[Crystal]

Y'all need to start right there. Sketch whatever that gala put them cigarettes, them cigars, and them champagne flutes down this year, and you sketch out a plan that helps the people because they're coming in, girl. And that man, like, they showed washboard abs and some greasy ass hair. The girls are wet. The girls are wet. And they're probably, like, giving cults.

[Kid Fury]

These are Republicans killing other Republicans.

[Crystal]

So they're tired of healthcare, too.

[Kid Fury]

Everybody's over it. Everybody's sick of this shit. Y'all are gonna have to start treating people like they matter, or I fear more of you are gonna end up just like that nigga Brian.

[Crystal]

No. Flat.

[Kid Fury]

Cause y'all don't listen to CEO of United Healthcare, and all of a sudden, it's just the biggest case. Oh, my God.

[Crystal]

You can't be able to find any one of y'all bitches.

[Kid Fury]

What's happening to America? What's happening to America? The shit that y'all literally set this up. Y'all set this up.

[Crystal]

Girl, you just reelected a felon. Shut up. I don't know what's happening to America. I don't want to hear that.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crystal]

Like, fix healthcare. They're killing the girls. And honestly, I'm not gagging.

[Kid Fury]

So if you looking for sympathy for that nigga from me, you absolutely not getting it. You not getting it. No. You know what you should have done?

[Crystal]

I'm sure his kids wanted their dad there for Christmas.

[Kid Fury]

Sure, sure. I saw his wife has said, you know, he was getting some threats from people, but I didn't really take it that seriously. I didn't ask him about it or nothing. Almost like he gets threats all the time, child.

[Crystal]

Something to evaluate. Maybe at the gala. You know, the former gala, current brainstorm session. Fight for lives. American lives. And yours, bitch, because they're fucking coming for you. You've been giving. Remember when Covid was it, Selena Gomez.

[Kid Fury]

Was like, some people are gonna die, you guys. Yeah. Yep.

[Crystal]

Like, yep. The girls were like, bitch, what?

[Kid Fury]

You guys, maybe this is the right time, but I just feel like some people are gonna die anyway, so, like, party.

[Crystal]

She was beamed up, and you can't tell me different, right?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, America, you're getting exactly what you asked for. Don't act like the problem is now with the reckoning. Y'all laid the foundation for this type of behavior. You Literally asked for it. So, I mean, you can't.

[Crystal]

Vigilante justice is also.

[Kid Fury]

It's literally right. Josh Shapiro talking about. This is not what America does, bitch. America where? This is literally what America does.

[Crystal]

America done it all the time.

[Kid Fury]

Like, quite literally, how you deny people's health care.

[Crystal]

You just ride a horse into a neighboring town and see the bodies strung up. Like, there's the mayor.

[Kid Fury]

You used to just say, nigga, I challenge you to a duel. And y'all just go out in a field somewhere and one of you dies, and we just pretend.

[Crystal]

And that's how you got the new sheriff. Like, literally, I picked apples for a living. But you're not. Like, the taxes are too high. I challenge you cap that bitch. I'm the new mayor. Like, what are you talking about?

[Kid Fury]

You wanna be this greedy, you gonna have to get rid of the guns. Y'all done. You can't have it both ways. And that will never happen.

[Crystal]

Never happen. So let's get into it.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, so maybe, you know, maybe these CEO, maybe the C suite needs to all take a giant fucking pay cut so that people's kids can get their asthma meds. What do you think?

[Crystal]

Like, what is the issue?

[Kid Fury]

Capitalism really has no place.

[Crystal]

You would still be plenty rich. You could do these things and you would still. That is the gag.

[Kid Fury]

It is.

[Crystal]

You would never be put out. You would not have to. Like, you would not want for anything.

[Kid Fury]

It is like, it don't take a lot of money to be comfortable.

[Crystal]

Unfathomable, greedy. Don't. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

It do not take a lot of money to be comfortable. Y'all are just greedy. And so. So if the people decide to take matters into their own hands. Once again, I'm not denying nobody's memaw her blood pressure medication. So I'm not part of this conversation. I suggest y'all straighten it up, clean it up. It's. It's not looking safe. It's not looking safe out here for you hoes. So that's all I had.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, okay. Work.

[Crystal]

Yeah, that's it. I was gonna talk about incels and video games, but I'll do that next week.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, okay. Well, that wraps up this week's. Wait, did you see Jaleel White? No, no, no, no.

[Crystal]

This is so stupid.

[Kid Fury]

Talking about.

[Crystal]

Why would he say that?

