Artificial Souls: The Perm Line

Summary

The Read – “Artificial Souls: The Perm Line”

Original Air Date: May 7, 2026
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle
Main Theme: Hip-hop and pop culture roundtable with humor and incisive commentary, taking on musical theatre, reality TV endings, cancel culture, family mess, and Black icons.

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Episode Overview

This week, Kid Fury and Crissle return with their signature blend of irreverence, humor, and cultural critique, covering everything from Broadway’s latest Black excellence, the end of “Love & Hip Hop”, and the swirling drama of celebrity “cancellations” to eyebrow-raising moments in music, TV reunions, awkward parental relationships, and more. Amid the jokes and the reads, the hosts reflect on evolving Black pop culture, therapy needs, and the endless chaos of the entertainment industry—all while making time for standout listener letters.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Broadway’s Black “Jellicle Ball” Phenomenon (01:57–06:14)

• Celebrating Black Broadway talent: Kid Fury shouts out the new production centered on the "Jellicle Ball," boasting nine Tony nominations alongside “Rocky Horror.” He revels in Andre DeShields’s nomination and the cultural significance of the show.
  • "O P U L E N C E. Opulence. Everything is yours. She has everything." — Kid Fury [02:08]
  • Humorous confusion about what “Cats” is actually about, referencing pop culture parodies and the infamous film adaptation (“Why did we look any further than the trailer? Why did the cats have nipples?” — Kid Fury, [05:09]).
• Crissle on musical theatre cluelessness: Admits she’s never seen “Cats” but feels the relentless TikTok promotion; both hosts joke about perhaps never really needing to understand it.

2. “Love & Hip Hop” Ends: A Reality TV Era Closes (06:48–11:32)

• Six-Part Finale Announced: Kid Fury reveals the beloved VH1 series gets an official sendoff after exhausting its roster of faded hip-hop personalities.
  • Crissle delivers the autopsy: Frequent cast recycling, lack of fresh stars, and only Cardi B's true stardom (“...after Cardi B, they should have called it a wrap.” — Crissle, [09:10]).
• Takeaways: Legacy of the show, cast crossovers, and reality TV’s evolution.

3. Pop Culture’s “Canceled” Yet Uncancelled: Chappelle, Kanye, Chris Brown, and More (11:38–26:24)

• Chappelle & Kanye’s Enduring Appeal: The pair’s ongoing buddy act, continued support, and the audience’s willingness to ignore problematic behavior.
  • "You can really just say any fucking thing. It do not matter. Huh. Okay. Must be nice." — Crissle [13:59]
• M.I.A. Booted from Kid Cudi’s Tour: For on-stage MAGA rants and anti-immigrant language.
  • Kid Cudi’s statement makes it clear—there’s no room for hate on his stage ([21:14]).
  • Crissle parses M.I.A.’s attempt to backtrack online and her convoluted defense.
  • “If you weren’t rich, Donald Trump would kick your ass right out this country.” — Crissle [23:30]
• Discussion on cancel culture’s impact (or lack thereof) for Black male celebrities.

4. Artistic Fails and AI Perms: The Chris Brown “Brown” Album Cover (31:27–35:10)

• Kid Fury and Crissle discuss the use (and misuse) of AI in new album art—Chris Brown imitating fellow musician Duran's cover art with lifeless results.
  • “Why not just get an artist to paint this?” — Kid Fury [34:04]
  • Crissle: “Words used to mean things, they really did. ... I want to get back to that.” [32:17]
• The fatigue and confusion surrounding AI-produced arts and what it reflects about today’s celebrity culture.

5. Migos Reunion: Bittersweet Potential (35:36–42:43)

• Reports of Offset and Quavo back in the studio, possibly signaling new Migos music.
  • The hosts express mixed feelings given Takeoff’s absence.
  • Crissle is blunt about Offset’s rumored gambling problem, advocating therapy over more music.
  • Comparison to TLC after Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes's death and the challenge of recapturing magic.

6. Money, Fame, and the Scams of Bro Culture (43:00–46:51)

• The economics and perils of being a rapper or pro athlete, generational wealth, and the pressure to support entire communities.
• Classic barbershop-level shade about harebrained business ideas and the “friends and family” problem.

7. Celebrity Relationships and Light-skinned Myths: Klay Thompson & Megan Thee Stallion (48:12–51:15)

• Klay's messy breakup discussed, with Kid Fury offering a “read” on male insecurity and the myth of the “irresistible” tall, light-skinned athlete.
  • "...you were never made for a bitch that bad. Never." — Kid Fury [48:39]
• PBS dragged into the Twitter fracas via Klay’s resemblance to their iconic logo.

8. Listener Letters: Family Dysfunction, Michael Jackson Biopic, Social Anxiety & Friendship (53:41–91:12)

• Parental toxicity: Advice to a listener whose mother is manipulative and mean-spirited—unapologetic boundaries, therapy, and “patience has expired.”
• Michael Jackson fatigue: Both hosts skip the new biopic—having already lived through MJ mania, skepticism about family oversight, and re-telling the same story.
  • “How many times can we tell the Michael Jackson story? Goddamn.” — Crissle [73:52]
• Neurodivergence and friendship: Wisdom for a homebody struggling with friend group FOMO. Kid Fury: “I don’t think that it’s wrong to choose a peanut butter and jelly sandwich over being social.” [82:21]
  • Propose new plans, find your tribe, be gentle with yourself.

9. The Read: This Week’s Final Rants (94:39–104:24)

• Mason “Mase” Betha and “Good Hair” Foolery (94:46–101:19): Crissle torches Mase for perpetuating outdated, colorist beauty standards. She speculates on his insecurities and the outdatedness of “good hair” talk in 2026.
  • “Are you not deep in your 50s? Talking about a tall, light-skinned with good hair can get whatever…?” — Crissle [101:21]
• Nintendo Switch Marketplace Mess (104:26–107:45): Kid Fury rails against AI-generated, sometimes inappropriate games flooding Nintendo’s family-friendly marketplace, urging better protection for kids.

10. Notable + Uplifting Moments

• Blue Ivy at the Met Gala (108:06–110:37): Both hosts rejoice in Blue Ivy ignoring adult advice and gracefully running her own (Met) show.
  • “They were begging that child to take her shades off. … She was like, ‘Can everybody calm down? I know what I’m doing.’” — Crissle [108:55]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

with timestamps

• On “Cats” confusion:
  • Kid Fury: “Why did we look any further than the trailer? Why did the cats have nipples?” [05:10]
  • Crissle: “All I remember is the tribe of cats is called the Jellicles… I guess them [n—] are having a ball. Like a gay ball.” [05:24]
• On Migos reuniting:
  • Kid Fury: “It’s like when TLC would make music without Lisa. … This is heartbreaking. That’s not their fault.” [36:34]
• On “Love & Hip Hop’s” real ending:
  • Crissle: “Cardi is by far the biggest success story out of that franchise… Y’all are never gonna have that again. …It’s not. Fetch is not going to happen.” [09:10]
• On cancel culture and Black male celebrities:
  • Crissle: “It’s something about our canceled (heavy air quotes) Black male celebrities — they don’t seem to suffer in any way other than negative social media conversation.” [13:13]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamps | |------------------------------- |:-------------:| | Broadway/Tony nominations | 01:57–06:14 | | Love & Hip Hop Finale | 06:48–11:32 | | Chappelle/Kanye Cancellations | 11:38–13:59 | | M.I.A. Booted from Tour | 20:02–26:24 | | Chris Brown AI Album Cover | 31:27–35:10 | | Migos Mini-Reunion | 35:36–42:43 | | Athlete/Rapper Money Dynamic | 43:00–46:51 | | Klay Thompson/Megan Thee Stallion | 48:12–51:15 | | Listener Letters | 53:41–91:12 | | The Read: Mase’s Colorism | 94:46–101:19 | | The Read: Nintendo Marketplace | 104:26–107:45 | | Blue Ivy at the Met Gala | 108:06–110:37 |

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Final Thoughts & Announcements

• Upcoming live show: Kid Fury announces a performance in Los Angeles at the Roxy, June 3rd [111:16].
• Listener and community engagement: Both hosts reflect on the live Atlanta show, recent guest spots, and ongoing opportunities.
• Crystal’s Couch & Signal Awards: Crissle discusses her platform and new role as a judge for the Signal Awards [113:44].

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Tone & Style

Throughout, Kid Fury and Crissle keep the humor sharp, pepper the show with personal anecdotes and plenty of cussing, but center each “read” in a genuine love for Black culture, pop absurdity, and freewheeling friendship.

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Transcript

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[Krystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Kid Fury]

How do you do? Slurs. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm Reginald Johnson.

[Krystal]

You know what? And I'm Harriet Winslow and this is the read. Thank you for joining us.

[Kid Fury]

Shout out to Jo Marie Payton, forever icon. I'll never forget the time that I saw her in Publix and I had the living gall to approach her and say, I'm sorry, are you Jo Marie Payton? And she said yes immediately over it. And I deserve that. First of all, iconic. I will never feel like I bothered her, but it was kind of like Blue Ivy ignoring us.

[Krystal]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was an honor.

[Kid Fury]

I will treasure it.

[Krystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And at the same time, I recognized I deserved it because this lady was just trying to get her beans of rice or whatever.

[Krystal]

Love that.

[Kid Fury]

Love those two. Yeah. Well, welcome back, everyone. It is officially May, and yeah, we're getting into the summertime here. Although it still it feels like the forever winter because it's Earth. But instead of focusing on that, let's focus on some excellent blacks. Specifically everyone over there, down to the Cat's Jellicle Ball function over on Broadway. They just racked up nine Tony nominations.

[Krystal]

Oh, wow.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, baby. Best revival of a musical, best direction of a musical, best actor in a featured role in a musical for Andre DeShields. They also got costume designing nominations. They got choreography, some other direction stuff. They got like, huge number of nominations. Rocky Horror also got nine nominations. So they're up there, and rightfully so. O P U L E N C E Opulence. Everything is yours. She has everything. The fact that he's in the fucking musical too, is so fantastic to me.

[Krystal]

Oh, I didn't. I've never seen Cats, so I don't know. I don't know what the Jellicle Ball is. I don't know how that's related to Cats. I have no context for this, but the gays have been promoting it heavy on my TikTok and Instagram, so that's why I know about it.

[Kid Fury]

You know what? I think you should go see it because I know that you love. I mean, you enjoy theater. I've heard great things about this. You not knowing anything about Cats, I think is appropriate. Why should you?

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Why do you need to. That's never even. Like. I remember being a kid and people talking about Cats and stuff all the time. Hell, that episode where Golden. On the Golden Girls. Remember the episode on the Golden Girls where Blanche and Rose dressed up like cats because they're, like, in theaters. And I remember it being a huge cultural thing and always feeling like, so they're cats. I never. Yeah, I don't really went further than that. And then that Taylor Swift movie happened, and that was a meme. So all that to say, I don't really know what it's about.

[Krystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I think that, like, drug addicts or something. It's like Rent. But the cats, I don't know. It's like supposed to be. I think it's sad. I don't know.

[Krystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know.

[Krystal]

We don't know.

[Kid Fury]

I know that there's all the cats have weird ass names and that's all I know. So what I would say is maybe read a little summary.

[Krystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And then go watch this because I don't know that even has any. I don't know how much it has to do with cats anyway, because I also don't know shit about it.

[Krystal]

Okay, well.

[Kid Fury]

But I hear this is good.

[Krystal]

Yeah. I really just remember the TV movie getting talked about so bad.

[Kid Fury]

I don't remember that.

[Krystal]

Yeah, it was the same. Wasn't. Yeah, remember. Cause the cats had nipples.

[Kid Fury]

I think that's the movie I'm talking. Was that a T that came out in theaters?