[Kid Fury]

So if you didn't hear this, I'm gonna just do this very quickly. Jaleel White said that he thinks family matters doesn't get brought up in the conversation about best black shows, because I.

[Crystal]

Think he said he does it well.

[Kid Fury]

He said being part of TGIF makes you feel like sometimes you don't belong in the pantheon of blackness and that if it's not a hood story, it's not a black story. And sometimes he feels left out of that. Yes. Well, you might feel like it's about you and not about Family Matters. Because the problem with Family Matters was that it aggressively jumped the shark by making Urkel the star of the show. And yeah, you see how turning his family dumb shit into the entire storyline.

[Crystal]

See how Steve Urkel wasn't a member of their family and yet and the show was car family.

[Kid Fury]

Right. So I just want Jaleel White to know that.

[Crystal]

But also that's not true. Like.

[Kid Fury]

Well, he said if there's a poll of like, what's your favorite black shows, people say Martin Living Single. I know Family Matters is not going to be on there, but. But if there's a poll about favorite family shows, all of a sudden we rank really high. It's like, I think that's nostalgia. And just because somebody has a favorite something doesn't mean it was good. Family Matters.

[Crystal]

So smart guy. So like hanging with Mr. Cooper. That's a like. So they wouldn't be mentioned in the legacy of black entertainment because they're more family centric or because they wouldn't poll highest on like black favorites.

[Kid Fury]

But even the shows.

[Crystal]

What are you talking about?

[Kid Fury]

Right? These shows are not necessarily hood shows. Like, Martin is just in Detroit. You know, they live in a regular apartment, but it's not the projects. Living single. They lived in a goddamn brownstone. Khadijah owned her own newspaper. Max was a fucking attorney. Like, these were not hood shows.

[Crystal]

Fresh Prince of Then there. I think if anything, there might have just been more extra.

[Kid Fury]

Well, let's be real. They're better shows. They're better written. And they didn't turn a sidekick character into a buffoon who completely manipulated the entire fucking series.

[Crystal]

Family Matters, it isn't good. Was a good show for at a certain point, Family Matters was a good show that had great jokes and really great performance performers. But Family Matters was also a show, like you said, that was a part of it. There were a few sitcoms of this era that did this a little too corny where it was like the little side character gets a lot of jokes. Let's work them into it. Like, so many shows did this. I don't know why Step by Step is coming to mind right now. But you remember Cody?

[Kid Fury]

Yes, I loved that show too.

[Crystal]

He started as just Like a character that would pop up and like be in the background or whatever. And then he like moved in and married one of them or some shit like that, whatever, you know. I just think it's a little crazy to me to be like. To think. To say that you feel like you're not involved in the legacy of black entertainment or television when Steve Urkel is one of the most iconic black television characters, period. But you feel like. It sounds like. It feels like you wish that you appealed more to hood niggas or to like. Like you wish that you ranked higher. Like on this list of favorite black shows, A Family Matters or even a Sister Sister or a Smart guy, as funny as I know them shows are, is not gonna rank above a Martin or a Living Single because it's written differently. It's not really written.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say you could just look at the writers rooms to find that out. You could just look at who's making up those writer rooms to figure that out.

[Crystal]

Those shows like the former. And it's not just that they're family focused, so they have to keep a certain like tone, demographic and so on in mind. When you have something that's like Living Single or whatever, it's not like families can't watch that together. But I feel like they have a larger space to work with in terms of storytelling material, jokes and so on. So obviously especially now that everybody who was kids and watched Family Matters watch all that shit and we grown now. Like, just because you're not second or third in line doesn't mean that you are not a part of black Legacy of television. And to say that right after you also said that there was a possibility for a Family Matters reboot, but you shut that shit down. Not considering any of the other actors who could have got paid or relived, boosted that legacy, it's like, sell this book. I mean, just sell this book.

[Kid Fury]

Arkel got got worse and worse to the point where we now had Myrtle Urkel. We had Stefan Urkel.

[Crystal]

Myrtle was fierce.

[Kid Fury]

We had this nigga putting on jetpacks and blowing through these. Blowing through the roof. He blew through the roof of these people house. Like it got more and more ridiculous. The character became more and more of a character.

[Crystal]

Big Bang Theory, but everybody loves Big Bang Theory that won a number of Emmy when it was a goofy black kid doing it in the 90s and it was just too much. But yes, 1000%, it got quite ridiculous. The fact that they. I think the biggest issue with the character is that they never allowed him to change his voice or clothes.