[Krystal]

Did it? Why did I think that was a TV movie? Maybe because everybody.

[Kid Fury]

Why did we look any further than the trailer? Why did the cats have nipples?

[Krystal]

Right. And so I never saw it based off of that one critique, but I see here that the tribe of cats is called the Jellicles.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Krystal]

So I guess them n are having a ball. Like a gay ball. That's why I'm assuming gay Ball.

[Kid Fury]

Their ball is a ball.

[Krystal]

Right, right. So, yeah, okay. I mean, yeah, yeah. I was like, go check.

[Kid Fury]

It's got nine Tony nominations.

[Krystal]

Yeah. So you know, it's got that many Tony nominations. It's worth the ticket for sure. But I just feel like I'm not really gonna get it because of having zero context for this show.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, we'll see. Why did these cats have titties and.

[Krystal]

And what was the nipples for? I remember Jennifer Hudson being in that. Right?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

And just a shot of her singing with her nippled titties in the costume out and was just like, why did that. Who made that choice? I don't get it. But.

[Kid Fury]

And I know that song. The one song that she. She sings like a big ballad.

[Krystal]

It's so easy to.

[Kid Fury]

And I do know that one. Yeah, that one.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And it sounds great, but I have to listen to it and not look at it.

[Krystal]

Right, right. So it's Memory. The song is called Memory.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[Krystal]

I think everybody, that's probably the one thing I know about that show is Memory. Barbra Streisand. Yeah, that's XD's fault.

[Kid Fury]

There it is. There it is.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, let's get into the hot tops of the week. It's quite a mixed bag. Let me see if I can start with something nice. Oh my God, all of this. Oh, wait, here's something nice. Love and Hip Hop has announced its six part finale Final Chapter. That's all, folks.

[Krystal]

Oh, man.

[Kid Fury]

Well, yes indeed. Paramount's revealed that a six part finale series called Love and Hip the Final Chapter is coming this fall. No official release date yet, but executive producer of the Final Chapter, lashawn Browning, beautiful name, says the Love and Hip Hop franchise has always been about the people.

[Krystal]

Okay, yeah, some. Somebody.

[Kid Fury]

Some people.

[Krystal]

Somebody.

[Kid Fury]

The incredible talent who trusted us with their real lives. This person's being very kind. The exceptional producers who poured themselves into every storyline, their dedication is why this franchise resonated for so many. Okay, girl. Anyway, so they're saying like, ooh, be there, be square.

[Krystal]

Right? So all the love and hip hops are over.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. It sounds like this is the end.

[Krystal]

Well, because I mean, honestly, were people even still watching it? They couldn't get anybody famous enough for us to really give a shit about on that show for years. Like there just was nobody that I actually wanted to cut the TV on. It's only so many times you could put young Joc and baby

[Kid Fury]

like. Okay.

[Krystal]

And Rashida. It's only so many times you could prop these Niggas up and, you know, random rappers in Miami while she. While Trina is shooting one fucking scene per six episodes because she can't be

[Kid Fury]

bothered, like, getting paid the most.

[Krystal]

Right. And paid the most to appear the least. Like, it's not. I'm not tuning into that. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

The show just hasn't lost it lost its plot. It really did. It did. And I agree. The fact that it's like, okay, now what's her name now? Yandy's in Atlanta and this Atlanta person's in Miami and this person from Hollywood is now in Miami. Or it just kind of like. Like you said, it was like they can. They can't find new people to say yes to be on this show. So you're giving us the same. Like, I don't want to hear about Kirk's latest affair.

[Krystal]

Right. It really. After Cardi B, they should have called it a rap. Cardi is by far the biggest success story out of that franchise to the point where I think most people probably don't even know or they have forgotten that that where we got our first. And yeah, y' all are never gonna have that again. That's never going to happen again. All these random Instagram hoes y' all be sourcing from the baddies, leftovers or whatever to throw them on this show. It's not. Fetch is not going to happen. Let's just wrap it up.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I. I think out outside of it just being loving hip hop. Even people who probably would still be into the antics and the shenanigans and the champagne throwing are like, okay, Karlie Wright again. But it's like, right? I can't help you if you don't want to help yourself.

[Krystal]

I don't DJ self. And what's that other nigga name? The funny looking nigga. Well, never mind. That's not enough context. The point being, y', all, it's over. It's over. And it honestly probably should have been over. You have squeezed every drop of money y' all was gonna get out of that idea. So, you know, I might actually tune into the six part finale. I might just to say goodbye.

[Kid Fury]

Six part.

[Krystal]

I mean, Stevie J was once on this very show. It's crazy to think.

[Kid Fury]

And you see, like what you said about Cardi B, that's the thing that I feel like we've grown past and larger than you.

[Krystal]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And so who even remembers that or needs to remember it? Furthermore, much like Situation Love and hip hop didn't make Cardi B, Cardi B was it expanded her reach. She was running the things up and being her very much self. And. And you know what I'm saying, before they put her on that show.

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So she likely would have been Ms. Belize regardless of Mona Scott. So. Yeah, it is.

[Krystal]

It's good.

[Kid Fury]

What do they say about. Is it grief or is it addiction? When they are like, oh, acknowledging it is the first day, or acceptance?

[Krystal]

Except. Well, yeah, acceptance is the first step. But that's for a lot of things, I think so probably.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

Grief and all of that.

[Kid Fury]

Well, here we are accepting that it is over.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

And that's. And that's fine. It. It was time.

[Kid Fury]

So it's. Yeah. Big, big time.

[Krystal]

Y.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even. This is exhausting. So Dave Chappelle had a show at the Comedy Store, West Hollywood. Hilarious that this person used to be my literal favorite comic. And I didn't even know about this because I don't care.

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Obviously, he's still really big friends with Kanye West. Another person that I, you know, held in such high regard. And many years ago, he has a new project out too, and I was like, oh, Squidward meme. I love that meme. Like, I should blow it up. It applies to so many things.

[Krystal]

The one of him with the shade,

[Kid Fury]

he's like, girl, do not care. So apparently the audience at Chappelle's show gave Kanye, like, a standing ovation.

[Krystal]

That makes sense. If you would go pay money for Dave Chappelle in 2026, you probably do like Kanye. Yeah, that tracks.

[Kid Fury]

Kanye west has lost more. More money than I've ever made. Whatever.

[Krystal]

Is that a flex?

[Kid Fury]

I guess it's supposed to be a joke, but anyways, there you are. This nigga supporting that nigga. And, you know, North's father, specifically is still finding corners of blackness where he can, you know, be validated and have his little forehead get a tap. Tap.

[Krystal]

Yeah, Well, I mean, might as well go on that Chris Brown and Usher tour too. I'm sure the people would gobble that right up. Like, might as well. Because it's something about our cancelled heavy air quotes, Black male celebrities, where they don't seem to suffer in any way other than, like, negative social media conversation in every other regard of their lives. They seem to be doing just fine.

[Kid Fury]

So keyword conversation, too, right? Because it's not just some big banner across. There's always a hefty number of people who are gonna argue.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

In that conversation.

[Krystal]

But that's pretty much all it is. Like, even with Kanye losing all that money, he's still Rich as fuck. Like who? So. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

All right. And continuing to make money.

[Krystal]

I saw that Dave Chappelle was gonna be at Netflix as a joke. I'm like, wow, you really like just all the shit you've said about trans people. The people do not care. Wow. Like you can really just say any fucking thing. It do not matter. Huh. Okay. Must be nice. It must be the level, but also

[Kid Fury]

like big, big capitalism over there. You know what I mean? They're making a shit ton of money together.

[Krystal]

They are.

[Kid Fury]

You know who's also going to be making a shit ton of money together? Ti and his two rapping sons. Ti he took that 50 cent thing and he.

[Krystal]

Yep. And it's working.

[Kid Fury]

It is working. Let me tell you something that I've spoken openly about King and Damani absolutely clearing Kanan. And so I'm not going to speak too loudly on this. I'm just gonna stay yet prayed up and specifically so, you know, for everybody to stay out of jail. Right. But it's the album. Yeah. Oh, he's doing a final album too. I did know about this and forgot. So TI has. He has like an upcoming album called Kill the King is supposed to be his last one, but then I suppose he plans on touring this album or around the album with his sons, King and Damani. And is the tour supposed to be called the King Succession Tour? You know what?

[Krystal]

Why not? Why not? Play it up. So what you. You really like, you finna literally be passing the torch to these boys on stage. That's gonna be great. Why not? For real? Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

If Mama Dee could spend 20 years on that same show. We just talked about speaking on a palace and like unironically like

[Krystal]

B I C T H.

[Kid Fury]

You know, Remember Physicottic?

[Krystal]

It really had its day, didn't it?

[Kid Fury]

It did. It did. It did.

[Krystal]

My name's Rasheeda. I rap like Shawnee. I rap like Shawnee. Ayda's the Bam. You know, it really did have a moment.

[Kid Fury]

The Bam. When I figured out that her name is Adif. I thought I was going to die.

[Krystal]

Yeah, I short circuited.

[Kid Fury]

That was awesome. Well, congratulations, young light skinned man and light skinned father. I guess we'll see. Oh yeah, how that how they go?

[Krystal]

That's gonna go crazy in Atlanta. The Atlanta stop of that tour is

[Kid Fury]

gonna be insane probably and shit. Ton of special guests.

[Krystal]

Yeah. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

But it looks like it starts in July and through August. Just a couple of dates. Kids back at school. So Stefon Diggs has been cleared. Not guilty in this Assault case with his former chef, Mila Adams. So I watched a couple of clips and a little bit of coverage over this case, and from what I saw, they were clearing Ms. Mila Adams left, right, and center.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Like, they were dragging her about. She said on the stand that she was friends with Stephan, then they had a sexual relationship, and that's what led to her getting the job as his chef. Um, but then she was asked, like, a number of questions about Cardi and, like, text messages there or something. But then she wasn't answering those questions directly, which was frustrating the defense attorney, I guess, like, Stephan's attorney. Um, and. And then they asked her. His attorney asked her something like, didn't. Didn't her attorney just ask for $5.5 million from Stephan? And she sort of paused for a second, and then he was like, Stephan offered me 500,000 to recant the statement, whatever. And the attorney was like, oh, like, paraphrasing. She basically, in my words, is like, oh, girl. Judge, can you please get this hoe to just shut. Like, answer the goddamn question.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And the judge absolutely said that, like, she would strike certain testimony from this. Like, they were dragging this lady left. Right.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Again, I don't know all the crooks of everything. What's true and what's not true and everything like that. I'm just going based off of the stuff that I saw. Right. But I also reading that this case did not take very long for them to wrap up.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And, yeah, Mr. Stefan Diggs walked away free. Was he crying? I. I saw a clip of him crying in the courtroom, but I don't know if it was for this.

[Krystal]

Well, he might have just been relieved. I also, you know, according to that testimony, anybody can get Stephan Diggs. Digg. Anybody.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, well, which.

[Krystal]

I mean, I don't think anybody ever really doubted it, but, yeah, when the prosecutor was like, now, sure, old girl is not a perfect witness, but still, don't throw away everything she said. I said, oh, yeah, y' all are cooked.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, fried.

[Krystal]

And they really just leaned on the fact that there were no witness. She didn't go to the hospital or the doctor or whatever afterwards. So it's pretty hard to prove. You know, it's your word against his.

[Kid Fury]

And so basically, yeah, not.

[Krystal]

Not too shocked about that. But, you know, this ought to make it easier for him to find a. A NFL team so he can pay child support for all them children. And, you know, all that. That ought to be nice.

[Kid Fury]

Wishful thinking.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It's what makes the world Go round. Girl, how about, I did not know Mia was on tour. Girl, how about, I did not know she was on tour opening up for Kid Cudi. Girl, how about I found out right after she was no longer on tour with Kid Cudi, bitch. Because she thought that she could walk her narrow ass up on stage and directly throw shots at Undoc. Undocumented. Undocumented citizens, directly proclaim her love for MAGA and the Republican Party, and then flex through people booing and walking out of the fucking concert. Yeah, babycakes. It wasn't before sunrise that Kid Cudi posted the following tour update. Mia is no longer on this tour. I told my management to send a notice to her team before we started tour that I didn't want anything offensive at my shows because I already knew what time it was and I was assured things were understood. After the last couple of shows, I've been flooded with messages from fans that were upset by her rants. This, to me, is very disappointing, and I want to have someone on my tour, and I won't have someone on my tour making offensive remarks. That upsets my fan base. Thank you for understanding.

[Krystal]

Yeah, well, I feel like that first part about. I told her people before this tour even started. Tell her to shut the fuck up with that dumb shit she be on,

[Kid Fury]

because I already know what time it is.

[Krystal]

And, you know, because we've. I've had Mia blocked for years. That's how she'd been on this shit for a long time. So. But I can see how some people who are kind of high, getting ready for the Kid Cudi show might, you know, go out there and bop around the paper planes or whatever. So, like, for sure, sure. We'll put it aside for this moment. As long as you come out here, do a smile, do your dance, and then take your ass back to the. To the back, like to come out here in your British accent because you're not an American, talking about how you're a Republican or, you know, you're a Trump supporter or whatever else, and talking about illegals and then trying to clear it up on Twitter. I had to go because I found the article NBC News. And then they were like, oh, she posted on Twitter. So I had to go look at her tweets.

[Kid Fury]

And she was like, oh, yeah, I found that. To read that.

[Krystal]

Oh, God. Well, this is so long. This is a bunch of.

[Kid Fury]

It is.

[Krystal]

I wrote illegal on the Maya lp. So she was saying, you know, I was saying that I'm illegal. Half my team don't have visas yet. And, you know, I still believe that if the law is unjust, then it. But she was also saying, you know, don't gaslight my words. That is the work of Satan and Jesus is returning to lead the world and all this. And I'm like, all right, girl, I'm clicking this right off. I'm clicking it right off.

[Kid Fury]

So apparently, she just dropped an album that is a. That's supposed to be a gospel album. No, but it's like the genre is described as dance. I just found this out, okay? So when I saw that this is the work of Satan part, I'm like, album promo. And furthermore, I cackled out loud. So you, the British Indian. Indian Trump supporter, just dropped a gospel dancer. If you don't get the fuck out, my words don't go together.

[Krystal]

Good words do not go together. If you weren't rich, Donald Trump would kick your ass right out this country directly. You would be out of here very quickly, girl, like Ice would come right around for your ass.

[Kid Fury]

So throwing lettuce. Throwing heads of lettuce at you.

[Krystal]

Her. Her politics are so confusing to me. I don't know how she ended up in this phase. I really don't know how she got here. But, yeah, I saw that video on TikTok of her saying all that shit the night before. And then the very next day, Cudi said, don't worry about it. You will not see that bitch again.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Krystal]

Good for him. Yeah, he told her. Told her.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, girl, what are you talking about? Oh, I wrote this song on the. My LP from 16 years ago.

[Krystal]

Didn't we already know that? What are you talking about? Who cares?

[Kid Fury]

We're talking about the shit that you're talking about right now, today.

[Krystal]

Right? Talking about you not gonna perform this song because some people in the crowd might be illegal. Okay? What? So who talking about you never thought you'd be canceled for being a Republican, voting Trumper or whatever, which. Can you even vote? Can you. That's. I'm not even being shady. Do you have whatever level. Level of. Of citizenship or whatever it is in order to be able to vote here?

[Kid Fury]

I don't.

[Krystal]

I don't even know. I don't think you do. But the. The political beliefs by themselves are bad enough.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

They told you before you started this job, they told you, get up there, sing your song and leave, and you just. You could not help yourself, and so now you getting what you deserve.

[Kid Fury]

I can't help but wonder, like, how she got the. How she got booked for the tour anyway. Because I don't know who say that would be, but if I'm like, okay, I'm about to go on my own tour and here is this person who's supposed to open for me and I already know what time it is, I'm gonna want somebody else to open for me before I just take a chance on this one. So I'm curious about that. But, you know, it sounds like what needed to happen happened. And this long ass essay that she wrote is really just confusing. Jesus returns to lead the world. Not with you.

[Krystal]

You won't be a part of that. But so I just googled it real quick and I think they're both associated with Republic Records, so I would not be shocked if Republic put this together. And he was like, fine, but I swear to God, if she say one dumb thing, I swear to God. And they were like, okay, all right, all right. And then there she, she, she literally did it to herself.

[Kid Fury]

And I assumed that I kind of guessed that, but I'm like, that. That would then speak to the trap and the racket that is the recording company, a recording industry. And I mean, that's not a shock, but like, it's my tour and you gonna make me have my label mate that I don't trust tour with me. Yeah, that's crazy.

[Krystal]

I mean, when the label is paying for shit, they kind of get to.

[Kid Fury]

There it is.

[Krystal]

They kind of get to do that. And so as an artist, all you can do is. All you can do and shout out to Kid Cudi for doing what he could in that situation. Cause y' all not. That's the thing. They're not going online and just cussing her out. They're cussing me out because I brought

[Kid Fury]

this bitch on my tour.

[Krystal]

So yeah, if I'm gonna be held accountable by the fans, then I'm gonna do something about this shit every time.

[Kid Fury]

I know. K. Cudi hopped on the zoom like Nino Brown. Like, you bitches, the day of reckoning has come. Cause I told you bitches.

[Krystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Krystal]

Oh, yes, yes, right.

[Kid Fury]

Did you see this?

[Krystal]

I've seen the AI, if that's what you're talking about.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm talking about. Why would they do this?

[Krystal]

And for it to be blatantly copying off of Duran's album or LP or whatever that is that he just put out like Duran's was out for like a week or two and then all of a sudden, here go Chris Brown with a AI cover that looks just like Duran's. And then the other shit, whatever that. I don't even know how to describe what that other release was. But yeah, it's. It's like Chris Brown is looking for new ways to get on my fucking nerves.

[Kid Fury]

I agree.

[Krystal]

I hate, I hate AI so much.

[Kid Fury]

A night of soul and R and B and timeless classics.

[Krystal]

I don't think so.

[Kid Fury]

Featuring NBA Youngboy Girl Appearances by Sexyy Red Get Out My Damn face.

[Krystal]

Words used to mean things, they really did. They don't anymore, but they really used to. And I wanna get back to that.

[Kid Fury]

Like, you couldn't have just gone and gotten into your best Frankie Lymon drag and took a picture?

[Krystal]

Yeah, these doo wop ass pictures, him with his perm.

[Kid Fury]

And like he often rocks a perm. So it isn't out of. You know, when I see mega celebrities, when I see incredibly huge stars, especially very wealthy ones, using AI art on purpose, like not in an ironic or intentionally funny in A funny way. I'm just kind of like, what are you trying to do here?

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

What exactly is. What's the point? Did you see the new Devil Horse Prada yet?

[Krystal]

I did.

[Kid Fury]

I think it, like, Hardy had, like, past 200 something million dollars. Right?

[Krystal]

Well, they got my $20. They sure did, and I really enjoyed

[Kid Fury]

it, but I haven't gone yet.

[Krystal]

Well, there is a little bit of this intentional use of AI in order to depict.

[Kid Fury]

That's what's gonna bring up.

[Krystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But they use a real painter, right.

[Krystal]

To make it. But to make it look like that in order to mock and talk about where things have gone. Right to this.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. So, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, why not that?

[Krystal]

Oh. Cause that costs money.

[Kid Fury]

But he also, like, paints and tags. Like, he has a whole artistic side to what he does anyway. He does that on. So why not just get an artist to paint this?

[Krystal]

You don't understand. He's very busy right now. Okay. He has to stretch a lot. Drugs are being done. He's got kids all over the place.

[Kid Fury]

A new one.

[Krystal]

Right. So, you know, he's got a busy week. I don't know this. I don't know what's wrong with this nigga, but trying to make sense out of what Chris Brown chooses to do, it's just gonna make your head hurt.

[Kid Fury]

A night of soul with vibes cartel. And I just.

[Krystal]

And it's like, is this supposed to be a track list? Because obviously this is not a real show.

[Kid Fury]

So these are the features on his album.

[Krystal]

Okay, so this is just announcing the features. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

I don't hate the idea. I wish you had hired somebody to actually do it, though. Yes. Because this looks like garbage.

[Kid Fury]

It looks horrible. Your head's not even shaped right in this NBA. Young boy is not even in AI like, why did y' all, like. Everybody else got the Jake, right?

[Krystal]

Everybody else looks all glassy in it.

[Kid Fury]

And y' all just use a picture of this nigga and Tank, what was the plot? What a doofus.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Is there even anything else? Oh, Offset and Quavo are in the studio again. There was rumors that they were back in the studio together. So then, like, oh, Migos are reading the impossible now. The Migos Instagram page has posted photos of them in the studio looking friendly. And so Migos music might be on the horizon.

[Krystal]

Hmm. Well, I mean, on the one hand, it's lovely that they have made up. On the other, this music is gonna be horrible.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just not. I don't know How I'm gonna be able to do it.

[Krystal]

Yeah, I'll try.

[Kid Fury]

Cause I do love their music, but I feel like it's like when TLC would make music without Lisa.

[Krystal]

Yep. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And before knowing about Rozonda being maga, it was like, mm, it just don't come. My heart goes out to y', all, but this just isn't the same. And I'm sad. It is a reminder to me that this is heartbreaking. That's not their fault. But I agree. It's just not. I don't expect that I'm going to be, like, enjoying it the way that I would. Migos.

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Also, my first mind. And you can tell me if this is petty. My first mind was kind of like Quavo was like, look, girl, you are going out bad, and you need to come on over here. Let's get you some money so you can pay some people back. Well, put some music out. Have a good time. Let's get back on this side. Let's stay focused more on the music and not the slot machines or the blackjack or the Yahtzee or whatever the fuck else they played into. Come home.

[Krystal]

Well, I mean, I don't know why. I don't really see Quavo reaching out to give that much of a fuck about Offset in the first place.

[Kid Fury]

Quality control, niggas.

[Krystal]

But one of my first thoughts was I'm not putting money in Offset's pocket for him to go gamble away. I'm also not doing that. You already. There's that cardi probably paying spousal support and child support. You can waste that lady's money. I'm not going to help you with your problem. Go some see an addiction counselor. That's what you need, Boots. You need to go see somebody with a license and tell them the whole truth about what you feeling and doing.

[Kid Fury]

You know what I just thought of, too? Maybe we've discussed this. The amount of free alcohol. So you're going there and you're diving into your gambling addiction. And you're also drinking, Boots.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So there's that as well.

[Krystal]

Doing crazy shit when you drunk all of your. And that's why they give it to you. It's not hard to figure out.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Krystal]

Drunk people make bad decisions, so they give you free, well, liquor so that you'll sit there and drink it all up and then give them $88,000 in three hours. Yeah, that is the point. So, yeah, I think his issues are not going to be solved with studio time. They're not going to be Solved. You need to go, call the lady.com. you got to do it. You got to find somebody that is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you're absolutely right. This is like, I guarantee you nobody. I wonder who's like, actually thought of that. Because first of all, this could have just been these niggas in the studios, Kiki and or whatever Quavles they are or whatever, come over quaddicting, troll the studio, engineer, producer, like, hey, come through and they took some pictures, you know, hey, here's an update on the Migos Instagram. Quavo could have a project coming out with a offset feature, vice versa, something like that. It might not be a big deal, but I do agree that regardless of how that money gets into Offset's hands at this portion of the story, I can expect that it will run right out like this.