[Kid Fury]

Well, regardless of the issues with the character, he said sometimes he gets this feeling like it was basically like, you know, there's this idea of it's not. If it's not a hood story, it's not a black story. But you name most of the most popular black sitcoms are not about niggas in the hood. They're actually about black people doing better than most white people. Like, doing better than average. It's about black people who are the exception to this idea that we're all broke. We're like. It's more like TV was very deliberately trying to show that black people weren't just hood. You know, it wasn't just Good Times, that we could also be the Cosby Show. We could also be a different world. We could also be fresh people.

[Crystal]

Even. Good Times wasn't a hood show. It was about a family that lived in the project.

[Kid Fury]

Well, but they were pro, they were poor and in the project. So maybe that's what he meant. But either way, sir, I think you're forgetting a very key element here, which is that your show was not as good as the others. To me, Family Matters simply was not as good as the. Well, I mean, because he's saying people. When people rank the shows, theirs is dead last. Well, yes, it's not as good as the other. Yes, correct to me.

[Crystal]

But, you know, but how does that mean you're not a part of the legacy of black entertainment? It's just not true.

[Kid Fury]

Well, now that I don't understand. But if you. If you complaining that people rank Family Matters dead last or they don't consider it one of their favorite black shows. It's not one of my favorite black shows either, again, because it was ridiculous. It was much better when it was about the family. When it was about Harriet, who was the actor, actual star. The show was a spin off from. What was that show where she was like, the elevator. Yes, the. The show was about Harriet and her family. It was never supposed to be about the annoying ass little boy next door whose parents didn't even want him.

[Crystal]

That's why we got a light skin out there. I mean, that's why we got a light skinned Harriet. Because by that last season, that Joe Marie.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, Jo Marie, was like, I cannot do this buffoonery no more.

[Crystal]

I stuck it out, but this is fucking dumb.

[Kid Fury]

And even with Good Times, that's the same thing Esther Rolle said about JJ on Good Times. Like they turned him into a fucking clown. Like, I'm not being.

[Crystal]

But that was a common thing from, like, the 50s into, like. Yeah, they did that a lot in.

[Kid Fury]

So maybe, maybe Jaleel just needs to make peace with being the JJ of his generation.

[Crystal]

But you need to make peace with shit, you know? Like, people know your name and your character and always know, you know, how unfair it is that people. People don't know the name of Joan Marie Payton Reginal Vel Johnson. People don't know, like, Laura, real name. Like, show don't, but they know yours, nigga. And the show will never about you. So I don't know, like, I shan't cry tears, especially, you know, alongside untruths. But God bless him. I think he's telling a book.

[Kid Fury]

All right, well, that was. That's it for me. You have anything else you want to throw in there before we wrap this up?

[Crystal]

Sure don't.

[Kid Fury]

All right, girly pop, we're going to.

[Crystal]

Go work on this off yourself game.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Who's gonna make this game, and it's gonna make billions of dollars. No, it won't. It will not.

[Kid Fury]

If that happens, I'll say, hmm, I'll remember this very moment.

[Crystal]

And you really will. That would be the response.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it would be exactly that. But that won't.

[Crystal]

But it would be more like.

[Kid Fury]

Rest in peace, Nikki Giovanni. The icon, the legend, the God. Also, I wanted to share that I am a guest on the most recent episode of the We Disrupt this broadcast podcast produced by the Peabody Awards and CMS Impact. And they had me on to talk about Bluey, my favorite show of all time. Well, not of all time. I'm being dramatic. But I watch Bluey so much that I've stopped watching it in English, and now I watch the French dub with English subtitles. So my French will get better. That's how much Bluey I watch. I'm really, really into that show. And so thank you so much to we disrupt this broadcast.

[Crystal]

Are the. Are Bluey mem French children voicing them?

[Kid Fury]

No, they're Australian. Oh, no, the show's Australian, but it's French kids doing the voiceovers. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay, cool.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. No, in the credits, they have the cast credited for every language that they do the show in, so.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But anyway, thank you for having me. And the other guest they interview is the actual creator of the show, Joe Brum. So I'm very honored.

[Crystal]

Wow, that's so cool.

[Kid Fury]

Very honored to have been included. And just to talk about what I think bluey really gets right as far as parenting is concerned. And so yeah, go check that out. Thank you again for having me. Look how far I know right from.

[Crystal]

Having your journey through, watching it, talking about it, having your petty bluey cake, and now being featured on an episode of the Crew. That's so cool.

[Kid Fury]

It is. Thank you Jordana again for reaching out and it was just such a joy, such an honor. So yeah, I think that's it for us. You guys take care of yourself, ourselves, etc etc. We will see y'all next week.

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