[Krystal]

Right? You need a conservatorship, somebody to take charge of your bank accounts and things until you right back in your right mind. Because soon, soon as them commas start coming back in that bank account, he gonna start feeling a little tingly. And the next thing you know, that shit is gone.

[Kid Fury]

No, no, Shade. And that's like a. It's a really fucked up addiction.

[Krystal]

It is. It absolutely is.

[Kid Fury]

Cause you're right, I think they see that money, especially when you get that

[Krystal]

much of it right, right, right.

[Kid Fury]

So easily, it's like, oh, yeah, tonight's gonna be my night. I feel my palm.

[Krystal]

Drake got the same issue. But Drake seems to actually have more. He actually seems to have more money than Offset do. So maybe it's not affecting him to this degree. You know, he ain't got people coming around threatening to break his knees and shit because he don't pay them back. But that nigga stay posting gambling shit and, you know, got caught up with that gambling app that's supposed to not be gambling, but it obviously is. Or no, it's something else. Remember? Cause he got sued.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, steak, steak, steak.

[Krystal]

Whatever it was, Whatever it was.

[Kid Fury]

So he just caught another lawsuit like a week ago. So you see behind that same thing, you see.

[Krystal]

So, yeah, the N really do. It's something about having that much money that almost feels like it's Monopoly money. Like this isn't real.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Krystal]

But it's very real.

[Kid Fury]

But it is. It is.

[Krystal]

Yeah, it's very real. You gotta. And when you've been rich for so long, you can kind of start to feel like it can't run out and. But it very can. It very can.

[Kid Fury]

And the thing about the Drake part of it, too, is that with that he gambles for free. A lot of that. Like, he's not gambling his own money.

[Krystal]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Like gambling, having a good time, and promoting the app to people who actually are gambling their own fucking money.

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Uh, and that's part of the reason. Allegedly.

[Krystal]

Allegedly.

[Kid Fury]

And that's part of the reason why they keep catching them cases.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, I agree. She's got to call the women, and she's got to get on the long couch and she's got to cry.

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Because that money is going right back. And imagine. Let's imagine these motherfuckers do get back together, go on tour.

[Krystal]

Oh, no.

[Kid Fury]

Cake up. Sold out all over the place. And next year.

[Krystal]

Nope.

[Kid Fury]

You hear about Offset getting his dreads ripped out because he owe X, Y, and Z a whole bunch of money.

[Krystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Devastation.

[Krystal]

And now he out here looking crazy. Cardi got to keep the kids from him because he acting erratic and drinking all day and like that. Like, it's just a. The spiral is so easy when you have an addiction. This is why it's so important to have people around you who actually give a fuck about you and not about your money. You have. All right. There's only so many times I could say it.

[Kid Fury]

There's so many.

[Krystal]

Good luck.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, men.

[Krystal]

Yeah. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

In. In the entertainment industry, especially with.

[Krystal]

Especially with rap.

[Kid Fury]

Like, girl rap. Yeah. Rap's the worst. Sports is bad.

[Krystal]

Ooh. Yeah. I was just thinking that the niggas that athletes be having around, it might be worse for athletes. Cause they have real money.

[Kid Fury]

True.

[Krystal]

It take Roberts longer to get real money. These sports niggas be. I mean, hell, in college, they be signing million dollar nil deals. So it might be worse for them when your homeboy you've known since y' all was three is like, hey, man, I got a good idea. What if we had a funeral home that served chicken? When it's not a funeral going on? Like, you know, niggas will come up with something like that, and then it's a strip club in the back. What you think, like, niggas will come to you with something crazy and not me coming up with a good idea. Somebody's like, let me write that down.

[Kid Fury]

As long as, like, the chicken part is, like, on that. On the side. Is that directly in the funeral?

[Krystal]

No, no.

[Kid Fury]

But you're right, because I feel like also, because athletes. When you're, like, a successful athlete, it feels like it's like a very common, like, commonly agreed, like, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, I Feel like just within the family, it's agreed upon that this is, like, ideal. This is something to, like, appreciate. It feels like when. If you make it into. As a pro football player or even, like you said, like a really great college university team, it feels like most of the family is like, yes, hands up. Whereas if you are a rapper, it's kind of. You might have some that's on board, some that's not. And when you, I guess, make real, real rap money, right, then some people might get behind it. So the athletes, it's probably all the cousins, all the aunties, Every bit of a. Oh, yes. For everything.

[Krystal]

Since you were in eighth or ninth grade, everybody been like, oh, that boy going pro. Oh, that boy going pro. That's my little cousin. Like, they been on you heavy. And it's hard to say no to your aunt.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, it is.

[Krystal]

Well, no matter what she want. No matter what she.

[Kid Fury]

But then look at Brorilla

[Krystal]

and you know, the fact that we really call her that.

[Kid Fury]

I'm never calling her anything at all.

[Krystal]

I don't know her name.

[Kid Fury]

I don't care.

[Krystal]

Yeah. Soon as you say no. Is going on Instagram live talking about how you never love Joe Mimo and how dare you. All she wanted was a cruise and to take all your A' nies with her. And how dare you not pay $58,000 so they can all go on the cruise. How.

[Kid Fury]

Who knows how many more Tom Joyner got in her? And you just gonna say. Just gonna say no? How fucking dare you? Like, But I think athletes. Athletes. Gatekeep a little bit more.

[Krystal]

Mm. Well, you need to.

[Kid Fury]

I have to guess. You have to, right? Whereas I think rappers, when they make it, even when they don't really make it, but they just have enough Instagram followers or, you know, their name is somewhere on the Rolling Loud lineup, invite everybody. No, like, it don't matter. They don't even really gotta notice a friend of a friend of a friend come and get up on stage with them at Rolling Loud. And then you wonder why. It's the shooting or something. You don't know these.

[Krystal]

You.

[Kid Fury]

But it's something, like, admirable to be 50d right when you walk to the strip club or whatever, you don't know these. These don't. Don't know you. A lot of them don't like you. Some of them plotting on you. Why you think Drake, birth control and shit was all over people's album cover? Because, all right, the girls just want to get into the vip.

[Krystal]

Yep. They. They literally just Want to be part of the moment and. But I also think these teams, I think probably the elite college teams and the kids getting the massive nil deals and stuff like that that's coming through, you know, usually some sort of agent, and I would think that they would set you up with some sort of financial advisor to be like, we finna put an insane amount of money in your pocket. You need to learn how to manage this because you know, this, this not necessarily going to last forever. So I think maybe, especially when you get to the pros, they're probably a lot more intentional about setting you up. Whereas with rappers it's just kind of like, hey, nigga, you made it. Good for you and good luck. I don't know how much the record labels are really investing in you like that. As far as, like you learning how to, how to be rich. Because you, you, you gain all this money, but you still have a regular person's mindset. So you're not going to take care of it the way you should.

[Kid Fury]

That's true. Yeah.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I mean, in about to wrap this up, but, you know, since we're speaking about athletes and, you know, they're carrying on, I would just like to once again say a mighty fuck you to Clay Alexander Tentacles. You have a lot of black ass nerve, huh?

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And you've just gone right back to looking goofy. Like, it's really, it's really absurd, but, you know, yeah, it is. My girl is gonna be a fuck nigga.

[Krystal]

Megan ended her run on Broadway early. I said, oh, I know that heart is hurting. Damn, man, I hate Klay Thompson.

[Kid Fury]

She will heal. Come back better than ever. You can't really keep a warrior down.

[Krystal]

You can't.

[Kid Fury]

For real? For real. And ultimately that's one of those situations where you gotta look at it like, in my opinion, you were never made for a bitch that bad. Never. Like it would've never been in you. Even with all of your success, your, you know, material comfort, financial comfort. Cause you damn sure weren't comfortable with your performance. I suppose there's still something about a woman who is gorgeous, who can have anybody she want and doesn't need you for any fuck thing. And the quivering fear that this person might wake up one day and recognize that and walk into that, it scares you shitless. And so you feel like you have to go and play games with somebody who is going to treat you like a God, like they do need you and lust over you and pine you, but also feel like you have more control or more power, more Claws in. Because how the thing about. Because it was, say, like, this whole thing about monogamy and, Oh, I don't know if I want to be people who are really like polygamists, people who are polyamorous, the non monogamous. Right out the gate.

[Krystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Hey, here's what I'm about, right?

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

You don't cheat and then get caught cheating and be like, well, I don't know if monogamy is for me. I don't know if your teeth are for you either. I don't know if both of your eyes. But anyways, let me. Shut the fuck up.

[Krystal]

Do you know PBS found out about people saying that?

[Kid Fury]

I did.

[Krystal]

And they have been on threads fully engaging.

[Kid Fury]

They are sick of it. They are sick of it, and I don't blame them.

[Krystal]

Are we in it?

[Kid Fury]

I don't blame him. People taking the logo and putting it right up next to his head. They're like, okay, listen,

[Krystal]

look, listen, man.

[Kid Fury]

We didn't do nothing to advertise for all that.

[Krystal]

Right? And we only survived thanks to donors and viewers like you.

[Kid Fury]

Right? We are yet hanging on. This is how you want to treat

[Krystal]

the people who brought you Arthur and Reading Rainbow? This is how you want to do us?

[Kid Fury]

Like, right? They should have just posted this. They probably did.

[Krystal]

No, they. They are. They're Team Meg. Heavy, heavy. So I do enjoy it, but I'm just like, wow, the Internet, man. Undefeated. Literally. Yeah. But fuck Klay Thompson.

[Kid Fury]

That's it for the hot tops this week. We're gonna take a break and then come back for letters.

[Krystal]

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[Kid Fury]

all right folks, we're back and it is time for your listener letters.

[Krystal]

Yes, it is Glory. Send your questions to AskTheReadMail.com, we may read them aloud on the show. A lot of you sent in letters about the Atlanta Live show. Y' all were very pissed at the audience and I just wanna remind you that alcohol was indeed served. Okay, so was it? Sometimes you just gotta let the girlies. You know, everybody talks back to the show when they're in their car and they just forget that they are not there anymore. So. But I'm gonna skip past all of that. Thank you though for your feedback. Our first letter comes from Mariah, who says, I wanted to ask Kid Fury how he feels about the upcoming UFC at the White House event. Do you think it's as tacky and stupid as I do? I know you're an MMA fan and a legendary sports commentator, so I was just wondering if you'll be watching and who are some of your favorite fighters or favorite fights in the past year or so or all time?

[Kid Fury]

Well, no, I will not Be watching the UFC Trump edition.

[Krystal]

I didn't even know that was happening yet.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, it's one of those things where it's like, yay. Thank you. Remind me. Dana White is a big supporter of Trump and he's the.

[Krystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

So it isn't a huge shocker to me, but yeah, I won't be watching that particular fight. Favorite. Hmm. I love Rose Namajunas. I love Patty. I love Anthony Joshua. That's boxing. I can't really think of anybody else right now. My mind's going. My mind is going blank. But yeah, Roman Reigns. That's pretty much it. No.

[Krystal]

Oh, not me. Trying to be part of the. Okay, well, all right. I did my best.

[Kid Fury]

All right. Chuck Liddell and that one crazy Irish man.

[Krystal]

All right, thanks.

[Kid Fury]

Marie T. Maga, too. Hold on.

[Krystal]

I would imagine in ufc, most of them are all right. It just seems like a very white boy heavy type of vibe.

[Kid Fury]

Conor McGregor.

[Krystal]

Oh, that's his name. Yeah, I think he is.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, he's super mega. Well, makes sense. You know, I'm not going to name anybody else. Chuckle Dale's probably mega too. Like, I just want like when they punch and kick each other.

[Krystal]

Yeah, okay. Well, thank you.

[Kid Fury]

My favorite fighter is Anthony Joshua and I loved seeing him beat the ever loving fuck out of that Paul. I don't even care which one he is. I don't know which one's Logan and which one is the other one? Paul. Paul Brutus Paul. They look the same. They both, you know, are just using a shit ton of money to act like they can do whatever they want to.

[Krystal]

Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

Be a boxer or be a manga collector. Now one of them's pissed off nerds because he's like scalping things. Spent like $500,000 to get this incredibly rare, like Japanese, like a Shonen Jump cover, which is like a manga magazine and like a super rare Pokemon card. But then he doesn't know the name of these characters. Are you saying the name of this thing wrong? Or like this is the first appearance of Goku and it's not. And the nerds are like, get out of our town.

[Krystal]

You don't deserve it. You do not deserve it.

[Kid Fury]

Because you're just using money to pose like you're doing it, act like you're a fighter. And then someone comes along is like, I don't care about that. Yes.

[Krystal]

That sounds like, you know how Kim Kardashian just be spending insane amounts of money to have like all of Michael Jackson's wardrobe and stuff like that. It reminds that's what that sounds like to me. Like, when super rich people just buy their way into something that matters culturally to a lot of others, and they're just like, you don't. You legit don't deserve this. And it's really unfair that you get to have it. That's what that sounds like.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it really is. It is.

[Krystal]

And I get that.

[Kid Fury]

That's because it's not just him doing it either. He has, like, business partners and weird investors and shit that are helping him do this stuff, and it doesn't even matter that he'll get called out. Probably just think it's funny.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, I mostly just watch these things. I have a couple. Even that one guy. Oh, my God, what's his name? From Miami. I loved him, too. And I stopped watching his fights because he was maga. But that shouldn't have surprised me because he was from Miami.

[Krystal]

He was like, Jorge Masvidal, not us.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, Masvidal.

[Krystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Fuck. I was so disappointed when I found that out. Cause he cracks the girls. Haven't paid no attention to her since. So, yeah, I mostly just try to watch them beat the shit out of each other and not get too invested, because

[Krystal]

I heard everything you just said, but it just occurred to me, why the is the UFC at the White. Like, why. I know that the owner is a Trump supporter, but why is the White House allowing the UFC to have any kind of event there?

[Kid Fury]

Like, why are they eating McDonald's in a ball? Nothing makes sense anymore. Like, I don't. I don't know.

[Krystal]

Have you.

[Kid Fury]

That's a great.

[Krystal]

And Barack Obama, President. Former President Obama, just did an interview with Stephen Colbert about the new presidential center that's opening up in Chicago. It's first of all hilarious because Stephen Colbert. But President Obama was basically, like, a lot of the stuff that I did or didn't do in my presidency, it just kind of felt like not common sense. But you just obviously don't do that as president. And maybe we need to turn these into laws so that future presidents. Like, because we. Now we've seen how far people will take it to hell, maybe we need to actually put shit into law so that y' all can't just do whatever the. You want to do because you're president and because you're in the White House and, like. Yeah. Cause why the would the UFC have an event at the White House, bro?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know.

[Krystal]

Why is that happening?

[Kid Fury]

I have no idea.

[Krystal]

Imagine if Barack Obama had the BET Awards at the White House.

[Kid Fury]

This is What I'm saying, like, are you. What the fuck are you talking about? Oh, it's so gross.

[Krystal]

Okay. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I forgot about Angela Hill.

[Krystal]

Oh, yes, can't forget.

[Kid Fury]

I forgot about Angela Hill and Kamara Usman. Yeah, I love them too. But again, if one y' all come out and be like, oh, yeah. She said, fuck Kamala. Kamala. I'm like, all right, what do you want from me? I just like violence.

[Krystal]

Right. Okay. Speaking of. Well, never mind. Our next letter comes from Blanche, who says, I am an only child who was raised by a single mother who has a history of being immature and verbally abusive when things don't go her way. I recently bought my first home and one day I was in Home Depot shopping. I was on the phone with my boyfriend who was helping me because I really don't know what I'm doing as a new homeowner. My mother called me while I was there complaining that one of her packages got stolen because I wasn't giving her my full attention and said that I needed to call her back. She got upset, which led to her sending me hateful text messages. Stuff like, you can't even afford your house, your hair is falling out, everybody at your job hates you, etc. Etc. She has exhibited this kind of behavior for more than a decade. At this point, I then blocked her and because she couldn't reach out to me, she tried to call my dad to bash me and even slid into my boyfriend's DMs with a fake account asking him to call her. I hadn't talked to her in a few months and recently she texted me asking how I'm doing and called saying that she doesn't want to go. All her life not talking to me, but she refuses to get therapy. When I brought it up, she said, we don't need therapy, we need God. She one of those. Typically, I would just let her re enter my life, but this time I refused because her offenses were way too below the belt. How should I move forward knowing that she is never gonna go to therapy? Thanks so much for your advice, Blanche.

[Kid Fury]

Blanche, I think that in this case of a parent sliding into my niggas, DMs and all kinds of weirdness, that therapy is gonna be non negotiable. It's gonna be sign on the dotted or shut your ass up.

[Krystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It just really is. I'm so sorry. Like, we need God. Who says I don't have him? What he got to do with this? I speak to him every day.

[Krystal]

Come on.

[Kid Fury]

And he too has said, you know what? She should go to therapy. If you don't got my face. I, I hate the little, like when parents do the little carried of, you know. But you're a parent. And what about when I'm holding it?

[Krystal]

What about it?

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Krystal]

What?

[Kid Fury]

Because, yeah, I'm in therapy now and so that'll just be a few sessions.

[Krystal]

Like, I mean, who told y' all God and therapy couldn't coexist? That's just such a hello statement. Like that. God don't replace therapy and therapy don't replace God. What are y' all talking about? They can easily come down.

[Kid Fury]

I have an earthly parent in therapy. Holy parent.

[Krystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

And you see,

[Krystal]

well, this. Yeah, this is tricky because it's your mother, basically, and it takes a lot for us to not speak to our mothers.

[Kid Fury]

A lot.

[Krystal]

I. You. But you clearly at some point unblocked her because she was able to text you and call you and get through to you again after you blocked her at the first point. So your heart got kind of soft about it because she's your mama. And I'm not, I'm not judging, I'm just pointing it out. I think that because you have brought up the therapy thing, she has refused. I would do like, if you're said and said and say, you know, therapy for you. Well, I would, I wouldn't even pose it to her like an ultimatum. I would just. I would focus on how hurt you are by your mother saying such disgusting, hateful. Like, she might as well be a troll. She might as. She might as well be like one of your fucking. She might as well be a barb. What do you mean your mama? You were at Home Depot getting stuff and had to call her back and she texted you talking about, that's why you can't even afford your house. Bald headed, ugly ass bitch. And that's why everybody at your job like, whoa, whoa, from your mother? Yeah, from your mother. That is insane. So I would, I would focus on. I've put up with you saying mean shit like this for well over a decade. And this is the straw that. The proverbial straw. I cannot take it no more. You have hurt me time and time and time again. And I simply. You didn't even say in this letter that she apologized. We didn't even see. We. There's no. My mama called me crying, so upset, talking about how much she regrets it and. No, it sounds like she just expects for some time to pass and then you get right back into it and then the next Time you do something that pisses her off, she's gonna snap at you like this again. You don't deserve to be treated like that. So I would frame it like that, saying, you know, I don't let nobody talk to me this way. Nobody. And the fact that I've allowed you to do this just goes to show how patient I've been because you're my mother. But that patience has expired. You don't get to talk. You just don't get to talk to me like this.

[Kid Fury]

No, you don't.

[Krystal]

You don't. It's. It's inexcusable. And so I would recommend therapy so that you can get to the root of your issues and figure out why you treat people. Your only child. You maybe need to go talk to somebody because you've had God all your life and yet God have you talking to me like this. So please forgive me if I don't put a lot of trust in you and your relationship with whoever you call God.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. Call the God, because that'd be such a cop out. That'd be such a cop out. Where was your, like, it sound like if anybody need God, it's you. And I think we use that with therapy as an add on. You go through like your doordash or something. You go to checkout and be like,

[Krystal]

they're like, oh, yeah, you want a

[Kid Fury]

triple dash or a mango smoothie, right? Like, girl, you need to talk to the people, right?

[Krystal]

Like, you have not given me any reason to have faith in your relationship with God. Because you get upset and start texting me like you're my number one hater. Yeah, like, you're my op Anonymous on the Internet. Are not this mean to me? What are you so. Yeah, I would. I would tell her I'm not. This is why I'm not speaking to you, because you've hurt me profoundly. And I don't know that it will always feel this way, but right now I simply. I don't have the space for you, and I cannot.

[Kid Fury]

I don't deserve.

[Krystal]

And I cannot give you another chance on top of 8, 000 chances that you've taken. And it. Yeah, Happy Mother's Day.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe you could, like, work. Maybe you could, like, have a set. I don't know if that would. I don't know how this would come off. Maybe like, if you set up a session with your therapist or something, it would be like, oh, I'd like to have my mother sit with us or something. Something like that. Maybe we could do that. You Know, sometime this month or whatever. Whatever. And then approach your mother and be. So listen, everything that we just said, like, this is how this is gonna happen. Now, I've already had someone who has agreed to talk to us. This could be the day and the time. Yeah, here's making it. Breaking it, ma'.

[Krystal]

Am.

[Kid Fury]

Like, what are we gonna.

[Krystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

What are we gonna do with this? And then from there, you can see. Cause I feel like if it's already on the docket and she's still trying to play games, I would wonder, what exactly is it that you're running from?

[Krystal]

Right? I mean, and family therapy exists for a reason. So even if your therapist is like. Like, I'm not equipped to. From what you've told me about you and your mama, I'm not the one y' all need to talk to. Let me give you a referral to. To a marriage and family therapist, cuz. Yikes. But, yeah, if. If you say all that and you position this possibility and she's still 10 toes down on talking to Jesus about it, then I'm going just have to go let her yap to whoever she thinks she believes in. Because my God would never condone or sanction a mother talking to their child this way. So, again, I don't know who your God is. Mine doesn't think that this kind of behavior is acceptable. So good luck. Good luck figuring it out. But, yeah, you.

[Kid Fury]

What are some of these mamas out here doing?

[Krystal]

You have to change your expectations of your mother to match what she's actually giving you as opposed to what you deserve.

[Kid Fury]

And all that pain ain't got nothing to do with her, either. With you?

[Krystal]

No, it don't blanch. Her pain has all to do with you, but she's taking it out on you because you're the easiest target. I bet she don't go to work screaming and hollering and people like this. I bet she know when. Well, I bet she know who to be funky with. I bet she do. So, yeah, Good luck, baby. Wishing you the best. Quite timely that this is happening right before Mother's Day here in the States,

[Kid Fury]

but, yeah, that's pretty funny.

[Krystal]

All right. Right. Our next letter comes from Frank, who says, hey, Kif here. And, Crystal, I was wondering what your thoughts are on the Michael Jackson movie. Will you be seeing it? Why or why not? I saw the new biopic, but I've also watched Leaving Neverland and listened to podcasts about his life. I have mixed feelings, to say the least. He feels like another reminder that all the Male artists are turning out to be creatures from the Black Lagoon, and I just want to enjoy my music in peace. I would love to hear what y' all think. Thanks, Frank.

[Kid Fury]

All right, Frank. Well, I wasn't gonna discuss this because I'm just rooting for everybody.

[Krystal]

Black.

[Kid Fury]

No, I didn't have any intention of going to see this movie. In fact, I think when I watched the first trailer, I knew I didn't want to see it. And I don't even think it's for any, like, really deeply shady reason. I think it's just kind of tricky to pull off a Michael Jackson script television film. All of the attempts I've ever seen have been kind of like. Except when Jason Weaver played him as a child.

[Krystal]

Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

That was tea.

[Krystal]

Right. Shout out to Jason Weaver.

[Kid Fury]

This. While it looked like it was probably the best package for it. The trailer also gave me we're gonna do. And then, you know, have knowing that the estate and everybody is all signed on for it. And I was like, oh, this is probably going to be a Michael Jackson playlist and focus on him, you know, being a superstar and everything he does on stage, rather than the incredibly layered, complicated, often confusing person that he. He was. So, yeah, all of those things combined together, I was like, at best, I'll watch this on an airplane or something.

[Krystal]

Yeah. I also have complicated feelings about it. It feels like there's always some new documentary or something coming out where it's like, yeah, he touched on them kids. No, he didn't. Such and such said he did. Oh, such and such recanted. So it's like I. I share Frank's complicated, mixed feelings about it. However, what it comes down to for me is, first of all, I was there at Michael Jackson's peak in the 80s and 90s, so I very much remember a lot of, like, I was one of them people screaming, cr. Crying, passing out at the sight of that man.

[Kid Fury]

So, first music video premiered, premiering, and

[Krystal]

had everybody on like a Saturday afternoon locked onto the fucking tv. Like, I've. I've seen the man. I've. I was there, first of all. Yeah, for a lot of it. Obviously, not the childhood and all that, but number two, I have seen countless Michael Jackson things. I have read the books.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

I've seen the TV movies. Like, there has been no shortage of covering Michael Jackson's life, bro. I. I just don't need to see this movie. There's nothing in this movie that I've never heard before. So, yeah, it feels like the family, the estate, whatever is Just trying to squeeze some more money out of his name and image and legacy and all that. And I. I understand that, because capitalism. But I. Yeah, I don't. What. There's not gonna be something in there that we don't already know. How many times can we tell the Michael Jackson story? Goddamn.

[Kid Fury]

Two things, right? One, I'm laughing because I think it was the premiere for this that Jermaine was at, and Dominique Morgan was talking about his makeup, and she was just like, this is like a nick, nasty day beat. I can't remember what kind of beat she described it as, but she was basically complimenting, like, the makeup judge and then said the eyebrows are rambunctious. And I died at rambunctious being the description. But Jermaine. Who else was. Jermaine was there.

[Krystal]

Weren't they all there?

[Kid Fury]

What's her name?

[Krystal]

Latoya.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, latoya. I saw latoya there. I don't know if I saw Jamie, but.

[Krystal]

No, I think she's probably the only one I didn't see.

[Kid Fury]

I think she's the only one that didn't go. Yeah. But. Yeah, that's one thing. I thought that video was very, very funny because that lady's makeup is set every time she steps out the house. And the other reason. Other thing I thought of is, to your point, being there for a lot of it and then getting to the age we are now, the gloves and the jacket, it almost starts to feel like walking past a souvenir shop at, like, Disney or something, where I see some of these, like, isms of his aesthetic, and it just feels costumey. It feels like I'm watching Frozen live in front of Cinderella's castle when you first walk in. Gorgeous show, by the way. Moana as well. Don't know how they do it, but, yeah, it feels a little like. I don't know, it just doesn't speak to me.

[Krystal]

Yeah, I know. The boy playing Michael is, like, his nephew or something.

[Kid Fury]

Who is he?

[Krystal]

Yeah, Jafar's father. Jafar Jackson.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, there it is.

[Krystal]

And he favors him. You know, they all kind of look alike, so. And I've heard good things about his performance. I'm not taking anything away from that. But the combination of mixed feelings, not knowing what to believe, and Michael Jackson fatigue, I don't think. Not in the theaters, at least. I won't be spending my $25 to go see it in theaters. Yeah, I've seen this story 1 trillion

[Kid Fury]

times, so, Yeah, I know it a lot.

[Krystal]

I do.

[Kid Fury]

Like, a lot, a lot.

[Krystal]

I was that little girl begging my parents to pay for HBO so we could get the Michael Jackson concert. And I was walking around with one glove on, and he. He. And with the socks and all of that, baby, I was doing all of that.

[Kid Fury]

Desperate to nail Moonwalk. Yeah.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I remember when Thriller dropped and my. I had to be itty bitty, itty bitty bitty, but I was afraid to watch it.

[Krystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And my grandmother. I remember my grandmother was watching it in the other room. She was having, like, lunch, and she just. At one point, I heard her say, oh, I'm eating. I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't know what part of the video it was that she saw, but she was like, okay, wait a minute, I'm trying to eat. I will never forget that. So, yeah, it's like.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And when I read the reviews and they were like, well, girl, they're not really going there. It's just Happy Days are here again. I'm like, well, yeah, certainly. I don't need to see this.

[Krystal]

Yeah. I mean, because that's a huge part of his life. I understand why the family wouldn't want to touch it, but that is a massive story that y' all are just leaving out of this movie. So. Lots of reasons I won't be running to see that one, but thank you for asking, Frank.

[Kid Fury]

She must have been watching this on a cassette, because I knew that Thriller was way older than me.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like it was when it came.

[Krystal]

I was about to say, I don't know how you remember Thriller coming out, because I don't even remember Thriller coming out.

[Kid Fury]

She must have been watching this on a cassette or something like that. In fact, I think I do remember them having a bunch of Michael Jackson videos, like, on a collection thing. So maybe that's what it was.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But I do remember when I was a baby.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It was like the one Michael Jackson thing I wouldn't look at because it was scary.

[Krystal]

Yeah. I was not allowed to watch. My mom was like, you and you are prone to nightmares. And I won't be getting up in the middle of the night because you saw something. And the number of times I busted my ass trying to do that smooth, criminal lean.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. That was ridiculous.

[Krystal]

I was there, baby. I was there

[Kid Fury]

when I entered, like, it was the. You know what really scared me, too, about it even not being in the room. Ah, ah, ah, ah.

[Krystal]

Oh, yeah. Yep, Yep. Horrific.

[Kid Fury]

Turn it off, grandma. Turn it off. When you turn around and his eyes are all yellow, nightmarish. But I was also afraid of Ursula.

[Krystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Specifically when she gets big at the end of the movie. Cause I thought that was awful.

[Krystal]

I. Okay, that.

[Kid Fury]

I don't remember that. My mom tells me that did not scare me. Terrified at all of Ursula when she gets gigantic at the end. But when you think about it, it was pretty terrifying out in the ocean, near death with your. Your white fiance that's leagues older than you. I don't know. We're skipping over that part of the story. This humongous bitch and all this thunder and lightning who tried to take your man, the tentacles.

[Krystal]

You signed your voice over to that hoe.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I liked her when she was all, you know, just being a gay girl.

[Krystal]

Just a regular cunt. Yeah. Four Unfortunate Souls came up on my phone the other day. I was like, this is a bop.

[Kid Fury]

What a piece of music.

[Krystal]

That's so good.

[Kid Fury]

Are the Disney songs. We don't do it as much anymore. There's still like, what, A couple of Disney records are out, albums, movies to come out with a soundtrack. And the kids sing it. Oh, yeah. This would be like every film.

[Krystal]

Well, Encanto charted. We Don't Talk about Bruno was like the number one song in the country for months.

[Kid Fury]

That's genuinely the last one that came to my mind just now because I ran Ms. Bruno. Do you hear me?

[Krystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That song go. It does.

[Krystal]

Lin Manuel Miranda. Baby, you'll never starve.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, never. Not once, not a single day. Cheese, Bacon, Pickles.

[Krystal]

It's so good. All right. Our last letter comes from Daria, who says, I'm a 32 year old black gay man living in Cincinnati and I am autistic. For the last two years, I found myself in this cycle of pushing my social limits too far, which in the past has caused me to crash out on my friends in the middle of a bar. A few months ago, I moved in with a friend and we've been hanging out with her friends a lot more. All of them are really nice people, and I even feel myself forming my own connection with some of them. My issue is that all we really ever do is go out to bars or clubs, and I'm becoming irritated and exhausted. I didn't grow up with friends, I didn't get the college experience, and I've never been in any sort of romantic relationship. So sometimes I feel like I'm extremely socially stunted. I like going out, but it's never been my choice of fun. I'm a homebody, and my idea of a good time outside of the house consists of dinner and maybe an activity like Dave and Buster's or a movie night.

[Kid Fury]

I love it.

[Krystal]

My friend knows this.

[Kid Fury]

Know what you like and like what you know.

[Krystal]

My friend knows this about me because I've expressed it to her. But again, all we ever do is go out and I'm reaching the point where I'm just ready to start refusing and stay home instead watching tv because I don't think anyone understands how stressful and anxiety inducing going out can be for me. I'm the only gay guy in the group, so I feel kind of isolated and I'm constantly worried about whether people are looking at me. It is until I've had a few drinks that I can start to relax and I don't really know how to exist comfortably in these spaces. My question is, am I a bad friend for choosing my peace over being social? I feel like doing so will let people down. I realize that my friends don't have to do everything I want to do, but it sucks that I voice my desires and it feels like I'm being ignored. My friend has said that I don't show up for people because I refuse to go places because of anxiety or feeling like people won't like me. Being neurodivergent is really hard in a world that sees us as a burden. It feels as if I'm constantly accommodating everyone else and no one is willing to accommodate me. Any advice will help. I want friends and I'd like to get out more, but not at the expense of my sanity. Thanks, Daria

[Kid Fury]

Diara. I feel like had a couple things going on here. Um, first, I will say love. I don't think that it's wrong to choose a peanut butter and jelly sandwich over being social.

[Liberty Mutual Ad Voice]

Bitch.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I don't. You know what I mean? Especially if you know that you're not going for it. And it sounds like he's saying, you know, I'm over it or I'm tired of it. Yeah, which is completely valid. So I don't think there's anything wrong with choosing what's comfortable for you over putting yourself in social settings that you that will make you uncomfortable. Especially if it might cause you to crash out on yourself or others around you because you're uncomfortable. Never worth it, right? Stay right underneath them covers and watch hoppers or swapped or whatever these other things are. There's that I can't help but think about. The. The. Well, let me say this. I think it is always great to. It's a great idea to be the one to Set up the date. Hey, y', all, you know what? I've been wanting some dinner and Dave and the Busters. And spoiler alert, you have dinner at Dave and Buster's. So meet me there this Friday at what? You know what I mean? Set up the zhuzh and see how that goes. So at least you. You have the people on your playing field. And then the last thing I was saying is how I couldn't help but think about. How about you mentioning feeling uncomfortable, isolated, or anxious about people looking at you because of, you know, just by being outside, Right. I feel like that's a little. Little parallel, a little attached, detached. You know what I mean? It's a little. Own little sector of the conversation, but that's what I.

[Krystal]

Out. Yeah, I agree that if you. First of all, if you are. If you feel yourself getting close to snapping at people because you don't want to be in the club, stay home. Everybody would rather you stay home than go out and be miserable. So that's. First things, right? Secondly is they keep going to bars and clubs. Like that's the plan, because that's what they like to do. Like Kiff Fury said, if you want to do something else, propose it to the group. I know you said, these are not really your friends. They're your friends friends. So. So, you know, it may be that you get her on board first, and then you extend the invitation out to the greater group and see who all wants to go. But, yeah, I wouldn't. I don't really look at this as, like, no one is accommodating you. It sounds like the friend group doesn't even know this about you. It's just the friend that you live with, and she's like, well, every week in our group chat, these niggas is like, what club we going to? And we like going to the club, so we go. So I think everybody's just assuming that you will stay home if you don't want to go, because they would stay home if they didn't want to go.

[Kid Fury]

Facts.

[Krystal]

They would. They would.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

So Kiff here, he gave you some great advice. I would also say every friend is not for everybody. Same way you're not a good friend for everybody in the world. Everybody in the world is not a good friend for you. And it is perfectly okay. It's actually a good idea to find friends who match the. That you want to do or that you care about. So, I mean, this Internet can be great for this. Social media can be great for this, especially because you like being at Home. The other people who like being at home are at home on their computer playing video games and shit. Like, you can chat, meet up with people. I'm sure you're not the only person in Cincinnati who wants to go to the Dave and Busters and then go home and stream something. Like, you can't be. You can't be. Right. So it's also fine to, you know, hang out with these friends maybe once a month or every few months. Something that doesn't push you to the point of being stressed. But if you want to do something different, propose something different. Like, I think, yeah, K. Fury really hit the nail on the head with that one. Like, you feel like, damn, I need to go out. I need to make more friends. I need to be more social. It's okay to. To be the person who has the idea for, you know, what we gonna do on Friday or Saturday or whatever. Like, you can. You can be that person. You might meet other people at Dave and Buster's. That right Then where y' all playing laser tag or whatever, and y' all just start really clicking, and the next thing you know, y' all playing games together. And now you done made a whole new friend, like.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Krystal]

But yeah, this is.

[Kid Fury]

Or make friends with the people who work at David Buster. That's a really good.

[Krystal]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So use that employee discount on your food because them chicken tenders finna be $38, so.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Not on. Not on my watch.

[Krystal]

Have them slide you some free fries, you know, or icy or whatever. You know, just things like that. I think your. Your mind is getting in the way here. It almost feels like you. Well, no, you outright said you feel like if you say no to the invite that you're going to let people down. This sounds like a. A group of niggas.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

So unless you were supposed to go one on one with somebody to the club and then you dropped out at the last minute, they're probably not going to be let down. They're gonna be like, oh, all right, Daria, well, we'll see you next time, girl, or something like that. And then they're gonna go out and have their. Their time. So.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Krystal]

I think because you're autistic and you said you feel like that you are socially stunted, you've never really had friends, you never had that college experience and all of that, that you may be really critical of yourself and hard on yourself. You feel like maybe. Well, you said you. You go out with the fear that people won't like you, that everybody is staring at you, judging you, evaluate. All of that is very common for neurodivergent people. So my heart goes out to you in that regard is, you know, things that a lot of people deal with. But again, we find ways to do things that work with us without. And pushing yourself is fine, but not to the point of where you feel like you're gonna lose your sanity. That's where. That's where it's too.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

So. Yeah. But there are people out there who match your. Your vibe completely. There are.

[Kid Fury]

And like, so what Krystal was saying about going to your. Your friend first, expressing how you. You feel. And maybe y' all can together be like, oh, you know, this is what we're gonna do. Or your friend could be like, you know, Daria really wants to go to Dave and Buster's if you have, like. I'm just saying, if you have, like, anxiety of presenting it to the group for the first time or whatever, you know, maybe your friend could sort of help discuss it with you or just kind of help you enter that place if you have anxiety for it. But I promise you, like, a lot of the times, people who just kind of locked in to go into the club on the weekends, it's not because they only want to go to the club. Many of them want to get the week up off of them. That's a like. Like a one plus two kind of idea for it. But you'd be surprised how many of them would be down to do all sorts of other things if they were suggested.

[Krystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

So.

[Krystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I think you try it out, see what happens. But don't go out. Yeah. Don't go outside feeling like you're a burden to anybody.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And don't stay outside if you need to lose your matter of fact in the club, think of how many actual burdens exist in the club. Girl,

[Krystal]

no, that's so real.

[Kid Fury]

So you give yourself a break, babe.

[Krystal]

You got to like, I'm definitely a bar. Me and Jay was just at the bar last night. We went on the complete wrong day. We supposed to be there for Amina's birthday party. Baby, that is next week. But we said, well, bitch, since we here.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, you meant the literal wrong day. I thought you meant it was like a game or something.

[Krystal]

Oh, no, no, no. Well, the game. But we was like, since we came out here. Anyway, the Thunder game is on. We might as well have some drinks, roll up some weed sat outside, talk. I didn't exchange phone numbers with this girl. We supposed to meet up again next week and you know, like we just ended up. I'm definitely that person. But if somebody was like, bitch, let's go to like, you know, the museum of Sex or whatever or the museum of New York. Got a trillion little shits to go around and do like that. Hell yeah, let's go do that. You know, like I'm love an adventure. I love an adventure. So you just gotta try it out and see how it goes. And maybe these are your people, maybe they're not, but you're definitely not. It's not impossible for you to make friends. You just kind of gotta tweak your approach.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Krystal]

All right. You do. Babes.

[Kid Fury]

What is a jet to holiday? I know, I'm super old. I know this is an old ass reference.

[Krystal]

Wow. So.

[Kid Fury]

But there's Nothing like a Jet2 holiday. They're just talking about like a plane to vacation.

[Krystal]

So. So Jet2 is. Or Jet2 holidays is like an airline I think in Europe. And so they had an ad on TikTok a few years ago that was like nothing beats a jet to holiday. And right now a family of four can travel for 900 pounds or whatever. And then niggas took nothing beats a jet to holiday. And it was all. I mean, when I tell you that sound clip was all over the place and then they started remixing it. Somebody put a bounce beat behind it and. And had little freedom.

[Kid Fury]

That was my discovery. Yeah. Like I heard it as a bounce work at first, but I was like, what the does this come from? I thought it meant like a jet to vacation. Like a jet.

[Krystal]

Oh. A lot of people thought, especially Americans, cuz we don't have jet to holiday over here.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Krystal]

So. But then, I mean, the giveaway should have been when they said pounds instead of dollars, but I guess we just ignored that. But yeah, it is a. It was a tik tok. Or maybe it was. It was an ad in general, but yeah, an ad that turned into. Turned into a trending TikTok sound. And then it got so big that people put all kind of music behind it and I can't believe you just now hearing about it.

[Kid Fury]

No, I didn't just now hear about it. Something that you just said made me think about it and I was just like, I don't know that I know what that means.

[Krystal]

Nothing beats a jet to holiday.

[Kid Fury]

Hilarious.

[Krystal]

Yeah. So, all right, we're gonna wrap up the questions right there. There. If you have something to ask us, send us an email, babe. Ask the reader gmail dot com. We'll be right back we all know how draining it can be to come home after a long day at work. You've been fighting traffic and the train and everything else that life has to throw your way. And then you have to try to put together something healthy to eat. Baby, it's been a long day, okay? That hunger kicks in and that healthy meal in the fridge, suddenly it just is not happening. But don't worry, that's where fact comes in. They have fully prepared meals designed by dietitians and crafted by chefs delivered to your door so you can stay on track without the planning, shopping or cooking. Okay? So when you exhaust it, all you gotta do is pull that factor meal out, poke a couple holes in it, put it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and you are done. The meals are fresh, never frozen, ready in two minutes with more than 100 options each week. So there's no planning and no grocery runs. Just real nutritious food that fits your routine. I absolutely love factor. I was eating factor meals before they even decided to sponsor this show because they are so good and easy. The jalapeno lime cheddar chicken, that sun dried tomato chicken, I'm getting multiples of those. The loaded bacon and spinach shredded chicken, another excellent option. I actually just mix it all together. The chicken, the broccoli, the sauce, all that. I just eat it all together in like a giant bowl. It is delicious. If you want to try it out for yourself, then head to factor meals.com thereead50off and use code theread50off to get 50% off and free daily greens per box with new subscription only while supplies last until September 27, 2026. See website for more details. Again, factor meals.com theread50off let them know we sent you.

[Kid Fury]

All right, Germ, it is time for the read. Take it away because mine's pretty silly.

[Krystal]

All right, well, the Klay Thompson debacle has been all over the Internet for a while now. And that means that all kinds of niggas are commenting on it, including one Mason Betha.

[Kid Fury]

Mason, what did my mace say?

[Krystal]

Mason, this is on a podcast with Cameron and somebody called Sat Baby. It's called it is what it is. Which is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, all right. I have a jacket that says it.

[Krystal]

So they would have merch. That's one thing. But anyway, so they're discussing the Clay and Megan breakup and Mason Beth said clay is 6, 7, light skinned with good hair. As an athlete, he didn't need men legging. If you six, seven and you light skinned with good hair, you could have anybody. And I think we all know that ladies, tell the truth. A guy in the hood could be six feet tall, light skinned, with good hair, and he's gonna have his pick of the litter wherever he go. And so then the other was like, you know, I feel like you contradicting yourself because if he could choose anybody, he chose her. So this is not really making sense. And Mace was like, no, if you cheated, you didn't choose her. A lot of people, you know, blah, blah. And he didn't choose it. That's why he's out. Which don't make sense sense because Megan is the one who broke up with him, not the other way around. But it's something about a grown man saying that another grown man can get whatever he wants because he's 67 and light skinned with good hair. That really didn't sit right in my spirit. So, you know, I had to go do just a little, just a pinch of research. First of all, I found out that Mace is five' nine. I said, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Oh yeah.

[Krystal]

Figured there was some kind of insecurity there, there. I had to look up his wife. She's some, I don't know what, probably racially black, but also kind of light skinned. Look a little hashtag exotic. You know, like a grandma or somebody. Yeah, you know, you know, hashtag exotic. I said, okay, okay, this is starting to track. And then I tried to look up his kids. These children are not really on the Internet, which this is a great thing. I don't, I don't think they're actually that young anymore. But I found a clip of Mace talking on his podcast last year. And he was saying that his son is 6:2 and was in AAU basketball, which again, I was like, all right. So now, you know, things are starting to come together for me. To me, which is like, I'm wondering why you as a grown man would put some light skinned biracial nigga on like this pedestal in your mind. And now your life choices are starting to, to, you know, paint a clearer picture for me. Anyway, he's talking about how his son was 12 years old and six two, AAU. And so he was like, you know, obviously this is my, my little, my baby. He's gonna go pro. He's gonna do this, this, this, and one day this child, you know, in the middle of an AAU tournament or whatever, was like, dad, I don't want to play basketball no more. And Mace was like, what are you talking about? Like you, you light skin at six two, of course you f. Play basketball. And this little boy said, I don't want to play basketball. I want to be an intellectual. And they said, what the fuck is an intellectual? Now, I think this same child is now in college somewhere or studying overseas in England or something like that. But I just.

[Kid Fury]

He said, don't worry.

[Krystal]

He said, huh? Okay. Well, I mean. And to Mason's credit, he did come around and say, you know, my kids live through my vision until they tell me their own vision for themselves. And now he off somewhere being very smart. So I will give him credit for that. But I had to ask myself, why would a successful, short, dark skinned man say something like this about somebody else? And through just maybe 15 minutes of Internet searching, I found my answer to that. It's very possible that you have lived a life where you felt dismissed by the people you valued the most. Maybe the, the light skinned girls with long, curly hair didn't want you in middle school or whatever. You know, maybe you always wanted to go to the league, but you tapped out at five, nine, stuff like that. And so maybe you've always felt a little bit like you weren't good enough and so you made some choices in your life to try to ensure that your children don't go through that. However, light skin with good hair. Hair. What are we talking about? Are we legit? First of all, you can be 67 and light skinned with quote unquote, good hair and still be ugly as. Which is what.

[Kid Fury]

That's true.

[Krystal]

Klay Thompson is.

[Kid Fury]

Happens all the time.

[Krystal]

But secondly, why are we still referring to people as having good hair in the year of our Lord 2026? Why is this even being said?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, it.

[Krystal]

When a black person talks about good hair and it's not like a critique of Western beauty standards or white supremacy or whatever, it's immediately like, oh, I know what you are. I know what you are, cuz. Who talks like that? You talking about them little curls that might pop up on his head when he let it grow out a little bit. Is that what you calling good hair hair? Them waves, baby. We just can't. We. I won't. I won't allow good hair to prosper. That. You could have said the rest of this.

[Kid Fury]

This is a stupid thing to say.

[Krystal]

You could have said the rest of this and I would have let you rock. Good hair is absolutely not it. Nigga, you are too old. You've been around for too long to be saying shit that ignorant Clay barely has. Hair, all right? Is that the type of.

[Kid Fury]

You don't got a little Fro no more.

[Krystal]

Is that how you. Is that the type of man that you like to look at? Tall and light skinned with curly hair? Is that. Why would you say something like this? I just. It's really boggling my mind that hey,

[Kid Fury]

this is good hair.

[Krystal]

This is what I'm saying. Y' all just say that about. About people like there. No, it's not good hair or bad hair. It's just hair. And you're being weird. Like I really thought we got over this by 2005 at the latest. I can't believe niggas are still out here saying this. It makes you sound insecure as fuck.

[Kid Fury]

I don't understand what. How. Okay.

[Krystal]

Are you not deep in your 50s? Are you not deep in your 50s? Talking about a tall, light skinned with good hair can get whatever and look light and okay, all right.

[Kid Fury]

I mean his hair is probably the only dark skinned thing about it. So I don't even know where there's a.

[Krystal]

That's what I'm saying. There's a lot of weirdness going on with Mace internally. For you to look at Clay Thompson and think, yeah, that can not even. He can have whoever he wants because he's an NBA star. That would have made a lot more sense. That would have made a lot more sense. But yeah, yeah, yeah, you're being weird. And I would not be shocked if you always aspired to be that tall, light skinned with the curly hair. Maybe that was who your crush really wanted when you were in 10th grade and she decided not to be with you. And so you wanted that for your son, but you really.

[Kid Fury]

He was ma. How old was he when he was popping?

[Krystal]

Oh, I don't know. I'm. Look at that. But who was. Who was ever like. Mace would be so fine if his hair was looser in texture. Nobody.

[Kid Fury]

What people thought Mase was cute.

[Krystal]

Just did. Cause he was. He just had a cute face. He had a big pretty smile. Like that was all you. Anyway, it just was extremely bizarre to me. I did not like it. So I made a note to bring that up. And then I was gonna talk about Mia, but then we did that during the topic. So I was like, woo, there go one off my cause that bitch. The gumption and the gall to be an immigrant yourself and to be a Republican. All right, all right. She doesn't even go here. She literally don't even go here.

[Kid Fury]

And then you want to spin the block talking about God's gaslighting her words is of Satan. You. Okay, okay, but you're. But Satan's right there. Okay.

[Krystal]

And what do you mean don't gaslight your words? What? What kind of sense does that make?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that doesn't even.

[Krystal]

You can't gaslight words. You can gaslight people, but oh, no, not words. You can gaslight your dog. Like when I turn on this video camera when I'm gone, and then talk to Lainey through it.

[Kid Fury]

That is so funny. It is so, so fun. I used to absolutely carve Link's nerves. It is the best over it, but you give them a little treat from it too. And they'd be like, oh, my God.

[Krystal]

But it's like, yeah, mommy's in the walls and I'm watching you. She's like, where are you?

[Kid Fury]

It is so funny when they be like. And then eventually they're like, like tippy toe over to the thing and be like.

[Krystal]

And then she starts sniffing at the camera, right? Licking at the camera, like, bitch, come out of there.

[Kid Fury]

How is this happening? It's so fun.

[Krystal]

You can't guess like words, you weird bitch.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, okay, well, speaking of protecting our children, this just goes out to Nintendo. Do something about this marketplace. First of all, if you parents out there, guardians, if you have a young person, a kid who has a Nintendo Switch or a Switch two, please, please monitor them or find a way to keep them off of the marketplace without your supervision. Right? Because on one hand, I'm tired of the Nintendo Marketplace because it's riddled with AI slop. There's a lot of like bootleg versions of another game, but it's AI. I don't even know why a lot of these are available for purchase because what the fuck is going on? But then some of them are have the word hentai in the title now. I don't. What, I'm not going over there to that. I do though know that Nintendo is very like. Nintendo doesn't have games on there with nudity. I think like when dispatch dropped a couple months or so ago, it was the only version of the game that had the nudity censored. So Nintendo for the most part doesn't do that. So I don't know if these games have full fledged alleged nudity in them. I haven't gone to look. But what I do know is it's called like, it'll be some like hentai girlies or hentai love triangles or something with these sexy big breasted women on the stuff. I'm like, why the. Does Nintendo have anti AI puzzles or whatever on their marketplace next to Mario Party? What? But there you'll have like, like we got Roblox at home. Or like instead of House Flipper, it's like house Adjustment Simulator 2026. Nintendo Miyamoto, Mario, Luigi. Stop. Do something about this. Crank down on this shit the way that you crank down on all of your intellectual properties. Bitch. If somebody draws Mario on Instagram or something, you'd be like, well, did you pay for it? But do you have the license? Well, I think you should take it down. Like Nintendo's incredibly litigious, right? They're up there with like Disney, probably worse. Yeah. So if you go have the suits and the people in the offices jump down everybody's throat for streaming Smash Brothers or whatever the fuck, you can get the big breasted titty garbage off of your marketplace, especially when it's right next to Yoshi's story or something like that. This poor baby just trying to log on here and find Luigi's mansion. And here goes Hentai. I'm Nintendo.

[Krystal]

I don't like that.

[Kid Fury]

Every time I hop on that marketplace and even when it's the dumb AI shit, it gets on my nerves because like, Nintendo, why If this was like, honestly, any anything else, if it was the PlayStation Marketplace, it was Xbox, it was PC. I would still say, hey, do something about this. But Nintendo is Nintendo World. You go down to the Universal, you get on the mar, it's great. You go and you buy the Donkey Kong ice cream and stuff you're for. You're supposed to be for the children.

[Krystal]

Well, why are they titty puzzles or

[Kid Fury]

titty dating sims or whatever the anime is. Asking your 6 year old if they want to go on a date. Yeah, hate that for us. Don't like that, but that's really it. I was also going to talk about Logan Paul being a fake nerd, but I guess we already talked about that too.

[Krystal]

Yeah, I. This is not a read but shout out to Blue Ivy Carter for ignoring everybody on that carpet who told her to take her shades off at the

[Kid Fury]

Met gala the other day. You don't tell me what baby, when I tell you.

[Krystal]

Ty got in her face twice. Ms. Yvette was like, the glasses, the glasses, the glasses. Trying to get Beyonce to do it. Jay Z came over and was like, Ye Shade. She was like, can everybody calm down? I know what I'm doing.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not going to listen.

[Krystal]

I'm a princess to you. I will take. I have a plan. I will remove the shades. As I ascend the steps, I will turn and say a few words to the girlies screaming my name, and then I will go inside the function. She sat there, baby. They were begging that child to take her shades off.

[Kid Fury]

Bleeding. She was like, get out of my face. Do you understand why they're called hater blockers? They're doing their job. Back up. I've got this.

[Krystal]

I have watched that clip so many times. That baby did not. And then here go Beyonce. Just standing there like, I can't do nothing with her.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know what you want me to do. She has a vision. Just let her.

[Krystal]

I'm not telling her to take that shit off. I'm not paparazzi screaming. The glasses are part of the fit. Father, come join us for our photo. Thank you so much. Now can everybody leave me alone? I know what I'm doing.

[Kid Fury]

I love. She said, I'm gonna take it off up there, up there. That girl was like, this is my first met. I'm finally popping out and showing niggas. I've got this. Like, don't act like I don't have a plan here. Okay. Carry this lady's train. Okay? She's talking about. This outfit is heavy. She's trying to move her. You worry about her.

[Krystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I have got this gown, this jacket, and these hoods. Leave me alone.

[Krystal]

I mean, and that gown looked heavy, but. But blue Ivy. I mean, not to. Let's not forget this child is, like, 14 years old.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, she's 14.

[Krystal]

She's taller than her mama. She's graceful and beautiful and, you know, obviously styled to the gods, but she's 14 years old, and we've known since she was in utero that she was the manager over there in that Nose Carter household. So whatever she says goes. And she'll take the shades off when she's good and goddamn ready before she goes inside, because she's not tacky. I thought that was so funny. This little girl and Beyonce just beaming like that. I'm just so happy. My baby. My baby.

[Kid Fury]

She was so happy. She was there.

[Krystal]

She's proud. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So I did think it was funny. There was, like, five different people trying to get her to take them shades off. And she was, like, literally just ignoring them. Just like. I'm not even.

[Krystal]

Just kept smiling and posing with her mama and paparazzi only. God knows how many paparazzi screaming at her. She's like, no.

[Kid Fury]

Ceave no be upset.

[Krystal]

Literally, no. Oh, I love that for her. I really do.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, me too.

[Krystal]

But that's it for me. Anything else for you? As far as the show goes?

[Kid Fury]

I have a live show Coming up in Los Angeles at the Roxy Theater. It will be on June 3rd. So if you'd like, there are tickets available now. You can go to the link in my bio on Instagram.com kidfuri Shout out to Kenya Hill for being on Furious Thoughts last week. We had a really great time. She's incredibly beautiful and very, very kind and she helped me learn how to pose. So when I get my sexy on, you know who coached me? I thought there was something else I wanted to say about the pod. About the read.

[Krystal]

Yeah, that's what I thought. That's what I thought you were gonna

[Kid Fury]

do stuff about the show.

[Krystal]

Not that, but that's also fine.

[Kid Fury]

No, there's something else I'm forgetting. Yeah, what am I forgetting?

[Krystal]

I don't. I don't know. Follow us on social media at this is the Read website is this is the read.com. thank you to Sacred for having me at your pre med gala party. I had a ball. I had a. Just them People really know how to throw a party. It was a great time. Time, excellent events. Thank you to Dr. Joy for being on this week's episode of Chris Couch. Again. We talked to a live caller together that was quite interesting. Crystal's Couch for. On all platforms for more of that. And yeah, is there. Is there anything else?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, Atlanta.

[Krystal]

Oh, yes. Atlanta.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think that's what I was thinking of.

[Krystal]

What a fun time. I had a good time. Thank you all.

[Kid Fury]

I had a good time too.

[Krystal]

Thank you all for coming for being so interested.

[Kid Fury]

That bitch who pulled out that last Airbender TED Talk.

[Krystal]

We can wrap this right up.

[Kid Fury]

Me screaming and not even pivoting to you. I just have to say that that was so funny. It was so like, if you're gonna come up to the mic and do a bit, that's how the fuck you do was so silly and funny. But also, if you watch the show, you'll understand that the incredibly silly political statements that she was making actually apply. It was just really funny whether you watch that show or not. That shit sent me. It was so hilarious.

[Krystal]

It was. I have to give it to you, Miss Girl, you really ate that up. I'm probably still not gonna watch that show right now. Just of pure spite and pettiness. I'm probably not going watch it. Also, if you wanted a link to a lot of the research that I have read and written about on emotional abuse and neglect, I did post that on my threads as I promised I would. It's a lot of links. It's a lot of information, but if you actually do care to learn, it is there. Oh, and thank you to the Signal Awards. I am a judge this year at the Signal Awards. Yes, I'm very excited to review your submissions and and your work and be a part of that. So, yes, if you have a show that is eligible to be nominated, please submit. And yeah, thank you to Signal Awards for extending the opportunity to me. I'm very grateful. And yeah, things are happening. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Sounds good to me.

[Krystal]

All right, everybody take care of yourselves and be good. We will see y' all next week.

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[Krystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Krystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Krystal]

Krystal and Kipuri here. Thank you for tuning into the Read each week. If you want to hear new episodes ad free, subscribe to Sirius XM podcast plus on Apple Podcasts or visit siriusxm.com podcastplus to listen with Spotify or another app of your choice.